OriginalRen

Not bad man, but can you send me this review in French? Could go for a nice read.

Ya know, when I chose that font I was thinking, man...I hate Comic Sans. I wonder if anyone will notice. Ya got me.

I take back my previous post, and correct it with this image: BUSTER TEAM? ASSEMBLE!

The same thing we do every night Aniki, try to take over the world!

1337 Photoshop skillz:

BUSTER'S TEAM? ASSEMBLE!!!

I seem to have misplaced it my dear, my umbrella that is.

It's a good thing someone spoiled me. Oh wait... 3rd game is the best in my opinion. Very Hollywood-esque.

True, love them, except granny smiths. Next person has played any VN for a total of 33 hours straight (with human breaks - bathroom, food) and didn't regret a single moment of it.

"I wonder if I remembered to turn the oven off..." Edit: Ninjas. Dem ninjas.

False, worthless. Next person eats cookies for breakfast.

Is this solidbatman in disguise?! As for me, can't really say - it's so hard to choose a best or close to best.

Haha, bulging. I'm just being stupid don't worry about it lol.

I don't think anyone here thinks they are monsters or some foreign human being to be honest, so I am a bit confused how you think nobody is saying normal people exist there. What we are asking is not so much what it is Japanese people do differently, but rather how do they do the same things we do differently.

Heh, intrusive. Damnit! Don't copy me! This clip is pure gold, gold I say! It must only be used in special occasions. Also, congratulations Nosebleed, you hacker. Probably recoded the website, that sly ninja.

I didn't think it was true, but a lot of the high school girls and younger college students in uniforms wear extremely short skirts, especially in the Chiba area. I think the fact that another girl I was hanging out with at the time commented on it made me realize it must be true.

That culture you speak of though is what makes Japan so unique. As a language major, to me it is with no doubt easy to say that "language is culture, and culture is language." The distinct difference in Japan between the Honne (本音) and Tatemae (建前) is what makes it such a different beast. Sure, the younger generation (I guess my generation) is exposed to the outside world now so the culture has adapted similar ways of doing things (as you said drinking, hanging out with friends, etc.), but the cultural concepts I mentioned still exist. The Tatemae (建前). In American culture, the prescribed answer for the rhetorical "How are you doing?" is always "Fine thanks" or something similar. Most will be taken off guard by a truthful answer and were not intending to invest so much into that unit of the interaction in the first place. The same goes in the Japanese culture. The term of a "white lie" comes into play here, knowing full well that Japanese people will go out of their way to make sure people understand their life is going well, even if it isn't. It's very rare for a Japanese person I met to open up to me about problems in life, much like we do here in my culture. If anything, when I would tell a story about a problem I was facing (for the day or month, whatever), Japanese people would basically respond in ways that are apologetic. They would understand that what I am going through must be tough, yet they wouldn't really offer advice or share their own stories and would just respond with the "Fine thanks" idea. Again, this isn't to say that the culture is always like this, but still. The difference between cultures here therefore lies in the idea that American culture as well as many others are much more open to opinions. If I hate my boss at work and think it sucks balls, I will tell my family and friends the truth, straight out. Japan on the other hand usually doesn't open up that way unless they are drinking with friends. In fact, this difference in expressing opinions is what made a friend of mine I met in Tokyo have trouble with an English exam he needed to pass in order get into a university over in America. He had trouble on the written portion of the exam, where the test asks you opinionated questions (easy ones with no prior knowledge needed) and whether you disagree or agree with something. He had trouble even knowing where to begin or how to form his own opinion on the matter. I think that's what makes the culture unique. So while you say that it's just a different place with a different culture, it really is cool. But anyways, language major rant. Lawl.

Being trolled is such a difficult concept to grasp. Boo, you're 0 fun.

Welcome! You speak any other languages aside form English? Edit: I lied, I guess you posted this in your introduction. Herp derp.

Define good

If a harem includes 2 girls, then yes, true. Next person eats children for breakfast.

This is where I met 2 of my friends, one of which helps me translate VNs.

Artwork alone is the hype that captures me when it comes to searching the world for a new visual novel to read. I will painstakingly admit that a lot of VNs I had read in the last year have been a result of searching for the mainstream. When I wanted to play a new VN, I would stumble onto VNDB and organize the results by popularity/rating, and scroll through the list from top to bottom. I would look at the cover art for each game and decide (based solely on that) if the game caught my eye or not. If it did, I would start to play it. The plot wasn't of importance to me because it was the fact that I wanted to be surprised by what the game had to offer that made me search for new interests. While this is the way I looked for a new visual novel to dive into, the idea behind hype and advertising in general is something I view in both positive and negative light. When I was in Japan back in November, VNs were advertised for the coming month. Sekai to Sekai no Mannaka de was one of the games (which just released this last Friday) that was hyped about 2 months beforehand, with stands and artwork (wall scrolls, etc.) all over the place in stores. They had a demo station which previewed the opening as well. I think that's great, however a lot the times when I was in the Sofmap stores looking for something to play, I would just pick and choose whatever looked interesting. I didn't bother to really read into it, because I just wanted to be surprised. In that way the hype was great, but it didn't convince me to buy the game. If anything, it just made me want to look into other Lump of Sugar works.

This is because you don't have a Little Buster's avatar group avatar made famous by Flutterz and me.

I see you have posted in this thread, so start changing them avatars and I'll delete what's taken! Don't be a troll!