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Hello Fuwa,

Today I was thinking about visual novels in general and I began to question how exactly did

I even get into them. I'm almost positive this has been brought before, but as I'm new here I wouldn't know.

Anyways, I thought it'd be cool to hear from others of what got them started.

 

For me, it was after watching the anime 'Oreimo'. The show itself I hate, (fuck that ending, #teamkuroneko), but it made me

incredibly curious to try it out. I found fuwa and ended up picking Swan Song at random. I ended up staying up

that same night playing it because I was so amused. That's really it. But yeah feedback would be really cool and appreciated.

 

Thanks.

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A slow development of getting more and more into manga and anime. After I saw the world god only knows anime and read the manga. I wondered what these galges were. So I ended up trying them. Long story short. Ended up learning jp to read porn because of it. Glorious 日本文化。

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A few friends got me into anime, my gateway animes were basically borderline hentai Ecchi harems and stuff. Searched for more Ecchi stuff that was considered 17 or 18+, found the Shuffle! anime, saw that and went to find out more about it. Saw that it was a "Visual Novel", went and searched about that. Later, the Internet Gods got me the original game (TLed by MG) and read that. The rest is history.

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Saw a Katawa Shoujo review on a video game forum I frequented, I only got into anime after VNs, interestingly enough.

Oddly enough, this about describes how I got into visual novels. I was reading around on a break and read an article about it and decided to give it a shot. It spiraled from there.

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Wait...Swan Song was your first VN?  That must've been a real noob-friendly experience  xD

Saw a Katawa Shoujo review on a video game forum I frequented, I only got into anime after VNs, interestingly enough.

Pretty much what happened with me, except I was searching around for freeware games and found KS.  I'd already been watching anime and reading manga for years, so that wasn't the cause.  I'd actually seen it mentioned before in several places around the internet, but never checked it out before then.

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I watched the world only god knows and that sparked my curiosity about them so i did a bit of research and found that Clannad was a Visual Novel. I tried it out, thought it was good but wasn't hooked. Then i saw Inside Gaming play Katawa Shoujo and i thought that looked cool so i tried it, after that i found fuwanovel and then i got hooked. 

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Wait...Swan Song was your first VN?  That must've been a real noob-friendly experience  xD

Saw a Katawa Shoujo review on a video game forum I frequented, I only got into anime after VNs, interestingly enough.

Pretty much what happened with me, except I was searching around for freeware games and found KS.  I'd already been watching anime and reading manga for years, so that wasn't the cause.  I'd actually seen it mentioned before in several places around the internet, but never checked it out before then.

It's funny, VNs are about the only Japanese thing I've really dived into. I read and watched "Oh My Goddess" but that's really about it before getting into visual novels. I really liked how they reminded me of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books I read as a kid, only with well-drawn visuals. 

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What got me into visual novels? I've always liked the Ace Attorney series, ever since I got my first DS and I also kept the BlazBlue story mode as a pleasant experience in my mind. About a year ago, I got sick of todays movies and video games. I feel like nobody puts any effort into writing a good story or believable characters these days (I know a fair bit about writing and analyzing).

Then, someday when I was bored and looking for porn, I found Katawa Shoujo. I did not find porn that day, but I found what I've been looking for: A Story and characters I can relate to and actually care about. So, after that I've read other visual novels and discovered my passion for them (and romance stories).

It's been over a year, huh?

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I got a recommendation to try out Fate/Stay Night. I knew about VN's from Oreimo and The World God Only Knows but I always assumed that they were just porn and thought they were a bit too weabooish for me. Well here I am I guess. :mellow:

I also read Phoenix Wright a long time ago but at the time I had no idea that it was a visual novel since I didn't even know the concept.

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long story short: 

>been interested in anime manga for 14 years now

>I have heard about "porn games" a lot through me randomly weebing around the internet, thought it was all "just" porn games

>tried Yume miru kusuri

>cried a lot

>tried harukoi otome, was kinda meh, tried cross channel didnt understand it.

>played saya no uta, mind blown

And here I am

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it was a logical consequence when i first started becoming socially arkward, resulting in me becoming socially arkward the more...
 

You should not say such things, sempai. Let us go to the roof and have our boxed lunch. (And seriously, every VN I've read so far involves going to the roof of a buiding...)

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I was wasting my time on tumbrl and saw this photo 

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or something similar I cant' remember 

I was really curious about it at that time I thought it was some anime  then found out it was a "game"

*I download it then read it and got depressed for 1 month

*Did some research about vns then found out that one of the writers took a lot of inspiration in narcissu to write Katawa shoujo so  I read it...1 week depressed and that's how everything started 

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Probably a combination of Persona 4 and running out of anime and manga with what I was looking for. After Persona 4 I started looking at VNs as something similar and then when I ran out of anime and manga I wanted to watch/read I went back to VNs and found some that really piqued my interest. 

There was something else that got me into them but I can't remember the reason I had for it now...

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I was wasting my time on tumbrl and saw this photo 

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I was really curious about it at that time I thought it was some anime  then found out it was a "game"

*I download it then read it and got depressed for 1 month

*Did some research about vns then found out that one of the writers took a lot of inspiration in narcissu so to write Katawa shoujo so  I read it...1 week depressed and that's how everything started 

seems like we have another feels masochist :D

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I played a lot of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life when I was younger, it's one of my favorite games. I really liked the relationship aspect of the game, and all these years later I finally had the idea.."I wonder if there are any other games with dating sim elements to them". Before I knew it I was looking at a "Best Free Visual Novel's" list, and didn't know what to start with. But just then, I saw Katawa Shoujo, advertised by the CG when Hanako is playing pool. Hanako herself interested me visually, and that CG drew me in. I marathoned it in a few days and was completely hooked. To this day it's still my favorite CG, and Hanako is still my favorite girl in all of VN's.

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I was wasting my time on tumbrl and saw this photo 

Hidden Content

I was really curious about it at that time I thought it was some anime  then found out it was a "game"

*I download it then read it and got depressed for 1 month

*Did some research about vns then found out that one of the writers took a lot of inspiration in narcissu so to write Katawa shoujo so  I read it...1 week depressed and that's how everything started 

seems like we have another feels masochist :D

I love utsuge stories, the more sad and depressing they are the better, if they destroy me emotionally then I know it was a good novel :P 

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