Buying visual novels.

[Blanc]

I am new to visual novels overall, so I have been wondering is there a online store where I can buy physical copies of visual novels in English ? Call me weird but I would like to make my own collection or bookshelf with them etc... and having physical copies sounds better to me I guess I am a bit old fashioned lol. 

[Fred the Barber]

The VN subreddit has a good buying guide in general, https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/wiki/buy, but for physical releases of English translations you're basically looking at two big sources:

• www.mangagamer.com
• www.jlist.com

For the most part they'll only carry the products they licensed and localized, but there's some stuff on both sites which doesn't match that qualification, notably IMHHW physical editions on both sites, or Huniepop, also on both (obviously it's not a VN, but, well... it's Huniepop). J-List also distributes a fair number of MangaGamer releases, I think; not sure if the other way around happens often.

I don't think any of Sekai Project's / Denpasoft's releases have had physical releases other than for crowdfunding rewards, but I could be wrong about that.

Edit: Apparently rightstuf also sells them? But it looks like they don't have anything outside of what the others do, and sometimes at WTF prices ($43.99 for IMHHW, vs. $14.99 on MangaGamer... huh?), so probably avoid rightstuf.

[Arcadeotic]

For translated and such there are Denpasoft, Mangagamer, JList, Itch.io Steam if you want some OELVNs

For untranslated I use getchu

[Darklord Rooke]

22 minutes ago, Arcadeotic said:

For translated and such there are Denpasoft, Mangagamer, JList, Itch.io Steam if you want some OELVNs

For untranslated I use getchu

He's looking for physical copies, mate.

[Blanc]

8 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

The VN subreddit has a good buying guide in general, https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/wiki/buy, but for physical releases of English translations you're basically looking at two big sources:

• www.mangagamer.com
• www.jlist.com

For the most part they'll only carry the products they licensed and localized, but there's some stuff on both sites which doesn't match that qualification, notably IMHHW physical editions on both sites, or Huniepop, also on both (obviously it's not a VN, but, well... it's Huniepop). J-List also distributes a fair number of MangaGamer releases, I think; not sure if the other way around happens often.

I don't think any of Sekai Project's / Denpasoft's releases have had physical releases other than for crowdfunding rewards, but I could be wrong about that.

Edit: Apparently rightstuf also sells them? But it looks like they don't have anything outside of what the others do, and sometimes at WTF prices ($43.99 for IMHHW, vs. $14.99 on MangaGamer... huh?), so probably avoid rightstuf.

Thanks for the websites and guide

[AaronIsCrunchy]

Just as a little side note, there's particularly few visual novels which are obtainable in a physical format in English. I'm not sure what ones are available, but they're few and far between.

 

Good luck

[kingdomcome]

Kickstarter is the way to get a lot of "newly" translated VN's.