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I really did not notice the first time I played it but there are way too many H-scenes in Majikoi S. I want to read this route mostly for the story with just a couple of H-scenes to brighten the mood but there is more H than story at this point. The route I am in has had about 5 H-scenes in the 3 hours that I have been playing. At some point I went from 1 H-scene to the next to the next with a less than 5 minute interval. The H-scenes are long too. Some of them are more than 15 minutes. At this rate my body will give out before I can get the final line. I regret nothing.

This thread still needs help to grow. Feel free to post your useful resources, with a small description of what it is. You can also ask any questions related to this topic. ------------ Chances are, if you read VN, at some point you'll get interested in learning Japanese. This thread will NOT tell you how to learn japanese, I'm not qualified for that. This is a compilation of useful resources you might need, put together by helpful members and myself. If you know absolutely nothing about the language, I recommend you to read a bit about it before. Read some wikipedia pages and the introductions of various guides. The best way to approach things is probably to try out a bit of everything and see what works for you. Here are the categories of resources presented: *Learning methods: more-or-less complete schedule other people put together. *Useful softwares, apps & cie *Kanji & Kana *Grammar *Practice material Learning methods Those hardly consist of rigid guides that'll take you all the way, but they might help to give you an idea on how to approach learning the language. Don't spend too much time looking for methods, you'll most likely end up doing things in a different way anyway. Tae Kim's complete guide to japanese (everything is not complete yet) Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners "It's a guide on how to learn japanese by plowing through anki cards in a effective manner. It's made by a community member at Koohi forums. (I'd like to mention you can learn vocab very fast with this method and keep it in memory. But you learn without a lot of context, which has its negative sides.)" (Bolverk) The Tay way (note that this is from 2013 and no longer in use) Aaeru's "learn how to read VN in two years" Useful softwares Those are basic tools you'll almost certainly need, or at least try out, in your learning of japanese. Google IME: Allows you to type in Japanese. Click this link, click the big blue button, install: you can now switch your typing mode to japanese. Rikaichan: Firefox app that gives you a dictionary entry for a word by simply hovering over it. Extremely useful. Also exists for Chrome. Anki: A flash card software with a built-in algorithm for learning efficiency. Exists on Android and iOS too. (Regular hand-written flash-cards can be a useful tool too). Use shared decks to find vocab/kanji pre-made decks. Note about Anki: the use of Anki is advocated as necessary by some and deemed completely useless by others. Starting out with basic vocab/kanji grinding will probably help you ease into practice material, however learning tons of words, or worse even tons of kanji out of context is not a good idea. It's up to you to find out whether you want to use Anki (and whether you can). ITH, TA, Mecab, Jparser: ITH is a text hooker that'll extract the text from, say, a VN for you. Translation Aggregator will pass said text through parsers and dictionaries. Extremely useful to practice on VNs. Some tips and other softs for ITH here Chiitrans: a useful alternative to ITH/TA. Same principle. Read the tuto for more details. Visual Novel Reader: Another alternative to ITH/TA. Note about text hookers: it might seem obvious but do NOT use machine translations with your text hookers. You won't learn anything from the garbage it feeds you and you won't even actually understand what's going on, whether you think you do or not. It is also not a very good idea to rely on parsers for grammar purposes. Parsers are far from perfect. They certainly can't replace a grammar resource and basic googling. Think of text hookers as crutches you use until you become able to read without constantly looking up vocabulary. It is also a good idea to switch to japanese-japanese dictionaries as soon as you can - only they will give you the nuances of the words, and they're also much less flawed than existing free j-e dictionaries. Kanji & Kana Learning the hiragana and katakana should be about the first thing you do. It's not very long or difficult. Becoming accustomed to reading them is longer but it eventually comes. Kanjis are probably the biggest psychological barrier for japanese learners. I don't have a magical