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Hello all. I am pleased to announce the start of the official Fuwa Anime Club! Here is a brief layout of how things are going to go: Members will clearly state in their post that they wish to participate in each cycle. Each cycle will have a theme or genre for the anime. Each participant (and only those participating in each cycle) is encouraged to put forth an anime title that they wish to watch. The recommendations can be either something you've seen or something you haven't seen yet but participants are committing to watch/re-watch the anime. Recommendations must not be hentai and cannot be over 26 episodes in length. Repeats are allowed. Of all the recommendations, 5 (or less depending on the number of participants) of them will be chosen by random and the participants will vote for which of the five selections the club wishes to watch. All members will watch the selected (one with the most votes) anime over a certain period of time (1 week for 14 episodes and less, 2 weeks for 15-26 episodes) After the viewing period is over, members that participated will rate various properties of the anime (Story, Characters, Music, Art-style, Overall) on a scale of 1 to 10 as well as make a short review/comment on the show (no more than 500 characters long with spaces). The person whose anime is chosen for the cycle will be allowed to pick the next genre/theme, but it cannot be the same as the previous cycle. After the discussion period ends, the cycle will begin again at step 1. For the first cycle, the genre will be Mystery. If you wish to participate, please post below along with a recommendation that fits this genre. My choice for this round is Gosick: http://myanimelist.net/anime/8425/Gosick First Cycle Participants: Stray Cat RinXD Asonn Tiagofvarela Kyoroto Grieviious Kurisu-Chan SilverLi sirjabberwock Cyrillej1 Tenkuru Clephas Flutterz First Cycle Recomendations: Gosick Another Kamisama no Memochou Tasogare Otome x Amnesia Durarara!! Kara no Kyoukai Zankyou no Terror Sunday Without God Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Progress updated. 300 lines this week.

I gave this advice a number of times in private to people who said to me, "I know some Japanese, and I want to try being a translator. Is there anything I should know?" The truth is that I could go on for hours or days on all the things that would prevent a new translator from stepping on the same landmines I and others like me did back in the day... but a lot of that is basically human-relations advice for dealing with prima-donnas. Instead, I'm just going to give a few pieces of simple advice. 1. Master particle and ending usage, no matter what. Even if you forget half of the rest of the grammar, understanding how particle and ending usage alters the flow of a sentence can allow you to adapt. (this is a basic requirement not a luxury, as some of the 'translators' I've worked with have assumed) 2. With fantling VNs, JParser is your best friend. I only say this for those who can already play VNs on their own with 80-100% understanding just by glancing at the suggested furigana and automatically rephrasing it into a proper Japanese sentence (JParser makes suggestions, but they are just that... suggestions). 3. Actual Japanese-English translation tools are worthless for anything other than single words that use common-use kanji. If you get a writer/author who prefers more unusual kanji, don't even attempt to use them for that. 4. Play the VN, watch the anime (even if it is just the episode you are working on), read the manga/light novel before you decide to translate it. You'll be surprised at how much info sticks to the back of your mind just by experiencing the material without the handicap of having to translate it. 5. Love and passion solve a lot of things, but not everything. Deliberately slow down your translation and take brief breaks (one or two days with VNs, an hour or so with anime) if it feels like you are about to fry. Don't let those breaks extend beyond that, though. If you let yourself burn out, there is a good chance you won't start again. 6a. If you can, attach yourself at the hip to an active and experienced mentor translator. Get him to tlc scenes that you have translated (not all of them, just the ones that gave you trouble) and give you detailed translation-check reports so you can see how and why you went wrong. You can learn more from a good translation-checker's tlc report than a month in class. 6b. Make sure you completely translate any scenes you send to a mentor. This is simply to reduce the stress levels of your mentor and keep him/her from abandoning you. Most people who get enough experience to effectively teach others about translation aren't going to have any patience whatsoever for half-assed work. 7. Avoid anything that even vaguely resembles a difficult project for your first one. Oddly, for anime, medieval fantasy is probably the easiest genre to translate from the start. However, with VNs, choose something with easy language for your first project (a very short moege, maybe). I'll let other people expound on the people-issues of translation projects, since most people aren't as cynical as me about them. Like I said, I could list pitfall after pitfall of dealing with translation projects, but you'd still step on the same landmines anyway. Good luck, new translators.

As a person whose favorite game is Virtue's Last Reward, I'm glad to see another person love the games! About the third game... Let's have a small history lesson. 999 goes out in Japan. Mediocre, if not failed, sales. Somebody decides to take a risk and publish the damn game in the West. Year's 2010. The game is a surprise hit. It's declared one of the best DS games (both my IGN and Kotaku, if I am not mistaken), a statement I wholeheartedly agree with. The game sells much more than expected, and it probably turns a profit because a sequel starts to be made. Keep in mind that a VN gets a sequel because of its success in the West. 2012. Virtue's Last Reward goes out, slightly "softened"compared to 999 because of the JP fans' complaints, and spectacularly bombs in Japan. The game has mediocre sales in the West as well, even though the fanbase generally regards both games to be of the same extremely high quality. February 2014. Kotaro Uchikoshi (the series' main writer) declares that Zero Escape 3 is put on "indefinite hiatus" by Spike Chunsoft due to the second game "not being profitable enough". It really hurts that these news appeared literally one week after I started playing Virtue's Vast Reward. ;-; After you finish VLR's True Ending, Spike Chunsoft will likely be both your favorite and least favorite studio of all time.

Various answers, each in a spoiler. Be sure you really want to know.

Finished Umineko last night,that VN was fantastic! I really like the development of the plot and the characterization of all the characters and the endless clash during the reading to consider the Rokkenjima event like a mystery or like a fantasy!And obviously I love the OST of the novel! Spoiler about,well,all the novel

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Then just take some time off from spamming the forums and fit it in there.. (we all know this is impossible as forum spamming is a terrible, infectious disease with no known cure)

Well I have reasons for being anti EA every game they have had their hands on in the past 5 years has come out broken unfinished or they finish it with a DLC you have to pay for as its EA pushing the DEV's to get the game out faster

Seriously?! Thanks for the news! Maria Maria Maria Maria! ....I loved the series a lot. The character development is pretty stellar, and I loved looking at the end of the sixth volume and going "this is a completely different person than the one in the first novel" yeahhhhh. I re-read the entire thing in April (my first read being years ago....), but I'll read it again when the 7th novel comes out. Everything's coming to a head!

Any lamia doujin ive read is usually pretty good to be honest

I just read through the thread (again). Darn, where do you guys find such high quality pictures?

I know i can't participate but I'm getting my arsenal ready for the next edition and I don't want to brag but I think i've got a good chance.

Heads up. Fakku is releasing new stuff this December. Seems like they're doing it chapter at a time per few days until the end of December. Three h-books: Alluring Woman Peachy-Butt Girls Welcome to Tokoharu Apartments Nyaa, HERE i COME!

T-That's not funny... Actually, it just went down for a while.