Damn, same as everyone, I thought it got translated... too bad.
It is one of those games where it is completely impossible to advance if you can't read Japanese. The game will frequently ask you to type in stuff, characters names, or so...
There has been two attempts at translating it, one in English, one in Spanish.
Both stopped after a while.
Well, someday, I understand it is a very difficult case for hackers and translators (seems the writing is more poetry / children book type than anything else).
Still, it's cool you posted this Spike, great choice :)