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So recently, I've been playing a game called Space Engine, which is a really cool universe simulator where you can explore stars, planets, galaxies and the like. I've stumbled onto a very interesting solar system, so I've decided to name all of the planets after Fuwanovel members, in honor of this great community. Important Note: The solar system only contains 25 planets, so obviously I couldn't reference all of Fuwanovel's members. I tried my best to name those after very prominent users. If you don't see a planet named after you, my deepest apologies. I could only fit so much within the technical limit. With that said, here is the Fuwanovel Solar System.

Novectacle has released a page talking about their fan translation procedures. Link They're saying that they'll provide translation tools for The House In Fata Morgana to all who ask for them. Amazing stuff.

This is great and all, but it's lacking a spammer/shitposter solar system. Please rectify this.

https://www.jastusa.com/blue/ And Sweet Pool will be the first one of this new BL brand!!!! Okay, it's JAST we're talking about here, but maybe we can be hopeful? I mean, there's a fan translation going on and they were very close to finishing the patch when this happened. Maybe they bought it, like they did with other Nitroplus titles? Anyway, at least now it'll be way easier to acquire the actual game. And I hope they make some no porn version, so I can convince more people to play it!!!! Sweet Pool is a pretty nice dark plotge. I mean, it's possible. N+C themselves will release a PSVita version of the game in the future.

It's okay, I also have an alternative time-flow for reading. I have too much of a backlog to clear until them, I can wait until 2024

I'm not sure if you already know it, but @BunnyAdvocate did multiple amazing works like this in the past. You may look them up if you're interested.

Is Planet Kiri the dark place where all the illegal loli trades happen? Or is Finland just a frozen ice world...

First, I should say that I disapprove of releasing visual novels in pieces. I'm perfectly willing to wait three or four years for a good story, but I hate nothing more than being interrupted in the middle and having to wait another year for the next one. The habit of releasing VNs in chapters was a vice mostly restricted to doujin VNs in the past. The more obvious reasons are people like me who hate having their stories interrupted, the previous dominance of physical media, and other issues. However, as digital releases have become more common, companies have begun to try to find ways to suck more blood out of their readers without investing as much money. The result has been a rash of fragmentary game releases, like Corona Blossom, Grisaia Phantom Trigger, and the Uso series by Campus. Now, while I used them as an example, those are mostly positive examples. All three constructed their 'pieces' so they could stand on their own. Phantom Trigger takes an episodic approach, making each entry feel like an anime episode in a series or a novel in a series that does a good job of concluding the events of each entry, so that you don't become desperate waiting for the next. The Uso series by Campus made each entry so that it stood on its own without needing previous knowledge of the other entries, despite their interlinked setting and characters. These are probably the two best ways to approach micro-releasing VN stories... but in both cases, I would actually much prefer to read all the chapters at once, lol. I say I hate micro-releases, but that is because I see VNs as game hybrids. For me, I only want to invest money in a game once. I hate subscriptions, I hate microtransactions, and I absolutely despise random additional (paying) content. I can justify buying a season pass along with the game itself, but that is because it is a one-time transaction that gets me everything without having to concern myself with continuous pushing of bits and pieces of essentially worthless digital merchandise. In other words, I hate that this has become more common because I instinctively fear the day when some 'brilliant genius' manages to incorporate true microtransactions into a pure VN.

This is actually something Clephas's birthday post made me think about. I personally try to avoid sitting when reading VNs as much as possible, because my earlier habit of obsessive gameplay sessions was pretty heavy on my back. Whenever I can I actually try... Exercise, while the VN goes on autoplay. I have a punching bag in my room and I must look like the biggest weirdo on Earth hitting it while looking at the screen with cute anime girls on it... But it actually helped me get slightly more in-shape and, most importantly, get rid of back pain most on the time. So, how do you guys play your VNs? Do you have any workarounds to avoid excessive sitting when reading them? Or simply you don't do it enough to feel negative side effects?

Hi, I'm Truffa Hum, I've been reading for a time this forum and only today I take the resolution to join. I started like 6 years ago in this of reading vn, I don't really remember which was my first vn, but if I'm not wrong it was 'Saya no uta' for some reason, but the first that I finished and make me really start in this was 'Dramatical Murder' I read almost any genre but i don't like nukige, mostly because I'm more plot oriented when I read... yet I love 'euphoria' lmao So, yeah, that's it

And like that a lasting alliance was formed the two sides with polar differences recognized they had common ground. They both liked when two people of the same gender hooked up. Bound by flame and sealed with the firm handshake of manhood and womanhood this alliance would remain for generations to come. Also good news Maggie (insert Jast joke here) (insert demand that Jast release Flowers already so I can give them my money)

This is a BL thread for God's sake, remove this heresy from here this instant!!!!!

