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Released. can be found here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/512060/Stay_Stay_Democratic_Peoples_Republic_of_Korea/ "Go! Go! Democratic People's Republic of Korea ~My First (and only) Trip to Pyongyang~" We're at it again, with the astounding success of Panzermadels over these last 10 days, we plan to work on another visual novel, and the inspiration behind it should be obvious... Concept Go! Go! ~DPRK~ is the story of a young soldier who takes a vacation to visit some of his pen-pals in Korea, but little does he know, the two 'Korean soldiers' he thought he was talking to are actually two beautiful soldiers in the North Korean Army, and he's about to be in for the trip of his life! A dark comedy about the most insane country on Earth, will our hero survive, or be shot in a public execution!? (Bet on the later). The Team Writers Writer 1 - CLOSED Writer 2 - CLOSED Writer 3 - CLOSED Artists Sprite Artist - CLOSED ----------> Background Artist - OPEN <----------- CG Artist - CLOSED Menu/Interface Artist - CLOSED Sound Musician/Team - CLOSED Sound Effects - CLOSED Production Programmer 1 - CLOSED PR Team - CLOSED If you are interested in a position, please apply by posting a message here, or sending us a private message. This game will be released commercially, and we do have a style we are attempting to emulate (as per the parody). http://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GoGoNippan-Screenshot-05-215x380.jpghttp://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GoGoNippan-Screenshot-06-215x380.jpg It's a very 'clean' look, and has strong lines. FAQ Q: How long is the game? A: The game will be 3-4 hours in length, and be around 80,000-90,000 words. Q: Are the roles paid? A: Yes, all of the roles are paid positions, payment is on a whole-project basis for the exclusive use of the work produced for the project. Q: Will the game have R-18 content? A: The game should be rated around '16+'. Q: When do you expect the project to be finished. A: Q4 2016, hopefully. Q: Will there be a Kickstarter? A: Yes, we plan to have the artists do some preliminary artwork and run a Kickstarter campaign early this Summer. Q: What's the image at the top? Do you already have an artist? A: No, that was used as a joke image in our game Panzermadels, we plan to have our artists do the characters from scratch. (Note - This game is not affiliated with OVERDRIVE or MangaGamer and is a parody work.)

A new chapter will be released each saturday until only one GM is left standing! For a PDF link to the chapters: Click here Chapter 1 is released: Chapter 2 is released: Chapter 3 is released! Chapter 4 is released! Chapter 5 is released! Chapter 6 is released! The final chapter is out! The winner has been crowned!!! The last GM standing Q&A: Hello people of Fuwa. A few days ago, Kaguya and Eclipsed made a joke about making me a BM if I made a fanfic about the Global mods fighting each other using armies of us fuwanovel members. (The deal being that Kaguya had to win ) Now, after thinking about it a bit, I thought it could actually be a fun idea, for each of the global mods to recruit a small team of fighters from the members, naming a few of them as their generals, lieutenant's etc, and then I write the story of their battle. (And no, Kaguya would not be the automatic victor. ) (I'm fairly certain there is more global mods on the forum, but these three are the ones I know the best, and I figured they would be okay with something like this.) (If not, I guess I'm getting banned. RIP Dergonu ) @Kaguya @Nosebleed @Down So, what do you guys think? What team would you side with? Leave a comment with one of these: #Team Nosebleed: Members, @mitchhamilton , @Kiriririri, @Satsuki , @Valmore , @Deep Blue , @Nebjula , @kingdomcome #Team Down: Members, @Nashetania , @Tiagofvarela , @Funyarinpa , @babiker , @Maxel , @MoeKyun , @Fred the Barber , @nohman , @Totodile , @FinalChaos , @Kawasumi , @Flutterz , @Turnip Sensei #Team Kaguya: Members, @Dergonu , @Nimbus, @Arcadeotic , @gijimu, @Velociraptor , @greenshadow622 , @Eclipsed , @VirginSmasher , @hitoribocchi , @Zebhra , @Duyy , @Jade (#Team Nosebleed has chosen the color pink for their team color.) - Team general @mitchhamilton (Since I got no reply from the mods, I used a random number generator to choose the general.) (#Team Kaguya has chosen the color red for their team color.) - Team general @greenshadow622 (Since I got no reply from the mods, I used a random number generator to choose the general.) (#Team Down has, with incredible enthusiasm, chosen green for their team color!) - Team general: @Tiagofvarela And for the mods, who of the members on your team do you want as your team leaders? For anyone who wants in, but doesn't want to choose a team, simply say that you are in and I'll assign you to a team later. (... Or just ignore this topic and let it die in a few days ) I wrote a small introduction to the battle: (I kind of named Eclipsed Kaguya's general in this one, but I'll change that if Kaguya wants someone else.) (* Special rule #1, if Clephas chooses to join the fight, he will have a power limiter attatched to him so that the fights will be fair. ) (* Special rule #2, Kaguya's immortality has been disabled in the fight by Nayleen and Tay.)

