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I'd feel indifferent in regard of the FD here, seeing that unlike Irotoridori Hikari which in argumentative position between sequel and fandisc Eternal heart here is more or less just a straight fandisc albeit with some nice new stories. That said it's nice to see that we finally see the fandisc for FAVORITE VN after several years of waiting (Either 10 years if you've been waiting since Insem finished translate the main game or 5 years if you just play Sekai version) despite the Window issue (At least now we can give the credit to Frontwing for delaying Sharin release so that nobody would complain that they can't change the resolution), and hopefully Nekonyan can also release Hikari in the future.

Speaking of the wrong choice, School Days here is the most infamous example because the director somehow thought that it would be nice to have the anime ending as the bad ending, which admittedly work as the surprise although in exchange it's obviously cause some controversies. It didn't help that the 0verflow staffs may have been drunk when they made the setting for Makoto's father who is more or less quite a piece of work to say it politely, so they may have a hand to have the director adapt the bad ending instead of the numerous good endings of School Days. Anyway as for the Bad Ending, I would say that most people would see it as another word for Game Over for the most part, although like you say Bad Ending here can also be used as a way to build up the world in the VN with the most another notable example that I know is in Remember11 where one of the Bad Ending is very necessary to solve the story because of the inconclusive ending that happen as the result of Creative Difference between the staffs. There's also several VNs that has Bad Ending Only, so yeah it shown that Bad Ending here can be more than just Game Over here. That's all for what I can say in regard of Bad Ending, and as for whether more VN will use it or not we'll see. PS - I forgot to mention Musicus in which it also has quite an extensive Bad Ending, as does Kira Kira in which the player need to get through the Bad Ending first before finally get the good ending. In those cases, the Bad Ending here also provided some character development to the MC that otherwise won't be obtained if he keep going for the good ending. Since you mention that the Bad Ending need to fit the narrative that they're try to tell, the ending with the opposite tone can also be said as the Bad Ending, such as Musicus Yako's ending where one of the reviewer (The review in question) mentioned that the MC is not really achieved anything in said route despite that it end relatively happy. PPS - I see that you mention Hakuai in the other post there, and speaking of it there's also Yumeutsutsu that employ the same system. Let's just say that both Bad Endings in those two VNs are more or less quite bad with either the heroines or the MCs are going dead or going off the deep end.

Well if you want to bring another SCA-DI example, may as well bring Ikikoi in which the common route of it was written by him. Other than that, if you just want the feeling like solving the puzzle then perhaps you can try something like Ever17 and Root Double. You can also try Sayooshi that has the translation, although if you can read Japan then you better chose that version because the translation is said to be not quite good (You can still try the translation out of curiosity though). I don't know if you already read those VNs beforehand or not, but if not then I hope that my recommendations here will be helpful to you.

No much to say in regard of Dragon Ball GT other than it's the original episode that were created by Toei as the way to milk the franchise even further, and let's just say that it failed. For Samurai X, it only adapt up to Kyoto arc before finally make the filler arc for the whole season and thus it's bombed from what I'd hear. I have a lot of ramble about Detective Conan, particularly in regard on how Gosho also write the main story on top want to make it just as usual episodic story so it's inevitable that a lot of people who want the main story to moving up getting fed up by the episodic format (Admittedly a lot of cases in the manga that has some interesting tricks and resolutions), and for the info nowadays Gosho keep having a lot of breaks to do some research to starting wrap up the main story. If you still want to enjoy Conan for the main story here, I would suggest you to just read/glance the manga instead of watching all the anime episodes. Obviously Gosho and TMS (The studio behind Conan) won't end this franchise soon because the anime is still has the highest TV Rating in Japan. That's all for what I can write in regard of Spring 1996 anime.

