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Confession: Back, when I was a little twirp (... Six? I think I was six.), my father's side of the family had it's one and only big barbecue dinner at my aunt's place. Out of nowhere, my oldest cousin (my age +2) suddenly asked: "Mom, why do the animals we eat have to die?" and my caught off-guard aunt tried to improvise something along the lines of "Uh... Well... We only eat the old and sick animals, which would've died anyway". In that moment, I spit the contents of my mouth across the table and yelled: "I'm not eating a sick animal, dad! that's gross!". What ensued, was the adults trying to tell both kids what they wanted to hear and upon realizing that wasn't possible, starting to point fingers at each other and a gigantic argument ensued. What a beautiful memory.

So I sea, I hope we can remain friends, I'd hate to make anemone of you.

Im impressed how many breakdowns they could cram in a breakdown lol Check Devourment's 'Babykiller', slams for days :3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkjLHtylu0

Yes, on. I always dominate, so I'm always above. This leads to the preposition 'on' and rarely ever 'with'.

Those filthy console peasants need to learn the truth.

Look, I like me my tsunderes. Komomo fills that role very well and I enjoyed her route. Aoi, though, is a whole other story. I hate her, lol.

Another thing to consider regarding the whole steam key thing: At the time of the kickstarter campaign, the estimated delivery dates for the physical and digital versions of the game were the same: October 2015. Delays are to be expected, but a three month gap between physical and digital releases is way bigger than anyone would expect, and this makes the lack of steam keys sting all the more. It's one thing if you can expect to get your copy in the mail within a week or two, but another thing entirely if it's three whole months. As of like five years ago, they did. Steam has tinkered a lot with the way the top sellers list works since then, though, so I don't know if that's still the case. Still, many keys were redeemed days ago and ultimately only 2500-3000 or so were given out to kickstarter backers, so there's still probably thousands of additional sales. This is likely already a very profitable venture for SP. edit: I seem to remember reading a few years ago about how they changed the way the top sellers list works due to the rise of bundles screwing everything up, so I think it's reasonably likely that redeemed keys no longer affect your position in the rankings. Also, I went ahead and wrote up a quick Fuwazette report on this, because why not? http://blog.fuwanovel.net/2015/11/clannad-is-released-climbs-to-a-top-5-sellers-spot/

I'll, uhh... be in my bunk

We, the jury, find the defendant gillty of terrible fish puns!

Confession: I wish I wasn't so poor so I could buy Clannad on steam and rush through it without a walkthrough like a baws God I love that game

Why not put all sentences that ends with "desu" with an exclamation point? Problem solved? More importantly: when is the Kickstarter coming? edit: exclamation "point" or "mark"?

densedens/adjective 1.closely compacted in substance."dense volcanic rock"synonyms:thick, heavy, opaque, soupy, murky, smoggy; More 2.informal(of a person) stupid.synonyms:stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, brainless, mindless, foolish, slow,witless, simpleminded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, idiotic,imbecilic; More 3. (of a text) hard to understand because of complexity of ideas.

http://www.writingexcuses.com/ You're going to need this. All of it.

roflmao. I can't believe you guys are arguing about nothing. People actually lose sleep over this desu nonsense? I treat it basically like a speech mannerism like Makina talking like a country hillbilly or an ojousama needing to say "hohoho" every time she says something clever and nothing else. It can make characters cute or incredibly annoying. I've seen desu used in different contexts like agreeing with someone and wanting something while sometimes it is said just for the sake of saying it even if it's pointless to add it in the conversation.

Confession: For some inexplicable reason, I probably took this comment way out in to left field. Here were my immediate thoughts. You are Islamic (absolutely no fucking clue) Your class must therefore also be Islamic (holy shit assumptions) Premarital sex is against some kind of Islamic religious law (unfounded and unconfirmed assumptions) ---> Why is your class trying to break Sharia Law I honestly don't know. I think my brain went full retard on this one.

Plot twist: Homura is actually hsmsful's sister

3 days till release <3

A lot of people greatly undermined Clannad's popularity

>liking Isuzu ha ha ha

Hidden Content

@Zenophilious, attack!!

Finished Aoi's route in Hoshimemo. Definitely the second best route in the game next to Komomo's. On to Chinami's route next, I hope it's a good one because I'm kind of dreading it.

I'm a hipster with shit taste.

I've had a couple of waifus over the years. There was Holo, and Kud. Funnily enough, those were my second and third waifu. Now I've realized the error of my ways, and that I've returned to my true waifu! Mint Blancmanche

Everyone misinterpreted your cousin, he was DISAPPOINTED that they were all dead. Your cousin wanted them to feel the agony of being eaten alive.

Thanks for posting here, Eclipsed - you're making me interested in the Cartagra + KnS series, even though I suspect it may be too dark for me. But I may check it out when I finish what I'm on now. Meanwhile, Clannad is wonderful, even though the remastered soundtrack sounds a little weird to me. Honestly, they could've improved any track but "That's Like the Wind" and I'm sure I would've been delighted, but it's hard to get used to a slightly different version of a song that I already like enough to make it my alarm sound for months on end.