Wow. You're a cruel man, Deep Blue.

kana imouto, yume miru kusuri, brass restoration. And katawa shoujo if you havent read it yet. there is little comedy on those (there is some in yume miru kusuri. brass restoration and KS almost none in kana)

Whatever tipped you off? I keep mentioning that my name's Tiago just about everywhere, but by pure coincidence it's not mentioned anywhere on this topic or the video. My name is Tiago, Tiago F. Varela. Do not let yourself be fooled. XCOM 2 is slightly different than the XCOM games setting-wise. It just assumes you lost the war, which is probably right, to be honest. It betters the original XCOM remake in just about every way except it times some missions (some people hate that). Nothing mods can't fix. In other news, today's episode is out. I'm not sure if I'll make it daily, but I do have enough content ready for a couple of days, so there's that.

Now, anyone who has seen pictures or videos from Hapymaher will have noticed the VN's resident loli, Maia. For various reasons, Maia is easily the character who leaves the strongest impression in the VN, hands-down. She is the center of the VN's obvious conflict, and she easily has the greatest variety of character poses and non-H CGs. If there is drama of some sort throughout the common route, Saki's route, Keiko's route, or Yayoi's route, she is somehow involved or the cause of it. In a game that is focused around dreams, she is the devil's whisper, always giving people that last push they need to cross a line or jump off a cliff. If Tohru, the protagonist, is the picture of the human capacity for self-control, she is apparently a representative of the part of the human psyche that denies that same control. However, that is only a small part of who she is. In fact, that surface appearance and her symbolic role are actually less important than what lies at the core... a person who's motivations are neither inscrutable or incomprehensible (though she lies like a rug when it suits her). In fact, she repeats her motivation verbally throughout the VN, mixed in with the lies and half-truths she tells habitually just to see the look on other people's faces. She hides nothing of her nature or personality, but she is quite capable of using that truth to deceive. In fact, in a regular chuunige, she really would be the ideal antagonist, as that combination of lies, half-truths, and truth that defines her makes for precisely the kind of antagonist chuunige-makers love. Heck, just listen to her theme song. That is precisely the kind of music they'd normally give to the last-boss type protagonist in another game... Nonetheless, at the core of her is a deep and abiding love and devotion that surpasses all barriers, allows her to bear anything... except that emotion itself. To be honest, she even makes the yandere-ish Saki (she really seems like it sometimes) seem mild in terms of her degree of emotion. That love contains everything that love should contain, including the fundamental duality of human nature... what we want for ourselves and what we want for others (I'm not saying anymore on this, as going any farther would be a real spoiler).

Confession: I got a (female) friend of mine to try KS today she likes it It was a good day

I love the text commentary. Rooke has impressively shitty reflexes, but crouching in front of the right door does seem to be a surprisingly decent strat. Also, three times makes for a pretty clear pattern: Camouflaged Sausage is OP.

enjoying ef alot so far, but this first tale reminds me of schooldays

Next episode is out. Just make sure to replace all instances of "snakeman" with "floater".

I've finished Amagi Brilliant Park. As the title suggests, it was brilliant. This really makes me realise how constricted my view of the media is if things like this are coming out these days.

@Down if you aren't into yuris like other two, then:

YES YESEYSEYESYESYESYESYESYESYESSSS, I only cry tears of joy on very very VERY special occasions, this was one of them.

well he did ask for something not moe and without comedy, is hard to find something without comedy that it is not depressing

You're right, but what you have to go through before the end

So Hitogata based on Shirakawa too, eh ? Interesting, although the shrine was different from Higurashi shrine though (By the way, in both of the games, the shrine was the place when the story advance). In any case, guess any people who come to Shirakawa and did something bad there could choose how they would be cursed lol (Either by having your stomach filled by creepy baby like clay doll or having you scratch your neck until it's bleeding. Although both of them was terrible of course).

