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The TPP is still the worst trade deal to ever come into existence and we can only hope it's burned to the ground, but at the very least Japan has given some reassurance to the doujin market with the following statement by prime minister Abe: For those who don't know about the situation yet, some of the TPP's vague clauses could mean doujin artists can be sued without the copyright holder's intervention, which would mean serious harm to an entire industry. The doujin market is important as it is often where up and coming artists and authors start their careers, it's not just a place where fan made porn gets made, and I'm happy Abe, despite not being the greatest human being on Earth, acknowledges this. Things could still change, of course, and Japan immediately held a meeting after these remarks to discuss copyright laws, mainly targeting anime hosting sites, but it seems that at least parodies can safely continue to exist for the time being. Source: ANN

Yes, I do beleive that VNs as a medium can tap into realistic modes of human thought. Very few of them do, but there are some out there, and the medium definitely has the potential to have more of such works. I emphasize the ability of VNs to communicate human thought, because even in VNs where some unrealistic events are happening, the emotions and that characters feel could still be portrayed realistically. A few VNs that I feel succeed in capturing realistic emotional (and sometimes intellectual) responses are: Narcissu, Symphonic Rain, Yume Miru Kusuri, and Swan Song. Then there is Sayooshi, which while it portrayed the perspective of an insane person, did a really good job in portraying his insanity. There is no reason why VNs can't have intellectual merit. There exists a scarcity of such works because 1) it is an entirely new medium that has only really been around since the 90's. 2) The medium isn't profitable enough, and when money is tight, content creators are more scared of the risk of doing creating something unique.

The only good thing about the TPP are the exceptions, no surprise there. What Abe said has been the official position on the matter for some time now, but it's still nice to hear it affirmed like this. Rooke: If parody works died, that would mean the death of things like Touhou fandom. I don't think your personal distastes make for a particularly compelling argument. Nor does your assumption that things would work out just fine without parody works, particularly in light of the fact that the West, which you're using for comparison, doesn't, for example, have anything even remotely approaching the Japanese H-Manga market.

Doujins or not doujins, copyright law has become utterly retarded and needs to be burned to the ground and redone entirely - if only to take into account the immense structural changes the internet brought to cultural habits, in terms of creation or experience. TPP is the furthering of a neo-liberal agenda to a downright terrifying point and none of those who create or experience cultural items have any interest in it. Only transnational companies, producers, editors and shareholders do.

So I decided to make this topic cause I wanted to see how many VN and anime lovers actually like rap music. Maybe its a stereotype thing but, it doesn't seem like people who like anime and stuff are likely to like rap but, maybe that's just me. I myself really love it, it gets me pumped for a upcoming game, turning up in the car, or at a party or something HA like i go to party's Some rap music is trash I can agree with that but some rappers instead of talking about "Fucking bitches and getting money" And "Doing drugs off a gold rimmed Bugatti" Some rappers actually put meaning and time into their rhymes instead of just saying shit over a loud beat. Don't get me wrong I enjoy some of the main stream stuff but, I feel like main stream rap is all the same thing. Like stated above all they say is stuff like "Fuck bitches get money" and i feel like it gets a bad rap cause of it maybe that's just me though. So the real question is do any of you listen to rap hate it or somewhere in between Edit: My favorite rappers include but are not limited to: Chance the rapper, Watsky, G-Eazy, NWA, Dr Dre, Drake and anyone from odd future Side note: sorry about the punctuation English isn't my first language and i really struggle with that aspect of it

It's probably long overdue, but here it goes! Hello everyone! I've been lurking the main Fuwa site for years now obsessively checking fan translation statuses, and December of last year I made an account on the forums thinking I'd totally join the community only for me to end up lurking even harder. hehehehe.........My anti-social tendencies are far too strong. My first visual novel was Fate/Stay Night, waaaaay back in 2009. To be honest what guided me to visual novels was the shitty DEEN adaptation, the wasted potential of the series bothered me deeply. How could they set up this interesting premise and barely scratch the surface of that potential? (The me of 2009 would've loved Fate/zero) My bothered self then read some reviews on MAL to validate my impression on the series, through that action I learned that the source of the narrative was something called a "visual novel". With that knowledge, and few Google searches later I had Fate setup on my shit Windows ME. The Fate route didn't really impress me much since I had just finished the anime days earlier, but once I got to UBW that's when things got interesting. The premise wasn't built upon in the way I expected, but I felt that it didn't necessarily have to because what it built up to was very satisfying and entertaining in its own special way. Those moments where the script, visuals, and music all came together, got me absolutely hooked on visual novels as a whole. Even though, these moments always seem to be buried in heaps of slice-of-life fluff. I've been reading them ever since and loosely following the fan translation scene. I must say watching this fandom grow and flourish, has warmed my cynical heart. Back in 2009 I couldn't even imagine some titles getting official releases, let alone them raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through crowd funding alone.(Proud contributor to the Clannad, MuvLuv, and Double Root kickstarters) Such short turnaround from original Japanese release to English release would've been a dream back then when waiting years (2+ at least) for translation was the norm. ( I waited 6 years for that Hollow Ataraxia translation, it's a miracle it came out at all really.) There are probably people here that have been into this much much longer that can easily recall scarcer times and that alone earns my respect, because your foundation allowed many others to experience this medium that otherwise would've faded into obscurity. Man, I'm already sucking up to my senpai and I haven't even legit talked to any of you yet. If I set them up properly, feel free to look into my scrub levels. If not here are links to profiles, where you can proceed to judge me in every way, shape, or form. MAL: http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kaykeiokay VNDB: https://vndb.org/u48090 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Kaykeiokay I'm also a video game collector and it seems like quite a few of you are gamers too, so I'll just leave my Grouvee account here. https://www.grouvee.com/user/kaykeiokay/ I'm open to recommendations from absolutely any genre (okay, maybe not hardcore loli. I don't wanna go to jail) , so GIVE ME YOUR WORST! Oh yeah, Call me Kay if someone already claimed that then call me Kei. Okay?

