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I posted this on the visual novels subreddit, but I wanted to share it with everyone here as well. Hopefully that is okay . Here is the gallery: http://imgur.com/a/x4Bbp These were taken in late 2011. I do believe it is Narcissu's ten year anniversary, so I figured this is a fine time to showcase these photos! Narcissu was my first visual novel, and it is still my favorite to this day. After playing through the game, I wanted to discuss it with others so badly, but it was quite niche at the time, so I ended up participating in the Japanese communities. My Japanese is only average, but I just wanted to share my passion for the game with the people out there. I got to know a couple of Japanese folks who were also fans of the game. Then, in 2011, I decided to take a ten day trip in Japan. Once I told these guys about it, they were extremely friendly and proposed a meet up right away. One of these online friends happened to live around Kyoto. I stayed there for two nights, and the two of us took a day trip to visit the landmarks from Narcissu. We got to know each other thanks to the game, so there was no better way to spend the day. Even though the flowers did not blossom during October, we still made the most of our time there. We talked about scenes from the game as we passed some of the actual locations, but I will keep it vague to avoid spoilers. Though we had a language barrier, we still did our best to have a great time, and it is all thanks to this one game. This has to be what I love most about visual novels, or any fan community in general. It is when a game transcends being entertainment and creates friendships, even when we are in different parts of the globe. When an opportunity to meet up surfaces, there is something really precious about that. Thank you for reading!

Is your blood boiling because of certain, recently locked posts? Well boy do I have a solution for you! Come and harmonize your rage with today's winner "Ramenadon". (~2 weeks pass)

Tears Yggdrasil Windows 1.0 Description Our story revolves around our protagonist Yamakazi Kusanagi, an ordinary boy whose life was dramatically altered upon waking up in Alfheim, the land of elves, after a colossal Earthquake. Upon arriving in this magical land, our protagonist strives to find out if there are any connections between a phenomenon in Alfheim known as the universal tremor and the earthquakes back home while attempting to stay alive and discover who is trying to assassinate the princess of Alfheim and usurp the throne. Or perhaps, he has intimate connections with the very mysteries of the world itself... Features Tears of Yggdrasil is a fantasy themed, slice of life Visual Novel with a some elements of dating-sim and of course some echi and fanservice. It is fully voiced and extensively interactive! Each path you take will get you to a unique ending.– A unique story with unique plot. 1. Full Voice Acting 2. Original Soundtrack 3. High Quality Artwork 4. Full HD 1080p 5. Fluid Gameplay 7. Every Choice you make has impact on the story 8. Multiple Unique Endings 9. Music Gallery 10. CG Gallery 11. Scene Gallery( aka scene replay gallery) Artwork Characters Yamakazi Kusanagi While he's a lazy ass pervert who dreams of having a harem of girls at his feet, Kusanagi has a surprisingly kind hearted side. When he sees someone in trouble, he feels compelled to help them whether they be a family member, close friend or even a stranger. He started practicing jujutsu(an old kind of martial art) and kendo together with his childhood friend Kogara Sachi at the age of five, but stopped after breaking a bully's arm in a fit of rage. Besides his fruitless dreams of having his own harem, all he wants to do is become a NEET/hikikomori. It is not to be though, as Sachi has made a habit of waking him up and dragging him off to school whether he likes it or not. Kusanagi can be a charming, intelligent man when he has to, and knows how to carry himself in a fight whether it be fought with the sword, shinai, or his fists alone. Kogara Sachi Sachi is Kusanagi’s childhood friend since she was five, when Kusanagi saved her from a pack of stray dogs (which she believed to be wolves.) From then, she has helped him with everything from preparing his daily meals to helping him study. They both started martial arts around the same age, a sport that fostered their friendship and rivalry. Alvaerele Ikeshia Ikeshia the elven princess of Alfheim, who after the death of her brother she was declared the next heir to the throne by her father. She is very cold in nature and trusts no one else other than her father and her maid Elisven. Elisven Elisven is a maid at the elven palace (and Princess Ikeshia’s personal and most trusted maid, despite being somewhat awkward.) Due to her more darker skin tone, she has always been seen as a spy of the dark elves; thus, she has always been bullied and persecuted while growing up. Even now, after many years in service to Princess, she is often threatened and sometimes beaten by prejudiced individuals who still believes she’s only a spy. She is extremely loyal and feels indebted to the princess for seeing what she truly is beyond her physical appearance. Tears of Yggdrasil Staff Main Staff: MoonStar and Mafuda Artists: Character Design: pinguin-kotak Backgrounds: Uncle Mugen and Aswaforce. CG: Artemisumi Logo: LucaMadison GUI: Aleema Writers: Writer: MoonStar Voice Actors Scripter: Marisa Lenti and MoonStar. Music: Composer: Florenz Dominic Sison and N.H.C Voice Cast: Yamakazi Kusanagi: Matthew Curtis ( En-Vision America; The Adventures of Lord Dinby, Duke of Space!; Conquest of Champions; LEGO Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.) Kogara Sachi: Helen Ni Alvaerele Ikeshia: Marisa Lenti (Hasbro/Playdate Digital: My Little Pony: Twilight's Kingdom App: Princess Celestia & Cadance; ScrewAttack: DEATH BATTLE!: Noin; MirageV: Sacred Earth: Promise: Relima; A Wolf's Tale: Lina; The Mouth: Dragon , Libra & Eclipse Libra Fairy Tail(Funimation dub)) Elisven: Adoxographist Please feel free to provide any feedback you may have! What im looking for so far is feedback critic preferably honest cruel and honest opinions with arguments why you think that. http://strawpoll.me/3069411 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZVH3GY Follow the development of the story here :yggdrasil.vnovel.com/ Also Like; Rate and Follow us on Indie DB: www.indiedb.com/games/TOY Facebook: www.facebook.com/YggdrasilVN Twitter: twitter.com/YggdrasilVN/ Patreon

