Quick update for Sep 2015 KS and SM Anime

Hi everyone, as you know we are going to have the Kickstarter for Muv-luv sometime this coming week once the goals have been finialized, and you can see what the Degica members have been confirming here at their prefundia. Thanks to everyone who gave their feedback, as that lets the people making the decisions know what we as the fans expect. Degica has been quite open with what’s going on with the KS, so we’re all looking forward to the release date in the coming days.

In other news, the Schwarzesmarken Anime has been given a release date of Winter 2016 in Jan. Tetsuya Watanabe (Souko no Strain, Zone of the Enders, Rumbling Hearts) is directing the series at Ixtl and LIDEN FILMS. Tatsuto Higuchi (CROSS ANGE Rondo of Angel and Dragon, Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman) is handling the series composition, Shuichi Hara (Alice in the Country of Hearts: Wonderful Wonder World ) is adapting CARNELIAN’s original character designs, Satoshi Motoyama is serving as sound director, Evan Call is the music producer, and Elements Garden is in charge of the music. Sanzigen is handling the show’s 3DCGI.

ARG TEST CAST #T05 – TV culture

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Podcast, Updates

And welcome back to the 5th release of the ARG Test Cast!

This time, besides our usual host Aalt, Evan and I, we have some new voices, Kevin, a member of AP from Germany, and Doc from the Netherlands!

In this episode, we cover some of the updates to the Muv-Luv franchise that happened over the past two weeks, including the release of Haruko Maniax! For the discussion topic this time, we talk about television culture and the differences between nations, and how it has evolved over our childhood years to present day.

Without further ado, here’s the cast for your listening pleasure.

Translation updates August 2015

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Alternative, Aspiration, Haruko Maniax, KGNE, Kick-starter, Muv Luv Alternative, Schwarzesmarken, Total Eclipse, Updates

Hi everyone, we’re back with another round of updates for our translation projects for the month of August 2015. We’ve had quite a bit going on since June with the announcement of the kickstarter and our regular podcasts in association with Kiminozo Guy, but here’s an update of our line up of fan-translation projects and some news in the Muv-Luv franchise since our update in July.

ARG TEST CAST #T04 – Remembering games

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Games, Podcast, Updates

Hi all, welcome back to another edition of the ARG Test cast!

In #T04, we start with a short update on events in the Muv-Luv franchise, and then in order to diversify a little we discuss games from our childhood days and stuff we see nowadays, as we share how each of the international team members experienced games in their lives. This cast, we have our host Aalt, Evan, Me, Sachi and a special guest, Sachi’s husband Stan!

Just some administrative updates, we are switching links from Soundcloud to Podomatic, so please see below for the updated links and the MF archive. You can hear the 4th cast here in this link:

ARG TEST CAST #T04 – Remembering games

The announcer at the beginning is @A9DOC. The ending song is Midnight Chaser from an indie NEC PC-9801 game Flame Zapper Kotsujin.

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Archive

Thanks again to Aalt aka Kiminozo guy for hosting the cast, and to you listeners for taking the interest! If you have any comments or feedback, do leave them here in the blog or at our email alternative4projects@gmail.com.

AP will have a general updates post coming up soon to cover the events that are going on recently, so do look forward to that.

Cheers!

~Gabgrave

ARG TEST CAST #T03 – Translators’ Show

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Podcast

Hi all, Alternative Projects and KNG are pleased to present our 3rd podcast! This time, we touch on a topic closer to our hearts, the fan-translation scene for Muv-Luv. Without further adieu, here’s the cast for your listening pleasure.

Thank you for listening, hope you enjoyed the cast.

The opening uses a section of Rumbling Hearts by Minami Kuribayashi.

Music at the end is from Kimi ga Nozomu Eien – Melody of Stars doujin CD by HARUKA Project, track 04 “Amagumo.” Original author is âge, arrange is by OdiakeS from http://odiakes.net/sjv/

See you all next week then~

~Gabgrave

ARG Podcast #2 – Interview with Degica + winners for the giveaway

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Degica, Podcast, Updates

Hi folks, Alternative Projects + Aalt presents: ARG Test Cast #T02 – Sitting down with Degica.

This week, it is my great pleasure to welcome Jason and Mitch from Degica in our #2 Podcast!

KimiNozo Guy contacted them a few weeks ago and they were extremely enthusiastic about joining us in our cast to share some good news about what we can expect in the localisation.

In this cast,  we will cover several questions about Degica’s background and achievements, how they got to start the Muv-Luv kickstarter project with Ixtl, and also, Mitch and Jason will answer some of the questions going around the community regarding the localization itself, providing what information they can. This podcast has been vetted by Ixtl as well, thus the delay in the release.

I’m also pleased to include the winners of the Giveway Degica ran at their site in this podcast, and there’s a new contest being launched as well, so keep listening to the very end!

The song at the end is Arranged version of Storm Vanguard.

