SoulJustIn

Oh gosh. I was wondering if a thread like this would appear.
 
Now let me put it this way. I am a big softy.. or as others would put it, a crybaby.
 
Pretty much anything even relatively sad in an anime, VN, or hell even a manga will bring those unbidden tears to my eyes. Doesn't even need to be sad either. With Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso I pretty much tear up on every single episode, because the coupling of the music with the situation is just so well done and it just moves me greatly when I am watching.
 
Clannad was the first one that really got me. Clannad was the second anime to make me cry, with Code Geass R2 being the first. However it was the first anime to make me bawl my eyes out. Seriously just:


 
After that scene I had to push my laptop away from me and just kinda... wait till I stopped bawling. Those were not manly tears... those were bitch tears. xD
 
 
So, here is a list of anime that I can remember crying at some point during them (there are probably more):
 



 
So yeah... I cry easily.... xD

Hello friends!

Chances are that if you are reading this thread, then you know all there is to know about the many visual novel translation tools out there in the big world of Japanese eroge and are interested in mastering the art of reading your porn PC games by taking it to the next level. In this thread, I will provide a step by step guide covering the installation and use of the following visual novel translation materials:
Translator Aggregator (TA for short) Interactive Text Hooker (ITH for short) Mecab Edict2  
Now before I continue writing, let me be clear that this will not be a thread teaching you about the benefits of using programs such as the ones listed above. That being said, it will also not go into detail regarding the function of each program. If you are interested in knowing about the best way to start learning Japanese and reading visual novels, I recommend asking some of the awesome members of the community who have an extensive knowledge about how these programs work and ask them about which ones (if not others) they recommend and why.

With that, I don't want to waste too much of your time, so let's get the ball rolling! If you are just starting out and have no idea what to do or what to get, simply follow this guide from start to finish after this point on and you will have everything you need in order to read visual novels with the programs listed above. If you have some of these programs and only want a few, simply jump to the appropriate section of each guide and everything will make sense from there.

Here we go!
 

 
Getting Started:

Before you begin installing the following programs which I just mentioned, make sure you have the following items present and accounted for on your PC:
An internet connection (like, seriously) A program that allows you to unzip computer files (such as WinRAR or another program of the same sort) A visual novel installed in Japanese for testing the programs (AKA: the game does not have any sort of English patch or partial patch which changes the language) A web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome) that you understand how to use well  
STOP HERE!
Did you get all the required items listed above? If you can't read this message, chances are you screwed up somewhere with the 1st one, making the rest pointless. Once you have all the items listed above, feel free to move on.
 

 
Task 1 - Installing Translator Aggregator (TA):

1. Begin the installation by clicking on the highlighted link next to this text: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/94395-Translation-Aggregator?p=3648894#post3648894<--- This one right here.

2. On this newly opened window in your browser, click the big link at the top of the 1st post on the page. Don't see it? Here it is:





3. Save the file onto your PC anywhere you want to. I normally save everything I download from the internet to my desktop, but this is completely up to you.

4. Once you have saved the file, open it with your already installed zip program (i.e. = WinRAR). Once you open the zipped folder, extract the content to a location on your PC.

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE PARTNER!
When extracting the content of the zipped folder to your PC, feel free to put it anywhere that you can easily access it. It does not matter where it is located, so keeping it somewhere you can easily remember is best.

5. Once the folder is extracted, it should look something like this:





As stated in the photo, open TA by clicking on the application.

6. After opening the program, a list of windows will be displayed. Since I am only covering how to install the programs listed at the beginning of this post, simply close the ones you won't be using by clicking on the tiny little "x" in the top right corner of each program. Here are 2 images to show you what I mean:

Upon opening TA:





Upon removing the unneeded programs:





Good job! Feel free to adjust the size of the window as you see fit because you will want to have this open when reading your visual novels.

7. Rejoice! You have successfully installed and learned how to operate TA. Whenever you want to open this program, simply locate the application's shortcut and double click it. Easy as pie!

End Task 1 Here
 

 
Task 2 - Installing the Edict2 Dictionary:

After successfully installing TA, you are probably nervous that it's only going to get harder, right? Nope! Let's install Edict2 next because it's as easy as pie:

Easy: Click this link: http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict2.gz. Wait for the page to finish loading. After it finishes, save the page by hitting Ctrl+S. Save it anywhere on your computer:





As: Extract the file (if it is in a zipped folder) by using your zip program (i.e. = WinRAR). Once it is extracted, simply move the new file into your dictionary folder located in your original TA folder:





Pie: Easy no? That's all there is to it. Good job!

