I first heard of the visual novel Genre through the blogs of the Author of Megatokyo, (Fred Gallagher) He raved about Air and how great it was and even did a couple of parody pieces in his webcomic. As my interest in Anime/Manga grew I became more interested in VN's and actively went looking for them. Found Katawa Shoujo, Played it, Loved it. (and Lilly. Lilly - best girl!) Then found FuwaNovel, finally played Air, clannad and then Joined this community. Since then I've become rather picky about VN's. I really have to enjoy the artwork before I'll even look at the story. Fault, Cartagra etc are the style of art I particularly enjoy. I think KS opened a lot of doors for me, and I still like re-reading it now and then. Even if it is just to pay a certain blind girl a loving, sentimental visit.