MangaGamer

About
MangaGamer is a video game publisher specializing in the English localization and distribution of Japanese visual novels. It is run by Japanese-based company Japan Animation Contents.

MangaGamer has served as a mediator in talks between several fan translation groups and Japanese game companies that ended in deals made to officially release said translations through MangaGamer.

Partnership with Alicesoft
During its panel at the 2015 Los Angeles Anime Expo, MangaGamer announced that it had formed a licensing partnership with Alicesoft, granting it the right to commercially distribute its games in English.

Alicesoft games distributed by MangaGamer generally receive several enhancements not present in their original releases, including graphical improvements, minor gameplay adjustments, and the removal of mosaic censoring in erotic scenes. Patches released separately from their games also often come pre-installed in MangaGamer releases, with the company's localization of Rance Quest in particular including an unofficial gameplay patch created by the Rance Series' director TADA over eight years after the original game.

Many members of the Alicesoft translation teams under MangaGamer previously worked on fan translations for some of the company's other titles, including the staff of 2.0 Translations, who provided English translations for several games in the Rance series, Little Princess, Widenyo, and Kaeru nyo Panyo~n, and Arunaru, who provided English translations for Kichikuou Rance, Mamatoto, and the first two games in the Toushin Toshi Series. On October 23, 2019, Arunaru announced that he had left the company due to disagreements with its payment practices.

Links

 * Official Website
 * Official Twitter
 * Wikipedia