Mangagamer just released their 2014 look back. Included is their top 10 best sellers for the year: A whopping eight nukige in the top 10, three of which are from last year, and not a single non-nukige in the top 5. Releases this year which didn't make it to the top10 include Knights of Anal Tyranny, Lapis Gunner, Space Pirate Sara, Royal Guard Melissa and Married Nurse, five nukige, and d2B vs. Deardrops and Cartagra. With 10 nukige vs. 4 non-nukige released this year it's not completely surprising to see this kind of results, but it's still kinda disheartening to see the efforts MG makes at releasing quality, non-nukige titles do so poorly in the end. Let us just hope that it won't discourage them from trying to push a better quality for their releases, even though it doesn't seem to affect the sales at all. That's pretty already. Sekai Project also gave their top5 selling games on Steam this year: Planetarian, which was supposed to be a big thing, ended up doing less than Sakura Spirit and Nekopara. Welp. Overall thoughts on these results: (One positive note still: Kara no Shoujo LE topping the hard copy sales for Mangagamer. /me waiting for the unavoidable KnS/Cartagra/KnS 2 hardcopy bundle some time in 2016. Even though I already got the japanese versions.)

Tiago fucken varela, girl, you my Cinderella.

"There's nohman I'd rather have than you"

Chocola does use 3rd person here and there when the situation calls for it. But SP's translation pretty much put 3rd person in almost all of her lines when she was clearly not even mentioning her own name or using any sort of kiddy speech for the matter. Most ridiculous example: Original: そうか (sou ka) SP translation: Chocola sees More fair translation by me (and anyone with half a brain) I see

Too many images 0/10 Not enough violet(a) 0/10 Can't use F3 0/10 My mobile (potato) phone can't handle it 0/10 Overall 9/10 OP post. And yes. I've, in the meanwhile, finished the demo and enjoyed it thoroughly. I'll probably write up something more detailed later, maybe. Hopefully.

Gonna go Down on you ALLL NIGHTTT LONNGGG...

