Joris914

Can you give some examples? The only thing that jumped out to me in the Sayaka patch was a typo/grammatical error here and there. None of it was unreadable in my opinion. What exactly do you mean by formatting?

Has there been made a decision yet about a partial patch?

Well, not that it isn't a great start, you're only gonna be able to read anything japanese if you learn Kanji as well. Whereas kana will probably take you a week or two, Kanji will probably take at least a year or more :/ Also if you're looking for more practice, realkana.com is a very simple but very helpful site to practice what you've learnt

Well, gotta have some protein, ifyouknowwhatImean

Ah, my favorite Yumiko facial expression. Nice to see it here.

When the picture of Miyako in maid uniform was posted my first thought was: "that is like a mix of Miyako, Tsubame and Lee." edit: also, yay page 50

I think it's also important (and not that hard) to learn how to conjugate basic verb forms (present/future, past and their negative counterparts). And if you're that far in anyway, might as well throw in adjectives because they conjugate rather similarly.

How poor are you exactly? At textfugu.com you can get full access for either $20 a month or $99 for a lifetime. If you've got some money to spare even then, I suggest taking a look at wanikani.com for kanji and kanji related vocabulary. If you have a premium textfugu account you get 50% off wanikani, which would make it $50 a year. By the way, the first few chapters of textfugu are free for all, so you can try it out before making a decision. First few levels of wanikani are free as well.

Amen to that. Anyway, learning to write kanji is quite useless. As long as you can type it, why even bother knowing how to write? Not like you'd want to write letters in Japanese anytime soon, right? Apparently even Japanese people in present time are collectively forgetting how to write kanji, because the opportunity presents itself so rarely. It's called "kanji-" or "character amnesia". Also about finding good decks, I get all my decks from textfugu.com so I don't have to worry about that. Mostly for vocab, although it was also my main means of learning kanji before I learned of Wanikani.

If you want to use flashcards, I recommend using anki. Just google it. It has a spaced repetition system based on you honestly saying you got a question right, wrong, if it was hard or easy. Also IMO it is a lot more convenient to do it digitally than having to actually make cards.

I use wanikani.com for kanji and textfugu.com for general grammar and stuff. Both are not free, but I found it works very well so I don't mind having to pay something for it. They are also created by the same people, and if you have a premium (paid) textfugu account you get 50% off wanikani.

Yeah, I've actually started to learn Japanese after discovering that Miyako's route was still only translated for a bit. I started out the game not knowing it was a WIP (it was only the 2nd VN I've ever played). I already knew some words from anime, but I've found the language not so hard to learn. The hardest part is of course Kanji, but I've got a good site for learning that as well.

Well, to be honest, Sayaka's route was just too short to have much of either. Then again maybe it is the exception, as I haven't been able to play the others yet (my Japanese is not yet at that level ).

Meh, as far as A goes I'm not hoping for too much story-wise after having played Sayaka. It was just quite short overall. Also, it's probably faster to learn Japanese then to wait for A-5 to get translated .

You evil bastard.

Really now? It seems so much longer. :/ Oh well, I didn't bother to go back and check so you're probably right.

Well, after Miyako there's the three guys and two classmate girls side routes and then the "true route". These are all quite a bit shorter (except maybe the true one, don't know about that), but it's hard to put a percentage on that. If you'd somehow be able to find how many lines of text each route has, you could calculate the percentage yourself.

It should be noted however that this was months ago. Probably a lot more by now.

If you like eroge, I suggest you make an account on erojiji.net. It has a VN index with a ton of VN's, mostly eroge (well let's face it, most VN's are eroge anyway), with download links. http://www.erojiji.net/index.php?/topic/116-visual-novel-index-sorted-alphabetically/ You need an account to view this page, but it's definitely worth it. Also if you're planning to use the site, make sure to check out the password guide in the top of the page. (each VN is uploaded to safelinking.net and requires a password to access)

Currently it has Tsubame, Monshiro, Kokoro, Margit and Iyo and Kosugi mini-routes. Quite a few hours of playtime to be had.

Hey now, if we get Momoyo and Moro/Takuyo avatars, at least the Kazama Family will be complete! Edit: and Mayucchi, how could I forget Mayucchi?

Oh damn, I got lucky that I randomly picked Sayaka first then. Or the game would have broken the bad news to me in a more surprising, less nice fashion. When I saw "Sayaka patch" I assumed it had the other 2 as well, because Sayaka is technically last of the three.

A-1 is finished isn't it?

Ah, thanks. Never seen that movie.

I already didn't get the duck part and now this. What?