Russian. There are lots of interesting Russian writers I'd like to read in the original language...

Yeah, I've also come around on this completely since my initial post, thanks to @Chuee's explanation. I had no idea the voice actress had recognition, let alone the kinds of numbers he mentioned. Armed with that information, it now looks like a pretty solid marketing move. JAST USA: 1, Me: 0

I listened to some short clips in a YouTube review and, I don't know--the ditzy English voice seems to fit the ditzy character of Sonico. Seems fine. And as the reviewer points out, Jessica Nigri IS more or less the English personification of Sonico. I wouldn't use the English dub, but I can definitely see how this is a great publicity move by JAST that could appeal to fans of the anime. Don't underestimate the size of the dub-only audience, nor the influence of an idol with her own rabid fanbase. I'm sure some people will pick this game up purely because Jessica Nigri is voicing Sonico. And that's not necessarily a bad thing--especially if that exposes them to other titles from JAST like School Days. I can definitely see myself reviewing and promoting this game simply because it's a great opportunity to attract new fans into the fold. I watched a short clip of the gameplay. As others have said, the other characters don't appear to be voiced in the JP version. I watched her converse with an older guy and only her lines were voiced.

People that cant appreciate hiphop in some ways are silly or takes themself too seriously :^ ). Anyways, yeah I fucking love rap, grew up with it. My crew back in school was really into hiphop for some reason and while I had my own punk/metal periods, I always managed to hold on to this with my friends. I can also thank them for not turning into a "true" metal fan, that would have been horrible lol. Just gonna post random favorites in different sides of the spectrum

As someone who really enjoys learning new languages, my best tip is: don't ask the internet what you should learn. If you don't know anything about a language or the culture it comes from, you have a high chance of not really enjoying the learning process. Now I'm not saying experimenting is bad, but you should really only learn something you find interest in. You can learn a language because you like how it sounds, or maybe for a job you just got in. But asking random strangers what language you should learn doesn't seem like a very clever idea. Most responses you're going to get are either a) the culture/country is awesome or b) you can get a good job with it. But this applies to the person speaking, not you. You're the one that should decide these matters. Every language has merits, but they will ALWAYS be relative to your criteria, not other people's criteria. I always thought German is a pretty cool language, but I do not see how learning it would be useful to me and so I am not spending years learning it and am instead investing my time in things I know will be useful either right now or in the future. You can argue learning something is always useful, but languages take a lot of time to master, and you can never learn all of them, so you'll always have to make a choice of what matters most to you. So yeah, think about a language you personally find useful to know, otherwise I think you're likely wasting your time. Unless that was exactly your goal, in which case I suggest learning ancient Greek.

Why don't you try learn Norwegian, it's very intressing language and I can teach you Norwegian

If you want reasons to learn a language maybe you should provide what you think you would use a language for. Are you interested in visiting countries? Do you plan to read literature in its original language? If you learn spanish, there's a long tradition of spanish literature but also chilean or argentinian literature, for example.

It really is quite good. My biggest complaint however is that it feels like they only had about two routes worth of material but had to throw in a third route, maybe out of a sense of obligation. The route that suffered the most because of this is of course the best girl's route, Sorami's. It felt like they just sort of ran out of ideas for the fights in that route, and had many of the same encounters/villains as Raziel's but simply approached from a different angle. Also those repeat fights just felt abbreviated and substanceless. It was still good, but it wasn't blood pumping the whole time like Raziel's was. Sorami's route felt like too much of a retread for that. The final fight was rather great, though, and I liked the ending. So there's that, at least. I'm reading Lilith's route right now and it's like it has all of the inspiration that was missing from Sorami's. It's excellent so far.