You brought this on yourself. I want you to know that.

Have been looping it for too long now. So good. Also to

It might just be my skepticism but I don't think it's very surprising that Clannad is selling a lot right now. In fact, I'd say that's to be expected of such a major and long awaited release to sell this much on launch. Just think of all the VN and anime fans who want this, they're likely in the thousands I'd say. The real challenge for Clannad will be when all the anime and VN fans already bought it. I think we can only draw decent conclusions on how well it did in a few weeks when we can have some slightly more concrete data on the amount of owners. I do hope the trend doesn't die, mind you, since this is such a major title in the medium, but I'm staying cautiously optimistic.

as mdz called it: 'A smile that could mobilize armies'

The HD graphics are really, really neat, especially on my 1920*1080 screen (which is a laptop with a 15" screen, so low resolution VN really hurt usually) The translation is much better than the fan translation, though I haven't read much of the new version, but it flows better than before. The remastered OST is also a big plus. And the dangopedia is a nice addition, that can be very useful to players unfamiliar with japanese culture.

That's a slippery slope. Unfortunately, that doesn't help in most cases. です (desu) frequently doesn't translate directly into an English word. Instead, it is usually an indicator of a speech mode, in this case the 敬体 (keitai) (formal) mode, also referred to as 敬語 (keigo) or ですます (desumasu) style because of the syllables it uses. A sentence written in ですます is no different in literal meaning than one written in 常体 (joutai) (casual) mode. However, it is usually considered a more polite and formal style of speech. You can consider it the difference between responding to a request by saying "Yeah, sure" (casual) or "I shall." (formal). Same meaning, but you get a different impression of the speaker by how it is said. It would be used when speaking to someone of higher rank, for example. Even more unfortunately, what we have here is *misuse* of the speech mode, in a way that suggests a low intelligence speaker. E.g., normally 'desu' would be correct to use at the end of some of her sentences, but she uses even when she shouldn't, as if she doesn't understand the actual grammatical rules for her mode of speech. It's hard to come up with an English equivalent 'quirk' that carries both the implication of respect and formally combined with stupidity. But however hard it is, or inaccurate, almost anything is better than tossing in a Japanese word that is a grammatical concept rather than an English word. (The actual discussion of different speech modes and keigo vs teineigo vs bikago could take forever, and produce shouting matches between professorial experts, so it is best not to think much about it here)

For people complaining about backing the physical edition and not getting a Steam key: you backed for $40 and picked the reward tier that very specifically said you got only a physical edition. There was also a $40 tier where you got a digital copy, which you could have opted for. After you explicitly made a choice between those, and then chose the physical edition, to complain is to be extremely disingenuous. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/clannad-official-english-release/description has all the tiers and the rewards. You made the call yourself. You have effectively zero basis for any of these claims. You need to realize that, if someone is posting on fuwanovel or /r/visualnovels (and thus perhaps espousing one of the opinions on which you based your claims), they're in a pretty extreme group of fans, and very unlikely to be representative of the actual audience. Time and data will tell whether people actually buy this release; you may very well be right about that last claim. But I'm pretty sure you're dead wrong about the first one. There are orders of magnitude more English-speaking fans of the Clannad anime than there are visual novel players willing to go to the effort and risk of pirating or importing just to play a shitty fan translation. Those fans could easily come out of the woodwork and buy this game. That said, I still have to admit that the price is likely a bit steep for that to happen, but I'm definitely not able to dismiss the possibility out of hand.

I was so excited that Sekai Project dudes unfollowed me on twitter for shitposting.

That's a slippery slope.

the structure of clannad is cancer good luck completing that game without a walkthrough

Homura did nothing wrong

This thread is amazing

We're talking about Fuwa Reviews here, you don't actually have to read the thing you're reviewing. Just put low score on it for clickbait and complain about the things you kind-of remember.

she looks a bit young even for a loli is she the doll from Katahane? She may well be a doll, but she's the greatest doll you'll ever see. Such happiness. Such tears. She moved me greatly by appealing to my weakest spots.

They seriously don't give steam keys for physical backers? I never noticed that before. I don't know if SP was just unaware of this, but it is common practice in video game kickstarters to give a steam key to physical backers. Now that you've backed them for more money, you have to wait two or three extra months to be able to play the game? lmao.

While I don't have much to contribute, I am incredibly happy to see some constructive discussion on translation and localisation of speech patterns, quirks, and untranslatable things in general. I'm very much a fan of creative solutions, no matter how unorthodox or, well, plainly bad it turns out to be. It's certainly a welcome effort to try and be unique.

back to reading liberation maiden, made a little progress & still no idea what to expect from it in the end. so far the vast majority of characters are abit weird?!? and the mc unexpectedly non going full genocide-mode yet, which is pretty suprising when considering how he gets/got treated by some... edit. finished ilkenie1 earlier this morning, been a veeeery bumpy ride without any meanful plot, as told before, but...couldnt believe it somehow... better should have :/ now onto part2, which comes across way more refined & should please my needs XD

Ohhh it makes a lot of sense now. Do you know where I can find all the possible routes? Even the neutral or bad endings? So far, I have seen none. All routes for girls.. There are only six endings — one for each of the five girls, plus the bad ending you just encountered. No neutral or other endings to speak of. The existing walkthrough should have everything except the bad end covered.

