Josephl64

Finished Noble Works, time to do Shuffle! now.

I absolutely love Shuffle!, Asa was also such a great character too. (Yes I just read through all the posts at this point and feel like my tastes are rather different)
That being said seeing as how she was my favorite, of course it heightened how much I liked the anime.

Guh ... Shuffle! Essence+ limited edition is 9.5k yen on amazon. Thats before 3rd party shipping costs... My wallet cant take this  (Damn you Nosebleed for making me want that version.) Any chance you want to buy it for me with it being christmas and all?

A fan of the anime and a fan of Asa? High-five! 

I think i wont be sleeping tonite
(NSFW)

I am so excited for Haruka, thanks Arunaru.
 
Probably going to get several copies for friends too when it comes out, they must experience AliceSoft ~

Oh, can you draw Masou Shizuka from Rance?

I only got Civ V, but I'm having fun with it so far.

It's made by GSC so yeah it's pretty highly detailed.
 
Also that VN you have looks beautiful.

Picked up some things at a con I went to:
A cute Reset figure~
 
And some doujins which I would post the pics of if I knew I were allowed to, so I'll just do some links instead:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSvQ06LVEAAUV-k.jpg 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSvQ1VLUEAASOd9.jpg 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSvQ1v_UcAAGFSw.jpg 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSvQ2J8U8AAhxtd.jpg 
 
 
Finally, I went to a movie called "Anthem of the Heart" and got their little theater bonus. Such an amazing film, might be my fave ever:

 

If you're not going to include all translated VNs, then don't call the chart "All Translated VNs", because then the name is wrong and misleading.  Saying that nukige VNs aren't VNs is like saying that porn flicks aren't part of the film medium.  Whether you like it or not, porn is filmed, and nukige VNs are VNs.  Just because porn flicks aren't sold at your local movie store doesn't mean that they aren't movies (n. a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images; a motion picture.), which they actually are.  If you don't want to make statistics about nukige, fine, but it's incredibly irritating for you to mislabel something just because you don't like the part you're ignoring.  If you don't want to include them, then just don't make the chart, or label it properly.  It's really not that hard.
I really don't get why you always have to bring up your vendetta against porn.  Just about everyone already knows about it, and I can assure you, most of us really don't care.  It is actually possible to keep your opinions about porn to yourself and not repeat them over and over again ad infinitum.

So it came to my attention recently upon reading the G-Senjou no Maou CG thread that there are some members of the community who believe the Japanese developers are the ones responsible for setting restrictions on their games when they are delivered overseas. I want to clarify that point a little bit so people understand who is making all the decisions.
A long time ago, Mephisto (an old member of Fuwanovel) and I did a live stream translation of Cocoro@Function! by Pulltop. After uploading some of the previous recordings we did to YouTube, I noticed that after a few months I got 4-5 copyright strikes and my videos were taken down. Pulltop yakuza jokes aside, I initially thought the company itself was the group who claimed my videos and had them taken down. It turns out that was not the case.
In Japan, there is a group called the Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS). Functioning much like the ESRB, it aims to promote a sense of ethical responsibility with respect to the production, distribution, and use of computer software. In this case, adult PC games and mobile games. To give you a better idea of what it actually does, here are some of its responsibilities:
Support bishoujo games Combat software piracy Provide scholarships for students interested in becoming software designers Recognize good retailers (segregating games of different ratings, etc.) Essentially, this is the group responsible for setting the rules of distributing eroge. It functions much like a committee, meaning that every developer who is interested in selling their products in Japan must be a part of this group. They are also the group responsible for creating the "Japan Sales Only" label and are allowed to remove developers from their committee should they break protocol. In other words, the EOCS determines how games are localized overseas. If a company doesn't follow their strict set of rules, they are removed from the group and are no longer able to sell their games at retailers in Japan (i.e. = Sofmap).
If you are interested in reading more about it, check out their official Japanese site that Mephisto and I browsed a long time ago:
http://www.sofurin.org/index.htm
http://www.sofurin.org/htm/topics/34.htm

Another reason I wanted to make this post is to help clarify why I believe a lot of Japanese companies don't want to have their games licensed. It isn't about being xenophobic like I have seen a lot of people argue. Rather, I think it comes down to the fact that these companies are afraid of breaking the rules of the EOCS and don't want to lose their retail rights in Japan.

nothing about the title really interested me, I'll say that's probably true for most of the others who didn't support this.

Please note that any names and or likeness to descriptions of people in this post are not meant to be offensive in anyway. I mention names for the sole purpose of getting points across, not to tell you your opinion and way of forum use is inferior. Also, please note that not everything I say will reflect how you feel. I am merely posting the things I see from my point of view, though this may not entirely reflect how you feel at this point in time. That is all.
 
Fuwanovel. It's a site that has been around for quite some time now, and with all the recent changes that have happened in the past year or so, things have slowly started to go downhill. I don't want to beat around the bush and try to write something witty, I just want to state my thoughts about how I feel this site is changing and what is currently happening to lead it down its own path of destruction.
 
