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So I'm sure many of you have noticed this absolute mad man cool guy appearing and actually offering to help translate visual novels here. So me and my bois @HMN and @Barry Benson thought that he could help us out with our project called "Little Pedo Apartment (placeholder). Yes this is the localized name we came up for the game we are currently working on. We even got the scripts for the game ready. So I posted my message earlier today on the thread asking for his help but what does our new shiny mod Dorg do, hide my post! Literally hitler if you ask me to be honest. I don't know why this happened because I have not actually gotten a message from the staff explaining anything so I can only speculate but if you don't know me and Dorg are very good friends. Today is also Valentine's Day so I don't think Dorg would want to do anything evil to me! This only leaves me with the option that Fuwo is actually secretly all about destroying visual novels in the west, or at least the fan translation community that doesn't generate any income for the localization companies that Fuwo keeps leeching off actually in secret! So any opinions my fellow Fuwons!

Happy happy YURI-Day: (Mei x Yuzu<3) Bonus: Today before I go to sleep I am going to read a Yuri-Manga or to play this VN: Shizuku x Eris (Best Couple in Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke o) PS: I don't need a Waifu because I am observer. Therefore I just want to watch a forbidden Love between girls.

Overly childish heroines tend to irritate me very much. Also, I tend to be irritated by dumb characters in general, but if they are funny, I might actually end up liking them.

A Valentine's Day shitposting special! LET'S MAKE SOME BABIES! I mean, pairings! You can pick multiple choices, but man, that's not being loyal to your waifu... But be warned! Whoever you pick, you're waifu a shit.

They're just like our lives, superficial, pointless things, spawned from ill-placed passions and ultimately futile. Meaningless in the scope of the universe and faint even within the span of human history. Why do we even bother?

Hmm... The term 'waifu' is not usually one I employ, but I do suppose this is anything but a usual day. Let's see... Here's one for best couple: And here's one for best girl: Here's Fuwa's best girl: And here's best gender-bent girl: Hm. I think my male:female ratio of pictures is 6:1 or something. I guess finding good male characters is such a noteworthy thing I take a picture every time?

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Tell your waifus/husbandos that you love them, no matter how many dimensions they might have!

You have us!

Good that it's the 2D games that really matter.

Hi guys! Figured this would be a good place to share updates on my first and latest vn project. Since it's being created as part of my senior thesis, the demo will be out by the end of april, so look out for it! I hope to continue after graduation and complete the game in full with all 3 endings if I can get the support to do so. Project updates are posted here: https://relentless-vn.tumblr.com/ As always I'm very open to feedback once the demo is released because I really want to create the full game as best as I possibly can. Information about Relentless: Visual Novel: Play along as a young noblewoman living in the Great Steam Era of Amaranth. Nothing, not even your over-controlling step-father can prevent you from experiencing the joys of perusing the city night-life. Or can it? Not everything is as it seems in the complex world of the nobility and you find yourself suddenly thrust into the underbelly of something big..something only a select few know about. 3 Total endings Ages 16+ for mature language/topics Genre: Steampunk fantasy/mystery

First, as a fantasy anime/VN fan, one thing you'll inevitably run into are these two words... 'yuusha' (勇者) and 'eiyuu'　(英雄). The problem with these two words is that they inevitably end up translated as the same thing... 'hero'. However, the nuance of each word is dramatically different, at least for those of us who actually care about nuance. Now, 'yuusha' is a word you hear mostly in certain types of fantasy VN or anime... these include 'sent to another world' and 'classic swords and sorcery fantasy', but can include things similar to Power Rangers and games like Venus Blood. The usage of yuusha generally refers to a 'chosen' individual who is stuck with the duty/obligation to confront a force that is beyond the capacity of normal people. Demon Lords, kaijin, insane gods... you name it, it probably has a swirly target sign that only a yuusha-type hero can see on it. There are 'evil' yuusha (mostly in dark VNs), but for the most part, they are pictured as being on the side of 'good' pictured as a near-absolute concept. 'Eiyuu' is a bit different. The concept of 'yuusha' can't really be applied to a real person, because the real world is almost never unambiguous enough to allow for the term to be usable, but the concept of an 'eiyuu' can be applied to real people. War heroes, great military leaders, rulers that lead their people to victory against an impossible foe, men who turn the tide of a war, etc. fall under this term's aegis. As an example, Valzeride from Silverio Vendetta falls under the aegis of this word, as does the insane loli in Youjo Senki. It is much easier for an eiyuu to be evil, because all an eiyuu needs to be is glorious to a group of people. They don't need to be moral or upright... or even seem so. Really, this is just a commentary on how confusing Japanese words that translate the same can be... and it might give you all a hint as to why some of us say that 'Japanese translation is an oxymoron.'