Naitou Tohru is the protagonist of Hapymaher and the character whose viewpoint you share for about 85% of the VN. He is a character whose personality and situation are defined by a sense of loss and guilt so painful, it has literally driven him to the brink of insanity. Oddly enough, the thing I find most admirable about him is the fact that is self-aware enough to actually rely on someone (most of the time) when he is at his limits and outside his specialty (which is altering/controlling his own dreams). A few words about his situation without giving away anything that would ruin the story. If you know the concept of a 'lucid dream', you also know that it is a dream where you are aware you are dreaming (this often leads to you remembering more of it). In Tohru's case, he sees nothing but lucid dreams... which means that the barriers between reality and dreams in his consciousness are extremely blurry and he is incapable of 'resting' psychologically when he sleeps. He rarely, if ever receives what we would call 'restful sleep' without the aid of drugs that send him into utter insensibility, and in his dreams, he is capable of doing practically whatever he wants, in many cases. Tohru's character can sometimes be seen as a symbol of self-control - as I said in my post on Maia - because he really does have a ridiculous level of self-control for someone still in his teens. He is not really that dense, though he often pretends to be out of self-defense. However, he has a lot of psychological hangups even in real life that have reinforced his somewhat blurry view of reality... ones he actually needs to maintain his mental and emotional balance, even if he realizes they are ridiculous. Tohru's clear-eyed view of dreams can be seen as a contrast to his somewhat blurry view of reality, as he is almost always the first to realize when he and the other characters are dreaming and when they aren't... and what the nature of the dream is. To him, nightmares are everyday stuff, and he is so inured to the pain that accompanies them by experience that it would be tempting to see him as nerve-dead from the outside. He does have his weaknesses, even in dreams, though... and their names are Saki and Maia. He is heavily dependent on Saki (self-evident within seconds of encountering her) and... holds other emotions towards Maia. So what can I say? In another VN, I might seriously dislike him, because he is too aware of those around him to be your standard harem protagonist, but he does have some seriously admirable elements... such as a sense of compassion and good Samaritan-ism (limited to women most of the time) or his willingness to endure pain for the sake of others. However, he is also more than a little clumsy when it comes to handling those close to him and he frequently makes a wild boar look mild and easily moved.

maitetsu demo - feels like my very soul is beeing sucked out & greedily devoured by cuteness loving entities edit: even the MASSSSSIIIIVE amount of infodumping, regarding anything lokomotiva-like, is very much bearable, due to reina having such a sweet voice, upon trying to enlighten one with lots & lots & lots of cold facts

I'd bang 0.4569XX% (α) Luka anyday

Just went to eat KBBQ with my onee-chan Let's just say I'm a dumbass who forgot it's just two people instead of the usual 6+ friendy party hardies and so I ordered one too many briskets, bulgogis, pork bellies, intestines, and chickens. I was able to tank it all, but man right now, i *hic* feel like *hic* BLEHHHHHHHHHHHHCHGASD

Still playing Iris and... I'm pretty sure this game has the most adorable character art of any VN I've played up to now, and I might have a hard time finding cuter art after this. I mean Symphonic Rain had some cute character designs, and I've played a few others with cute characters but... not like this. I said it reminds me a lot of Kage Donbo's style but even hers seems a little too simple compared to this. The characters have a lot of personality to them so they're not as simple as Kage Donbo, but the faces and just the cute way they look is similar. It helps that they all have really cute personalities too, and their outfits and expressions really help as well. I don't think I'd notice their cuteness quite as much if they weren't so animated. I wish Kid had gotten more popular so they could have remade this game with whatever that stuff they did for To Heart 2 is where the characters look fully animated. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm28775 There's the OP for more of an idea how cute these girls are. Also one of them is Rie Kugumiya (and her route is really weird).

I do have it on my pc. It's been in there for a while though, i'll get to it eventually i hope. Confession: I once mooned my neighborhood while riding my bike when i lived in the suburbs of PA. Good times.