Let me start by saying that this site is falling apart, and very quickly. Old members who guided this forum have slowly started to leave the site due to lack of interest, and new members are too "young" to understand the intricacies of the site. I understand that Tay has a perfect excuse for being away due to personal life issues on the island he is currently studying on, but what I do not understand is the amount of work that is being done to the site otherwise. Let me just cut right to how I feel.
 
First of all...
 
I am sick of the fact that the front site has not been updated. For the love of God, there is no excuse at this point. Nayleen, you took over Checkmate's job for the sole purpose of being that guy who works on the site when Tay is out (which he usually is) and yet all you are doing is putting it off more and more every fucking day. Don't tell me you are busy; you are sitting on Steam playing video games and clearly have the time to update the site. There is no fucking excuse at this point! People are donating to this site, and you refuse to even work on it. If there is a personal life issue that is happening, at least let people know because at this point all I see is complete laziness and lack of interest.
 
So, we have Tay who is busy, and Nayleen who has apparently given up on Fuwanovel and left the site. Emi and other members like Kendjin and Rooke have left because nothing is happening, and a lot of those guys were the driving force for changes occurring on the site. Eclipsed and a lot of other active board moderators have started going into their own social cliques and don't give a flying fuck about the site at this point and its changes, dividing Fuwanovel with the confession's thread, the Love Live thread, and chat. Kaguya himself, someone who always complained about helping in the leadership department, has now resorted to posting in his PMs and giving a flying fuck about moderation. In other words, this place has no community anymore. There is no sense of togetherness anymore on the forums, and it's both sad and pathetic. You want to use college life as an excuse? Bullshit. People were attending school last year and nothing like this was happening. Most of you are freshman, and after going to college for 5 years myself with a double major mind you, your 1st year is pathetically easy regardless of your major. You have time to use this site for 1 hour a day at most and still socialize with others around campus.
 
Am I the only person who actually cares about this community being together anymore? I have my TeamSpeak and group of friends, but even I try to desperately unite old and new members with a variety of activities and events. I am desperately trying to find something that will unite the community again, yet it seems nobody fucking gives a shit about what this site does anymore. Do they still lurk in the shadows? Of course, the loli ban on the site proved that when my TeamSpeak filled itself with 26 members and old members returned to post in that thread, people are still here. Yet nobody gives a flying fuck about what is happening, and at this point it's making it extremely difficult to continue pushing forward. And I get it, even I find myself doing the same thing others are doing as well. I start something and instantly give up on it because I know how much of a waste of time it is, so don't worry I am to blame as well.
 
For the love of God, we got a donation system. It's pathetic and it's sad that we still don't have a stable leader to guide the site when real life situations occur. Tay has an excuse, but nobody else really does. At least Tay admits what is going on and shows his love for this site constantly. Everyone else just says "fuck it" and abandons it without a word. That's fine, but it makes it damn near impossible to do anything anymore.
 
Entertainment and streams aren't working. I remember when 30+ members signed up actively for games and other community activities. Now we have nothing. No logo contests, no participation, nothing. I am not mad that what I am doing isn't working, but I am furious that this site is still sitting where it is this far into 2015. It's pathetic, and I want to say that I believe Fuwanovel is a dead shell. Sadly it isn't because of the changes, but rather because of the lack of interest anyone has on this site anymore. That's fine, but let's just admit the truth at this point - Fuwanovel is going downhill, and unless something is done and people actively work toward making it better, it's finished.
 
I apologize for this post and for being upset, but deep down all I feel is regret and sadness for seeing such a site fall to the wayside and realize nothing has happened for the past year. Update the front site. There is no fucking excuse for this anymore.

Just got some AliceSoft stuff in and thought I could share it here. I needed stuff to tide me over until the next Rance game/OVA drops.
 
C82 AliceSoft set:

Just got some AliceSoft stuff in and thought I could share it here. I needed stuff to tide me over until the next Rance game/OVA drops.
 
C82 AliceSoft set:

Just got some AliceSoft stuff in and thought I could share it here. I needed stuff to tide me over until the next Rance game/OVA drops.
 
C82 AliceSoft set:

"Sakura Swim Club didn't sell as well as the earlier Sakura games so we removed the porn from our new game."

Rance03 arrived~
 



 
Also AliceSoft had a mug which I had to get:
 



 
Kaga doujins (SFW and about her newlywed life):
 



 
Some other stuff gotten too, but they're NSFW so that's pretty much it.

thank you for making this the first post in this thread

Well we can all dream at least.

There's not really much to say. My account got deleted in the rollback along with this topic, so I figured I might as well make it again.
 
My name's Joseph, studying Japanese, and my waifu is Shizuka. Started getting into actually collecting VNs a year ago instead of just playing them.
 
I enjoy J-pop, and J-rock. My favorite kinds of games are J-rpgs, and VNs...that's just about it really.
 
 
I've already seen some of you guys around the last day or so, and it has seemed like a pretty cool community
 
 
 
P.S. You don't know how hard the wait for "Rance 03" is