OriginalRen

Oh I almost forgot! If you have any interest in taking the surveys, feel free! Keep in mind some of the questions may be spoilers, but for the most part are pretty straightforward. If I notice enough people have done it, heck I can post them up sometime as well! 1-9, 1 being the best, answer all of the questions or some, your call. Season 1: Part 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VJBPWY2 Part 2: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VQLFMWT Part 3: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/389MGYC Season 2: Part 1: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HL86DZP Part 2: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HLLFXLH Part 3: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HLVKTTX

Funny you mention this, because I wasn't into anime until about the time we started this group. I had just finished playing through Little Busters and had heard it was already an ongoing show, and told my one friend (the same guy who introduced me to Katawa Shoujo) to at least watch it with me considering he hates VNs otherwise. I ended up feeling bad for making them sit through it, and was like you guys can get a choice of an anime as well. After that, it sort of just clicked and we did another round.

Hia, and welcome!

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I think G-Senjou made me more surprised at the big plot twist near the end of the game rather than emotionally affected: As for me though, I have only ever shed a single tear once in any VN I have ever played. Only one time:

I liked KS a lot. Through my first play, I actually didn't land a single girl's route and ended up failing Act I, which makes me wonder why I had the confidence to play VNs anymore after that. But I did land Rin first, and while I love her route to this day, I can't really say she was my favorite. Honestly what I enjoyed about KS the most was the fact that it focused on a multitude of characters (in this case the girls) who you already know face problems, yet also focused on the protagonist equally so in a way that didn't derail the who idea behind the game. It was a good balance in my opnion of showcasing everyone's struggle. If I could say one thing I didn't like about the game, it's the fact that there really isn't any sort of connectivity to the whole story. To me the game is sort of meant to be played like a video game: you pick a route, beat the game, and call it a day. Sure you could go back and experience all the routes but they don't really relate to one another on a grand scale. Actually it was very disheartening playing the other routes after your first because the amount of foreshadowing they did regarding the other routes felt painful. I know what Rin is going through, why do you need to hint at that fact in Emi's route when I can't do anything about it? Overall though, rant aside, it's a good game and will always have a spot in my heart.

Episode 23 of Attack on Titan. When it cut over to this guy, my friends and I lost it, and respectively made a meme about it.

Malheureusement, je suis américain, et je n'étudie jamais la littérature française sauf dans l'université. Je le sais...probablement je la devrais étudier, mais...eh. Bref, j'espère que nous devenons amis!

Interestingly enough, when I was in Japan two months ago, Sekai to Sekai no Mannaka de was being advertised all over SofMap stores in Akihabara. The game looked somewhat interesting so I ended up grabbing a couple of cheap Lump of Sugar works for like ¥1700 each. Ended up buying Hanairo Heptagram, Hello,good-bye, and Prism Rhythm. Pretty good prices if you ask me, and some of them were the 5th aniversary editions. I got a bunch of stuff like artbooks, mousepads, and the like. Story aside, the advertisement (opening video) for the game was catchy in itself. They also had a demo for it, but sadly I could not read any of it so I was left wondering. Still, you should try one of the games if possible.

Ah this thread brings back memories... My first VN, like many others in here, was Katawa Shoujo, but for me it wasn't due to my own accord. A buddy of mine introduced me to it, and he wouldn't have even known about it had it not hit the artist community by storm. Around the time this was released back in 2012, DeviantART was overflowing with KS artwork, and for about 3 months he kept asking himself what the heck it was. Eventually he tried the game and told me I needed to play it. Interestingly enough, I remember sitting down and doing a little bit of Act I. My friend kept telling me you have to be a complete dumbass to not land at least 1 girl's route by the time it finished. I won't spoil the bad ending before Act I finishes for those who haven't played it, but let's just say I was pretty unfortunate. I think I should have given up on VNs at that point, but for some reason I started looking into them more. The rest is history as they say.

