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Who am I? I think it's time to reveal my identity. Why am I here and stuff... I'm a kind of nomad. And a "newbie" also. Compared to most people, I'm not old in the otaku fandom. I've started getting into it a year and a half ago. I wasn't guided my recommendations, or anything. I just had some kind of "prejudice" towards anime and I wanted to know more about it. So I picked my first anime, that was currently airing, which was Nagi no Asukara. My purpose is to have some decent knowledge and experience in various storytelling "long" medias, since I prefer long stories and find them easier to immerse myself and be attached to them. Back then, I had no knowledge about Eastern storytelling media, so my perspective was all "Western". This is why I had some difficulties adapting to the otaku world. Adapting to the new world As far as I know, "forums" are mostly something related to the otaku fanbase, so Western stories forums aren't really "outstanding". So my contact to the Western community was through social networks, specially tumblr, and also through RL people. The Western approach to fiction was mostly "fangirling" and "fanboying", rather than "critical". So I didn't really pay attention to the stories' flaws and what could be improved, but what was 'cool' and what characters I liked and such. Then, when I joined the otaku world, I still viewed anime through that perspective. But one thing I like to do is 'searching'. I am not someone who watches tons of anime, and marathoning them to 'get into' anime more. My anime list is humble, it has only seven animes, not counting sequels, side stories, and etc. But I can tell the name of a lot of animes and what they are about, even the whole story sometimes. I don't go discussing those because I didn't watch them. This just serves to expand my knowledge of his this world works. My first contact to VNs was through a shoujo dating sim name "Amour Sucre" some girls played in my school. I found the concept interesting and I wondered if there was something like that with girls. I ignored it. But then I was searching a trope in TV tropes and I found a work called "If My Heart Had Wings", it was a 'visual novel'. I kind of liked how it looked and then I downloaded it. Then I started ctrling everything making some choices to see how was it like. I found it damn long but I couldn't be more curious about the media. I started searching for more and more VNs, until I found Fuwanovel. I searched for a VN for me to really play and I found Rewrite. Downloaded the torrent (when it existed) and started playing it. I didn't understand what was a route until I played Lucia's route (my first). And damn, my first route was incredible! The best route I've played yet! After Rewrite, I played IMHHW (for real) and LB! Back to the main topic: I took interest in "reviews" and I like how they were made after I joined the otaku world. I thought critique was just for critics before, but I find them specially "crucial", because they can tell what the fans want, what they liked and what they disliked about certain work. It's also good to explain why you liked something and discuss with others about it. My tastes for anime/manga/LN/VN I look for different things in those different medias. But there are some stuff I always dislike. In anime, I look mostly for good characters that I can attach myself too and also good soundtrack. The story has to have moments with big emotional impact on me. Notable examples: Sword Art Online and Non Non Biyori. In manga, I look mostly for a good story, something engaging that the more I read the more I want to read. Notable examples: Iris Zero and Masamune-kun no Revenge. In LN, good character dynamics so the story won't be boring in the beginning, that is generally lighter. And also a good protagonist, which I can relate to. Notable examples: Oregairu and Eromanga Sensei. In VN, "impactful stories". Yeah, I've seen the potential VNs have as a medium and I expect remarkable moments as well as an engaging story that isn't boring to read. Notable examples: Rewrite and Little Busters! As many of you must know, I dislike comedy. I do think it's a waste of time, and even if it makes me laugh I still think it's boring. I'm much more into drama. To be fair, the way anime does drama was something new to me and I liked it. Actually, I prefer the drama done in the anime-way than in the Western-way. I also dislike ecchi, it's also a waste of time imo. Back in my first anime stages, I thought harem was super cool, looking at the concept. It looked like a love triangle, except bigger. But after time passed and I read other people's opinions, I don't really like it anymore... I like moe, though Fuwanovel When I started participating on Fuwa forums, I was rather surprised. First, because of the Coliseum of Chatter. It was full of silly things, and you could post silly pics and say silly stuff. I found it strange, but eventually came to like it. Also, because of the way people treat ecchi, moe and even hentai here. I thought Westerners almost always looked down on those things. I also thought almost no one was interested in nukiges, and almost everyone skipped H-scenes, and almost everyone disliked lolis. But I was wrong. Fuwa showed me that. Not saying I agree with most fuwans, but at least here I can share my love for moe and cute girls. The end This is it. I just hope you know me a bit better after reading this. Here's a pic of Lucia:

For all my fapping to h, I am a bit tired of just how formulaic they are. I figured I'd make one of them bingo thingies for h scenes. Feel free to suggest replacement standard phrases for defloration / simultaneous orgasm.

Speaking about advertisement that go beyond being mere random clips, this advertisement here is Makoto Shinkai doing what he does best: touching, simple movies.

I knew it! Fuwanovel's secret agenda all along was to convert Otaku into Bing users. Fuwa's real motto is "Making Bing popular in the west" Microsoft™

Confession: I'm very happy today. I called the vital records in my county and they gave me a lot of information that the attorneys wouldn't/couldn't reveal. The lady on the phone was very sweet and helpful and I could trust her because she didn't have any special interest unlike the other group. It looks like I won't have to break my bank nor stress out about this situation so much anymore!

