Salutations, terrestrial lifeforms. It is I, Bee, with a short update on what’s going on with the group.

First of all, I’m very happy to say that the editors have finished editing the remaining routes of Akatsuki no Goei. Now every route is in QA stage. There’s quite a lot of stuff related to engine errors we have to fix, so it might take a while, but hopefully the next post I make will be the full game patch release. I’m very excited about this! After 5 ish years and translating it twice, this is coming out once and for all!

What’s the plan for Akatsuki’s release? We won’t release any more individual patches. We’ll QA the three routes left to release and then prepare for a final, full release.

In other news, as many of you noticed by looking at the project progress tab, I’ve pretty much finished half of Mizuha’s route in a little bit less than a month (reached the 68th script mark today). The reason the total scripts have gone down by 2 is because the last two scripts belong to the character’s voice cards, and those aren’t relevant to the route whatsoever, or anything really, so I’ll leave them undone like triplicate did with the other routes.

While I’d love to say that over the course of next month I’ll have the route finished, I’m not sure if I will be able to keep the current pace that I’ve had so far, mainly because there’s been a bunch of problems I’ve been going through in real life, and I’m struggling to find the motivation to keep investing 4 or so hours a day on it at least.

At the very least, I can assume that by summer it’ll be done. I want to remind people that this route is extremely fucking long, we’re talking about 500.000 characters more or less, and that’s pretty fucking insane (almost as long as Akatsuki no Goei 2, half of Nukitashi iirc). So yeah, I’m doing quite a bit of work here.

I’m close to finishing the high school arc, and once we enter the after story arc of Mizuha we’ll be entering the final stages of her translation, hopefully finishing the “curse” once and for all.

Anyways, that’s pretty much it. I want to thank the Discord dwellers of Daybreak for being so supportive and friendly in these trying times. Also to the editors of akatsuki for finishing and making me very happy with how fast progress has been going.

Peace, and remember to go to church for that sweet exp boost in your epicness skill.

— Redemption Arc Bee Person

PS: WE ALSO UPDATED THE ONEE-CHAN PATCH WITH MORE FIXES TO THE SHITTY ENGINE ISSUES THAT WERE STILL PRESENT WITHIN THE ONE BEFORE.