Beato

With the exception of Arcueid (really don't like her mini skirt) these new design's are absolutely gorgeous

Here in Sweden we also have very strict laws against guns. To obtain one you either have to have a license (which takes a long time to obtain), or be a member of the police force or a similar institution. For the average joe, obtaining a gun is nigh impossible and therefore shootings are very rare. Average civilians should never be allowed to even touch a gun. The act of killing with one is too easy. It requires no physical contact with the victim. You only have to point and shoot. Of course you can’t fully trust the government. But that doesn’t mean you should be able to kill them. Even in the cases where the government is corrupt giving the other side weapons may very well worsen the situation (look at Syria for example). Your home is not your castle and you should not be given tools to defend it. Killing with a gun, even in self-defense is murder. When you use a tool where you fully know that one of the most likely outcomes is death you are attempting murder. Knifes shouldn't be acceptable self defense tools for the very same reasons. If you arm yourself with a gun or knife in the name of self defense you are ready to commit murder to defend yourself. (of course I'm not saying that someone who kills their agressor with a gun should be persecuted but I am saying that they shouldn't have been granted guns in the first place)

The VN market in japan is terribly over saturated so I assume that all larger companies have at least toyed with the idea of expanding.

I snack far to much when sitting by the computer. Ice cream and chips (but not together of course) are probably my favorite snacks to eat while reading. Though I'm home alone I may eatb my regular meals there too. It just feels so pointless eating alone at the kitchen table. So I usually take whatever I'm eating with me to the computer (even if it's beef or spaghetti)

Reading through Kagetsu Tohya right now. As expected it's really funny. Though the highligt so far was the side story told from Akiha's perspective. I really don't get why Nasu just doesn't go ahead and write a story with a female protagonist since he's really great at writing them. Here's hoping that the next Mahoyo will feature Aoko as the protagonist.

I think there should be an option to jump to a specific letter in the alphabet when displaying the VN's in alphabetical order. You have to browse through to many pages to get to the Vn you're looking for and it's only going to get worse later as more and more VN's are added to the site.

I think a lot of these problems are rooted in sensationalist journalists writing about stuff that they have absolutely no clue about. This would be unnacceptable if it were about a book or a movie but strangely it seems to be fair game to write crazy conspiracy theories about games, even if they have no clue about what the game is even about. Sort of like that Mass Effect incident on Fox New some years back.

It doesn't really matter how edited and fixed the patch is. At long as it's based on the original machine translation it's not really a proper translation. That doesn't mean it isn't readable though but in many cases the meaning got completly changed in the machine translation if that has then been used as a basis for this patch those instances can be turned into readable sentences, that means something entirerly different. Machine translations also miss things like flow and style, really essential things. No matter how many tlcheckers you have you can't get those things back without essentially retranslating the entire thing. And as I said again I'm not against the translation being distributed through the forums or machine translation being used as a basis for translation I just think it's really important that it's always noted. (I don't know if this new patch is using a machine translation if it doesn't I apologize, this is my opinion on machine translation in general and not just the Flyable Heart translation).

The reason the translation got bad rep isn't only because it's unedited. Its a bloody machine translation. (The original patch also added voice acting for the protagonist.... which was done by a computer.) I definitly agree to not distribute it through the main site. I would even add a disclamer that said that the translation is in many cases plain wrong and that people who still choose to read it should do it knowing that.

Surströmming is seriously pretty icky though. EU should just go ahead and prohibit it, no one eats it anyway. And well you could have been a Dane as we're the butt of their jokes as well but since you mentioned Norwegians ... (And you are really good neighbours, especially for our store owners.)

I have some as well. One day a norwegian man went to see the swedish king. "The swedes tell all these mean stories about us norwegians. They say that we aren't as smart as them!" he said to the King. The king said "There, there. I'll show you that us swedes aren't that bright either." He called out to one of his servants and said: "You there! Go to my house and check if I'm home!" When the servant had left the king turned back to the norweigan and said: "See, he wasn't that smart either." "No, he could have called instead.", the norwegian answered. How do you sink a norwegian submarine? A: You swim down and knock on the door. How do you sink a norwegian submarine again? A: You swim down and knock on the door. They'll open it and say: -Ha! You won't trick us this time! A swede is travelling in a hot air balloon when suddenly a strong wind makes him drift over to norway. The man doesn't know where he is so when he notices a man on the ground he asks: -Where am I? -Don't try to trick me! I can see you're in that little basket up there!

Nice to meet you all too. And yes I'm swedish.

Of course they're not 'necessary' but then what is? While I'm also of the opinion that a lot of H-scenes in visual novels feel very forced I also think it's good that they dare to include them at all. It's pretty strange how it's completly okay to portray extreme violence in our media these days, but something as normal as sex is frowned upon. It's weird really, that sex is seen as something shameful. I do think there's a problem with how sex is portrayed in VN's in general though. But that's something else altogether.

Hello everyone Beato here. I've been reading VN's for maybe 5 years or something (Though I haven't read that many). The first VN I read was Utawarerumono the second was Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1 & 2. My personal favorite VN's are Sekien no Inganock, Shikkoku no Sharnoth, Forest, G-Senjou no Maou and MuvLuv Alternative. I tend to be more of a lurker but I hope I'll get better at involving myself in all of your discussions. I have been helping out fuwanovel mainly by designing the various banners for the different VN's which is something I'll definitely be continuing since it has been an really fun experience. It feels great to see the site finally up and looking so good too. Once again Pleased to meet you all.