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Macworld Looks at English-Language Visual Novels

posted on 2007-04-27 13:08 EDT by Mikhail Koulikov

Macworld magazine is running a profile of Hirameki International, one of the only companies publishing English-language CD and DVD-based translations of Japanese visual novels. According to the article, Hirameki has found it difficult so far to convince software retailers to carry its releases and has had to rely on selling games online, at anime conventions, and through specialty anime stores.

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Macworld Looks at English-Language Visual Novels