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Still reading Muv-Luv Alternative........ my current thoughts are as follows..... OH GOD, WHAT DID I JUST SEE!? I CANNOT UNSEE THAT!!! JAPAN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? WHY GOD DID I BUY THE +18 PATCH!? ...... those who have already read the game know exactly what I'm talking about I'm surprised I was even able to stomach that, good grief.....

That was practically vanilla

Wait until the 'that was practically vanilla' comments.

Hi! I've been a longtime lurker of Fuwanovel, and recently decided I'd like to become semi-active on here. I originally posted this review on my Tumblr, but thought it might spark some interesting discussion here. - I am both an aspiring VN dev and a longtime otome/BL game fan. I’ve played dozens of indie EVNs as well and involved myself in the community. So, it pains me to write a negative review about an indie EVN that I’ve looked forward to for a long time. I’ll just get right into it: Seiyuu Danshi! is a bad game. Meyaoi Games made around $40,000 back in 2016 on Kickstarter, which was an astonishingly 800% of their initial $5,000 goal. Back then, it looked like it was gonna be something special. So, when it released just the other day, I got it immediately and started playing. But my expectations were immediately thrashed by the low quality of the writing. Not only is the English awkward in nearly every line of the game, but the whole time it felt to me like the writers were obsessed with trying (and failing very badly) to make me think this was a translated Japanese visual novel rather than an OELVN. From the title itself being Seiyuu Danshi! (why not just name it Voice Actor Boys?), to the names of all the characters, to the protagonist nicknaming everyone in some Japanese manner (Toru-chi, Tocchan, etc), to uninspired references to anime, it was made very clear to me that this was a game trying to be something it wasn’t. Along with this, the game is filled with ultra-generic characters and dates that you’ve seen a million times elsewhere. You go to an amusement park later on with your boy, which was a $39,000 stretch goal. Are you treated to any special CGs or fun interactions on this expensive date? Nope! You just go, choose between a few rides, and read some dull dialogue about them going and having fun. And maybe *I’m* missing something, because you can change the underwear of the protagonist as well as buy a whole bunch of clothes for him but he never actually wears it outside of the dress-up screen (and in the context of clothes, he doesn’t even put THOSE on). The clothes seem to simply be there for a boost in love points from your chosen boy, but you can just wear the same thing every time and he responds the same way every time. I vaguely remember there being one comment from Toru about the protagonist’s underwear choice, but I’ve only ever seen it when I put it on him in the first place. However, I pressed on, because from the screenshots on their itch.io page it seemed like the main focus of the game was on the gameplay rather than the writing. Much of the advertising seems to be aimed at the pornographic aspect of the game. In their list of features, they specifically talk up the “interactive gameplay” during the pornographic content along with collectible costumes and toys to use. But Seiyuu Danshi! falls flat even there. Not only does it take months (see: several hours) of grinding in-game to even get a boyfriend in the first place, the H content in this game feels like it’s missing something. Sure, you can buy an assortment of costumes and sex toys to use on your boy, but it always seems to culminate in the same end-scene, which is my biggest problem with the H content: chibi porn. WARNING: NSFW-ish image That’s right, after you go through “Foreplay Mode” where you manually pleasure your boy, you get treated to a mildly animated visual of your boy and the protagonist having sex. As chibis. There is also a chibi blowjob scene and a chibi masturbation scene. Maybe someone out there finds this attractive, but I sure as hell don’t. The game costs more than $30, because the game has “100+ hours of content!” Meyaoi Games needs to realize that longer doesn’t equal better, especially when much of that time is spent doing basically nothing. Seiyuu Danshi! doesn’t have a story to tell, and the pornographic content is lacking. Therefore, I would give this one a hard pass.

As the title suggest this is a list of the VNs released in english that has a physcial release. I personally love to have physcial copies of VNs as I like collecting things. I recently made a list with the VNs that have official english releases and figured I could use that to make this list. I have marked availablility with colour, red means no longer available, blue means officially available but hard to get (generally things like conventions) yellow means currently available but only for a short period and orange is not yet opened for pre order. Also if I make some mistakes when making the list please say so. Things that are marked as not available could potentially be found at places like Amazon or Ebay, since I didn't include pages like this for availability. There might be sales or discounts on some sites but not other sites, so if you are thinking of buying it and would rather save some money I would recommend to go through the sites selling it, mainly Mangagamer, Jlist and rightstufanime. I guess I should also go a bit more into details about what I mean by limited time, this includes physicals that are only sold through a kickstarter within a limited time as well as titles that seem to go out of stock soon. MangaGamer ( Store ) JAST USA ( Store ) Sekai Project (Homepage)/Denpasoft Front Wing (Homepage) Other Himeya Soft (Bankrupt) Hirameki International (Quit the VN market) Console

Hey guys, most of you guys might not know that I am actually a VN collector (Pretty massive one) and I would like to share what i own so far. I am a ultra Grisaia Fanboy. Keep that in mind. And also let's make this post into VN collection post for people to share their loot? Room of Grisaia? Grisaia NSFW http://imgur.com/OTjD5U9 NSFW http://imgur.com/dx3qCho NSFW http://imgur.com/YHKUG3O NSFW Key Stuff Some other VN

This is in response to the repeated discussion we get over and over about what is "good enough" localisation, and the recent discussion about the "toxic" response to fan translations in the community. The ranking is entirely my own, and is meant to be non-linear. It does NOT equate to the quality of the original VN, and editing has intentionally been included as part of the ranking for simplicity, even though you may get seriously skewed better quality in either translation (unlikely) or editing. Note this is mostly about fan translations, as I think it's fair to be more critical of official localisations but if you want to comment on those perhaps put in a comment. Sorry if the poll is long, I wanted the options to be very descriptive.

