Weiterfechten

Welcome to Fuwanovel!

The first VN I read was Katawa Shoujo in 2015. This was somewhat of an eye-opener to me as I never thought I could enjoy a medium like VNs (in fact I do not even think I had heard of anime or VNs at the time). This in turn made me interested in checking out anime, but so far I have yet to really get into anime despite looking at various series, I guess it just is not suited for me.

I would lean towards saying no. If you lose grip of the story, I would in the most cases not recommend reading a VN, as a lot of the meaning that went into the VN will be lost. I would however also not recommend learning JP if you are not really interested, as, though what tutorials of "learning" kanji in two months may say, it is quite a long road to getting to an adequate level of understanding. Now it just so happens that I am that guy that did exactly not that and thought he had learnt JP in two months with "learning" kanji. If you do get interested in the future I would however recommend using a parser to translate words (mind you not sentences). It can be quite a ride at first, but once you get the hang of it you can start skipping the use of the program for every word and sentence and start reading from your own understanding. This will help speed up the process of looking up the words. This especially if you save the words you did not understand in another program used for memorising, Anki, or something like that, to later review if you know the meaning and can read it. Mind, this should be used alongside other tools as well (like Tae Kim's grammar guide, the Anki Core 10k deck, etc.), to help your study. Anyhow, perhaps sticking to good old English patches will be the best course of action for now, but that is just an opinion.

May I perhaps recommend getting a VNDB account to list all the VNs you have read, if you do not already have one? Anyhow welcome to Fuwanovel!

Well, atleast I tried.

Once upon a time there was a family of a hardworking father and mother who were forced to read bedtime stories for their noisy and loud kids, but then one day this all changed. Under the hollow moon of a late spring winter landscape the father said he was due to go out to fetch some wood for the stove which internals had once again turned to cinder. His two sons however, were not satisfied and blamed the father for trying to run away from their routine bedtime stories, to which the father heaved a heavy sigh and said he would soon be back, answered solely by a huff from the two sons and the closing of the door to the cottage. Where is that woman when you need her? He thought to himself and quickly dragged his tired self through the snowy cranberry and wild bushes that had long since taken over the once splendid garden of a woman with more time on her hands. Time... where had it gone? He wondered. Soon he would be old and his youth no longer filled with wild adolecence but with sorrow and regret at all which was missed. Finding himself at the gate of the yard he laid his eyes upon his goal - the little wooden shack at the end of the nicely paved road. "Stomp stomp, stomp stomp", loud and heavy his footsteps heaved up the snow, hmm? That's odd he thought. This road was supposed to be shoveled this morning, was it his imagination once more playing tricks on his mind? "Stomp stomp, stomp stomp", the noise did not stop, but he had. He looked around him. A perfect angelic landscape that would assuredly make old realism painters envy revealed itself to him, nothing more, nothing less. The house on the little hill, the cloaked yet wonderful oak trees, the frozen lake which shallow existence had meant so much to his lonely childhood. Suddenly his attention was gathered at his destination - the little shack. It was... making noise? Ridiculous, the weather is perfectly still and he had made sure that the planks would atleast last for another few years the last time he was at home. His eyes fell on the gaslight that was now briskly brimming and shining a golden silhouette on the shack's solemn figure. Suddenly his figure had started shivering, horror was creeping up inside every fiber of his being... a figure... but not that of man nor woman but of a beast - a ghastly figure, white of hue, with a face that not even the foulest lepers could compare to and with hands and feet like the briar that had enveloped the shack and what felt like his entire heart stood there, dead still. His soul and mind moved but he remained affixed to a spot not even purgatory could stand up towards. In the dead of night a scream stopped a flowing world, a painted landscape and a wholesome family. In years following nothing was heard from the old man but jabber and nonsense - to all eyes except those that had met that night.

Nice read, thanks for making these!

I consider an VN amazing when, much like books, it manages to intrigue me to read further, manages to build up a meaningful cast of characters, build up a world that does not seem whitewashed, goes on to thoroughly explore this world and manages to build up a story worthwhile of afterthought. Generally I do not find myself getting stuck on small technicalities and as such I might overlook some parts; sound, picture, (etc...). The part important for me is the overall picture all these devices of characters, worldbuilding and the writer's ideas can lead up to. Ultimately I will not remember every song, CG, (etc...) in the VN and I will forget the bads or the goods, but if the overall picture was incredible I will leave it with a feeling of having touched a masterpiece, perhaps slightly self centered, ignoring the fact the VN was not actually punctually perfect (can any be?).