End Task 2 Here
 

 
Task 3 - Installing Mecab

1. Another easy task for the least internet savvy people around, begin by clicking on this link: https://code.google.com/p/mecab/downloads/detail?name=mecab-0.996.exe&can=2&q=.

2. After clicking the link, download the file at the top of the page. It does not matter where you choose to save it (the desktop is generally a nice place):





3. After downloading the file, run the program and install it like any other normal installation. Simply hit the next button over and over again until you get to this screen:





HOLY COW THIS TEXT MEANS THE NEXT PART IS IMPORTANT!
Make sure the UTF-8 dictionary is highlighted before hitting the next button.

4. After this point, simply agree to the ToS and continue following the instructions until Mecab installs itself. Pretty easy stuff!

5. Finally, open Translator Aggregator and open the configuration settings for JParser. Make sure Mecab hinting is enabled:





End Task 3 Here
 

 
Task 4 - Installing ITH

You're doing so well, so keep it up! This next task is a little more of a challenge, so simply follow these steps to make sure you don't miss any or make a mistake:

Step 1: Begin by clicking this link: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/208860-Interactive-Text-Hooker-new-text-extraction-tool. On this page, you will notice a lot of other links and random text. All you need to worry about are the following downloads:





If it wasn't already obvious, download these files. Remember that they will be zipped and will look like this:





Step 2: Open the spoiler tag posted below and follow the on-screen instructions!





Remember that you can change the name of the new folder to anything you'd like.

Step 3: Here is what your new folder will look like inside:





Now, it's time to ask yourself if you are the proud owner of Windows 10!
 
GOODNESS GRAVY! THIS NEXT PART IS IMPORTANT!
Do you own Windows 10? If yes, read on, otherwise, proceed to Step 4.
 
1. Click this link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/qai2bden95yol6l/ith3-w10fix_v1.7z.
 
2. Download the file located in the link:
 



 
3. Extract the file using your zip program and move it into the folder you created as shown in the 1st spoiler tag of Step 3:
 



 
4. After replacing the program in the folder you created, proceed to Step 4.

Step 4: Once you open ITH, click on the option tab at the top as shown below and make sure the "auto copy to clipboard" feature is highlighted. After doing this, simply close the program.





Step 5: Almost done. Next, select the ITH updater as shown in your newly created folder above. When you open the folder, it will look something like this:





Update ITH and update the profile by clicking on their respective buttons. You will know it is complete when the hash check has passed. After it is finished, simply hit the end button.

Step 6: For the final step in this long process, let's test it out shall we? Start by opening the following programs:
An untranslated Japanese visual novel The ITH program (always run it as an administrator by right clicking the program before you open it and selecting said option) Translator Aggregator  
With everything running, it should look something like this:





After opening all of the programs, do the following as shown in the spoiler tag below:





Next, click through a few lines to register them in the text hook process. I usually click about 3-5 lines to make sure it is working properly:




 
End Task 4 Here
 

 
Finally, the moment of truth!
 
Does it look like this?





If so, congratulations you've done it! All you need to do is follow step 6 in this process for every other game you want to play and it will hook the text for you. Have fun!
 

 
And with that, the tasks are complete. Congratulations my friend, I have nothing left to teach you. Still, should you have any questions, feel free to ask them in this thread.

On a side note, you may have noticed that I did not include instructions for installing ATLAS in this guide. If you would like to do that, simply buy the program located on the website and follow the instructions there. Sorry, but it isn't my place to provide guides for pirating content; if you'd like that, look elsewhere.

That being said, thanks for reading, and enjoy.


 
A very special thanks to Bolverk for providing all of the links in the Japanese resource thread located here, binaryfail for providing the ITH fixes for Windows 10 users, and to Down for doing what he does.

My pleasure Soul. come back next time!

Thank you , Mr. Meogii
At last I can say goodbye "daily without signature" .
 
I really like the new signature  . Thank you very much , Mr. Meogii

I'm extremely bored so I decided to make this. there's really no deeper meaning behind it other than it might be helpful to some people.

This post details all the types of embedding and text formatting you can do on Fuwanovel using BB codes.
I'll be including even the basic stuff you can do on the text editor for people that may use the forum on mobile devices (since there's no editor there).

