The trailer for the official English version of Touhou Souzinengi V -The Genius of Sappheiros- is out! You can expect the game to update with English support this month.
I'll be working with 3peso of Nise-Eikoku Studio (
@aaa_3peso
) to translate his in-development Touhou fan RPG coming out on Steam in roughly late 2023~early 2024, Labyrinth of Touhou Tri!
Donating $5 or more to my Patreon/Ko-fi gets your name in the credits.
Announcement
#1
: I'm working with
@mizusoba
to translate their newest game, "Help Me Remember, Satori-sama!". It'll be coming out on Steam just like Hina-chan's Big Trade, and you can donate $5 or more to my Ko-fi or Patreon to get your name in the credits.
I translated
@Futa313255
's Touhou comic titled "De-stressing Noise" (癒しの音).
The pun in the English title doesn't actually exist in Japanese but sometimes language just does its own thing and who am I to stop it
Here's a trailer for the upcoming English release of Shady Trial, the courtroom dance battle Touhou fangame by
@myohukai
! Thanks again to everyone who donated and helped support its translation!
(Twitter isn't cooperating so go watch it on YouTube)
I'm creating an English version of Shady Trial with permission and cooperation from its creator, Myofuukai (
@myohukai
). It's an AA parody Touhou fangame and a self-proclaimed "courtroom dance battle" game.
Donating $5 or more to my Patreon/Ko-fi gets your name in the readme.
The official Touhou guidelines have updated to both explicitly allow sales of games on indie game sites and forbid crowdfunding. Anyone who wants to crowdfund should contact ZUN for permission.
I've said it before, but up until now, the "no crowdfunding" rule was just a myth.
I translated
@Futa313255
's Touhou comic titled "Going by Feel" (感覚派).
I also bought Clip Studio Paint on sale today and this was my first shot at using it. I think the switch is going pretty smooth so far!
I'm proud to announce that I'm working with Hachikuma Soft (Strawberry Bose) on an official localization of the Steam release ofTouhou Souzinengi V - The Genius of Sappheiros!
Donating $5 or more to my Patreon or Ko-fi will get your name in the credits! Look forward to the game!
The donation period to get your name in the credits of "Reimu Needs Help!? Aunn-chan to the Rescue!" by donating $5 on my Patreon or Ko-fi (links in profile) will last through the end of today (Friday, July 26th) EST.
It releases on Steam on July 31st – look forward to it!
I've been receiving art lessons from
@FerdysLab9
recently and I drew Cirno with a lot of a guidance from him. I know it's nothing too impressive, but it's still better than anything I thought I'd ever produce so I felt proud enough that I wanted to show it off anyway.
I'll be working with Hachikumasoft (
@hachikumaj
) AKA Strawberry Bose (
@ikabosechan
) to translate the Steam release of Genius of Sappheiros's follow-up RPG, Touhou Gensou Maroku W -The Devil of Decline-!
Donating $5 or more to my Patreon/Ko-fi gets your name in the credits.
I'm working with
@mizusoba
to translate their game, "Hina-chan's Big Trade! Millionaire Lunch"! It has 6 characters to trade with, and 300+ items! It's also planned for Steam. If you donate $5 or more to my Patreon or Ko-fi before release, you'll get your name in the credits!
Today, I want to show off a Touhou fangame called Hifuu Fragment (or "Sealing Fragment"). It's a VN with some puzzle elements starring Maribel and Renko. It's about the Sealing club's origin and adventures. I'll start with the title screen and its jazzy Necrofantasia arrange.
Rigid Memory is a really neat fangame and it's a crime that it'll almost certainly never be playable in English.
Look forward to a thorough video on it in the near future, though.
3peso has made an English trailer for Labyrinth of Touhou Tri! It'll be on the Steam page in the future but I'm showing it off early on Patreon for supporters. Link in reply.
Since I'm between projects, I'll use the time show off some untranslated Touhou fangames. If you'd like to play any of these in English, let me know and I'll reach out to the devs!
Today, I'll show off Gensou Garden Monogatari, a Harvest Moon-like game starring Yuuka.
I'm releasing the English patch I made for Mystical Chain, a classic Touhou fangame by the circle LION HEART. You can download the patch at the link below (contains a link to purchase the game as well).
I've been kind of absent for a bit now.
The reason for that is that my wife of 13 years cheated on me with a long-time mutual friend. We've decided to end our marriage as amicably as two people in our positions could.
I won't be sharing further details. I'll need some time.
