Huh... you're right, that worked. What the fuck? I sort all of these games by circle as such: "English name (Japanese name)", meaning this game is in "Kegani Laboratory (毛ガニ研究室)\Welcome to the Sexy Bar!\", and just like you said it helped to remove the Japanese name. Nice to have a solution, but man I'm not super happy about having to remove that. I wonder why it works for other games then that still has their Japanese names in the path, such as Journey to the West.
Thanks for the help though. Perplexing, but at least it's solved. Appreciate it!