Introduction
Welcome, fellow Fuwamembers, to the FuwaRecognition thread. Starting this March, we’ll be highlighting some of the best contributions made by our members each month. From snazzy blog articles to delicious forum threads, and perhaps even a few things more on the shitpost part of the spectrum, we'll keep an eye out for the cream of the crop. And then we'll gather them here. Just for you.
*holds up giant APPLAUSE sign*
A-hem, so this is the f
First, I should probably say that this isn't a nukige. It looks like one, it has all the outward qualities of one, but it isn't one, strictly speaking. The ratio of story and character development to H-content is too high, for one thing.
This game focuses on a young salaryman named Touma, who has just completed his training period, and he is given his first trial with one of the departments of his company. He is assigned to a more experienced senpai, a capable young woman named Mai, at
Visual Novel Translation Status (04/01/2017)
The title for this week might be too simple here, but it really meant to said of how beautiful the alpaca is that lol. Okay, since we had alpaca here for image header while we had three other human heroines, I decided to make the title 'The Beautiful Alpaca' because I'm sure that behind it's appearance if it's normal human i'm sure that the alpaca will be beautiful human girl (There's other reason though). With the title matter done here, welcom
This entry was written by fun2novel and edited by me. As in the previous post, I have only made grammatical and stylistic changes, as well as eliminating unnecessary spoilers. As such, the content is essentially fun2novel's review of the game.
tl;dr: If you’re a fan of the Phoenix Wright series then stop reading. There’s nothing more I can say to make you want to play Ouka Sabaki. Go play it now. The rest of you keep reading.
In the ancient Japan during the Edo period, under the firm
I'm worried I'll forget about this list someday, or not have enough entries. No more 20 names per entry, that was ridiculous.
honker -- as in a nose
be on the fritz
soup -- the verb
gobbledegook
offal
gristle
sequin
credenza
merkin
truncheon
From 19/03/2017 until 19/03/2017
Content Created by Kiriririri and edited by fun2novel and myself (Clephas: I kept myself to grammatical fixes, so the content is pretty much as-is, with me only eliminating some excessive spoilers here and there.
Kamidanomi Shisugite Ore no Mirai ga Yabai.
Hulotte’s previous game Yomeyaba was an unexpected surprise. It wasn’t anything special but it appealed to readers with a fondness for charage with lots of ichaicha and some drama. Hulotte’s newest entry, Kamiyaba, treads simil
This is the second game in the Hataraku series by Akabei Soft3, the company made when most of Akabei Soft2's subsidiaries either went out of business or merged together. This series is about adults and adult romance in the modern world, and could be categorized as a 'non-moe charage', as the heroines aren't moe heroines, really.
For my thoughts on the first game:
My thoughts on this VN don't differ terribly from the original, though I do have a number of additions I would like to mak
Blog purpose
Well, I've been around VNs for about 15 years. As far as I can remember, my first game was MS-DOS Three Sisters Story, what we know now as San Shimai. At that time such games were the first erotic games along with Snake games and Poker ones and were referred as forbidden fruit. That game was a shock - what should have been a light experience turned out to be a really difficult story. All the characters were so nice that I really did not want to blackmail their father and lo
I first encountered Clochette with Suzunone Seven, a game recommended to me by a friend who lives in Japan. Suzunone Seven is one of the more memorable charage I've played, both for the depth of its story and the depth of its setting and characters. Now, Clochette is frequently jokingly referred to as 'oppai central' or 'The Oppai Corporation'... or any number of other similar names, with good reason. Their style has it so that all the heroines are either close to flat or... the opposite. It
I'm going to be blunt. As soon as Persona 5 comes out, I'll probably drop everything and stop talking for at least two or three days. As such, you can pretty much be sure that the time from now until the fourth is the time for me to play VNs, lol. This month is, however, extremely heavy on the number of releases, if not the level of excitement that follows them (Minori's style is antithetical to me, so I really do want to offload Trinoline on someone else, despite their high quality productio
Visual Novel Translation Status (03/26/2017)
Welcome to this week VNTS Review and let me try to do my best to report all of available update here. But before that, let me say this week we had some announcement from Sekai and usual progress from both of Mangagamer and fan translation, so overall I think this is quite nice week here albeit with no complete English translated language VN release (Other than quite strange NTR trap nukige here).
For Sekai Project, instead of usual weekly up
About the February Releases
Currently, fun2novel is reading Ouka Sabaki for me, and he has a fondness for mystery games and the Ace Attorney series, so he is a good fit for that game. When he completes it and I post his commentary, we'll make the decision on the VN of the Month for February at that point.