Well, I am happy for the BL Fans, really. But I would like to see more Yuri VN's It will take some time until:

I really like reading/writing bad endings. I think they're a great place to put extra depth and story. One of my favorite techniques, actually, is to never be too obvious with story. You can spread clues all over the place to create hidden depth and things to find and "discover" on subsequent playthroughs.

Yeah, it's definitely happening. Just don't get too hyped, even if the translation is more or less ready, I have a feeling it will all be going on according to JAST's alternative time-flow. It's better to be prepared for some waiting - at least, with this company, the final products are usually worth all that patient anticipation.

Plk_Lesiak goes next level though

Now that I think about it, this map would fit perfectly into a galaxy. A galactic anime society, where each star system are their own individual fandoms. SAO, Attack on Titan, and One Punch Man would be smack right down in the galactic core, where massive stars and supermassive black holes reign supreme.

Yeah, basically those series are so popular that they break free from their usual genre groupings and are pretty universally enjoyed. Unfortunately it tends to mess up the clustering a bit as it's then like a black hole in the center, sucking in everything towards it. Thanks @Dreamysyu and @Thyndd! That's kind of you to say. I have a bunch of other VN analysis posts like this you might enjoy if you check the tumblr link. I also got my hands on 50,000 user's data on steam via the steamspy dude, so I'm hoping to have some fun analysing that in a few weeks too~

Season 3 coming up!

This is really cool! I'd like to think of my 51 moons as 51 of the VNs I have started, but not yet finished over the past few years, lol. Currently reading like 7 VNs at the same time. Why do I do this to myself

I sit on my chair, one hand on my dick to be able to start the action whenever it's desired.

Well, as of thirty-nine minutes ago, it is officially my birthday (as of the time I checked at the beginning of making this post). I have a lot of things to reflect on this year. I am now thirty-six, settling into the beginnings of middle-age, knowing my lifestyle will probably kill me before I hit fifty. I'm a sugar addict, I love fatty foods, I make my own alcoholic drinks (this year, a mixed fruit wine that actually turned out well and was much easier than the rum and hard root beer I did last year). I sit on my ass eighty percent of the time, I am hugely fat... ... and I'm surprisingly happy. I won't say I don't have my down moments. Looking back, I regret not going for more athletic pursuits while my knees and back could still stand them. I regret not trying for a more regular and less... frustrating line of work. However, I can honestly say that, for all its frustrations, I actually seem to like being a fat, balding otaku who has pretensions at being some kind of VN guru (lol). I do wish that I could fit into a plane seat, lol. If I ever go to Japan, it is going to have to be a sea trip, since buying two plane tickets for one person is both embarrassing and more than a little expensive. I hate my work, but I'm good at it and, in good times, it pays well, so I keep doing it. So what would I change? Honestly, it is hard to say. I won't pretend I'm all love and joy when it comes to life. I have too much toxic waste going through my brain for that (I just happened to have gained just enough maturity not to feed the trolls constantly *smiles dryly*). I'm fundamentally a passive person once I set foot outside my hobbies, preferring not to do anything I don't absolutely have to do. I'm also negative and misanthropic... but is that stuff I actually want to change? *shrugs* I've never been any other way, so it is impossible to say. However, every year I hit this day and wonder what could have been, which probably says everything that needs to be said about my experiences with life, for all my proclamations of relative happiness.