Hey folks ! Hope you are all doing great. Recently, I have come across a few "travel" visual novels (travel novels maybe? hoho) like Go Go Nippon or Shan Gui. They feature real locations, with links to wiki pages etc to learn more if the player chooses to. Steins;Gate also takes place in Akihabara, which is a fairly common setting in anime, VNs, etc. The difference is, it seems that in the Steins;Gate VN, it seems like many of the shops are shown exactly as they are. Animate, Taito Station, etc. Is it okay to do that? Maybe they have asked the shops for permission? As I am sure a lot of us have noticed, in American TV dramas, if a character drinks a can of coke, the label would often be covered up. Is it because they want to avoid getting sued by Coca Cola? Some say it is just because they do not want to give Coca Cola free advertising, and that they have no need to fear legal actions against them. Sleeping Dogs would be another example. The game takes place in Hong Kong. Well, who "owns" Hong Kong? Sleeping Dogs also has many street signs throughout the game, but their names are slightly changed from their real life counterparts. The district names, however, remained the same. North Point, Kennedy Town and Central. So who "owns" Kennedy Town, for example? I would be interested in knowing what the rules are. Returning to Go Go Nippon, they can mention Akihabara without changing the name, yet the store names might be a different story. How about Initial D's famous mount Akina? The real place is named Haruna, I believe, and they decided to change that. Thanks for reading the ramble folks ! I wanted to see if anyone had some insights into this matter .

Nope, I'm a true warrior of the No Droppers faction. Have not dropped a single anime, no matter how much I hated its guts or how bored I was. Because after that I can make constructive comments on how much I hated it.

Psh. And you guys thought I was joking. ... in my defense, it was a pretty dang good year. -bo http://youtu.be/eq1FIvUHtt0

He was hoping for the D at least.

Honey, it's like you're Taylored just for me

Update: Main post has been updated! There's a little surprise there for you guys. We're looking forward to your continued feedback! Warm regards from Red Lattice Studio

It's me!

In the recent situation over the kidnapping of 2 Japanese men by ISIS, the Japan internet (2chan) on January the 25th decided to make a thread “Let’s make ISIS into a moe girl and send it to them!” and well........ <Profile of ISIS_chan> ...*sigh* P.S. "ISIS-chan was conceived as part of an online effort to counter terrorist propaganda by disrupting the search-engine optimization (SEO) profile of relevant keywords with images of a moe character." More info here Pro tip: Google "ISIS-chan" and put it to last week or the specific date of after 25th January. Be amazed. Oh and before I forgot, what do you guys think of this? Is it going to be as bad as Ebola-chan? Or maybe even achieve an actual positive objective?

Why hello there, friends! Thanks to some urging in this thread and by PM, I have decided to periodically share with you some of the hate mail that frequently lands in my inbox. Sometimes it'll be about me, sometimes about Fuwanovel, and sometimes... I don't actually know what they're complaining about but they're certainly worked up about it. Periodically I'll put up a poll giving you a tantalizing summary of a small selection of options. Whichever of the options gets the most votes will be the one I share with you. Vote wisely! Note 1: I'm going to forget about this topic in-between rounds. I'm trying to make sure I'm more active on the forums, but there's still a ton of work behind the scenes to do, and then there's that whole "real life" thing. If you have a hankering for more hatemail and I've forgotten to put up another round, come find me! Bug me! I've got a thousand or so emails to choose from, so there will be no shortage of material : P Note 2: This isn't exactly a classy topic, so if somebody wants to class up the joint and throw together a logo (clip art, comic sans, magenta -- you name it), I'll have an extra dose of guilt when I forget to post here, and you'll probably see polls more often. January 20, 2015 Options (Final # of Votes): 1. Tay's Dark Secret (19) Link 2. Hanky panky in the staff forums? (18) 3. The email which inspired Tay's now-annoying "Ron Paul 2012!" joke (1) (is the loneliest number) 4. Maybe an insult? Maybe a compliment? (4) January 22, 2015 Options (Total Votes) 1. The Feds come a'calling. (10 votes [31.25%]) 2. Voted Santa is disappointed in you, Fuwanovel. (9 votes [28.12%]) 3. Lullaby (1 votes [3.12%]) 4. It's a trap! (12 votes [37.50%]) January 23, 2015 Options (Total Votes) Link 1. The trouble with kids these days (10) 2. Ghandi wouldn't stand for this (16) 3. Fuwanovel: The Worldwide Leader in Economic News (21) January 27, 2015 Options (Total Votes) 1. Do you believe in love after love? (26) 2. I can feel something inside me say... (19) 3. I really don't think you're strong enough, yeah! (13) 4. February 8, 2015 Link 1. I'm baaaaaack (12) 2. The guy who pretended to be batman (29) 3. The guy who pretended to be ryoji (10) 4. Option #4 from the last poll (6)

