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2 months and 9 days. That was rather fast, wasn't it. I mean, after over 5 months of getting to 500, my activity on this site really surprised me when I started to make this post. Anyways, thoughts on these past 2 months? Honestly, fast. It all went in a flash, and I had oh so much fun. I started a new thingy on my blog about mangas and it's thoroughly slowly dying there. Good shit. Other than that, I'm finally getting close and soon can read VNs freely in a bit. I also met a few nice new people, which I'll put in a spoiler because who really has time hear about me rambling on and on, which I do enough already. I'm also quite pleased on how the chat has been doing since I last talked about it. I also got my dirst Fuwa troll so that was fun. Nothing else much to say from these past two months, I've just been doing what I usually do. Now onto the nominations. Now that that obligatory segment is over, let's start up the part two: AMA. I'm willing to answer every and each one of your questions, there's really no discrimination about the type of the questions. If ye have a question you want me to answer, post it down. Here's to it all. To questions, the future, luck and good well-being of this entire site. I think the next one'll be 2000, if I ever get that far. Cheers, I'll be waiting for those questions.

Hey all, it's time for another convention! Anime Central is starting just tomorrow, the 20th of May. It's the biggest convention until July's Anime Expo, and most of the major players of the VN world will be there! Except for JAST, I can't actually find them or J-List on the exhibitor's list on acen's website. All times below are CDT, or UTC -0500, I believe. I will attempt to keep this OP up to date with all the latest developments. VisualArts/Key VisualArts is one of ACEN's "premium partners" so they get a nice posh booth that you'll want to visit if you're a Key fan (Booth 11). They will also have a panel, too. It will be held at 4PM on the 20th. "Join CEO Takahiro Baba, Artist Na-Ga, and Composer Shinji Orito for this multimedia industry panel all about your favorite games and shows from VisualArts!" Announcements: VisualArts announced that the Clannad side-stories will release in just a few weeks, and that they have plans for an Angel Beats localization. Sekai Project Sekai Project will of course be present as well. They'll have a premium booth at Booth #61. Their panel will be at 5:30PM on the 20th. Sekai Project has teased two new announcements from two new partners. It's always hard to predict exactly what Sekai Project will announce, especially since they have a fondness for partnering with pretty obscure doujin and OELVN developers. They've announced some pretty big stuff recently, though, so who knows? Sekai Project were previously planning a livestream but it unfortunately had to be canceled due to a lack of manpower. Announcements: Sekai Project announced a couple new doujin titles, the sci-fi doujin VN 2236 A.D. and a side-scrolling platformer MAGICALxSPIRAL. The previously announced yuri VN Ne no Kami will have an IndieGoGo launch on May 25th. MangaGamer MangaGamer may have the dinkiest booth (Booth #410), but they'll have the biggest panel, at 9PM on the 20th. MG has teased six new announcements for this show, one of them from a new partner. You can see their site for it here. Things to expect from MangaGamer: A new hardcopy announcement, perhaps euphoria. An "official" announcement for The House in Fata Morgana's fandisc, which has already been announced within the first game, MG seems to be waiting to give it a proper announcement. For the remaining four announcement, I'm guessing one of them will be a BL or Otome title, basically whatever Good Haro is translating next. We might also hear about the next Alice Soft title they're licensing at this point. Many people are expecting their new partner to be Chuablesoft, which is indeed possible considering their CEO took to twitter last year to engage english fans and talk about localization possibilities. That could just as easily be one of SP's announcements, however, or maybe they haven't yet made a commitment to the western market. They're also overdue for announcing their future SonoHana plans. There's a lot of possibilities with MG's announcements, it'll be interesting to see how they play out. @Yotek says that he'll be at the event and will attempt to record the panels for those interested. So what are you all expecting?

I too hate it when VNs are funny.

Muv luv needs more love...get it? get it...?

Decay's PM just has to go here, for it rivals the very essence and origins of this thread being OriginalRen's 'fession of believing suikashoujo being a dude when in reality she was female Behold! (to me)

Uh, was it? Where?! Prove? Evidence? Witnesses? Statutory declaration?

Ah... I just finished Calamity, ending the saga of The Reckoners. Such great books, I can already feel the existential void in me. I'm also reading (although quite leisurely due to its format and nature) the Necronomicon, since I found a really neat edition with his most emblematic works in my usual bookstore.

Fate was translated horribly, it also rhymes with ‘hate’ which is obviously a sign. Ever 17 is boring and it’ll feel like it’ll drag on ‘forever’. Muv Luv is getting a new translation, so may as well wait. You included the words ‘Neko Para’ in the second option, which is code for ‘the Devil’ so that’s obviously out. Alas, it’s option number 5 by default.

