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Might I suggest this cute boi

Perhaps I didn't express myself properly, Amethyst, so allow me to reassert my position. A little over a month ago, before I joined Fuwa, I was a pretty happy guy. I loved life, went to class at my university, had a girlfriend and a great group of friends. I went out often, whether it be to a local restaurant or to the theatre, and had a great time socialising with my mates. I used the computer only occasionally to play an all-ages VN, something like Clannad, if you will. I went to church every Sunday, and was a pious, if not necessarily entirely pure, member of the Lutheran church. It's been a month since then. Bags have formed under my eyes. I can't sleep at night, because I'm busy thinking up what my next post will be. How can I stay under Kaguya's radar, but troll all of Fuwa at the same time? I go hungry sometimes, because I'm stuck in a voice chat thinking up shitposts. I wake up and open the newest nukige I can find. The crosses on my wall have fallen down and I've become too fat and lethargic to hang them back up, if they even have any meaning to me anymore. My girlfriend has long since left me, as I can provide her no affection or love anymore. She isn't 2D. I don't have to feed my waifus. Money. I need that money. For eroge. For nukige. To make commissions of my favourite girls being raped by tentacle monsters. It's not mere morals like you may understand, Amethyst. Fuwa is a living, inescapable hell.

so i've been eyeing this telescope for a good 2-3 years now, and well i now some how own it! its called a Vixen Optics 39952 A80Mf Telescope here's a link to get your own https://www.amazon.com/Vixen-Optics-39952-A80Mf-Telescope/dp/B0027VSSUE/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1515760152&sr=8-8&keywords=vixen+telescope heres Vixen's site - https://global.vixen.co.jp/en/ heres the US site - https://www.vixenoptics.com/ this is a $400+ telescope. i did do a unboxing and puting it together video. i cant wait to use this telescope!

@MaggieROBOT is a living shitpost, don't listen to her

Is this a new technique to raise sales?

Perfect conclusion to another sh... I mean, great thread. Welcome to Fuwa, by the way. As you've probably already realized, we like cute "boys" here.

Might these be airbags?

To english or not to english.... that is the question

*me wait what

CITRINE IS THE SUPERIOR QUARTZ-BASED MINERAL. REPENT AND EMBRACE THE ONE TRUE WAY, HERETIC.

Things happened in rl, shit(posting) happened here, so I didn't do one for BL... yet. I will, soonTM. But for a start... Cinderella Phenomeno, as Lesiak said in another thread, is a good start since it's free and not very long. Amnesia Memories and Ayakashi Gohan are also good firsts!!! Just try not to pick something too long, the experience will be more pleasant. You can tackle them when you're more accustomed!!! Happy otome journey!!

nice

Happy birthday, @Eclipsed, @Shikomizue!

Nice! I hope you are able to find your waifu among the stars

Vixen's got some next-level marketing going on.

@HMN You win this time ok?

You know, I used to think you were a nice guy. Or at least a /funny/ dick. But after seeing your true face this night playing Uno, I can no longer bear your presence upon these forums, nay, the Internet, nay, the world itself. In the voice call you destroyed me utterly, scheming my demise together with your so-called "waifu" @HMN as well as that dastardly brit and the "SECRET" SHITPOSTER YOU LITERALLY INVITED PURELY TO INCREASE YOUR SERVER'S SHITPOSTING POWER. It started out innocent enough when you made a fucking meme because I said "childhood" like "childhoods". I mean fine, it was funny, for the first three fucking seconds. TOO BAD YOU KEPT IT UP ALL NIGHT. But you weren't satisfied with that, were you? You just had to fucking kill my dog too. Okay let's back up here. You know how Zaka writes about his cooking sometimes? https://disearnestlydisearnest.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/cooking-with-zaka-a-super-legit-tomato-sauce-narrative/ I used to think it was funny, too. But what you don't realize is how he uses these concoctions. Well, he gave a batch of that awful salsa to us, and just as fucking expected it was bland as shit. We ended up giving half of it to the family dog, and now you realize his ingenious plan - yeah, he was actually trying to poison poor Mahmood to death. YOU INSULTED ME ALL NIGHT AND KILLED MY DOG. You know what I want now, don't you? It's time for a battle at the crack of dawn, 1v1, random starting order, ACKNOWLEDGE ALL DRAW CARDS, no stacking, Final Destination: Egypt. I'm going to destroy you at uno so hard you won't know what hit you, until you realize that addition by four is triggering your PTSD. Have fun passing your math classes, you god damn conniving wannabe cat. 1v1 me in uno tonight or I will give you a taste of your own FUCKING SALSA AND SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR FUCKING THROAT.