There's also two more TV series of Ghost in the Shell that are also well received on MAL, so you may check out on those two later on. Anyway I see that you took your time to compile some anime here, and so let's see what I can comment in regard of Autumn 1995 anime now that I started to see some familiar name more here. Azuki-chan movie - I did miss it back on Spring 1995 post because back then there's more bigger anime to note, so I'll try to comment on this. Anyway this series here is more or less about the blossoming romance between the titular character Azuki along with the transfer student Yuunosuke with Azuki also need to deal with her fellow classmate Yoko who also show interest to Yuunosuke, and also there'll be some episodes that put the focus on the other couple as well. I remembered that it also broadcasted in Indonesia, and back then the dub director thought that it's a good idea to chance the name of the casts with Western name (I only remember Azuki as Bunny, Yuunosuke as Mike, and Yoko as Lisa), only to abandoned it after several weeks which obviously confused me with the 'new name' after several episodes getting used with the Western name. Mojakou - It also broadcasted in Indonesia, and as you can say it's another anime that resemble Doraemon because of the very obvious reason (Same author). Well it has alien and stuff, and other than that no much that I can say about it. Evangelion - If you browse TV Trope, surely you know there's a huge number of example in regard of the director, Hideaki Anno, who suffer the depression during the production. While the first half is indeed started as usual mecha anime, by the second half the direction is surely going darker (And confusing) thanks to Anno starting to take the therapy to his depression back then. Anyway while the series has mecha, obviously the series is not for children because the contents are quite dark thanks to the difficult matter that the director shown on top that said contents can be disturbing (Especially the mind rape). It also help that the casts here are not exactly what we can call mentally stable people, especially with Shinji who has a lot of issues. Lastly we can say that this series introduce Asuka who will become the trendsetter of red-haired tsundere (If I'm right), and the ending is very memetic (It's said that the reason for that is because the lack of budget). Kaitou Saint Tail - Compared to Jeanne that would be aired at latter time, this series is quite lighter. The premise here should be more than enough to tell the kind of the story is, and for the info it's the gender reversal of the roles from Kaitou Kid (In there we have the male as the phantom thief and the female as the daughter of the rival policeman) which in turn both are derived from Lupin 3. That's all for what I can say in regard of Autumn 1995 anime.

I know that you still have some works left seeing that I've been following the progress on the Discord, and I see that you finally decided to make it public. Well good luck on finishing the rest of the works, especially in regard of the editing and TLC work for Yosuga no Sora there.

No much to say here other than congratulation on the release and I hope the people who play this would enjoy GSS here. I know that there's something more than gore as indicate by the title, although obviously it should be noted that there's a number of disturbing contents before you play this. Oh, and I still think that Metawo's art here is still looking good even after 16 years.

Anyway we have this released, so you can get it from Mangagamer store with the link available from their Tweet below. Have fun if you're already playing this and took a liking to it.

Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting (By the way your avatar there is quite good looking). I don't know much about RenPy coding here, so I definitely don't know on how to write the programming other than it would be quite tasking if you're not having fun on it. Feel free to ask any VNs recommendations if you need it, and I hope that you'll have fun in here. PS - I see that you'd review two online Yu-Gi-Oh games on Steam, so may as well recommend Soukoku no Arterial in that it's sort of resemble Yu-Gi-Oh to a degree (Although the gameplay is more or less like Eushully gameplay converted into card game). There's a translation patch of it, although it's MTL in which the term is quite infamous thanks to the many error of Google Translate in the past, so you may try the patch first before decided whether the translation is quite serviceable or not. Also in case you didn't know, there'll be some disturbing sex scenes in Arterial later.

Well congratulation to Shiravune in regard of the release, although it's no longer classified as the VN because it has a lot of RPG gameplay. Still the release should be nice if you want the same experience akin of Crisis Core here in that you'll play as the more popular Posthumous Character in the past, although Osthor is still live through Utawarerumono 2 though unlike Zack. Anyway as for me I suppose I'll just skip this for now, but if someone want to play it because the connection to Utawarerumono then go ahead. Lastly I hope that Shiravune will release more interesting VNs releases now that their big RPG project is over.

The title is now released yesterday, and the tweet in regard of it below. Once again I admit that BL here is not my taste, but still it shouldn't stop the other people who've been want to play this regardless of the reason (Either for the good story or simply just want to enjoy the handsome male there). Anyway have fun if you've been playing this.

Late to post it here, but better late than never. Anyway below here is the translation sample for Mizuha's route. Well you may treat it as the trailer for Mizuha's patch that will be released on Christmas later, and also the translator still accept for the fix in case someone fInd a typo in the video.

