I have no problem understanding most of the stories, but translating is a different beast. So the least I can do is just raise the awareness, and hope a “better” person can help the translation.

Heck, I once tried to help translate To Heart 2 (A single man project), but I got stuck often because the lack of grammar knowledge.

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Lol, that scene, I was like “something in my heart just broke”. lol

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Well, most eroge reviewers try to avoid spoiling the readers, and just put in general things.

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=White_Album_2

I’d still like to see the following “heartbreak moment” from the game animated.

It’s just too bad most eroge review blogs don’t go into detailed route summaries for each character . . .

-Yes, she seeks out Haruki, till the point that she’ll wait for him at the college gates from day to dusk. But the same Diner part time job is a comedic coincidence. :D

-In short yes, she actually loves him at the end.

And what do you mean when you say “as often as she tries to force him”? Does Koharu actively seek him out to press an issue?

Does Yayoi actually love Touya by the end of her route or is she still putting on an act?

-Yes, the Omnibus story telling way is the best way, but is only effective if they have enough episodes. Yosuga no Sora was probably the most unique.

-Koharu’s basic plot is that, she wants Haruki to take responsibility for her friend’s heartbreak. So, Haru also teaches in a cram school, Koharu’s friend confesses, but Haruki rejects her coldly. On her “quest” confronting him, she finds out he’s also working part time in the Diner she’s also working. As you can see, her relationship gradually grows on as often she tries to force him. But after getting “softer” with him. at one night she was caught talking to him casually with him be her friend, and the drama starts there.

-Not really, if they come from a well-off family, he/she doesn’t have to work. But for independent people, the only way to pay for college is Part time jobs. All I know is, Getting a part time in Japan is easy and well enough paid. My friend who has a scholarship, still gets a part time job for his Otaku needs.

-Yes that’s the basic premise for the 2nd part. But you got it reversed. Haruki first loved Setsuna, they even confessed to each other. But if I recall right, before going to Vienna, Kazusa also confessed, Haruki who’s too kindhearted for his own good, can’t reject her.

Frankly I liked the way Amagami’s and Yosuga no Sora’s anime adaptations were structured, in which all heroines got their time in the spotlight. Too bad that KoiChoco won’t be getting that, even though Satsuki was the most popular heroine according to character polls.

I’d like if you could give me an idea of just how Haruki manages to turn Koharu’s opinion of him around. The CGs are not very informative in that area. It’s easy for writers to cop-out in that regard, so I’d like to know if the “turn-around” was well done.

One thing I noticed is that both WA games’ protagonists work a lot of part-time jobs as college students. Is that “par for the course” for college students in Japan?

One more thing I’d like cleared up for me about WA2′s general premise–does Haruki give up on love because he originally loved Kazusa and did nothing to stop her from going to Vienna, and ended up breaking Setsuna’s heart in the process because he wasn’t honest with himself?

If I recall it right, the scene that you see is caused by his own misunderstanding, also Mari herself doesn’t know their past relationship, It’s the “I’ll comfort you” thing, but Mari didn’t know how frustrated Haru is.

I’m kinda fuzzy for Koharu’s route, since it’s the least that I Iike, but basically Setsuna will still come out in every “Other girl” route. Sorry, but I can’t really remember other details besides Koharu’s main plot.

About Asakawa Yuu, well at least she stil lgot jobs ahahah. Well in KoiSen’s case, it’s pretty cear that we will only get one route done, still better that the common thing that happens in VN adaptations, TOTAL HAREM route, and ending it with an indecisive end. In Amagami’s case, I don’t remember any Hibiki Route, There’s a fake teacher route and Sister route, but I don’t remember any Hibiki route.

About Yayoi, yes that sex scenes had to be removed, but they never removed the sex from the story. It’s still there, but the “guilt feeling” from the sex scenes is reduced.

Personally, I think Yuu Asakawa’s characters haven’t been doing too well lately. There wasn’t an animated route for Hibiki from “Amagami” or Satsuki from “Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate,” for instance. A damn shame.

Speaking of Yayoi, I think her route in the first White Album is worse off with the removal of the 18+ content in the PS3 version. Of the many different ways to cheat on your intimate partner, sexual betrayal is in a class of its own. With that removed from the game, wouldn’t Yayoi’s route lose a lot of its emotional impact?

Her route symbolizes Haru’s depression caused by the the events with Setsuna and Kazusa and giving in to it. He tries to find new comfort in Mari, but that doesn’t help much, because Mari treats him like a little brother. Resulting, at one point he tries to force his way due to the frustration. After some understandings later we get a happy end with Mari.

So, Basically Mari is the actual reverse of Yayoi. While Yayoi tried to seduce Touya, Mari indirectly “seduced” Haru by being herself, giving him a false “Green-light”.

There are a lot of eroge-specializing seiyuu who just can’t seem to get a break in mainstream anime for some reason or another. Harumi Sakurai is one, though she did get some exposure as Yuri from Angel Beats!. Ryoko Tanaka, Mio Yasuda, and Kei Mizusawa are a few more “eroge specialists” who are quite good but don’t get anywhere near the exposure they deserve. And I think Yuki Kusakabe was the last eroge role Rina Satou is going to do ever since she had her major breakout role as Mikoto Misaka in To Aru Majutsu No Index.

I’d still like to hear about Mari Kazaoka’s route in White Album 2. Ever since they started promoting the PS3 all-ages version, they revealed that she’s voiced by Yuu Asakawa, another of my faves.

about the seiyuu, I never once heard a seiyuu’s career drops after doing an Eroge gig, on the contrary most seiyuu’s that I know voices Eroge once in a while, keeps getting more jobs.
ex:
-Shizuka Itou
-Asakawa Yuu
-Yuuko Gotou
Then there’s Akira Ishida who does loads of “hentai voicing”. lol

In short, I don’t see any significant rise or drop, just because one person has also done some hentai work, Because there are cases like the ones I mentioned, and the ones that are stuck as eroge exclusive until an anime adaptation come out. Most use pseudonyms and aliases, but I never heard a direct negative impact on ones career, since newbies usually start off from eroges->animes. Rina Satou also voice Yuki Kusakabe in the original To Heart 2 X Rated.

In the end the role itself and how good they are with their role that counts, also fans. lol

Heck, I’m a BIG FAN of Shizuka Itou, knowing that she voiced some hentai works in the past makes me go hunt those titles rather than just dismissing her just because she voices in eroges.

I’m surprised that Madoka Yonezawa (Setsuna’s seiyuu) signed on this eroge project, given the fame she got from her role in the K-ON! anime. By all accounts she sings pretty well in this game, but wouldn’t her career have taken a hit given how she had to make (censored) noises for this game?