The VN community in your country

[InvertMouse]

Wow, Aaeru, I had no idea you lived in Sydney Australia! For some reason, I just assumed nobody is local on the forum ~ We should bump into each other during a con or something B).

I'm wondering if VNs are hard to introduce to people because they consist of still images and a ton of reading, which might seem uninteresting for a lot of folks. Indeed, I think a lot of people assume that VN means porn. That's a tough barrier to break.

[Night]

I am from PH. Well a lot of people here in my college play VN so I guess you just have to meet the people you share interest with

Btw, DayLighter (my slave), alden, and sols (i think) are from PH.

cool, I'm glad I'm not alone here... I mean, the only one who lived in PH

[Snowtsuku]

cool, I'm glad I'm not alone here... I mean, the only one who lived in PH

Well, if you for some reasons is near Manila or visiting someone from Manila, I don't think looking for people who likes VNs is that hard.

[HaruKaizo]

In spain a visual novels fan is something really uncommon.

Basically because not much people knows the genre, or if they do, they can't read them because they can't understand japanese or english.

That's why the few fans in this country have to go beyond their frontiers in search of good group of people who likes vns as they do.

Luckily for us, Fuwanovel exists ^^

[sanahtlig]

For those living in a country where English isn't your native language:

In the age 18-30 crowd (the age group most likely to play VNs), what percentage of people would you say are fluent enough in English to play text games like VNs?

[Mikel]

In my case, Spain, I would say 15-20%

I think most people here don't care about other languages, I actually know few people who can speak English properly

[Down]

Considering the level of english in VNs is not extremely high, and you get used to it fast enough, I'd guess maybe 30-40%? A lot of people are terrible at english and don't care about it but there are still people skilled enough.

The real issue is the number of people who would actually bother reading something the length of a book in English. There we fall at maybe 5%. And that might be optimistic.

[HaruKaizo]

Like Mikel said, only a few.

I hardly find people with a good level of english.

[Sakimichi]

<--Philippines

Me and my little sister are into VN's and anime, do not know about the other people though since I never talked about this kind of things to others except my sister.

I guess I'm the only one here who lived in PH~

@topic

I'm pretty certain that anime are very well known in my country (they even broadcast animes on TV)

I'm not sure about VN's, (probably because of those general ideas that VN=Porn)

I'm from the Philippines too, I tried making my classmates play Visual Novels but they can't get the hang out of reading lengthy dialogues. They actually preferred more interaction...eg: facebook games *sigh*

[InvertMouse]

I'm from the Philippines too, I tried making my classmates play Visual Novels but they can't get the hang out of reading lengthy dialogues. They actually preferred more interaction...eg: facebook games *sigh*

I remember showing Narcissu to my friends way back in uni, too. A few of them actually finished and enjoyed it, yet for some reason, when the sequel came out in English, none of them bothered to take a look .

[Metaler]

The VN community here in Brazil is a complete mystery to me. As far as I know, me and several of my friends ARE the community (lol). But seriously, I'd say 9, maybe 10 people I know (including myself) play VN and admit it, but who knows, there are a couple anime conventions in my state alone and quite a few in the others too. Just maybe, a small percentual of people who attend these conventions plays them and, from my perspective, that means it's a "growing market" as there is no real reason one stops playing or, at least, starts to hate the whole thing. So if I had to guess, I'd say it is expanding, although slowly.

Count me into this community. haha xD

But yeah, there aren't many people who play them 'round here. A few friends of mine from back in high school knew about them, but thought they were boring because there's little gameplay. Soooo, it was just me for a long time. Still don't know anyone personally who reads any.

For those living in a country where English isn't your native language:

In the age 18-30 crowd (the age group most likely to play VNs), what percentage of people would you say are fluent enough in English to play text games like VNs?

I was an English teacher for a semester last year, and I can say that a few of my students were fully capable of understanding the level of English seen in most translated works. Hell, scratch "few"; I'd say a lot of them know the language enough to read a VN without much trouble. I think that even some of the students that had a bit of trouble with the language would be able to work around some of the more simple works, like an SoL.

[Daeyamati]

I'm from the Philippines too, I tried making my classmates play Visual Novels but they can't get the hang out of reading lengthy dialogues. They actually preferred more interaction...eg: facebook games *sigh*

Tbh I can't really blame them since that's how I was at first, until I actually sat down and plowed through my first VN.

