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Oooh, my parents are some purists and slightly homophobic, so it could lead to aaaaaaaaaaaall kinds of embarrassing situations! But that didn't stop me to play VNs in the only computer in the house before I had one for myself. And this story start with Comyu, of all things! Me and my sister were reading Benio's route and thought it was okay because the porn mostly happened in the love hotel, so if that background appeared, we just have to close it and pretend nothing happened. Except Rondo's h-scene starts out of nowhere!!! And my mom was sitting some five meters behind us, in a place she could definetly see the computer's screen... She was half asleep, so she didn't noticed, but boy I don't remember what I hit first, the mouse to click elsewhere or my sister because she was with the mouse at the time and didn't clicked elsewhere fast enough. My life is now three years shorter because of the scare.

Hello again, you degenerates. Today, instead of trashing one specific part of VNs, why not tackle everything wrong with VN localization companies in general? Mainly doing this because I feel like shitting on the reason I even get good VNs in the first place. Well, here we go. No turning back from here Mangagamer is easily my favourite localization company, yet this doesn't mean they don't have problems. First of all, the low pay that their editors apparently get. Editors do a lot more work than they're given credit for and unfortunately, they don't get enough respect and it shows in their paychecks. Also, maybe respect the opinions of beta testers more than you actually do. Damn, Mangagamer isn't that appreciative of jobs that catch mistakes before release, huh. This last one is a personal complaint for 2018. Stop flooding the market with so much moege. I get that you need to make money and all, but seriously. The amount of companies popping up that have been dedicated to this stale genre is quite appalling. I do respect this company the most though. My many complaints will be saved for later. JAST is my second target and there's a lot to talk about with these guys. So much so that I'll split them up into numbered sections. Make a damn release schedule. This company is the epitome of dropping a VN on people without so much as a release date at times. They're an incredibly unreliable company when it comes to knowing when things will come out. Hence all the memes about them. Check their translations before putting out terrible demos. The Flowers debacle definitely didn't put the company's image in a good light and made us question whether or not Makoto was their only competent translator that they have hired at the moment. Luckily, they added Meru to fix up the next edition in that series. #FreeMakoto Release another worthwile Nitroplus game in this century. They've got such an amazing license in them and it's completely wasted on such a botched company. #FreeMakoto Hire more worthwile translators for their projects. Then maybe we'll get more than 1 or 2 VNs a year from them. Sekai Project. Well well well. There's a lot to complain about here. I'm sure @Barry Benson would agree. Well, let's get on with it. Stop using Kickstarters as a safety net. It shows that they clearly don't believe that the VNs you localize will sell well and that doesn't give VN companies a very good image of them. Make an actual release schedule. Same criticism as with JAST Check their translations. The fact that two botched translations came out in the same month is telling of how much they care about quality, and that needs to change. Manage their localization projects better. It's because of these recent blunders that shine light on how terrible their project management is at the moment. If they're not gonna be able to handle projects well, why get so many licenses? There's no point in handling as many projects as they have when they can't even properly release a quality translation. SoL Press and NekoNyan Soft Make sure to earn our trust. I'm usually extremely pessimistic about new VN localization companies popping up with some sort of ambition and both SoL Press and NekoNyan (God I hate that name) have questionable English in their demos and/or synopsis' and a certain reputation of certain people involved in said new companies. Mikandi is associated with SoL Press and we all know how botched their first release was. NekoNyan has people involved that worked on the botched releases of Saku Saku and Hoshimemo and that makes them untrustworthy to me. Sure, none of these companies have currently released a full fledged VN yet, but it's hard to trust them knowing the reputation behind both companies. If your companies really want to show ambition in your aim to localize VNs, maybe focus on more than just moege. It's hard to see any sort of ambition if all they're trying to localize is something the VN market is already oversaturated with. Even 1 or 2 more VNs with more of a plot emphasis would definitely show me that you're targeting more than just one audience. To me, it's hard to care about a company that only has VNs of one genre planned for release at the moment. I'm hoping they improve on this in the future, but at the moment, this is a major problem with these companies. Well, that took me way too long to write, but my negativity knows no bounds. Post your criticism of VN companies as well because I may have missed some points in my tangents. (I realize that this was a massive waste of time, but oh well)

Can't get your heart broken if you avoid all human interaction in the first place

For me it would have to be the time I was looking through Maggot Baits CGs at school, in what I thought was an empty classroom. The students behind me didn't say anything, but I think they were scarred for life.

My dad walked in on me fapping to a h scene. He only noticed the fapping luckily and didn't notice the h scene. Hence I can continue with my degenerate hobby.