I hope you may find something of use in some of these though~

Text formatting Codes
Text properties
[b]Text[/b] Makes the text bold [i]Text[/i] Makes the text italic [u]Text[/u] Makes the text underlined [s]Text[/s] Makes the text struck Example:



 
Font Size
[size=1]Text[/size] Changes to size 8 [size=2]Text[/size] Changes to size 10 [size=3]Text[/size] Changes to size 12 (Normal size) [size=4]Text[/size] Changes to size 14 [size=5]Text[/size] Changes to size 18 [size=6]Text[/size] Changes to size 24 [size=7]Text[/size] Changes to size 36 [size=8]Text[/size] Changes to size 48 Example




Text alignment
[left]Text[/left] This sets the text to the left [center]Text[/center] This centers the text [right]Text[/right] This sets the text to the right Example




Text color

Note: All color values are in hexadecimal so make sure you know your hexadecimals if you're trying to manually set colors.
[color=#FF0000]Text[/color] Changes the text color (to red in this case) [color=#00FF00]Text[/color] Changes the text color (to green in this case) [color=#0000FF]Text[/color] Changes the text color (to blue in this case) Example



 
Alternatively You can also replace "#color" in the following code with one of the preset colors (just copy paste them) [color=#color]Text[/color]  List:



 
Text font
[font=arial]Text[/font] Sets the text to Arial font [font=comic sans ms]Text[/font] Sets the text to Comic Sans MS font [font=courier new]Text[/font] Sets the text to Courier New [font=georgia]Text[/font] Sets the text to Georgia [font=lucida sans unicode]Text[/font] Sets the text to Lucida Sans Unicode font [font=tahoma]Text[/font] Sets the text to Tahoma font [font=times new roman]Text[/font] Sets the text to Times New Roman font [font=trebuchet ms]Text[/font] Sets the text to Trebuchet MS font [font=verdana]Text[/font] Sets the text to verdana font Example







Special BB Codes

Hyperlinks [url=http://randomurl.com]Text[/url] Hyperlinks the text or image that's between the code. Example:




Twitter linking
[twitter]Twitter User[/twitter] Will hyperlink your twitter to your user and add an @ in front. Example




Spoiler Tags
[spoiler]Text[/spoiler] This will spoiler the text Example










Horizontal Rule
[hr] will add a line that extends across the post Example




Lists
This code will make a list with bullets[list] [*]One [*]Two [/list] Example




Acronym Code
[acronym='Acronym meaning']Acronym[/acronym] Will give a definition of the acronym when you hover the cursor over it Example




Member Code
[member='Fuwa user'] Will automatically generate a hyperlink to a user's profile Example







Embedding

Embedding images [IMG]Image URL[/IMG] [img]Image URL[/img] Note: Make sure your URL ends in either JPG, JPEG, PNG or GIF Example



 
Embedding .GIFV and .GFYCAT
 
The forum software supports gifv and gfycat format, just paste the video URL and it should auto embedd.
If it doesn't, use the media code.
 
Please make sure to spoiler these in order for them not to auto load/loop on slower devices.
 
Note: Don't hotlink gfycat videos , they will not embed. Just use the regular gfycat page URL (one that doesn't end in .webm)
 
Example:




Embedding videos (only works for youtube and Vimeo at the moment)

All videos from Youtube or Vimeo are automatically embedded on Fuwanovel if you just paste their URL so you don't need a code.

Example




Embedding MP3

All Mp3 URLs are also automatically embedded onto the forums.

Note: The URL must end in .mp3 for this to work.

Example




Note: If you want to just link any type of media in URL form, you can use the hyperlink code.
[url=http://randomurl.mp3]http://randomurl.mp3[/url] Example




Embedding Flash
[media]http://randomurl.swf[/media] Will embed anything flash If you want to edit the dimensions you can do so by replacing #width and #height with the desired values [media]http://randomurl.swf/#width,#height[/media] Example




Remember these are just the basic codes, you can combine them to do all sorts of stuff too but I'm not going to get into that too much.
Just make sure that when you're combining you don't mess up the order of the codes, particularly with Special BB codes
So for example if you want to hyperlink an image, you would use [url=http://randomurl.com][IMG]http://randomimageurl.jpg[/IMG][/url] Never [IMG][url=http://randomurl.com]http://randomimageurl.jpg[/url][/IMG] Example




And that should cover just about everything you might possibly want to do when formatting a post, though if I missed something, feel free to let me know.

???
nobody recommend  Katahane ? (not popular?)

* hand bows*
 
Thanks!!!

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nobody recommend  Katahane ? (not popular?)

....... maybe because my bad grammar....
i can't express what i want to say with correct word.
 
 



 
or
 

YES!!!! I AGREE WITH Go Go girl!!!!
nice job buddy!

oh you are new in the VN field... I will give you one advice, if you start a vn , finish it , don't stall it.
And besides that, I am pretty a newbie myself and you can call me whatever... even give me a nickname which only you can use if you want lel

Even though I am still away from Fuwa (largely due to an illness) I figured the very least I could do is shatter any illusions.
 
