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Hi there, welcome to the forums!

Hi & welcome to the forums! That's awesome that you're studying programming, it's something I've always been interested in but never learnt. I studied Japanese at university, so if you ever have any questions on translation I can try and help Aeru's written a great post on learning Japanese to play vn, but I can't find it right now, her wordpress seems to have been deleted :/ I'll let you know if I find it!

Hi, welcome to Fuwan~!

Hi & welcome to the forums :3 You have a ton of skills that I'm sure will be of use around here! Maybe check out the volunteer & fan translation boards for starters, there's always projects that are recruiting~

My no. 1 favourite is Air. Others are Kanon, Angel Beats, NHK ni Yokoso, School Days, Uta Kata, Ouran High School Host Club.. and many more.. every time I get asked my list changes because I forget/remember different ones!

MISUZU-CHAAAAANN~~ Nice to see another Air fan here XD

Hi there! Don't be shy, you really don't need to have tons of 'knowledge' to share in the VN love Oh and my favourite from Galaxy Angel is Vanilla~

Heyy nice to meet you! We have similar interests... but then I guess a lot of us here do I loooove to sleep haha. I love School Days too. Yandere is probably my favourite genre~ I added you on MAL (allthings), but I hardly use it to be honest ^^; Hope to see you around the forums :3

Hi & welcome to Fuwan! Hope you will be active around here :3

Hi and welcome! As everyone has already mentioned, you've come to the right place to find translated games, or methods of playing untranslated ones

Ooooh I wanna join XD Gonna wait til I have a bit more time to commit though, life's so hectic right now~

I would LOVE to work on this, but unfortunately have my hands full. Hope you find another translator soon! I'll be keeping an eye out for your progress ^.^

Interesting idea, I would support it as I tend to choose my games based on genre/type.

I dunno XD I just love the anime so much, that I think maybe my expectations for the game would be too high.. But I will play it eventually.. after I've played all the 100s of other games on my list ^_~

Yeah, seriously, what is WRONG with people ._. Anyway, you're making amazing progress, keep going

In Japan even 18+ material has to be censored - it is illegal to show uncensored genitalia. So yeah, the uncensored vn have either been uncensored for release overseas, or uncensored by fans. I think this Japanese law is very interesting, and may possibly be linked to the extreme 'creativity' often seen in Japanese pornography! As for lolicon, it's currently legal, but there has been talk about bringing in laws banning cartoons showing minors, due to international pressure. Personally, I don't want them to ban loli/shota. As a (reasonably) sane adult who actually hates kids in real life, I do not connect it in any way with real life paedophilia. There are also various theories about these characters as 'representations' i.e. They are NOT representations of a real child, but are representations of concepts, such as innocence, naivety, etc. This is where people who don't have any experience of anime find it hard to understand, as they aren't 'versed' in the meanings behind the images. In other words we look at a bishojo and go MOEEEEE, they look at it and go 'wtf is this bubblegum coloured cartoon with eyes the size of its face'. Having been immersed in the world of anime for years, I find lolicon 'normal'. Yet my friends are absolutely shocked/sickened when they realise this stuff exists. Anyway, this is just one of the theories out there, and I'm sure there are many more that could argue for/against lolicon. ...Also I don't really know what I was responding to there, I was kind of just typing out my thoughts as they came into my head XD

I love plot twists, and just great plots in general, so I'm definitely interested in this! For the DS I would really recommend Hotel Dusk: http://vndb.org/v697 It's not shocking or plot-twisty, so I don't know if it's really what you're looking for, but I absolutely loved the mystery, the atmosphere, the characters, the plot. Yeah, this was kind of off topic, but I've been wanting to recommend Hotel Dusk to someone for a while XD

I can't wait to play the games for them Just don't have much time right now I haven't actually played the game for Air.. kind of because I don't want to be disappointed! But I will play it eventually. The anime is absolutely beautiful. I find it's quite underrated; everyone's seen Clannad & Kanon, but not so many people have seen Air. And imo Air is the best of the bunch!

Oh wow, the situation there seems pretty bad I don't really know anything about the Czech Republic (my knowledge of European history is terrible), so thanks for the insight. But yeah, hopefully you will be able to move! I just moved from the UK to Japan. Getting a long-term visa is pretty difficult, but it's possible if you find a steady employer who's willing to sponsor you. Or marry a Japanese person XD

Awesome! So do you like the anime or game better? Or can't choose? I just got Kanon last month, haven't played it yet.. loved the anime though. Also, have you seen Air? It's my favourite anime evereverever~

Hmm, even though I'm female, I've never played an otome game XD I do play BL stuff though~ I'd also be interested to hear people's recommendations.. I might give one a go and see what I think.

Hi Alice, nice to meet you! Keep posting & contributing to the forum, and I'm sure you will find something you can help out with

Hi & welcome Don't let go of your dream~ I believe very strongly that if you want something bad enough, and work hard enough, you can make it a reality

Hi & welcome to the forums How did you first discover vns?

Heyyy & welcome! Where abouts in Europe are you from? Good luck with your Japanese learning, you must have a skill for languages if you learnt English to this level without lessons! P.s. I do not judge your loli love ;P