May and beyond video status updates

Hello all! It's that time of the month again: the video status update!

First of all - thanks to everyone who's been donating and everyone who just started. We've broken past $40, which is just... incredible?!? That's almost a whole grocery trip covered, and while that sounds sarcastic I am entirely serious when I say that helps a TON, especially because my form of income comes in bursts. So being able to write one life necessity off as consistently 'covered' without dipping into my funds too bad is awesome.

You've probably seen by this point, but the Doukyuusei remake has been released in English, finally, which means that the video for it will be coming out in May! Though I'm not quite sure how to fill out the rest of this years schedule. Would everyone be interested in seeing another KEY VN? Perhaps some short PC98 thing?

I'm also finding that flipping between a short and a long video is the best approach for me at the moment. I can get a short video finished in 2~2.5 weeks, and use that extra time for scripting and editing a longer video.

 I realize some people might want hour long videos every month - and that's entirely fair, I want to too - but I'm not sure that's feasible for me without greatly sacrificing my mental health unless I make living wage here (roughly $1,400/mo after freelance taxes and Patreon fees). Here's where the current videos stand though:

Doukyuusei: almost all footage gathered, video is 10 minutes of 1 hour edited. Might get extended depending on how fast I can edit, but I'm still balancing some residuals of this bout of music work. My longest and probably best video yet.

Early JAST USA: Not yet started.

Baldr Force: Not started.

YU-NO: My Japanese is at a level where I can push my way through things using a dictionary and understand most of what's happening, so I should hopefully be able to read at least Xenon, maybe Desire, beforehand to get more context on Kanno's works. Still shooting for December.

I'm going to be looking into some more games that haven't been translated too. Length is a serious concern because you can look at a VNDB time estimate and probably triple to quadruple it due to my reading speed, but I think I might be able to talk about some shorter and interesting games, and HOO BOY are there a lot of those! You are not ready for the kinds of things I'm intending to dig up later this year and throughout 2023.