It's been three years since my last post here, and may as well try to revive it by posting the full version of first Aikatsu opening Signalize. For a bit of trivia, it also have the Indonesian dub in which it's been sang by the Indonesian version of AKB48, but let's just say that it's quite jarring to hear Indonesian version now that I'd hear the Japanese one first. Anyway enjoy the song here, especially if you've been nostalgic on the old Aikatsu.

Visual Novel Translation Status (13/11/2022) Like back at my last VNTS Review when Tokeijikake Daybreak released, once again I decided to make parody of one of Grisaia VN and obviously it's Grisaia no Rakuen. The reason is simply because Rakuen here is the last part of Grisaia trilogy and Tokeijikake Morning Mist here is also the last part of the trilogy, so we have 'Tokeijikake no Rakuen' as this week VNTS Review title. Anyway welcome to this week VNTS Review and compared to the last week this time it's obviously an active one with several releases and new project announcements, although of course there's still some usual updates. Overall I can say that this is an interesting week, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. I knew that 4chan did cover Soukoku no Arterial, but there's a reason on why I didn't mention it until now. Namely that it's been MTL-ed just like Amayui duology (And confirmed by the translator himself), thus obviously cause a bit of complicated issue (At least I'm very certain that the translations are better compared to old narration patch that I used to play Arterial). For Arterial itself, it's easier to say it as the Eushully's attempt to make card game VN with the rules are quite deep compared to other known card game VN, so at least you can try it if you're into card game like Yu-Gi-Oh. Story wise we have Eushully decided to write about modern Japan instead of their usual fantasy setting, and in Arterial there'll be a lot of people trapped into another world with the people will search a way to possibly going back into their previous world. Go get the patch here if you want to play Arterial and didn't mind that it's MTL patch, and have fun. For fan translation updates, we have Yosuga no Sora is at 66% TLC-ed, Senmomo is at 77.27% edited with Chapter 6 is at 24% edited, Chronos is at halfway edited, WA2 Mini After Story last route has been nearly fully edited, Mio's route of Walkure Romanze is at 70% translated along with 30% edited, H2O is at 42.2% translated with Hinata's route is at 24.8% translated, and Eustia is at 98.67% in programming with Licia's chapter is at 92.94% in programming. We also have Kusarihime was fully translated with the translator will doing TLC and editing work before release it, and the translator already announced the new project with the goal to translate underrated VN Umi kara Kuru Mono. Speaking of underrated VN, Senmomo also announced their new project to translate Yui no Kotonoha with some substantial works are already done. I'm kind of wish that they'd pick more well known VNs, but I understand that some translators have their own preference (I'll try to write more about those two VNs later). Since Sugar Sweet Temptation editing work is still not finished yet, Love Lab decided to make a new release estimation in which it'll be January 2023 later. At least they're almost ready to release Maid for Loving You soon. Speaking of release, we have Hokejo release with the group who release it is the newer group, so obviously the older Hokejo project here should be treated as dead and it'll be a redundant release if the older group somehow release the full translation patch later. As for Hokejo itself, it's a kinetic VN with the writer is also did wrote Hoshimemo and thus it's logical to have supernatural element here. It should also be mentioned that Hokejo here is the first part of the serial VN, and in here we'll be focused on the MC Sora assistant Shirabana who accompany Sora in his work as school counselor along with taking care of spiritual matter. Go get Hokejo's translation patch (The link) if you've been interested with it for a while, and have fun. Before going to Morning Mist release, let me do the round up of the updates that Sekai have. For the ypdates, we have Nie no Hakoniwa is at 90% translated along with 10% edited, Amairo Chocolata 2 is at 80% in QA, and Sheol is at 10% edited. We also have Sekai announce that they'll have Hoshimemo Eternal Heart coming into Steam soon, so obviously it should be the good news for Hoshimemo fans who've been waiting for the fandisc here. As for Morning Mist release, I should say that Sekai here definitely do a good job considering that we only need to wait in less than eight months instead of 51 months, although to be fair they already resolved all of the problematic engine. Morning Mist here is obviously the finale of Tokeijikake trilogy here, and in here the MC will do his best to do the investigation in regard of the incident that surrounding the school. Go get Morning Mist if you've been waiting for Tokeijikake finale, and have fun. Last but not the least is we have JAST released Gore Screaming Show aka GSS, and according to Moogy it's been touted as kamige (Never mind that the term itself is quite subjective on it's own) way back when it's been released in 2006 (His tweet in regard of it). As for the premise, we have our MC Kyouji who came back to his hometown and live with his mother's cousin. In there he met with mysterious beautiful girl Yuka who've been accompanied by the inexplicable figure (The titular Gore), and said encounter mark the end of peaceful day for Kyouji because from now on he'll encounter a lot of madness and despair. It should be noted that while the title did indicate that there'll be a lot of gore, there's a reason on why people did touted this as kamige back in 2006, although that said there's still some disturbing scenes to watch out. Go get GSS if you've been curious about it or just want to play another horror VN with good looking Ueda Metawo's arts (That still nice even after 16 years old), and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week VNTS Review, and see you next week.

