Feel Good Slice-Of-Life VN

[irishdog]

Hey there. Katawa Shoujo was my first VN and more recently I finished Tomoyo's Route in CLANNAD and then finished Tomoyo After, which was incredibly moving and powerful for me. However, currently I'm looking for something similar to CLANNAD/Tomoyo After (slice-of-life with romance), preferably with more of a 'feel good' story/ending instead of the tragic experience that I went through in Tomoyo After. It can be any setting, really. I'd like something with medium-long length where I can just enjoy living another life and falling in love with a 2d cutie. It can have sad parts. It can have ups and downs, some drama and conflict. But I'd like to avoid those with straight-up purposefully tragic 'true endings'

I want to check out Fate/Stay Night eventually, because it sounds great, but right now I'm just looking for more recommendations.

[Limerence_]

Little Busters and Rewrite would be a good call, though Rewrite has certain bittersweet moments... (They're both really long though. Especially Rewrite.)

They're both made by Key too, so they should have a somewhat similar feel to Clannad. 

If you're finding something that deals with less drama, maybe Konosora  would suit your needs. It's also shorter (and has more 'feel good' elements) than the aforementioned VNs. 

Hopefully my recommendations would prove to be useful  

[Tamaki Sakura]

Here are five feel-good romances to get you started:

• Noble ☆ Works
• Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na
• Princess Evangile
• D.C. II
• My Girlfriend is the President

[mitchhamilton]

If my heart had wings. my all time favorite vn.

[littleshogun]

ToHeart 2 and Koi Resort here. Also Koichoco and Majikoi here I suppose (Majikoi was very long though). Hope it'll be help.

[Zidan209]

Go for If my heart had wings. It s a good rom-com without any tragical parts.

[ChaosRaven]

The Shuffle series consisting of Shuffle!, Tick! Tack! and Really? Really! is also still a solid choice for simple feel good moeges.

[Infernoplex]

You already got a lot of suggestions, here's another one: Snow Sakura ... And one more I remembered just now: Yume Miru Kusuri

Edit: Skip Yume Miru Kusuri, it's not what you are looking for. I wasn't sure about that one.

Edited August 28, 2016 by Infernoplex
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[ChaosRaven]

1 hour ago, Infernoplex said:

And one more I remembered just now: Yume Miru Kusuri

Does that really count as a feel good moege? I thought that one had quite heavy themes like bullying, drug abuse, etc.

[Mr Poltroon]

Allow me to refute a recommendation: Konosora, or If My Heart Had Wings.

Whilst it fits your parameters, its translation is terrible. It is highly recommended you wait for its retranslation to eventually finish.
This is not me being picky. One of its routes was butchered to the point of being impossible to comprehend to any English reader.

 

I'm sceptic as to whether "Yume Miru Kusuri" would be a 'feel-good' VN, as most of its content is somewhat sad, if you put any thought into it.

[Infernoplex]

42 minutes ago, ChaosRaven said:

Does that really count as a feel good moege? I thought that one had quite heavy themes like bullying, drug abuse, etc.

You are probably right since I didn't really read that one, I know about Snow Sakura because I played it but about Yume Miru Kusuri I am not sure, some people on the net were recommending me that one when I asked them about slice of life, maybe it's just some drama with elements that you mentioned, my bad for recommending stuff I am not sure about, sorry ^^

[mitchhamilton]

8 hours ago, Tiagofvarela said:

Allow me to refute a recommendation: Konosora, or If My Heart Had Wings.

Whilst it fits your parameters, its translation is terrible. It is highly recommended you wait for its retranslation to eventually finish.
This is not me being picky. One of its routes was butchered to the point of being impossible to comprehend to any English reader.

 

while it is a butchered piece of translation, and is a disgrace to visual novel translations, i argue that the emotional impact of certain routes are still there!

 

 

.......really i just wanted to use this pic against you. but seriously, yeah, the tl from moenovel is a huge mess. there is one route that is completely incomprehensible at times. i still read it with the patch and its still my favorite vn of all time but its understandable why others would say stay away from it.

[irishdog]

On 8/27/2016 at 11:02 PM, Tamaki Sakura said:

Here are five feel-good romances to get you started:

• Noble ☆ Works
• Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na
• Princess Evangile
• D.C. II
• My Girlfriend is the President

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your recommendation.

I just finished my first run of Princess Evangile (with Rise) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will probably elaborate on my thoughts later in another thread.

edit: tfw the fandisc translation release date is 'TBA' 

[irishdog]

Majikoi and Majikoi S are great. Still playing through them.

Some good waifu feels while also being very 'feel good' and entertaining.

 

(Miyako best girl? with Chris close behind)

[irishdog]

Koichoco is one of my favorites thus far. The only VN where I've gone through all the routes.

https://vndb.org/v4028

[Okarin]

Going by your description, try something different and try Kira * Kira.

It has a heavy feelz section too, but most of the time it's a cheerful story about some teenagers forming a punk rock band. It would be most enjoyable if you like music, but otherwise it's just a slice of life story.

Overdrive, the company that makes it, is one of my favourite VN companies.

Edited November 17, 2016 by Okarin