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A natural rock formation, like this:

Lol, like I said they all sound like kids. Even the mods.

Doesn't help that most of them act like kids as well.

Thanks for the birthday cheers everyone.

Yeah, sure let's start an open source where every monkey can put his TL without any quality control. sounds like a great way to ruin a VN.

But isn't it just another way to write things? I like how Fata Morgana does things, but saying that every VN with a true route should be like it is basically the same as saying that all of them should be linear, which simply gives up a lot of potential VN's have.

I don't know the people on /r/visualnovels that well; I'm sure they're not terrible. But Fuwa is an absolute gem. It has just the right amount of activity and traffic and good-natured people who are here to enjoy one another. This is a really good place to call home if you just want calm happiness.

Vote: Going along with my favorite female MC: Cardia, from Code Realize, I add Van Helsing!!! Had to add my favorite boy XD (I put the images in spoilers, because I put more than one and then my post would be ass long xD) When you start the game, Cardia seems like your average female protagonist. She don't speak too much, she's a bit apathetic and her tiny sprite that appears in the corner of the screen severely lack in expressions. Together with her frilly and classy outfit, she looks like a porcelain doll. This gradually changes when more and more question about herself and her past start to pops up. And of course, because she made some awesome friends that are the boys. She changes into a more pratical outifit, starts smiling more, and keeps training so she can be useful when the action bits of the VN starts. Her character development is super refreshing to read! In the prologue, she ruins an infiltration plan for being too naive to even lie. In the routes, she almost leading the infiltrations! She doesn't back down even when she's wounded or weak and shouldn't be fighting. She fight with her boys until the end, even when they want to leave her behind to protect her. Of course, she's from an otome game, so romance plays a big role in the routes, but her proactive side and cute and pure side complement each other more than being at odds. Meaning, she would confront an incredibly powerful enemy alone just because she wants to see her loved one smiling again aaaaaw. (but she had a plan, mind you, she didn't charged in stupidly only with the power of love hahahaha) This story is mainly hers, and not just being told from her POV (well, in most routes at least). And it's incredible how she, an unvoiced MC that you can even turn off her portrait in game (who would do that???), can stand out given that the heroes are awesome as well! Otomate did a good job! She changes outfits early in the game, but I love her frilly dress... And now, to contrast with her sweet personality, we have the sarcastic and arrogant (but that often have the power he says he have) Van Helsing. He always have something snarky to say but just try to start talking about food and he'll become dead serious. He can be a bit tsun tsun at times, but that makes him looks even more adorable. His route is one traumatic event after another, what leads the poor guy to reject everyone to not drag his friends into the trouble, but Cardia didn't gave up on him and go help him with the help of the other guys. He's usually grumpy, and that makes his eventual smile all the more precious. Some pics!

I guess I'm late too, but all best wishes to You @EastCoastDrifter! Hope you'll stick arounf for a while.

Pretty late to say this because I just knew this morning, so let me say happy 24th birthday to our @EastCoastDrifter here and hope you'll have a good year ahead.

Vote: Kotori Kanbe from Rewrite Kotori is one of the more memorable main heroines I've seen in fiction. She's cute, has an incredibly great sense of humor, but she also has a great amount of depth and character development. Her character design is pretty and simple. I like the mix of braids, the flower decs, and the long brown hair. It's probably a bitch to take care of though. While I think Akane has the best rack (which Oppai Route agrees with) Kotori's is also nice and once I would prefer in real life, not too big, not too small. I also really like her casual clothes a lot. She has a simple pink sweater and checkered red skirt which fits well with her personality and overall design. She has some of the best sprites and quotes in the game. There's a reason people still reference and screencap Shake It Now and the handy small butt quotes. It's heavily agreed Chiwa Saito did an amazing job voicing Kotori and shows her super good range. I can't imagine Kotori's goofiness and emotional scenes being so good if it wasn't Ms. Saito voicing them. She breaks the mold of the typical hyperactive girl by actually being really smart and perceptive and has interesting character depth related to her guilt complex and dealing with emotions that she tries to write off. As far as VN main heroines go there aren't many I can think of where they elaborate in great deal of how they were as a kid and how they showed how and why developed into the person they were besides just one simple flashback. She's definitely no Mary Sue. She has flaws related to avoiding people and hiding her emotions when under deep stress that could definitely use some improving which she can in time. She's great when you take her on the surface as a really fun and charming person. She's still great when you look past that and see what she's really like and has to go through. These combined makes an amazing character and I really wish more fictional characters had both of these traits without big flaws holding them back.

