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So once again the time has come for AX, which mean that we may get several interesting announcements. Still no idea on what Mangagamer will announce, but at least we know we'll have 4 announcements from them. Anyway, the schedule below and for the info the time is UTC -7. I'll list the announcements in this post later. PS - I'll list the announcements in here. Mangagamer JAST USA Type Moon JAST Blue Sekai Project That's all for the announcements.

JAST and Mangagamer recently had their announcements, and let's just say that it's quite stacked in number. I'll try to comment when all of the announcements gathered, so for now I'll just update the OP post. PS - I'll compile the announcement in this post below. Mangagamer Hana Awase Choukou Shinki Ixseal Sex Open World e Youkoso! Dead Days JAST Shingun Goblin Gundan ~Jinrui-sou Naedoko-ka Sakusen~ Yomegami: My Sweet Goddess! Yamizome Liberator -Yamiochi Yuusha to Ochiru Senki- Minikui Mojika no Ko Mankai Tenshi Djibril sisters ~Natsu no Saigo no Hi~ Type Moon Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- JAST Blue Masquerade ~Jigoku Gakuen SO/DO/MU~ Paradise Sekai Project Neko-nin eXHeart SPIN!

Cheers everyone, Like the title says, I'm not particularly new here but never been really active. Just now, I wanted to come back to VNs in general and I also plan to be more active in here. Glad this community exists!

Turned out that Mangagamer did announce this at AX, so here's the opening video from them for the proof. PS - I know there's a tweet from them in regard of it, although thanks to Twitter's... less than savory policy I can only post the opening video for the proof.

Playing Onigokko FD. Interesting to see ALcot's evolution from its earlier works to Clover Day's.

Just want to get two VN's off my list I didn't like too much and therefore dropped. The first is Kin'iro Loveriche - a story about a boy accidentally ending up in a noble private academy for rich kids. Felt a bit like a poor man's Yuzusoft VN. Not the worst thing to be compared with, but the VN has a few peculiarities which I found rather off-putting. First, the protagonist is lazy, dumb and perverse, which made the whole heroine cast fawning over him rather unbelievable. Carrying tons of porn magazines around, drawing nude girls in lessons instead of studying and 'enlighten' his comrades about new fetishes on a daily base like a pimp. And not to mention the running gag going on about his countless hardcore sex fetishes - you get the picture! That said, I wouldn't go so far to say that he's a bad guy, and his interactions with Ria in particular were almost mature and well above the rest. Unfortunately, besides Ria the rest of the cast was pretty generic. I played Elle's route, which was trash, with no chemistry whatsoever between the two and little to no plot. I also tried Sylvia's route, but almost died of boredom and Sylvia's absolutely bland personality didn't help either. And I found Reina's 'I'm more lude than you' attitude pretty annoying, so I just skipped it. Maybe Ria's would have been better, but it just wasn't worth having to go through all the other routes, just to 'maybe' get a decent route. Besides Ria, I had an odd liking for Akane, but she didn't seem ready for a relationship yet and especially not with the protagonist. Though to be fair, it's not the worst moege you can play and I've certainly played worse. However, this VN had a strong 'lude & cute' vibe going on, which I simply found unfitting and tasteless. Just not my cup of tea. Heroine ranking: Ria > Akane > Don't care Overall rating 5/10 I also played Amatsutsumi, but didn't like it. First, from the three Purplesoft VN's I've played so far, this was certainly the most boring one by far, with absolutely nothing happening whatsover. But well, a VN can still get decent without much plot if it offers at least good romance. However, the protagonist was apparently taken straight out of a nukige. Pretty much a walking boner who barely thinks about anything else than sex and seems to think that the world is his personal brothel. He therefore bangs all the heroines already in the common route - who needs a romance anyway? Ironically, the VN would have been way better if it would have been at least honest enough to fully commit to a nukige. Instead it tried an inbetween ride with the most misplaced and unfitting H-scenes you can imagine. Kinda "Oh I'm so down and depressed - let's f*ck?!" cringe. I also found the character designs - with the exception of Mana maybe - rather bland in comparison to previous works, with HapyMaher in particular standing out with an incredible audio-visual design. Though, to be fair, the visual effects of many backgrounds (usually involving water) in this VN are off the charts. While all PurpleSoft VN's I have read so far had their issues, they at least got the basics of romance right. This VN fails even at that. So yeah, if that's the future of PurpleSoft VN's, it'll be a future without me. Heroine ranking: Don't care Overall rating: 3/10 (I added one bonus point for the visual effects)