method to suggest, but do tell yourself it's really not that hard if you stop thinking too hard about it and trying to find the best, most optimized method for learning them. Try to learn the basic ones, see where you can get, and start practicing on reading as soon as you can. RealKana: This is just an example among others of ways to learn the kana. It's the first thing you should do anyway, and it's not hard or long. Heisig's Remember the Kanji: A method for learning kanji through memo stories, by association with an english keyword. Good for starters, probably won't get you through the whole kanji learning though. See Tay's guide and this website too. Kanjidamage: Learning the kanjis through radicals and memo sentences. I'm not a fan of his method, but it has some interesting information in the introduction and on some kanjis. Grammar Basic grammar: Tae Kim's guide: The most popular (and free!) guide on the internet. Rather compact, has all the essential grammar with good explanations and examples. A must. Genki: To take things more slowly, or have a different view on points you didn't get. (No links for that one yet, it's not free, sorry) Nihongomori: this is a youtube channel with videos explaining grammar, but also vocab and other misc things, done by native speakers (in english for the basics, japanese later). It goes from basic grammar (JLPT N5-N4 level) up to finer points (N2-N1 level) so it actually covers intermediate/advanced grammar too. The videos are pretty fun and well done, if you like the video media it might work good for you. More advanced grammar: Imabi: Lots of in-depth explanations about various grammar subjects. Not recommended for pure beginners and not written as a guide. If you want to go further than that, you'll need to go into japanese grammar books. Don't forget a simple research on the internet can give you lots of explanations about pretty much anything anyway. Advanced grammar: If you want to go further into grammar than that (for example if you want to read 古典 and such), you'll probably need to go into japanese grammar textbooks. This guide is approved as being really good. (Change the encoding of the page to Japanese EUC-JP for it to display correctly) This page could be useful too. Feel free to do your own research! Others: A grammar cheat sheet. Not for beginners, obviously. Nihongoresources: A grammar guide. Never tried it. Practice Material General advice: Try to avoid material based on comedy (because you need a good enough knowledge to get the jokes), or that rely heavily on slang or local dialect. Also, avoid things that have too much technical vocabulary (hard sci-fi) or chuuni stuff with abstract concepts and archaic kanjis. Chokochoko: Some practice texts (articles on various stuff), ranked by JLPT difficulty. Children's tales: easy place to start. Japanese subtitles for lots of anime. VNs in japanese: *Relatively easy language for a story-focused VN. *List of VN for beginners, with two levels of difficulty. *A big list of Visual novels to read if you are confident enough (~JPTL N2). I won't point you out to raw mangas, of course, but if you can find high enough quality scans (or can afford to import them) it's obviously a great way to practice. Every shoujo and shonen manga have furiganas on every kanjis. Seinen/josei may not have them, but it doesn't mean they're necessarily more difficult. Dictionaries, vocabulary resources Note: Japanese-english dictionaries (the free ones you'll find on the internet) are pretty much all based on Edict. Of course, as a beginner you have to use j-e dictionaries, but 1) edict is far from perfect 2) j-e dictionaries are inherently limited anyway: only japanese dictionaries will give you the right nuance (and they're rather excellent). So as soon as you can, switch to japanese dictionaries. The jump is not easy but it's necessary, especially if you intend to read VNs with a higher level of language. Overall, the internet is your friend! A simple search will often yield whatever you're looking for. Finding your way, especially in japanese websites, is the most useful skill you can develop (although once again you need to reach a certain level of confidence first). Jisho: Jap/eng dictionary. Tangorin: Same thing. WWWJDIC Dictionary site. Japanese online dictionary. Requires good enough knowledge of japanese to be used. Slang dictionary. Same as above. Writing recognition: Tries to find a kanji directly written with your mouse. Tanos: Various JLPT-related resources: vocabulary and kanji lists, etc. Blog posts and articles about learning japanese Blogpost by garejei: Tips and a view on kanji memorization. ----- Thanks to Clephas, Bolverk, cryofrzd, Okami, garejei, Mephisto and probably a bunch of others I forgot to add (sorry!) for their contributions.