I'm Rachel, an illustrator and vn developer working on completing a small demo game called Relentless. I post progress here: https://relentless-vn.tumblr.com/ . I'd love to meet other people who are interesting in developing a vn and talk about our projects, experiences, etc. Feel free to talk to me! I also chill out in the ren'py and tyranobuilder discord groups if anyone is interested. I aspire to hopefully be able to achieve the means and ability to turn my vn demo into the fully game that I'd originally planned for it to be. Any advice and guidance on getting there is very much appreciated as I'm very new to the vn dev community. Thanks for reading, hope you have a lovely day!

Let modders be. Most often, they do a great contribution to the community.

Or: These game characters should learn to stop worrying and love the dong Disclaimer: The following opinion is genuine. But I like to express myself in creative ways after so many mostly serious posts, so shit ensues. A review will be up next week, please keep supporting this blog. After so many dicks, I looked back to my complete VNs folder and tried to do one of the most dumb things a fan can do: compare not completely alike games. Bl games comes in all kinds of packages, with different plot genres and structures, but as long as they are under the same umbrella definition of BL, I noticed they all share the same types of mistakes. Misses that I found in BL anime and manga too. Of course, when I say all I don't mean AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL of them, but I'm trying to raise awareness of the problems that I usually spot in the majority of the popular releases. I already saw every one of those pitfalls being avoided in mangas, so there's hope in this world. Since Fuwa surely love some top X, I'll organize it in some top 5 countdown fashion. Do notice that I'll not tackle what I see in doujinshis here, because seriously, who wants to fix the fantasy world of short doujins? Hell, if everything they did there had 100% realism, instead of 17/20 pages of porn we would get 17/20 pages of (trying to) pay bills. But enough sadness, let's get this over with! 5) Girls Okay okay, maybe lots of people don't want tits in their BL works, but unless we're on a prison/gang/old army/all-boys school/world where mpreg is a thing (90% of the games are out already...), we need some of them! Of the works I read, if I happen to see some girl, one of the following happens: She's some character's mom. Then she dies/is murdered and the guy angsts; She's some character's sister. Then she dies/is murdered and the guy goes into a roaring rampage of revenge (in both cases, she dies within the first five minutes of the novel); She's the main villain. She eventually dies; Plot twist, she's actually male! Because of this maaaaybe she can survive. She totally confused me for a second... I would love to see some day a BL story where the MC have some female best friend and they talk about boys together aaah~ 4) Porn that doesn't sound like your average BxG h-scene Seriously, if some games didn't keep reminding me that both participants have dicks, I would think that I was reading some R18 otomege. Even some CGs seems like the guy on top is totally hitting the wrong place, artists, please get basic anatomy right thank you. I wouldn't copy a whole scene of this type here because effort, but it's as full of "yameteeeee, yaaaaaaa, Ryou-kun (random name) dameeee" as you're expecting. And what's the deal of only the guy on the receiving end feeling it? Draw some expressions on the other guy too! It almost looks like that while the uke is having the time of his life, the seme suddenly realized that he'll probably die before Kentaro Miura finishes Berserk. Probably he and all of us, actually. Not BL, but I'll never forget Akihito pulling a Sad Affleck in the middle of the porn years before Sad Aflleck was a thing! (Image edited by ESRB) 3) Characters that actually identify themselves as gay/bisexual Okay, we get that social stigma exists and all that... But BL VNs are usually more "edgy" than Yuri ones... Sometimes society collapsed already, what are you waiting for, you dummy??? "Oh, I'm totally not gay, it's just because it's you!" Yeah sure, Jun-kun (random name) only liked Kou-kun (random name), not a single woman (they exists? See point 5 above) or guy before. Or after. You're really not gay, Jun-kun, you're Kousexual apparently. The scenario is even worse for bisexual characters. Remember any? Exactly. Just kidding, I remember him! In fact... Everyone is bi in this pic. This is one bitastic game! 2) Condoms Eeeer, just because none of you guys can become pregnant (if mpreg isn't a thing in their world, that is) doesn't mean it's all okay... But maybe if they DID try to use one, the following could happen, so guess in the end it's all the same... FINISH HIM! (ESRB attacked again, thank you for your understanding) 1) Lube Dude, seriously, ouch. Just... ouch.