I know that the guy who made kanjidamage.com is both a Japanese culture enthusiast and an avid fan of rap, among other seemingly mutually exclusive activities. I'm a big fan of Waka Flocka, meanwhile.

Hello again, I decided to show some more fan art I haven't posted here yet! The first one is a pic from January with Rin (digital). The second one is form last week with Saber Lily (traditional) drawing. I hope you'll like them! P.s. I have one pretty big digital drawing in process. Can you guess the title and character?

Seconded. Also globally, almost as many people speak Russian as Spanish.

OMG THIS IS FIRE!

Good to hear that Gahkthun's translation is quality material; that's definitely a point in its favor. I normally have pretty low standards for translation as well (We're lucky to get a translation at all with most VNs) , but the steam punk series is kinda an exception for me since I've heard the originals have such great writing. Don't be down on yourself for using a guide, sometimes the frustration just isn't worth it and can sour your experience in an otherwise great VN. I remember there was a VN where I was presented with 2 choices and both choices led to a bad end; it totally baffled me I was sure I made the correct choices leading up to this but no matter what I did it led to that bad end. After hours of frustration I caved and looked at a guide, the solution was to simply not choose anything now this would be fine is this concept was introduced earlier, but that particular choice was the only one. (BULLSHIT)

Kendrick, G-Eazy, J Cole and Logic are who I've mostly been listening to. Always open to recommendations though

Honestly I'm not really concerned about this whatsoever. They've already confirmed it will still maintain the Japanese audio as well so if JAST wants to try something different like this all the power to them. As long as we don't have to worry about english replacing the japanese audio this should do nothing but open up the game to a wider audience.

Like the full fledged weeaboo I am, I only listen to superior Japanese rap.

Just finished Akeiro Kaikitan, And It Was Good. Clephas already did a review on his blog, and he hit all the major points. I'll disagree with Clephas in one thing though - I thought Akeiro was a better game than the already very good Nanairo Reincarnation. Akeiro fixed what I thought the greatest weakness of the Nanairo was: actual differentiation between the routes. Nanairo had one story with short differences in the ending. Akeiro routes can be very different (and much darker), but always for a good reason. Each route results from the Protagonist choosing different actions in the Common part, learning different things, then acting on that info - and each makes sense. This all cumulates in the True route, an amazing conclusion to the buildup in the previous routes. The weak points of the game are a bit of lack of focus (for example: 3 routes are romantic, 3 aren't), a bit of reliance on the previous game for lore, and a bit of a Deus Ex to set up the True Route. Hardly major, but they keep it from being perfect. Not sure if I'd go so far as to call it a 9/10, but it is one of the better 8/10s I've read.

@bigfatround0 okay, but again, is there anything really interesting apart speaking with spanish people? Like VN/manga/anime is main benefit for lot of people to learn japanese. I have no plans to live in US. And seems only spanish-speaking country I would probably visit is Chile, which could probably not happen at all.

But I already know english and I do not want either japanese or chinese, why suggest them? And give some reasons for me, man. I do not want just "learn XXX language", as I want to understand benefits of doing that.

No, definitely don't do this. I think you'll end up ruining both routes like this, lol. Read Raziel's route first no matter what.

Wat! And why aren't you my pet in-game? I demand info... or I'll rekt you, like always

no no no,i never mention rewrite =.= its maxel i only mention joker game and mayoiga

What I learned from VN, well I know crack, registry edit, patch, ISO, system locale, and torrent if you mean that involving in VN give me something to learn. Oh and understanding Japan from the spoken line a little. For more serious answer, I think not really since we got so many 17 or so years old MC got many thing to deal with the problem in their real life that was too heavy for that kind of age. But I think it's quite entertaining in some way (Not in a bad way of course). Also I think we couldn't quite compared it to real life if we talk about VN, and about comparison to b/s/m I think it's based on different target market. Most VN was made with certain target in Japan (Teenager and adult, so hopefully the audience could differ between fantasy and reality), while b/s/m was probably tried to please general audience here (Of course it would need some kind of the reality grounded into it) I think. Sorry if I could not write well here. Edit - While I said I didn't believe VN, I agree that sometimes there's was a lesson that we could get from VN too. It's depend on the people if they could got the lesson from VN or not, I think.