It's been a long time coming, but Harvest Yuuka is available in English on the Switch at last! Thanks to everyone who patiently waited for its release! Go do some farming and make help Yuuka make some friends!
The Touhou Souzinengi V -Genius of Sappheiros- English update is now out on Steam!
The store page says it's not supported, but this is an error and will be fixed later.
If you don't have the update, go to your library, hit properties>language>English.
Today, I'd like to show off an old RPG made by Hachikuma called Touhou Meiiden: Defiant of Shrine Maiden. It's often called "Touhou Maiden" in the English community but I question whether that was the original intent so I'm going to keep calling it Meiiden.
I'm working with Capricorn to translate their new game, Touhou Rock Maiden X! It'll be releasing on DLsite, and other platforms will be considered after release. Donating $5 or more on Patreon/Ko-fi gets your name in the credits. Anyone who donated past 9/21 is already included.
The trailer for the English version of Gensou Maroku W -The Devil of Decline- is out! I've had to split it into two parts here due to length.
The translation is slated to release in May 2024.
I'm releasing version 1.0 of the Touhou ROCK MAIDEN 3 English patch now. You can grab it directly or view the thread on MotK below. Let me know if you find any bugs!
Making a pattern where you have to touch leaves to get Rumia's attention and coded it to spawn a wall of leaves after 10 seconds (600 frames) as a means of idiot-proofing, but accidentally wrote > 600 instead of == 600
I told my wife I just finished adapting a Shady Trial scene parodying a Japanese improv show to parody Whose Line, and my wife asked "do kids these days even watch Whose Line?". Youmu literally asks the same question about the original show so I think that means I did a good job.
Localizing language puns is challenging but rewarding
By the way, the announcement for the Shady Trial translation will be coming soon, along with the start of the donation period. I'm holding off for a bit for reasons that'll become clear later.
I've just released a full English patch for Gensokyo Fantasy Diary, a Mystery Dungeon-style fangame starring Meiling created by
@atn_factory
. You can find it at the link below.
Help Me Remember, Satori-sama! is on sale for 20% off! ($5.59 USD)
You play as Satori and have to guess (by typing) what Okuu is thinking of, but Okuu isn't very good at describing things and has a bit of a faulty memory, so hijinks ensue.
The Steam store page for Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs- has just gone live! Go wishlist the game if you're interested! (and if you're unsure, give the trailer a watch!)
Apparently YouTube now considers the entirety of DLsite as a no-no. This has been up for months but I just now got a warning for it and had to edit the description to basically say "find it yourself."
I'm not going to appeal or anything... but I'm still going to complain.
Fairy Card Rogue is out on Steam and is 10% off right now!
We're also giving away 2 keys for free to 2 random users who retweet this message. I'll announce the winners at 9 PM EST, at which point if you don't have your DMs open, I'll ask you to DM me.
I'm translating "Touhou Bouhien ~ Expiation in innocent cage," a Touhou horror fangame starring Cirno and the SDM crew by
@KopiLuw66876127
!
Donating $5 to my Patreon or Ko-fi gets your name in the credits of this, my other projects, and any new ones announced in the next month.
I'm translating Touhou ROCK MAIDEN 2 for
@AspreyFM
and I'm looking to raise $50 for the time it'll take, so I've set up a Ko-fi page here:
Any donations would be really appreciated!
Japanese players have known about this for a while, but enter 89012035 into the vending machine in Devil of Decline W to get an exclusive shikigami as well as some items that'll help you recruit the shikigami you want.
Here's the trailer for
@mizusoba
's new game, "Reimu Needs Help!? Aunn-chan to the Rescue!"
We're doing an English translation that should be out on Steam in August.
As usual, donating $5 to me over on Patreon or Ko-fi will get your name in the game!
It's out! Touhou Soujinengi is a really good Touhou fangame and just an incredible RPG overall, and we finally have the definitive V port on PC, so go buy it!
Touhou Rock Maiden X is listed on physical retail sites now, and distribution starts on 10/26. Shops below!
English is planned to be included on release but will be available as a post-release patch if not.
For Crunchyroll News, i spoke with
@HakanaiBlue
about his experiences translating Touhou doujin games into English. How does he do it? Why is it so important to work with the original developers? And what is Moyashi Monogatari?
Devil of Decline W's translation is finished, and testers are currently going through multiple rounds of proofreading to ensure it's well-polished before release.
In the meantime, I'm starting work on Labyrinth of Touhou Tri's story script. I'll be posting more about it soon.