Well worth it. Just don't stay up until 5 in the morning like I did for a week straight. Geez... -_- As for me, I've been going back to finish VNs I never got the chance to complete. Katawa Shoujo, G-Senjou, Grisaia...I've tackled about 3-4 routes in each but didn't get around to finishing them all.

This did remind me of a certain meme just now, yes it did. @ Nosebleed: Honestly, I didn't make any of the charts. That was all done by the same friend of mine who does the analytics. He just sort of hands us the survey we make and we don't find out the results until they are tallied. It's a nice surprise that way I guess.

Yukiru: I played Little Busters in its entirety before I ended up watching both seasons as an anime, and I was pretty happy with knowing I played the VN. It was nice to be able to say, "Oh hey, I remember this scene. It pretty much was spot on/way off." Knowing what you say about After Story, Key always does a pretty good job on making those endings pretty emotional. Flutterz: Thanks! Merçi! Grazie molto! Schönen dank! Tack! ありがと!

I have wanted to watch this, but I know that I should probably play the visual novel first to do it justice, so I am avoiding it for now. Someday though, someday.

Yeah this one was a little tough, and when we were voting on nominations, it did stump us for a bit. Still, in the end we voted on it being that he really was there to "support" Simon throughout the show. He did score 1st place in the end though!

To follow up my previous post, here are the results for the Oscars we have held so far. My friend, not me, writes the analytics after we have all discussed the choices as a group. Seeing as we only recently added the photo sets for the 2nd season, the 1st season only contains the analytics without any hint to what the questions actually were. Apologies for that. Anyways, here they are: Please Note: The screenshots below with spoiler tags obviously contain moments in the show that, well, are spoilers. Season 1 Analytics - Steins;Gate, Gurren Lagann, and Psycho Pass. Pretty solid rankings overall. That mysterious fourth bar was for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Here's how they stacked up concerning all categories (3 points for first, 2 for second, and 1 for third place in the votes): The big take away here is just how good Stein's Gate is - it won male lead, female lead, and female supporting character. Daru placed second in male supporting character (after Kamina, of course). The plot-related awards were also in Steins;Gate's favor. That's not to say that the other anime were bad. Gurren Lagann is obviously fantastic, and Mirai Nikki and Psycho Pass also placed very well. However, the other choices did not really compete. There were less joke categories in this season's Oscars, which made it much more slanted towards the "highest quality" show. That being said, the shows that ranked poorly in this iteration of the awards were still enjoyable, and they did leave me with something, whether it be bus drivers, space heaters, or scenes with blatant child pornography. Season 2 Analytics - Mawaru Penguindrum was rated as the best anime, but it lacked the character depth that Attack On Titan had, which it used to squeeze out some extra points. I'm a huge Mawaru Penguindrum fanboy, but I also chose to watch AoT, so I'll let it slide. AoT and MP both had four 1st place finishes. Biggest surprise for me was Angel Beats with 15 points. It came in a strong 4th place finish overall. Hinata blew out the male supporting character competition, scoring 2nd place votes from each of us. Biggest disappointment in terms of the scores was Durarara. It had a number of 2nd place finishes (four!), but failed to capture any 1st place awards. I believe it suffered with Baccano! due to the lack of real main characters. Those may ask what the color coding is for the scores on the right. Well, as I mentioned, we each picked three anime. I picked Mawaru Penguindrum, Madoka Magica, and Attack On Titan. For the full list of scores, see this here. Please note this sheet does contain spoilers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?ey=0AgY4wRhHIEzPdDItMk1IamJ3NzRYQmFzOUpkbF9XaUE&usp=sharing In addition, here are the photo sets for all the categories we chose (and yes, that is supposed to purposefully say "Hottest Gril") I prefer the George Foreman myself, she's pretty hot. Most Epic Moment Most Emotional Moment

About a year ago, my friends and I started up our own anime group where we enjoy a night of fun filled shows and Coldstone ice cream. I thought it would be a cool idea to post in this forum about what exactly this little social click of ours entails and see what everyone thinks. I won’t bore you with the details of what started the idea per se, but I will give you the lowdown of how it works. The way we run the group is that its 3 members (myself included) each select an anime to watch per round, where a “round” consists of all of us choosing a series of our choice. Each show shouldn’t be over 30 episodes in length, but exceptions may be made for certain occasions. We try to stay away from the popular anime that made it big in the US, but again, exceptions may be given if we feel the hype of the show is that great. In terms of watching each series with subtitles or as an English dub, the choice is up to the selector of said anime. The group meets about once a week and usually watches as many episodes as we feel is fit, sometimes watching all the shows at once. In this case, we watch 3 episodes from each series a night. After 3 rounds of shows (9 in total, which we consider being a "season" of anime) we host an Oscar award ceremony - we pick and choose the best from each show in that set, and discuss what we enjoyed the most. These Oscars usually have set categories and nominations we choose beforehand, so most of the voting is done in our own time via survey. Instead of just picking a choice for each nomination, we actually rate our choices from 1-9, with 1 being the best. In the end, the statistics balance themselves out and we can analyze what we feel really was the "best" anime that entire season. In this way, even if a show doesn't win in terms of being the greatest anime, it may have the best characters, and so on. Recently, we added another member to our group, as well as making an occasional friend who watched with us apart of the fun as well. Subsequent rounds will try to consist of 5 complete anime if possible, but that might not always be the case. If so, you can always expect at least 3 anime per round from our "core" group. With that said, here is the list so far. It is cumulative, so enjoy! Note: Due to organizational purposes, additional anime will be added in future posts as time goes on. Below are the links to other pages for the group. Page 2 - https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/3199-anime-group/#entry92014 Round 1 1. Little Busters! - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (26 episodes) 2. Gurren Lagann - Watched - English Dub (27 episodes) 3. Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (26 episodes) Round 2 4. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Watched (2009 Version) - English Dub (28 episodes) 5. Immortal Grand Prix (IGPX) - Watched - English Dub (26 episodes) 6. Psycho Pass - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (22 episodes) Round 3 7. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun) - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (24 episodes) 8. Last Exile - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (26 episodes) 9. Steins;Gate - Watched - English Dub (24 episodes) End of 1st season - Anime Oscars I Round 4 10. Tantai Opera Milky Holmes - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (24 episodes) 11. Legend of Korra - Watched - English (12 episodes) 12. Mawaru Penguindrum - Watched - English Dub (24 episodes) Round 5 13. Little Busters! Refrain - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (13 episodes) 14. Durarara!! - Watched - English Dub (25 episodes) 15. Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (12 episodes) Round 6 16. Angel Beats! - Watched - English Dub (13 episodes) 17. Baccano! - Watched - English Dub (16 episodes) 18. Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (25 episodes) End of 2nd season - Anime Oscars II Round 7 19. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (24 episodes) 20. Katanagatari - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (12 episodes) 21. Darker than Black - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (25 episodes) Round 8 22. Kyoukai no Kanata - Watched - Japanese (Subtitles) (12 episodes) 23. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo - Watched - English Dub (24 episodes) 24. Welcome to the N.H.K. - Watched - English Dub (24 episodes)

I never was good at witty first introductions, so I'll try to impress. Spencer here. 23. Been a closet VN lover since 2012 thanks to a friend introducing me to Katawa Shoujo (guess I can thank his DeviantART account for that one). Born and raised in the US, but I will be leaving for Japan in the summer to be an English ALT. I love languages, food, and games, yet sadly I know little to no Japanese. I am fluent in French and Italian though. I have also studied Latin, Greek, German, and Swedish. In terms of VNs, I like playing them often so I have a pretty good collection from when I went to Japan for a month previously. Some of my favorites include (in no ranked order): 1. Little Busters 2. Hoshizora no Memoria 3. G-Senjou no Maou I also like anime thanks to me and two of my friends forming a group we hold every weekend. It's pretty cool, and hell, we even get ice cream. And that's about it. Nothing too interesting. I decided to join this site so that I can find a place to actually discuss VNs with others, so I hope you'll welcome me and look forward to checking out the community. Thanks for having me!