Sorry, maybe that sounded like a complain or something but it's not, so far it looks really cool and I understand why it's a little rough right now. About the text speed it's already maxed out (it's maxed out by default) but still it's really slow for my taste then again this is just me but it would be cool to being able to change it and speed it up a little more. The screens/scenes transitions they need something, I don't know how to explain it but in many novels when one scene is over and a new one appears there is something in between them or the slowly disappears and the new one appears, here they just do it in a second and looks kinda weird, sorry I can't explain it better. It seems that clicking on the "voice sustain" fixes the voices problem.

Gonna back this when it's ready looks really nice and with english voices, can't wait. EDIT: I played the demo, here are my thoughts: It's a little "rough" right now, some of the voices are cut in the middle. The backgrounds could use a little more work (like in the first scene, that coke bottle looks really bad) companion cube <3 . The text moves really really slow. Scenes transitions are kinda weird, they are shown just for exposition or not, you can't really tell if something is going to happen or if you need to click the mouse.

I saw your thread over at lemma, just yesterday! I'm glad you decided to spread the word over here. Keep up the good work, you have my support! btw, I love the GUI. Killer designs, and this is coming from a graphic designer. :3

Ahh nice! The Vn looks really beautiful and ty for sharing man

I feel like this is one of the best jokes I've read in months. Holy cowwwwww The poll is neck-and-neck for the next one, haha

Sounds like you've got a case of premature ejanimation. I'd go see a doctor if I were you. On a slightly more serious note, in the rare cases where I watch something while it's airing I sometimes drop it regardless of how many episodes in I am simply because I get tired of having to wait a week for 20 minutes of anime. However when I watch something I've downloaded, I usually either drop/stall it during one of the first episodes or just marathon it to the end.

3/10 for trying. Not that I'd do any better. So much so, I wont even attempt to make one myself.

WHY ARE WE YELLING?

Edit: Nvm, I shouldn't have said that

REDUNDANT, BUT SURE, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT

Tay confirmed to be destroying modern education

I hate you too.... T____T

You are a Lotus that makes my heart Beato and with every touch, it Flutterz. I am Sirius, you are like the SilverLining in my heart You Mustkill me with your beauty ( I tried but it's impossible)

I had this given to me just now Time to start devoting more of my life to the game playing 3 accounts again

Good. They're using the tool I released to make it, and then they went spamming 500 patches (changing like 2 words in the thing and calling it a new version) all through cash-grabbing shit links to try and make a load of money off of it. And it was all machine-translated anyway, er0gamr didn't do shit. I don't support them at all, and I wish I could revoke their usage of the tool I gave them and stop them from pulling that money-grubbing crap, but I can't. So either way, just ignore them. If they get annoyed, even better. The project at Nekohen isn't related to Clephas' one here though just to be clear, it's done by some people on HongFire.

Sort of finished Kami no ue no Mahoutsukai (took a bit over a month). Non-spoiler thoughts, basically why I liked the game The next game I'm playing's probably going to be Scales of Semiramis. Eek, the menu theme already is setting the mood, part melodic, part calm, part dramatic, part haunting.

Just completed my full play through of ME3. Didn't end up doing all the DLC in it because the only one I have is CItadel and I wasn't really in the mood to play it. I actually ended up using a save game editor for paragon and renegade points because I hate how the dialouge in ME3 does not allow neutral choices. Not sure what to play next. I'll think about it later.

poaaah thx comrade lotus for granting me my dying wish so fucking soon, really really hope you can get this project rolling, dunno what to say at the moment, cause the topic gave me a huuuge boner. definitely one of my all time favorite games out of its series. i´m freaking rooting for ya!