My brain is pretty much fried from working on a game all day. So before I go sleep, I'm curious if any of you would even be interested in what I'm trying to make? Here's the idea: a 2D turn-based rogue-lite dungeon crawler, where rather than having one character you have a bloodline of characters, sort of like Rogue Legacy. However unlike RL, your main goal is to rescue a princess from a dungeon to be able to continue your bloodline. Both you and the princesses have a set of genes, such as "Str" or "Int", which determine the stats of your descendant (higher values are more dominant). But while you can see both of your genes for a stat, for example your "Str" genes are 50/30, making your actual Str 50 because 30 is lower and therefore recessive, you can only see the princess' stats, ie you only know her dominant genes, when you pick a princess to rescue, so if her Str stat is 50 you'd only see her "Str" genes as 50/? when in reality she might be 50/20. So your descendant would have an equal chance of his "Str" genes being 50/50, 50/30. 50/20, or 30/20. That's the basic concept, does that sound interesting to you? And I'm going to make it regardless of what people say, so feel free to be brutally honest.

Hi, guys ! This is my first post. I'm making a tutorial on how to install and run Muv Luv Alternative on Linux. As you know it, MLA installation on Windows works like a charm. This kinda unfortunate for us who use linux .Recently, I have found a way to successfully install and run Muv Luv Alternative on Linux, hence the title. Same procedures on Google+ https://plus.google.com/108196378480046305903/posts/aE5iTJ1j8dm Currently I have tested this using :- - OS : elementary OS Luna ( Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin) - Wine 1.7.12 from Wine ppa - PlayOnLinux .deb from PlayOnLinux homepage (latest version for precise) You can try on other linux distros if you want but I'm not sure if it will work though... 1) Mount the MLA .iso with Furius ISO mount. You can get this software from the software center or whatever package manager you're using 2) Next, open PlayOnLinux and select " Install a program ". If the software opens up the first time, it may take a while to sync with the online database. On the lower left corner, there should be an option "Install a non-listed program. Select it and choose next when a menu pops out. 3) Install the program in virtual drive and name it. This would isolate the program the whole system so other windows program will not get affected if your program goes haywired or crashes. 4 )Now choose " Install some libraries". Other games beside VNs may require the other 2 options enabled. 5) You would to make the installation a 32bit one. This may allow higher compatibility with other dependencies that you would need to install later. 6) Now onto the libraries or dependencies installation. Some of the files you would need to install are : 6) Run the installer file from the folder you got the iso file. Just follow the instructions given. 7) Here, as you can see, the directory will have a giberish name. Rename the giberish part to muvluvalternative Next, proceed and let the system install MLA. After it's done, a menu will pop up. You can untick both column or untick the bottom only. Note that if you only untick the bottom, you can see whether MLA runs with all the dependencies you installed earlier. 9) After testing out if MLA works on your system, which I presumed you did, it will ask you choose a shortcut and select the exe file for it. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo for this step... since I was amazed I could make MLA work. Anyways, the launcher file you should choose is the one with the MLA logo with giberish text. 10) As MLA has been installed on PlayOnLinux, select the MLA icon and choose "configure". In the menu, go under miscellaneous and enter the command. This is due to the rUGP engine does not launch together the VN and also to change the locale to Japanese. Refer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=21163&iTestingId=56246 11) Lastly, go to the directory and rename the giberish exe file to muvluvalternative. Finally , Good luck to you all who are installing Muv Luv Alternative on linux ! P.S. This method probably will work with other Muv Luv series too..

Great news for those who want to read I/O, Lemnisca Translation released the patch today! http://lemniscatranslations.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/io-patch-now-released/

Bitch please I'm 5 stars.

Ok, I hope this wasn't posted before at least! Here's my application for the church of Mare. :E Praise the goddess! /o/

*chibi hug*

First one is D-Frag

The second one is from Muv-Luv, probably Muv-Luv Alternative.

Welcome to fuwa~

welcome to the forums...

Welcome to the forums enjoy your stay I can also see you like Momoyo, you're gonna get a long just fine.

Hello Welcome To The Forums~ ^^

Really nice step by step guide I must say , this should be the blueprint of how to write a "Run X under Y" and other solution guides. Almost makes me thinking about writing guides in same manner for the VN tricks I know of.

Welcome to the forums. Now you can be with people just like yourself with the same interests so you don't have to hide anything. Hope you have a good time here.

Welcome to fuwanovel Congratulations! Here you'll meet nothing but people interested in VNs, animes and such, like me for example. Enjoy your stay and feel free to contribute to the discussions here.

Glad to have you here, and nice to meet you haha welcome to the forums~ XD

Welcome to the forums! It's a shame you have to hide your hobbies like that, I did so in the past and lost the opportunity to meet new people with similar interests thanks to that ;_; but well, everyone's different, so it's obviously your decision c: I hope you enjoy your stay and have fun!

Welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay! Have a moe:

u r very welcome here

I Also Like Yandere And Survival XD

i did not know about this, thank you! i know he said he would finish it if he couldn't find a replacement but i thought he had just dropped it instead. i still have my save (just like my miyako save) sitting in miu's route right before the translated part ends Sachi <3 as previously stated, the route you are referring to was the sachi route (which is excellent), however let me just take this opportunity to support the Michiru route because it seems like she doesn't have many fans here. When i played through her route, I was impressed by how sweet of a girl she is. probably one of the sweetest characters I've seen Edit: also makina's bad end surprised me (since i hadn't realized i accidently chose the bad end) and was pretty messed up. although i haven't seen the bad ends in the other routes (yes i know that there are important plot points in them, i just can't bring myself to put the girls through that) so i can't really compare them

Do you guys know who's next? *^* Yeah... you haven't made a Kurugaya one for yourself!

There is something called Movie settings in Rewrite. Change them to another mode. I had the same problem as you when I read Rewrite and that solved it for me.

If you check out Insem's twitter you'll see that he posted "2301/10474/45135/53707" on the 15th. 53707 is Dracu Riot's total line count, 45135 is total lines translated, 10474 is Miu route line count and 2301 is currently translated lines. He won't say anything since people are bothering him but he is in fact still translating the final route. Which is exactly what he said he would do if he couldn't find anyone else to do it before the end of 2013.

OK. You convinced me. I put Grisaia in top of list of VNs i have to read.

Speaking of translations that take seemingly forever to come out. Is dracu riot ever going to get finished ?

Kei <3 Forever and always my favorite.

I think they are introductions to supportive characters you already know so it might not matter that much, when i found out the LN's a went further into the story i put the anime on hold and started the LN's one volume ahead of the arc i last watched on the anime and luckily that arc is where the story began to be less filler-like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08iQ-U3osZU&feature=youtu.be this counts as an amv, right?

THIS. I'm watching Sakura Trick because cuteness + yuri = pinnacle of anime It's just entertaining and cute though the extremly long kiss scenes sometimes make me uncomfortable. But still worth it. I'm probably enjoying it a lot more because slice of life is my favorite genre so that helps a lot when fighting lack of story. Just listen to Tyrone here. He gets it:

I find this is handy: http://games.seiha.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=102