Is it just me or does that sound like a euphemism for masturbation? This only makes it sound more like a euphemism.

I take offense at this English bastardization. The proper term is "衛士", and that's what I expect to be used in the English version.

OCD first; THEN waifus~ <3 Sumika is best girl. Haters can deal.

I've concluded that this thread isn't dank enough at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnS-05XoXs4

Hi! If you're interested in going with the latest popular VN, it would seem that the cool kids on the block are all over Butter Me Up. Welcome back!

Hi Everyone! Stopping in to give y'all an update on Krill ..He is doing pretty well this week he has his good days and bad. He has had therapy and they are helping so much.They gave him a list of about 50 words to work on at home with me and he can say almost all of them missing only maybe 5 to 10 depending on how his days been.He went to a therapy session by himself with medical transport.He also stayed home a few hours yesterday as i had a Dr appointment and our son was at his grandparents house.When i got home he had cleaned up our sons toys in the livingroom for me :-) He has been able to make his own bowl of cereal for breakfast without making a mess.He has been online and trying to type to friends.He can say "ok" which is better than it was.Tomorrow he is going with his father to sign paper work at the lawyers. Im not sure if i told you about the lawsuit against the first hospital i sent him to the day he had the strokes.They said the catscans showed nothing and his symptoms were a chronic issue from his schizophrenia and sent him home with a blood pressure super high 168/109 and him at that point unable to speak. I sent him to another hospital with a stroke unit later that day and they told me they could see the strokes on those exact same scans and they knew he was having the strokes immediately.So the first hospital missed the 2 hour window to give him a clot busting drug and prevent anymore strokes and cause all this damage he is now dealing with.So we are suing them for malpractice.Please if you have any questions or advise dont hesitate to reply with questions or comments.

I figure I'd make a new thread to start of fresh and say that I along with Jaysc, plan to continue the translation of Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai that was dropped last month. I know that a lot of people were dissappointed with the fact that this was dropped (me), so I wanted to make the completion of it a reality. However, I wanted to extend this to the community. Jaysc and I have created a share on my google drive account with the scripts that need to be translated, along with reference materials. If people wants to help out in any capacity, they should feel free to do so. Anyone with Japanese knowledge is welcome to help out. Additionally, if anyone just wants to edit or proofread as we go along, that would be helpful as well. I also made a new thread to encourage people to get the word out if they know anyone who can contribute to the project. I want to see this completed as much as you guys do! I can give anyone who is interested a link to the share, or post it here later if it is necessary to do so.

I'll be starting college soon and recently I found out about my dorming situation. Frankly I am horrified, and disappointed. I somehow ended up with a triple when I requested a double (singles weren't an option). I honestly had no idea how I would share my living space with one other person, but now I find out I am going to have to share that space with two other people. While I'm pretty friendly in real life, I am an introvert; and have always used my room as a safe heaven from other people. How will I ever be alone if I am living with 2 other people? What do I do?!? So in an attempt to calm down, I'm curious about other people's experiences with dorm life. You can be as honest and frank as you want, but I would appreciate it if you mention some positives as that would help me feel a bit better.

Time to head off to AX! Maybe I'll see some of you there P.S. - If I don't make it back, you can blame Tay. taypls

What a sweet dream.

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The 1st thing you need to understand is that a dorm is not an apartment nor is it a house. This makes a huge difference in how people act. To be honest, dormitories are actually the easiest to live in with other people since all it really houses is a bed and microwave. The experience itself is actually a blast! Only really problems are to be sure to manage your volume levels at night when hanging out and be sure to warn your roommate(s) if you are going to bring someone over to have sex (nobody likes walking in on that stuff). Other than that, no real problems. Most roommates are actually interested in getting to know you so share your hobbies with them. Everyone has weird hobbies, and this is your chance to talk about them should your roommates ask!

Oh man. College, huh. It was better than living with my family, but pretty bad. The dorm didn't have enough space for everyone going there. Students came from other cities, spent a fortune on the bus trips (what was a fortune for us at the time, anyway. More like 30 dollars right now, but that's in a time where the minimum wage was what would be 150 dollars now- and a lot of people received less than that. Do note that the dollar has been raising related to the Real lately, so the situation wasn't that bad. Still pretty bad, though.), studied like hell to enter the only college in any nearby city and couldn't actually go because they didn't have any place to live in the city. I was one of those students from somewhere else who couldn't get in the dorm. Fortunately, students there were pretty understanding. Regardless of space, they let everyone in and we slept on the ground or on airbeds (not sure that's quite the word. It's the tl google gives me for "colchão", so /shrug). My college life was marked by strikes from professors and sometimes students over poor work/dorm conditions in that cramped space with no privacy. Other than that, it was pretty fun. I'm an extrovert, getting friendly with new people wasn't too hard as long as we didn't go into politics or philosophy (topics I thankfully knew to avoid).

http://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/oh-baby-a-triple.mp3 I'd say just try to enjoy yourself, they might be good people, college life all by yourself is really boring, just saying. That's why I'm really happy to be enrolling in college this year because I finally know some people who are going too and I'm going to be staying with them as well which should provide some fun times.

