Figured out what was causing the crash on the VNDB EN patch, turns out it was because of a corrupted image in the append.xp3 archive. Thankfully this can be fixed :
-unzip append.xp3 (its just a zip file with a different extension)
-go inside the unzipped archive and go find the file
append/ev/[email protected]
-replace it with any image that you want (make sure to give it the same name)
-go back to the root of your unzipped append folder and select everything within it (NOT the append folder itself, just everything inside of it, this is to preserve the correct file paths)
-zip it all up into a file called append.zip
-rename the .zip extension to .xp3 and place the file where it should be
technically since this is a kirikiri game I don't think you even need to rezip the archive and you can just leave the folder as is but I'm not sure