Nitroplus Partners with JAST for English Eroge

This is WIN

alright now I hope some other company follow like navel so I can play shuffle!.

This is good news indeed.

This is so awesome. I'm highly interested in Demonbane and Tre Donne Crudeli.

Now look you xenophobic bastards of eroge, this is the right course of actions you should've taken. Not only is it the right choice but it's also a smart one. Nitro+ shows that they truly are top-notch eroge producers.

Not to alienate users but to cooperate and stand together against a common enemy - people who want to restrict eroge work or "culture". To capitalize market and take benefits from it, make everyone happy. That's how it should be done.

Everyone here says that JAST's translations are decent, but aren't they mostly a distribution company?

I've only ever seen a handful of games directly attributed to them...

Now this is quite epic. I'm glad that not all eroge makers harbour a hatred for the west because of the recent ban. Hopefully this can be seen as a sign of goodwill and will lead to other companies to consider foreign sales as a viable source of income. That being said, the foreign sales of Nitroplus' english titles will be vital. If the sales aren't up to spec, then that is a good indication to other companies that foreign sales aren't worth the effort. So please, oh god please don't pirate the english releases when they come out. I know it's tempting but we have to look at the bigger picture here.

I'm glad this didn't happen earlier.

I wouldn't have the motivation to learn Japanese otherwise.

But I'm happy for those who haven't. Galges are wonderful things to share.

I've only downloaded VN's so far and never bought one, but im gonna start now, that's how fuckin epic this is.

Even though most of the official english translated eroge I've played have had decent translations, it still worries me whenever I hear that another one is being translated. I'm always afraid that eroge will start being translated like official english released hentai anime (changing the script during sex scenes to sound like generic american porn).

Chaos;Head English. can't wait for that if ever it is being translated. and I sure hope prices for EN localization is good and not just like the price that in Japan. hehe. :)

Hell yea! I still don't know what the fuzz about the sex stuff is all about (I only played 2 VN and both of them had less then 5% sex and they where simply bad from the "fap" perspective), but as long as they keep the beautiful CG and interesting stories I am all for it... as long as they don't fuck up on the translation department... like swapping "-sama" for Mr. or "-sensei" for teacher ¬¬

I mean, I am aware appealing to broad audience is a good thing, but quick translation notes are MUCH better then butchering the japanese subtleties.

Take that, UNICEF, equality now.

This is great news!

While I welcome their decision to finally localize some Nitro+ games...JAST's productions hasn't always been top of the line(not that we have any choices here)...I remembered buying Thunder Warrior Raidy from them a while back. The game itself was really small but there was a buttload of advertisements for their other games. The Japanese counterpart looked better in comparison, even with the damned mosaics. It must be some weird, lossy compression format that they used which degraded the graphics quality. Hopefully they will work on that department. Otherwise, the translation itself is pretty faithful for the most part. And no dub so that's good. Wouldn't mind blowing some cash on games like 塵骸魔京 or 斬魔大聖デモンベイン.

Lets see those feminazis try to ban this. Americans aren't spineless pushovers like those elevens are.

Out of all the bad news we had with the feminazi bitches, we just got some great news. Im so happy.

This is the best damn news ever!

BONER HAS BEEN ACTIVATED..
Preparing launch sequence..

*sits back and watches as major fail ensues*

Localization is all well and good, but there are some things that just cannot be fully translated. Literature is one of them (of course this probably means nothing to those seeking the ero alone).

訳文尊重主義 vs 原文尊重主義

The fact of the matter is that while translations break down language barriers between 'simple fans', they also create ideological barriers between 'elite otaku' (in this case, especially those that value galge as literature).

The word translation is very deceiving in literature because technically the end product will be an 'English VERSION'. (For those of you that have seen Japanese otaku reaction to such things as the Chinese 'Sader' figurine or the live action dragon ball movie... it is not very difficult to extrapolate such reaction to localized galge.
eg: such comments as, 'they butchered our galge literature', 'oh so horrible, my lovely ____-chan, what have they done to you', 'this was comedy game?!?! wwww' style responses popping up in 2chan threads and nikoniko douga videos anyone?)

オタクだって主張するぐらいなら、エロゲ文学のために日本語を勉強するんだな┐(´д｀)┌ﾔﾚﾔﾚ

This is pretty cool, actually.

looks like demonbane will be an epic too!

Saya no Uta please.

Is there any possibility Saya no Uta is even gonna get an anime? I don't understand why they haven't, it is one of the most popular Nitro games, right?

i cant wait to purchase a disk copy of saya no uta =Q;

with nitroplus, who needs "xenophobic" publishers.. hope there'd be more that would try to export their visual novel games.

We'll soon hear UNICEF and feminist groups knocking on Nitro+ and JAST's doors

This is the 2nd greatest birthday present I have ever received....

OH HELL YEAH! The happiest 4th of July to me.......hmmmmmmm what about the branch company 'Nitro+CHiRAL, will they participate as well?

now we just need a localization of RAPELAY and my life will be complete.

I love you, Petey..
Here i came, Al Azif...
Puck You, Feminist and Unicef!!!!

Sweet, finally can see more commercial eroge in other languages.

cool story bro

Thank christ!!! Something to be thankful for! Thank you Nitroplus! Not like the companies that are blocking access for the rest of the world...
Though the majority of Jast USA titles seems to be 'Do you like bunnies 1+2+3' I'm just happy they're collaborating with a nice big company!!

So excited!

Events like this reminds me that there are still sensible people out there.

HOLY FUCKCOCKS BATMAN! I AM INCOHERENTLY EXCITED!

A dream comes true x333 ♥

At least some companies in japan aren't complete idiots...

The Japanese otaku must be mad at this. Hahahaha.

DON'T RELEASE IN THE WEST, IT WILL MAKE MORE FEMINISTS PROTEST!! AND SINCE WE DON'T FIGHT BACK, WE JUST BLAME THE FOREIGNERS FOR THEIR PRESSURE!!

Fuck yes Nitro+. This is the best news since Ryukishi07 said that fan-translations of his stuff have his full support.

This is great news. Although Gekkou no Carnevale is strangely missing. I know it wasn't as popular but still....Kyon...

Saya no Uta when????????

Also they can take english fan-translation, get it through editor and release it with it as official. Its not like they make money from translation, but from game itself. I think most translators would take it as compliment..