Actually I am not a new member but I never introduced myself before. Who am I? My name on fuwanovel is -soraa and I actually like that name because it means "sky" in english. I was born in Austria and I live in Austria, Vienna. However my parents are from India. But most of the time I speak german. I am 21 years old and a student. At the moment I am doing my bachelor in mechanical engineering. Why? Because I love math. In my freetime I read VN and Light Novels. Currently I am reading Classroom of the Elite. Furthermore I do Strength-Endurance Training because I always feel weak if I don't do sport. Additionally my study isn't easy and Sports help me a lot to relieve stress. However I love this feeling after Sport when my heart is racing like crazy Nedless to say but I am a ANIME-FAN of course and I watched a lof of Animes.... ---> MyAnimeList NO, I am not an OTAKU My favorite Visual Novel? YUMIKO BEST GIRL!!! I love Coodere-Heroine with long dark Hair. My favorite Genre? I love VN's about Romance and a lot of Drama with a great Story. Furthermore I am a hell of Yuri-Fan! I love Lesbian Love Storys. Something else about me? NO. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu mina-san! PS: I hope my english isn't that bad.

Well, that's true! @Ranzo I am also reading Yagate Kimi ni Naru Bro, then you know what you need to do this weekend! Show us the best Intrudiction EVER.

Release games

Wow, this thread is pure gold. My story will be super tame compared to some of those above, but stil... I was reading the all-ages Sonohana spin-off, you know, one that doesn't even have much romance in it, and decided to finish it in the morning before my gf wakes up. So, obviously she woke up earlier than usual and walked into my room exactly at the beginning of the only kissing scene in the whole game. Maybe I looked unreasonably engrossed in the romantic conclussion of the story, but the look she gave me nearly made me wish I was cought reading some actual porn. Hmmm... I think I have to go through that scene again, I couldn't really focus when finishing the read that day. :]

You know, whilst this thread initially brought to mind to people running into me in the midst of an H-Scene, that is likely not the worst situation. When I'm particularly excited reading a VN I act like an absolute madman. I often read the characters' lines aloud, shout, make up new ones, react to them, etcetera. This, unfortunately, is quite audible in my younger sister's room, so she's the person most subjected to my lunacy. My parents occasionally walk by the corridor near my room, and should they catch me in the middle of a fit they sometimes even interrupt to ask me what the bloody hell I'm doing.

I was reading an H-scene that other time and you could say that I was "engrossed" in it. My older brother walked into my room and he started silently at me and the screen for a full minute or so without saying anything. Then he sat through the whole scene next to me and left when it finished without saying a word. I still see the disappointment in his eyes each time he looks at me.

Derg: Fiddle. I commend your subtle insult of saying "Fiddle" instead of "Fiddle's."

My father opened my minimised VN that was in the middle of an H-Scene. His non-reaction makes it seem like he didn't even realise what it was. Could be, since he was looking for something else and immediately minimised it once he realised it wasn't what he was looking for.

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Yes and No! You don't have to force yourself to play all Couples. Just play the ones you like. In Maidens of Micheal you can choose the Routes anyway. Furthermore read A Kiss For The Petals - Remembering How We Met before you start with Maidens of Micheal because it tells the Story how Risa and Miya met and became a couple. Therefore: Read all or the couples you like ---> Remembering how we met ---> Maidens Micheal. Adittionally I would recommend you also to read Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke o - New Gen!. I really liked the Sister-Incest-Route. But it isn't a sequel!

I once played Chaos;Head on my laptop at my parents' house, while sitting next to my mum... Bear in mind this was the first vn I read and I wasn't too aware of its content. I quite quickly noped out of there. I'm sure my parents have their suspicions about me the figure collection also doesn't help.

...What? Gay.

License bad games. License bad games that aren't even the bad games I want them to license (*cough* https://vndb.org/p1374 *cough*).

The link above is the best route to approach the SonoHana games. While there are not a ton of things you REALLY have to know (because "Maidens of Michael" does a good job reintroducing the couples—enough to help you understand why they are where they are), I would definitely recommend playing all of the games in the order mentioned in that link. "Maidens of Michael", chronologically speaking, does come before "Remembering How We Met" (which is actually a sequel to the as-of-yet untranslated 15th game "Snow White's Knight", which you'll notice a previous Best Couple is missing (Rena/Runa can't be a best couple for reasons you either already know about or will find out in "Maidens of Michael") and has been replaced with a new one) and "New Generation!" "New Generation!" in particular takes place after all of the previous Best Couples (including Sayuki and Rikka) are graduated and off doing whatever it is they decide to do. So there's actually a pretty large time window involved here. Also, if you organize the game releases by date on VNDB, you'll get the same recommended playing order, honestly. "Maidens of Michael" is the eleventh game of the series.

Zaka: For the likes, obviously. Zaka: Zaka: Ren's, obviously. Derg: Fiddle.