^^^^^^ Yeah, that's more or less what I thought. I knew I read about this issue before but I didn't have sources or a firm recollection. That only applies to America though, Japan is a whole different ballgame thanks to their different fair use laws/interpretations. In America that shit wouldn't fly, so it's ironic that the country with stricter copyright laws ends up being lax towards selling unofficial goods that violate trademarks. But ultimately, it's up to the companies themselves to police trademark. There are no governmental organizations that monitor this kind of thing, so each trademark and copyright holder has to be vigilant in protecting their property, and in Japan they intentionally turn a blind eye to doujin. That doesn't mean it's legal, just that the intellectual property owners don't act out against it. This happens for two reasons, one being that they acknowledge that these fan works tend to raise awareness for their brands and can actually promote sales of their own products. They don't compete, but complement each other. The other reason is that suing creators of doujin works for infringement earns a LOT of ire in Japan, even from people way outside the doujin's target audience. There have been controversies over this in the past, and it doesn't usually end well for the plaintiffs. So these companies would rather let sleeping dogs lie.

I think Little Busters has a lot of choices, but except for choosing the routes, they aren't really important to the story... What would be the closest to what you're seeking would be Fate/Stay night, as there are a lot of choices in the VN that all matters (a good chunk of them being life or death matters), but unfortunately there aren't many routes, which is compensated by the fact the routes in fate are really long (I am not taking into account the 30 different bad endings, some of them are very short though)

On the contrary, I believe the legitimacy of the mangaka you’re working with relates to the very essence of this thread. Your trustworthyness relates to the legitimacy of your mangaka colleague which in turn relates to the very essence of this thread. Your past behaviour relates to your trustworthiness which relates to the legitimacy of your mangaka colleague which relates to the very essence of this thread. Whether you wish to ignore such concerns is up to you, but I don’t believe labelling a ton of posts on this thread as “trolling” is very accurate. I also disagree that they are unrelated to the subject matter at hand. You could have stopped the comments on the first page. People want to see proof this time and you're squirming your way out of answering *shrugs*

I've been wanting to say it for a while now, but why do you actually always feel the need to show your worth by belittling literally the whole EVN scene? I mean, of course you can boast about how your art looks nice, because it does, but at the same time if you're really confident in the quality of the art, can't you just say so without insulting every OELVN artist at the same time? What's more, taste in art is a very subjective topic. You say that japanese artists have a better approach of anatomy : Surely you've read KEY works right? Not sure I can say that the body proportions are "professionals" (I mean, dem eyes that take half of the face...), even though I do love Key art style. Believe it or not, Western people (and not necessarily us, since we are people who are accustomed to japanese animation) might actually prefer games where girls actually don't seem to all have breast implants, or have ridiculous body proportion that I doubt it's actually possible to attain in reality, or faces where the nose is nearly non existent and where eyes take half of the space? I just find it really rude, especially since you're partially also criticizing people that, them at least, managed to release a completed project. Also, from time to time, some humility wouldn't hurt. Hopefully you know this word if you're a writer. Maybe instead of going "I shall bestow upon thee the privilege of participating to what will become the most awesome project that you'll ever see!" , something like "I'd like to have some help brainstorming potential idea for the scenario!" would be a good change of pace. Well, I might be asking too much I guess. Anyway, still, best of luck on your future endeavors. Hopefully this time you'll manage to reach the kickstarter phase. I saw what you did there...

Why am I excited for this? Anyway, I just found out that the background artist is from the same country as mine. Feels so proud, man. I also found a chibi Audrey in his gallery.

This really needs a 10 hour version.

Oh my gosh oh my gosh I'll just leave this here :heart:

I have one ..... it was my unforgettable ever the title also Secret Base AnoHana - Ending ...... (ps: to tell truth, i have teary eyes when ending Menma ...) and other My Song & Ichiban no Takaramono

while bathing in your kitchen sinku

I showed this to my friend and this is his reply:

Screw tsunderes and especially yanderes, but anything else should be mostly fine. Can't she just be deredere?

Well, without a warning my previous post got deleted (I wonder why). Ill just guess that I cant post 4chan links. Glad to know you hate 4chan and VNDB So heres an image! GG Aaeru, keep doing what you do I hope im not breaking any rules this time ;)/>/>

it doesn't work that way