Welcome to Fuwanovel! Feel free to ask for recommendations, and as for the question - what is your favourite VN?

もう一つの日本語練習人なのか？ナイス！ Fuwanovelにようこそ！オススメが欲しいのならばどうぞ 。

I found myself having a real hard time reading Dracu-Riot!. I think the novel was just not my kind of VN.

Welcome to Fuwanovel! I might have missed it amongst all the text but what is your favourite VN?

Literally me.

Welcome to Fuwanovel!

Another person learning JP huh? Thanks, and good luck yourself, it is a long climb, but worth it in the end (atleast it was for me).

Might be more courteous to introduce myself before getting too caught up in the current of comments, eh? Hello everyone, I am Weiterfechten and have been reading VNs since 2015 (hence the reason this account is older than me writing on here). Since I started reading VNs I have been trying to learn Japanese (well, that was harder than expected) and I am currently just starting out to read VNs in JP, which is also the reason why I am getting back to using this account. My alltime favourite VNs would probably be at the moment: Symphonic Rain, G-Senjou no Maou or Fate Stay Night. I don't have anything more interesting to say. そして、宜しくお願いします！

Hmm.. this is a tough answer. On the one hand are the VNs which I have rated the highest most often pretty slow runners, but I have also found myself, all to often, giving up on VNs halfway through due to some utterly boring monologue suddenly thrown at you as if to just drag the whole story on for ages. If I were to guess why in these cases I could not finish reading these over the top monologues in these games specifically I would have to say that it was either due to the story not really feeling like it was building up for anything worth continuing reading for (atleast in that moment), me just plain out not liking the characters of the VNs or the story just not tickling my fancy.

I mostly leave them. I remember I read the Fate/Stay Night ones, but for the more slice of life ones, or the ones from VNs I did not really enjoy, or the ones that are not stated by VNDB as "Bad Endings with Story", I mostly just leave them.

Confession: When I started Japanese I "learned" the 2136 kanji first, then once finished opened a webbrowser and looked up a Japanese newspaper and was very confused.

This seems interesting. As for personalisation I would like to have a whacky German accent (no clue how you would do that but I leave that to you), Victorian era clothes with a top hat and a fencing sword as a weapon.

Hmm, might as well write down mine before I completely forget: Clannad Dracu-Riot! Grisaia no Kajitsu Kono Oozori ni, Tsubasa o Hirogete Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star Princess Evangile Katawa Shoujo School Days

I am currently reading Sakura no Uta (サクラノ詩) and have gotten to Toritani's route (Pica Pica, Chapter 3). The game so far has been stunning - every character has been enjoyable and none have felt superfluous in reading the novel. I somehow even got to somewhat enjoy the weirdo Thomas as, though I do not usually like this kind of character, he does not get in the way of the overall cast and sometimes even gets used cleverly for a couple of chuckles. The story has that, too, been very good, no events feeling overly unnecessary or like time wasters and overall tying nicely together. Special props to Akashi for being one of the coolest characters I have read in recent times.

I have had my ups and downs with VNs. Since I started reading back in 2015, I have multiple times, during several months, almost completely stopped reading VNs, only to come back newly encouraged and be once again be dissapointed, having read another novel in which I found myself more reading for completion's sake than anything else, and once more leaving for months upon months. I think what has kept me going this long is how at the start of me reading VNs I also started learning Japanese (why I honestly have no clue, I am one of those guys that just goes ahead and does something and will not be discouraged I guess). Once I had then gained enough leeway in the language I started pretty recently reading VNs once again (in Japanese) and found it a whole lot more encouraging and enjoyable, both from a learners perspective - getting to see your own progress in the language, and from a perspective of being able to read VNs that I were more interested in than perhaps I was others I had read purely based on them being translated. As a side note I will give a tip for Japanese learners - read a novel you really want to read and not just one purely based on your skill in the language. I had previously tried reading various VNs purely because they were easy and I found myself not able to stand it (whether this is the case for you is, of course, not certain, just my experience).

Hey. So I have been having a question with how to do something with ITH, in this case I want to make certain lines of text not appear which is in this case ¥n (or \n, which I don't know why it is changing to now after I copy it), which makes the lines look something like this: "その騒がしさをかき消すように、\n空から降りてくる粉雪は、\nますますその数を増やしていく。" I don't know how to take it away so it doesn't appear in the VNreader that I use (Chiitrans). I thought there might be some kind of auto delete option but I could not find any that I in any way could understand. The game I am playing is White Album and the hook I used (4383F4) seems to work otherwise. Any help would be kindly appreciated.