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I can't stop listening to this:

(｀・ω・´)/ッ 頑張れ〜

As Nekopara is an officially localized title, you should send an email to the support staff from the company that released it. (Denpasoft/ Sekai Project.) You can find a contact sheet for Denpasoft here.

ChuSinGura 46+1 Not a story spoiler at all, but just in case:

It probably is pretty effective, yes. But, it has some annoying restrictions, which is a pain to deal with. Their standard DRM is so light and easy in comparison.

Whoa... was that DRM DMM game player by any chance? As the standard soft denchi DRM used on DMM is very light and non-intrusive. 1) You install the program, (which won't be running in the background; it will just record your license keys, then unlock the game. This only needs to be done once and you don't need to interact with the actual soft denchi program directly, ever.) 2) Run the game after installing, and if it is your first time playing this game, log in with your DMM account and ... boom. Done. You never have to deal with DRM for that game again. It's possible you DLed the incorrect version of soft denchi, or that there was an error when you installed it etc. Normally, you shouldn't even notice it's there at all. (DMM game player is a whole different kind of evil, though. We don't speak about that shit.)

DMM! Ah... guess this was just for TLed titles

You should definitely read the novels, they’re great. (Especially 10-11. I really love those two. I think S3 is adapting book 8-11, but... ugh, that art.) I’m crossing my fingers hoping that the people saying the pre-aired ep was an unfinished product are right, and that the episode that’s airing the 11th will be much better. But... that’s just wishful thinking, tbh. Man, I can’t believe they managed to ruin the art so much for what’s in my opinion the best part of the whole LN series! Ahhrg! I’ll still watch it, just to see how this part of the LN looks animated, but... guess I shouldn’t get my hopes up too much.

Excuse me, this is supposed to be you reading very slowly. How dare you make two posts so close together! Refund please!

I decided to buy the PSvita version of ChuSinGura, as I've been really curious about how they'd handle an all-ages port for that game for a while now. (A proper one, and not that... abomination that's on Steam.) Since I am re-reading the game atm, I figured I might as well get the PSvita version now, and finally get an answer to my questions about this version. I must say, I'm really impressed with how well done this is. So far I have only found a couple of small things that were changed, and those were... obvious ones. (I mean, a loli having sex with dogs isn't exactly all-ages material, lol.) General overview of what I've seen from a good 6-7 hours ish into the game: - All perverted jokes and refrences to sex are kept completely intact. I was very surprised by this, but yeah, it doesn't seem like they've toned this down much at all. A couple of examples: - The outfits for some characters have been altered a tiny, tiny bit. (Fuwa and Shinpachirou had their nipples hidden by adidng a tiny bit more cloth to their tops, and Matsunojou and a few others had the very obvious outline of their nipples toned down a little.) - CGs showing nipples/ genitals are changed so that there's some convinient cloth just barely covering what needs to be covered, but the text etc still remains exactly the same, and the CGs are still plenty frisky. Overall it seems like the only changes are: - H-scenes being replaced by "all-ages" friendly scenes. (They do have new text and new CGs for these.) - A handful of scenes that cannot be "covered", such as Tsunayoshi talking about having sex with her dogs have been changed to her just doting on her dogs in general instead. (Which honestly just feels more... natural. The whole dog sex thing was kind of pushing it, lol. For those of you who don't know, Tsunayoshi was known as the "dog shogun" for his law basically branding stray dogs as deities, and there were rumours about him being intimate with dogs as a result.) - CGs showing nudity have said nudity covered, but the text and the rest of the scenes/ CGs remain the same. I am curious how a few things that happen later in the game gets handled, so I'll make one post for each chatper. Chapters 3 and 4 in particular should be... interesting. Though, based on how well Ch.1 has been done, I'm sure they've done a good job with the rest of the game, too. Man, I'm really glad this game wasn't butchered by Sony's stupid policies. How Inre managed to get a game this lewd and uncut on the PS-store, I don't know, but god bless'em. I wish every all-ages version of eroge got handled like this.

Could you elaborate on what "it" is? Since it's not talked about anywhere, how would we know about it?

I have no idea. Have never even used an emulator before. But, for what it's worth, looking up new words when reading a game is a great way to learn, even though it does feel very slow at first. (+ Having a game you really want to play that's only available in JP is a good motivator for studying. ) Wanting to read the If My Heart Had Wings fandisk was actually one of the reasons I started learning Japanese, and Kanako's route was among the first things I ever read in Japanese after having studied for a bit. It certainly helped motivate me!

Heh, yeah, I talk a lot of shit about Moenovel, (which they deserve,) but I do have to give it to them; I really like the title "If My Heart Had Wings." It's very fitting for the game, and is honestly much better than (rough TL of the JP title:) Spread Your Wings In This Vast Sky. (Or, their own literal TL, which hurts my soul a little: "Extend The Little Wings Which Fly In The Sky Highly." Pls no..)

Just finished Akari's route in Kono Oozora - Cruise Sign. I'm so glad they gave her a route, (and that it wasn't just a really short, one hour thing. Took me around five hours to finish the whole thing.) Akari is such a cute character. This was definitely a route that benifited from being all-ages, (despite this originally being an eroge.) The romance between Aoi and Akari was super cute, and she really isn't the type of girl who'd jump in bed with a guy 2 minutes after a confession scene. (Unlike... all other moege heroines. Sluts ) The route seems to follow Kotori's route, but with a "what if Kotori and Aoi just stayed good friends, and he was up for grabs?! " scenario. Enter Akari. The route starts with her coming with Aoi to the club room to watch over the soaring club's club activities. (As she is the student council president.) She and Aoi spend some time alone, and she realizes that she has a bit of a crush on him. She then gets super jealous watching Aoi hang out with his female club members, (which is pretty cute, lol), and she goes to Kanako for advice on what to do next. Insert not a great plan meme w It was overall just a really wholesome and cute route, which is very fitting for Akari. There's a little drama towards the end, (luckily not really involving their relationship, but in general around the soaring club and the stupid teacher trying to stop them, ) + enough adorable moments with Akari to give you diabetes a hundred times over: I... won't lie, I cried a little towards the end. But, I'm a real sofite, especially when it comes to this game. Overall, it was a very solid route, which should have been a part of the original game, tbh. Or, at the very least, a part of the original fandisk. It's a shame that it's only available on a PS3/PSvita port, as that makes the chances of a TL even slimmer. (For those wondering, no, Moenovel are not TLing this route, as they are working with the normal fandisk, Flight Diary, not Cruise Sign.) If you do have a PSvita though, and speak Japanese, I strongly recommend you pick this version up. Not just for Akari's route, but just for what is probably the most complete version of Kono Oozora out there. (It has so many nice, new features, + added content where H is missing, AND totally new content which isn't in the other versions of the game, like this route.) Anyways, here's some of my favorite CGs / moments from the route: (Spoilers, obviously.)

Happy New Year folks! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)