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I think the mouth being open is more a part of the facial expression than displaying that they're talking.

maggot baits

^this If you're going to stalk a girl, at least keep at it until you learn something about her. You're already a stalker, but if you give up you're also an incompetent stalker.

"MoeNovel wanted to make KonoSora a game that “even 12-year-old French girls could enjoy.” I find this hilarious every time I read it. France is a very liberal country; the film Nymphomaniac: Part 1, which featured close-up, unsimulated sex, was rated as suitable for twelve-year-olds there. French girls are not the issue.

First, I should say that this starts out like a first-class nakige in classic non-Key style (which means no loli heroines with weird speech patterns and less than six heroines total, lol). I generally am fond of Applique for giving me Tasogare no Sinsemilla and the Arcology series, but when they screw up, it is usually in a way that should have been blatantly obvious as they were doing it. The protagonist and his daughter (yes, his daughter) are a great combo, and their past is one of one bit of tragedy and despair after another. The protagonist's personality is one I can definitely enjoy vicariously, and Millia (his daughter) strikes a perfect balance between 'genki' and 'emotionally scarred'. The choice of an 'onsen town' as the main setting was excellent, and things were really looking hopeful... ...until the common route ended immediately after you dig into the protagonist's past. Now, I'm all for tearful revelations and the like... but someone with the protagonist's past doesn't just come out and spill the beans only a few weeks after getting to know a bunch of people. That was unrealistic based on his personal setting, to say the least. Worse, the other characters' reaction to it was... weak. Making it worse is that, while you've gotten to know Misaki (the supposed true heroine) a little bit when the split occurs, you've barely scratched the surface with the other heroines. In other words... I went into my first path not caring one bit about the heroine I was supposedly going after. It was like seeing someone setting up a beautiful stained-glass mosaic... and then filling the last few pieces with concrete. To be honest, the haste with which they progressed the last third of the common route is game-breaking for me precisely because the protagonist and his past are looming in the background. Based on this alone, I can say this isn't going to beat Akeiro, though I thought it might compete for VN of the Month when I first started it. I might just update this post if I decide to drop this one... I'm going to finish the path I'm on, and if I don't feel satisfied, I'm dropping it. Edit: Based on my experiences in Honoka's path, I'm going to continue playing, but the problems with the common route and its pacing still apply.

Loving this vn atm...but but Belial really looks like Dojima from p4, i cant unsee it.

As someone who's watched GameTheory for like a year now, I am very, very saddened by these 2 latest videos. The bottom line is: There's no secret flawless formula to dating, just meet people you can feel comfortable around and form bonds with them. Don't assume it's a set of specific choices that will magically make them fall in love with you like in a game. Yes, there are some things you can do to make people like you more, but love will come as long as you're not a jerk about it. As for me, I am happily married to my anime pillow. Also don't spend your money on dating books and online courses. Seriously. Don't. You're better off spending your time watching random shit getting crushed by a hydraulic press.

- VNDB - English patch - Miu's route completion translation project Ahh, Dracu-riot. My favorite from when I started reading VNs. I remember how this was the game, which made me start to learn Japanese, and thus finished it when just Elina's route was translated. But now that it has been almost fully released, and a lot of other people are going to play it, I'm making this thread for that reason. I hold an extreme amount of bias towards this title, and as I played it for the first time, it completely enraptured me with its entirety, and it still is to this day my favorite moege. Now that I am replaying it, it still holds all the charm it once had, and I still hold extreme bias to it. As per Yuzusoft's art style, the characters look good, the H-scenes are amazing, and the colors are vibrant. Never have I loved the character cast so much in a moege than in Dracu-riot. The protagonist is self-insert, but like in HoshiMemo, it's not completely self-insert. That's probably enough of me gushing about it. I'll finish my thoughts below on a later date. Now I'll continue Rio's route and probably die from heartburns. It's pretty damn good. Go play it.

come at me with stuff, plebs and no. no shitty oelvns or any recently translated stuff. talkin bout untranslated releases

I feel like this is where I usually say a little something about myself. However, I'm a bit short on time. I'll just leave this here. Hi everyone!