This, 100% this ZE's story is aight, what I really REALLY enjoy are the plot revelations & mindscrews. And standing around looking dumb

Before anyone asks, no I'm not translating this VN as a whole. For one thing, it is long and I'm lazy. For another, it actually has a small chance of coming over here, so I'm not going to do something that will spoil the whole game for them (I want this officially localized). This is a fully narrated version (narrated by the poster of the video) of the first few scenes of Hapymaher, which was my VN of the Year 2013. This VN has ridiculously good music... and a frequently heartbreaking story. 2:38-14:42 The youtube guy voices the narration and the protagonist, in a way that is pretty good... and this is a translation. There is no need for you to do anything. Just leave everything to me. Also, when it comes to your 'true desires', they are something you just think you understand. Misfortune, happiness, difficulties, weeping, pain, pleasure, and fun… I will provide them all. I know for certain what to do to make it so, after all. But even so, you will still force yourself to go on. You like to give up as well, don’t you? That’s why I’ll capture you. You like that as well, don’t you? You always need to be looked after, after all. That place was an extravagant room. In the center was a wide, heavily-built table. Upon the table, a pot with steam wafting from it and colorful candies and treats were lined up. The fluffy couch and the handwoven rug upon the floor were all intended for the guests that came here. Here, the preparations for a tea party are always complete. That room, which seemed like it had lept out of a dream or a story, looked like a bad joke to me. That was because of the coloring… black, white, red, purple, pink, blue… all the colors I could see were vivid ones. It was as if the room were decorated like a butterfly. Though it was a room that seemed as if it was from an aristocrat’s mansion, the color made it seem as if it had tossed aside all forms of dignity. It wasn’t just the inside of the room that was strange. Outside the window, vegetation grew so thickly that it was if it were a botanical garden. The only light was the flickering light of the stars and the moon. However, even that was blocked by the thick growth of the forest. Thin trees, thick trees, flowers blooming despite the fact that it was night, and the overgrowth of grass, vines, and leaves. The excess of plant growth around the room seemed to indicate that no human hand had intervened there in centuries. However, the room itself was new, in all ways. That strange place was filled with the silence of the forest and the presence of living things. Suddenly, a single shadow appeared in the room. Roses, which were not amongst the flowers blooming outside, began to bloom as if in order to conceal the shadow. The white roses, which seemed to grow in fast forward, began to give off the sweet smell of burning honey as they bloomed, as if someone had set fire to them. The roses spread slowly like spilled water, giving off the scents of tea, honey, sweets, and the deep forest. And then the shadow took on the form of a young girl and stood there as if she had been there from the beginning. The girl who stood amongst the white roses laughed quietly. “Since I’ve been called, I must treat you to my hospitality.” With a mien of mixed enjoyment and sorrow she whispered. Opening Second Scene And so, I dream once again today. When I came to, I was lying in the forest at night. “Why am I dreaming this dream again…?” There is no point in complaining. I rise and begin to walk through the forest in my dreams. I walk, I walk. In that deep forest, the light of the stars and moon filtered through the trees is all the ilumination. Even though the forest holds the sense of no presence other than “ours”, even though it is perfectly silent… Even so, I can’t seem to believe there is no one else there. A beast, a bird, a person, or perhaps even something like a ghost. I’m not sure, but I sought to leave that forest, holding her hand amidst the intense sensation that something is there. I almost trip over thick roots and stumble over buried stones. Even so, I continue to walk holding the hand of the silent presence following me. I know that this is a dream. In the end, a dream is a dream. I know. This is the past. Even if this actually occurred in the past, what I am seeing is merely a dream. So, what I am seeing here is utterly meaningless. This is a dream. I know that better than anyone. I know! However, even so. No matter how well I know it is meaningless, I can’t bring myself to let go of this hand I'm holding. “It will be all right ______. Let’s return home.” There is no answer, nor is there a sense of a nod. However, I don’t release that hand. I know what will happen after this. It is a dream I’ve seen countless times. I can leave this forest. It is a dark forest where I can’t figure out where I am, but I can return. However… “Ah… will we be able to go home?” The direction of the light changes changes. The forest goes from deep forest of the inside to the shallow forest of that which is close to the outside. The trees are thin, the young ones begin to stand out, and the light filtering through the trees increases. “We will return for sure this time… together this time for sure…!” My legs shiver from walking through the forest, and I’m not sure my voice is coming out. Even so, the sensation of the hand gripping mine was there. -I know what happens after this. ---Please stop. I can also here my own voice screaming those words. However, I also think ‘this time for sure’. .It’s just a dream! Why give up if it is only a dream?! Even if it is just in a dream…! We walk, step by step, toward the outside. If we get through this forest, we can return home. The light from the outside gets stronger. The area becomes brighter. And when I exited the forest… … the hand I was supposed to be holding was no longer there. “Why?! Why…?!” I knew it. I knew it would be this way. Only I can leave the forest. We will never be able to return together. “Why...?!” You gave up didn’t you? You know, don’t you? I should already know… know that only I returned. It took me a long time to understand and I caused a lot of trouble in the process, but shouldn’t I have figured this out by now? “That’s… even so…!” And… Even if you returned together in the dream --- it isn’t like she’ll come back, will she? After all, this is just a dream. It changes nothing. It is just self-satisfaction. Even if I know it is a dream, it can’t have any effect on reality. Yes, I know. In the end, a dream is a dream. I can’t return with her… “Then, if you could return with her?”

