A shinigami, translated as a “Death God,” is tasked with guiding the souls of those who have recently died. Typically, if one is able to see a shinigami, it means that their life is quickly coming to a close, and they too will be given the choice to go to the afterlife with no regrets…or remain on Earth and roam indefinitely, plagued with regret for the rest of their miserable existence. This would typically strike fear in many people, but not Amamiya Makoto – to be honest, he couldn’t care less
I didn’t really know what to expect when I first saw Love at First Sight:.. <a href="http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/06/11/love-at-first-sight-a-second-opinion/"class='bbc_url' rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
This review is spoiler-free. Preceding the previously translated Kara no Shoujo, Cartagra is a story of gruesome murders in a post-war Japan. Kara no Shoujo is one of my favorite visual novels. Even taking into account the inescapable bias toward the first few visual novels you read, even looking back on its flaws, it had me so spellbound that I have to recognize it as one of my best experiences in the medium. You can thus imagine how impatient I was to be able to read Cartagra. This also serves
In the superhero Visual Novel sub-genre where a vast majority of superheroes are “Get that Girl!” Magical Girls, Cho Dengeki Stryker is a breath of fresh air to an otherwise pretty bland sub-genre. While the story does follow a very generic pattern and can be easy to guess at times, OVERDRIVE’s keen attention to virtually everything, as exemplified through the top-notch voice cast and animated cut-scenes, make Cho Dengeki Stryker a title that deserves to be played. Warning: This review is for
Sunrider is a multi-part, English-language visual novel filled out with segments of tactical RPG gameplay. You assume the role of Kayto Shields, captain of the starship Sunrider, as he embarks on a mission to avenge his home planet of Cera and stave the galactic threat of the People’s Alliance. But does Sunrider read like a love letter to the space operas it tries to emulate or does it fall short and come across as a shallow imitation? Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first 10 min
Kikokugai – The Cyber Slayer is a visual novel developed by Nitro+, telling a tale of revenge and featuring plenty of action, swords, cyborgs, and kung fu. Published in 2002 and developed on a shoestring of a budget, Kikokugai still remains a title worth visiting. This is a spoiler-free review Read the Full Review: Kikokugai – The Cyber Slayer Source
Released in 2011, Magical Diary: Horse Hall is an indie otome visual novel created by Hanako Games. This story is about a High School Freshman going through her entire first year at a school for witches and wizards. Magical Diary has a good story with plenty of replay value, but does it have enough actual content to make people want to take the time to play the game in the first place? Warning: This review may contain very minor spoilers. Read the full review: Magic Diary: Horse Hall Source
Have you ever wanted to put yourself in the shoes of the protagonist in an anime and make the choices? Have you ever wanted to read a harem story that puts a little spin on the genre? Well tough shit, I have yet to find a game that does it well. If you’re a little bit knowledgeable about anime or visual novels, chances are you’ve already heard about the infamous School Days. Hated with a passion, regarded with disgust or liked “ironically”, nobody really starts School Days with the hope of findi
Like a good science-fiction short story? OELVNs might have some in stock for you. The games I read for this month were all very short ones, so I’ll run through the three of them in one review. Today’s menu: space-opera (at least an embryo of one), androids and time-travel. A fairly classic yet exciting program, if I may say. Read all three reviews: Review – Some Short Sci-Fi OELVNs Dysfunctional Systems that cheap and sacred thing The Dandelion Girl Read all three reviews: Review – Some Short Sc
In a medium dominated by sex, tentacles, tentacle sex, sex without tentacles, and everything else revolving around sex, it’s not common you find a cute story that can draw you in without any real sex…or tentacles. Released in the summer of 2011 by Night-Time Sheep, and translated into English roughly 18 months later, Lonely Yuri is a short read that explores the budding relationship between an unlikely combination of characters, but is it worth the two hours? This is a spoiler-free (and tentacl
Welcome to Ryechu’s Nukige Corner, where I introduce you to Nukige titles you may not have heard of before. For those who aren’t in the know, the term “nukige” refers to games that focus solely on sexual content. The plots of these games serve only to set the scene for the H-Scenes. If these types of games are of interest to you, read on! Originally released in 2012 by Appetite, and brought to the English market by Mangagamer late in 2014, 兄妹秘哀 ～イヤなのに、カンじちゃう～, renamed The Secret Sorrow of the
Released late in 2002 by Liquid under the title Ryoujoku Guerilla Gari, and later released in English(?) by Mangagamer in 2010, Suck My D*** or Die! is an awful nukige with very few redeeming factors, but can it possibly appeal to certain members of the viewing audience? The short answer – hell no. Here’s why. Warning: As with many of Ryechu’s Nukige Corner’s reviews, this review is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. You have been warned! <a href="http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/02/ryechus-nukige-corner-s
Welcome to Ryechu’s Nukige Corner, where I introduce you to Nukige titles you may not have heard of before. For those who aren’t in the know, the term “nukige” refers to games that focus solely on sexual content. The plots of these games serve only to set the scene for the H-Scenes. If these types of games are of interest to you, read on! Released late in 2013 and translated into English by Lv1 Translations less than a year later, おとメイド＠cafe (Otomaid@Cafe) is a short and sweet nukige by Otoko
Today’s review, which I got both super lazy and super not inspired to write, is on Chaos;Head. I still think I managed to do the game justice. Hopefully. Chaos;Head is the first VN of the Kagaku Adventure series, product of the collaboration between Nitro+ and 5pb. The visual novels of this series, written by Naotaka Hayashi, are science-fiction stories set around our present time. Full review here <a href="http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/04/chaoshead-review/"class='bbc_url' rel='nofollow
You are a first-year college student, and you live in a Co-Ed dorm with an RA who claims to be strict, but ends up letting a lot of stuff slide. You live with a bunch of handsome boys and smokin’ hot girls, each more quirky than the last, and all of them would love to have an extra friend or two. Sounds like fun, right? RIGHT? You’d better have said yes, because Winter Wolves created a semi-realistic visual novel that reflects not only the ups and downs of living on-campus, but the parties, th
This review contains material that is NSFW. Based off the continuing webcomic series written by the wildly.. <a href="http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/06/01/starfighter-eclipse/"class='bbc_url' rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
