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note the past tense in "was waiting" ...though honestly it probably implied your interpretation so w/e and yeah "near maximum the west will get" isn't good enough for an elitist a lot of the time ok and also I don't really trust the fan project either sorry (I'll reply to zander later when my meme thrusters have recharged)

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People keep posting their top 10 lists but frankly I can't relate to all this shit. Like, actually reading visual novels before you blast your opinion of them to the skies? Holy shit it's like I'm in good practices central or something. Since that's way too much work and the only way to get me to read things is to literally bait me with stupid bets like "I'll read some of your recs if you finish this buggy totally not moege that you probably can't text hook lul", here's my list of things that I'm totally going to read, sometime next year or so, so I can finally actually talk about them without spewing uninformed bullshit. 1. Muv Luv Series Widely respected, universally 7/10, porn patch never (but it'll probably be out in two years if we're lucky!). It even has a certified fresh translation, so maybe I won't feel like editing every single line. I suppose I should say something about the actual vn but I'll just assume you don't live under a rock instead tbh 2. Dies Irae I was totally intending to read this when the porn patch came out, but then the porn patch took forever and was shite and also I stopped respecting half the translators as much after trying out their version of seabed. So now I'm too elitist to read the loc, and uhh it's kind of hard in Japanese so maybe in five years. However YOU are probably not as picky as me so you should probably read this thing in a year or two! I suppose I should say something about the actual vn but I'll just assume you don't live under a rock instead tbh... actually I'm not sure if anyone has explained it properly without spoilers anyway so whatever really. 3. きっと、澄みわたる朝色よりも、*ahem* uhh yeah Asairo blah blah blah it ends with a fucking comma who DOES THAT? I already put Dies Irae here so I guess I should continue the Kamige train. This VN apparently would be really annoying to translate because it depends a lot on kanji on multiple deep levels or some shit, also the writing is memed to be real good (have u heard of Shumon Yuu), also it apparently made otakus mad because of how it had too few h scenes or something. Since you're a proud western elite free of any silly otaku impulses you're bound to enjoy it. Too bad I'm probably too shit at Japanese to enjoy it. Maybe in four years! 4. Mememasa TL out in 2030 if Peter Payne hasn't died from a cringe-induced heart attack looking at J-LIST ads before then, oniichan. Oh yeah, the ge. Uhh it's probably based on the idea that there are no true heroes, no weapon kills only the malevolent, and it's chuuni or something. Also it has only sad endings apparently. My edge boner is literally piercing the ceiling just thinking about it tbh. Maybe in 2.5 years! 5. Danganronpa Okay so I realize that danganronpa is pleb but it seems to have a somewhat unique aesthetic and I want to at least be able to have an opinion on it, especially when it's popular with people who don't normally read VNs due to their completely reasonable dislike of typical forms of the medium inherent plebness (actually honest question do I even want to associate with these people oh well). But I'm too lazy to set up the fan tl and reading a NISA tl is beneath my dignity so I guess I'm fucked for now. Is there even a jp pc port? I'll do it one day, mum. 6. Cross Channel Wow this one's actually translated, twice, too bad both the tls are terrible. YOU HAVE FAILED ME GEORGE HENRY SHAFT BUT I FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE YOU TRANSLATED THE MOEYURIKAMIGE HANAHIRA AT ACCEPTABLE TIER FOR MOE FLUFF. Written by the other highly memed vn writer after shumon yuu and ou jackson and masada and wait shit umm anyway tanaka romeo is like well known or something also he had an ln or two anime化'd so he's probably actually good (wait shit LNs get turned into anime all the time damn). Uhh so I hear cross channel is a comment on otaku and also the protagonist is insane or something and cool stuff happens or something, that sounds great, also the lolicons are diseased meme is good. Maybe in 3 years! 7. Umineko I was waiting for this to get released by MG but I'm told the fan tl group was mostly holding the strings and they don't seem fully approved by the people I know. Anyway people say Ryuukishi レナ has an either shit or unique writing style in Fapanese and it would be great to be able to have an opinion on this, and if the tl isn't great why not harvest this additional benefit right? But otoh I'd be reading a mystery vn that's longer than the organ that ended the life of mr hands (do google that, very good tbh) at like half speed. Maybe in 1.5 years! 8. Harukuru Ah yes, the vn that starts with like 13 h-scenes that are apparently funny and later goes sci-fi on you or something. Written by certified insane author Watanabe Ryouichi and consistently stema'd here and there, and possibly getting translated but there are no news and everyone's wondering wtf happened. The only real thing stopping me is that I should probably finish Subahibi in jp first tbh, so maybe in a year! 9. Horobikuchiru Sekai ni Tsuioku no Hanataba wo (This is my "doujin cred" title for the list ok) I've thought for far too long about a tl to the title, which should probably be something along the lines of "A Bouquet of Memories in Remembrance of this [Broken, Decaying] World" where the broken, decaying part is what I'm not sure about because how do you even horobikuchiru (the vndb page has it as two words but that seems wrong to me, horobu is in -masu stem form which is commonly done if one wants to combine verbs like say 踏み込む). Uhh yeah so I actually read the prologue and I kind of want to tl it as a teaser one day because it's basically about this scientist that's like "SCIENCE IS AWESOME, BUT I'M GONNA DIE ONE DAY AND NOT SEE THE EVEN MORE AWESOME SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS OF THE FUTURE, WHICH IS VERY 悔しい (SORRY KUYASHII IS VERY HARD TO TRANSLATE), SO ILL LEAVE MY WIFE AND CHILDREN BEHIND AND GO IN THIS FORWARD-IN-TIME-ONLY TIME MACHINE, BECAUSE HOLY SHIT SCIENCE IS AWESOME AND I WANT EVEN MORE OF THE AWESOMENESS HUMANS ARE FUCKING GLORIOUS". And then you get six different stories from the future and it's like hard sci-fi and whew it's kinda annoying to read. Maybe in 2.1 years or something. 10. Aiyoku no Eustia Idk what's even stopping me tbh. Oh yeah this one has a translation project in progress which looks merely meh tier rather than actively bad so to any eops that are still reading this (why?) there's hope for you too! If I like it I'll have something I actually disagree with Clephas on which would be good because he's sort of a meme among jops. Oh yeah it seemed to have edgy shit and philosophy and politics or something and a cool fantasy setting. ------- You think I'm memeing, but this is actually my 本音 Read lynne

