Perhaps encouraged by NNL’s stance on distributing standalone patches, the group released the localization as a standalone installer as well. However, other possible reasons may include
AKABEiSOFT2’s continuing ban of foreign IPs, or the idea that people shouldn’t need to buy a full fandisk to play a single route. There were some issues earlier with corrupt downloads, but this has been fixed, although the latest translation patch (1.01) should be applied on top of the standalone. The other issue for the standalone would be that attempting to view scenes from the non-translated portions will cause a crash due to obviously missing files. As with the case of the main game, the team also posted a link to HimeyaShop for people who feel that they should buy the fandisk.

Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo is the second major work published by AKABEiSOFT2, a game company that was originally a doujin circle named AKABEiSOFT. The game is classified as a “human drama” by the maker and talks about a fictional society where criminals are assigned “obligations” and rehabilitated under the supervision of a “Special High Class Individual,” to which the protagonist aspires to be. The game spawned a fandisc as well as a manga adaptation and future all-ages console port.

The translation project for the game started around three months back, and has released various partial patches roughly once a month. The “readme” page has a list of notes about the localization style undertaken, a synopsis of the game, a link to the translation patch as well as a link for reporting bugs. The project was hosted on TLWiki, but the translation project was completed by a small team.