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This time I didn't watch Aksys panel closely, so here's Gematsu link for the list of announcements. I can only say at least you'll be glad if took a liking to otome VNs, otherwise we better wait until tomorrow (Or later if you live in America) for Mangagamer's announcements. PS - It should goes without saying that I already update the opening post as well, and for Aksys I only add the new announcements because some of those are already released (They announced the Switch release for the title that was already released).

I thought that they'll rereleased Ever17, and turn out I was wrong. Well good luck to them and hopefully they'll be successful for the release later. PS - Apparently this is another VN with sci-fi, and therefore very fitting that Lemnisca will take care of it.

I see, and in this case I'll strictly compared it to 2018 list. As for whether 2010 list is better compared to 2018 or not, well it depend on the rank here. But overall I would say that 2010 is better though because most of the score for the VN that was released in 2010 is higher if we compared it side by side (2018 releases did have less VNs that receive average score 8 from VNDB), at least if I based it on my list here. On the other hand, there's a lot of good release that I didn't add to my release simply because it's censored (Baldr Force), MTL-ed (Your Diary and Fortissimo), and only a fandisc (Fata Morgana). There's also some good releases that I didn't add simply because it's not my taste here, such as Sakusakura and Suki Suki. So objectively seeing, I would say that 2018 is better if we talk about the number of releases and quality, although each year did have advantage and weakness though. tldr - From my list 2010 is better, although if we look at it objectively 2018 is better. So I guess we can say that it's a draw here, although it may change in the future though seeing that VNDB average score will always fluctuated.

Now that I look at it looks like somehow I managed to mixed it here (I don't remember exactly why I managed to write Sol Press), and yeah I mean Denpasoft obviously. Abut Baldr Sky, I guess the most obvious thing is that we should ask Steiner whether he translated the sex scenes or not, which is easily said than done. Although for now I leaned that he'll translate the sex scenes though, and hopefully it would be the case.

No surprise that all of earlier Sekai announcements (Amatsutsumi, Bokukotsu FD, Nekogami, Victory Project, and Nine 3) got the 18 version announced by Denpasoft, although too bad though that there's still no word in regard of Baldr Sky 18+ version (Perhaps they prefer stealth release for 18+ version). There's also some new announcements from them though, and some of those are hentai manga. Let's see what their new VN announcements here. Their first VN is Seikii trilogy, although they just announced the first part so I don't know whether they already have the other two licensed or not. Apparently feng (Seikii's developer) was famous for Hoshizora Kakaru here, although as far as Seikii goes it's small one though. The first part here featured tsundere childhood friend that allow the MC to become her butler because of the misunderstanding, and that Eri Sendai will voicing the heroine. Almost forget to note that each part only have one heroine with the exception of the third part that have two heroines. As for other announcement, it's Glass in that if we knew did have some controversy at VNDB. Namely that the author did use strong word in the mail to the fan translator and ask him to stop rudely. I don't have much comment for now other than at least I can see why people did think that the art is pretty. It also announced together with the sequel as well (New Glass). I guess that's all for Denpasoft's announcements, and like previous two I'll update the opening post here.

Here's Denpasoft's panel courtesy of KiriyaAoi below. PS - Apparently they announce a nukige with cosplay thing.