Thank you to everyone for being so supportive. I really didn't expect such a warm reaction to my post. I'm sorry to those who didn't find /r/visualnovels a welcoming place, I should have done a better job when I was a mod there in setting a more tolerant tone. Ah yeah I find that too, once they get a certain size it's so hard to engage in a conversation as it eats up all your time, you need to reply so fast and need the window open constantly. It's also harder to recognise people as there's a constant stream of new faces on busier servers, so it's hard to grow closer.

Since the salt lord SolidBatman did a thread rating people's waifus, I decided that it was finally time for me to rate your Kyonyuus. Since I am the official Kyonyuu King, I felt that this kind of thread would be befitting of somebody like me. Post your kyonyuus here and I will rate them accordingly.

Hello there. Let me introduce myself, I am Happiness+. Why happiness+? don't know. Maybe I have Hate+ subconsciously on my mind for some reason. Background: Grew up in Detroit. ghetto shit. I was even jumped by a gang.... of all girls. Began programming since 16 years of age. I know how to make websites and mobile apps. Nothing too advanced but stuff that can impress literally anyone that isn't a comp sci major. Fell in love with anime since Sailor Moon in the 90's. My first VN was this. I love visual novels; I think they are the best medium to combine both cinematography and literary depth. I was working on a visual novel back in 2016, but then crap happened and I left the internet for a while. I've decided to come back, and do something good for the medium. Maybe lead a translation project or finish my own VN. Both? I don't know. No question is off-limits. I am currently reading Kara no Shojo. I just installed the game yesterday, but did'nt read it because I had a french quiz today. I have been itching for a good horror since I finished the hirgurashi series. I mean saya is good, but I like to feel like when I solve through it. By the way, I love this site's design. It looks so sophisticated, and it updates in real time. I didn't know forums could be this modern. Also, my profile pic is a sprite from my VN. I have a week to myself, because it's spring break. Woot! AAAANNNDDD, I have run out of things to say. Nice to meet you guys.

G O O D L U C K ! ! 1 1

How about Koakuma?

I disagree. What about the situations where non-true routes serve dome different purpose? For example, in Ever 17, they present little hints about the mystery of the game, while the true route reveals the mystery. I don't know how it would work if the true route wasn't locked.

If one pair isn't enough then how about sisters?

Yes it is. 10/10

So how about our favorite hikikomori moon princess Kaguya?

Is this the perfect formula then? Literally heaven.

A good girl is feminine, shy and adorable to look at. Like a flower or glass, you must be afraid of ruining it with your touch. -8 for temperament, +2 for body type and eyes. 4/10.

That is brilliant. Sounds like something I'd say if I had any confidence. I'd give her a 7/10. I like her look, but there's something about her that wouldn't really stand out to me. 9/10. Love kyonyuu elfs. Also, super glad the loli chick actually grows breasts. That makes me quite happy. It does count, but they're not big enough for my tastes. I'll give it a 5/10.

(Slightly NSFW links) Here, rate the best girls.

I'll have you know that this was on purpose and it was after Narita (the protagonist) went all poetic saying: "voluptuous breasts are worthy of being called holy." How about these?

saw the low-effort unicorn post from a mile away

Bust size and attractiveness mostly, unless I know their character's personality, then I include that.

Probably should've explained this. Kyonyuus are anime girls with a bust size of 90cm or more.

Depends on if anybody decides to be edgy and post NSFW pics.

Kirisu is perplexing. I don't like tsundere much at all, but part of me argues that she isn't a tsundere, just a stubborn woman. Her excitement for science with Okabe is infectious and she generally is a fun character. That particular depiction isn't a great one, but I still like her despite tsundere character traits. 8/10

Hell, it could've had great writing in Japanese, but the translation was apparently very mediocre and it may not have conveyed the quality of the original VN. But still, even with a trashy TL, some of the writing decisions were...questionable.

That's definitely true in a sense. Comyu had this problem a lot. I didn't like a lot of the characters who had routes besides Mayu and Kagome. Playing through Benio's route was the worst.

6.5/10 Interesting design, semi-loli, pony tail is a bonus. Not sure why the classroom is so dark. Pls dont be lewd. 10/10 Mecha waifu good hair, good legs, best of the thread by far.

