Can you give our readers a quick introduction of yourself and MangaGamer?

Sure thing. My name is John Pickett (though I go as Kouryuu online), and I work as the Head Translator and PR Director for MangaGamer. Our company, MangaGamer, is a coalition founded by several Japanese developers of visual novels who wanted to expand and cultivate the market for visual novels in the West. We strive to showcase the diversity that visual novels can offer as a medium by localizing a wide variety of titles that range the full breadth of storytelling genres and offer different elements for different people to enjoy.

Our company is working hard toward our release of Higurashi When They Cry Hou—Chapter 2: Watanagashi, an exciting chapter in the famous Higurashi series, and euphoria, an adult title that focuses on psychological horror and pushes a lot of common boundaries.

As for me personally, I’m still hard at work on localizing Da Capo 3 R, another title we have planned for release on Steam, which offers multiple tales of sweet romance between Katsuragi Kiyotaka and several possible heroines, all set in a magic academy beneath 1950s London.