Yep, both are there. The encyclopedia covers people, weapons and terms used in-game. You'll unlock both after finishing a route (bad endings don't count.)

I'm guessing as with most VNs unlocking CG Gallery requires completing at least one route No idea about in-game Encyclopedia, and I'm about to start the second layer. A shame if there is none, that would help a lot with the lore.

Just noticed my comment was removed... Good job mods. Instead of removing clickbait bullshit you remove a comment that had to do with the translation group behind this project. I see fuwanovel is still as shit as it was a few years ago. I seriously thought it had gotten better with the removal of torrents but I guess I was wrong. The problem are the shitty mods and I'm pretty sure Nosebleed is at the heart of it.

Aww hell yeah, user interface thread. First rule of UI: Shizzle's gotta be shiny TO THE MAX. Buttons gotta be shiny, background image gotta be shiny, characters in background image gotta be shiny, sound effects gotta be shiny, et cetera. Here's an example of PRIME SHININESS. They even got floating shiny animated stuff all over the place. Shiny is bae. Here's some more shiny, yo. It ain't as shiny as the first shiny, but when you open up the config and all that, there's some legit shiny in that faded background image, and buttons enter BLUE SHINY MODE when you hover your cursor over them. And we ain't even got to SHINY SOUND EFFECTS because I don't know how to make webms with those. But them sound effects gotta be high-pitched, not too long but not too short, et cetera (because I ran out of stuff to say). YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE SHINY. Actually, that's the only thing I can think of. I don't care what else you do, so long as shizzle's shiny.

This your daily reminder that Motoki Ougi is the best character in the history of everything That is all

Well I should just get new glasses already

Nope.

Net

Not yet, no.

いいえ。

Nope.

Did four more 40 quartz pulls since the last one I posted, got all 3* servants and CE with a single 4* CE in each. I don't want to play this game anymore.

Staircase Sub's subbed Dracu-Riot! opening (NSFW anniemay tittays ) I actually saw Dracu-Riot! on this random website (that I honestly don't remember much about) talking about VNs, and it was one of the VNs that made me want to go full weeb and read translated VNs, as I'd only read Katawa Shoujo before that and was a bit in awe of the awesome art. Always hoped it'd get fully translated, and now it looks like the meme is dead and us English-only plebs will be able to read it now. I may not be massively hyped for it, but I remain optimistic about the story quality, since I haven't heard that it's shit. @Clephas? Not gonna lie, Elina gets bonus points in my book for being voiced by Sachi's VA Probably gonna do her route and then Miu's next when I finally read it.

having a character mouth open just because it's talking would look weird, characters should exteriorize expressions with their sprites, including the mouth, not what they are "actually doing", having the mouth open should mean something like being angry, expressing happiness or surprise but not the reflect of an action they are normally doing.

@Valmore Interesting! I'm very fond of Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend, which seems to be generally regarded as his best, but I haven't even ever tried anything else, and I've often felt like I was doing him a disservice because of that. I'll give that album a spin. @Kawasumi - I picked up Uchu Conbini's first album a long time back. Great stuff. That song, especially, is perfect for when I'm in the mood for some prog rock. Their guitarist is something else, and I love the vocalist/bassist's voice. I haven't heard any of the other bands you linked before, though. Unfortunately, some of what you linked is blocked by record companies for me , including that second one. But I listened to the tricot song (which is great - fantastic musicianship and really unusual harmonic choices that are quite appealing) and the Cuushe song (which is really unusual, and I'm still trying to get a feel for). I picked up albums from both of them, though that Cuushe song is definitely stretching the range of what I normally listen to - but that's a good thing @Mugi letlive was interesting - at times they reminded me of Fall of Troy, but a little more listenable and with a little more range. Might keep listening to them. Hands Like Houses, the vocal style just didn't click for me. And, pssh, of course I've already got the Persona 4 soundtrack, and the P4 Reincarnation album, and both the OST and Reincarnation for Persona 3, and the Persona 4 DAN OST, and... I should just say, yeah, I like Shoji Meguro. The music is a big factor in my hype for P5