Personally, I love this genre. This type of VNs probably the best represent the unique points of VNs as a medium. Take Balrd Sky Dive 1 and 2 for example. 2 VNs x 50+ hours long for a single multi route mystery. It was so good, that I didn't even notice how fast I read it. Considering that it took me 3 weeks, that is a huge achievement. Then we have Dies Irae. I don't think that I need to comment much. The fact remains, multi route mystery genre allows supreme world building experience. The problem with enforced playing order is that many people confuse it with multi route mystery when they are 2 different things. While both are connected, they are not the same. Mostly people complain about playing unwanted routes to unlock the one way want. This is not the problem of multiple route mysteries, but rather of enforced playing order and terribly written characters

That's a good point, standards for what is and isn't an insult, what counts as a greeting, whether people should reply or just upvote/like something, they all vary per community. Like on twitter, whenever I see a friend talking about feeling a bit down, I'm never sure whether I should "like" it as a sign of support, or whether "liking" that they're down is insulting? I haven't really participated too much here on Fuwa as I'm kind of anxious about getting too attached to any community anymore, but so far it seems really nice. I love the alerts for when someone quotes you etc, as it makes it much easier to follow things if you don't have time to check all the threads. Hahaha, that's amazing. Even automod-chan got her route. My bet is on her and gambs being the last ones standing. In other news, I've been informed by one of the /r/visualnovels mods that this post counts as harassing insanityy and they'll react accordingly, even when the post is meant to be about how great a mod she was. It seems I can't do anything right.

From my limited knowledge (and this thread), I think you did just fine. There are obviously many people who do like the Reddit; communities almost always split in that way based on preferences. Fuwa has a different sort of crowd; and it serves a different function. The big problem happens when people who prefer something like 4chan or Reddit come to a place like Fuwa; they usually try to pull the decorum closer to what they prefer. They want access to new (and often softer/kinder) people, but they don't want to respect the etiquette here. Often their behavior comes across as mean/abrasive/trollish. It's probably fine for 4chan or Reddit, but it ends up being called out as bad behavior in this setting. It's not unique to a board like Fuwa; it happens everywhere, with almost every community. Thank you for the initial read; was extremely interesting! <3

Vote: Roll Again! (Any comment post without a designated vote counts as a Roll Again when we do the drawing) Wow, I can feel the love you have for her, @r0xm2n, in your huge list of awesome things about her. She's cute and funny, but unlucky. I wouldn't mind seeing her win (with extra fan service even). Who doesn't love fan service, and she's super cute and flirty! Thank you so much for sharing her. I loved it! Oh, so now I know the female version of you @Plk_Lesiak! It's such a beautiful series. I love the art so much! I like all the different kinds of characters and pairings. But there's always something super lovely about Yuri. There's this innocence in much of it that I find super adorable. Sadly, my experience with most real-life girls doesn't quite mirror what you find in anime and VNs; so I'm right there with you, living out my cutesy girl-girl love fantasies in the Yuri games! And the crying is completely reasonable. We can get so attached to some of these characters; in many ways they come alive through our emotions. *writes that down as a good future idea for a short, VN story* @wei123, you should totally go with your original pairing! If you want to post again with just their names and the reference art, that would be okay. Just put a "Vote: YourNewCouple" at the top of the one you already did. Oh, that's beautiful. That he was willing to sacrifice his ideals for her. They make such a cute couple. She seems a bit more soft, and he's holding her; so lovely. Thank you for sharing them with us! What a cute and fun character @Ranzo! I love that she was your first love! So much love. Completely love evil, vindictive characters. I think they are seriously underloved (or maybe they've just sacrificed all the people who once loved them). Thank you for sharing; she looks like she would be a fun character to draw. <3 Aww, what a great submission @NowItsAngeTime! First, on looks alone, she looks like she'd be really fun to draw! I love all that hair and the braids! And I like how much you know her and seem to enjoy her character (and her "just right" breasts). Thank you so much for participating!

It's kind of bullshit though. You're not being twisted for "wanting" bad things to happen to people so you can be a hero. Well, surely there are heroes with mental disorders in games and movies who might think like this. Bad things will always happen to people, the important thing is that you're a person willing to step up and help those people.

Oh, I almost forgot. I have a present for you: https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2018/01/03/hoshizora-no-memoria-3/

Happy birthday to our very own space fanatic @EastCoastDrifter!!!!