Online anime discussions seem obsessed with individual anime: there can only be one best anime (and it’s Rakugo, fite me irl). But rather than focusing on specific anime, could we look at what binds them together? I’m talking about anime fans. No anime fan watches only one anime, they watch lots, so if we chart the fandom overlap between anime we could how different anime series group together. Do they group together based on source material? The type of genre? The release date? Let’s find out! I also posted this here where I can embed images in the post and I think it's a little easier to read. The Analysis Process (skip this section if uninterested) First, we need some data on anime fans. Fortunately, we don’t need to conduct an extensive survey, anime fans are happy to publicly catalog their tastes on sites like MyAnimeList.net. To get a random sampling of the active anime fandom, I downloaded the completed anime and profile data of anyone logging into MAL on a couple of days in January. I got data for 7883 users who had watched 1,417,329 anime series in total (enough for 4 lifetimes of constant anime watching). I filtered out anything that wasn’t a TV series or movie, and any anime with fewer than 1,000 fans in our dataset, leaving us with 380 anime. I then merged anime entries of the same series together, leaving 268 anime to chart. To map out the fandom’s tastes, I modeled each anime like it was a beachball floating in a swimming pool. Each beachball had several elastic strings tied to it of varying strength. The strongest string was connected to the anime/beachball that it shared the most fans with. The next strongest string went to the anime/beachball it had the second most fans with, and so on. This way anime with lots of overlapping fans would be drawn together. But to prevent the confused mess of a squeaky beachball bondage orgy, each beachball also bobbed up and down in the pool of water, causing waves that pushed away anything that got too close. I let this simulation run until it reached an equilibrium point where the pull of the strings balanced against the push of the waves. The result would hopefully be an anime/beachball web where groups of anime with large fandom overlaps formed clusters. The Fandom Map After warming myself on my overheating computer processors, the simulation finally ended with the result below. The font size of each anime name is proportional to how popular it is, and the red lines represent the fandom overlap/elastic strings between beachballs. A higher resolution version is available here: here Eek, that’s a lot to take in! At first glance there are a few obvious clusters like the Ghibli movies in the bottom right, but it can be hard to identify what common themes are linking these anime. So what do we do? MAL tags to the rescue! (Surely this is the only time those tags have ever been useful). We can use the MAL genre tags the highlight different genres and see if they group together. The green dots show which anime have the genre tag in the title. What had once seemed a single unified blob is shown to be split into multiple clusters, but what does it tell us? Each cluster should be judged on two metrics: self-cohesion and its proximity/overlap to other clusters. Self-cohesion is how tightly grouped a cluster is. The more tightly grouped it is, the more fans tend to stay within that genre and pick anime based on it. So for example, the ecchi cluster is quite tightly grouped in the top left area, telling us that the inclusion (or lack of) ecchi content is important to those fans in choosing what to watch. Alternatively the lack of cohesion can tell us something too, drama anime are spread out all over the place, suggesting there isn’t a unified group of fans specifically seeking out drama content like there is for romance, slice of life, or action anime. The proximity to other clusters tells us where fandoms overlap. For example, the thriller and ecchi clusters are at opposite ends, suggesting that generally, the fandoms don’t overlap much. However psychological, mystery, and thriller anime all seem to overlap quite well. It seems the most prominent split in the fandom is between romance and action anime, with the two of them taking up significant portions of the medium, but overlapping only in ecchi anime. Recency Bias As well as plotting genres, we can also see if the release date of an anime influences its position. If fans tend to pick anime based on what’s currently airing, that’d show up with anime of the same year grouping together. While the middle area is quite mixed, the latest anime series from 2017 cluster significantly on the left side, suggesting anime aired in the same season do tend to clump together with a lot of fan overlap, but only while the anime is less than a year old. After that, the rest of the anime fandom who are pickier about the anime they try outnumber those who watch all the latest series. Fandom age Using the publicly listed birthdays of our MAL users, we can see which anime tends to attract the oldest users. The age map is almost a mirror image of the recency bias map, with the unsurprising result that older anime tends to have older fans, and the most recent anime have the youngest fandom. Gender differences The number of women on MAL is likely undercounted as only 17% of those listing their gender state they’re female, but we can still analyse how the gender ratio changes between anime clusters. Note that green nodes don’t mean a female majority (only 3 anime had a female majority fandom: Yuri on Ice, Free, and Ouran Koukou Host Club), it just means the ratio is higher than average. There is clearly a gender divide in the anime each gender is watching. The female fans seem to gravitate more towards psychological stories and the Ghibli movies. Unsurprisingly, ecchi stuff is watched almost entirely by males. What’s more surprising is how few female fans there are among the recent releases cluster, suggesting female fans are less likely to follow the latest anime season. MAL also offers a non-binary gender option. Only 1% of those displaying their gender picked non-binary, totaling just 61 users in my dataset, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in this result, but I was curious about the result... It’s generally more mixed than the stark male-female divide, although the non-binary fan hotspots align much more with females than males, peaking on Yuri on Ice, Free, and Ouran Koukou Host Club. Age ratings Just for fun, we also tried plotting the age ratings of anime. As would be expected, the R+ nudity ratings are clustered in the harem area, the younger ratings are mostly from the Ghibli films, and the R-17 violence ratings align with the action and psychological/thriller cluster. Unrated anime I have an obsession with rating anime, I must rate them all! But some users mark anime as “completed” without ever entering a score (what’s wrong with you?). I tried plotting the ratio of such unrated anime to see if they formed a pattern. Turns out there’s a bit of a pattern here… ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º) The more ecchi it is, the less likely fans are to rate it. I guess they must scratch their rating compulsion itch through other means. ----------------------------------------- I hope you liked our little analysis. It wouldn’t be possible without the help of Part-time Storier (https://parttimestorier.tumblr.com/), /u/8cccc9, and /u/Crabspite. Thank you all~ I always love discussing this stuff, so feel free to contact me here on Fuwanovel, tumblr, and twitter. My next post (in a week or two) is going to focus on female fans and see how the female fandom’s tastes cluster.