Its not Maruyu Senpai~~~~ I just hope we wont need daihatsu for the next event....My Iowa.

what? another kaga!? *brain implodes after an intense retrospection on my identity as a carrier* anyhow, welcome!

Hm, might as well just suggest a few things that I've been listening to lately. Basically anything by Aimer is 10/10. One of the few songs that isn't pitched that I could find on Youtube by her letlive, which I haven't listened to that much, might be a bit too harsh for what you are looking for Hands Like Houses, which I have listened to for years. I'll link one of their newer songs, which again might be too harsh for what you are looking for. Their older stuff is a little less so Also another by them, which is a little less harsh but just as good IMO And then there's L'Arc~en~Ciel, another weeb artist. Gonna link one of my favorite songs by them, though it's just the regular OP version. And then obligatory Serj the Tankian engine Oh, and the whole Persona 4 Golden soundtrack

So, the second vid is out: While I do understand that both the past video and this one don't exactly bring new discoveries to how you should date, I think it highlighting the important parts of what you should and should not do to get a real grill is very enlightening, and self assuring. I personally think I'm going to take Huniepop, and games like it, more seriously after watching this. I never considered giving gifts to be a big deal for example (I thought it was just a cheap way to get a grill), but now I understand both how important it is and how to do it right. Whether you look at it the same way or not, I would like to ask if you think the same can be said about the popular VNs in this community. The kinds Matt brings up as an example are mostly dating sims, which aren't really the same as your average Japanese VN. The latter tend to have more story and less mechanics, it's not as simple as getting to sleep with a girl. The methods used in things like KEY VNs in particular feel a little... Extreme and unrealistic. It's been a few years since I last read Clannad so I don't remember it too well, but I recall thinking "who dafak does this irl, these silly fapanese VNs" I suppose it would require me to read VNs in a whole new light in order to come to a satisfactory conclusion, taking them a lot more seriously than I usually do. But what do ya'll think? : >

The Akagoei series Hyper Highspeed Genius Hello Lady (though it is also a chuunige)

For a really good piece of power-pop/rock that even keeps in theme of Fuwa: Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu Back in 2003 Matthew Sweet released this in Japan only as a sort-of "Thank You" album to his Japanese fans, where he's always had a bigger following than in the States. It was eventually released here, too, but it was probably ignored. "The Ocean in Between" is a piece of pop perfection, in my opinion, but the entire album is a good listen.

I feel visual novels are usually too nonsensical to provide any realistic portrayal of love. I might end up loving the characters. But I can't actually think of the story and the love development as realistic. To be honest. I think Visual novels are even worse to at reflecting real life than dating sims are. Even the thought of it is so far out there. I find it hard to point where it stands. Although I think the concepts of dating sims are overly simplified as well. I do have a certain lack of faith that some people might understand this. For an average sociable guy I guess it won't be much of help. But a person who has never understood social settings. Or perhaps never really had much normal social contact with people. Perhaps It would be in some sense worthwhile? If actually dating sims makes people understand some social concepts, I can't say they are useless. Hopefully the people playing will have some hobbies or interests to talk with other people as well. Rather than just talking about dating sims, or the weather. Alright. Then I'd just say. "Then I'll give you Flutterz a glass of cognac." And you will be like:

You and your assumptions... Anyway, I seem to have found a fitting avatar. I've never watched Nichijou (because I didn't like the few episodes I tried) but what do you think of this chap, chaps?