Actually it's even worse. It's horribly drawn and horribly colored h-scenes.

Mint Blancmanche (Galaxy Angel) I know, right big surprise that I would pick Mint, but she just has something that puts her above all the others, which is the fact that I was already obsessed with her way before I knew what a Visual Novel was. I grew to love Mint early on when I started watching the anime. I adored the fact that she presented herself as such a dignified lady while all the while she had a hidden vindictive, and merciless, edge to her. This is best exemplified in the episode in which she nearly wipes out her entire squad, just so she can avoid being seen in a compromising situation. Both the manga and Visual Novel opened up her character immensely by revealing that she is telepathic. This added a surprising amount of depth to her and to her interactions. Her route in the Galaxy Angel also had some of the most tender and sweet moments that melted my heart

I really want to say Kagami Sumika and Shirogane Takeru from the Muv Luv series, but since I can't say much without spoiling pretty much everything from the series, I will go with my next favourite pairing. Vote: Emiya Shirou and Matou Sakura from the Fate series. Emiya Shirou is your typical weak-and-useless protagonist at the start, with his ideals of wanting to save everyone and recklessness always getting himself into deep trouble. However, in the Heavens Feel route, once he starts to fall in love with Sakura, he gradually starts to change his ways, and this is especially evident when Sakura starts to change for the worse. By doing what he did for Sakura, he risked sacrificing the lives of thousands of others, thus effectively throwing away his ideals, which is to save everyone. Even when he finds out about Sakura's past, not only does he not turn away from Sakura, but he embraces her more. Anyways, here are some images of Sakura and Shirou:

My Favorite couple will be Shirahane Suou and Hanabishi Rikka from the Flowers series. It's a non-canon pairing, at least when it comes to first three chapters of the game, but one that is really dear to me and one I find most appropriate for the characters. Suou is pretty much a female version of me - a shy, insecure girl, with s fair share of childhood traumas and hope to change her life for the better in the new environment. And while the game tries to sell her trying to be someone she isn't as the "right" approach, one that leads to positive conclusion in the main route, Rikka's route is different. She accepts Suou exactly the way she is and is ready to protect her whenever needed. She's reliable, caring and will do everything for the person she loves. At certain point she makes a horrible mistake, let's jealousy cloud her mind and push her towards manipulating other, but it's not truly in her nature - and it's a lesson she learned well, after she realizes that the feelings she tried to force upon Suou were already there. Her epilogue, unlike the sad end of Mayuri route, is one of the sweetest experiences I've had in VNs and I really hope them being together is still an option in he final part of the series. And now I'm crying for some reason.

It will probably change 10 times in the next day or so. Good to see you as well Rooke. Hope all is well. Hey Kaguya. Still managing the forums and keeping the kiddos in line? Oh wow...I totally forgot that was a thing. That face was when I owned my 1st two anime figurines ever. It really has been some time. Hey Funyarinpa. Thanks for the hello! For the most part I’ve been fine. I’ll probably slowly tell more stories as time goes on.