Here's the link to ANN sites for more details in regard of Sekai's announcements. I also already updated the opening post here so you can view the announcements at the first post, although as for Sekai case I'll just focused on available entry at VNDB though. Anyway here's my bullet point in regard of Sekai VNs announcements: I guess Purple Software still trust Sekai to a degree (Maybe Sekai suddenly got a sum of money), so they announced Amatsutsumi here. Quite surprising because I thought that Mangagamer will announced one of Purple Software VN. I guess developer can easily change their partner, as shown with Escu:de VN in that their VN (Yamizome Revenger) was announced by JAST. It's logical that they announced Nine 3, seeing that they already got first two parts. The art is still good thanks to Tsubasu. Photonflowers, well let's just say that after Alternative released it's no longer matter. Although I can start to see though on why age keep exploiting Muv Luv franchise, because otherwise they may end up like light. No much comment on Bokukotsu FD and Love Sweet Garnish 2 as both of those are moege, although the description on Nekogami-san is confusing though because apparently the MC was became female or something like that. Other than it's Chinese VN with puzzle gameplay, no much comment on Victory Project. As for the updates, here's my bullet point below. There's no additional updates that Sekai promised us in regard of Majokoi, because they only announced that it already passed Steam review and it'll be released soon (We already know that if it's have Steam store it mean that it'll be released in the near future, unless Steam somehow randomly got a bad mood and delete the store page just like HGB). I'm surprised is that they already have Baldr Sky reviewed by Steam and that they'll release it in Q3/Q4 of this year, although maybe we can't have 'passionate Hitomi Nabatame-voiced love-making' scenes (ie no sex scenes) seeing that it Steam and all, but maybe Denpasoft announcements can answer us about that later (And also our three years question as well because there's no word in regard of 18+ contents for Baldr Sky so far). Apparently Sekai promised us they'll release the rest of Tokeijikake trilogy at this year, although seeing that they probably still struggling with that I can't see that it'll be happening. I guess that's all for Sekai's announcements and as for 18+ contents I think there'll be a lot of words at that on Denpasoft announcements later.

By the way apparently they'll attempted to release it at this autumn, so at least there should be hope in that we can see this as this year (Hopefully no delay, even if it might be possible).

If the OP want to see it through, I guess it should be a good thing. Although the road to success was definitely very hard and tedious though, so it might be not surprising if OP give up in the middle. But still if OP somehow surprisingly finished it, I guess we can say good job to him. By the way it's too bad though that I don't know programming, so unfortunately I can't help here. PS - About the chance on whether Hobibox will retranslate this or not, let's just say that the chance would be almost close to nil.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and it's okay if you want to re-enter again while at the same time resuming read the VNs. Of course if you need some newer VNs recommendations, you can ask us. I hope that you'll have fun here.

As for Higurashi Question, I already covered that back at 2009 list. If we talk about it from the number of translation released, I think nowadays would be better. Although if you think that nowadays there's too much release so much that it become saturated, then yeah 2010 would be better because there's still few releases back then. Of course it's also interesting to note that some of the VNs from the list (6 out of 10) already have official rerelease, so maybe you can say that there's some demand for the rerelease here.

First announcement from JAST, and it's not surprising to see they license Eiyuu Senki GOLD (I guess I can only hope that they'll release it in the near future). Here's the announcement about it that was taken from JAST's tweet below. As for GOLD itself at least I can say that Tenco improve the gameplay and the girls events, while for the main story apparently it's not as epic as original one.

Interesting I guess, if not a redundant one (Will Nitroplus provide new opening for Saya no Uta?).

As for my answer to the title, I'll just following everyone here by say that you should play it because the anime did't adapt it fully. While at least the anime version of Higurashi is still faithful to a degree (Even with they cut some parts), the same can't be said to Umineko because it only adapt the first part. So yeah go play the VN version, and have fun. PS - For additional note here, in case you want to play Higurashi first you can wait until 18th later in that Mangagamer will release the 7th chapter (Minagoroshi).

If you want more, I guess there's Eiyuu Senki. Also if you interested with the story, there's Utawarerumono as well. I don't know if you already play those two or not, but in case you still didn't play it then I hope my recommendations here will be helpful to you.