Hi everyone on FuwaNovel! This is not my first time on these forums as I have been doing a little bit of lurking! I have a relatively small amount of experience with VNs as I've only been recommended more male-oriented VNs by friends such as "Katawa Shoujo" and "Rewrite" which I did enjoy, however, I wish to be recommended titles that I may find more relatable. Thus, I created this account! I hope we will all get along! Edit: Before you ask, yes I do like BL!

Where did you hear such rumors? I'll have you know that all my posts should be taken seriously.

How about this?

Truly a "kyutto boi"

Yo yo yo!

Oh shit, uh, happy belated, Shikomizue! Sorry I missed ya yesterday.

Since there's no list for BL yet, I'll throw things here! For starters, DRAMAtical Murder is the novel for BL. Super beginners friendly. Lamento is also good, but it's a bit longer. Outside of Nitro+Chiral (the developer of DRAMAtical Murder and Lamento), you can also try Kichiku Megane (art is a bit old style tho) or No Thank You (contains more muscular guys)!

Welcome to our House of Troubles dear lady, may you find what you seek.

No idea BUT consider me sold on the game.

I will patiently await that the BL list! I'm new but the forums didn't seem all that infested with shitposting??? And thanks for the recommendations!! Since two people recommended Cinderella Phenomeno, I might give it a try with what free time I can salvage!!!

Hello there! You're definitely right that it's harder to find good Otome/BL recommendations, as someone already pointed you towards Maggie's top list, you should also try following her blog, so far she's the only one regularly posting about female-oriented VNs around here. You could also explore the "original VN projects" section on the forums, usually there's a decent number of otome and BL projects there, sometimes even free ones. Also, I strongly recommend you to try Cinderella Phenomenon, it has an indisputable advantage of being completely free, even without piracy being involved. <- this also can be the answer for your question on Maggie's toplist thread. And once more, welcome to Fuwa and have fun posting.

Yeah but interestingly I speak more of her inability to empathise with normal human emotions which appears to be intrinsic for her, not war induced, despite being human. A good romance ought to beat that out of her.

Hey there, welcome to Fuwa!

Gues the next step would be to add a fidget spinner around her finger.

This is literally Winged Cloud's level of business and decision making. Pure cancer.

I'm not a big fan of this type of moderation, especially after the fact instead of during the parts that could reasonably be called a flamewar. But I think this was a pretty clear-cut case where something needed to be done. The discussion dwarfed the original topic. I'm much more annoyed over the mods killing that silly nukige thread. They took a thread that basically existed for the purpose of goofing off and generating discussion, and which in fact was the most active thread the board had seen for weeks, and killed it. Boggles my mind. They have access to Norn games. This isn't a Norn game. If they could, I'd love for them to work on it. But they have to work with what they've got until they can build up their reputation a little bit and start looking for other deals.

Late to report this, but we finally have it released at both of Mangagamer and Steam. Go get that from both of Steam Store and Mangagamer store if you want to play it, and have fun. Feel free to discuss the VN (Sorcery Joker) at this thread.

lots of hate? apart from the translation of the secondary routes, it's one of the best (imho, THE BEST) VN ever. Anyway, I suggest you to play Noble Works. Good story, great characters, good artworks. I like it almost as much as I like Kono Oozora.

Of course the match ends in disappointment much like my first sexual encounter

Yay, I was remembered. Happy cakeday to Eclipsed too, still can't believe you share my birthday.

Happy Birthday to Eclipsed! I hope I'll see the day when some of the mods here rise from the dead and I'll get to know them better.

Happy birthday to both of mod @Eclipsed and @Shikomizue. Hope both of you have a good year ahead.

Happy birthday, Eclipsed! Stay sober and enjoy your day and stuff.

What has Fuwa become

For my money, Wagamama High Spec and ChronoClock were both solid VNs that fit your list of preferences perfectly. You'll probably love Princess Evangile (link NSFW), though I didn't much care for it. That said, you should really refer to this thread: And consider broadening your horizons and trying something outside slice-of-life. Your stated preferences are definitely ideal for getting the most VNs in terms of quantity, but the best VNs tend to be the ones that step outside that mold a bit. Maybe give Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning a look (the MangaGamer release [NSFW link] is exactly the same as the Steam release for Gahkthun, IIRC).