Omoi o Sasageru Otome no Melody
This is the newest game in Ensemble's ongoing trap protagonist series of ojousama-ge (charage where all or most of the characters are rich girls)
As usual, I spent a lot of time thinking over this before I even considered making a decision. The original list of candidates at the end of the year (after the initial series of in-brain eliminations) is as follows:
Tokyo Necro
Akeiro Kaikitan
Amatsutsumi
Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana (knocked Inochi no Spare out of the running)
Tokyo Necro
Tokyo Necro is Nitroplus's first masterpiece outside of the Science series (Steins;Gate, for those who don't know what I'm talk
Let's get a bit into the exact rules for the words on this list.
One of two things must be true: Either it's the first time I hear a certain word, or that word has more meanings than I knew it had. Simply not remembering a word's meaning, which happens quite often, is not enough to get on this list. What could happen is that I forget I had ever heard a given word before, and in which case it gets onto the list just fine.
sultry
suss
nugatory
crick
chiropractor
Recently, I've had reason to consider precisely what it is that makes the difference between a strong charage and a kusoge charage. There are a lot of important elements involved, from levels of character development to the overuse of the non-person protagonist. However, there was one element - or rather a tool - that seems to get overlooked a lot, despite its ubiquitous presence in almost every first-class charage. That tool is the heroine perspective.
The heroine perspective is where t
https://vndb.org/v20314
https://vndb.org/v20339
The games linked to above are the ones I would prefer to leave to someone else for March's releases. For Giga's new game, the reason is that I can't bring myself to play anything non-Baldr by Giga. For the other, it is because I don't like the theme (a k-on club). Anyone who is playing one or both of these anyway, could you do me the favor of sending me your opinions when or if you complete them?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I've simply reached a point where playing four VNs from every month's releases is now unfeasible. However, at the same time, I wish to ensure that the role I set this up for in the first place continues to be fulfilled.
The Original Purpose of VN of the Month
The central purpose of VN of the Month is to give people a general idea of what they can expect going into a VN that is untranslated. Is it enjoyable? Who would it be enjoyable for? What kin
I couldn't simply allow this day to pass without trying to do something.
Here's a poem I think I may have tried before, I'm unsure, in all it's incomprehensible glory.
But worry not, there's a second poetry reading, a bit more normal this time.
Visual Novel Translation Status (03/18/2017)
The title for this week was very simple. It was meant to combine the otome game title (Funny enough, the title was 'Birthday Song') and new Narcissu character there (Sumire), so we got 'Happy Birthday Sumire' there which ironically the character in question was not in the mood to celebrate it (Sickness and all). Anyway, welcome to this week VNTS Review which is quite late at that and this is also the first time in 2017 I make the title from combi
Due to work in recent weeks, I wasn't able to play any VNs for about a week straight... and when I tried to pick up Ouka Sabaki to finish Feb's releases, I found I had no urge whatsoever to play a VN... any VN.
Understand, I've been playing VNs constantly since 2009. I literally have not gone more than a day without playing at least a little bit of a VN (even if it was only a half hour or so) since then. So, to my shock, I've found I don't have the energy to pick one up for the first tim
Recent events have compelled me to contemplate the Oxford comma to an even greater extent than usual, so let me share a story to convince you that, in addition to using the Oxford comma in writing, you should enunciate it in your speech.
I was getting pizza some time ago. But I must note that it was one of those pizza places where they make little quadrilateral pizzas for a single person ("single" having two meanings, probably). I normally wouldn't concede to the expenses associated with su
Here goes post two, double the words. Remember that both expressions and words count.
happy hour
chav
trollop
bottle -- in the sense of having courage
shoot the crow
breeches
ponce
fracas
the Old Bill
bevy
forthwith
uppity
spastic -- as an insult
tosspot
josh -- teasing
squatter
blithely
quid pro quo
take a pew
knothole
Date: 11/03/17 to 14/03/17
While the principal job of a good VN editor is line editing (making sure that a line reads well and that a script flows), copy editing is vital as well, and copy editing should follow a style which is consistent both internally and with other comparable texts. That said, most VN editors (myself included) are way too lazy to sit and read the MLA, Chicago, or AP style guide cover to cover and actually internalize it, let alone to extrapolate from them what, if any, changes need to be considered fo
Traveling to other worlds is so common a plot element in otaku media that it has actually become a fantasy sub-genre in and of itself. This is actually one of my favorite plot elements... if it isn't screwed up magnificently (like in RE:Zero) by putting the wrong sort of person into the mess.
The first otaku media that hit me with this was The Vision of Escaflowne, followed by Fushigi Yuugi. The latter isn't one of my favorite anime, but I did like it up to a point. The former is one of