I mean, usually I see shitposts get a few laughs and jokes around, and that's about it. But here, it's almost like a roleplay, where everyone is in on it. It's so well-crafted, I was more confused than entertained.

Honestly cannot believe that Dergonu, a translator who is a huge supporter of any translation, would do this to you guys. Good luck with your project and don't let those pesky Fuwamods get in the way of your goal. Godspeed.

We're actually the australian government. Nothing personal. Wish you good luck with your future endeavors in making little pedo apartment a thing.

Is that a finger in your chocolate? Anyway, HERE'S MY OTP!!!! (Optional: Swap Rin with me)

Song to sing to your waifu to be Here are a few Valentines to send to your waifu Eternal Love

Thank you for putting it in list form reading Cracked articles from back in the day has conditioned me to only be able to read anything that way I think a lot of these problems are present in other types of visual novels as well Yuri vn's, manga, and anime mostly seem to occur in a world that has either killed off it's male population or sentenced women to a lifetime of sex segregation. In hetero vn's we hardly ever get to see the dudes face during the sex scene the most we can get is some disembodied male torso. The few times we do get to see the dudes face it looks like he has had his eyeballs removed and sewn shut. As a side note I was legitimately shocked when I read a yuri manga called Prism that actually had a side character who was bisexual Condoms just don't exist in Japan Maggie, along with STDs and unwanted pregnancies

Your true desires are leaking out.

Gensou no Idea is the third VN from 3rdEye, a company specializing in chuunige. When I originally played this game, I was a bit more perverse, personality-wise, and as a result, I treated this VN badly, as one of my pet-peeves is dual-perspective VNs. I generally prefer for there to be only one protagonist, and my reaction to this game was colored badly by that. First, I'll introduce the protagonists. The first protagonist is Minase Yuuma, an optimistic young man who is nonetheless grounded firmly in reality. There isn't a scrap of malice in this kid, but he is not an innocent or unaware of the nature of the world he lives in... he simply has a very firm philosophy on life, as the result of being raised by a rather... strong personality. Yuuma is a 'cleaner', specializing in the removal of corpses and the cleaning of homes that have been contaminated by them. He takes pride in his work, and he is one of the few optimist protagonists I actually like. The second protagonist is Akashi, an Idea (the term that refers to beings from Utopia that roughly conform to human legends) who possesses control over fire. His emotions are weak in most areas, partly because he isn't human, partly because he is missing a big chunk of memories. However, he possesses a driving urge to recover his memories and destroy the 'Phantom' who brought ruin to his life. He has a strong interest in humans and believes firmly that he is good at mimicking them, but he is... not very good at it, lol. Now for the heroines... strictly speaking, there are no separate heroine paths in this game. This game is, like Sorcery Jokers, essentially a kinetic novel where you choose which protagonist perspective you see first sometimes. There are epilogues for each heroine, but they are pretty short and to the point. The first Yuuma heroine is Naru. Naru is a fortune-teller with a bad case of chuunibyou and an inherent optimism that matches Yuuma's own. She is very prideful and has a tendency to lose her cool rather easily. The second Yuuma heroine is Rinon. Rinon is an idol and an Idea that Yuuma follows obsessively. She is arrogant, possessive, and violent. However, once she falls for him she is... passionate and loyal. I really, really liked her epilogue, and I almost fell out of my chair laughing at its end. The third Yuuma heroine is Kokoro. Kokoro is your classic 'emotionless heroine', showing little reaction to most stimuli. The first Akashi heroine is Noel. Noel is a possessive, jealous Idea woman whose first priority is Akashi's love, second is Akashi's safety, third is Akashi's happiness, and fourth is Akashi's penis.... do I need to go on? One of her ongoing hobbies is drugging Akashi and having him tortured to find out the identities of women he is cheating on her with (she defines 'cheating' as talking to or being talked to by another woman... or looking at them, touching them, or breathing the same air as them). The second Akashi heroine is Mitsuki. Mitsuki... has issues. She is very much an introvert, and she has a tendency to keep her distance from others. She does get pretty cute when Akashi manages to make it past her guard, though. The setting This game is based around a century or two after Bloody Rondo (don't know if this is fully canon or not), seven years after a disaster that nearly destroyed humanity. In this new world, where a large portion of the planet's surface has been submerged and the human population has been greatly reduced, Archive Square, the corporation that has taken charge of the recovery, has become the central power in the world. This is the case across most of the world, but the city this story is based in is one where more than half of the population works for AS. There are two worlds in this game... one is 'Dystopia' (the name Idea give Earth) and the other 'Utopia' (the word the Idea use for their own world). Idea, beings of immense power from Utopia, have been going back and forth between the worlds for centuries, taking the form of humans on Earth and generally indulging their curiosity and whims as they desire. The story This story focuses on two perspectives... Yuuma as he deals with the changes in his situation, and Akashi as he seeks the past. This story has a lot of really good battle scenes, emotional moments, and some seriously interesting hedge philosophy (mostly out of Kyouko and Yuuma, though Akashi contributes sometimes). On my second playthrough, having gone in with a more open mind than my first, I found the story a great deal more interesting. I won't say it is perfectly paced or that the characters are the best I've ever run into in a chuunige (they aren't), but I honestly enjoyed the ride, from beginning to end. This isn't a VN that is likely to make it into my top fifty, but if you are looking for a good chuunige and have already read the more famous names, this is an excellent choice.