In lieu of a reply to this malicious screed, let me present some poetry constructed purely of things this young man has actually said: My gay senses are tingling I'm feeling the climax I have airbags under my eyes My gay senses are tingling I have no male brothers I am displeased and I want to fuck some gay boys I have airbags under my eyes Oh my

Saya no Uta is quintessential. The House In Fata Morgana can get very dark at times, too. Very tastefully done.

Oh. I remember that. Hohoho. My preferred choices aligned with the good ones for that scene (for once).

Well, don't VNs like Steins;Gate actually position themselves in Japan as something completely different from the usual eroge? Correct me if I'm wrong, i'm simply reciting things from my memory of something else talking about it, but I think Japanese don't even have a word for 'visual novel', calling them simply as eroge in case they have h-scenes, or as adventure games in case they don't. And, yeah, selling something like SG in a store like that would be pretty stupid.

Thinking about it, I have two reasons to think the image visual novels won't change. The first one is, again, the fact that sex sells, being the tried-and-true method as it were. In order to avoid confusion, let me be specific that by 'h-scene' I mean any sort of pandering material unnecessary to the plot in the following. Even if many more visual novels appear which don't rely on h-scenes, I think there'll always be at least as many that do. As was mentioned in the podcast, it is fairly easy to write in h-scenes after the story itself has been written down, too. Inserting h-scenes seems to be something that costs relatively little while paying back big from a company perspective. I do agree that this may very well be a short-term vision, but that brings me to the second point. H-scene-less (man I wish there were better terminology for this) visual novels would have to break free from their bad stigma. Think of a separate name for this kind of game/novel, separate steam tags, selling them in different stores (looking back at what Dergonu wrote, if I'd walk into a store like that unknowingly, I'd also be tempted to think everything in there must be porn), that kind of thing. These visual novels would need to profile themselves as being distinctly different from 'the stuff with porn in it'. I don't mean this purely on the business side, though - fan communities, too, would have to split lest you be named together with porny variant of your hobby. As such, I don't think stigma visual novels have will change anytime soon. Now, I should mention that these are purely my thoughts on the matter - I can't exactly back this up with anything and I might be wholly mistaken, but these are my two cents. Sorry for the bombastic opening, I initially had four points but then I realised three were really the same thing, please don't lynch me.

