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If anybody else has been following the Fruits Basket reboot, that episode was the clincher. I've been waiting for that scene since seeing the original many years ago, but it still floored me. Damn I wept so hard.

Probably because the other stores don't have a "key function" at all as far as I know.

You can find the list in this Google Doc here. I've been reading visual novels for almost 10 years, and it's still one of my favorite fictional mediums. Part of that is because of how much I love these characters and how long you get to know them in these stories. Now that I've read just about every English TLd VN I was interested in, I figured it'd be good to do this list as I go into reading VNs in Japanese and share which characters and experiences I've enjoyed the most. There's a simple TLDR list at the bottom of the doc you can access on the left side menu if you just want to see that without going through 30+ pages of writeups. I chose not to include characters from series like Ace Attorney, DanganRonpa, and Zero Escape since those are popular enough and have enough gameplay to be considered just games and it was already tough to narrow down the characters I had for this list and wanted to highlight more from the text-only visual novels. For Fun here's the spread of characters by localization company: MangaGamer- 6 JAST - 9 (8 currently unreleased) Sekai Project - 10 (2 currently unreleased) Sol Press- 1 Nekonyan- 2 MoeNovel- 5 Frontwing- 3 (All currently unreleased) Degica- 2 Fan TLd Only- 9 EVN original- 3 Feel free to give any comments, gushing, or dunks on my opinions. Or to ask why certain characters are/aren't on my list. Or which characters of yours are your favorites. I'll answer whenever I can.

Hey, everyone! I wanted to mention that a new public release of the game has been made available today. Highlights include upgraded sprite art for two of the main characters, the first CG and two additional story paths for the existing consensual and villainous routes. Full update notes below. I also want to say thank you for the interest shown thus far! However, I can understand not wanting to play the game in its current state, not just because some of the existing writing is likely to get revised later on, but also certain decisions are going to have a lot more weight to them for a new reader once there are fully fleshed-out alternatives available. What's New (September 14th 2019): Nozomi's new sprite has been updated with a full range of outfits New initial sprite art for Sayori (limited functionality) First CG has been inserted into the game, depicting the start of the game's two darker routes New path added for Nozomi's consensual route, starting from the third day New alternate choice added for the Villainous route along the robot path, leading to a very different conclusion Added a secondary character to accommodate the Villainous route additions Nozomi's consensual route ending has been slightly expanded Removed Kyou's side sprite (Did he ever need one?) Two new music tracks added. One for the title screen and a few of Kyou's bedroom scenes, and a creepy one for the new robot path ending, because it wasn't quite creepy enough already... Fixed a bug in Nozomi's consensual route where Nozomi's hypnosis trigger was being overwritten Fixed another bug in Nozomi's consensual route where Sayori always talks about Nozomi forgetting a number while giving her rundown of events in day 6, even if you changed Nozomi's name instead. Nozomi's and Sayori's nametags have had their colours altered slightly, matching their new sprite's hair colours Kyou's nametag colour has been changed to green to more clearly set his speaking lines apart from the others Word count is now almost 74,000 (up from about 63,000 in the previous release) Miscellaneous spelling and grammar corrections and script tweaks

Good list there, just like the last year. I have nothing much to say, although if you want to read some more VN perhaps I can recommend stuffs such as Damekoi and Aokana if you still interested in the newer VNs.

Does that even count? If it did I guess my first would be the Love Hina dating sim made by the same people. My second would be the Galaxy Angel one. I stumbled upon it while exploring the adult games on newgrounds like any good middle schooler would do(or maybe I was a freshman) I liked the game so much that I decided to read the Love Hina series and I really loved it at the time. Of course with Galaxy Angel that love never faded. Of course, my first vn was Galaxy Angel proper and I loved it absolutely loved it. My favorite character was finally given the chance for her to shine and it was just really sweet.

My first was Saya no Uta. I thought it was pretty cool and interesting, but over time my positive opinions towards it gradually decreased.

To be honest, Steam is my ideal choice, but whenever I read VNs on steam they show up in my friend's recommendations and I don't feel like listening to them moan about how I'm ruining their store feed. I'll take Denpasoft or Mangagamer (assuming their store gets fixed) over JAST. I can get back into my accounts for either of those sites in under 5 minutes easily. For some ungodly reason I have to check all of my emails multiple times before I can figure out which one is linked to my JAST account. Of course finding the email is never enough, now I have to go through password recovery which, again for some ungodly reason, never works the first time on JAST.