Thanks for listening to us! Below are some rules for the trivia at the end of the cast:

Rules for the trivia competition; Tweet your answer to @muvluvseries on Twitter in order to enter the contest. The duration of the competition is one week. Good luck to all the contestants!

Do check out the post at KNG’s blog as well for more information on this podcast.

See you all next time then!

~Gabgrave

Alternative Projects + Aalt presents: ARG Test Cast #T01

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Kick-starter, Muv Luv, Podcast

Hi everyone, with the kickstarter coming up soon, a few of us fans around the globe decided to come together to do a podcast on recent events. This podcast was brought to you by our mainstay host Aalt, also known as KimiNozo Guy, and staring Sachibelle, Evan, Suffolk and me (gabgrave). I’m very pleased to welcome KNG, who is a great fan of the franchise, to Alternative Projects, and you can read his awesome posts and debates on various topics in the industry and on Muv-Luv here at his blog.

This podcast contains:

• Brief introductions about ourselves,
• What we like about Muv-Luv and how we came to know it,
• Our thoughts on the kickstarter, what we think it should focus on, and what we expect from it.

This is our first test podcast, and is a test run for us to get used to things, so please be gentle with us if we sound stiff or odd, and for any problems with the sound quality.

Just to provide a clarification, the stretch goals we mention in the middle of the podcast are actually about the items listed in the poll for what fans would like to see implemented in the localization, and nothing has been confirmed to be in the official stretch goals as yet. The ending song is called Evildoer, from Xanadu Next by Nihon Falcom.

In next week’s issue, we will be talking to the Degica reps on the KS project, so do look forward to that, and if you have any questions you would like to ask them or us, do drop them to us at our email, and we’ll get them answered in our upcoming podcasts.

Thanks for listening to us!

~Gabgrave

July updates

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Aspiration, KGNE, Total Eclipse, Updates

A little late, but AP wishes a Happy 4th of July to our American fans!

And now for our project updates. Our current teams have been working hard in the past months to bring more releases out, and I’m pleased to announce some additional projects that have been added to the list.

Haruko Maniax : 70%

Aspiration: 50%

New Projects

Total Eclipse: 20%

Yes! We are now also doing translations for Total Eclipse, thanks to Albedo and Evan taking up the project. We will be working to bring the VN in English to you, but do be patient as this will take time to be completed.

In addition, I am pleased to add Kimi ga Nozomu Eien LE to the list of our potential translations! As many of our members have expressed an interest in working on this after their current projects, I believe that we would soon be starting on this, though like TE, it will take time to complete. Please look forward to further updates for more news.

That’s all for the project updates, in our triple post special this month. In the meantime, do enjoy this clip from the Muv-Luv live event that was held on the 28 Jun, exhibiting the flexibility of the rUGP system by creating this clip within the period of the event itself.

Until next time then!

~Gabgrave

Muv-Luv Official English Kick-starter

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Kick-starter, Muv Luv, Muv Luv Alternative

People, I am very pleased to announce that Mu-Luv is finally getting a kick-starter for an official English localization! During the AX 2015 event held in LA, Ixtl and Degica announced that they will be opening a kick-starter to bring Muv-Luv to the West in English.

During the event, Ixtl opened a booth, and the creator of Muv-Luv Kouki Yoshimune and the official artists of the team made an appearance at the booth, greeting fans and giving out sketches and autographs.

For the localization, it is understood that they will be using Amaterasu’s fan translation as a base, and updating the translations to be more accurate. Also implied is the update of graphics and content to match those used in the PS3 and Windows 7 releases of the games, with 18+ content possible as a stretch goals.

The kick-starter will officially open in End Aug – Early Sept 2015, so we shall have to see what shows up. It was hinted that additional games and anime are possible stretch goals as well.

As a long term fan of the franchise, I have no words sufficient to express how I feel at finally seeing this day that an official English release is made possible. The years of effort I and the teams has put in has finally paid off. I would like to reach out to all fans of Muv-Luv who have enjoyed our releases to help make this kick-starter a success.

Please also participate in the survey that was put up by the organizers, for things the fan would like to see in the KS. Link

Update: New Poll for KS items: Link

Do visit the official websites for the announcement and the AX event, to see the news and various pictures that were taken at the event.

http://muvluv.degica.com/

https://twitter.com/muvluvseries

http://muvluvseries.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/muvluvseries

Thank you for reading, and please, support and make this KS a success.

~Gabgrave

Schwarzesmarken Light Novel Vol 1 Chapter 3 released

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Muv Luv, Schwarzesmarken

And here is our release of the third chapter of Schwazesmarken Vol 1!

You can find all the currently translated chapters under our new page, which can be found at the top of this blog: Schwarzesmarken LN translation page

I have included updated edits of chapter 2, and the link to MisterV’s chapter 1 from his page.

Do thank our new editors Lolrider and Kevin, who helped make this work more readable, with a taste of German localization.

I’ll start on chapter 4 once I’m back from the Army next month. Until then, enjoy the chapter~!

~Gabgrave