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Hello. I felt it might be a good idea to clarify a few things, since I see the thread is rapidly getting excited, but the exact text of our reply to him was: In addition, please see this tweet: Thank you for reading.

Because people in general are nitpicky nimrods that think the sky is falling just because color can also be spelled colour, or that Visual Novels can be classified as games, and that tsun tsuns are teh best

If you're considering plastic surgery to look Asian, I recommend at least learning Japanese first. Because then neither is likely to happen. That's my tip of the day.

From Sekai Project's discord. Rip

Nice to meet you! My name is Justyna, I'm 30 years old and I've been watching anime since it was available on TV. My adventure with Japanese animation didn’t start with One Piece or Bleach, but rather silly series like Kaiketsu Zorro, Dash! Kappei or Majokko Megu-Chan. I also prefer English to my own language, is it weird? I used to be an English teacher (if you're wondering about the weird nickname) and a copywriter, but one day I decided that I just wasn't happy. So, I quit my job and started making a yaoi visual novel To those of you who don't enjoy BL, I'm sorry but I just like the genre. I've always loved drawing BL manga but my family told me it wasn't a good way to earn money. But I've never been happier than now. I've registered on the forum to share my first game with you. I'm old and tired of the majority of yaoi cliches, so I wanted to make the characters different from what we usually see in the BL genre. Especially the protagonist (he still looks like a cute and silly bottom though, I guess old habits die hard). I have a working demo of the game and would love to hear your opinion on it. I experimented a little bit with the choices mechanics as well. I guess that's it, it's a pleasure to here^^ Please don't eat me alive just because I like BL!

Sorry, but you're deluded, and you're spreading your delusions by preying on the vulnerable. Please stop.

You mean this? https://jlist.com/ao300

playing I am setsuna, I don't know why is it called that way when the original one is いけにえと雪のセツナ something like sacrifice and snow of setsuna(sentsuna's sacrifice and snow??), btw her name is a reference for pain or opression..so maybe the title is a bit over the top either way fairly good so far, the combat sometimes is a bit convoluted because you don't have much time to react so you just keep attacking and you win XD The music is good, the art too and the story...well can't say much yet but so far I think it's a good rpg.