Sounds good - find a thread and tell us what you thought about Comyu at some point. I'm almost as big a Comyu fanboy as I am a Gahkthun fanboy, so I'm always curious to see what other people think of it (unless, you know, they didn't like it, in which case they can keep their opinions to themselves).

Ah, thanks for reminding me how everything surrounding dating advices and this kind of crap makes me want to throw up. The best part was probably when he spends 2 minutes advertising shitty dating advice books. Pro tip: I don't think calling girls with racist slurs works very well irl.

Come on, KoiChoco anime wasn't that bad It had Michiru in it, no way it can be bad

It gets me pretty emotional too, every once in a while.

For me even though they have the same song list, day 1 and day 2 are really different. For one thing the crowd of Day 2 is amazing. When it's time for a group skng almost everyone stand up and sing along, one girl even screaming 'Rippi' 'Mimorin' and 'Pile' behind me, though i did the same when Ucchi came As for the live show itself i think i don't have to comment much, if you there then you know how emotional the concert was. All in all i definetly happy that i got to see Day 1 and Day 2 concert and i am definetly happy that i have become a part of Love Live. LOVE LIVE FOREVER!

Yeah, click bait topic title, whatever. Enough is enough. After this post, I am never coming back here again, so you can make hate posts all you want. Seriously, all I see is hate for the Sakura series. Why? Because it's popular? Or because you think they're milking the series? Well, that's subjective, so we can argue about it all day long and never come to a conclusion. The Sakura series is still a piece of creative art, and we need to at least show it that much respect. All right, I will just come right out and say it. The Sakura series actually introduced me to the visual novel genre. It will always have a special place in my heart, yet you all just keep sh*ting on it. Every damn post guys. It makes me so , and I have been trying to hold it in, but I can't contain it anymore. Screw this. I am going to post one final picture here, then maybe some of you will actually have a change of heart and realize the Sakura series in fact deserves a lot of respect:

A little contribution from me:

https://vndb.org/v5841 ~~~ I fucking had to. edit: gonna edit this thread with stuff that i come up with instead of mass posting lol

Wow thanks, someone noticed! Yes I really am that old and have been playing VNs for longer than some of you have existed (and have kids to rival some of your ages). I'm not sure if I'm the oldest here, but definitely one of the oldest, though I'm still 14 at heart forever. I think people will be even happier about me working on Clover Day's than To Heart 2, but TH2 is one of the great classics and after starting it I had to make sure I finished it. Seeing a project through to the end is one of the things us oldies feel passionate about.

Your opening post has warmed my heart. Good thing I went by to take care of some business. Anyway, I'd interact with you more, but I'm kinda going home at 1AM in the morning and waking up at 5AM to prepare to go to class. Yes, it's mostly a four hour sleep schedule on average. Again, it's because theater has started once again and it's screwing up my whole schedule. I go home everyday with the fear that I might get mugged, but I don't get mugged. Probably because I'm usually bigger than them. So yeah. Pretty much. Life got me again. I'll be a cool kid and finally finish the second Ace Attorney for you after my theater activities. Then I'll observe you as you state all the good things about Ace Attorney in a biased way. Also, you wake up at a time where I'm in the middle of college. Regarding your comments about most of it applying to Shiko, goddamnit man. I have not pegged myself to be a Shiko too. I will now reevaluate myself and think about how I should reinstate my status as a fag. Thank you for opening my eyes, Tiag. A late happy Easter to you. I do enjoy these threads.

Cool, I shall post it then \o/ I like the 'or lolis' part hahaha Disclaimer: Monshiro is 18! and... not a loli in... Link is for the Calendar images https://mega.nz/#!0pBW3AhY!nE2qM2Yvcs9QQAivth691f4Y-c5eLDNlTLm8IKRrBv0

I really liked this VN and thought I'd post my review of it here for if anyone is interested It is my first review so.. feedback is welcome! http://vnteaparty.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/io/