Right next to the Tsukihime remake happening year 2024.

That sounds really cute. It's my favorite thing about tabletop gaming; that back/forth roleplaying!

the sagara family has one. tsuki possession maman kyoushitus amorous professor cherry. although shes not a mother, she is an older heroine.

This must be SO much harder than mapping the VN fanbase, because since VN is already a niche genre to begin with, it's easier to identify the fandom. However, anime was heavily featured to the point of having a casual fanbase that won't ever bother to go to myanimelist, so it'd be hard to determine how DBZ would enter in the analysis properly, for example.

Yep. Tay maintains the site as a whole, so I wanted to name this habitable planet after him to reflect on his work in keeping Fuwa alive. Oh don't worry, I have plans for more similar solar system naming conventions based on VNs and the like. Though to be fair, I'm not familiar with a lot of shitposters on this site, so I apologise, and I'll think of something in the future. Sure, you can think of it that way. Planet Kiriririri; the lolicon outpost. You have a lot of catching up to do it seems. Luckily they're still within gravity's reach whenever you want to get back to them anytime. Yep, but still bright enough to influence the community with its blogs. As for the other posts, you're welcome!

Not my thing, but VNDB tags might help you find some: https://vndb.org/g649 https://vndb.org/g1133 https://vndb.org/g2388

The remote ice giant feel appropriate. Not completely unremarkable, but still far from the center and just doing its own things on the fringes of the community.

Yup, I can definitely see how this planet reminded you of me, LOL

Still feelsbadman. Quite cool though, space is always interesting.

That is such a cool idea! Thank you for sharing it. <3

Pretty sweet of you to think of the members here and reference them like this! I liked the commentary you wrote for some of the planets, nice post mate .

Where is the planet Ranzo all the nations screamed in affront. Where is the epitome of destruction, the planet with the real Galactus-esque persona

Beautiful work. I love statistics and I love my anime, so this is a godsend.

I just finished 'Umineko' yesterday, and after the crying and trauma now I'm continuing 'Steins;Gate' for good. But is weird going from a novel with almost zero interaction to one that without guide you can't get the true ending. Still stalled with Grisaia

On my sofa with my laptop on a little table in front of me. With headphones on. I enjoy how a small part of this thread turned into a discussion of masturbation positions.

Funny how SAO, Attack on Titan, and One Punch Man are in the very core of the map. I guess their fandoms are so big and diverse, they influence other fandoms with their gravitational pull.

Well, based on the rate of progress this TL is going at, I'm gonna say early 2019 would be a reasonable option unless it either dies off or gets picked up by an official localization company.

Well, yeah, I don't do it all the time, but with more casual reads/moments it doesn't really make that much difference for me (just like with the fluffy anime I watch). And, well, it clears my conscience a bit when it goes to how I'm spending my time. ;p

Well, I do a lot of strength and endurance training. Therefore I have actually no problem to sit for a considerable time. Furthermore I am a student and most of the time I sit because I have to learn. However I read my VN's mostly in the evening and I don't sit but I lie in my bed. SOMETIMES it is really annoying to read VN's with my laptop because I don't want to lie always on my back... Therefore I am streaming VN's to my smartphone if I can't play them on KK2. Lying on the bed + Smartphone = It's so much easier! After jogging I don't feel like to sit because I do a lot of sprints and I just want to lie in my bed and read something

I usually lie in my bed with the notebook by my side... Wow, I must look super lazy now... I only sit when I'm reading together with my sister (we like to do live commentaries and such, it's pretty fun XD)

LOL that image must be priceless. I usually just sit in front of the computer and play. Sometimes if what I'm playing doesn't require much focusing I can do some elliptical, but I usually watch anime while doing that.

I'm 12 so no back pain

Finally got a chance to wear my new shirt Lucia Forever!