I remember showing Narcissu to my friends way back in uni, too. A few of them actually finished and enjoyed it, yet for some reason, when the sequel came out in English, none of them bothered to take a look .

Not being interested in Narcissu sequel? What blasphemy.

Unless you're talking about side 3rd. In which case... *looks the other way and whistles*

[Snowtsuku]

I'm from the Philippines too, I tried making my classmates play Visual Novels but they can't get the hang out of reading lengthy dialogues. They actually preferred more interaction...eg: facebook games *sigh*

Just how old are they o.O

[Sakimichi]

Just how old are they o.O

They're now 19-20...maybe reading here isn't popular. Maybe they had high expectations of the game, maybe they don't put an effort to be interested at all.

My first VN experience was the same, I find it troublesome that they have to describe every detail, but I put effort into getting interested in it then the rest of the process comes naturally. You begin being interested in more VN's and read more genres too. You then realize you opened your mind for this type of game.

I think that's a gem found in every VN players, they manage to appreciate what this game has to offer.

[Down]

Maybe it has to do with the very lengthy introduction most VNs have.

People might expect, because of other types of fiction media, that the story kicks in right at the start. While VNs have a very typical narrative construction where the beginning is essentially slice of life heavily character development oriented, and the main plot only starts to really appear after at least a chapter, which is several hours worth of reading.

Therefore they feel like "nothing happens" and it's boring.

Maybe VN players are all people able to enjoy slice of life. Dunno.

[Alice]

As for me, I live in Indonesia and I saw a very primitive potential of Visual Novel being known around my friends in my environments, especially. I knew about Eroge and VN from a friend of mine who loves to hang out in 2ch and 4ch, so I have to say, she is one of the very few. I have just known a couple of Indonesians who enjoyed visual novels across the borders within Twitter and other social networks, but it was just like, only a miniscule amount of people that actually enjoyed and played it like me. Some Indonesians could do very good English, but most have broken English.

Is there anybody an Indonesian like me too?

[Tief Blau]

Tri-state Area.

I don't want to think about it :/

[Snowtsuku]

They're now 19-20...maybe reading here isn't popular. Maybe they had high expectations of the game, maybe they don't put an effort to be interested at all.

My first VN experience was the same, I find it troublesome that they have to describe every detail, but I put effort into getting interested in it then the rest of the process comes naturally. You begin being interested in more VN's and read more genres too. You then realize you opened your mind for this type of game.

I think that's a gem found in every VN players, they manage to appreciate what this game has to offer.

I see

Actually, I also felt that in Clannad. But after playing Symphonic Rain, I want to read more VNs like it.

[solidbatman]

Here in the southern United States, I think I'm one of the very very few people who reads VNs, much less enjoys them. I know plenty of people who like games with VN qualities to them, such as dialogue choices (Mass Effect, Fallout, Persona etc.) but outside of my dad, I can't really think of anyone. Even he doesn't play but a few (999 for example). So yeah, I'm sort of on my own out here, doing my best to convert the uneducated masses.

[Snowtsuku]

Here in the southern United States, I think I'm one of the very very few people who reads VNs, much less enjoys them. I know plenty of people who like games with VN qualities to them, such as dialogue choices (Mass Effect, Fallout, Persona etc.) but outside of my dad, I can't really think of anyone. Even he doesn't play but a few (999 for example). So yeah, I'm sort of on my own out here, doing my best to convert the uneducated masses.

Play a VN in your batman suit and VN will boom in the US

[zoom909]

I don't really know any VN players, or for that matter, any major anime fans, in my hometown. But I know a few people in surrounding towns. Through cons mainly.

And speaking of cons, at least a couple of people live in NC, I see. I suppose y'all go to Animazement? I've been once; I usually go to Anime Weekend Atlanta though.

[HataVNI]

Apparently this thread is a time-machine to a time where there was literally nothing nowhere. Germany still has almost nothing - besides us.

[littleshogun]

Just see this thread here. Anyway recently there's an Indonesia VN fans event, and also there's several fan translation communities that translate several title into Indonesian language (One of those title is Hatsukoi Sankaime), so at least there're some VN communities in Indonesia. Obviously I don't know if the people around my place played the VNs or not, but I did knew several people who like VNs back in my college days (In around 2010 to 2011), and the reason why I entered VN community is because I got several VN recommendations from them.

Edited January 2, 2023 by littleshogun

[j2alg]

In my country there is Hata

somebody shoot me

[Silvz]

Brazil only has a handful fan-translated VNs and... Digimon Survive, I guess