Sadly the lack of hair is due to meds
 

It's a cat. On the internet.
 
10/10.

....... Chiaki Nanami ....... School days hq (1 hit),Saya no Uta (1 hit) ,kara no shoujo (1 hit),persona 3&4 (2 hit),artonelico (1 hit) ,Danganronpa 1&2 (3 hit) , Fatal Frame 4 (3 hit) , Tear to Tiara 2 (3 hit)  
 
 

Here's a small part of my collection that I could fit in a single picture. I picked some out that showed my hobbies, favorite shows/games, or just anime/visual novel related stuff that makes me a weeb xD.
 

is this enough for participant? 
 

School Days HQ
    Summary In the school the three people met. Their relation had been changed in the season, and turned into three love stories.

Makoto has been admiring a girl he has seen on the train. That girl is Kotonoha Katsura, and he even managed to take a photo of her with his cell phone. Due to new seating in his class, he ends up next to Sekai Saionji, a nosy, but sweet and sincere girl. As she snoops for his cell phone while talking to him, she discovers his crush and vows to help him until Kotonoha agrees to go out with him. When Sekai finally gets them together, she realizes her own feelings after finding out that the person Kotonoha liked was, in fact, Makoto. While waiting for her train next to Makoto, who was waiting for Kotonoha, she has him talking about how he can repay her for all of her help. Before leaving for her train, she kisses him and cries when she boards the way home. Kotonoha happily arrives for her date with Makoto shortly after. With all three main characters carrying different expressions on their faces, the story begins.   Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order In School Days HQ, there's 22 possible endings for the player to experience.The endings are divided in: Main Heroines:  Kotonoha (7 Endings) and Sekai (5 Endings) Sub Heroines: Hikari (2 Endings), Otome (1 Ending), Setsuna (1 Ending) Two Harem Endings And lastly 4 Bad Endings. The route order i suggest will be the: Two main heroines Kotonoha and Sekai Endings, Sub heroines Endings, Harem Endings and lastly the (infamous) Bad Endings. The Vn has Timed Choices , the player can also use right click to increase  he countdown.  School Days HQ also has built-in Flowchart , simply load and choose where you want to return to (only when you've been through the route).   Flowchart


  Main Heroine Ending Guideline  
 
Katsura Kotonoha
  Christmas Eve
  Lust
  With Kotonoha

  To Kotonoha
  After the Kiss
  It Begins with the First Kiss
  All Hers
 
 
Saionji Sekai
  I Love You
  With Honesty
  Bavarois
  Setsuna's Feelings
  Love Fulfilled
  Sub Heroine Ending Guideline  
 
Kuroda Hikari
  Everyone's Makoto
  Sexfriend
 
 
Katou Otome
  Earnest Feelings Requited
 
 
Kiyoura Setsuna
 
  I'm His Wife
  Harem Ending Guideline   Two Lovers
  Goodbye Sekai
  Bad Ending Guideline   Bloody End
  To My Child
  Forever
  Pushed Too Far
  Attribution This walkthrough is based on info attained on School Days vndb discussions and School Days ending Wiki with some adjustments made by me.

School Days HQ
    Summary In the school the three people met. Their relation had been changed in the season, and turned into three love stories.

Makoto has been admiring a girl he has seen on the train. That girl is Kotonoha Katsura, and he even managed to take a photo of her with his cell phone. Due to new seating in his class, he ends up next to Sekai Saionji, a nosy, but sweet and sincere girl. As she snoops for his cell phone while talking to him, she discovers his crush and vows to help him until Kotonoha agrees to go out with him. When Sekai finally gets them together, she realizes her own feelings after finding out that the person Kotonoha liked was, in fact, Makoto. While waiting for her train next to Makoto, who was waiting for Kotonoha, she has him talking about how he can repay her for all of her help. Before leaving for her train, she kisses him and cries when she boards the way home. Kotonoha happily arrives for her date with Makoto shortly after. With all three main characters carrying different expressions on their faces, the story begins.   Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order In School Days HQ, there's 22 possible endings for the player to experience.The endings are divided in: Main Heroines:  Kotonoha (7 Endings) and Sekai (5 Endings) Sub Heroines: Hikari (2 Endings), Otome (1 Ending), Setsuna (1 Ending) Two Harem Endings And lastly 4 Bad Endings. The route order i suggest will be the: Two main heroines Kotonoha and Sekai Endings, Sub heroines Endings, Harem Endings and lastly the (infamous) Bad Endings. The Vn has Timed Choices , the player can also use right click to increase  he countdown.  School Days HQ also has built-in Flowchart , simply load and choose where you want to return to (only when you've been through the route).   Flowchart