Hi, I've enjoyed lurking fuwanovel and it's content for quite awhile now. I just always hate singing up for things, so only got around to making an account yesterday. I'm not into otome, boys love, or nukige, but I'll play pretty much anything else. Even though I'm still somewhat inexperienced with the format, I love visual novels and I can't picture my life without them. Anyway, I hope we get along and have fun together. P.S. I'm not really hot or that young. Sorry about that.

I haven't read enough VNs to judge that yet. That's why I said "that may exist". I remember Decay made a thread on Fuwa about his opinion on TL quality for a selection of VNs. I haven't read Grisaia, so I cannot confirm it's a 9), but according to popular opinion, it may very well fit. Also, another possible 9) could be Majo Koi Nikki. Knowing who worked on it, I think it may come out as a work of real literature. I guess we'll know once Sekai releases it for everyone to see. Aside from these two... I'm not sure what other titles could be a 9). Oh, Symphonic Rain maybe? Haven't read that one either, so can't say it's my opinion. As for the titles I have read so far, none of them is a 9). Closest would be SubaHibi (I consider it a number 7 in this list), Dies irae (between 6 and 7 maybe... due to a ton of QC issues it had) and Swan Song (I am not sure where I'd put this one... I read it in the time where I haven't cared too much about quality, but from what I remember, it was an okay translation... maybe 6 or 7).

Hello there, ugly old person outside of my area! Glad you found the strength to register and I hope you'll have fun with your newly-found posting powers.

Hi, I'm new here too! Is your Vita soft modded? If it is may I recommend Remember 11 and Ever17? They both have fan translated PSP versions and as you probably know Vita does a wonderful job playing PSP games. I actually started Remember 11 on my PSP and finished it on my Vita and I'm currently working my way through Ever17. They're very science fictiony and probably some of the closest things you'll get to Steins;Gate.

Aye, similar case here, minus the laws (they're not as strict and no one enforces them). I couldn't possibly afford buying physical copies most of the time and I have no space for them whatsoever. Plus there are actually very few VN for which I could possibly want them (just Flowers and Yurirei probably). In general, I'm very happy with the conveniences of digital releases and would quite likely keep everything on Steam if I could, neetly sorted, reviewed etc.

I like physical, it's nice to have a collection to look at. Physical also feels more intimate, if that makes sense (not in the lewd way lol). Digital is usually more convenient and cheap though, which tends to be a priority for me. Kinda depends on how much I want something on my shelf.

You set the thread to poll only content- if you do that people can't comment. |дﾟ) Fixed it for you. I take it you didn't want it that way, seeing as you ask for people's opinions. (/ω＼) I love physicals, though I don't buy them too often for a few reasons. 1) Shipping tends to be as expensive as the item, if not more, so I can only afford physicals now and then. I tend to just pick the games I really like because of that. 2) I love special editions. If it's literally just a box and the CD and nothing more, I probably won't get it. I like artbooks, drama CDs etc to come with the physical so there's a bit more to it. 3) Norway sucks. There's a bunch of games I can't import due to Norway's laws, so I can't get all the physicals I want. (Like anything from Clock Up etc.) Have to stick with digital games in those cases.

First stretch goal is done, meaning that the first chapter and UI are being retranslated, and we might manage the second as well. Stretch goals 3 through 5 are probably beyond what the Kickstarter will reach.

I'm still think that it's only a moege, though apparently it'll be ended on the bittersweet note so perhaps you may consider on that fact. Also yeah it got KEY artist, but it didn't mean that Koropokkur here would be automatically equal to KEY works out there. That said, I think the best action here would try it out and find by yourself whether Koropokkur here is worth or not, because people may interpreted it differently in regard of one work.

After some hardware troubles I finally got around to reading Umineko. I finished ep 1 and read the first few hours of ep 2 and really got hooked on the weird school festival song. It's really promising so far although I have no idea what direction the story is going to take fill eight 15 hour volumes, considering All the praise Umineko gets for it's soundtrack is well deserved. While none of the tracks really stuck to me so far (except for the one mentioned above) I don't think I've read another VN where the soundtrack sets the mood for the scenes as well as this one. Is it just me, or does House in Fata Morgana seem heavily influenced by Umineko? I'm no expert on Japanese scary stories so it's possible that this just is the way artists there tell western-style horror tales, but to me the aesthetics in both titles just seem very similar.

I've just wasted an hour (which I really shouldn't have done today ) writing a rant on why everyone should support the Frontier kickstarter so please listen to my advice and do it already, so we get that demo retranslation and no one can complain at launch about the inconsistent quality. ;p

Sanoba Witch of course. Yuzusoft games is always worth buying. KoiKuma is another unfinished vn without fandisc. Also it is Sekai, who knows how translation turns out.

Translation Prologue - 100% (1791/1791) Main School - 100% (2691/2691) Tonoko Route - 100% (8709/8709) Branch School - 35% (2039/5846) Total - 22% (15229/68206) TLC Prologue - 100% (1791/1791) Main School - 6% (157/2691) Branch School - 3% (187/5846) Total - 3% (2135/68206) Edit Prologue - 100% (1791/1791) Main School - 6% (157/2691) Branch School - 25% (1441/5846) Total - 5% (3360/68206) Ittaku has fully translated Tonoko's route. He'll be moving onto Miyabi's soon enough, but he can relish in this great achievement right now. Branch School in terms of both TL and Editing is going strong as well. We are still looking for a permanent TLC to work on this project. Please PM me if you're interested in working as a TLC for this project. That's all for this week. See you in another couple of weeks.