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i saw zaka post anime porn on his big tv in his living room on twitter in the year of our lord 2022 also i remember you tyrael

Heya, I used to be very active here many years ago, looking to catch up with the many wonderful people I met here but sadly lost contact with along the way. A bit about me: I used to be a casual reader, did a few reviews for the website here back in the day. My fav VNs are Rewrite, Song of Saya and G-Senjou no Maou. These days I spend a lot of my time working (argh), playing magic the gathering (irl? woah!), playing table tennis and a bit of video gaming here and there when I have the time. Glad to be back!

Yeah Nekonyan already have plan to release it on 30th later (Or maybe October 1st later). Anyway from the review I know that it's reception is lesser compared to Karichaimashita (Which is already divisive enough on it's own), so perhaps if I may give some advice it would be better to expect this as usual ASa Project comedy instead of romantic comedy VN, which of course can be enjoyable on it's own. Oh, and ASa Project here really write one of the side heroine, Yuna, as prominent as the four main heroines with her having 14 scenes which is definitely more than joke routes in Karichaimashita (For comparison the four main heroines have average 22 scenes with the one that has most scenes is ironically Yuna's fellow idol Renna at 27 scenes). Anyway the tweet for the proof below. And yes it's already has Steam store page of it, so you know where to get it from. PS - I can see that the translator definitely want to make reference toward Kaguya-sama manga here, which somehow fitting seeing that Karichaimashita here took some reference from (Infamous) Kanokari manga.

I played a bit of Despiria (wonder if anyone has a proper dump of the script, I was able to get fragments but not particularly organized... though the scenes with words flying around are probably hell in any case) on a dreamcast emulator (not flycast tho, redream) and it worked pretty well indeed, should be nice. Good luck with the project, haven't played the original game — would you say that's needed?

I don't know why, but this setting, the character designs, the older-looking graphics and the winter background... This reminds me a lot of the Utawarerumono games, wow. Have a nice time translating this! You should maybe try and get the knowledge of this project out there, telling Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku might give it a massive popularity boost should he write about it. Also there are people like SpeedyNoelle around who can make a video about this that can go viral. More people have to play obscure DreamCast FanTLs, especially because the emulator (FlyCast) runs so smoothly these days!

Maybe, but the market still very small yet, and by nature, even though we have a lot of anime and manga consumers, visual novels have a negative stigma here, not as eroge, but as 'a pointless game where all you do is click and read', so even anime fans a lot Sometimes they don't go out of their way to give visual novels a chance, at least until recently, dokidoki literature club went viral and now visual novels are much more recognized by the general public, but haven't aroused as much interest in other titles. Currently the 'biggest' visual novel group in Brazil, as far as I know (If i'm wrong someone recommend me a bigger community, I really want join it), is the "Visual Novel BR" group, which has only 3,000 members, worth mentioning, a group that was created by Sid years ago. So, with such a small audience it might be the wrong time for companies to try to invest in our country, the biggest disaster would be to fail once and lose future interest. It is worth mentioning that even among the 3 thousand members, most of them know English, and just as Americans hear those who keep saying "Just learn Japanese", here the members usually say "Learn English" instead of trying to give national projects a chance. I'm also already a little away from translations, so I shouldn't invest so much time in projects now.

Does not seem to be true for LNs. There are quite a few of companies missing in the list. They did get a lot more popular in the recent years.

Guest reviewer, full reviewer, featured reviewer - all the same. You're gonna get a Wordpress account either way and then it is a question of using it once or multiple times a year, heh.

I can see that the first impression here is definitely not the sign on how people will act, although after three times he keep posting like that obviously it'll raise some eyebrows. Not to mention that his first post here is just directly ask for the release rashly, which to say can be treated as rude and entitled. Also while I'm obviously lamented that Yoake didn't have the sex scenes translated, the all age version here has two additional routes which mean more contents for the story so it's logical if the translator chose the version that has more story (If anything else, Yoake here is like Aselia). By the way if one year is all he need to be snapped by the lack of update, imagine what would happen if he is been waiting for Eustia until now (Although he may as well was already snapped because of the wait for Eustia here). Lastly while it's still too bad that August VN here is cursed, seeing that nowadays there's a lot of translated VNs released from the other groups or companies with several VNs are from one company (ie Yuzusoft, Alice Soft, Smee, and Marmalade with Yuzusoft is previously thought as another cursed company), it would be better to just move on instead of being obsessed by one company because it's clear on how much it does to the mental health (If the banned user is not trolling that is).

To be fair, that number's been there before we even disappeared. Proof of a rather unhinged self in the past. I'd like to think that I'm already mellowed out though. Btw noticing your signature, if you're curious about Roach he's still alive and well. Just actually a super normie now.