  Main Heroine Ending Guideline  
 
Katsura Kotonoha
  Christmas Eve
  Lust
  With Kotonoha

  To Kotonoha
  After the Kiss
  It Begins with the First Kiss
  All Hers
 
 
Saionji Sekai
  I Love You
  With Honesty
  Bavarois
  Setsuna's Feelings
  Love Fulfilled
  Sub Heroine Ending Guideline  
 
Kuroda Hikari
  Everyone's Makoto
  Sexfriend
 
 
Katou Otome
  Earnest Feelings Requited
 
 
Kiyoura Setsuna
 
  I'm His Wife
  Harem Ending Guideline   Two Lovers
  Goodbye Sekai
  Bad Ending Guideline   Bloody End
  To My Child
  Forever
  Pushed Too Far
  Attribution This walkthrough is based on info attained on School Days vndb discussions and School Days ending Wiki with some adjustments made by me.

Nice experience
is good to learn from mistake , "Learn from mistake"
 
and Thank you for sharing .

Hey there
 
This year my town's Kendo club organised the annual New Year's Kendo Training Course that's always held on the five days from the 2nd til the 5th of January. It was a great success but I'm going to tell you some of the stuff that happened to me..
Arguably the most important thing to this annual event are the Sensei that teach us during that time.
This year, we had two japanese guests. Both teach Onoha Ittouryuu are 7th Dan Kyoshi.
I had to pick them up from the airport in Frankfurt (which is 4 hours from where I live).
 
Some info about me:
17 years old haven't had a serious japanese conversation before have been learning japanese for ~18 months  
I think you can all guess that these aren't the perfect conditions for success.
But, whether I liked it or not, I had to be the one to pick them up because someone had to and I'm the poor guy who's learning Japanese lol--
 
I arrived at the airport.
You should know that at that point I was really nervous as it would be the first time I'd have to use my japanese for anything else than my own entertainment.
In my head, I had a list of things that I'd practised beforehand. But all I could remember was
Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? And the polite word for toilet. (otearai)
My nervousness had swallowed the rest
 
When the waiting was finally over -and I was ready to make a run for it- the two walked towards me, searching for familiar faces. I bravely approached them. Three seconds later I had already made more cultural mistakes while greeting them than I'd dare to count. (Like forgetting to tell them my name [so stupid ])
Anyway, they're really nice people and luckily they remembered me from last year so they knew they had to go easy on me with their japanese. I asked them if we (I wasn't alone at least) should carry their lugagge and one of them kindly handed me over his way-too-big and way-too-heavy bag..
 
I started walking back, trying to remember which way to go to get back to the parking lots until I realized we had walked past the lifts. So we went back again thinking everything would be alright but when we stepped out, none of the doors through which we had come before on our way to the terminal would open.
We go back up and try our luck with the lifts on the other side of the terminal. Eventually we made our way back to the car.
 
 
I believe you're fairly bored after reading this much so I'll make the rest short lol
 
The hour that followed was filled with questions about me and the location of the training course which I tried my best to answer in reasonably good Japanese. After that they just fell asleep.
They were a bit shocked when we told them that my coach had invited us all to spend New Year's Eve at his house. But they didn't mind anymore after I told them that there'd be fireworks^^
 
When we arrived, all the nervousness and uneasyness seemed to be washed away and we gradually came to understand each other better and better. Even though I still made a lot of mistakes, the conversation didn't stop anymore and it was a great time for all of us.
 
I fell ill after that due to an allergic reaction and Asthma so I wasn't able to participate in the actual training but I showed up every day to say hello and I met a japanese boy who is an exchange student here in Germany.
I wanted to exchange email addresses so we could keep in touch but unfortunately, I didn't meet him again.
 
 
I learned a lot in that time but I also realized that I still have to study a lot to have a proper conversation.
I'd like to hear about your first experience with japanese if you've had any. Maybe we can all share our stories with each other

Will work on it mate. 

Kotonoha Katsura, Because she is YANDERE . True love (love the person and the only one person)
 
Kiniro Mosaic.

Please follow the rules as stated by Ezeefreak, if you don't know the series then don't answer and wait for one you know, or else it's not really fun since you're just throwing whatever you want in here.
I'll be hiding future posts that don't follow the rules.
 
I'll follow up Kiniro Mosaic
 
I love Karen because Desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu yo she was the first foreign character that actually managed to be cute, her comic relief moments are the best as well.
 
But Ayaya comes in a close second.
 
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Bakemonogatari