It seems that when I attempt to use Yukatool(https://github.com/AtomCrafty/yukatool/releases), it keeps closing in on me. Did I get a syntax error, if so how should I input(didn't really get the example on the tool itself) or did I miss something. Thanks in advance

Zaka: Why hello there fuwans and fuwanots, today me and the dorg have something special to announce… Dorg: You're pregnant? Zaka: Only with shitposts, man. So yeah we both passed 3k posts recently (dorg couldn't hold it and managed to go past 3k smh) and thought we should celebrate it in a special way. Dorg: Hey, the fact that I went past 3k just goes to show how good I am at shitposting. Zaka: There's a time and place for everything, you know. Though actually now that I think about it doing it at 3002 is like kind of a shitpost. Fuck. Shitposting is deep, man. Dorg: Indeed. Bow before me, mortal! So, what kind of special celebration did you have in mind? (insert gay joke) ;w; Zaka: A gay joke? Surely that particular knob has been polished well enough you don't even need lube to take it up the ass… uhh well I'd like to celebrate how amazing of a person I am, that ok with you? Dorg: Well, I mean, seeing as I have 2 more posts than you, I’d like to think of myself as more amazing, but… sure! Zaka: You know, it's actually hard to think of.. [Actually, zaka is just too lazy to look up posts to link] WHAT THE FUCK STOP FUCKING WITH ME META-ZAKA [Look, you made me like this. It's time to pay the price for all your Ever17 shilling] Fuck. Dorg: Can we just go back to gay jokes already? You're losing it. Zaka: Okay, so once upon a time there was a man named dorg. The Dorg was really stupid, as it thought that once you got 3k posts, people would have gay sex with you. Turns out you need 4k posts. Dorg: Well, fuck. I mean… good. Zaka: (this is the reason dorg became a mod; everyone knows mods have more reason to post than most people, just look at Nosebleed (rip)) . Literally his only motivation is my swedish ass. Dorg: And know that I can ban you at any moment, so you better start shaking that ass for me, neko. Zaka: You mean misclick the "spammer" button? wwwwwwwwwwwww Dorg: @Asonn SouDesuKa? Zaka: … Well memed, sir. Dorg: Now, let’s get back to this celebration. Zaka: I guess since it's a celebration for both of us we should have something about you as well… let's see, let's celebrate you getting back from Japanese uni hell to nice, cold, dreary, girls don't randomly fuck you Norway! Dorg: Fuck my life. Take me back. Zaka: Just tl that shitty moege fandisc to dull the pain man. Dorg: Ok desu. TLnote: Ok Desu means yes in Spanish. Zaka: そうですか TLNote: "Shikata ga nai deSU", means "the pleasure of being cummed inside by a humanoid canine" Dorg: Now, let’s put the tide pod eating aside for a moment, and start a juicy AMA. Zaka: So you know how AMA's are all boring and overdone? Well they still are and honestly we should kill ourselves, but at least ours has one little twist. See, you can ask any question you want… but you gotta specify who it's to (or if you want, pick both I guess…). Zaka will answer all questions to Dorg. Dorg will fail to answer all questions to Zaka because he sucks, but I'll let him try anyway out of pity. Dorg: *Hovers over “mark as spammer” button for a second.* So there you have it! Ask us anything! But please, make it spicy. Zaka: You may ask questions in the master language (English) as well as Japanese. I have no idea why you'd want to use an inferior language such as Japanese though tbh. Anyway, enjoy or something~

I prefer a scorched-earth approach

I hate to admit it, but... No, I'll simply remain silent!

Guys, it's Sol Press, not SoL Press. Like the sun, not the boring genre.

Oh, well... You know, you should think this over. I know that these 3 might seem like your only options right now, but there's always a way out. For example, you can jump off a bridge. -------------------------- But, putting tasteless shitposting aside, Yosuga no Sora looks most interesting out of those two (please, don't touch Hoshimemo until they fix it, unless you're going for the original version), but it seems to only have a partial patch available? Do you mean to read it in Japanese?