Fluffy Is Justice

First, I'll give you a quick run-down on this game... it is a game by 3rd Eye, a company known mostly for producing chuunige that are more moe-influenced than is the norm. This game is actually more of a mystery/chuuni/action/conspiracy type than a 'pure' chuunige. The world in which it is based is a future where, ten years before the story began, magic appeared on the scene. Large numbers of people became capable of using magic, and a new branch of science was built up solely for the purpose of utilizing magic as new energy source. The result of this is a society that is somewhat divided between the magical 'haves' and 'have-nots', though that isn't the focus of the story, despite what you might otherwise anticipate. The protagonists Senri Senri is your classic 'bad-ass antihero protagonist'. He is clever, intelligent, and overall highly capable, with a razor-sharp mind and battle instincts that would put a Navy Seal to shame and make Golgo 13 look incompetent. His cold-blooded pursuit of his own interests, which are very opaque through most of the VN, is his primary defining feature... Oh, and he lies... a lot. He makes the protagonist of Sharin no Kuni seem honest. Haruto Haruto is a somewhat less beloved type of protagonist in chuunige... basically a 'justice freak' combined with being 'a young man driven against his will by the tides of fate'. He is a natural optimist and a believer in fairness above all. Unfortunately, he also has that bad habit a lot of similar chuunige protagonists have... of sticking his nose into situations he doesn't really need to get involved in. He grows a great deal during the course of the VN (as is typical of this type, if the writers don't suck), and by the end his viewpoint on the world has... been sharpened a great deal by experience. He is more likeable than a lot of similar protagonists, but it still isn't a type I prefer. The Heroines Fiona Fiona, at first glance, seems to be your classic clutzy/innocent nun-type heroine. She works as a nun at a run-down church in the city's... less reputable area and is well-loved by the delinquents who frequent the church. However, she, like most of the characters in this game, is hiding a lot of secrets... She is one of Senri's two heroines. Noa An innocent, pure-hearted girl who is seen mostly as a ghost throughout the first part of the game. She has a really unique way of speaking, born partially from Senri's half-hearted efforts at education (mostly through handing her magazines and letting her watch AVs). To be honest, in the reading of this VN, interpreting her weird speech patterns was a bit difficult at first (she cuts apart words and puts them together in weird ways). She is the second of Senri's two heroines. Asahi Asahi is... a bit weird. Her personality itself is quite straightforward and honest, and she hates lies and general dishonesty with a passion. However, she is also compassionate to a fault and unwavering in the pursuit of her goals. Unfortunately - at least so it seems at first - there are a few loose screws rolling around in that head of hers. Even more so than Haruto, she is an eternal an unrepentant optimist and probably the single most trustworthy individual in the entire VN. Riku Riku is, throughout the VN, perhaps the least expressive individual other than Senri himself. She almost never displays her emotions on her face, and she has an almost unnatural tendency to think objectively about anything and everything, including herself. That the writer managed to grant her so much depth without making her a protagonist was an impressive feat in and of itself... and one of the reasons why her interactions with Haruto and Asahi are so amusing. She really is almost as detached as she seems most of the time, which is one of the reasons it hits so hard when she does become emotional. The VN Sorcery Jokers is definitely VN of the Month material. I'll say that right off the bat. The depth of the story and characters is incomparable with previous games by this company, and while it falls slightly short of a kamige, it is nonetheless something worth taking note of. Normally, I can't stand dual protagonists, as many have heard me mention. I hated Subahibi for that, amongst a number of other sins, and one of the biggest reasons it took me so long to play I/O was because I don't like going into VNs with multiple protags. Fortunately, I managed to get past that, simply because the differing approaches to the story were the only thing that made it possible to grasp something even approaching the whole of the story as it happened. A single perspective wouldn't have done a bit of good as an approach to this VN's story, simply because there are too many things happening at too many different points for a single perspective to handle. The VN's structure is basically that of a kinetic novel, with the illusion of choice through a flow chart (for the first chapter, at least) where you pick and choose which events you want to see next (though you have to see them all anyway). To be honest, I could have done without the flow chart entirely... flow charts in general are an irritation more than a help, especially if they are made a central part of progressing the story. That said, as the actual switching around mostly ends after the first chapter, it isn't really a big deal (though it does make me wonder why they had a flow chart at all). The story's mystery and conspiracy elements feel a lot like peeling an onion, as there are layers within layers within layers. What you thought was the root of things turns out to be just another layer, more than once. As things come together near the end, the knowledge you've gained through the character perspectives deepens the experience nicely, making this one of the few part-mystery VNs I've played in recent years that I didn't immediately have 'read' relatively early on. That isn't to say there aren't points where the VN stumbles. Haruto, because of his role as the 'kid chuunige protag', is the game's Achilles Heel, as all protagonists of the type with his kind of temperament tend to be. However, his growth is enough to offset the cookie-cutter aspects of his character enough that I approved of his role... in the end. Asahi also threatens to tilt the balance of the VN into the realm of the silly a lot early on, simply because of her 'weirdness'. However, because that silliness is a vital ingredient in her growth as a character, it can't really said to be a true weakness, though it can be irritating at times. The endings are all branches off of the true end, one for each heroine (Noa or Fiona with Senri, and Asahi or Riku with Haruto). I had no problems with the epilogues for Noa or Fiona... but I thought that Haruto had devolved a lot in his heroine epilogues, which kind of brought me back to why I didn't like him in the first place. Overall, I felt that this VN is one of the more solid chuunige made in the last few years, especially in the sense of 'balance'. Silverio Vendetta, while it is a lot more exhilarating, also had the difficulty of disproportionately focusing the writer's attention on Vendetta, which weakened the other two paths greatly. Bansenjin suffers from reusing an uninspiring cast and being relatively boring throughout most of its length. In terms of a constant sense of tension and in terms of pacing of events, this VN definitely is the winner of Chuunige VN of the Year so far, though it isn't chuuni-crack in the sense that Silverio was. I'm actually quite proud of the fact that this company has evolved so much since its somewhat... unimpressive beginnings (Bloody Rondo), and I'm glad I stuck with the company. It is always nice to be surprised pleasantly by a VN.