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From Pakuyasa in women's underwear? You sick fuck. Anyone else kinda feel weird about the latest episode of Gabriel DropOut? Maybe it's just because I'm from the states, but I thought the Satania gun sketch would end with her getting arrested and the bald teacher being assigned as her probation officer.

I wouldn't recommend it, all you'd end up doing is creating some bad habits for yourself and relying on translation that isn't even guaranteed to be correct, let alone read good. You should make your goal clear - do you want to read VNs in Japanese, or do you want to translate them (in your head or with tools) and read them in English? Do you want to learn the language, or do you just want to somewhat understand it enough to make sense of it through different means? If you're indeed trying to learn the language, machine translation should be out of the question, even if it might seem tempting and easy. When put to good use, the previously mentioned Mecab/JParser is a much more reliable and flexible tool. It will help you with the words you don't know, but it should also allow you to eventually think about the sentences in Japanese, instead of just going the extra unnecessary step and translating everything in your head. It will take a long time and it certainly will take more effort than relying on machine TL, but it's way more worth it in the long run if you're at all serious about learning Japanese in the first place. Once you get the vocab, you can just skim the text as is, even if you don't know a word here and there - relying on machine TL even at such a late stage would just set you back. Also just quickly on the topic of internet dictionaries, the Weblio ja-en dictionary is a great resource that's not often mentioned, perhaps for it being primarily a Japanese page. Despite that, it will often give you much more specific and natural results- it might be more useful for translation than anything else, but it is a reat reference point if you can't find something in jisho/tangorin, or the translation there just isn't satisfactory.

You wouldn't have it any other way and you know it

You forgot about akiba Strip, although the game's slightly different in terms of gameplay. I don't recall any rail shooters similiar to Gal Gun. If you're okay with shooters and shumps in general, though - there's quite a few of them; Sexy Parodius propably being the most prolific one.

I kinda feel like Clannad is a bit off between them, but idk. I think if you liked Death note well enough, then you may like Psycho-Pass aswell

Code Geass Nichijou Drifters Ano Hana

if you downloaded the patch you need to click on the start.exe (iirc). You can ignore this if you play the Japanese version

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It just depends on what you want to use them with - TA is obviously more convenient with VNs and other non-browser based text as it automatically parses anything in your clipboard, but for browsing the web Rikai-kun/Rikai-sama is faster. TA also has the advantage of showing you the entire sentence parsed and relatively reliably split into separate parts via color coding, whereas Rikai-kun/Rikai-sama only shows you one word at a time. Both TA and Rikai-sama are very customisable, so there shouldn't really be much of a difference between their usefulness in terms of dictionaries as such, as you can edit these yourself for both of them. It's up to you what you want to have highlighted, but at first it'll probably be much easier if you have the particles highlighted so they are easy to tell apart from the rest of the sentence, so you get used to how the sentence structure works and learn to naturally recognise them yourself.

Welp, not me soooo meh I mean your ship is with Derg, you're just my onii-chan/plaything~~

I'm not certain what this sentence even means (virtual machine?), but I'll take a stab anyway. JParser or MeCab, as implemented in Translation Aggregator, are extremely useful for processing each word quickly enough to understand simple sentences. JParser also tries to interpret grammar, which can be helpful too. Machine translators can be useful for untangling complex sentences or for skimming text that you don't want to devote effort to actually reading. Even nowadays I still use ATLAS to skim boring food discussions, for example.

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Hey Guys, I just want to thank all those who took the time to back us on Kimochi and to announce hat we'd be live on Kickstarter next month with a short demo of Episicava's game play and a spiffier trailer as well! Look forward to it, my friends! Here's a gift for you all, Episicava's first CG;