I think all arguments are valid, except for the one about moe games. It is not like not releasing them would make companies translate story-focused games; most like to be the opposite: without the money from moeges, companies wouldn't have the capital to invest in better games. And let's be honest, moeges sell a lot in comparison to better games, to the point that Fata Morgana was a huge disappointment in sales while NekoPara got an one-hour OVA that gathered thousands of dollars. And the reason for that is not that difficult to grasp. People want cheap and easy games to feel confortable playing instead of having to think hard. People also want to see their anime character waifus moaning whenever they slip in a banana or get scolded by nii-san. I may be exhagerating, but the point is that moeges sell more because there is a bigger market for them. And I think we should - not thank them - but to stop ranting about them all the time and admit that they are a necessary evil. About the two new companies: SoL Press is making a good impression on how they are actually listening to fans. You mentioned their demo for Sakura Sakura, but as soon as errors were spotted on it, SoL Press worked fast to fix them and to improve the quality of the product. I really have high hopes for them. NekoNyan is still too young for us to know what they are really capable of. Translators improve, just like any professionals. I won't judge the future works of this company because of the failures of Sekai Project. And even though the people behind the translation are the same, Sekai is the one to blame for releasing Hoshimemo and Leyline how they did. I mean: how can nobody notice that a good part of the text is in japanese? Simple: there is nobody checking. And let's not forget that Mangagamer started as bad as any company could be, and improved a lot to the point of becoming a reference of eroge localization. This, however, does not justify how terrible some companies such as Sakura Gamer and Mikandi are (although the latter was a victim just like us).

Hi! Welcome to Fuwanovel! And don't worry, you aren't the only member here with a delayed introduction. I still haven't done mine.

Yeah, definitely wasn't being serious there. VN localization isn't a zero-sum game. I feel like I may have accidentally come off as one of those morons who gets angry when the stars align and once per millennium one of these companies releases an otome game. Truth is, I like to see the VN localizing companies bringing over a variety of stuff, even when it's not all specifically to my taste, since I think it makes them more likely to thrive and thus to continue to bring over the things that actually are to my taste. Though I really do want them to get more softhouse-seal GRANDEE porn, that's some good shit.

Better late than never ^^ Welcome! Yuri is justice.

Very late "Welcome to Fuwa" for you! I wanted to like your post but I somehow run out of likes for today - I blame that "most awkward" thread. Will try to fix that later.

Yo yo yo, Sora! I, too, like Comic Sans.

Hi! I'm kinda new myself but even so, enjoy yourself here! (and it looks like we share the same favourite character in Grisaia hooray )

Hi, a new person who sometimes likes my posts. Thank you for your patronage, and I hope for our mutually beneficial engagement to continue.

Hi bro! I'd say welcome and enjoy your stay but you already do so I'm also a sportsman , but on my 30s and I play tennis a lot. Love open air sports. Any way... どうぞよろしく！

No, that's not what I mean. The promise of a vita release was done when the campaign was still underway. The KS was funded literally 2 years ago. So, what I'm saying is that they should have tried to figure something out during those two years. And, if there was absolutely no physical way for them to release an EU version next to the US version, then this should have been made clear to all backers the moment it was discovered, so that the poor backers who don't get their rewards could file for a refund/ ask for steam keys etc. EDIT: Look at the phrasing of this update made in November of last year. It doesn't mention a single thing about it not being available to all regions, and just hypes the vita backers up for the release. So, it's a huge bomb to drop on people a few weeks before the Vita version launches that only US backers will get it.

Zaka: Thanks! Since Derg's taste in VNs is so good, I'll use his opinions instead of my own, as he is so brilliant, he has to be right. Favorites: Suguha from ChuSinGura, Yuuji from Grisaia and Kanae from Seisai no Resonance. Least favorite: Makoto from School Days.

Zaka: 1) Myself (Your rules have no power over me.) 2) Run 3) Aeru 4) Run 5) Firecat

Actually, I believe, these two points are connected. You don't really have to give a quality release if you already got the money for it through Kickstarter.

thanks for the reply, but darn it... man, thats out of my range... guess i'll bother you sometime later

Yes it is, though Maidens of Micheal also serves as a continuation for the previous couples as well. And I am beyond hyped for it.

yo, @AtomCrafty, since you're here i'll bump into this thread. do you know how to make the text on the yukascript games looks better, rather than the default fixed-width font?

In case there was any doubt regarding your sexual orientation, neither of you said "no homo" throughout that entire exchange.

-this one is haruki

you are already playing subahibi even though you are quite new to VNs wow you have guts (or do you not know what lies ahead of you in the vn lol). Anyways, to answer your question, I recommend the Muv Luv series because not only is its final game (Muv Luv Alternative) the highest rated vn on vndb, it's also one of the most soul crushing and depressing (to date, it's the only vn I've cried to). If you want something a bit more light-hearted, I recommend the Grisaia series. It has a balance of funny and serious moments and Angelic Howl (Amane's route) in Fruit Of Grisaia is just incredible. I would also recommend Sharin no Kuni which is similar to Grisaia, but instead of focusing on characters like how Grisaia does, it focuses more on plot. Other recommendations: G senjou no maou, Ever17, Zero Escape, Danganronpa, Ace Attorney (especially Trials and Tribulations), Steins Gate I wanted to recommend Fate Stay Night but you said you didn't like magic :/

Was planning to go for Maya first, but it seems i'll have to save her for last.

My preferred route order: Maya -> Maya -> Maya -> Shizuru -> Maya