yo hold up boy, listen up this thread must come to a temporary halt, now let me tell you what you just did. You just quoted a hundred line post. A frickin' hundred! And you didn't even reply to any of the information in it! What were you thinking! Apologize to the database god for making him store all these unnecessary bytes! Now!

I think swan song might have more non vanilla than vanilla scenes, lol

Are you sure? The most recent tl attempt is being handled by Mangagamer rather than the earlier fan translations, and I don't think I've seen any samples from it at all. That said I don't know who's working on it.

pls, this isn't just for vn related confessions confession: my priorities are bad enough that I delayed working on school stuff for weeks to try working on other stuff, but I also failed to complete the other stuff in time anyway and am still failing time to play some harukana (´・ω・`)

Well if nothing else I'm happy they managed to snatch hemoimo from SakuraGame. One of my friends is really hype for it so I guess it's partly that I'm happy for her, lol. I really don't know much about fakku but I haven't heard a lot of terrible things about them, which in these times is probably a good sign...

Drafting the story outline, sure, but that's not at all the same and her leading it doesn't mean she does most of the work either. Also I guess I misread your post since you didn't explain that you were just providing the source; it seemed more to me like you were presenting a quote proving your position. In any case saying Sayori wrote Nekopara is just plain wrong. Either way, not all that important to the main topic here I guess lol.

Idk where you got this info from, their gender isn't listed on vndb but most people I talked to seemed to assume the scenario writer is a dude fwiw. That said, the probably more well known Nekopara artist Sayori is certainly a woman. Women illustrators are actually very common in eroge production, possibly to the point where they're more frequent than men.

フワノベルへようこそ、エリスさん。 正直VNコミュは大体二部に割っていた、女性の乙女ゲー半と男性のエロゲー半で。としても、私に対してはエロゲ半の女性割りを増やすのはいいと思います。どうぞよろしくだにゃ～

Fruitbat isn't really associated with just one nationality as far as I know. The CEO lives in Finland afaik. I'm not sure who did the LB tl but I think dango is a Japanese native and I know he was working on the lb ex tl?

But They Claim To Have No Knowledge Of This Being Done And Say The Devs Did It, Actually, So Who The Fuck Knows, But Yeah It Was Nutaku Releasing It So We Remain Suspicious That Looks Like Pedo Bait Any Way You Slice It Honestly This Isn't Weird At All Holy Shit --- I mean, the headline would be less snappy if you told the truth. But you wouldn't be spreading misinformation, which is always nice.

I think the only thing I remember from OTL that bothered me was that it kept giving me prompts of "well, you should be able to figure out the rest" for complicated statements, and some pretty unclear philosophical segments. I might just be stupid, but then again the author might just be bad at conveying things or giving unreasonable challenges sometimes. Or maybe I wasn't supposed to understand, I suppose. I did like the writing most of the time, as well as the eventual structure of the thing, though personally I wasn't sure anything weird was going on at all for some time because the main character's actions were entirely in line with a larger-than-life JVN character. I also didn't feel the protagonist was dislikeable at all from what I can remember, but then again I don't find even Fuminori from Saya bad, neither did I find Hisao (except in Rin, I guess) or the protag in the Work in Progress demo much of an issue (and they had lots of complaints about the guy). I think my most hated character I can remember is probably Nanami from Utena who is apparently some people's fave. I might look through the text of the review a bit more closely later (I should probably sleep, it's 12 AM,) but one recommendation is to look up the definition of deus ex machina because I don't remember any kind of magical tier save of anyone. An unpredictable or unfair reveal or twist is not at all the same thing.

Look it's not his fault the sun exploded and he had to go back to his roots and post mindlessly flowing pee.

Thank god we finally have something to counter the poison Forest tried to spread when it gave you bad endings if you didn't cum outside. ｗｗｗ

I have to stop myself from openly shipping girls sometimes tbh. Or IRL yuri goggles. It's an interesting condition...

I'd avoid this for the loss of virgin blood alone honestly (hi, yes I do have that fetish). Then again, I'm not into nukige to begin with so it's hard to make myself care.

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男の娘でちゅぐう～

I have no idea why you did this but here's a kawaii dovac for your efforts

'lo, since everyone's giving their otome recs and you're a translator I guess I'll recommend watajuu, lol.