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I've waited almost a year for this. Finally. I'm sure it'll be glorious. Now then. This year, I'll celebrate Easter by sharing my genuine and honest opinion of many Fuwanovel members. Mostly those I happen to remember. You can also request it yourself if I don't mention you by default. A fair warning, whilst I don't often think ill of someone, there are some I might. A thousand apologies. Besides that, I also have a little game (some of you may remember it, I tried it our last year, but due to circumstances, was unable to finish it). I've updated it a little (though most characters are still out of date), and this time I do have the solutions! If you've been pinged in this post, you're probably in there, unless you aren't. Can you find yourself? Each image represents a member (or two). Can you guess them all? GUESS WHO: Anything you say about this must be in spoilers. Many things can be seen as clues, so I'm adamant about this. Besides that, onwards to opinions. These are in a brainstorm thoughtspill format. Not coherent. Too bad. For you. OBJECTIVE OPINIONS OF FUWANOVEL PLEBS: Most of those people are in the egg. Some people in the egg aren't there. This all said, here's the solution, but be sure to at least try first. Even though some are pretty much impossible to guess. EGG SOLUTION: Now I'm off to have lunch and realise I forgot something really important. Happy Easter, people!

That said, what happened to rains? He did return but not to this thread and didn't mention Cyr. They fell out, I guess We're doing fine. I've stabilized with work and stuff. Cyr's busy with her last semester in school. We ok

Whores racing? :^)

Holy shit, I actually had fun with this one. Review here

\ Forget about that other Fate Stay Night movie, THIS is something to Hype About FATE EXTRA ANIME IN 2017!!! http://fate-extra-lastencore.com/

Maybe those textbook doodles explain why Japanese peoples are creative.

Happy Easter everybody!

5 languages including, engrish, google translator, ATLAS, LEC and bing.

This the most tsundere shizzle I ever seen.

Welcome back. You remind me when I made introduction thread with my post number at 41, while yours at 23 posts. As for usual word, hope you could had fun here and don't hesitate to asking something you had difficulty in playing VN or sharing anything about VN that you know.

Aye. A year of equal devastation and opportunity. As the world was recovering from the apocalypse the year before, those with the prowess to lurk without mercy got to read lots of posts while the weak were busy getting drunk and making Harlem Shake videos.

I like people that like me. I'm uneasy when people I like don't like me back. That's an interesting line of thought that expresses a truth of human nature. However, it is worth asking: why? We end up shackling ourselves to the caprice of others. If the goal is intellectual gain and the pursuit of truth, we should select our companions not by their attitudes toward us but by the value of their companionship. Often what we need is not someone who will compliment our mistakes, but someone who will point them out and show us the path we hadn't considered. I revisited that PM. We had a useful discussion and I don't regret it in the slightest. If anything, I think we came to an understanding, which is rare on such topics. I'd rather see you chime in on controversial topics more often than hold your tongue for fear of offending someone. I like you, but I don't have much interaction with you because you tend to stay in the background in the conversations I participate in.

We don't expect you to be purely objective. It helps to be able to look at all of the qualities of any given game and to give it its dues where it deserves it, even if you don't like it. Or to be able to dissect the flaws in games you love. But ultimately, reviews are based on your personal opinions, and at least going by what Ryechu always told me, we actually prefer it if your own personal opinions and feelings on a game take the highest priority in your evaluation, as long as you justify it. That's how the GGN games got such high scores and Little Busters got such a low score. Ikikoi is a VN that is widely panned by the community. "Ikikoi is the greatest VN ever made, screw the haters," or something to that effect stretched out to 1000+ words, isn't particularly informative or interesting to read. "Ikikoi is a great game despite its flaws, here are its flaws and why I don't mind them, and here's why I especially love this game" is something we'd be interested in posting. "Ikikoi isn't even flawed, but misunderstood, allow me to explain that what people see as flaws are actually strengths for this brilliant masterpiece." You're some unholy abomination but fine, you can write that, too! If you like Ikikoi but your review is "Ikikoi is a bad game because of all of these flaws, I liked it but all of these qualities only make it a 4/10 game, objectively speaking," then that's just boring in my eyes. I personally don't want to see anything like that. Anyways, I hope that paragraph of nonsense makes sense. SolidBatman can feel free to tell me if I'm way off base here. I wasn't ever really briefed very thoroughly on the guidelines, however. I was just sort of brought in and started doing my thing, and apparently that's what they wanted? I don't really know what bats means when he says overly wordy for example. edit: And when we say "don't pull any punches" we mean "don't water down your words in fear of hurting people's feelings," not "tear into every game."