Hey all~ Dragonaqua here. I just wanted to share a VN my friend and I worked on for Nanoreno 2016. doktorcrimson posted over at Lemmasoft and this is the same one here =D Progress: 100% complete with download link in this post About the Game: Genre: [BxB/ug] Romance, Comedy, Slice of life? Our Team: Dragonaqua (me~), Doktor Crimson Main Characters: Screenshots~ Gameplay: You explore the relationship between Ivan and Mr. Caterpillar. Length: ≤1hr for one full route Extras: Unlocked after all 3 endings are achieved WARNING: Game includes mild language profanity. Download Links: itch.io Other Links: To DoktorCrimson's tumblr~ and Devianart~ Optional Questions (play the game before you take a peek, it's spoiler-ish): 1. Would you kiss a caterpillar in real life with the potential of it turning into a hot dude/chick? We would love to get feedback, questions comments, etc. Feel free to comment here, message, etc~ Thanks for reading! XD

I haven't really kept up to date with music but 50 is my favorite rapper. Chamillionaire is right behind him and following him is Flo Rida.

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I don't listen to it terribly often, but there's nothing inherent to it that I dislike. It's more that I just don't pay attention to the rap scene and I never know when anything good is released. I end up listening to only a few of the most popular albums released each year. That's pretty much good enough for my mainstream white ass.

I finished off my first run through of Raidy III. I decided to mess around while mapping out the last dungeon, and spent much of the time in Zoolander Mode. *Reaches the end of a hallway that turns left* "I can turn left." *Hits the right arrow key three times and proceeds* "... I'm not an ambiturner."

It occurs to me that some of you probably don't actually read the blog, so I'll post it here if you want to discuss it: The way A-1 and A-2s files are structured, such as the script and image names, as well as things such as the eventtype text, heavily suggest Minatosoft is planning to release all the games as a single version at some point. I wouldn't say I'm 100% sure of it, but they've certainly put quite a bit of effort in to a file system that will let them do that.

At some point we made an experiment with the Musumaker translation. I tried translating around 20 lines using TA+jParser. Afterwards RaurosFalls (the real translator) reviewed and corrected the translation. I then read the result more closely to see how well I did. Conclusion: * Hiragana knowledge isn't that important (relatively speaking). I used romaji furigana due to not being strong in hiragana * Vocabulary isn't that important due to being able to look up everything quite fast. Most of the time just hovering the mouse of a word is enough (not always) * Grammar is very important. More or less all mistakes were grammar related. The issue is that the tools provides you with the correct words, but you have to know the grammar in order to put them together correctly. Without a proper understanding of grammar, you get "Jack punch Bill", but can't tell if it is "Jack punches Bill" or "Jack is punched by Bill" or "Jack wants to punch Bill" or even the negative version of each, like "Jack didn't punch Bill". This is why I say in order to get started, the most needed skill is grammar. Don't get me wrong. The other skills are useful and needed in the long run. I'm talking about how to get to the point where you can read the first line somewhat reliable and without resorting to guesswork. Particles is usually a unique topic. However for this post I include it in what I refer to as grammar. After all it is a tool to tell what is the main object and so on, which is usually referred to as grammar. I think once the grammar has been mastered, it would make sense to switch the furigana to hiragana. It shouldn't be done too late as hiragana is important to master as well, but doing it too early distracts the focus from grammar and the learning process becomes overburdened, which in turn makes people run away screaming and they learn nothing.

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I thought there were some bad parts to Lucia's route, mostly in the last third, but overall I enjoyed it a fair amount. Tonokawa's routes on the other hand (Chihaya and Shizuru), that shit was just inexcusable. To people hoping that they improve the pacing, they're certainly not going to remove scenes from the famously long common route, so...

No one interesting has ever added me on dota Confession: I feel kinda bad when people call me their friend online because the vast majority of the people online I haven't talked to enough to consider anything more than acquaintances. And if someone asks me I tell them the truth.

I regard machine translation as a stepping stone to learning Japanese. Once you get a taste of the full spectrum of games available if you don't limit yourself to English games, you'll become more motivated to take the next step. Most people get stuck at the starting phase of learning Japanese because you can't actually read anything until you've acquired near-fluency. Machine translation allows you to see through the language barrier, even if the resulting picture is fairly distorted. It can also help you pick up some basic vocabulary early on through matching voices with the output, especially since MT will always give the same translation for the same word (human translators often won't).

Do you really think they're going to "die" on this hill? And do you really think this will be an unpopular feature? This game was likely never made for you in the first place, so you commenting on the necessity of the dub seems pointless. The anime has its share of fans among a certain subset of otaku, and I'm sure a lot of them liked the dub well enough to justify this. This game is for them, after all. Like bigfatround said, lonely nerds will eat this shit up. Like I said before, this is actually going to be one of JAST's most popular titles with some pretty far-reaching appeal. I think the prospect of a dub by their favored cosplayer/voice actress will get some people pretty excited. Don't approach this from the mindset of a typical VN fan.

Fisted to death by Kiri What trickery is this?! \ /

Chapter 3 is DONE! Hope you enjoy!

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!