As for this week VNTS Review title, I decide to use one obscure NISA game (The Witch and the Hundred Knight) so that we have 'The Witch and the Headless Knight'. For more elaboration it's because we have headless knight antagonist in Ninja Girl VN that was released at this week, and witch heroine in Majokoi that was almost ready for the release (Yeah it's very cliche I know). Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and if I may frank here this week is kind of dry because we only have less than ten updates. Although if one want to think in a positive light, perhaps all of the localization companies are preparing for AX so they didn't have enough time to make the updates. Anyway let's see what I can write for this week despite the lack of updates here. As suspected we didn't have Mangagamer announce one announcements for AX, because they increased the number of the announcements to four. While we can speculate what kind of title that Mangagamer would bring (With one clue was pointed towards Sakuramori), at least we can certain that all of those title from Mangagamer available partners so no announcements from the new partners. Other than that, once again we have Sideboob hardcopy release back at June 27th and Hapymaher hardcopy back at June 2nd. While I still don't know if Mangagamer would announce another Purple Software VN (Or Hapymaher FD for that matter), at least Mangaggamer sales on Hapymaher is looking good seeing that Manggamer print the hardcopy for it. While I did say that this week is lack of updates, actually we have Ninja Girl release in which it's one of Sekai VN that was written by Harumade Kururu writer. While Harukuru here is a sci-fi VN that deceivingly begin as nukige, actually the writer here was more experienced in writing supernatural story since back at 2003 and it show in Ninja Girl here in which the girls must face a headless knight. While both of the premise and the setting is quite promising, too bad that apparently the VN itself is quite short so we may not get a satisfying conclusion. Still it might be interesting though if you just want to see the girls, because after all the girls are looking good. Almost forgot to say that the MC is the titular ninja girl, and that there's no male other than the headless knight. We also have Sekai open the Steam store for Majokoi and that they'll give us more info on Majokoi AX later, so hopefully they'll be able to fulfill their promise on give the info later (And possibly also announce Nanairo release exact date). We only have one update, and the updates was in regard of usual Eustia in which it's currently was at 71.68% translated with Eustia's chapter was at 6.48% translated. There's also the matter with Pure Pure translation project, in that the translator said he alreasy finished his urgent real life matter so hopefully he'll be able to work more on Pure Pure. Like Sekai we also have a release, and that the release is a loli VN in which there's no much info other than apparently the loli heroine was run away from home and met the MC. Just in case you didn't like loli VN (And feel uncomfortable by that), then there's Taimanin Asagi Premium Box release in that it retranslated six nukige that was already translated a long time ago, so if you felt unsatisfied with the older translation you can replay it by using the new version. I guess that's all for this week VNTS review and I'm sorry if this is a bit sort here. See you next week.