Welcome to the forum, nice to meet you.

Fact of the matter is, maef, there is that forums don't work by being all super serious. I was here from pretty early on, and so was Down. When the more strict moderation as going on, there would be days before anything new on the forums would appear. And what did appear was a forum game like "Name the anime" or whatever. It was stuff unrelated to VNs. Naturally as a forum grows, so does the noise it makes. If you want meaningful, thoughtful content, create it. Your last VN thread was back in February 2014. Two years ago. Now you've created other, anime-ish discussion threads, but I don't really take well to seeing someone complain about the lack of meaningful discussion, and plethora of spam, while they don't actually take the initiative and create it themselves. In fact, all you really do here is complain about Fuwanovel, and bemoan the fact that some people dislike Clannad. You complain that other people try to pass off their opnion as fact, and you yourself literally just did the same exact thing. So quit being a little whiney bitch and if you don't like the way Fuwanovel is going, leave. I'm honestly sick and tired of you passing off your diarrhea of posts as constructive criticisms. At least sanahtlig actually contributes in a meaningful way instead of bitching all the time.

The very purpose of the CoC is to contain all the shitpost, clickbait, jokes etc you guys are complaining about. If you think these things don't belong on this site, then what you want is not better moderation, it's a change of the site itself and its current rules. As far as I'm concerned, moderation deals with some of the specific rules of the site that need to be enforced (nsfw, loli policy, illegal links), and hate speech, which will be harshly treated. The rest is almost cosmetic: moving, merging, splitting to clean up threads, once in a while try to calm down spamming and derailing if it really gets too far, but I'd rather stay very liberal on those because I don't want to treat forum posters as kids (even though they often act as they are) and I don't believe "repressive" moderating is needed nor efficient in those cases.

Just finished Suzuha's ending myself:

G - Senjou no Maou is my favorite visual novel. It is great for starting visual novels. It has a great story, music and art.

I prefer when the father of the heroine and the protagonist are one and the same.

I've picked up and put down Shinsekai Yori twice now, the last time at about 10 episodes through. Like you said, the production values and the execution are excellent, and that's why I go back to it (and still want to go back to it again and finish, or at least make some progress), but the dark tone makes me have a lot of trouble keeping with it. I get easily distracted by anything a little bit brighter - clearly my mind's way of telling me that it doesn't want to be watching the show. I agree with pretty much everything you said.

In response to this thread: where people were raving about Shinsekai Yori, I felt obliged to watch this through. I can see why people were raving about it since the production quality and execution is very good. However I think there's a tendency to overrate shows (in my opinion) that are dark, horrific, nasty, unpleasant, shocking, disturbing... etc. but that just doesn't resonate with me. This show started out dark and just remained dark throughout the whole thing. There wasn't much in the way of emotional journey besides remaining dark from start to end and, I hate to say it, but it was mostly predictable, right up to the conclusion, even if the writing and execution was very good 8/10. Still rates well overall though, but not in my top 5. I certainly wouldn't want to sit through it again.

Oh I do indeed have it, the town that Hibarigasaki got inspired from is called 小樽 - Otaru Its few km from Sapporo in Hokkaido. I did find the places on google street view, just like I did with the Iroseka background recently but about a year ago when I checked again, they updated the street view and lot has changed there. Anyways here are some pictures: more actual version of street view is from winter: http://goo.gl/maps/FsFsa The signature fence was removed for some reason (you can still see the filled holes in the ground) This is the lookout: http://goo.gl/36MfPe then for example the canals those are not accessible by google street view car so there are only pictures that people took But yeah, with Hoshimemo theypretty much used one town, where as with iroseka they used places all over that part of Japan I actually can't wait to look up where the places from AstralAir are based from, because they are so beautiful. But I need to finish that game first I took screenshot of one of the backgrounds from prologue: