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When a company starts to respond emotionally to feedback like that, run for the hills. A truly professional business (and part of being professional is caring about your target market) would heed any feedback and respond to it in a positive and constructive way. This company seems to admit no fault and instead accuses the customers of having incorrect opinions. If they truly cared about making money, they'd establish a trust relationship with their customer base. This sets up for long-term success of their business because people will have more confidence in future work they do. Everything I'm reading so far screams short-term. They want money from this title now, without regards to quality. Decay found some pretty ridiculous programming bugs, as well as provided them clear examples of their bad translations on Twitter in response to the above letter. All of these problems are inexcusable and unacceptable. First the translation for Libre of the Vampire Princess is crap, then MoeNovel butchers another VN I wanted to play, and now this. I hope I'm just getting unlucky regarding TLs of important items on my wishlist and we're not headed towards some sort of VN apocalypse...

Long live the Queen.

Well I can understand, have been feeling that lately too. When a novel doesn't consume at least a whole day it somehow feels short. In fact if your fine with Web Series, you should give Everybody Loves Large Chests a try. It has literally everything you asked for, and yeah the title is lovely. Definitely read the summary the author has given and the first 2 chaps before deciding if you wanna read it. And its helluva long.

Jun Fukuyama There is noone who could have more charismatic voice than this guy

That was a good episode

Itou Shizuka, easily. her voice is like candy to me. cant get enough of it. ^.^ Kana Asumi is nice as well. ive also enjoyed chiaki omigawa's voice. dont know what it is but theres just a certain something to it.

You may wish to elaborate.

Hani Rei https://vndb.org/s131 (Matsushima Michiru from Grisaia). Michiru's voice is so friggin' adorable. She has the goofiest, and girliest laughs ever. Also funny when Michiru flips out for whatever reason. Runner up is Simizu Ai https://vndb.org/s416 (Komine Sachi from Grisaia). Sachi has a rather quite voice ..... but MAN, can she moan in her erotic scenes!

"Hello everyone, I come with a translation project And it is the visual novel "Otome Domain" Vndb: https://vndb.org/v18149 Description from VNDB: thinks about how he was blessed to have family, but dryly laughs about how he’ll need to take care of himself now. However, during the funeral of his grandmother, someone named Kazari approaches him and offers to admit him into a prestigious school, in addition to providing him a place to reside. Minato immediately and thankfully takes up on this offer, but soon realizes that the Suzu Academy is an all-girl’s school, and the "ojou-sama" that he’ll be residing with has flaws of their own which really shattered his expectation for a high-class lady. "I have already managed to modify the texts." "I do not speak japanese" (Update) Translated: 2/83 Files Staff: Project leader: Harushio Hacker: Harushio Traslator: New: Showhey (and searching) Editor: searching TLC: searching QC: searching Beta tester: searching Contact: E-mail: [email protected] discord: Harushio#1083 FAQ: Q: Where are the patches? A: You can find all and any available patches on the 'Downloads' page. Q: Can I beta test? A: Of course yes Q: I want to donate to you! A: Thanks you.

Just curious~ VA is a really important part of a VN for me, what do you guys think? Ever got more hyped to play a route bc some character's voice gave you such a eargasm that you so wanted to hear more of it? (u know what I mean) Of course, not everyone remembers/knows seiyuus' names so if you remember the VN character, okay, say it! My favorites female: Hanazawa Kana (Mayushii from S;G), Sawashiro Miyuki (Lilith from Tokyo Babel), Asakawa Yuu (Rider from F/SN) My favorites male: Hirakawa Daisuke (not VN, but Kakyoin from JJBA anime), Suwabe Junichi (Archer from F/SN), Midorikawa Hikaru (Fuminori from Saya no Uta) Least favorite: any voice that's way too high pitched Can't trust: any character voiced by Narita Ken

About Our Feelings (No Pun Intended) “What memories can you trust?” Our Feelings is an engaging Visual Novel about returning to high school life, love, and lost memories. You are a used-to-be college girl Yukimura Hiyoko thrusted into three years prior, as she encounters girls who claimed to be her friends at her high school. And the catch is: Hiyoko didn’t recall knowing them at all. As she struggles to understand her ‘new’ friends while keeping her future self a secret, then came a transfer student complicating matters more at hand. The girl, Ayano, even went so far as claiming to know about who Hiyoko really is. As Hiyoko, what will you do? Is Ayano even telling the truth? Will Hiyoko ever find out what really happened in the past? Her fate is in your hands. Out of the seven possible endings, there will be only one true answer of the mystery. Can you find it? Our Feelings >> kickstarts << into action right now! (This is not a Nigerian Prince scheme. Please trust us. Go click it.) So, YOU will be playing as... Yukimura Hiyoko You are Hiyoko, a girl who suddenly gets thrown to the past by an unknown force, aside from Michiko, she doesn’t really know the other girls who claimed to be her friends. Despite the predicament she’s in, happiness of others is always the utmost priority for her. Features - Seven Multiple Endings! - Your choice definitely matters. - Three Romance-able Girls! - 18+ Hot and Steamy Yuri contents Our Staff Vazurea Studio is a dedicated game circle in creating an amazing Original English Language (OEL) Visual Novel experience that will set a new bar for every OEL Visual Novels. We also have a backing of an established video game publisher to release our games in Steam, Nutaku, and physical DVDs! Along with DEVGRU-P of DPRK fame, we hopes to bring *ahem* Our Feelings into fruition! Project Leader & Story: Y.Piyoko Illustrator: MasaBodo Background Artist: Avyrouz Programming: Azinudin Achzab Music: Farhan's Music Works Public Relations & Marketing (Also the one who loves to abuse this account): Nyasuverse Please spread the word about our project by Social Media, pretty pretty please? Every bit of your support helps us. No, like, freaking really. We meant it. (We should use these cute buttons as our signatures later on, but well...) Updates 12/16/17: SWEET JESUS, WE'VE REACHED OUR GOAL IN A CLOSE CALL Hey, the demo's out. Get it HERE

Hmm, you might want to give Kira Kira a try. The whole band goes on tour theme felt somewhat more mature and realistic than the vast majority of moe blob VN's. If drama is a plus for you, you can also try ef - a fairy tale of the two or Eden*. Both are very emotional and deal with some heavy themes. Da Capo 2 and Clannad are also two nakige classics that have a good mixture of romance and drama and aren't already on the heavy utsuge side like the two previously mentioned Minori titles.

The summary is hilarious.

I actually don't have the option to buy books, because nothing ships to India. Ever. But I will look at it. Thanks!

You could try Index. I wouldn't say it's characteristically dark in the way the story is told, but the story does contain dark elements. It's also relatively moderate on fanservice (which can appeal to certain fetishes), and Touma does have something of a harem (so far I've encountered 3 love interests, and I hear there are 4 altogether), though the books don't really delve into romance that much. There's also a super cool magic vs. science thing going on too, which is what I'm mainly interested in with Index. This title is licensed btw, so you have the option to buy physical books if you like.

That's exactly the genre of 2 my favourite LNs : Overlord The Lazy King (Neither of the 2 protags are too interested in girls but the girls who like them are definitely kinky; no sex though)

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This looks interesting. Some information that I would be interested in, Estimated game length Type of game -> FOr example, is it a multiple route mystery? Are there gameplay elements as well? From the summary, I am guessing that you are going for a slice-of-life /mystery, with maybe some Drama/Comedy. Will check it out.Good Luck!

Yes. In Majikoi, to achieve the good ending for Momoyo you need to have gotten good grades. There is actually a set of questions (Quiz) that you need to answer, and if you don't get them right (do well in the exams/get good grades) your confession will be rejected regardless of your other choices during the route.

seems interesting. cant wait for the official release. best of luck!

Speaking from experience, some Japanese visual novels since the 90s to 00s such as True Love to Amagami had these kind of mechanisms. At its early developments, it was obnoxious and unnecessarily long. It was after Playstation's Tokimeki Memorial that the mechanism gets really even more polished and rewarding to play. *hint, hint. It's usually the "academically intelligent girl" route. of course, company policy's disclaimer: This reply is in no way reflecting the whole studio's opinion, as it was written by the PR guy alone with his working laptop.

Kawashima Rino is the only acceptable answer https://vndb.org/s28

DRAW! MONSUTA KAAHDO DRAW! MONSUTA KAAHDO DRAW! MONSUTA KAAHDO DRAW! MONSUTA KAAHDO (Repeats it ad infinitum)

Oh, revive you ancient thread! Just wanted to create a similar topic and decided to search through the existing ones instead. My first VN was Rewrite.

This is a test post, based on the results of the poll I posted a few weeks back. The win was borderline, so if I don't get a reasonably large response, I won't continue to post about my conventional reading. The Black Jewels Trilogy, by Anne Bishop is one of my favorite book series of all time. It is a dark, sensual fantasy based in a unique universe, where a race of magic aristocrats called the Blood rule three worlds, Tereille, Kaeleer, and Hell. The main characters of the story are a triangle surrounding one young girl whose very existence is their every hope and dream... for she is 'Dreams Made Flesh', Witch, the Queen of the Darkness. Those main characters are: Daemon Sadi, a male pleasure slave that has been twisted by over seventeen hundred years of abuse at the hands of the women of Terreille, protecting himself from madness only by the prophecy given to him seven hundred years before, that Witch was coming; Lucivar Yaslana, a slave and member of the winged Eyrien race, who has lived his entire life being called a half-breed bastard; Saetan SaDiablo, the High Lord of Hell, the High Priest of the Hourglass, who became a half-undead Guardian fifty thousand years before so that he would one day be given the opportunity to serve and protect the 'daughter of his soul'... and the father of Lucivar and Daemon; and last of all, the point around which the three revolve, Jaenalle, dreams made flesh, Witch, a kind-hearted young girl who wanders the Realms and is destined to one day rule from Ebon Askavi. First, I should note that the Blood are matriarchal, forming circles of obligation centered around natural-born Queens (a cast based on a genetic quirk that isn't tied to magical power but rather the nature of the female), who in turn form circles of males who serve to form a court. The highest rank of male are the Warlord Princes, primal individuals who possess sharp, murderous tempers and an intense need to protect. Ideally, the Queens hold their leashes lightly, and the first rule of Blood Protocol is to 'protect', then 'serve', and third to 'obey'. Unfortunately, due to the influence of two ambitious Priestesses from the long-lived Hayllian race, the Blood in Terreille have become twisted and corrupt, the good Queens vanishing over the course of generations, leaving only twisted monstrosities of the human spirit in their place, women who know only how to use and enslave men... resulting in the men in their districts becoming ever more twisted themselves, as their experiences warp their reactions to their instincts, breaking them a little more with each generation. It is into this Terreille that Jaenalle is born and Daemon and Lucivar have lived. Saetan, bound by his personal honor, has not been able to protect his sons, and when the daughter of his soul, already wounded by the corruption in Terreille first appears before him, it is only his long experience and iron will that keep him from crossing the final line he has held to for over fifty thousand years. This series is a story of the trials and travails of the circle of relations that orbit the four points of the triangle, as the outer points try to protect the center, Jaenalle, so that the dream might one day become a salvation to them all. Honestly, Anne Bishop's brilliance lies in her ability to intimately portray the emotional travails of the characters, the subtle and not so subtle dance of Protocol and power, and the unique nature of the Blood make this one of the single richest experiences out there for dark fantasy. In a culture where murder is legal but rape is punishable by death, but where the rules are breaking down, the central characters are a bastion of sanity in a world rapidly heading toward horror and despair beyond imagining. As Anne Bishop says in the forward in the omnibus edition, 'I started this world with Daemon, Jaenalle, and Lucivar, but it was Saetan who brought it to life.' She started out imagining a world where Darkness was, from the beginning to end, the dominant force, and in that darkness were both a vicious edge of violence, a terrible gentleness, and a primal, deep sort of love. The characters in this series are passionate, with deep wells of potential violence and compassion both. Saetan, Lucivar, Daemon, and Jaenalle are all individuals possessing a near-infinite capacity for both love and violence... and above all, they strive to protect.

I've seen plenty of people change their opinion due to Internet discussions. It's certainly waaaaay more rare than just sticking to what you believe because "my balls say so", but it does happen. Ofc, it's conditioned on people being both able and ready to challenge their ideas and facing the possibility of being wrong, which helps make it so odd to see in real life. Kinda like politics, with how candidates spend more time trying to ingrate themselves to the people through shallow gestures and words rather than state how their plans will benefit them.