Woooooo Interested in providing content as a guest reviewer for sure, missed ya bud! No worries, just spend a fifth of your paycheck on it each month and you're golden I'd like to forget I ever used Skype lmao Necro gang Sup dude Holy bajeezus, almost 8K posts? Man, I loved Kindred Spirits, easily my favourite review I ever did as well. Happy to see you, fellow FFXIV addict

I believe they eventually (but it took a while) released a patch that freed the shota, but it was a pretty high level move indeed... Generally same opinion as sanah. To add is that they tend to hire translation agencies (to keep up with how much DMM japan side demands they push out? maybe), which makes them unable to credit the translators often (besides the usual bad quality a translation agency offers). When they can credit, they do, however.

My writing professor in college started his course by saying that all stories are driven by desire. Desire motivates characters to go out and do something, and conflict happens when a character doesn’t get what they want. Then he asked us “What does everybody want?” I think some people said money, some people said fame. He shook his head. “Love,” he said, emphasizing the word. “Everybody wants love.” It didn’t have to be romantic love, he explained. 'Love' could be a mother accepting her son for who he is, or someone helping their friend recover from addiction. Love isn’t about getting comfortable enough around someone to have sex with them—that’s just an extension of what love is: acceptance, affirmation, and connection. Sure, everyone wants love. But that’s not the whole story. There’s a dark side to love, just as there’s a dark side to everyone, and that’s what I wanted to explore in Black Heaven: A Necromantic Dating Sim. THE STORY In Black Heaven, you play as a former scholar of the Itzon Academy, where students studied the art of immortality. There, you met Ru, your shy but brilliant mentor, Izagi, a stoic and idealistic martial arts prodigy, and Lyse, a sharp-tongued and flirtatious debutante. That school (and all your classmates) perished when you and your mentor accidentally unleashed a cancerous plague that wiped out most of the continent, leaving you one of the sole survivors. Most of the ‘dating’ part of the ‘dating sim’ takes place in memories, where you return to your happiest moments with Ru, Izagi, and Lyse. Your lonely exile from Itzon is interrupted when you meet No-Eyes, a mysterious necromancer who offers you a deal: bring him the souls of your former classmates at Itzon, and he’ll rip your soul free from the flow of time and allow you to relive the happiest moments of your life on a loop, forever. When you return to Itzon, however, you come face-to-face with the ghosts of your friends, who have become monstrous, shattered versions of the people you used to know, still obsessed with their past lives. The ghosts are what I really want to talk about. HUNGRY GHOSTS One of the big ideas that informed the game’s narrative is a Buddhist concept called the “hungry ghost,” a spirit that’s driven by “intense emotional needs in an animalistic way.” I imagined a hungry ghost as being less of a person and more of a bundle of desires, kind of like an amalgamation of wants in the shape of a human being. But if my writing professor was right, then that’s all human beings are. Everything we do, everything we are, is based on a want, a desire, a feeling of incompleteness that drives us to go out and fill the hole within ourselves. I like to think I have a grasp on what kinds of characters and stories resonate with people, and what I’ve discovered so far is that people like complex characters, which are characters that are built on contradictions. Here’s an excerpt from a piece I wrote a while ago: “At the heart of every interesting, complex character is a contradiction (or several of them). It’s the imbalance that creates desires, weaknesses, and conflict. It also creates something to unearth or discover over the course of a story.” It’s a pretty radical idea if you think about it, because it implies that what resonates with most readers is having some deep-seated flaw that ensures that they’ll never be whole, happy, or satisfied until they reconcile with it. I think it says something about the human condition—that maybe each of us, consciously or not, has built our sense of self, our identity, on a foundation riddled with cracks. SELFISH LOVE So what do people do with this feeling of emptiness, of desire, of wanting more? How do they become whole and finally reconcile with all the parts of themselves that are flawed? The answer, many times, is to seek out someone else’s love. As long as someone else loves that person, then they receive the ultimate affirmation that they’re worth something, that they’re good, and that they don’t have to face the difficult parts of living alone (see the infamous scene from Bojack Horseman for reference). But it’s not enough. Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most brutal, thorny, and complex explorations of love, and one of the reasons I like it so much is because its thesis, arguably, is that being loved by someone doesn’t redeem you. Instead, it shows that love, like anything else, can be warped and twisted into something destructive if you go into it with the wrong pretenses. It's not a coincidence that Evangelion talks a lot about the self and about love, because love is portrayed as a selfish desire: Asuka wants someone to love her to confirm that she matters, Misato wants love so she can lose herself in someone else, and Shinji wants someone to love so he can feel like he’s worth something, anything. You see the thread here? What’s called “love” is often all tied up with the self: our own thoughts, fears, insecurities, and perceptions of the world. If you want to see this in action in a well-known visual novel, take Katawa Shoujo, a story about high schoolers attending a school for students with medical disabilities. A CASE STUDY IN TWISTED LOVE There’s a scene in Katawa Shoujo where Hanako, a burn victim with extensive scars over half of her body, sheds her clothes, reveals her scars, and has sex with the protagonist, Hisao. It’s supposed to be the moment when the two truly connect, but despite the trappings of intimacy, neither of them truly understands the other: Hanako is using the intimacy to ensure that Hisao doesn’t leave her, and Hisao sees it as the end product of his conscious, long-term project to help Hanako overcome her insecurities. Most importantly of all, the relationship is warped by both character’s internal issues: Hisao seems to view Hanako partly as a broken person he wants to “fix” (mirroring his inability to fix his own lingering fears about his heart), and Hanako is caught between fearing Hisao will leave her like others who “cared” for her and resenting how helpless and fragile he treats her. With this in mind, the intimate act of sex, which is supposed to be an act of love, isn’t about love at all—it’s a twisted manifestation of the internal issues of both characters, who are so blinded by their own fears and desires that they’re not even having the same experience. In fact, some of the most extreme commentators on sex and desire claim that it’s always selfish: “The act of sex for humans is so much caught up in our fantasies (our idealized images of both ourselves and our sexual partners) that it is ultimately narcissistic.” ROMANCE IN BLACK HEAVEN In Black Heaven, one of the key ideas that went into writing the romance arcs was fleshing out each character’s “internal picture”—essentially a map of their personality traits, their flaws, and what their idea of ‘love’ looked like. For the character Ru, relating to people is a messy, unpredictable chemical reaction, where there are too many variables to figure out and too many chances for misunderstanding and pain. Ru is analytical and logical because it helps her feel in control of her life, but the parts of her that are hard to quantify (like taking care of herself or her own emotions) get neglected. Ru’s internal contradiction is that, despite her attempts to ignore or minimize the inconvenient parts of herself and her life, she still feels their effects: she’s lonely, she’s insecure about other’s perceptions of her, and she feels like she’s constantly running from the parts of her that are frightening or confusing. Over the course of the story, the protagonist of Black Heaven can grow closer to Ru, which may turn into a romantic relationship. For Ru, the romance is a terrifying, uncertain, guilty affair (she’s supposed to be a teacher, after all), but the desire for someone else to assuage her fears about being too broken or pathetic to love is great enough to overcome those misgivings. In stories like this, the villain isn’t a serial killer or a necromancer—it’s a person who wears ‘I love you’ like a mask. That kind of villain is well aware of their partner’s reasons for seeking out love, and uses them for their own ends. That kind of ‘love’ is part of what I wanted to explore in Black Heaven: A Necromantic Dating Sim. It’s a destructive kind of love, but more importantly, it sheds some light on the parts of us that are too painful and too vital to ignore. You can play the extended demo of Black Heaven here! You can also check the Kickstarter page for updates here! 49 20 6C 6F 76 65 20 63 6F 6D 6D 69 74 74 69 6E 67 20 74 69 6D 65 20 74 68 65 66 74 2E