Here it is bois We got: Fake Nekopara Another fake Nekopara Sakusaku Jinpou only wants some chinpoー Then some kusoge no one cares about Doujinges like Mahoushoujo (this game is great btw with all the Tippys get it)

Incidentally, Mangagamer is also holding a sale on their site. ~~~~~~~~~~ True, but we were talking about Humble gift links. You see, technically (by Humble's policies, not by any law) you aren't supposed to give the games you bought on sales like that to anyone but your friends and family, and you have gift links for that. But, A) I'm 90% sure nobody cares about that; B) really, how many of us have friends and families who read VNs?

I see. Well, I am not sure, of course, since it definitely wasn't my first VN, but I still can't really trust DDLC with giving a correct idea about what a VN is to people who never read a VN before. Especially considering that it's widely known that it was made as a criticism to the anime-culture and VNs in general. People who heard that and played DDLC as their only VN might not exactly understand what is being criticized and deconstructed. I kind of feel like a lot of them might come to an idea that other VNs one hundred percent consist of simple moeges like the first chapter of DDLC, which is not really a right assumption. At least, that's what my assumption would be, I think. But, well, who knows?

I guess, I'll post this picture of a cute waifu. I mean, just look at her! How can't she be called cute?!

I vote for myself but actually i'd vote for MagieROBOT because she is turning me into a BL-curious person. I made a whole book to justify selfcest, try to beat me.

My wallpaper:

Absolute slander. I cannot even believe this is the direction Fuwanovel is going. What an outrage. That said though, I don't judge so you can just go ahead and make your most depraved and disgusting fantasies a reality, bestest of luck to, brave soldier.

I feel personally attacked by me not being an option in this poll. I'm pretty sure I've cultivated enough of a presence here to have some joke material about me. Well, since I'm not an option, my waifu would either be @HMN or @Dergonu. I honestly can't decide.

Ohh, I like this sort of thing, too. But it's hard to find these, though. Cinderella Phenomenon. The main character gets caught up in the events surrounding her, but in the majority of the routes she cannot do much of anything herself. She is proactive, for sure, but relatively powerless. Even then, she is technically at the centre of events. Majikoi. Yamato from Majikoi spends most of his time preparing things behind the scenes, and is not usually at the forefront of events, with everyone around him being more powerful than him. However, he also has moments where he's the one to save the day, so... Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story. I've played it, but that's all I'll say. I mean, just look at the title. Analogue: A Hate Story and Hate Plus by the same author are about learning of a story that has already happened. Katahane kind of fits. The characters we play spend a chunk of the story learning about the past, which is the core of this story, but has little to do with them, all things considered. Kindred Spirits on the Rooftop. It's, essentially, a story about playing cupid, I guess. Does that fit? Yumina the Ethereal is a surprising fit. The protagonist spends most of his time working for other people, and I'm fairly sure the heroines are the ones pulling the hero moments. But I might be misremembering. In some ways, The Devil on G-String fits. In some, many others, it doesn't. The main story is about two characters, neither of which is the protagonist, but the protagonist is very proactive indeed. A lot of world conquering games where the protagonist isn't especially powerful technically fit, but I'll go with Koihime Musou for this one. His power comes from everyone working for him, not he himself. Doesn't look like what you want, though. Loren The Amazon Princess specifically advertises itself with this idea in mind. You play as the hero's servant. I thought it was pretty good, but embarrassingly, I've never finished it, which... Not usually a good sign. Damn. That's it. Hardly a single one I think fits. I hope someone knows some.

