Hoping to make your life's design a bit more dynamic!

Yes, it is in English for all the instructions for the mini games and all the horses names in the derby race. I had played it little bit and I think it is fun.

Yeah, I looked at this game before. It's a board game RPG I believe?? Just about EVERYTHING is compressed, even the font. I'm not sure what the objective is to be honest with you.

Well, it's sitting somewhere in my collection of SFC games I bought for next to nothing (when collecting RPGs several years ago, I also picked up a ton of puzzle and board game... filler, pardon me ... for the collection to get more out of the high shipping costs the site I was buying from was charging). I would set my expectations very low from just looking at the boxart, in a word: waifu.
There was one other game I had some thoughts on which I have but also was not expecting more than "cheap waifu game lol" but may not get around to if I want to get on the ball with studying Japanese and the handful of game scripts I was looking at as practice.

Unquestionably the PC Engine or the original PC version are the best ones -- for the sole reason that the second half of the story never came out on any other console (on PCE it was called "Burai II" but it's really just the second half of Burai, on the PC it was called part 2.) I've heard the SNES version is worse in other ways as well but I have only played the PCE one.

Unfortunately the PCE version has the common voiced cutscenes with no subtitles, which makes hacking considerably harder, I think? Since there's no carryover from Burai to Burai II I guess it doesn't really matter which system you play the first one on.

Yeah, if there's just cutscenes/no subtitles, it's going to be a massive pain to hack it. Not many PCE-CD projects get completed at all, apart from the major ones (and now one group is doing Anearth also, because everything is subtitled there). Probably the PC versions would be much easier all things considered.

If you mean the Arcade Card Duo/Pro, from what I've heard those are specifically designed for graphics.
(though Arcade Card was exclusive to Japan, and even the Super CD card is extremely rare and expensive to find for the US console)

Burai apparently plays the speech directly off the CD; the actors either talk really fast or they artificially sped up the dialogue, and people on nicovideo said it was to fit the scenes on the CD. But there's not as much speech as in Tengai Makyo, which I guess stored the speech as data instead.

Playing directly off CD?
Isn't that how CD audio is normally played? (like for example, music CDs)

I think most PCE games have the voice encoded/compressed as data files on the CD, not as actual CD tracks. Burai can do that because there's only voice in key cutscenes between each part. But I don't know if that's genuinely what they did.

Just curious, does anyone know what is going on with the Elfaria 1 and 2 games? Or is nothing going on?

How about Light Fantasy 1 and 2? Or Rejoice?