Space Battleship Yamato 2199

The only thing going through my mind: god Damn IT FLUTTERZ Confession: You know you are a part of fuwa when you just go "eh, just another day on Fuwa" like I just did

Opening Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92mJG9B1js

Woah! Starlessn1ght, are you actually making a serious post! Then I shall respect your seriousness with my usual seriousness. I'm glad you find the western otaku community intellectually stimulating. I was first attracted to Fuwanovel for that same appeal, it was a place I could talk about and analyze the VNs I loved; as well as read other peoples thoughtful comments on their favorite VNs. Sadly most western otaku do look down on nukiges and lolis, Fuwanovel is just a rare place that is relatively accepting of those things. Most people involved in the western otaku community are generally anime and manga fans (who usually haven't read VNs), and plenty of them look down on nukiges and lolicons. But that's what I love about Fuwanovel, it is a very open minded place. You can have controversial views and interests, and people won't shame you for it.

I have literally this page up on my browser every time i open it. That's how much i am looking forward to the patch. Though, no pressure guys.

That's not surprising given that But it's far from the truth, you just looked in the wrong places. There's always a place for critical analysis of any medium. Tumblr is just not one of those places.

Here's my review of Space Pirate Sara: http://gamesforadultsandeveryone.blogspot.com/2015/06/games-for-adults-space-pirate-sara.html

great review keep up the good work

I don't see anyone stopping Secret at TI5. They are so dominant in every aspect of the game. At least I am happy watching s4 wreck havoc.

Last week ESL Frankfurt was epic. Techies picked on by Secret and the entire crowd goes wild. Better than TI4

I cant believe my eyes!

Confession: I don't think there's a 'right' solution at this point any more. She's insane after all

You should post this on steam because sekai sometimes reads the messages and sometimes (not very often) fix the bugs too, I had an issue with WAS -The Hourglass of Lepidoptera- and at least they replied to my message, I also spamm them on kickstarter so if you backed the project write them on their kickstarter campaign mail or whatever it is.

Confession: Oh yeah, if it wasn't obvious enough, I gave up on the same day I proclaimed I'll join the no-fap squad. Though I think it's plenty obvious.

Don't worry. It'll be released on the end of the world.

I translated narcissu and it's a 2 hours vn and it took me almost a week to just re-read it and fix errors in my translation, so yeah I know they take a lot of time but still they are a bit lazy (this was said by themselves)

I actually have the opposite problem that a lot of people do: I'm great when I'm talking within/in front of a group (hence why I like, say, forums), and public speaking is rarely too stressful for me. But when I need to talk one on one with someone, it doesn't matter how well I know them- I start feeling nervous about it. I'm always worried that I'm going to screw things up with that person. Basically, I'd rather embarrass myself in front of a crowd than say something in private that could cost me a close relationship. It's hard to explain, but... well, that's why I'm really bad at responding to private messages of any form, be it PMs here, texts, emails, etc. I have a well-deserved reputation in my family for never responding to anyone's texts. On a different level, I actually really can't handle vomit at all, whether I'm the one who's sick or someone else is. Like, we're talking mini panic attacks at the sound of it. It's... weird, but I've been that way since I was a kid. Why can't I have normal fears, like a normal person.

I still need to get volume 5... But I really loved the first 4 volumes. Granted I only read a few LNs, Hakomari was definitely a great standalone experience, if compared to other media. I enjoyed the Kings game in Vol. 3&4. This series is definitely a recommendation from me; it just felt good to read it.

I'm sorry, but the is so real I couldn't help it.

Butter Me Up was an emotional rollercoaster, which moved me to tears upon finishing it. I too recommend this masterpiece.

Shall I tell you a tale? Once upon a time there was a thread where they posted updates. Unfortunately, people filled the pages so fast the thread became nigh-on useless. And so, two threads were created for a single project. The end. Now tell me it's difficult to find info on that one.

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/30/ao-no-kanata-no-four-rhythm-headed-to-playstation-vita/ GET IN MAH VITA! All your VNs are belong to us. Vita masterrace.

I think my biggest fear is not being able to change for the better. To feel useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6TiGNcDrc

You can be blocked by anyone, as long as you're angry enough.

Just finished Sekai de Ichiban Dame na Koi, I actually liked it quite a lot, everything was so realistic and it just made me want to keep reading it, I don't really know howto describe it, but it is a really good read,and the romance is really damn good, best romance I have read so far, but I don't read much romantic stuff anyways, good story, good humor, and good character, the only down side is some of the crying sounds so damn fake...Currently reading Gekkou no Carnevale,seems to be packed with action, and as above stated, I'm also looking forward to Majikoi S....hopefully it will come out in a couple weeks....months....I really doubt more than half a year at max...but right now all we can do is wait....

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