Oh shit it's Tyrael

Zaka actually has made a very steep career jump. From the swedish viking with too much powerlevel that called others autistic he turned into a capable pseudo-admin fulfilling all our tasks splendidly and in no-lazeball-mode. When we started communicating this, old people were like "omg, if you mod Zaka this will be a clownshow here!" and knowing him for like 4-5 years and him growing into one of my best friends I can definitely vouch for him being a capable admin. He's not only around, he is around better than ever - he still calls people autistic tho (´；ω；｀)

Welcome back! I just come back few days ago myself also looking to see if I can reconnect with old userbase here too. Funny Rewrite, Song of Saya and G-Senjou no Maou ware all in my top favorites at some point too, thrue before I "Disconnected" from VNs and anime scene I was mostly reading only Yuri VNs and my favorites ended up being The Shadows of Pygmalion, Kindred Spirits on the Roof and Fatal Twelve. Right now I am trying to get back into VNs and anime and all, and I think I would probably go for psychological titles or JRPG/VN hybrids when I do start reading VNs again. @Zakamutt Oh I completely forgot to mention you in my own comeback topic, nice to see you are still around.

Someone recently mentioned it on Discord, because they wanted some VTuber to sing it. It's an ultra banger by my boy Pinocchio-P

So, like usual, they release nothing on PC?