So this post is going to be about Maison Ikkoku which is an ancient anime 96 episodes long that I've finally finished. This is very old anime, and even if you have no interest in watching old school anime, I think it's important that anyone who's watched a romantic comedy of any sort in anime form should know about this. ANN Link: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=376 MAL link: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1453/Maison_Ikkoku As you can see from the links above, this is a very high rating show, and in fact the most common rating (the mode) in ANN is 10/10 which is a spectacular rating. This show dates back to a bygone era of anime, dating 1986-1988 and is a landmark show that pretty much defined the whole romantic comedy genre as we know it today in manga, anime and light novel form. This is the show you need to be grateful for, and curse, for everything there is you like and hate in today's romantic comedies. It inspired other classics such as Love Hina where the manga author clearly gives a nod to the show in both reproducing some of its original opening ideas, and using names from Maison Ikkoku in his works (such as Negima.) The story involves a college failure lodger falling in love with the lodge manager, 2 years his senior, who is actually a widow. From the outset, this is a LONG show. It comes from an era where there was very little rush in telling a story, the anime series were planned way in advance and lasted for many seasons. A far cry from today's shows which may come from spectacular original sources (light novels, manga, VNs) and yet only get funding for one season, lasting 12 episodes and doing a terrible job of conveying the original source material. It takes the time to set scenes, draw backdrops, show characters simply walking and pondering in thought at times. It also spans 5 years in story line from start to finish, allowing a generous amount of character development, maturity and meaningful relationship resolution. What this also means is that by today's sensibilities, this show is SLOW. I was 16 when this show first aired and I can tell you now, if it was available at the time I would have been religiously glued to the screen for 3 years watching this show without feeling it was slow in any way shape or form. However with what we're used to today, it is actually difficult to watch a show at this pace for this many episodes and not feel it's a waste of time. The artform has changed an awful lot. That said, it was an investment for me that I'd been meaning to do for over a decade because I knew how important it was in anime history. The animation quality is very good for its time, with bluray releases that are higher resolution than the TV broadcast and consistent right to the end. The music is decent for its era but nothing special. What you get as a basic plot in this show is the classic post high school failing to get into college that falls in love with a woman, lives in a lodge shared with lots of other unique characters, ridiculous high jinx all leading to an obvious, if extremely drawn out, happy ending. This is the show that started all the tropes we've come to love and hate. Hesitation when speaking, inconvenient interruptions, dogs jumping in at inopportune moments, trains passing to make critical words inaudible, payphones running out of money at the wrong time, people abruptly finishing a discussion before the other person gets to answer/finish what they're saying, walking in on people bathing at the wrong time, missed opportunities for sickness, failing to make appointments or meet deadlines conveniently for story purposes, love rivals, complicated love polygons, arranged marriage, beach episodes, onsen episodes, blackmail, big friendly dogs, butt monkeys, knowledgeable barkeepers, first name basis issues, fanservice, ojou-samas, high school crushes, tutors... even a zettai ryouiki and so on. You name it, almost every trope is executed in this story. The difference here is that a lot of this stuff had never actually been in a romance before and was introduced by the manga and anime that this belongs to. Now having said that this show invented a lot of the tropes, that doesn't mean that it's perfect in its execution of them. Some jokes fall flat, the repeated tropes get irritating, and the pace of execution of them often becomes problematic for a modern day viewer. This is a show where the relationship tensions introduced by misunderstandings are innumerable. There is no end to the how often a miscommunication or misunderstanding will lead to a plot device in its own right, and if you watch it thinking you'll get relief from it at some stage, you need to be seriously patient as these don't stop happening till almost the end of the monster. They're frustrating in the extreme and get tiring after so many episodes. That said, the nice part is that the love rival is also not immune from these issues and these jokes actually work extremely well. Additionally, there is no doubt that the more frustration you feel during a story, the more satisfying the resolution to the story will be, and this is absolutely true here. At least the misunderstandings generally didn't last more than 2 episodes at most, usually less. Primarily this is a comedy, and to be honest I didn't find myself laughing in every episode. There are long stretches where I watched, intrigued by the story, or compelled to get towards the end, and every few episodes I would have a right royal belly laugh when things were funny to me. It was never a show that made me "sleepy at night" because of the tension that would always be implied, and many episodes the whole romance component would be put aside for character building - which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Having said that, I was not really "glued" to it, finding a lot of it mundane and really not that amusing till much later on, by which time I'd fallen in love with (most of) the characters. What is great about this show is the character development of the main characters. The protagonist actually starts out quite a loser and you feel sorry for him only at the start, but as time goes on he evolves into a much more amicable character and you can't help but root for him, hoping (knowing) he ends up with his one-sided love. The other characters too evolve in not necessarily expected ways and new characters are introduced until almost 3/4 of the way through the entire series, yet they work well since they get fleshed out and 1/4 of 96 episodes is still a heck of a lot. This, unfortunately, brings me to the lowest point of this series. Not all characters develop. There are 3 main characters that play the other tenants in Maison Ikkoku who are a major feature of the story, and, to put it bluntly, are a bunch of fucking annoying morons. They spend their entire time annoying, blackmailing, stealing, siphoning, interrupting, getting drunk and generally pissing off the main character and the audience. While this may have been funny 30 years ago when this anime first came out, it's plain shit now, and it's bad enough at the start of the series, yet it lasts right to the end of the story with virtually zero character development on their part. Sure they occasionally accidentally or otherwise help forward the story, but not enough to redeem how unrealistically annoying these lowlifes are. No sane person would put up with what they do to the protagonist. It's strange because the review at nihonreview gave character development in this series a glowing review but fails to mention these three characters in the light I saw them http://www.nihonreview.com/anime/maison-ikkoku/ (they gave it 9/10.) An interesting point I noticed was the fanservice. One of the females in the series wears a see-through negligee through most of the series. Right from the very 1st episode you get nipple fanservice of her, which is a rarity in today's anime, especially one of this genre, though it's hardly arousing in such old school animation. This wasn't so much the interesting part as the fact that from the second season (after episode 24), her transparent negligee magically became opaque. Presumably at the time they decided it was too risqué for the target audience and toned it down (a bit late.) The pace of this show is problematic by today's standards. Modern shows have 300-400 lines if dialogue. This has more like 200-250, which doesn't sound like much less, but it is when you've gotten used to high pace shows and for example something like No Game No Life wouldn't have lasted 12 episodes in this sort of series, but more like 50. I didn't mind it that much, but I have to admit I found a little workaround. Since I playback my videos with mpv (on linux) which can speed up playback without pitch change, I sped it up 10% to 1.1 speed and suddenly found it much more in tune with what I'd expect. So there is one thing I have to mention on its own, and that's the ending. I freely admit to the fact I started watching this show because I knew it had a very happy ending. One thing about a 96 episode series that spans 5 years, unlike a modern romance anime of 12 episodes that spans maybe 3 months and ends with a confession 30 seconds before the final credits is that they had time to conclude this story slowly and completely. It's fair to say that the ending spans more than one episode (I won't say how many in the unlikely event someone watches this) and leaves absolutely no loose end. It completes every single storyline of every character we meet, and has the most satisfying and touching endings ever. I spent the last half of the last episode in tears and moments in previous episodes similarly. The ending was truly beautiful and I did not feel disappointed after having sat through 96 episodes. This show has THE absolute reference for happy endings. Rating this show for me is hard because of its inconsistencies by today's standards. If I'd watched it 30 years ago I'd have given it a 10/10. But with the slow parts hovering around a 6/10, the good parts an 8/10 and the ending an absolutely solid 10/10, I have to balance things out and say it's an 8/10. If you're patient, up for a very old school anime, and have plenty of time and love romance and want to see how the current artform came to be I'd highly recommend it.

I'm no mythology expert, but somehow I was able to guess right away because of Final Fantasy . Let's see how long the cast takes to figure it out.

Not like Michael Jackson chose to become whiter, he had vitiligo. ofc there were rumors that he bleached his skin but an autopsy proved that he at least had vitiligo. To answer your original question tho, idk how exactly to define a weeaboo, but if there were an American culture version of it, this would be it.

Those painful minutes of waiting for the VN you just bought to finish downloading.

Join forces with her when she asks you. I can asure you, Illya will be very, very happy and it'll be a one of a kind experience. Just don't forget to save, Illya's affection can be fairly definitive...

Confession: Today I learned, how much fun it is to take your sack and fool around until both hands hurt.

I don't know what it's called, but I really like this "hairband-wrapped-around-a-strand-of-hair"-thing. I can't believe Ikikoi actually gives me the best CG example.

So after nearly a year!! of going on with Nicholas J from Sekaiproject, he told me that Aiyoku no Eustia have a bigger chance of getting a kickstarter. please help us to make this happen!! Please retweet so we can have it up on kick starter!! : https://twitter.com/VN_Saviour/status/756139850168803328 Please retweet so we can have it up on kick starter!! : https://twitter.com/VN_Saviour/status/756139850168803328

hello a friend tell me about this website and forum and here i am.... I'm actualy playing va-11 hal-a and Danganronpa .... sorry for my bad english

And the 18+ versions makes for even more exercise opportunities On a serious note, my answer is yes. It is basically a book, but in the end, it is a program that is run and "played" by you on a computer. That basically means it's a video game, even if the only thing you do is click the screen to advance the text.

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Just read it. It's mostly written by people who've clearly never met any patients of what they're diagnosing

My aspergers compels me to say that "Asperger Syndrome" is now "Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1" in the DSM-V. Whether anyone was actually helped by this is debatable. On the internet, though, "autism" has taken on a meaning of its own Being different from other people in opinions and preferences just means you need to act like you aren't if you want to fit in. Sucks and might be hard sometimes.

as the titles says. made some memes, two of which are used with panterbell. the most chill character in princess evangile and its fan disk. this one is a little more NSFW butt its for a certain fetish some of us might have.

In general, you won't be bashed for conforming to the views and beliefs of those around you, and in fact we expect this behavior of people. Indeed, the inability or unwillingness to conform is generally regarded as maladaptive and undesirable.

I wish that I had more to say. I'm just kind of stunned. But man does live for the sake of Ass, so I must give the like.

I want to say I'm an Otaku, but saying I'm 'obsessed' with those things feels like it's stretching it a little bit...I...I'm lost, Eclipsed. I don't know what I am any more...

soras rabbit is pretty adorable Sandy's massive twinblades is pretty fucking dank too I always loved momijis hat

Playing the game right now too. The English title is extremely stupid. I like the piano soundtrack. Though I must say it lacks character. Even though it's good ambient music, it's pretty bland. It reuses old Square-Enix music themes, but doesn't really find its own distinctive style. The story is pretty generic, but I guess that is the point. The game is hilariously pretentious, but to be honest, retro JRPGs took themselves way too seriously too ... and we loved it. I'm certainly enjoying it. However, the characters are really a little too bland and forgettable. Sure, they're fine.. but really nothing more. The main character with his pseudo choices is very retro ... but in a bad way. The game tries to copy Chrono Trigger, but Endir is by far no Crono, that's for sure. Regarding convoluted combat: The time stops when you target an enemy, even if you play in Active Mode. It's really important in this game which enemy you attack, so don't just button smash your way through. People saying the game is too easy and it's indeed easy ... but only if you are playing good or you grind too much (which is easily possible when you try to farm drops). If you don't use your techs wisely, it will be very hard. If you try to get drops, the combat system is actually pretty interesting and it's fun trying to find out the best combinations of techs to maximize the looting.

No one mentioned "Ano Hana"? ("Ano Hi Ni Hana wo Mitsuketa no Namae wa Mada Bokutachi Shiranai", probably made some mistakes) I didn't like the series much, because I think there's some filler and you see the ending coming from miles away, but it's still a emotional ending that caps a laughs and tears story. Since no one mentioned it, I think it's not that popular... also if the novel was released on PC and not PSP, or at least if it had come to the West, things could be different.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ Edit: Though the site is still on its slow, decades-long decline, so not every jrpg gets a full faq/walkthrough anymore.

So it turns out the voice actor for Audrey in HuniePop is a VA-11 Hall-A fan, and recorded some of Dorothy's lines. Fair warning: she's pretty excited in this scene. I would pay so much for a VA-11 Hall-A voice acting DLC featuring the best of the HuniePop cast, it isn't even funny.

Welcome! I'm always happy to see people with more diverse opinions and backgrounds popping up here (vs. most of us standard bishoujo-reading folks). And, seeing as I turned 31 a couple months ago, I'm in a good position to say don't worry, you're far from the oldest person around here. Best of luck with your Kickstarter; it's impressively thoughtfully-written! I'm not really interested in a BL game much myself, but I just kicked a little bit of support your way anyway, because you frankly look like you have your act together in a way that gives me confidence you can actually deliver something good, with the right support.

Although this should be common recommendation from Fuwanovel, I would like to recommend Tokyo Babel here if you like action. Also Kikokugai here for another recommendation (If you like it voiced, play remake version instead of original version). Hope it'll help.

That's a mighty fine hat hanging there.

Gate IS pretty light hearted at many times, but it is still a serious story about dealing with a conflict with a civilization from another World, it touches in on politics, corruption and such, also, you should read the manga, they leave out a lot less stuff, and represent the coward personality of the mc better (The light novels make him look even worse), he is always a nice person, he always does (most) of the same things, but they emphasize more on his cowardice, such as, in the beginning of the show he killed an invading soldier, in the original he doesn't do that.

I never said encryption 'isn't safe', I said it isn't '100% safe'. At the end of the day, I personally wouldn't take a risk, no matter how small when it comes to personal information falling into the wrong hands. Tay asked the community for some advice, and I gave mine.

If you think having encrypted files means your data is 100% safe, you are very ignorant. Nothing is ever truly secure, and I would rather be safe than sorry. Sure the chances of his encrypted data being breached may be low, but not impossible. I'd personally rather not take that chance, especially after witnessing such a scenario in the past. I take my personal information security very seriously.

well , i do not have a favorite bgm , but i can put some that i like Kara no shoujo - Main theme (the first time i started this vn , i just wasted 15 minutes in the menu listening to this) Demonbane- Those who will challenge the divine will Tokyo Babel - Blue Wind That is all , thx for reading this.

No, but had a bunch of kids break into the house and swipe just over a thousand dollars from the place while around the back yard talking. Afterward, after chatting with some people who were targeted while in the shower or doing the laundry, I always secure the place now when I’m not going to be in a position to stop people entering the house. It doesn’t matter if you’ll be away for just 10 minutes, or 5 minutes, sometimes that’s all it takes. The police won’t help much either. “We know who’s doing it, but not much we can do” is pretty much the response I got. Security is probably considered your personal responsibility, I believe, so you gotta try and make yourself not look like a soft target.

Nah, i'm sorry but that's not what Re;Zero is about, Re;Zero is a guideline to what not to do in another world setting, very different. The problem i have with Re;Zero...is that everything feels forced, it's like watching a shounen anime trying it's best to be a seinen anime, it feels...weird, forced.

Thank you all for the recommendations and the summoning of the NTR Queen. I have Plenty of translated Novels to enjoy and untranslated Novels to improve my skills. Stay comfy.

It's a definite current trend and people are keenly aware of it, see for example this blog post about some of the japanese fandom's reaction to it.

And now Konami-chan has suddenly started burning (or exploded into gore, it's a bit hard to say) and the world has three quite different images to look at instead of one. That's why tracing is good in a nutshell. Conversely, if neither of those derivative drawings existed, I would be very sad indeed because I happen to like them (well, not really). The argument kinda cuts both ways. Pretty much boils down to the same as the issue of copyright (and even more so patents) in general. iamnoob: I'm aware of the differences, but the basic point stands. But let's make it even simpler. Let's say I spend hours coming up with a brilliant argument in favor/against [insert political/whatever topic]. Minutes later, someone picks it up and uses it to argue in favor of something I really dislike. Now what?

Legality only has its place in discussing potential consequences due to it being illegal, but then you're really arguing based on those results, not because it's legal or not. Laws may often have their origin in moral judgements, but they live a life of their own and whether something is legal or not should not reflect upon its morality. Also hi neko, you did good. Could use a bit more being out there though like Okami did, would be more entertaining than just unrelenting fury at everything w