No much to say other than congratulation for reaching the first milestone for translating one route, and good luck with the rest.

Well these are quite unknown games (To be honest I just see all of those games today), although I'm certainly sure that there'll be some fans who look forward to these games later. I can only say that hopefully some of those games will be available on Steam (Which to say should can be done seeing that one of the reason why Noah ban is revoked is because Nintendo approve it), just so that anyone who didn't own Steam while want to play the games can play it.

One of the definition of hobby is 'an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure', so obviously the moment it become more than hobby is when said activity is done not in one's leisure time for pleasure, in which said moment can be happen when you're not enjoying the activity anymore. So the simple answer here would be as long as you find yourself enjoying those activities in regard of VNs (Either pour all of the time or learn the new language), then yeah it's still in the scope of hobby. Although if you're willing to sacrifice the other responsibilities for it, well I suppose then it's obviously more than just a hobby. PS - It should be noted that even with on how I keep focusing on the VN translation news for years, I should say that it's still just a hobby seeing that I'm still at 'pour all of the time' stage.

The title is quite ironic seeing that all of those so-called Obedient Women here are more or less not quite obedient toward their husbands lol. Anyway, as of now only 4 out of 10 stories are released so it'll be a while before we have full release. artlink themselves are more known to localize Hachimitsu Soft VN which featured single heroine nukige featuring wife heroines (And faithful), so when I see the name artlink I thought that it's quite an ironic title only to find out that artlink here is just the publisher. Anyway you can play this if you're content with the available translated stories and been interested with it (At least the art is not too bad). PS - There's interesting trivia to note in that the developer of Obedient Women here also spawn a lot of imprints, with one of those imprint is CandySoft in which said brand would eventually formed the well known Minato Soft.

My mistake there. I did type FD because I got myself mixed it with Akagoei FD, which to say it's easy to do so because Kinugasa did write both trilogy in a very similar way (And Frontwing decided to copy Kinugasa's way to write their Grisaia (So-called) trilogy). Anyway while I may mistaken by writing it as the FD instead of sequel in regard of Ryuusei 2, the fact is remain the same that Ryuusei 2 here can somehow ended up on Steam with the prequel is not as lucky here because it got banned on Steam three times (If I remember it right). Honestly speaking there's a lot to nitpick here, but I figure that it's more hassle than it's worth for, so I won't do anything about it even with you bring justice and stuffs. Anyway feel free to keep rationalizing (Or whatever fancy term that you came up with) your own opinion there, @Templarseeker.