Yume Miru Kusuri came to mind instantly. While it may not have downright changed me, it made me realize what happened at some events when I went to school. At age 17 (I think) one of the guys in my class turned into Nekoko. Sure some details differs, but overall it was pretty much the same thing, complete with even the crazy hat. Some days he was high and some days he kept falling asleep. He was a bit of a character even before this, but turning this weird ensured nobody wanted to have anything to do with him at all. One day after he had fallen asleep during class (again), I walked up to him and said "you know, this just can't keep up. You end up dropping out and throwing away your life". We then had a conversation about him not caring about his parents' expectations and I started talking about that it's his life, not his parents' life, which is at stake. It only lasted about 10 minutes, but within a week he was back to normal and he managed to not drop out. The answers he gave me were weird, but I didn't think much of it at the time. While reading YMK much later I realized what he said was sort of code to admit his abuse. In other words it was YMK, which made me realize what I had done. It's also a reminder how we can influence other people with what seems like minor actions. I just "wasted" a 10 minute break where my alternative was to just waste time. I never really had anything to do with that guy other than this, not before or after, though when I had a chance encounter with him a few years later, he was doing well and he clearly had a very positive impression of me. Another lesson YMK told me is that some people have decided a certain world view and rejects anything conflicting with that point of view. Specifically in the case of YMK, it's bullying. A lot of people have written online that the bullying in YMK is way too extreme to be believable. I wish that to be the case, but in fact it doesn't seem farfetched to me. During my schooltime, stuff happened, like adding gravel to food, hoping the tiny rocks would break teeth (didn't work, but each attempt caused a no lunch day). Also pouring water into a schoolbag to ruin all the books, which caused the school to demand the bag's owner to pay for new books. Overhead a similar plan being abandoned because one person chickened out and had discarded the collected urine. Then there are physical attacks, sending people to hospital and in one case somebody was arrested at school for attempted murder. My parents decided to move just to get me out of the school district and shortly after some government task force took over the school because everything had gone crazy and the school leadership did nothing. I really can't say YMK is any worse than this. Just because it didn't happen at your school doesn't mean it doesn't happen at any school at all. Just for the record, the Nekoko event and the bullying were two different schools. Speaking of bullying, research has indicated that it has nothing to do with not being friendly towards bullies. What happens is a lack of leadership. This power vacuum will make one person decide to be leader and collect a group of henchmen. The leader then orders the henchmen to bully a victim. The goal is to make the henchmen not want to be the victim. With this setup, the leader will gain complete power over the henchmen because if a henchman refuse to follow an order, he/she will be the next victim. The victim is often picked semi or completely random and can't do anything about it. The whole "let's talk it over and be friends" will never work because somebody has the goal of power rather than friendship. I didn't actually learn this part from YMK. It's just an important fact regarding the topic from YMK.

I actually liked the Berseria gameplay. Best Tales combat system since Graces F, IMO, and maybe even better than Graces F. Once you get the swing of it, combat is fast and rewards both skill and sound tactics, and all of that is important to me. There are rarely some boss enemies that make the combat system very unforgiving and less rewarding, and those can make a fight extremely frustrating, though. All that said, you probably just have different preferences, and that's fine; you can't all have excellent taste like me. I'm currently playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which is by turns fun and frustrating. I haven't gotten that far in (I'm in Chapter 3, I think?). The gacha is pretty infuriating; I've only rolled one rare blade so far, and it was for Nia, so my main character only has two slots and one of them is a lousy three-star generic, ugh. The combat is growing on me as more options open up. The only thing I'm not liking so far is that there seem to be major balance problems. Land in a new zone: prepare to be playing ludicrously safely for the first hour or two until you level up a few times, peeling monsters off one or two at a time so you can actually handle them. Then, once you level up, just roflstop everything for an hour or two. Then move on to a new zone and repeat. Add to that, all the boss fights so far have been an absolute joke; I'm much more likely to die by accidentally pulling three mobs in a new zone than I am to die to a boss. All feels rather off.

7.32/10 Still looks Key-ish but not bad. Loli-esque though. No bueno. I appreciate the bow tie, however. 3/10. Because we needed more balloon tit onee-sama looking characters in the world? At least her eyes are unique. Impossible to rate. Words cannot do this magnificent beast justice. 1/10. Reminds me too much of high school english class. 9/10. Look, I love anything that resembles Mel Kishida's artwork. Dark hair, soft appearance, pastel coloring. A winning combination. Having glasses doesn't hurt at all. 4/10. I was expecting something not so generic looking from you to be honest. 2/10. Have you ever seen art from europe during the medieval time period and wondered to yourself, "did they even know how to fucking draw?" That's how I feel any time I see Oyari's artwork. 6.5/10 Interestingly enough, her eyes appear to share the same style as Leiji Matsumoto's eye style. I like the bright eye color, though I'm not too big on her hair style. That said, she certainly is a decent choice. +1 for the choker gem matching her earrings and eye color. 0/10 All of us are now collectively dumber thanks to this meme picture. 0/10 Smoking is bad for you. 4/10 Lucia was at the bottom of my Rewrite girl list, even below the token loli with different eye colors. Her personality is annoying, as is the case with most tsunderes. Her face also suffers dearly from Key syndrome in that it looks utterly stupid. +2 for dark hair and blue eyes. 8/10 Of all the garbage in Grisaia, I always kept a soft spot for Michiru and she was the reason I quit reading the VN as I felt the treatment of her character, a character clearly suffering from a mental disability, was atrocious and disgusting. She genuinely cares about people and is adorably cute. I still fondly remember how happy I was for her at the start of her route when she thought she was going on a date with Yuuji, and how upset I was when he forced her to run instead. It wasn't funny, it was just cruel for no reason at all. She deserved better writing.