Karumaruka Kenkyuukai
卡卢玛卢卡研究会
Amateur group
Primary language: Chinese
Official website - VNStat
Amateur group dedicated to the Chinese localization of Karumaruka ＊ Circle.
The group was formed over the first half of 2014, following Karumaruka ＊ Circle's release in September 2013, by people who loved the game and wanted to see it reach a wider audience. Translation work officially kicked off on June 12th. Despite initially posting progress at a promising pace, a year into the project things started to stall, as the core translator, one of the founding members of the group, decided he was going to personally review every route and every line of text before the patch could be released. By March 2015 all translation work except for this "final review" was done; but the long wait had only just begun. By August of the same year, only three routes remained to be reviewed, but they would each end up taking one or even two years of time to complete. During this long wait, the project gradually became a meme in Chinese VN circles, with meme images such as one depicting a patient waking up from a coma in the year 2034, only to find out that the translation was still not done. Luckily, the project was never abandoned, and in August 2019, at long last, work on the game's concluding True Route was wrapped up. After a month of final testing, the patch was released on September 27th, just in time for Karumaruka ＊ Circle's sixth anniversary.
The group was formed over the first half of 2014, following Karumaruka ＊ Circle's release in September 2013, by people who loved the game and wanted to see it reach a wider audience. Translation work officially kicked off on June 12th. Despite initially posting progress at a promising pace, a year into the project things started to stall, as the core translator, one of the founding members of the group, decided he was going to personally review every route and every line of text before the patch could be released. By March 2015 all translation work except for this "final review" was done; but the long wait had only just begun. By August of the same year, only three routes remained to be reviewed, but they would each end up taking one or even two years of time to complete. During this long wait, the project gradually became a meme in Chinese VN circles, with meme images such as one depicting a patient waking up from a coma in the year 2034, only to find out that the translation was still not done. Luckily, the project was never abandoned, and in August 2019, at long last, work on the game's concluding True Route was wrapped up. After a month of final testing, the patch was released on September 27th, just in time for Karumaruka ＊ Circle's sixth anniversary.