Have to pick Zaka since he’s basically my waifu. And since I can have four wives and stuff, I’ll pick MUH BOI THE ONE AND ONLY @Barry Benson, too.

Don't worry babe I got you

Well I don't think most of us here would actually consider DDLC as a kamige. I personally feel that it's decent enough but does not deserve its ridiculously high rating on Steam. The fact that it's more highly rated than actual kamiges like SubaHibi and Dies Irae on Steam is astounding, even if it is free.

Yes, let's sing out praises to the bestest and coolest waifu in the whole wide world: Nikola Tesla. Just look at him and let you faceholes gape in pure amazement.

Related from the Onion: The Secret To My 65-Year Marriage Is Trust, Respect, And Threatening To Kill Myself If She Leaves Also, mai waifu. She's making delicious chocolates for me today~

Welcome to the forums! And good luck with your project.

This very site has blogs. https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/ An other option would be WordPress, WordPress is made for blogs so you could create your own site for free and host your blogs. This however won't reach as many people as fuwo does. Most likely.

Out of every single pair of headphones I have ever bought there has not been one instance wherein one side did not die Truly it is the bane of my existence

For comedy or faster-paced VN's, it's great to have voice acting. It gives the thing more life. Also in important scenes the voice acting can provide a voice that you couldn't have imagined from the text. Voice acting's never going to be able to save a bad story though. For English works I almost always prefer no voice acting. It seems fake and not seamless like JP voice acting, iuuno.

Not sure if this counts, but I have a funny story about my Wii. So I wanted to play Wario World on my Wii 'cause I didn't have my Gamecube with me, and I couldn't get the game to work, no matter how many times I blew on it in case of dust. So I thought the disk might be too scratched to play and looked up methods to remedy it slightly, I did that for about 10 minutes before going downstairs and getting a washcloth and toothpaste. I put a good amount of toothpaste on the disk and used the washcloth to lightly scrub it to get ri of the scratches, I cleaned it with the damp washcloth and tried again. It still didn't work, so I tried putting the Wii in different positions to make it work and it still failed. Do you wanna know what the problem was?

I almost always turn the voices off. I like to read quickly and with voices off I can progress text boxes without having to wait for the voices to finish speaking, because if voices are on and you don't wait for the voices to finish you end up with this sort of scenario:

A picture paints a thousand words. I have nothing to say but that's exactly what I am thinking. If H-Scenes no longer exist anymore then maybe there would be more great VN, more VN's in english and better publisher and MoeNovel wouldn't exist in the first place. Because they don't have a reason to delete the H-Scenes anymore. I actually don't care if there are no H-Scenes anymore because most of the time I skipp them but I don't like censorship^^ The only H-Scenes I liked was in Yumiko's Route in Grisaia

Yes. I would celebrate! No shitty nukiges and no forced and badly written H-scenes. What else could I ask for.

Indirectly I suppose. Moege can actually have a lot of little lessons about living the day to day that can help out in a stressful situation, and they themselves are also great stress relievers, being light and fluffy. They also inspired me to start Moege February, where I shall read only Moege (and maybe an occasional Charage) in defiance of those who would defy us. Viva la Revolution

I agree with this! Chrono Clock was really good and I loved Michiru's route. Therefore I am really looking forword to Hapymaher. I have a question are Yuri VN's also Moege? I like to read Lesbian Love Story more than normal Moege. My heart pounds like crazy everytime I hear that a good Yuri VN gets an english translation But Moege didn't change my life! However I like to read VN's with Romance and a good Drama.