Delivered as a poem, 5 lines to a verse, 15 verses in total. ... No? Okay, I'll leave now

Actually talking about Ley Line for a bit, the first game's translation has been practically in a finished state for pretty much a year now. I'd be surprised if it takes longer than a month or two from this point to make it onto Steam. What's left to be done with it? They also started progress on the sequel before they stopped tracking progress entirely, and by this point that may be almost done as well? Hopefully we actually see a fast release schedule for this series. And congrats to Kohaku for actually managing to get paid for this. ~~~ Gonna bump the thread to talk and speculate about the next major convention MangaGamer is attending, Anime Central. According to MangaGamer's announcements page, they've already slotted in two announcements, including a VN from a new partner. Since I was so good at predicting ImoPara 2 (what an amazing prophet I am), I will now bestow upon you all my next prediction: Watashi ga Suki nara "Suki" tte Itte! from ChuableSoft. Remember last July when the president of ChuableSoft was engaging english fans on twitter, asking us what we'd like to see from them? And we basically got him to get in touch with the major VN publishers here? Basically, I'd be surprised if nothing ever came of that, and it's about time for an announcement to be made. I suspect that it may be MG's new partner announcement at Anime Central. Let's wait and see. edit: Or I guess I'm NOT going to bump this thread. Thanks for nothing, nazi mods.

5 languages? September release? Yeah, sure. I am 99 years old, I'll turn 100 tomorrow. I'm not that dumb to believe it, unless it's machine tl(maybe a bit polished) or bad translation. Otherwise the guy(s) should already work translating games, with that speed.

http://www.fate-sn.com/hf/ (Starts breathing in a loud, creepy way. ) Proud fanboy, if it wasn't clear Still, shame it's 2017 but at least we have a date.

Hey everyone! Fantastic news from the Aokana TL front! The private Facebook group has been working extremely hard to release the game for all of you, and I just wanted to update all of you on their progress: A common route on April 20th of 2016 in 5 different languages? Look forward to it! If you'd like to read the game early, feel free to support this amazing group. In addition, the project leader (who was very upset about seeing the project sold to Sekai Project and seemed to fuel his project out of pure hatred for the one I was running) plans to pitch their TL to sprite: Good luck guys, and see you on the TL scene!

This is a question I wonder if many people here have asked themselves... do you honestly like Japan, as a country (whether you've visited or just look in from the outside)? My own feelings are... mixed. Japan has a pretty fascinating culture that is essentially a scrapbook of various elements drawn from cultures that contacted it that were then evolved based on what the people of a given era wanted/needed. However... the country itself is pretty problematic looking at it from the outside. Political corruption, resurgent nationalism, toleration of organized crime, and the tendency to ignore all 'domestic issues' by those outside the household in question (including the police) are all reasons to be ambivalent about Japan. However, the closeness of police to people's lives (the kouban system), otaku culture, and the traditional aesthetic values of Japan are pretty interesting. We all have our reasons for the way we feel about Japan, if we feel anything. If you'd asked me fifteen years ago, I would have unhesitatingly chosen option 1, but the more I studied, the more I realized just how many problems the country just fails utterly to deal with. That said, if you asked me the top three countries - other than my homeland - that I'd be interested in living in, Japan would still be number one. Why? I got addicted to hot springs after a visit to one in Arizona, and studying history is one of my major hobbies. Pretty hedonistic of me, eh?

why are you talking about fate route here?

Welcome back niku (for meat? xD) glad to have you back

Mostly on /jp/. I think Dovac's Steam-centric focus has been a reasonable business decision, personally. His challenge to people that want more AO stuff is also reasonable, if you want it, buy it. I'd rather they do this. There's less narration in manga (almost non-existent) and less dialogue overall. People pay attention to the writing less. The manga medium suits dodgy writers like them more than the VN medium. Go do manga, Winged Cloud.

Critic is one thing but flameing and calling names is not okay.

Some interessting tweets from Dovac Oh and i hope no one does this here. Dovac is no supervillain that tries to steal our porn.

Umineko is obvious choice

like i said i dont hate you. you just piss me off, just like i piss off most ppl as well . hate requires effort and i cant be asked to care, thats not about you i just dont care almost everyone and since the strokes iv cared even less then before there's a few ppl i have shown the effort to talk to but thats it.

We've only been talking about ramen for eleven hours, how could I have known? Anyway, I don't see any interesting panels on the schedule today, and I've already spent a few hours on the show floor (including plenty of time ... erm ... having friendly chats with MG and Sekai Project), so it looks like I've survived another con without buying a figurine or a dakimakura. There was a rather nice Tohsaka Rin figurine, which was really, really tempting, and SP had a few Grisaia dakimakura covers, which it turns out actually aren't tempting to me at all, which is something of a relief, but it looks like nonetheless I retain a few tattered shreds of dignity.