Finally completed my pilgrimage and finished Tokyo Babel Lilith's route was great. Samael and Cerberus made for great companions, they seriously blew every other side-character out the window. And let's not forget Mini-Lilith I also liked the implications regarding replicas and individuality. Anybody who's played the sci-fi horror game SOMA knows how fun it can be to ponder about that Best of all though, I finally got my heavily, heavily desired BUT, I feel the story could've, and should've, wrapped up around here, given how climaxy and powerful this moment was. But nope! Turns out you're only 50% of the way through, GLHF with 40% more filler battles before you can finally do final boss round 2 (which then only lasts like 5 seconds). TL;DR the second half for me suffered from ughhh pacing from the oversaturation of battle scenes. That difference between the Setsuna End and Lilith True End, though. Simply laughable. Like C'MON MAN, WHAT HAPPENED, YOUR POWER OF LOVE AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH SO YOU DROP HER, SETSUNA?!!! WTF!@#$ True End epilogue is one of the best epilogues I've ever read. And it was only 2 lines

If you were smart about your life you'd remember you could still eat those books instead of rummaging through rubbish. Alternatively, you could find a hefty book and throw it at someone's head, then steal all their food.

Information about the book: Kitsune and me is a yuri light novel like story I have been working on since December of 2015. It started as a silly and goofy idea that was supposed to last for 30-40 pages. But, after completely falling in love with the characters and their universe, I ended up continuing the story, and here we are, 46k words and 140 pages later. The story offer elements of romance (yuri), fantasy, action and comedy. The core story is about the human girl, Sakura, and her guardian fox spirit, Kitsune, and their life together. Kitsune and me Vol.2 is going to be the second and last book in the series, and will offer another 12 chapters, as well as an epilogue. The story will follow after the events of the first one. For those who have not yet read the first book, you can find it here: Free PDF download! The thread: Vol .2 Summary: "It has been seven months since the portals connecting the kitsune and human worlds were broken. Kitsune and Sakura have started a new, peaceful life together, leaving their past troubles behind. But something is coming … How long will their days of peace last? An old, broken promise comes back to haunt Kitsune. An old and long forgotten curse once again reawakens... Hatred, anger, revenge…Light and darkness. A shadow envelops Sakura and Kitsune’s life, and nothing will ever be the same again... .... Just like the first volume, the chapters will be released as I finish them. Below is a list of the chapters, and info on when their status. (The chapters will be released in a PDF format, similar to the first book.) Also, as it did cause some confusion in the first book, I will be writing Kitsune's name and the name of the kitsune species as a whole slightly differently, so it is easier to tell them apart. Kitsune's name will obviously always be capitilized, but it will never be in italics. The kitsune people will never be capitilized unless it's the first word in a sentence, and it will always be in italics. In addition, Japanese words that gets a translation in the translation document will be marked with a * in the book. Chapters: Prologue (Released!) Chapter 1: A New Contract?! (Released!) Chapter 2: Escaping The Dream (Released!) Chapter 3: Creating The Dream (Finished, unedited) Chapter 4: In The Beginning (Being Written!) Chapter 5: The Hunt Begins (TBA) Chapter 6: 闇 (Yami / Darkness) (TBA) Chapter 7: 光 (Hikari / Light) (TBA) Chapter 8: ハナ (Hana) (TBA) Chapter 9: Beginning Of The End (TBA) Chapter 10: The Curse Of The Queen (TBA) Chapter 11: All That We Lost (TBA) Chapter 12: All That We Gained (TBA) Epilogue: (TBA) .... Kitsune and me vol.2 Link to the currently released chapters! Introduction to the characters:

Then again, do we really want to see anything from them?

Danks, it worked for me. And im past that point.

Hmm looks interesting, I'm gonna give it a try to read it... Looks like Derg spreading his love for yuri to everyone hahaha

I like horror with cute girls and without horror.

You don't need to, don't bother your ittle widdle head with the difficult details

Too bad that Sekai doesn't have a soul to sell to the devil anymore That ship sailed a while ago I mean, Sakura games are still pretty bad, but Santa was a step to the right direction, albeit a small one We'll see

You are right, it's a good idea, I'll do that. In the meantime, I fixed some issues in my previous packer, so here is a new version (on mega for the moment) : https://mega.nz/#!859kjABB!4wJEUBwFFOw1qJUUMEsb7r9M8isZB3J_So-6YA4YT9w

Sekai Project have fans?

Confession: Dear lord, I had completely forgotten how much I liked the older Call of Duty games, especially Call of Duty 2. Really makes me feel like a soldier in a squad, as opposed to Call of Duty 1 who took the approach of having us go solo for a good amount of missions. More surprising even is that, graphically, it looks better than some of the stuff I play nowadays. All those soldier models are so shiny~

I'd say that Ever17's art is a bit on the crude side, actually. Unmodified, original Umineko is obviously extremely crude. I rather liked the PS3 art, though. Muv Luv's art is mostly okay, except that character design is something else. It is clearly inspired by a certain early era of harem comedy, and the hair is especially silly. Mostly in a bad way. If you do play Umineko, get the most enhanced version possible, that full PS3-to-PC port that russian team is working on. Unfortunately, I think only the first 3 episodes are available for that.