Admittedly October releases are mostly quite small, so I understand if you can't nominate the VN. That said though, let me try to comment on October 2022 releases here. Aquarium - Once again compared to previous VN that featured VTuber (Sakurairo Dreamer), Aquarium here featured an extensive storyline along with setting. By the way when I see the thread about this, I thought that Minato Soft decided to expand their new brand called Minato Aqua, only to find out that Minato Aqua is the name of VTuber. Drapri 3 - Other than new dragon girl and most likely it'll be another license by Sekai, no much that I can say in regard of this. At least they keep the good design of the heroines if anything else, although it should be obvious that the male MC here is not exactly the good example of proactive MC because he's quite lazy. Criminal Border - It's still the first part out of possible four parts, so it's still too early to judge this. Also since both of writer and director of Nine worked on this, I'm going to assume that the next parts would be better. That said, Purple Software here just release one part of it and will release another part sometimes in the future, and actually the difference from Nine is that Criminal Border here is more or less kinetic VN with Nine is route based VN. Other notable feature is that Purple Software decided to use the new artist, and let's just say that I need to get used to the new art. Oh yes the heroines in this VNs are mostly criminal with Meryl is still unknown for now. Study Steady 2 - I would name this as VN of the Month, simply because it has relatively high production value on top being completed lengthy VNs (Both Aquarium and Drapri 3 are shorter, and Criminal Border is incomplete even with potentially interesting scenario). Like you say it's still the same with first Study Steady VN, only that the default name for the MC is no longer Marma Lade. Study Steady 2 also suffer several delays so much it became meme, although seeing that the first game is known for being buggy perhaps the delays are necessary. Lastly I'll say that I like the sexy school uniform here lol, and more seriously hope that Shiravune (Or perhaps Nekonyan if they're interested with this) will localize this in the future. That's all for what I can comment in regard of October 2022 releases.

Okay I know that you have the reason to dislike Steam with their actions are certainly won't help matter the slightest, but just because Steam did bad doesn't mean that you should try to dismiss the other people opinion by accusing the people who tried to say his opinion as DRM loyalist (Other than that it's quite rude to say it). Honestly speaking I'm not the one who should said this, but I figure I should say it anyway. Also in case you want to accuse me the same just because I tried to speak my own opinion here, I should say that I never buy anything from Steam (I'm mostly just use it as a window shopping place). Since you mentioned that all games from Shiravune are never banned from Steam, I should mention that not all of the games from Shiravune are available on Steam, particularly Marmalade VNs and Ryuusei World Actor (The FD of it is ended on Steam for some reasons). I can understand if you didn't like Shiravune though, because they didn't even try to accept the offer from both JAST to sell their games in their own store on top of not selling their games on GOG. The reason for the happening is simply because JAST demanded Shiravune to remove the mosaic, and obviously Shiravune refused to do so (Or so that's what I'd hear somewhere). As for Nekonyan, while almost all of their games are ended on Steam, some of those didn't go there smoothly though (Such as HGB that need several months to be accepted on Steam or Clover Days that didn't accepted on Steam). Back to topic, and from what I see Alpha Nighthawk here is quite short so understandably people didn't interested much with it. Speaking of Sona-Nyl, yeah it's too bad that it's still in integrating hell in which I imagined that it might be because the lack of programmer (Which may explain on why the progress is very slow in Mangagamer's recent update).

