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A huge thank you to The Major for creating this for me. I'll see you all in December. This is now the official 24 hour stream discussion thread. Stay tuned for a specific date and time. So, what will I be streaming? Prepare your diddly hole

It's good to have servants doing the work for me. Nico is pleased with your work~

Welcome to the forums. It's good to have you. Have you heard of Scottsune Miku, president of Japan?

My life in the TeamSpeak every fucking day...

lol, the game isn't even two years old. The translation project is new and just went public a week or so ago. If the last week was anything to go by, the translator seems to be pretty fast and I look forward to the results.

Added God this person's art is amazing. I absolutely love all the nicomaki content from them.

You speak my language now xD ~~~ I think an account ID clean up is warranted; when I first joined this thread it was annoying trying to add people and seeing 60 day+ last log in Active Aez Racer - 565572064 cloudy12 - 303868371 CLuBLioN - 063955407 Ceris - 776023364 Chibi-chan - 297438394 Eclipsed - 199707075 Ezeefreak - 412525342 Gavissimo (Gavisi) - 153876355 Hoshii (arakura) - 539866513 jeftai - 606043846 JkR - 070649210 LLucas (Amagami) - 298644642 Maki~chan - 158426702 Narcosis (IceD) - 280630677 マニア (mania) - 672173192 merc (XDarkmercX) - 529746994 Nosebleed - 795036881 Pancakes (Baconpancake) - 589569673 Pierrot (phoenixfyre2552) - 125687510 Praeliator - 436991704 Shero - 130613783 Sylvian (Aregon) - 671838959 Zehel - 650143515 Semi-Inactive Hoshii (arakura) - 539866513 LLucas (Amagami) - 298644642 マニア (mania) - 672173192 Pancakes (Baconpancake) - 589569673 Inactive Blizzard884 - 166279455 Crunchy (crunchytaco) - 030528476 Cynthar - 563371869 Kudryavka (Gregorirori) - 801639235 メフィスト (Mephisto) - 259055396 Niyuki (Yukiru) - 393032551 Ryuji (Omg A-Bear) - 342987095 Xisashi - 305789694 Zakamutt - 862082393 Where active is a log in within the last day, semi-inactive is a log in from 10-30 days, and inactive 30 day+

So... Sekai Project kickstarter when?

It seems there is a planned translation. No progress has been made as of yet though. Also, moved this topic to the right forum.

My boner wasn't included, sorry.

...You can't see yours as well? We have a mighty problem right here.

Oh God the latest chapter. Definitely drop a tear there.....

For all the old school gamers out there.

And so, the day comes closer, the day where the Love Live thread shall conquer Fuwanovel! Oh,and welcome

Anyway I made a Imgur album of my Love Live pictures just now http://imgur.com/a/nMyBn

I'm not even on a list lol

Welcome to the community. Glad you've found yourself interested in visual novels. It sounds like you should marry this Nahichun. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it here and continue to stick around. See you around the forums.

Oh comyu...:

Something looks familiar

Well, I've pretty much got my life set in stone at this point. Unless I decide on going back to school, or by a stroke a luck win some kind of lottery, I'll be a family man who will live here all my life. My job is a mere formality, basically. I can be fired... maybe...? I work at a sports club on my neighborhood where my family practically owns the place. Or at least, we've got a lot of history, having owned it in the past. Now that I think about it, my history is all worthless for this conversation. I don't interact with people nearly enough for them to ever get to know my true personality. Well, I like it this way. Other forums where I never got used to them my posts may be nice, but I hardly post. Since I like this community, and I have yet to be told I have seriously offended someone (otherwise you would have seen an incredibly apologetic me, which I really would rather not show), I think it's altogether better if I just roam free. Anyways, I can confirm with real life experience as well, people never get to truly know me until they've heard me go on a sarcasm-filled commenting spree. Though I don't recall throwing too many insults around, exception being during the grumpy Penguin disease. Posts on this thread are a mere caricature, however, as they have been for a long time now.

The sad thing is I'll probably read it regardless of the translation quality. 10/10 cutie-patootie cat-girls are enough for me. They're all I need in life.

hmm, the chance to get an official version of Grisaia no Kajitsu, through a quiz of the same game I adore? You act like I wouldn't participate in this.

I really don't want to say this again, but we're doing it however makes the most sense. If everything else is done by the time Agave patch is done, then we release everything else next. Simple.