After 2009 and 2012, this time I'll talk about 2010 in which there's still quite a number of good VNs being fan translated while at the same time Mangagamer was slowly making their way to be more active. Of course obviously we still didn't have Sekai yet and JAST here is still idling with they readying the release for 2011, and apparently from what I remember they already got infamous because on how they only announced fan translated projects or something like that. As for the list here, the rule is still the same with no nukige, no otome, no BL, and no fandisc in the list. Let's see what kind of good VN that we have at 2010. 10. Kikokugai - The Cyber Slayer (VNDB 7.46) There's a story abut a Ki Master (Kong Taoluo) who lost his sister (Ruili) that married to his best friend (Haojun), because her husband way of showing his affection by brutally rape her and split her soul into five (Also storing the souls in the sex cyborgs). Enraged, Taoluo decided to kill Haojun and try to get back Ruili's soul by fusing all of five separated parts, only that it's not as easy as it looks seeing that Haojun became the Chinese mafia leader and that he handed the other four sex dolls to his trusted four cadres who each of them are quite strong. Seeing that there's no other choice and the cadres are also helping Haojun showing his affection to Ruili, Taoluo decided to kill them as well even though it may prove too much for him. As for the releases we have two version with the original one was back at 2010, and at 2015 we have the remake release in that it have improved graphic and voice from famous seiyuu (Including Yukari Tamura as Ruili and Sho Hayami as Haojun) in exchange for slight CG censorship. We also have JAST was abut to release it since back at 2011, but considering that we already have the remake translated let's just say that it'll be redundant release if they ever manage to release it. Almost forget to say that this is another Urobochi's work, so obviously don't expect happy story here. 9. Daibanchou -Big Bang Age- (VNDB 7.47) Another VN that was translated by Aroduc and that was released by Alice Soft, so it should be pretty obvious that Daibanchou here is another gameplay VN. For the premise, we have our hot blooded student Zanma Ruga transferred to a school in Tokyo in order to cure his fiancee's curse, and that he must collect the magical items to achieve the gals. There's a problem though, namely that the items was held by some powerful school leader so Rouga must gather his army in order to take the items. By the way in here we have a setting where the world was invaded by the demon and that each student did have superpower, and the strongest one would be the school leader (Rouga here is one of the strongest student). Since this is Alice Soft VN, it's possible for Rouga to have sex with other woman even though Rouga himself already have fiancee (Well she allow it if I remember). As for the gameplay itself, it's sort of crude version of Sengoku in that you can only attack enemies territory once per turn, although the most significant things is that you have time limit in which it force you to play several times if you want to get all of the characters and clear them. Even then, I'm still find that Daibanchou here is quite fun and that Rouga was not as selfish as Rance (Not say a lot though). 8. Narcissu 2 (VNDB 7.53) The second part of Narcissu duology in that it tell us the story abut our main heroine Setsumi before facing a certain ending that rumored to made some reader spent a lot of tissue, and apparently the same rumor would hold true to this VN as well (After all Narcissu is categorized as utsuge not for nothing). Anyway as for the premise in the first part we have Setsumi was go through the journey with the nameless male MC seeing that she didn't have a lot of time thanks to her disease, and in this second part here we'll roll back to seven years ago when Setsumi was at 15 at the hospital. At the hospital Setsumi will slowly befriended Himeko who is also a car otaku, and that Himeko have some problem with her faith because of her past. As for the release it's an unique one seeing that the author himself did approve the fan translation just like True Remembrance, and that this release was also combined the first part that was released back at 2005 so you can get this to play Narcissu fully. There's also Sekai rereleased this back at 2014, although of course by then it's release is already redundant. For the bonus, here's the second part opening and as usual eufonius here did a good job. 7. Da Capo 2 (VNDB 7.59) Took place ~50 years after first Da Capo and ~20 years before Da Capo 3 Prologue, once again we have our advanture at Haysunejima in that it was famous because of the everlasting sakura that can grant any wish. This time our MC is Sakurai Yoshiyuki who been best friends with Junichi's (Da Capo 1 MC) granddaughters, and those two granddaughters are also one school with Yoshiyuki. Other character to note is Sakura (Returning character from the prequel, and Junichi's cousin who doubled as one of Da Capo heroine), in that she's the principal of Yoshiyuki's school and that she didn't aging for ~50 years because she's a magician and all. As for the writing it's generally accepted that the routes writing here did improved from Da Capo, although there's a flaw as well though in that Koko's route which became infamous because Yoshiyuki here prefer to make some drama instead of resole it calmly. Other than that, this time Circus learn from first Da Capo in that they place the main heroines (Junichi's granddaughters) routes unlocked later instead of available from the first. Lastly we can play 'passionate Hitomi Nabatame-voiced love-making' scenes here, because we have Nabatame voicing Nanaka who as we know is quite similar with DC Kotori. 6. Eien no Aselia -The Spirit of Eternity Sword- (VNDB 7.64) An isekai VN in that we have our siscon MC Yuuto was summoned into anther world, and forced to work for a warmongering king that want to expand his territory as much as possible. To make it worse, the sword that Yuuto weld is a sentient being and Yuuto himself is could be succumbed into the sword's influence and thus make the people around him suffer. Of course seeing that it's a VN Yuuto is not alone in that he have female companions with one of them is the titular heroine Aseila (ie the main one), and that her ending is canon thanks to a certain character at Senarukana (The sequel). As for the release, while back then it's censored at least it could be justified because back then Xuse still not released the perfect edition in that it contain both of PS2 contents and 18+ contents, and that Dakkodango (Later will become Fruitbat) already finished this back at 2010 (Besides the PS2 contents are more than enough to make up the censorship anyway). After a year (At 2011), JAST rereleased this and it's still censored as it is. While they gave a reason in that they didn't want to take a risk on the lolicon contents, I'm more convinced that they didn't want to do an extra work to either translated the sex scenes or working on the Complete edition. 