Kitouski

Wish granted, you oversleep and miss everything you had to do that day. I wish I had a big bag of money.

Just finished Anohana and couldn't think of anything to immediately watch next... so I started watching "Cardfight Vanguard", and it's just as wonderfully awful as I was expecting. Don't think I'll finish it though, too long and the main character is too awkward. It's like I'm watching Yu-Gi-Oh! all over again, only people know how to play the game.

It was a by choice thing. xD; Doing a speech on what visual novels are and their utter lack of popularity in the west.

I actually think the point entirely is mute as a whole as soon as you remember the author determines the age. If I drew a picture that looked mature enough to the person reading this and said, "Yea, she's actually 12." I feel like the only person who doesn't immediately go, "Ewww, whoops." when a show does that. They could be a 5,300 vampire girl for all they can say. This is proof if there ever needed to be that these characters have no real life, history or even existence; they're shaped into whatever we decide. What makes it "wrong" is when someone looks at it and sees a child and a real situation, something that enough people do not. The reason people argue so passionately on both sides of this subject is because I don't think either understands why they don't see eye to eye. I know I'm probably not setting my best foot forward being new to forum and all and giving personal examples for my opinion on this, but hey, no shame. A friend of mine who knows I'm a pretty big lolicon asked how I get past the part were you're looking at a kid being sexualized and actually find it cute or attractive. After talking for a while, it hit me - he didn't see what I saw, and I couldn't see what he was seeing. He saw a kid being sexualized and I'd see something sexual pertaining to a drawing that has no existence or restrictions... we couldn't possibly debate it because we weren't even debating the same thing. He was asking, "how can you think that and not be a pedophile?" and I was asking, "how can someone look at a drawing and you call them a pedophile?" ...I seriously can't see past the drawing and he couldn't see the drawing. So if a character is underdeveloped, rather short, clumsy, immature and cute, but was honest to goodness designed to be an older character, is it completely wrong to think anything sexual towards them at all? What if the character was intelligent, witty, mature and the art style had a more realistic tone to it but they were ultimately not of age, is it wrong then? My entire argument is why does this ever matter in the first place if we are following fiction? It feels as outrageous to me as drawing a circle on a paper and saying it's a ball. Someone may say, no it looks like a balloon. Someone else would say it looks like a wheel. Then it turns into a philosophical debate when in the end this actually ink on a piece of paper, compiled of wood and fibers. It doesn't matter what the meaning is or how it's interpreted if you don't share the same image. Did I mention I feel extremely strongly on this topic? Couldn't help but post again, I honestly dunno if I repeated myself either but alas...

I prefer hard copies above all else, but when I'm "fishing" for something, I torrent anime or watch it on Crunchyroll. If I really enjoyed it though, I always, always buy a hard copy. (...and if I love it, I buy TONS of merchandise of it. x_x)

Never bothered to make an account at vndb. Had no clue it worked like a pseudo-MAL honestly. Not like I keep my MAL updated like... at all. Lol. Don't have one but now I think I might make one now that I know that's a feature an account has, lol. I could use a big bag of money right about now, that'd make me feel welcome. O: Thanks for the welcomes everyone. xD;

I believe that any fictional work will always be a fictional work, regardless of the material involved. There's too much going on in the human brain to identify why something like child sexualization in anime appeals to someone. Psychological thrillers, horror movies and murder mysteries have huge followings. Some of them don't have good endings and a lot of people find these ones the best. Does this mean the fans of these are murderers? Absolutely not. When I see a young character in anime being sexualized, I just... can't mentally connect the dots to a real person so I have never understood where the issue is, all I see is the exact drawing the character embodies as if that were them. I have never once seen a young character in anime sexualized and thought of a real life person or situation. I can get a little defensive on this subject because I'm a huge fan of lolicon art but does that make me a pedophile, morally wrong, sexually craved or any other thing that could be put in? I know the answer those is no, but a lot of people would tell me I'm absolutely wrong like it's a fact, and honestly I don't know how to reply when I get walled like that, like I don't know who I am. I don't think we should judge what sort of individual based on their tastes in any thing, but instead on their actions. Most people would tune out as soon as I stated I enjoy it and go, "Oh, you're that sort of person." There are certainly a fair share of issues with Japan on the political and legal side, but the one thing I will always envy them for is their creative freedom (As of now). Fiction is fiction, that's all it is. Regardless of what it is, those who are offended by it should stray away and those who enjoy it shouldn't be restricted from something that does no harm. Rock music, rap, The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Family Guy, Harry Potter, I swear, the list goes on of things that will corrupt society for whatever reason, SOMEONE will have a problem with SOMETHING. We wouldn't be wearing leather, eating meat, on a wooden table, on our plastic chairs if everything someone thought was morally wrong was removed because it's wrong to eat animals, it's wrong to cut down trees and non-biodegradable products are destroying the world. Don't take from everyone as a whole, because the responsible will suffer for it and we might as well censor everything if we're worried about what offends who. People have a right to be offended, but I don't think they have the right to force people to conform to whatever they want. </rant>

Welp, I own Mangagamer's physical copies, but I think I'd be willing to buy it a second time to support visual novels in the west... can farther justify it by saying at least then I could install it and play anywhere if I had the urge to. Glad to know it was greenlit, saw this on there forever ago, voted, commented, and totally forgot about it. Heck, if I come across a big wad of money, I swear I'll buy a copy for every person on my friends list who doesn't know what a visual novel is or hasn't played one that I think would like it.

You would probably like nearly anything Key has touched in general, AKA Kanon, Clannad, Little Busters, Rewrite and One: To The Radiant Season (And if you read Japanese, AIR... did they ever translate AIR? I swear I can never figure out what's going on with it...) if you're looking for a comedy that's not too zeny and has a strong plot. Otherwise welcome aboard! :3

I believe my first visual novel was Tsukihime. I really wanted to play one of the many quirky Japanese fighters I heard of at the time and Melty Blood was one I was looking at. It wasn't translated at the time and the project I believe was on hiatus at MirrorMoon but the translation site just came out with a full patch of Tsukihime at the time, which at the time I only knew was related to Melty Blood. Got it, played it, loved it, been playing visual novels like crazy since.

Lol, instant replies. xD; I'm going to have to say Ever 17: The Out of Infinity. Not sure how boring of an answer that is, but something about it just really sticks to me... a lot more deep and emotion provoking then a lot of the other visual novels I could call my favorite. Still need to finish Little Busters and get to Steins;Gate though, so we'll see if that changes. Anything Key touches is amazing and the Steins;Gate anime was amazing; if the general rules of media apply, the visual novel can only be better.

Hey everyone, obviously new here... else I wouldn't be posting on this site. Funny enough, I found out fuwanovel had a forum while looking for an interview source from someone who has made a visual novel for some college homework... otherwise I've lurked Fuwanovel's main site plenty. I have a thing for forums and communities so screw homework. But yea, I'm a long, long time visual novel fan and player, as well as general anime, video game, etc stuff. You know, the general package. *Thinks* That's all I can think of adding, ask questions and I shall reply though. >: Otherwise, HAI THAR EVERYONE!