Speak for yourself. I use to lean conservative until someone on the internet convinced me otherwise.

I'm very proud of it. I'm actually trying to expand it into a PHD project nowadays, with mixed results, but I should be able to pull it off with sheer persistence (even if I'm too dumb to create an actual academic career for myself). :3

That's one hell of a master's thesis

That would pretty much be lovecraftian porn. Is lovecraftian porn a thing? That's like the definition of fetishism though. Sexual fixation on an object or theme than doesn't even have to be in any way connected to sex for an average person. It's often hard to identify where some of them come from (meaning when and how you pick them up), but it's only normal that most of them won't do anything for you. I wrote my master's thesis on fan pornography, mostly in My Little Pony fandom and Sir, I can tell you, there are literally no limits on what things people are capable of fapping to.

This is just my thoughts on the matter... Tentacle H and tentacle rape (consensual exists, in some VNs) is all about the defiling/tainting/corrupting of humanity by the obviously inhuman. Since some of my tendencies head in that direction (I like the Vanadis monster girl VNs) I can theorize... I've also played several games of the type, primarily the Venus Blood games and a few Black Cyc games back in the day. For the most part, whenever tentacles get involved, it seems that character corruption accompanies it as a set, regardless of consensual or non-consensual aspects. Edit: This is rather obviously illustrated by the fact that females that are normally associated with 'purity' or high culture tend to be the majority targets of tentacle rape... Mahou shoujo, princess knights, princesses, exorcist miko girls... etc etc.

Hey hey guys, since I happen to have a lot more time on my hands right now I decided to re-install LLSIF again, hope to see you all online soon

I am very glad they decided not to just write off the project and move on. The temptation to do that is very powerful (throwing good money after bad, and all that) but it really wouldn't have done good things for their reputation. Look at MangaGamer's shaky reputation early on (because that's what they did with a lot of their early titles); it took them quite awhile to shrug it off.

There is a new Kickstarter update where they respond to our questions from the last one. (Read the whole update here.) First, it would appear they are going to make a Patreon to support the new pass that is being done to the game. Also, in response to questions about whether native english speakers and TLers with JP knowledge being involved, their response was promising: Also, a correction to something I said when the last update came out: The 18+ patch IS available for non-backers now, and has been for a little while it seems. This wasn't mentioned in any update on their KS, and so I assumed it was never made available. So if anyone were actually waiting for the patch, you can buy it on their website. Overall it seems like there is hope for this project after all. This new pass will hopefully improve the TL significantly, and it would appear MiKandi wants to set things right, instead of just abandoning ship completely.

To be honest... I was gravely disappointed in how this game was handled at every stage after the Kickstarter. When I was given a chance to beta test the game, I dropped it inside the first chapter, having discovered that a whopping 85% of the lines were either outright wrong or so grammatically messed up that it was obvious someone had just put them through google translate and pasted them in. To be blunt, they could have easily had this translated by any of a number of talented translators in the community for less than they apparently paid, but instead they left it to amateurs? That was just idiotic. Also, as an answer to those who still question whether the base material was any good, the answer is, yes, it was. The protagonist was always a bit of a non-starter as a character in that type of game, but the rest of the story was good enough that I felt satisfied. If there was one thing that kept driving me crazy, besides the protagonist's unwillingness to embrace any part of his nature, it was that idiotic obsession with girls wetting themselves the writers apparently had.

I didn't see any better thread, and I didn't really want to start a new one. So I chant my dark necromantic incantations instead. So there was an update that went out over Halloween. It was marked 'For Backers Only', so I'm not going to post the whole thing here. But there are some highly relevant parts: Also, I found this: http://www.7happycreations.com/just-who-translated-libra-of-the-vampire-princess/ This description is horrifying. 3 translation teams, team changeovers, it was the particular team members' first translation job (which is just terrible - if they're a big company, haven't they got veteran people? No team should ever consist of all newbies.) They translated "simply and cleanly" in an effort to make their style fit with the other teams' styles, even though they never saw any of their work! Un. Believable.

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