That girl from Air, WTF is that CG, holy mother of fuck FUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's the beautiful art of Air. Don't you dare mock it!

Hey Fuwans! I've never done a blog before (or at least, not one that wasn't a work of fiction... is that still a blog?) and therefore I may lack the basic principles of layout, appropriate language, and possibly the most important factor of being slightly interesting. Still, I figured I'd give it a crack, partially to try to understand the events in my life leading up to where I am now and partially to offer my pearls of wisdom on various facets of all things Japanese and fun. I hope that in the very least it's a vaguely entertaining read, and that it might occasionally spark a blob of discussion! -------- A few days ago I found myself wondering, while browsing the forums in a way that can only be described as a procrastinatory fashion, at what stage in my life I started to become interested in Japanese things. As a child, I never watched Pokémon, nor owned a Nintendo device, nor played Yu-Gi-Oh! round the back of the playground shed (cards were banned at my infant and primary schools for some reason). I used to like the shape of Japan on maps, but then again I liked the shape of many places on maps - including my first national love of Finland. I used to randomly drop Finnish words into conversation (still do on occasion...), spend ages reading instruction manuals with the Finnish language in, and would watch any film with Finnish subtitles because it seemed cool. In some ways, I was a Finland weeb, if that ever could be a thing. Over time, this spread to an interest in language generally, leading to me collating words from anything I could find in a big diary, divided and split into their separate categories with unconnected words scrawled in. I guess I liked thinking how different these things were. However, even this eventually petered out, and for a while I had little more than a passing inquisitive interest in anything outside of my cosy little life in southeast England. After school, I went to college, and it was here that I had my first definite experience with things of a Japanese nature. On my second or third day, I started talking to someone - or rather, he started talking to me - about an online roleplaying game which he was an active member of. He was describing to me his current character, telling me all about her personality and appearance, when he said that she was a 'tsundere'. I had no bloody idea what that was, so I naturally asked him (actually, I asked him what's a sundern', which I later found out is a town in Nord Rhine-Westphalia). Following his description, I became curious about why such a trait would exist, although I had no real reference point to go on. This friend went on to play a key role in getting me interested in anime, as at his suggestion I watched Kill La Kill, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai and Tokyo Ghoul. I sadly don't talk much with him anymore as I left college and we went our separate ways, but we still chat every now and then. Also while at college, I was surfing that halcyon land of the internet formally known as 4chan, when I came across a Katawa Shoujo thread. I'd seen them previously, but never really paid much attention - but, through a mixture of people talking about 'feels' (I liked to think I was somewhat impervious to emotion... ), cute drawn girls and the only vaguely fun 'community' I could find on /b/, I gave it a bash. Hanako showing a somewhat accurate portrayal of my experience playing Katawa Shoujo for the first time. Yeah. That. My outlook on life was pretty shit at the time, so having something which made me feel so strongly felt like some kind of emotional release for me that I had never had before (Wiosna, its theme tune, still makes me feel rather emotional to this day). It was due to this experience that I started to look out for other visual novels - in the following months, I played True Remembrance, Marry Me Misato!, Homeward, Yandere-chan, and my homeboy at college sourced me a copy of Fate/Stay Night, which with my very basic awareness at the time I'd heard was 'alright'. I started to open up socially again - not only in my actual life, but in my virtual life too, as I joined my first internet community in the Katawa Shoujo forums. It was great to be able to talk to such a wide variety of people about something I couldn't adequately discuss with anyone in the 'real world'. How I learned what a 'yandere' was. Hmm. Over the course of the next 12 months or so (so I guess April 2014 - April 2015) my interest in things drawn and Japanese-based waned somewhat. After running out of things to say on the KS forums, leaving college and starting university, I just got doing other things - mostly involving playing guitar and habitually cursing my decision of taking mathematics. However, for some reason one day I decided to Google 'visual novels' and I came across a list of 50 VNs on some site called forums.fuwanovel.net by a user called Kaguya. Now, I'm not gonna say I danced on the rooftops (metaphorically or physically) but needless to say I became very intrigued, researching and reading about and around the titles on this list, as well as starting to make a concerted effort at learning Japanese. At roughly the same time, a friend of mine recommended that I checked out a guy called 'Gackt', in particular his first two albums. I was blown away, and so started to check as many different facets of the Japanese music scene as I could (visual kei, J-Pop, shibuya-kei... and grindcore ). Not two months later, I signed up to this glorious forum and things have only really continued from there! This past 5 or 6 months have been a bit like Alice wandering through Wonderland for me. Through my investigations into all things Japan, there have been things that have amused me greatly, things that have appalled me, and some that have just left me thinking what a truly interesting place it is. I still consider myself somewhat of a newbie to things, and that is in part what this blog is going to be about: feeling kinda like a tourist to a largely unfamiliar world, and trying to learn as much as possible along the way. Please be patient with me.