5. ef - a fairy tale of the two (VNDB 8.05) If back at 2009 we have Aoishiro as the most beautiful graphic in regard of translated VN, then in 2010 we have ef in that we can say this as minori's Magnum Opus. And it really show considering that it's still famous because of the arts, in that it's still be able to rival some modern VNs graphic (And both of ef opening here is really show good animation thanks to Makoto Shinkai). Another thing to note is that apparently ef was released back at when both No Name Loser (NNL) and minori did have a conflict of interest, and that the incident was called minorigate. In the end even with that shenanigan in that in the past they say that they didn't need foreign support, it's still unfortunate though that minori is no longer operated after their big fail in Supipara (Well not exactly though seeing that they still develop some VNs after Supipara, but Supipara here is apparently need a lot of money so much that it cost minori a lot). As for the VN itself, it contain five different MC with five different love stories. While at the first glance this looks like separated stories, actually there's a Myth Arc happen behind it and it also happen that each characters in each stories turned out have some connections with each other to a degree. As for the Myth Arc, we have our main MC Himura Yuu have meeting with the main heroine Amamiya Yuuko at the church in the Christmas Eve, and both of them reminisce on how they help some couple along with their own love story. For additional note here, we have Mangagamer act as the third party in regard of minorigate, so in order to resolve the conflict they decided to allow Mangagamer to own minori's license. So obviously Mangagamer did rerelease ef at the latter years, and the release is not so redundant because they add the Extra menu that was missing in 2010 release (Probably because NNL release it hastily back then). 4. Symphonic Rain (VNDB 8.13) Also known as the only rhythm gameplay translated VN (So naturally there'll be some insert song), and that it's only all age release in which it's logical seeing that we have well-known seiyuu voicing the heroines here. It also have rerelease as well back at 2017 by Degica, in that it change the graphic slightly (Not as drastic as YU-NO remake). And for the most important part, the songs and the BGM here is the late Okazaki Ritsuko's Swan Song because she compose the BGM for this VN before she passed away back at 2004. The premise is we have our MC Chris attend a music school in a city that always raining, and he somehow managed to befriended a fairy. One day he's about to graduate from the school and that his last test is he must play a fortell to allow his partner to sing along, and that it might be too hard for Chris seeing that he didn't have much friend. Even so, there's no choice for Chris other than to search the partner to do his graduation test. While graphically wise this VN would give you the impression that it'll be a lighthearted story (Especially the rereleased one), don't be fooled by that because like Hakuai (Same developer) some of the ending are quite heavy. 3. Remember11 -The Age of Infinity- (VNDB 8.18) The most infamous Infinity series, manly because the fact that the ending was quite abrupt thanks to the conflict between the staffs that didn't allow them to have a consensus in regard of the true ending (Or so that's what I'd read somewhere). This VN is also the second Infinity series to be translated after Ever17, although people was more well aware with the controversy though. As for the premise, we have two accidents in that both of Kokoro (Female MC) and Satoru (Male MC) did get trapped around the place where the heavy snowstorm is happen. As for the circumstances we have our Kokoro was one of the surviving victim of a fatal airplane accident, while for our Satoru he apparently was abut to be murdered only to be survive and trapped in a snowstorm. To complicated matter, both of Satoru and Kokoro was somehow can swap each other soul in the most impossible circumstance seeing that both of them was separated for around a thousand kilometers and more importantly the accidents were happened in the different years. As for the solution here, at least we can still guess what's really happen if we get a certain bad end, although for now most of the solution is only hypothesis though. 2. G-Senjou no Maou (VNDB 8.29) The most famous VN that was translated in 2010 and also the most controversial rereleased by Sekai (At 2015) because not only the license itself is redundant, it's also because Dovac was use his trusted brand of public communication to respond the criticism in regard of the censorship back at VNDB, and let's just say that it make me face-palmed there. Granted that Sekai was finally release the 18+ patch for this at April, but even then (And even back at 2015) most people are already know and discuss about this a lot so more or less people already know about this (If nothing else at least it's good for newbie). Controversy by Sekai aside, in here we have Kyousuke who is a stepson of a head yakuza and that he was intelligent. One day, he crossed path with a beautiful intelligent woman that have messy long hair (Haru, who also the main heroine here), and that she's chasing her nemesis who known by the alias 'Maou'. And so the curtain for the battle of wits between Haru and Maou was started, and little did Kyousuke know back then that he have much more involved into the battle more than he know. As for the route structure, it'd use the ladder system in which Kyousuke can either pick a girl or keep going until he reach Haru's chapter. 1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (VNDB 8.75) The second part of Higurashi that contained the last four arcs (Higurashi have eight arcs for the reminder), and unlike the first part this time we'll going to uncover the truth behind Hinamizawa tragedy and mystery. As for the release while back at 2010 Mangagamer did release Matsuribayashi as single release instead of released full version of Kai, it still count here because Matsuribayashi here is the last arc of Higurashi. As for Kai itself of course things were still as bleak as ever with death and all even though it's not as scary as the first part, but this time our Keiichi and friends are starting to uncover some information. That said even with the horror was slowly diminishing, the 5th arc (Meakashi) was also quite infamous because of some action that was quite horrifying. This is also the part when Ryukishi started to ask some help to compose the BGM instead of rely on the free BGM, and it really show seeing that the soundtrack was considered as being very good. For more info Mangagamer was also rereleased this along with the first part, and the only two arcs that was still unreleased is Minagoroshi (Will be released at 18th later) and Matsuribayashi. For the opening I'll use Miotsukushi opening in which it's the PS2 last arc for Higurashi, although it's quite fitting anyway for Kai's opening. That's all for 2010 list here, and as you can see some of the releases were rereleased officially with the most notable examples are G-Senjou and ef. Another thing to note is that we got many good VNs, and also JAST was starting the decline in regard of their activity (They started to be more active at 2011 if I remember). We also have some drama though, namely with the aforementioned minorigate in which apparently it's because minori so traumatic with Rapelay incident so much that minori was lashed out. Honestly both of Rapelay and minori VN are very vastly different, but remember back then the stigma that VN was a porn games for Westerner is still stronger compared to nowadays. I hope you'll like my list here. PS - As for the title, seeing that we have Symphonic Rain and G-Senjou released back at 2010 I decided to combine those two so we have 'Rain on the G-String' as the title. For additional note here, G-Senjou title is derivative of Bach's 'Air on the G String' so of course I change the 'Air' part into 'Rain', even though it was impossible in the real life (It sounds romantic though). Forget to say that both of Symphonic Rain and G-Senjou did have music as the topic, and the latter did remixed 'Air on G String' to be used as a BGM in the G-Senjou soundtrack itself.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and no problem with your very late introduction here. I hope that you'll have fun here, and feel free to contribute more.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and seeing that it's pretty straight let me say good luck on your OELVN there. I hope you'll have fun here.