Visual Novel Translation Status (06/11/2022) As for this week title, since we've about to have Gore Screaming Show (GSS) release in a week along with a big update in regard of Lupercalia, I'd change the word 'Gore' with 'Hyouko' so we have 'Hyouko Screaming Show'. The reason is because in Lupercalia we have a theater actress Hyouko recite her lines, and she recite it by screaming so yeah it's literally the screaming show (The video of Hyouko recite her lines). Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as for this week compared to the last week it's slightly calm here with several updates in which some of those are quite interesting on it's own with some releases. That said though I didn't find the releases are quite interesting, so overall this week is more or less an average one. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. artlink released Obedient Women in that it's quite an ironic title seeing that all of the heroines are involved with adultery. What I can understand is the developer decided to make ten stories with ten MCs and ten heroines, and that currently four of those stories are available in English with the rest six will probably released at later date. At least the art is quite serviceable I guess, which should be given for a nukige. Speaking of nukige, Cherry Kiss released Hypno Mama with the premise is the MC hypnotized his bully's mother as a form of revenge. It also come of with English dub for some reasons, so you can listen to the English dub in case you're somehow want to. Oh yes we also have Fakku released Sei Yariman, and I can only say that Obedient Women has better arts when it come to the heroines design (Go get the VN though if you want to play it). JAST did announce that they'll release Slow Project on 14th later. Even though it's another Nitroplus VN, I would say that I prefer them to release Tokyo Necro simply because Slow Damage is BL VN and it's not my taste here. That said though, I understand that some BL VNs like Hashihime or Lamento are quite well received with Slow Damage here is the same, so in case you've been looking forward to play some interesting BL VN you can note the date. Also it's good to see JAST have two releases in a month to make up the lack of October release. Sekai released Raspberry Cube in Chinese language first, and even after knew that they may have their own reason to do it (Such as the potential bigger revenue, the contract that had Sekai to release Madosoft VNs in Chinese first, or Sekai need to secure Steam store page first), in the end I still can't say that I like their action here. Well at least they sort of made up the decision with they're finally announced the exact release date for Morning Mist (The last part of Tokeijikake trilogy), and said date will be on 11th later. With Morning Mist release, it mean that Tokeijikake trilogy will be fully available in English so this should be the good time to read the previous two Tokeijikake VNs if you're still not read it yet. We also have QUALIA finished the QA process, so we can predict that for the next release Sekai will release either QUALIA or Eternal Heart (Or they could release both in this year). For fan translation update roundup, we have Fuyu Kiss is at 70% translated, Chronos is at 40% edited, Chicchakunai Mon is at 32.39% edited, Senmomo is past three quarter (75.86%) edited with Chapter 6 is at 7.33% edited, ChuSingura is at 15.35% translated, and H2O is at 36.4% translated with Hayami's route is almost fully (96.2%) translated. We also have the aforementioned Lupercalia big update, in which the translator just finished translated the whole VN. Although just because it's been finished doesn't mean that the translator will release full translation patch directly, because there's still some works left with the translator such as editing and QC. The translator also state that he'll have another update on New Year Eve (ie December 31st) later, although as for whether said update will be in regard of full translation patch release or not we'll see. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week VNTS Review, and see you next week.

So the diference of release date is because Aniplex separated physical and download version then? I see. By the way if we look on how Mangagamer (And later JAST) delayed the physical release version, actually it's not that weird to separatedly releases two version. Although if Aniplex already develop both version and then release those separately, I can see on why the decision to do that is a bit weird. PS - That said though, from what I saw on VNDB the December 8th releases are including physical edition, so perhaps the difference is still in regard of the region after all.

Well I think that there shouldn't be a problem to anyone else who want to port it to PC version as long as there's a will. That said though, VNDB did list that they'll also release English version of Mahoyo on December 8th later with English support language as well, which to say made me a bit confused. That said, at least I understand that Aniplex here really tried to cover all of their bases in regard of the region, and the one that'll be released on December 8th later would be for Japanese region only (I may be wrong on the guess though). As for the release date, well same difference to me in that I didn't care much on whichever date that Type-Moon/Aniplex released English version of Mahoyo as long as there's English translation of it, and beside it's still the first part of the trilogy that Nasu still can't find the time to develop more of it anyway. I can still say that they (TYPE MOON) know on how to make good effects and arts in 2014, and of course they'd do the same with Tsukihime Remake part 1.

If possible you better not answer him, because that guy has been made a lot of ruckus on Discord, Twitter, and Reddit just because he didn't like mosaic in his porn on top of being too horny for his own good. Oh by the way Aniplex did localize Adabana in that it's Liar-soft VN, so there's nothing strange that Liar-soft asking some other publishers to localize their own VN in case someone want to keep whining for not having Mangagamer localized this. That aside, while I hope that it can be longer VN seeing that the arts are quite good (I admit that I like Miriya's character design here), it's just too bad that it's quite short and that it'll be one of the underrated VN, so hopefully anyone else who tried Alpha Nighthawk here would enjoy it later. Oh yes I forgot to mention that Liar-soft here did try to write it like Gahkthun with both male and female MCs, although this time they go with fictional name instead of using real-life name like back in Gahkthun. Lastly, let me say belated congratulation to Shiravune in regard of Alpha Nighthawk release here, and hopefully their future release can be more interesting (Although Alpha Nighthawk release here is quite interesting compared to most of the recent Shiravune's releases). PS - I don't know if Shiravune is already licensed the sequel (Beta Sixdouze) or not, but I'll look forward to see if Shiravune localize the sequel as well later. And if possible another Liar-soft VN like Ever Maiden.