Fred the Barber

False. Sales are whatevs. Buy ALL the stuff ALL the time. Next person is reading an interesting book.

Aniplex doesn't have as large a library as those two, no, but like I said, they have a tendency to pick up the biggest titles. I mean, start with the list I had above, then add Fate/Zero, Fate UBW, Magi, Monogatari, Nisekoi, Gurren Lagann, ... The list of anime you really want but that'll cost you an arm and a leg to own gets depressing, fast. Pony Canyon just started and has a really small library, but likewise, there's stuff there I really want but have a hard time justifying at the price: Sound! Euphonium and Rokka no Yuusha both stand out, in particular.

Mostly true, but not entirely. Sentai and Funimation work that way, and probably some smaller licensers I'm not aware of, but Aniplex and Pony Canyon license a lot of the most popular anime for US release, and they roughly follow the Japanese pricing as well. Want Madoka on blu ray? Sword Art Online? Sound! Euphonium? Expect to pay between $10 and $20 per episode. Aniplex was the only one doing this until Pony Canyon entered the game a year or two ago, and it was depressing to see them go the same route Aniplex does, rather than the really quite reasonable prices Funi and Sentai charge.

At this point, true, with a text hooker and a dictionary (my kanji vocabulary is still basically non-existent). Next person is buying something on Black Friday.

New vs. used is valid, but you also shouldn't buy directly from Sentai. Buy from a retailer instead. I personally always buy stuff from RACS. Amazon is fine too, and weirdly, in this instance, they're apparently a storefront for RACS and even so it's some $10 cheaper to buy through Amazon? Who knows why. I guess I like supporting the little guy with the passion project though, and RACS's prices are usually better than anyone except Amazon and occasionally RightStuf, who I don't care for since I believe literally everything I've ever bought from them arrived damaged in some way.

Very exciting project to me personally. I hope you're able to find a translator for it. Good luck, and thanks!

So, keep in mind that it's been a while since I played this, but here's a few thoughts from a big Sekien no Inganock fan. It's a somewhat open ending. I don't like those all the time, but one every now and then is fine with me, and I rather liked this one. I thought most of the plot, at least, was resolved. In particular, the most important question of the plot, the cause of the incident, was explained to my satisfaction. While I don't believe there was a precise explanation of how it happened, there was a very clear, if indirect, explanation of why it happened, which gave me a great deal of emotional closure in the story. That was enough for me to like the ending. Similarly, the fates of all the main characters, while not directly stated, seemed clear to me, and I appreciated the explicitly-specified fate of the one person they chose to depict in the ending. Generally speaking, while it's an open ending, I think it nicely closed its themes. It doesn't go out of its way to explain how things work or what happened to every character, because that shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things. What matters is why certain events happened, what the people involved in them felt and believed, and what they experienced as a result.

That's not defensible at all; it's a combination of conjecture and nonsense. If you read the article you yourself linked, it specifically uses "threat of legal sanction" in the definition of a chilling effect. There is no such threat: at least dozens of eroge are released in the US every year, and obviously Pulltop is well aware of that since they sold IMHHW through the very same vendors who are hawking that eroge. There is no chilling effect towards eroge in the US, so let's stop throwing an incorrect term around here. If you even relax that a bit and just say they're worried about the controversy of objectionable content (which is a different argument entirely, and which by the way is now way far afield of anything any sensible person would call censorship), then, what controversy are we even talking about? Do MangaGamer's roughly monthly releases of eroge stir up a ton of controversy that I'm missing? I'm sure there's some, of course, but I'm equally sure it's nothing to write home about, or I assume I would've seen it somewhere. If I'm not seeing it, where would they? What sensible grounds would Pulltop have for thinking that releasing a plain vanilla moege in the US is going to stir up some kind of firestorm of controversy? I'll also throw out a roughly equally baseless hypothesis, but one that I happen to believe: they're releasing a non-eroge because they think it'll make them more money. Plain and simple. Sucks if you like eroge, but there it is, and it's unfortunately not something you can blame the government or SJWs for. Go change it with your wallet, and get more people to do likewise, if it's important to you.

Same. Kanon and winter are really, really strongly connected in my mind. Since it's a Key game and had a fantastic anime adaptation, there's tons of great fan art out there as well, but I doubt you'll find much without any characters...

After chatting with a bunch of the Shin Koihime Musou fan TL team, I decided I must have missed something by never playing Koihime Musou, so I've been busily working away at that in my spare time for the last couple of weeks. It's a lot of fun, though the pacing of the base scenes is a little odd because they all move independently: you can go through five SoL scenes in rapid succession on one Home Base round, and then the next one go through five H scenes in rapid succession. And the strategy game side of things really is too easy. But aside from those little nitpicks, I'm really enjoying it. The most astonishingly positive part of this game is the way it handles its huge cast of heroines: they're all very well fleshed-out, at least as well as you'd see for a heroine in any other charage (which I think is the closest label for this, even though it's got a war as the background setting and a bunch of warrior women as the main cast), despite there being dozens of them. They've got so many names you'd think it'd be confusing, especially with the intimate name being thrown around most of the time, but they're all so endearing that I'm not even having a problem remembering which formal name goes with whom, most of the time.

I wasn't talking about whether it's "better"; like I said, the game looks like drivel. But we get so many people crying censorship over nearly every release these days, and most of those claims are iffy at best per any reasonable definition of censorship, that when a clear-cut situation like this comes up I feel a need to correct it before half the forum gets their panties in a bunch over nothing.

Gotta agree with Tiag and Decay, the text in the screenshots looks acceptable, and there are even hints that they actually know what they're doing. It's kind of a shame the game itself looks like drivel. FYI, calling this "censored" when it hasn't been subjected to any form of official censorship and is, so far as we know, the only version of the game to exist, makes you sound like a crazy person.

Then you probably should've been using Jisho in the first place?

I think I've seen this posted three times now. Please keep posting it.

For sure. Haven't spent much time with it, but the few times I tried to get into a manga, it just didn't click for me. Next person is planning to pick up, or has already picked up, the recently-released Pokemon game.

Yeah. It's that good.

I support all recommendations for Symphonric Rain, especially when someone asks for "atmospheric". It can drag a little bit during the first three routes, but the routes unlocked after that are top-notch. Also, have you seriously not played Sekien no Inganock? Or is your VNDB out of date?

True. I expect I'll play it as soon as I finish S;G0, which is going to be top priority once it comes out, but which will probably take a while to finish. Next person hasn't played a VN recently.

<3 Tama-nee. Hope you have fun with it; I know I did.

Nothing can save us now. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

I'm pretty sure, based on my complete lack of references, females tend to like over-generalizing the preferences of the opposite gender, not all this stuff you guys are talking about.

Your name change was rather upsetting. But your consistent character usage in your avatar kept you recognizable through that, so it's mostly okay. Still getting used to the new name, though...

Not at all; I simply don't notice you. Your avatar is how I mentally resolve your identity. Since you change your identity every month, I forget you entirely quite frequently, and you have to start over at reputation 0 along with all the other newbies

Thanks for the review, Kags. I wasn't sure where to prioritize this one, and your review helped a lot

New Disgaea game on a new console => time to purchase a new console, so I've had a PS4 for a while. I've only played Disgaea 5 and Tales of Zestiria (which is of course available on both PS3 and even PC, now) so far, and the only other upcoming game I'm waiting for is Persona 5. Oh well. Still money well-spent - I logged a ton of hours on Disgaea 5, and I will certainly log a ton more on Persona 5.