As for mystery VNs, I can recommend something like either Cartagra (The MC as the detective) or Higurashi. If you need more. then perhaps you can try both of G-Senjou (The main heroine is the detective) and Gahkthun. I hope my recommendations here would be helpful to you.

As expected Mangagamer did increase their announcements from one to four, so obviously it mean that we have four announcements from them to look forward. For now I still don't know what kind of VNs that they'll announce (For obvious reason) other than all of those are from their available partner (Because there's no new partner notice), although it might be their secret projects though. Would be nice to see if Sakura no Mori speculation here is become real, although if they announced Rance 1 to 3 let's just say that it'll be redundant announcements (At least it wouldn't be the case if they announce 01 and 03).

True enough, although I'm still regretting the censorship here (Noraneko obviously).

Back then I get it because the girls remind me of Tokyo Mew Mew, and I want to get some game for my new computer (At 2003 obviously) so that we can play together. As for how my siblings react, I didn't remember what kind of reaction that exactly they display but obviously it's quite awkward (I think they may not remember about it anymore). By the way I tried to play it again back at 2010, but seeing that it did have some additional step I decided to just drop it for the second time. As for the topic other than Jewel Knight Crusaders, there's also Discipline that I did delete it immediately after hearing some ridiculuous BGM that accompanying the sex scene. Granted that it fit the situation to a degree, but still it's quite ridiculuous.

Jewel Knight Crusader, in that I turned it back as soon as it show the sex scenes in front of my siblings back when I'm 13 (My brother was at 8 and my sister was at 7), and I think it's less than an hour after I installed it.

I see, although story wise I prefer to avoid the one that have the least connection to the story. And since apparently Yuuri was the one that fulfill criteria, I think it might be for the best if I do her route first. It's not like the order is absolute anyway, seeing that you can do Yuuki and SHIRONE routes in whichever order that you prefer.