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How many of you started reading VNs, manga, or watching anime solely because the girls were so adorable? I wasn't one of those (I began with Record of Lodoss War, lol), but Ai Yori Aoshi and Love Hina introduced me to the concept of the 'moe-heroine'. Whether it was their way of speaking, their looks, or their attitude, moe heroines became an integral part of the otaku experience at some point (well, the male-oriented one anyway), and I actually don't have any problems with that. I have lots of fond memories of moe-heroines (since almost all VN heroines and anime heroines nowadays are done like this, to one degree or another). However, as I've dug deeper and deeper into the VN universe (I realized this with anime long ago) I came to realize... all the heroines were beginning to melt together into one big moe blob inside my back-brain. This is because very few heroines stand out enough to remain distinct in my mind from all the other, similar heroines inside my brain. Understand, I never really experienced the 'blob of moe heroines' phenomenon until the last five years or so... first with anime, then (two years ago) with VNs. As a result, it is harder and harder to find 'standard' heroines interesting in and of themselves... their situation and setting have to be interesting enough to keep me from abandoning them emotionally. Do you want to know how many heroines remain distinct in my brain from the last three years of playing VNs? Just thirty-three... and that is from well over seven hundred heroines whose routes I've completed in that time. Frankly, even if I find an archetypical heroine interesting for a single playthrough, it is a rare heroine who makes an impression strong enough to retain her individuality in the collective VN memory of my under-psyche. I once mentioned this to a newbie VN-player (naturally a moe-gamer) and he essentially blasted me about how I was a blasphemer against the pure love of 2D... My response was, quite naturally, explosive laughter which I didn't bother to put into text. How many people do you actually remember in real life as a distinct human being without meeting them every day (or at least with some frequency)? Even if you see 2D as a real world, do you seriously think someone who has gone so far down the road of the VN otaku as I and some others in the community have to remember every single heroine they've encountered? I'm fortunate. I have a natural gift for storing episode memory, so if I start replaying a VN, I generally remember the heroines and their paths almost immediately. However, expecting me to remember yet another tsundere osananajimi amongst hundreds of others off the top of my head after a year is fundamentally ridiculous, in my opinion (real example... also one of the two most common archetypes, along with the deredere osananajimi). This doesn't necessarily mean the VN in question is bad... it just means the heroine is one I've seen dozens of times before, placed in different situations with a different appearance. Some of the heroines I forget until I'm reminded about are from truly wonderful VNs... but that has absolutely no effect on whether I can remember them without some serious effort, lol. For my fellow vets... are you any different?

A lot of my thoughts are similar to Chronopolis's. Furthermore, I think getting as invested in a forum community as Ren did, is kind of a dangerous thing to do. Forum's inevitably change, and people come and go. It seemed to me that Ren got more attached to the community than to VNs. So once his close friends either left, or became less active, then his purpose for remaining here kind of dwindled. Furthermore, the games and events he used to host aren't getting the same amount of responses that they used to, which seems to have frustrated him. But this is largely attributed to the fact that Fuwa is a lot bigger than it used to be. I remember when OriginalRen was new here, and I remember what the community was like then. It was small and everybody that was active pretty much knew each other. It was also still a fairly new community, so it was relatively easy for him to gain popularity by being as active as he was. He really developed the community in 2014, and I believe it was the fun he had with the people back then that gave him fond memories of the place. But as the site and community has gotten larger, people seem to be more interested in talking about VNs and related subjects. People aren't as interested in the community itself. Back when OriginalRen's popularity was at its peak, the Fuwanovel community wasn't exactly VN focused. It was more a place where people who had some interest in VNs could gather and get to know each other, and occasionally discuss VNs. But it seems to me now (and I could be wrong as I am hardly as active as I used to be), that the community is more focused on VNs. Fuwanovel is now more a place to actively discuss VNs, and less a place for casual chatter and occasional talk about VNs. The way I would describe the Fuwanovel that OriginalRen was really invested in, was like a bar. It was a relatively small place where people gathered, talked, and would sometimes talk about serious stuff (VNs). And while there were some people who cared more about VNs then casual discussion, they were relatively few (I was one of those people at that time). And I think these people, largely didn't talk to Ren much as a consequence of that. Fuwanovel now seems to be more like a convention. Where people are more serious about this hobby, and the primary focus of this community now is on the actual hobby itself. Like Chronopolis, I am largely ambivalent towards Ren since I was never really a friend of his. And there once was a time where I felt that he was abusing his popularity to push the site in directions that he personally wanted. But looking at it retrospectively, while I did have a few issues with Ren at times, he overall served the community well. He did a good thing for the community back in 2014, and it is sad for me to see him go (although a part of me is still skeptical about him leaving, since this isn't the first time he "quit"). But yeah, he was a good guy and did good things. But I can't claim to ever have been close to him.

If that's your only problem with Siglusengine then you are weird. The engine is shitty in more ways too. D: This is why it is so good.

tfw you realize Flutterz actually ain't online for once, le gasp, its the end of the world!@#

The amount of time it will take for SubaHibi to be out in English is probably enough to learn Japanese from scratch and get to a level where you can read it untranslated.

I personally plan to get all my news from Rooke's upcoming live streaming of his morning news reading sessions. I can't imagine a better way of doing it.

Moetron for Fuwa mascot!

If you get your news from reddit, you're a blithering idiot anyway.

Guys, it's fine not to report this type of thing. I'm not going to merge a new thread with something from february. If they were like, within the same week or something it'd be fine, but other than that leave it be As for the topic, go Yuusuke or go home.

Should sign into your Youtube Account and post dem commentaries in that vid's comments Then comment on the rest of the 20 minutes as well

I know nobody cares about this type of translation in this forum (for obvious reasons, for once the novel is already translated and second nobody really speak spanish in this forum xD) I'm doing a translation of himeko's epilogue and posting it here mostly to keep track of my own translation and have a place to share it. At first it was going to be an eng>spa translation but there are some huge mistakes on the translation itself (specially on the atogaki 1980 story) and also many sentences that don't make much sense or silly grammar errors that shouldn't be there even if they are silly (tons of these)... I don't know the guy who did the translation but it seems that he just rushed it and cut corners in some places because of time restriction, with more time and someone checking the script it could have been a good work. I don't like to complain or shit on others work but come on they are charging for it...it's not a free fan-translation project. Second by looking at the files itself (again with the huge help of Schwarzstorch who is editing the images, creating the patch etc) we found: *Inside the files of himeko is almost the whole ame no marginal script (untranslated) *The game "hides" the UI in some lazy way but you can still active it, just turn the windows transparency up or down and it will appear. *They used the same engine from sorairo (probably in this whole 10th anniversary narcissu project and ame no marginal) they just changed the script and CGs (with same engine I don't mean majiro but they actually grabbed it as it was in sorairo and didn't change anything besides the script and CGs), this isn't so hard to spot, I mean check this image and if you check the menu you can still see options that don't make much sense in this game, like changing the color of previous choices (in a kinetic vn ) and so on. *There are some files from the Mahjong minigame and many more things but you get the idea. In conclusion, it's going to take more time to check line by line to see if there are errors than translating everything from 0 so in the end it's going to take more time than I thought, but it won't take more than a month, on a side note my original idea was to add 1993 short story into this patch but I don't know if that's legal or not (probably it's not) so I dropped it. それだけだ EN ESPAÑOL: Para hacerlo breve ya que no tengo muchas ganas de escribir xD voy a realizar la traducción del epilogo de Himeko, mi idea era utilizar la traducción en ingles y pasarla al español pero debido a los muchos errores que tiene, gramaticales y también simplemente de mala traducción - el traductor utilizó atajos en oraciones complejas y se nota! - también hay cosas mal traducidas, ejemplo de algo muy tonto "１９８０ 中坊の日のこと。" como "The mid-1980s... those days..." en español es "En los mediados de los 80'... aquellos días" cuando debería decir algo como "Aquellas cosas que sucedieron en esos días de cuando era un alumno de secundaria en los 80'" xD queda medio feo así tan largo pero ya se dan un idea de lo que hablo. Ese kanji raro (difícilmente aparezca seguido en algún lugar viene de acá 中坊) es decir un estudiante de secundaria de ese periodo especifico, no de cualquier momento. (si no entendieron nada de lo que expliqué no importa!) La traducción va a tomar 1 mes, ma o meno - cachito más cachito menos xD , dependiendo de las ganas que tenga de traducir , calculo que voy a traducir unas 30 lineas al día y son casi 1000, y eso es todo por ahora.

I get so angry about trains from Railway company x sometimes. They get delayed so often it's not even funny. You know what's worse? They even have the audacity to let other trains depart even before my delayed train arrives! It's pathetically obvious that they are a shamelessly disorganized company, and they deserve to be wiped out in a sudden magical outburst of socio-economic justice. Really, I despise other people sometimes, being so ignorant of all this, giving them all that money they don't deserve a cent of, just living their ignorant lives. The fools. If you want to get places, just get a car, duh Trust me, I understand these things.

So is this the "Let's lynch eclipsed with pitch forks and burn him in the stake" thread? If so I'm quite possibly available and perhaps mildly aroused at such an idea.

WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE! ... sorry can't help myself

The majority of the VN-players, I'd say. The term is there to identify a series of games. It just looks like you're trying to add more stuff to it for the sole sake of technical precision by ignoring some aspects of what makes the identity of a visual novel, which becomes moot when you start including stuff that wasn't intended to be part of the term in the first place. If I take a lasgna and spread the layers of it into a circle is that a pizza? Maybe you could call it one, maybe not. But you're probably much better off just calling it a lasagna. It's probably better to find a new term for the other stuff that you're including into visual novel than it is to make the first term that broad. But again, what do I know. I'm generally pretty silly, after all

http://exhentai.org/g/945043/f20f992359/ another one for lolicons

Alright, just got back from the doctor. Seems that all of this is just anxiety like I thought, and she upped the dosage of my current medicine as well as giving me a new antidepressant to help me sleep better. Lets just hope that works well, side effects can be a bitch. On another note, my body is still sore from the panic attacks I have had over the last 24 hours

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I don't really have much experience with depressions and stuffz since I am just moody, I am rarely depressed for a long period of time and depression and other negative feelings are usually changed into anger which I vent off on people around me.... especially my family... poor guys If I ever found anything annoying about the advice of talking about your worries to other people , it's that the relief never really made me any better and for some reason everyone I talked to either makes a big deal out of my worries leading to an increase in my worries or ridicules my worries making my anger increase (thanks, parents and most adults I know). So I have taken a liking to keeping things to myself and just throwing my worries in chats from time to time when I like reach my limit. Other than that, I don't really talk about my worries that much because I have really reached the conclusion that no one can help you with your worries or make them better except time and yourself. Plus I sometimes fail to find the truth about my worries... like what am I actually worrying about? since you know feelings are vague after all.... I do really need to change my personality a bit, like stop being such a worrywart who worries about everything in life. Thing is that sometimes I worry about silliest things like how I will go to school today, how long it will take , am I late yet... am I looking good, who will be there blah blah blah , my mind is really working all the time thinking and worrying about everything. At this very moment, I am worrying about whether or not I should post this post, whether or not I am wasting my time since I am not studying and what my parents would say if they come back home and find me like this. Additionally, I reach the point where my anxiety and fear are associated with some physical pain like my hands shaking, or sudden jolts and pain in my foot or having parts of my mouth feel hurt like they are burning.... dunno what to call that but the doctors say they are due to anxiety. I have also faced an additional thing in college which is my eyes twitching too hard which the oculist also mentioned to be due to anxiety and fatigue like every physical pain in my life. I have also gotten worse at dealing with my anxiety which leads me to the point where my anxiety just turns into pure anger that makes me do things I shouldn't and make people have the bad image of me... I mean last night a friend of mine brought me a present and send it with my sister and because of worrying about how to repay my friend and how I will explain this gift to my parents and many other shit, I lashed at my sis for bringing it to me and even told her she should have told my friend to take her present and go away. Even thou I apologized to both my sister and my friend. I am the kind who waits for time to make his anxiety better, especially that the main source of my anxiety is nearly over... once and forever. The exams of last year in highschool which determine which college you will go to or so the system is here. Public college have ridiculous high degree in order to get there because they are basically free and I can't afford private college. And being the 3rd world country we are, my parents want me to go after medical career which doesn't so bad in itself given how much prestige and respect one gains from the society

Confession : people don't know me that much here. And here it is, my next thread will be a 1500 posts AMA.

tlwiki has a page with tools that can extract vn scripts. However, the wiki is down atm.

Not a single capital letter xD Just started リズベルルの魔, a doujin game I learned about from the Doujin Game of the Year, otherwise known as #どげさ Pretty hyped. The graphics and music are way better than the last thing I played. It's all very little-girlish, but I secretly like that stuff a little since apparently it's a plot-ge with a crazy setting I appreciate that the creators chose to create their own particular mood.

Irisu's Voice is GOD :D. IMO her voice is perfect for her character role

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I agree with Deep Blue, I'm critical to some of the stuff SP does as well, but ... this was just silly Kek

Typical idealist who spouts his cloudy internal dogma without paying attention to past examples... such as Darkness Translations and Sanity Ends.

This video and others like it are the reason I am not subscribed to any youtuber that focuses on otaku media.

no it's pretty shit

I'm sorry and my answer is still the same one Kawahara Makoto.

Sony was jaw-droppingly amazing. However, I must rest now. Pulled an all nighter

I like Satoi's art. I haven't played Diabolik Lovers yet but the art looks gorgeous. I've been playing Ozmafia for a while now and I loved the art. It looks like watercolor paintings or something. It's pretty soft and feminine, in contrast to the darker theme in DL. I also haven't read The House in Fata Morgana yet but I like Moyataro's art. It's something I don't usually see in a VN, and I think that the gothic art style is beautiful.

I've never played a mobile game with a gacha draw as terrible as F/GO.

To Erogegamer, according to VNDB the OP singer was Hashimoto Miyuki. She was also sang several VN song, for example her work was Hoshimemo OP, Eiyuu Senki OP, and Grisaia no Kajitsu Amane ending. And she was also sing Chrono Clock OP (By the way Amatsutsumi and Chrono Clock was from same company).

You're supposed to run rin.exe Your non unicode settings don't seem to be in Japanese. Try changing them and start the game again. If they are though, check if the files in the game directory are set to read only mode (select everything > right click > properties > uncheck read only).

I love the energy in this one!

the flight diary (or any side story/fandisk) as far as I know is only being sold in a physical format, you cannot download it from the internet... at least not legally xD http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=749895 Only if my heart had wings is available in both forms downloadable and physical

How are we possibly going to survive those 2 weeks without him?

Well, we did lose Ren so I guess there's always room for a second...

same. michirus route set itself more than pleasantly apart from the others.

been not fond of sen no hatou´s trial, thew whole pop-idol stuff felt abit out of place and idk, expected sth else, maybee abit too much. sure everything is freaking shiny & smells money all over, heck even the protag is voiced and such (others got some top tier va´s as well), but i simply failed to come on good terms with how they decided to turn the setting, which plays in a rather serious period (post ww2), into some sort of romantic comedy (school life & pop-idols), because that´s what it felt to me. "Remember that period in our country where people suffered a lot? How about we make a romantic comedy about it filled with cutesy stuff! It will be hilarious, but also very serious! Because, you see: THE MAIN PLOT WILL STILL BE SERIOUS BUSINESS!" I wonder if this was how the guys at august were thinking when they came up with the pop-idols stuff. in my opinion, Sen no Hatou would be a great VN if it wasn't for the "Galge conventions", but that's just me, anyway. And I usually disapprove cute stuff just for the sake of being cute, when it doesn't fit the events or setting. I believe the idol stuff will only be a bigger thing during that heroine's route, but she is still one of the most important heroines, and the hero even battles against her in a big epic battle at the end of the demo, with was laughable at best for me. Can't take a big strong female warrior seriously, now that I know she waste the time to practice in order to do idol things.

Hmm, guess I'm kinda looking forward to Lamunation, thanks to @Kiriririri On the translation side of things, I'm very much looking forward to Maitetsu getting translated, (aint bothering reading the whole thing in moonspeak, seeing as it is being translated) and The Shadows of Pygmalion.

Hey guys, just wanted to give a little update, I was able to get an appointment with my doctor for tomorrow morning, whice is pretty crazy since it normally takes at least a week. I'll let you all know what happens. Also loving how much support this thread has gotten, though it pains me to know that others have to go through anything like this.

Honestly, Ren has left and come back to Fuwa so many times that it has basically become a meme at this point.

Mm....basically. Unless you're wise, you won't understand how a forum community could be made better (given how people behave, and what they would want to have, if it existed). And you'd have to be experienced to know good, viable ways to get there. Well he's just a guy, and member of the community. He got attached to something and created too much for himself (also stuff that might not ness. work). I think that's not rare at all, just for him it happened visible in public. The reason why I get so impersonal(?) is he's largely the opposite type of person as me with opposite strengths and methodology, and cause he stepped on my toes once. But the podcast (one on porn) was interesting, japan videos were nice, and the VN streams were an interesting thing.

Aah, I'm tired. It has been three days since the last update, but I'ver already surprassed and perhaps even doubled the amount I translated, thus I'm completely exhausted. I see sex lines where-ever I go and to put it frankly, it's not fun. Well, at least now I'll have six whole days to recharge until I finish this. That's right, I'm aiming for my translation to be finished next week. I won't laze around like I usually do, forget about translating for a few days, notice you an upcoming update and then proceed to translate for two days. No, I will finish this next week. And the best part of the whole novel is at hand, so my motivation has reached its maximum potential. As for other things, the editing got a nice bump but QC is still frozen solid. Nothing can be done about it, sorry about that. Look forward to the end next week. Progress: Translation: 7/8 script files finished, 8th script file 81% completed (~97%) Editing: 18% QC: 3,1% Proofreading: 0% Let's finish this, next week.

still far away pretending to be helping out in a clients kitchen, but managed to finish my read of モミジは紅く其の身を染めて whilst hiding in a nearby toilette. first thing first, contrary to some fags wrongful perception of ao-titles being aimed at a kindergarden-ish crowd only this one is clearly not and except for some minor elements of kitsch almost everything about it is more or less rather mature. what starts out with a certain pastrelated incisive incident is followed shortly after by seemingly peaceable moments of deluding oneself under the assumption of finally having moved on and ultimately ends up in a nightmare when sins of the olden days start shredding that protective little husk of yours to pieces. though the authors attempts of creating something with literay value by adding some philosophical aspects are a little clumsy at times and not that well executed, the overall atmosphere of angst and guilt is what momiji exells at, not to mention the desperate struggle for absolution/salvation as its core-theme. in short, while certain passages appear a little out of place, btw. strange (you know what i mean when you get there :P), the read as awhole does not and feels very much human. negative emotions and the consequent amplification of theirs as the story progresses is what stands out the most, making it a gloomy experience from start to finish with even the main ending itself having a grave aura of unaccomplishment to it, similar to fraternites one, a fact which might come to annoy few, but which plays a pivotal role in what it tries to accomplish. 救いがあっても、結局代償を払っているので、本当のハッピーエンドとは言えない……。that one sums it up. the game offers quite alot of bad outcomes (partly real bad ones) which can be a little tricky to reach, but with ones brains intact this should be a doable read in about 30-35h. as for the specs, no voices, music pleasantly befitting the atmosphere/plot and a resolution which transmutes your eyeballs into bleeding lumps of flesh, literally. but since this title is basically available for less than a cheap meals worth there´s no real point in try complaining/nitpicking. to me it´s a solid 8,5, forwhy it managed to accomplish what it tried to & gave my mind a much needed fuckup.

I finally got around of cleaning my desktop so that an actual human could look at it without having a urge to rip it to pieces I also switched my background to my newest creation

I first want to first off discuss the ending routes miracles a bit more in detail in relation to Ayu. It's Shiori route that she gives a genre-savy and slight 4th wall breaking dialogue to Yuuichi about how the life they can be living is a dream of someone. To quote her, "Like, somebody's dreaming about me, about us, and they can have one wish granted, anything. Only within the dream, obviously. Well, of course she couldn't just have a wish granted for no reason. Like, when she first started living in the dream world, she couldn't do anything but cry. But if she kept waiting in the dream, forever and ever… Then maybe she'd have a chance. Maybe it would be given to her, kind of like a present, after she'd been waiting so long. So she can have any wish she wants granted. Absolutely anything. Like, say… Maybe she could help someone who was really seriously ill with her one single wish." In this quote, Shiori doesn't say anything about the power being Ayu's but rather, something given to her. Ayu's small miracle, if we used this also for the basis of Nayuki's route ending, is only within the dream to ask for a wish to be granted opposed to granting a final wish. This is very much in line with the third wish that was promised to her by Yuuichi. I find this to be an important distinction as it doesn't make Ayu particularly important other than sharing a fateful encounter with Yuuichi. At least, not special the way Mai and Yuuichi (which I will explain coming up later why so). Moving on, we know that all the heroines have a concurrent history with each other. This means that everything prior to Yuuichi return did happen like Ayu's accident and Makoto being a fox he took care of. The divergence point though is when he does arrive and Kanon becomes a bit like Schrodinger's Cat. I figure all the routes are all legitimate ends and they all do happen but, it's how the player makes the choices that it proceeds to arrive at a heroines end. If this is really the case, the chances of Key setting apart a true route and leaving it to the player to delve deeper into the story to realize one look slim. Yet, there are some things to keep in mind why the possibility remains. For this example, I'll use Tsukihime as it's a contemporary VN, to Kanon, that was released just a year after Kanon's release. Tsukihiime has five heroines just like Kanon and has a main character, Arcueid, whose route is the true end. Yet, we find all the major background information of why the events of Tsukihime happen the way they do in the last route. In this case, Tsukihime and Kanon share the same in common in that their last route you can gleam why there stories evolve the way they did. In the case of Tsukihime, it's in Kohaku's route that you find she's responsible for releasing the main villain from his imprisonment and corrupting his thoughts so that she can gain her revenge on the Tohno family. Yet, you're not able though to reach her route and find this out until you played through all the other heroines route. The way I find the two similar, Kohaku's and Mai's route, is in how relatively isolated Mai's route is from the other girls along with, being the route that is thematic opposite of the main girl. Very much like the same way Kohaku's arc goes about a different direction from Arcueid the Vampire Princess action story, Mai's route differentiate itself by being a moody, thriller compared to the slice of life, fantasy of Ayu's. The point being here is that the routes accomplish different goals from the main route by being thematically different. To return the story back to Kanon, Mai's route show's miracles happening. Because all the stories are concurrent, we know that the world of Kanon is a miraculous place though I suppose you can learn the same from Makoto's route. The difference here though from Makoto's is that Mai's power explains what Mai's miracle really is to Yuuichi. The conversation goes as followed with the [----] areas being where Yuuichi says lines. Mai's power Sat. 30 January: [Is that your answer or that of the Mai right now?] Both, we've always needed you [Why, even though it was such a short period of time] … That's her power. [Power?] … Yes, Mai's true power. Her ability to say, 'He's the one' and trust in him. [….And that's me…?] …Yes. That's why you came back, Yuuichi… To the place we can no longer visit… Yuuichi, you were called, I'm sure of it, because of Mai's power… I was born on that day, from her, an honest prayer… Since, I couldn't stay with Mai no matter what... Her hope… The hope that somewhere in the world there would be a person who could teach her to like herself. [But everything had started here….Now, everything is over…isn't it?...] … But we can start over from that time… Even ten years of time can be taken back… because Mai is still the little girl from back then… So, Please take care of future Mai. If you meet her again, she'll think the same thing. That you are the one. Okay? [Yeah] Then. Let's introduce ourselves. [To whom?] And promise. Mai's power here reveals to him that the power behind her miracle is that of how earnestly she can believe. This would also back up in the flashback her statement about believing her mother wouldn't die/will not die as she cites herself as wishing it with all her heart. Furthermore, this establishes as a past event the creation of a wish resulting from Mai. This in turn shows that it’s a concurrent happening with the rest of Kanon and that it co-exist with Ayu history with Yuuichi. Thinking deeper, I want to bring up is that, if we are to take Mai's power literally where she says, " 'He's the one" and trust in him"; then, Yuuichi had all along Mai's blessing ever since their meeting in the wheat field. I feel this to be true in a broad sense but the lines immediately after can only be taken in the context of Yuuichi being summoned to Mai's cherished place. The point remains however that Mai had always believed in Yuuichi despite denying her power. And just by believing, Mai is known to create miracles. These phenomena shouldn't stop just because she's denying her power. Moving the conversation back to Yuuichi, this would set him apart not only just in Mai's eyes but as someone special within Kanon. I wouldn't though say that he can actively tap into a miracle the way Mai can. I feel it's more that he's the one that can make thing happens. In the case of Ayu, he makes a promise to play with her again and the miracle is that it does happen. I feel Ayu is only in the dream as to make true on the promise Yuuichi made. Furthermore, the third wish is only important as "who Ayu knows." This is an important distinction as Ayu never meets Mai or Makoto in any route. Where I said before it could be because they're capable of their own miracle, it may just be that she doesn't know them to think on their behalf to make a wish. In all the other cases, she made friends with Nayuki, Akiko, and Shiori to justify in making one last wish for them. Had she known Mai, she may have wished that she doesn't die from bleeding out and with Makoto, make a wish that she could stay a human with Yuuichi. In this case, I feel it's Ayu that's a selfless and kind person to think of others before herself. That's why in the other routes, she doesn't think of using that last wish to leave the dream. When it comes to Ayu's own route, Yuuichi makes a surprising statement saying, "No matter what miracle it was from, Ayu and I met in this city." This is, by the way, said after he realizes that Ayu shouldn't been able to meet him because of past circumstances but still did anyways. Continuing on, I find this to be of interest because of the background wish Mai has about Yuuichi. Where I'm not so sure now how much active influence this actually has on Yuuichi, I feel that Yuuichi himself is special person even without it. After all, Mai's power sets apart Yuuichi as someone capable of accepting her. This could be because he may be unique in a way similar to Mai and Kanon, as a story, down plays it lest it takes away from the heroines stories. With that Yuuichi's statement in mind, I feel that the story is acknowledging that the miracle responsible for Ayu could be anything or anyone, not just Ayu herself. I also feel it becomes more profound when you think of them in context of some Ayu's last words, right before she disappears, of, "I wanted to be with you longer, Yuuichi… Is it mean of me to make a wish like this?" There's no mentions after these lines that Ayu is focusing on making them come true. She's just confiding, albeit very heartbreakingly in a very feels worthy tender moment, what her wish would be and how much she wants to be with Yuuichi. On another note, Ayu breakdown there reminds me of the situation Shiori has when she confesses to Yuuichi how scare she was. They're remarkably similar circumstances brings me to think again that Ayu is not responsible for the miracle as in her own route because she's desperate for one herself. The one thing they do share in common is that Yuuichi is the one they confide in. Now to bring everything I discussed together, I feel that Ayu is not responsible for the miracles and it's not necessarily Mai's power either. Where I do think Mai's blessing has influence on Yuuichi, I feel now that it's because of Yuuichi that miracles happen. At the very least, it would knock out Ayu as being a definitive true route book wise and goes to reinforcing my original point that she's not responsible for the miracles in Kanon. It’s a shame though that my further discussion of the matter near extinguishes Mai's route possibility of being a true route based on just in-text evidence. I suppose though that the biggest winner is the protagonist and he doesn't even realize it except for in Mai's route. Other than that, I mention this in your analysis but I think you undersell Sayuri's catharsis and inner qualities the same way she does about herself lol. I feel the subtext to her route is that Sayuri is stronger than she lets on to others and herself. She also says in-game to Yuuichi that she finds it surprising that she even harbored such self-loathing back then. This shows by the time Yuuichi shows up and her friendship cemented with Sayuri, she has progressively moved away from just being defined by her depression. I find though your thoughts to be accurate about Mai. In the end though, that's just my opinions on both matters. What stands out clearly however is that I care too much about proving my points and I doubt the time spent researching/discussing my points was justified lol. I hope at the very least you see some merit in what I had to say and reconsider some things from my PoV about Kanon. If failing that, at least be thoroughly entertained by this analysis. Some Afterwords: While I do eagerly await any response, though its Zalor that I wrote this for in expectation of his return thoughts, I feel that I'm very near in reaching my closing chapter of my life with Kanon lol. I really want to move on to something new and I actually had been binge watching Code Geass R2 to serve as a palate cleansor. The change of pace that show provides gave me the motivation to stick a little longer with Kanon lol but I can't wait to return to Moon, the other pre-Key novel. I feel that book is their most psychological and in-depth story. It makes wonder if they will ever make another story like it. Anyways, I'm looking to the comments.

Welp. Guess the countdown is canceled?

Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai! S https://vndb.org/v6245 Introduction Good day everyone. This is the Maji de watashi ni koishinasai! S Walkthrough for the currently patched fully translated game. I made this first to fully explore the content of the game but since I’ve made a good progress with writing my own walkthrough, might as well share it with everyone. This is the sequel for the first Majikoi game which shows the future for the five main heroines while adding five more additional heroines to conquer. It’s great right? Since this is rated 18+, please be noted that there are a number of scenes that are for mature audiences. Falling under the said age is not advisable to play this game. With that said, have fun playing the game. GAME START! Description Majikoi is back and better than ever in this sequel to hit 2009 visual novel. Majikoi S takes place after the events of Majikoi and lets you choose which of Majikoi’s many endings to proceed from. Choose your favorite heroine and enjoy new romantic events with her, or choose to start with no commitment and romance one of 5 new heroines. - J-List Things to be noted before starting the game When starting the game for the first time, you are required to fill in your birth date. I recommend having a date closer to the actual date. This will give you an easy access to the Birthday Mode in the Extras rather than waiting for your actual birthday to view this mode. Well, you would be lucky if your actual birthday is near that you don’t have to adjust the date just to view this early. There is a random glitch where the game gives a completely different scenario when choosing from the dialogue box. It’s easy to notice based on what choice you pick and what the dialogue/ text comes after. When this happens, just reload to the previous choices and pick again. Tatsuko’s route needs to be played twice for the Clear mark to appear in the Future Selection screen. Childhood unlocks after completion of all 10 routes. (Momoyo, Kazuko, Miyako, Yukie, Chris, Tsubame, Monshiro, Margit, Kokoro, Tatsuko). Future where you are an acquaintance of Takae unlocks after all routes are completed. After completion, an ALL CLEAR!! text should appear on the top right of the Future Selection screen. By the end of this walkthrough, The CG, Music, Replay, Event and Movie Collection are completed. Try to go for choices that you haven’t pick to see a different scene. Choices with [sAVE] and [LOAD SAVE] are choices needed to proceed to the end of each chosen routes while then you are free to choose any choice for the ones not marked. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order The suggested playing order is listed below for those who wanted to play the game efficiently. You can also play this by following this order: Kosugi > Common Route > Tsubame > Monshiro > Margit > Kokoro > Agave After > Tatsuko > Future with Momoyo/Kazuko/Miyako/Yukie/Chris > Childhood Route Guideline Kosugi Route Future with Kosugi Continued Common Route 2nd year 1st semester (Clear) Future without a relationship Future with Momoyo S After Future with Kazuko S After Future with Miyako S After Future with Yukie S After Future with Chris After +S After Tsubame Route Future Where Tsubame Takes the Lead Future Where Yamato Takes the Lead Monshiro Route Monshiro Route Continued Margit Route Margit Route Continued Kokoro Route Future with Hermit Crabs S After Agave After Tatsuko Route Childhood Koyuki Route [LOAD SAVE 12] Fuck her hard. CG 123 [12/12]; CG 124 [4/4] Future with Chousokabe Iyo Route Future with Shima Future with the Maids Yumiko Route Another Future with Miyako Another Future with Miyako-1 Another Future with Miyako-2 Another Future with Miyako-3 Future Where You're An Acquaintance of Takae Attribution This walkthrough is based on the walkthrough from seiya-saiga.com which I adjusted based on the fully translated patch provided by our translators. Please check this walkthrough if there is something amiss Admin/Moderator-san. Thanks