Welcome back? XD

Tiago only mentioned peeps who were already well known during the Glory Era of Fuwanovel, 2014 - mid2015, where Fuwanovel was brimming with ideas, torrents were still alive, and Ren was successful with his games. Currently we're in the Gentlemen's Agreement Era, where no new things are happening and we're all just trying to get along daybyday best we can. @my opinion. Pretty much : P If I didn't become this 'thing' after losing my drive, I'd probably have left the site already.

Always happy to be grouped together with Palas and Rose, people I genuinely respect. Also happy to be mentioned despite my semi-infrequent activity at this point.

Welcome (back) to the forum! Nice to meet you!

So where do I pre-order?

I'll have you know I only post the best quality memes! I do appreciate the mention though, we did butt heads in the past, but I've come to realise you're way more fun than a lot of people to talk to minus the archaic English. Happy Easter to you as well!

Actually yes, Astraythem is the game from them I would want the most, but I imagine they'll start by selling their most recent product.

Choice is obvious, you can't eat a ring (or if you do it won't sate your hunger for long)

I actually read chapter 7 + Faris's ending a while ago, but I was too busy with Valusia and forgot to post anything. And I guess now is the time to make mad dash to finish, as it's only few days to the release of Tokyo Babel.

PSP is piss easy to emulate. Buuuut by all accounts Extra is pretty mediocre and Extra CCC is the game really worth caring about, which is JP-only.

Nyah

So much money and time poured..no... I should say wasted... on this garbage, so many bad animu there are so many good stories out there that are waiting to be fantastic animu but sadly they don't sell...instead they do this shit and it sells!!!!!! Who can watch this garbage!? I'm so mad, this world is so weird and illogical I can't even vote down the video...they won't even let me do that

I honestly think DxD us better than the rest of the anime you listed. Just do it. You won't regret it.

Bishoujo Mangekyou has some damn good H-scenes

For Pulltop games you need to set your time and date format to Japanese as well.

Cyka blyat my teammates are fucking dogshit

1. Those multiple times Yuuji considered ignorance to be a perfectly valid excuse for gross generalization in his godawful internal monologues. "All "big" women are shopping in a certain way. But I'm not an expert in this sort of thing." "Students at this age have got nothing but homework and masturbation to fill up their free time. But I'm not an expert in this sort of thing." Well, if you're such a non-expert-at-this-sort-of-thing, then kindly shut the fuck up. I mean... um... stop this train of thought the fuck up. Whatever. 2. That one time Yuuji (and the writer) couldn't figure out whether his superiors value him. At different points in the story, he describes himself as an extremely valuable asset and a worthless disposable dog. Alright then! 3. That one sequence with EEEEEVUL cannibal orgies and the notion that tasting human flesh (even unwittingly) somehow makes one beyond help and/or salvation. They're all GHOUUUULS now, Amane. So, you know, don't feel bad about abandoning all of them. And try not to think too much about all the stashed food Kazuki hogged. 4. That one time Yuuji couldn't make up his mind about conventional medical treatment. When it comes to Sachi, medical science is obviously worthless... but sure, let's send Michiru off to a hospital, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't hurt. 5. The whole thing with Yumiko's dad, wherein barely legal teens play the stock market (or something). Gawd, that part was so awful, I've done a pretty good job at erasing it from my memory. That entire sequence after Yumiko's dad arrives at the school? That's what I am referring to. 6. That one time they blew up the fucking school. Really? REALLY? 7. Michiru's "GOOD" ending. Ugh. 8. Sachi's final decision point and its completely random consequences. Huh. I guess thought really is material. Who knew? 9. Those several times I nearly dropped the whole thing even before the first decision point. The common route eventually turned into the most excruciating piece of slice-of-life I've ever read. I couldn't wait for the repetitive and pointless torture that stopped providing any new insight into characters' personalities and motivations after the first hour or so to be over. 10. Those seven and a half million times Yuuji was being a reprehensible douche. Worst protag ever? Worst protag ever.

Hi I'm back too. As of now. Things that happened in my life since I left: 1. Moved back to America and then across America from WA to IN 2. Got a job that works all the hours. All the hours. However there is no take home stress and it's doing something I love so I don't care and the money is good so I'm very content. 3. Got engaged and will soon be married. Girlfriend not only does not know much about anime but I think she just legitimately does not like non-child-oriented animated things (IE she loves Disney but hates Archer) and has only watched a few anime things to humor me. That said she is understanding of my interests and we share a lot of interests outside anime so it's fine. 4. Quit video games for good and then un-quit them. 5. Decided that I needed folks to talk about anime and Japanese games and VNs with after all and came back to Fuwanovel because this place is great.

Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort and Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete comes to mind