I buy most of my Visual Novels nowadays. Though the last two titles I read (Kikokugai and Quartett) I didn't buy because Kikokugai is going to be released by Jast someday so I'll by it then (or I'll buy the remake when my japanese gets good enough to read it) and the company that made Quartett is dead so they're not going to get any of my money anyway and it's incredibly expensive for a game of that length. Currently I own: Umineko, Umineko Chiru, Umineko Tsubasa, Aselia the Eternal, Steins;Gate, Kanon, Air, Rewrite, Rewrite Harvest Festa, Higanbana 1, Higanbana 2 and Shikkoku no Sharnoth (also waiting for Aiyoku no Eustia to arrive).

ff14. Shiva HM when she switches to phase two, snaps her fingers and the music just enters god tier. I literally started shouting on coms at how gewd the music was. http://youtu.be/4BlEHnYogn4?t=4m25s

The last route is worth playing, even if you come across some bad and/or uninteresting routes.

LET IT DIE ALREADY! I'm having PTSD now! Its like Emi knows something is happening very soon.

Wow Ren, you're such a hobophobe. Edit:

Dark souls. Just Dark Souls. It's that feeling when you've almost beaten a boss, and you grow more and more tense the longer the fight goes on, until finally you know: Just a few more hits and I have won, but If I make a mistake, I'm dead. And then you win, and victory has never felt better.

While I'm naming the candidates for the October releases, I figured I would revisit the purpose of this thread. This thread was made, ultimately, as a place for me to give people a general idea of what to expect going into the games released in a particular month. As such, I consciously over-utilize VN and otaku terminology, and in most cases, the actual comments don't constitute a true review. Also, I inevitably focus on the narrative aspects of the game, unless the music, VAs, or visuals are either extremely high or low quality. This is because VNs are ultimately a vehicle for narrative, the system of adding a visual aspect (tachie, CGs) and an auditory aspect (music, voice-acting) is ultimately meant to enhance the narrative, rather than define it (yes, this is my opinion, and I'm deliberately ignoring nukige, since they aren't the subject of this thread in general). As such, I tend to focus on how enjoyable that narrative is to me or who it would be enjoyable to, even if it is not to my tastes. This is my primary reason for playing so many charage/moege despite the fact that they are far outside my normal range of tastes. The fact that I play so many of them is mostly my idea of VN community service, though I do enjoy the excavation of the occasional true masterpiece buried amongst the mediocrity. So what am I trying to say? Essentially, I'm trying to say that the general reason I avoid spoilers inasmuch as it is possible without failing to inform the reader, is because the mini-reviews here are meant to inform other Japanese-reading VN-addicts choices. To be blunt, the sheer volume of VN releases out there makes picking and choosing a pain in the rear. I remember how annoying it was filtering through dozens of kusoge to find a single likely gem when I first started... and frankly, I don't want to inflict the same suffering on others. I avoid the spoilers as much as possible because my focus is ultimately narrative, rather than the overall focus seen in traditional reviews... this is also why I tend to call them comments or mini-reviews, rather than acknowledging them as true reviews. List of October Candidates http://vndb.org/v14523 http://vndb.org/r32814 http://vndb.org/v14924 http://vndb.org/r34151 Because Dragon Age: Inquisition is coming out in mid-November, I don't know how much I'll have to work, university is getting busy, and because I'm just not all that interested in it, Koiharu Adolescence will probably get put into my random vn thread whenever I choose to play it. I seriously doubt I'll have time to play many extras in November or December, so my apologies in advance.

There are a thousand arguments, and counterarguments, for a thousand methods. While a few are likely near-objectively shit, the rest will mostly be up to taste. Actually consistently learning is probably more important than efficiency of method; if you can narrow down your skills and weaknesses when it comes to learning, people can give better advice. (I just realized that I inadvertently copied the meaning of Tay's post. Go me.) If you decide to go for RtK for example, realize that you're going to spend at least two months or so purely grinding kanji using that method. That might be effective for some people (see Tay above, although being a med student makes him somewhat of a special case to begin with), but can also be highly demotivating as you really don't get much better at reading Japanese for that period (and yes, it is specifically advised that you don't try to learn (anything involving kanji) using other methods in the meanwhile, as this will make the RtK method less effective. More or less.) Personally I don't find this a huge problem, but your experience may differ. Many people that say you have to eventually get around to the kanji after learning other stuff actually recommend RtK for that purpose. It's a long-term potential efficiency gain.