August 25th, 2019 was the day Triplicate announced that he finished the Common Route and Bethly’s route of Gin’Iro Haruka. A lot has happened since then, but today, 30th of August of 2022, the translation process comes to a close, and the game stands 100% completed.
It’s been actually not that long of a journey for me (took me around 5 months to finish), but I’ve been able to meet lots of new people and learned more things than I care to admit thanks to working on this visual novel project.
I wasn’t expecting to like Toneworks that much, but I finish this translation effort pleasantly surprised. Though on a personal note, Yuzuki’s route had too many “Hyaah’s” for my taste. But hey, you can’t have everything.
I also want to bring into attention the fact that, though Triplicate was heavily critisized for “abandoning” the project, the truth of the matter is that without his efforts in not only Gin’Iro (he did around 55% of the total text of the game), as well as Hatsukoi and Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai, this would not have been able to happen, as well as thanks to Irru’s tenacity to keep the thing alive for an entire year.
I think this is all I wanted to say. Though there is still a lot of work left to be done (translating ending movies for all 5 girls, translating sprite editor images, translating background images, translating the artbook content, etc…) the hardest part is done.
I want to thank not only those who supported me in our discord server and elsewhere, but especially my team members for being so caring and supportive of me.
It’s okay to have hope! Gin’Iro Haruka is 100% translated!
PS: Go to church.
—Not Joker anymore.
It’s done. Yes Mr. Frodo… it’s over now.
Thank you for your continued hard work on this! I know a lot of people were angry when Trip dropped Gin’Iro, but he had done great work on previous Toneworks games and I always found the quality of his translation to be very good, so I tried to be as positive as possible, in the hopes someone like yourself would pick it up, or Trip would see the positive feedback and maybe continue.
I’ve enjoyed Toneworks so far. From the VNs I’ve played, they seem to do some of the best work of progressing from initial school phase, to then later in life without it just being an “after story” type thing. Though I have to say, of each of their games I’ve played, there always seems to be one route that is a bit of a slog to get through (seems like Yuzuki’s the one in this game).
Hey there, thanks a lot for the comment and the support!
The slog was because of the H scenes, because in reality Yuzuki’s route is a great one, and it deserves to be read.
Hopefully we have a patch coming out relatively soon!
When the world needed em the most, they delivered.
Gratz again, Bee. May you have your deserved rest to find your next project to joke about 😀
You are hero! Cant thank you guys enough of this. Lost hope when Trip abandoned the project, now finally after waiting a whole year, I can finally pick up this VN back. Really, thank you for your hardwork! I know you guys won’t be doing any Toneworks games anymore (though Im hoping a tiny bit with Tsukikana haha) but regardless good luck on your future works, I try to start reading some other VNs you translated as well! And looking forward for any VNs that you are going to translate in the future!
Hey there! Thanks a lot for supporting us! It’s great to see that you’re trying other stuff we worked on. The best way to “pay us back” for our work is to spread the word and keep us in high esteem, so thanks!
Total heroes, the entire lot of you. [Salute!]
Hey there, Sub! Thanks a lot for the nice comment!