Very rarely do people read vns for the graphics! (maybe except nukige readers) Graphics wise all of them aren't so far behind the stuff in 201x (ok maybe umineko is borderline) Given whats rated high on your vndb go forever21

But we all know that the word "Neko" means "Not the devil" and "Para" means "10/10 must play now"

>oldies >nothing <2000 in the list plz also read umineko it's good extremely fun (and will indeed take enormous amounts of time)

Don't do Muv Luv now when a version with a much improved translation is coming out next month. (Well, of MLE/MLU) Read Fata Morgana, fool.

One, two and four will take hours and hours of your life to complete. They're all monstrous. I would exclude Muv Luv given the retranslation it's getting. Umineko will quite literally take a week of consecutive reading with no breaks to make any progress at all. Please sign here to sell your soul (and time) to the devil: I'm currently reading Amnesia;Memories. It's good. Nom Nom Nom Ever17 is also good, but as Rooke stated, it has some 'boring' moments; that is to say, moments where the characters are just hanging around and conversing and slice of life goodness, which I suppose hurts a tight sci-fi story more than they help it. However, I also believe you like slice of life nonsense so I don't see the problem. Fate/Stay: Night is good and terrible. It's got so much content there were whole routes I hated, routes I loved, characters I hated, characters I loved, scenes I hated, scenes I loved. Ultimately, since you seem more tolerant of the darker side of stories than I, I'd recommend it.

Eww! Bad art! All trash. 0/10 games I haven't played any of these myself, because we are apperantly like, equally scrubby. Voting for fate/stay because that's the one of these I'd be the most interested in playing first. I did not conisder that!

Will this finally be the day MG announces SonoHana Nyu Jene? Fingers crossed.

Happy birthday @KosakiFag lets keep keeping the true or false thread alive! Have a good one!

Happy Birthday @KosakiFag and @maefdomn Have a good one, you two

@KosakiFag If you based on date of join you still quite new indeed (I'm still beginner too actually if we based on join date). But I based that you experienced from post number here of course, and you already gather quite a lot of number (4700 post) for 20 or so months. Well, either way you're welcome and thanks to all of your posts here.

Actully want to be the first person to said this, but my internet connection back at 12 AM was suddenly unstable so I'm late to said this. Neverthless happy birthday @KosakiFag and for one of experienced member in Fuwanovel your quite young (17 years old Really? Just a little surprised here). Also, happy birthday @maefdomn and I'd remember that you involved with slightly heated discussion with Solidbatman back at 'Complain about moderation' thread. Hope both of you had well upcoming year.

Happy birthday @KosakiFag! I hope that, whatever you end up doing, you have a truly great day <3 Happy birthday to @maefdomn as well, best wishes!

Huh. I almost forgot. Happy birthday Saki!

Gonna be the first person to say this: Happy Birthday @KosakiFag. I always knew you were a faggot till the end.

Finally started reading Hoshizora no Memoria today, somehow it's actually meeting my expectations so far (they were pretty high). Really loving the music and backgrounds which create a great atmosphere, and it seems to have some of the most beautiful sprites ever... If only they weren't so pixelated at 800x600 :( I'm also enjoying the story a lot, I'm a sucker for the whole idea of returning to your childhood town and reuniting with your childhood friends. Now if only there would be less boring comedy scenes with Chinami.. I mean, I don't think they could have made her ANY more annoying.

There's plenty of HDN material outside their own game. Anime: Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation OVA Manga: Hyperdimension Neptunia: Megami Tsuushin Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation: Hello New World Hyperdimension Neptunia (Adaptation of the anime) Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation Comic Anthology Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation - Dengeki Comic Anthology Light Novel: Hyperdimension Neptunia: High School Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation: The Two Blazing Days of TGS

I've been spending so much time editing in the last few weeks... this music is drilled into my skull by now.

http://i.imgur.com/uBWIQAw.webm

No I'm a linux kernel and bitcoin hacker primarily. My VN interest is purely on the translation side. While I have a translation project of my own (ToHeart2), I did very little programming on it, being the translator for it and other groups' projects (currently Clover Day's).

Made a banner for my own project, Bishoujo Mangekyou Probably won't make a lot of banners anymore

A little contribution from me:

https://vndb.org/v5841 ~~~ I fucking had to. edit: gonna edit this thread with stuff that i come up with instead of mass posting lol

Well, since you seem to be dodging my question, I won't pursue the matter any further. Though with all due respect, I don't think it's a very sensible marketing argument to say that you can provide a better collaboration environment than others while not actually knowing how your competitors are proceeding. Hope you will succeed in finding people interested, and hopefully you can become a big publisher in the EVN world as well!

Nothing will compare to my High school Chinese classes in terms of difficulty. How intense was it? Within the first month she made each student sign a contract telling us that she would no longer use any English in the class, and that any English she heard us speaking would result in a 1 point deduction from our overall grade. Meaning after the first month, the class became 100% immersive. She explained all new grammar, vocab, etc in Chinese. She would tell us when assignments were due, quickly in Chinese. On top of that, a typical homework assignment was writing a page length of stuff in Chinese each day. This bitch was crazy. Hell, I think this class was probably harder than most College level Chinese classes. Needless to say, my Japanese classes are very reasonable compared to my one other language learning experience.

Some SF cosplay: