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Hello there, Recently I just published a 2D character CG generator tool via itch.io (demo versions are available) It's currently in early access state, with development status and plans available for public via Trello. Mannequin is a template-based character CG generator; by making it I'm hoping to make development easier for both non-artists and artists alike. For non-artists, you can generate a production-ready quality CGs just by mixing and matching templates, adjusting the colors, then instantly export the result to a PNG file. For artists or someone with experience using vector drawing programs, you can export the result to SVG file (which can be opened using Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Inkscape) and make your own custom modifications. Included below are some screenshots: Let me know what you think! -- Quick Links: itch.io Store Page | Public Trello Board | Devlog on Tumblr

Last time I talked about trade-offs in editing and high-level motifs; macro-scale stuff. This time, I want to talk about a micro-scale topic: how to make an individual line better. As before, I'll be demonstrating this with examples drawn from recent editing experience. Before writing this post, I went around looking for other people talking about similar things, and I found this reference: http://kristensguide.com/Writing/powerful_sentences.asp. Frankly, it's great; probably better than what I have, especially in terms of breadth of topics. Give it a read and get your editing learning on. For this post, I'm going to deep dive into one single topic mentioned there, though, for which I've been saving up examples: putting the first and last words of your sentence to good use. The first and last words of a sentence are powerful. They're memorable. Forgetting the middle of a sentence is natural, so put a word at the end of a sentence when you really, really want that one word to be remembered. Okay, so what did you get from that last paragraph. I hope it was "first", "powerful", "memorable", "forgetting", and "remembered", because that's the point of this blog post. Anyway, let's look at some examples from my recent edits to Majo Koi Nikki, some to the prologue patch we're about to release, and some later. I'll point out other things that I changed as well and why, but this one point is going to be the running theme. Original: Looking in the mirror, she pondered for a second and answered with a shy smile on her face. Potential problems: - "on her face" is extraneous - that extraneous phrase is squatting on valuable real estate at the end of the sentence. Mine: Looking in the mirror, she pondered for a second, and then she answered with a shy smile. Changes: - drop "on her face" (for both reasons above - it's less verbose, and now I get "smile" as the last word in the sentence, which is great) - the comma after "she ponders for a second" is intended to give the reader that same mental pause as "she" has, to better set up the last part - "then she" somehow pushes you out of that mental pause and into the most important part: that shy smile, lingering at the end of the sentence. Original: Tokeizaka-san irritatedly flips through the book, but her hand stops suddenly. Potential problems: - With the benefit of spell-check, "irritatedly" => irritably - "suddenly" is often overused I actually really like the original; if you left it alone, aside from the spell-check correction, I wouldn't fault you for it. The verbs are great, "irritably" is a good use of a modifier, and the sentence communicates multiple events very concisely. But there's always room for improvement. Mine: Irritated, Tokeizaka-san flips through the book, until her hand suddenly stops. Changes: - Drop "suddenly." "Stops" is strong enough to carry that feeling of suddenness on its own, so "suddenly" is only making things weaker. I've also noticed a tendency for raw JP translations to overuse "suddenly", which makes me especially biased to remove it. It's the typical problem of overuse: if everything is happening suddenly, it might as well all be happening normally. - Move those good words, "irritably" and "stops" to the memorable points of the sentence. "Stops" we got for free, "irritably" requires a small bit of juggling. Unfortunately, Tokeizaka-san's family name is a bit unwieldy at best; better to bury it in the middle of the sentence and let the nice, emotive words take pride of place. - Swapping "but" for "until" made for a clearer plot to the sentence, I thought. Original: - The colorful beauty article are displayed neatly. Potential problems: - Engrish - Passive voice - Not flashy enough Mine: - Iridescent beauty products dot the shelves, arranged with flawless precision. On that last potential problem: normally my style is pretty spare. My typical goal is to drop adjectives and adverbs, and make verbs and nouns stronger to carry the weight of description, without going overboard on vocabulary. More often than not, I'm trying to make long sentences shorter and punchier. I didn't do that here. For context on why, it would help for you to hear the ridiculously high-brow BGM accompanying this scene and see the gorgeous background art. So, here: Background: BGM: Equally important for context, you need to know about the surrounding narration: basically, the narrator is currently marveling at just how amazing this beauty parlor is. One of the benefits of generally being spare with your adjectives and adverbs is that they then work a lot better when you actually do pull them out. A good mental model is that you have a budget: don't spend your nice words if you don't need to. Only pull them out when you're going for the razzle dazzle. The analogy breaks down fast, but basically, if you're constantly using flowery language and overdecorating the ordinary scenes, nobody's going to be impressed when something extraordinary happens, just like the overuse of "suddenly" I mentioned earlier. Since this actually is an extraordinary moment for our narrator, I'm spending a few nice words now. And again, I want to call attention to the first and last words of the sentence. Those are strong places in a sentence (or, especially in the case of a VN, a line). Previously there were pretty weak words there ("The colorful" and "neatly"); now we've got "iridescent" and "precision". Good words in good places. One last thing to mention. I wrote each of these up in the middle of editing, and then later edited that up into a blog post. I made changes to the edited line itself in the process of writing all this stuff up, which made it better. In fact, I even noticed a problem while writing up this blog post and further refined the line. You'll never know what it was (probably). The point being, simply spending time reflecting on an edit, and especially writing down your observations and motivations for certain choices, will help you do better work. You don't have to be this thorough all the time (I certainly am not), but every time you do an exercise like that, you'll learn from it, and then you can write up your own blog post and teach me something.

Where's the boob-size slider?

Greetings, folks! I've been hanging around the chat for a few days now, so some already know me, but putting that aside, I'd like to shortly introduce myself to a community of fellow VN readers =) I live in Czech Republic and am going to finish University (Bachelor) this year. I've read over 60 VN titles, so I suppose I've been at it for quite a while. I usually read them in Japanese, but I'd like to point out I'm not fluent in Japanese enough to easily read Kanji. I'm rather fond of heartwarming or simply happy VNs (doesn't extend to whole VN content, but I appreciate being rewarded by the ending), and I absolutely detest VNs that have anything to do with Guro or similar monstrosities. I do though read bittersweet VNs at times, so that topic's not beyond me. I'm fairly knowledgeable in books too and am a vivid gamer (usually games that have a story to it). I've been writing some novels myself, but due to perfectionist strikes and low self-esteem, I eventually ended up tearing them apart except for my most recent project, that I'm rather determined to finish without tearing it apart. I've been a part of YWS (Young Writers Society) for a while and am fairly confident in my criticism and writing skills, so if anybody wants to share or have a discussion over writing, I'd gladly keep some company. I figure that's enough for a short hello Thank you for your company, Nintaidou~

This is one of those things I stand defiantly against the masses - people had the same gripe about Michuru's route near the end of GnK1. Sexuality IS a emotional experience, and some times it exists for comfort, and as a salve - not just pleasure and "fun". For example - and it might be tmi for some, but it adds weight to my stance - my exs father had passed away, and after the funeral we celebrated his life with a small party. Once everyone had left, she asked me to stay the night. Not because she was tastelessly hot and ready - but because she wanted comfort that words could not express. That aside, replying to your post prior to that: Shame on you for looking up spoilers Still, hope you end up enjoying HF. It's by far my favorite arc. I personally feel it builds up to a satisfying, emotional conclusion. (Sakura is not my favorite girl (though I also don't hate her like some do), but her story is by far the best). I wouldn't worry too much about Fate Hollow being too dark - it does have its moments, but it has a lot of laughs mixed in too.

Why are you only wearing one pair of panties? Then you don't need to know what title it is.

It's sad but true: we've finally come to the end of our tour of Japanese punctuation for VN editors. But before we bid adieu, there are a few more types we have yet to cover. None merit full blog posts, however, so I offer them up here in a bit of a punctuation grab bag. Reach in if you dare. The placeholder: 〇 The 〇 is typically used to censor offensive language by replacing one of the characters in a word. It's the equivalent of writing "f*ck" or "sh-t" or in English. Everyone knows what's being said, but we can all pretend we didn't say it. Kumbaya, amirite? Cursing really isn't a thing in Japanese, of course, so these marks get used either for our naughtiest bits — think "cock" and "dick," or "pussy" and "cunt" — or certain other socially offensive terms. You might be surprised to see censoring in the middle of an H-scene that, in all other respects, has spared no detail or volume of liquid, but there you go. Just think of them as pixel mosaics for written text. As for editing these bad boys, you should almost always just go with uncensored English. Fuck yeah. The one situation where you might want to consider doing otherwise is when a VN also bleeps these words in the VO. In that case, you'd also be justified in using the censored English equivalent with either *, -, or _ replacing vowels as needed. Pick only one wildcard and be consistent in its use. Another use for these characters in Japanese is to mask portions of real-life names or places — e.g., Bu〇er King. This is done both out of a sense of propriety and to avoid the wrath of real-life lawyers. You'll conceivably see the names of celebrities, bands, games, movies, etc. all masked in this fashion. Thankfully, there's a long tradition of this in Western literature as well, most notably in the Victorian era — "I sent my butler out to the renowned psychic, Madame G—, to seek her advice on the matter." Our best course of action during editing is to mimic the Japanese, but do so in the English tradition, replacing the omitted portion with an em-dash — two if the excised text is particularly long. Sometimes, rather than use 〇 for masking, a VN writer will choose to come up with soundalike parody names for the person, place, or thing being referenced. And so you'll end up with people talking about anime like Wagonball Z and Tailor Moon. If the VN chooses this option, then so should you. Do your best to come up with witty replacements in English. More rarely, you'll see a double 〇〇 all by its lonesome. This just stands for "word goes here." It's a literal placeholder. If you encounter it in narration, you can usually replace it with a few underscores, like _________. If it appears in voiced dialogue, possible options include "blahblah," "yada yada," "blankity-blank," or whatever else you can think up. Parentheses: ( ) In VNs, these typically indicate a line should be read as internal monologue, or in some cases, a stage whisper. The meaning is clear in both languages, so best to keep these as they are. Unless, of course, your text engine is one of those rare snowflakes that can output English italics. In that case, use those. Bedazzlers: ★☆♪♫❤❆❀✿❁ Okay, they're not actually called "bedazzlers," but it's a good a name as any. You know what I'm talking about, right? That big ol' box of typographical Lucky Charms that gets dumped right onto VN text to provide some wacky flavor to the proceedings. Hearts, stars, flowers, snowflakes, music notes, Zodiac signs, etc. Some common uses include: - A music note at the end of a line to show it's being sung. ("Fly me to the moon♪") - A heart somewhere in a line to indicate puppy love at its most disgusting. ("He's so dreeeamy❤") - A name or term being bracketed by stars to show that it's extrasupervery OMGmagical. ("Aha! I've transformed into ☆Magical Girl Bertha☆") - A tiny gun so we can commit suicide after enduring all the above. These little pretties are self-explanatory enough that I tend to leave them as is. Japan's gotta Japan, right? But use your best judgement; if you feel like they're getting in the way of the of the English narrative, go ahead and prune them back — or omit them entirely. Full stop. Not the punctuation; the whole series of punctuation articles. We're done. If I think of any more oddball Japanese punctuation marks worth discussing, I'll add them to the end of this post. But otherwise: happy f〇cking editing!

New front site is live! Note: logins are restricted to a closed beta, but you can go through the site, now. Please see this blog post: http://fuwanovel.net/2016/07/new-fuwanovel-site/ Feedback Survey If you have a second, I would really appreciate your feedback on the new site. You can find a quick survey here. 7/10 Updates Fixed/Addressed: @Nosebleed - Change the rounded sort-by-release-type section on http://fuwanovel.net/visual-novels-browse/ - Um. No. But thanks. I'd prefer to see you suffer. @Silvz- "New releases are showing stuff from 2014" - I mentioned this in my post. Right now I've only uploaded a handful of games to see how the site does under load. @Silvz - Moving twitter up - I'll definitely play around with this over time. Right now the twitter widget isn't working very well, anyway, so I'm going to eventually scope out other options. @Kenshin_sama - Strange options in the feedback survey - If it was perfectly implemented at-launch, it just wouldn't have that buggy Fuwanovel goodness. ; P @Silvz - Search bars for custom post types (reviews, VNs, etc.) - Excellent point. Should be coming later today. @kingdomcome - Fixed with a crappy, temp fix. Thanks! @Decay - Forums VNTS menu item broken - Fixed! @Decay - One Small Fire Review is missing - Restored! @Decay - VNs retain odd information - Yep. Post time is actually useful: it'll be used to mark the game's or patch's release, so that'll stay. Author, however, is something a bit more complicated. It'll either be removed, or it'll be switched to represent the patch or publisher of the game. @Decay - SonoHana games reviews section oddities - Yep. I've already addressed that in each of the Sono Hana games' description section. It'll be specific to the SonoHana games, and isn't something I expect to do with any other games or series. @Decay - Game page layout with possible sidebar - I agree with you, and that's been my plan for the games pages: having an integrated sidebar with those bits that runs down the right side of the page, while removing the true sidebars. That's why the individual VN pages' sidebar is empty atm. In-Progress: @Amuzie - Request Desktop Site - Hm. You can do this on your phone's browser, but you're looking for a link/button on the site itself to do that, right? That's something I'll need to look into. Right now the site is set up to be responsive by design. @Decay - Review Header Images Problem - I'll get them all straightened out today. I have to edit some stuff about each review, anyway @Decay - Limitations of WP games pages vs database - Well-said, and exactly right. A fuller database implementation IS coming, but it's something we're going to need to save up for. I collected a grand total of 22 bids to do the front site coding, and for what we wanted, the bill was going to be between $7000 for a relatively inexperienced coder to $25,000 for a mid-to-top-ish tier developer. (Just going to stop and point out that @Nayleen would absolutely qualify as top-tier, and consistently donates an unbelievable amount of time to help us out. We're very, very lucky to have you, Nay. Thank you for all you do.) I'm scoping out custom coding to get a custom plugin to pull from a custom games DB and feed into a design template we can modify at any time. So that's where we're headed. At some point when things settle down and I can publish an updated site financial report, I'll try and put all of this down on paper. But, yeah, we're saving up for that. This is not the final solution. 7/12 Updates More Updates: Back-end permissions are all set up Email system is up and working. (Well. Probably working. Updated sidebar game picks and July's Game of the Month Rough-ish and prob temp fix for front page slider Some limited updates to VNTL-Moon Some aesthetic fixes Went through and fixed all FuwaReviews. If @solidbatman or @Decay want me to re-do a few banners to 16:9s (or so), just let me know which ones. I think the long banners are mostly okay. Some of Ryechu's are ugly, now, but they're part of the nukige series and I didn't feel like looking around for alternatives. The other one I can remember, Decay's Euphoria, actually looks kinda cool. But just let me know. Updated reviews back-end Minor emotional breakdown Figured out the problem with the Twitter section on homepage (Answer: Twitter sucks) Fixed and updated some podcast issues Fixed reviews hub display bug on really, really old android devices Tweaked some settings to improve performance Sat despondently in a near-empty room, pondering the Academy section VNTS podcast now has almost 700 downloads! (link) Next Up: Import email subscriber lists Customize and add search options Take a look at Decay's game page stuff Set up alternate layout options for custom post types to remove authors (etc.) from game pages and the like

And the oscar for the best "What the heck are you doing kurisu? stop shitposting and go do your job!" goes to...this thread!!! seriously, where's your NTR Avatar? if you want to be the NTR Queen, you need to speed up your game!

Today at Euphemic Translation I found this wonderful thing in the comments

Become a terrible, terrible human capable of terrible things. Wow, that sounds like a wonderful journey Ya, Flutterz is like, only on Fuwa 24/7, that's like, nothing compared to some other people... Banned. Which, btw, auto-defaults me as the winner of our next race

No, not in that way, you sick perv Is there such a thing as a VN in the vein of Usagi Drop/Yotsubato!/Amaama to Inazuma? something that goes seriously into the relationship between single parent and child? Father/daughter is preferred, though mother/son etc works too. Also, I'd prefer if it was the central theme, but again, not necessary I've become a huge sucker for this kind of thing lately, so I'm really curious Also, me no Nihon squiggle read Thanks!

It doesn't help when Goku is voiced by a relatively high-pitched lady

I do understand where he is coming from with the spoiler titles/thumbnails. Youtube recommendations essentially spoiled Clannad and ef for me when I would pull up the OST or something. Those are a damned pain to avoid.

Protip: Don't watch anime youtubers.

in case she gets extra wet?

Why is she wearing two pairs of panties?

Hi, i only know a game for the PS2 but it is about a mother raising her twins (All Age Otome Game), Dear My Sun!! ~Musuko Ikusei Capriccio~. Greetings Keigo

Well I happen to think the questions are perfectly fine, and there should be even more with this level of statistical insight. How would you rate the new site? 5 stars out of 10 1 out of 3 stars Twelve Which of the following answer choices is your favorite? The bottom one The top one What other comments do you have about the new site? Yes No

My beginning was Tsukihime and FSN. I first played them in early-2009, about the time when my anime fansubbing 'career' was reaching its height... and fansubbing itself was beginning its rapid decline due to the fact that Crunchyroll's basic subs were getting good enough that their streams were beginning to dominate. Tsukihime was an eye-opener... it had never occurred to me before that combining visual and audio elements with a novel-style narrative could be so interesting. I instantly fell in love, and within six months, I'd read every localized VN that existed at the time. In late-2009, I was introduced to Translation Aggregator... and I began my VN-reading 'career' with Jingai Makyou. That was a Spartan baptism of fire for VNs, if there ever was one... Though I already knew verbal Japanese, my first introduction to Japanese literary narrative was... educational, to say the least. Many turns of phrase, words, and grammatical usages that simply didn't exist outside of the written word were common in Jingai Makyou. I quickly realized that I needed to reassess my own understanding, and I reluctantly began the study of kanji I'd been avoiding like the plague until then. My second VN in Japanese was Dies Irae Acta Est Fabula. I was stunned... just stunned. I'd never imagined that a story that went so far off the deep end in fantasy could exist... and it was that VN that doomed me utterly. Within a month, I was spreading my 'wings', playing anything that I could get my hands on. I began taking contract work, instead of the one-on-one commissions I'd previously relied on, and I completely rebuilt my lifestyle around playing visual novels. To me, work rapidly became simply a way to pay to import VNs... and I'm afraid I went a bit crazy. The first three crates full of second-hand VNs that arrived emptied one of my savings accounts completely, and it was only after I'd spent somewhere in the range of twelve grand that I realized I had a problem. It took me the better part of a year to rebuild that savings account and 'adjust' my way of thinking to manage my new addiction. By the end of that first year, I'd pretty much read all the recommendations I'd gotten from friends and several bloggers. Sanahtlig was one of those people making suggestions at the time, but his tastes and mine only seemed similar on the surface, so we parted ways for a time (he's a gameplay-VN and H addict, whereas I'm a story whore). I was pretty much completely on my own until I encountered Fuwa in 2012... and found myself a home. I started my VN of the Month thread in September of 2013 and have been going strong every month since, playing the latest non-nukige releases every month.

From Konosuba to Berserk : an anime guide to understand Re;Zero.

All Maria's backstory in umineko is centered on that, the story is quite "controversial", though.

I'm going to do that Nintaidou and I like your avatar myself

Warning: Massive wall of text.

Tomoyo After. Tomo is not Tomoya's true child but there's something similar.

Hello Nintaidou and it's nice to meet you Welcome to fuwa and I hope you have fun time here I like write myself self at I'm not good to Write in English but I'm trying my best.

I know a crapload of father-daughter doujins from vanilla to forced rape theme. Need any of those?

Sounds amazing. I'll definitely be waiting for it. Keep it up and good day to you.

Feedback and bug reports, some minor, some bigger, completely unsorted: Latest VNTS link in the forums leads to a 404'ed page since we redid the categories. VN reviews now display their featured images in the review like blog articles do. This isn't the same as the old behavior, and some reviews were formatted accounting for no automatic header image, with some overly large featured images and sometimes double images up top. Solution is to either reformat old reviews or remove the featured images from the actual review. The "One Small Fire at a Time" review draft went missing. VN entries retain unnecessary data thanks to them technically being other kinds of articles, such as post time and author. Some VN entries link to reviews of other VNs. This is mainly the Sonohana games as far as I can tell, which all link to the Remembering When We Met review. The obtainment info, walkthroughs, saves, and FAQ links are too far down the page and require far too much scrolling. These are the things that people will primarily use this site for, as it's stuff that either VNDB doesn't provide or is provided in an easier to understand manner here. Since these are so important, I feel like they should be displayed much more prominently. This is a difficult problem to solve, since aesthetically just slapping it right up top wouldn't look nice, and leading off with basic VN info makes a lot of sense. I do not know what Tay's grand plans for the sidebar is, but I would actually suggest removing the sidebar from the VN pages and using the editor to add another column with this information there. Maybe include sidebar stuff somewhere else, at the top or bottom of the page. If this isn't feasible, then maybe moving this info above the images and videos would be best. I have mild concerns about the VN stuff being run through wordpress and not being an actual database. This does make it easier to develop initially and I understand with as slow as things have been going for us we can't exactly afford the time or money to stop and develop a whole new database system for this. But still, I can see us being in a situation nine months from now where we want to change one little thing about the way things are done and end up having to edit 500 articles to do it. Like, say, what if we want to change the way the "Where to get" section is formatted at some point? It also just leads to weird little inconsistencies that seem super minor at first glance but ultimately gives off a somewhat amateurish vibe, like how links to patches are given in slightly different ways for a lot of VNs. I guess there's nothing we can do about this considering our current situation. I guess I just wanted to express my slight irritation at this position we're in. Please don't take this as a "this isn't good enough, please fix." I'd take a slightly gimped front site over no front site any day of the week. Overall, I really like that this gives a central place to find walkthroughs, reviews, patches, etc. That's actually surprisingly convenient and I expect it to be a really useful part of the site. I'll reiterate my pie in the sky idea from another thread. I'd like the ability to tag any thread with the name of any VN on our site, and have that thread show up in a list of "recent discussions" or something similar on that VN's page, to tie together the forums with everything else on the site. This seems theoretically possible, but would likely require an extensive amount of custom coding work, so I expect it to be infeasible.

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=91521

I don't think you can definitively say "no VNs should have common routes" or "all VNs should have common routes." It's based on the kind of story that they're trying to tell. Stories that are heavily focused on character drama benefit greatly from allowing you to get to know the involved characters and slowly watching relationships grow. In general, I prefer them. Many of the common routes people most frequently complain about, such as Grisaia and Rewrite, I actually enjoy quite a bit. And I said this before, but Grisaia no Kajitsu's common route is actually my favorite part of that game. And to @Codesterz, you should definitely give Da Capo 2 a shot.

Its got to be Lilith! She's hilarious, she's like the trigger to everyone around her . She seems like a jerk, but she's actually like some sweet maiden too [the student council meeting where Raziel reveals 'something' ]. I really like Raziel and Sorami too so far [All three heroines have personalities really unique to themselves, they don't clash] , but Lilith is definitely my best girl choice currently.

IMHHW was my first VN 2 years ago, so pardon if my memory is fuzzy. Ageha does alot of unspecified-and-supposedly-school-rule-breaking things in order to keep the Soaring Club out of Tobioka-sensei's radar, which is why he has absolutely ZERO influence during her route. Unfortunately causes Aoi to think she's avoiding and hates him when she's really just working her ass behind the scenes to ensure the gliders' success In other routes she doesn't take such a risk since there is no Aoi and the power of love to motivate her into doing so, that's why big bad Tobioka gets to shrekt Kotori's route and whatnot. That is all

Takes me to wordpress login.

Yep. Up next on my list. I'll get that up tomorrow AM. I'd like to wait a bit, first, since we have 504s @Nayleen, if he can find a sec, should look at, first, in the logs. Pretty sure it's an issue with sending email.

also, Tay, I didn't notice this before answering the survey, but there is no "search" bar for Reviews and Browse VNS. Even though I can choose the filters I want, I can't look especifically for a VN name. On reviews, I can only look for "fuwa's team" reviewers, not for member reviews.

Tay likes naming things to "Thing 1" and "Option 1" and "That option 2"

The wording for one of your questions on the last page is a little odd, and the other only has one option. Left some page feedback on the survey. Other than that, great site, Tay!

Nice job, it's been a long time coming and I imagine it must feel nice to be entering the final stretch at last. Until the next redesign, at least. The markings of Tay's official face-heel turn?

I kinda feel bad for that guy, he just wanted to show some WIP stuff he was working on and got roasted.

Wrong thread, I think this belongs to "how to piss of Fuwa in one sentence".

You have always been such a good influence, Rooke. *Deletes all backups*

But 'backing up' is for chickens, Tay. Real men throw caution to the wind and live with the consequences. ... (*copy* *paste* *saved forever*)

Thanks for this post, it was very enlightening. I was wondering who started the site and basically the history of how this site came about. It was an interesting read.

*Sigh* Well, back to the drawing board, I suppose.

I had the cliche start of Katawa Shoujo in the summer of 2014. The next notable ones were probably Homeward, Fault Milestone One and Katahane. Had a lot of shorter stuff and gaps in between before Danganronpa. Then I started spending a lot more reading VNs to the point where I would devour long VNs in a week or two. It was probably around here that I also lost interest in trying to figure out which choices to pick and just went with a walkthrough. Grisaia no Kajitsu became my favorite VN. About a year into VNs, I started reading some more well-known VNs (Fate/Stay Night, Demonbane, Symphonic Rain). Finally, I just finished Grisaia no Meikyuu (my 94th VN according to VNDB). Because of all this, I am now on a translation team as an editor and am starting the long journey of learning Japanese two years later. I also dictate VN music from time to time. I discovered my passion for yuri and romance/slice of life. My standards have probably grown higher than they were when I started. Now VNs are my time and money sink, but I enjoy it. Now to get back to my absurdly large backlog...

My day got a little better every single time Dorothy walked into the bar. Hope you keep enjoying it!

I read Analogue: A Hate Story and loved it. Read Katawa Shoujo and was like, "meh". Read Ever17 and was like "this shit is pretty great." Read Clannad, had a lot of fun and really liked it. I really liked visual novels it seemed. Then one day it happened. The smallest of busters appeared. Now I hate everything and everyone. Especially you reading this.

It seems Canada is going to be much more populous once this election ends