minori Willing to Work With Fansubbers

Visual novel game development studio minori has formally announced that it is presently negotiating with English language fan translation group No Name Losers (NNL) about the possibility of an authorized English language release of its “ef” series of visual novel games.

Minori initially formally requested that NNL cease unauthorized translation and possible public distribution of the ef series games, then suggested its willingness to discuss legally authorizing NNL to produce and distribute English translations of minori produced PC games.

Few people know what this may lead to, if anything, but this is, at least, a positive sign of willingness to communicate and collaborate between the Japanese production industry and the English language fan community.

Source: encubed