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Btw the steam version has some CGs not in the 18+ version, though the scenes with them are probably like 2 or 3 min combined if you don't count where they just put a CG over where it was sprites before. Just wanted to warn you before you give it away.

More mango!  

And it's here!  

Look what I got  

 

Bookshelves are for VNs:
Well, not really. I have two leaning bookshelves with VNs, CDs, and (mostly) actual books. The VNs are actually pretty annoying since they're all different sizes. I should probably rearrange them by size or something to be more aesthetically pleasing... the CDs on the bottom row are VN OSTs. Not pictured here: rows of CDs, books, and quite a few more of my bad drawings.

Oh, this was a nice surprise to come home to.
Mangagamer said the game would ship in two weeks, and I ordered it 1 week ago. Never even got an email saying it had shipped
YAAY! Rise!!!  
 
The pics might be a little bad, the lighting in here is horrible.
 
 

Sadly, I wasn't able to order a lot of VNs before returning home, but I guess this collection over 3 years is worth mentioning? There are some very light NSFW stuff in this album.
A couple of notes about everything. Obviously reorganization needs to occur as the small room has most of that stuff crammed in it. I have yet to purchase my glass cases for most my figures, and as you can see in some of the images, I haven't unloaded all of my figures yet. In addition, the Love Live cosplay uniform is not worn by me. What I want to do is put it on something for display purposes. A culmination of the past 3 years, and with another 4 figure orders on the way so far and a full order of VNs (about 22+) planned for the beginning of 2016, it will only continue to grow larger.
Please weeb responsibly.

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
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http://imgur.com/OTjD5U9 NSFW
http://imgur.com/dx3qCho NSFW
http://imgur.com/YHKUG3O NSFW
Key Stuff
 



Some other VN

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
 

Now if only Sekai would be so nice to finally fix its broken release :/

From the games I played, recently I really liked Mirai from Koiiro.
Also, Hikari and Saya from Miagete are kind of childhood friends for protagonist, and in this VN there are lenghty retrospections. If you can read untranslated, then you can read +18 version  
Konomi and Tamaki from ToHeart2
Ageha from Konosora
Chiho from PrincessEvangile
Hinata from NobleWorks
Rina from Fureraba
Runa and Yukino from Hatsukoi 1/1
Asumi from Heart de Roommate (kind of )
Main heroines from Majikoi (Miyako, Momoyo and Kazuko aka Wanko) could be considered too.
The next one is put here half jokingly, but she was the first childhood friend heroine I experienced, and might be responsible for my affection towards them:
Mikae from True Love

18+ and doesnt have to be translated. 
I am a big fan of osananajimi Heroine romance stories. However, its difficult to make a really good childhood friend story since the writers can't really show all the history that the MC and the friend have. What are some VNs with a childhood friend romance that you feel were really well done? If it has more substance the better. 
 
I've read Koichoco and I liked Chisato but you are only told about their history. 

Well, one thing's for sure - at least it gives this almost dead forum a topic it can discuss fervently that is actually even relevant to the forum... This discussion should be a sticky that people post to each and every day. I notice everyone says exactly the same things in slightly different ways, over and over. Rinse and repeat. My turn.
If quality of final product ranged from 0 to 10, where 0 was completely incomprehensible machine translation along with bugs introduced into the game, scenes butchered, crashing, and 10 was absolute perfect translation and editing of high literary standard which is indistinguishable from the original Japanese, along with all menus translated, songs karaoked, CGs uncensored etc. then it would be fair to say that almost nothing is a 0 or a 10. Let's call a 5 a passing mark where the original story is conveyed with reasonable accuracy and with some typos and editing oversights. So what we get is a range somewhere in the middle and fan translations can fall anywhere in that spectrum, but so can professional releases. Making an incredible generalisation, fan translations are more likely to end up lower on that scale than official localisations, though anything's possible. So what it comes down to is - what is the cut off that you'd be happy with reading? Everyone would accept a 10 (though some of you still want your mosaics) and no one would accept a 0. Some people would be happy with a 3 or 4 while others with nothing less than a 7 or 8. This means that the most flexible amongst us wouldn't mind more fan translations while the more stringent amongst us won't be happy even with half the official localisations. The complaint is that some of those that only accept an 8 get angry when someone releases a 3 because they do a disservice... to whom? The game? The writers? The localisation companies? The readers? It's not a pirating issue, as those who pirate the JP version (to patch it) will likely pirate the EN version too, so the original makers won't be getting anything either way. A shit release doesn't stop a good release from being made later on. If anything, it's a good fan release that makes an official localisation less likely (unless it gets picked up.)
The question then is should fan translators be encouraged or discouraged if they end up in the 3 or 4 range? Is it helpful or harmful to the community to have these? Do fan translators use this as a stepping stone towards getting better and/or a paid job or try to get their translation picked up, and is this healthy or not for the VN scene? I think the fan translation scene is an essential part of the past, present, and future of VNs until the day we get simultaneous multi-language releases of VNs the way anime does - and that's actually far less likely to happen due to the sheer volume of VN releases and the turnaround time to translate them, unlike anime. Arguing for the giving and receiving of constructive criticism is great, however there are precious few people who can and will mentor fan translations (as others have pointed out.) The only way to make the fan translation scene healthier is to tackle less projects and have more translators and other staff helping each other. That's not going to happen since there are so few translators and so many things they may personally want to work on, so we continue with the status quo. By the way, does anyone want to help with our translation?

it doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to not be terrible if anything. People here needs a serious reality check with this literature phd requirement to translate a vn. Especially if it's a fan tl group who spends their free time translating because they enjoy it and doing you a serious favour in the process. You will get a handful of people whining about a sentence being written a bit differently than how it actually is in Japanese or complain about some typos here and there, but then you have the silent masses who enjoy the translation and is overjoyed that they can finally read a vn that will 99% sure never see an official translation. And who's to say an official translation would be any better? I see plenty wrong with super delayed official releases. Mistakes so obvious that it makes me not believe all those checks and rechecks actually took place. But for a fan tl it doesn't bother me one bit as i appreciate the time and work being done.

I'd agree with alpacaman in that it does depend on what kind of story you're looking for, but there are several really good titles on your list - several have mentioned Grisaia (I'd recommend that as well) but there's also Fate/Stay Night, and Steins;Gate (both of which are very good reads if you're into something a bit more serious) as well as a bunch of others I don't know enough about to comment, so I'll stick to a more general recommendation for choosing what to read when. 

Maybe you can read one or two of the shorter VNs to help you get into the flow of things, before tackling some of the longer VNs - all three of the ones I mentioned above do have some SoL parts that (depending on your tastes and mood) can be slow to get through. If you want to get stuck into a particular world/story for a long time right now I'd recommend Grisaia since the first is on its own quite long and you have both expansions so assuming you like it you can keep reading afterwards. Given your comments in the anime thread, I'd probably put Toradora Portable further away, so you have time to digest the anime before diving in to [what is probably] the more story-dense VN. Other than that I think pick one and commit to reading it and think about the other options as little as possible (easy to say but hard to do) while you read the one you've picked. 

Happy belated birthday @Kiriririri and @littleshogun, and happy birthday to @Mr Poltroon. Hope you all have had (or will have) a wonderful day :).

Grisaia is a masterpiece imo, strongly recommended. Off the wall comedy ....... while exploring some psychological themes when it gets serious (and it gets more serious then most VNs). And that soundtrack! It does have a rather long common route.
Symphonic Rain has a unique art style, and a unique world. And some interesting plot twists. It's one of the few VNs (that I know of), that ditches the moe elements (for the most part).
 
For a suggestion not on your list....
* ef - a fairy tale of the two . Multiple love stories (which are somehow connected). Quite a lot of feels too....
 

Happy birthday to @wei123 and @Kabu - hope you both have a great day :D. 

If one is unsatisfied about pairing chosen by scenario writer, VN comes to the rescue - it has endings/routes for all girls

rockmandash12 hasn't uploaded anything for two years now but he reviewed a few VNs on his channel, for the most part famous ones. 

Other than people doing let's plays and some occational VN reviews by some people I don't really think there are people focusing on VNs on youtube, apart from DDLC memes. Personally I think it would be nice if there was someone on youtube covering things like different localizing companies and general news about VNs.

Hello! We're Stella Circle, a small indie game development circle that focuses on story rich visual novel games. We're currently working on our first visual novel game, Forgotten Wish, and we would like to share our development progress.

 
General Information
Title: Forgotten Wish
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Music, Slice of Life, Drama, Romance
Format: Kinetic Visual Novel
Platforms: Windows-PC, MAC OS
Voice Acting: Japanese
Release Date: TBD
 
Synopsis
What would you do if you were to give up the things you loved the most and there was no way for you to get them back?
What would you do if -one day- you got the chance to re-live what you once tossed away?
Would you embrace your dreams if you had one last chance... Or would you walk away?
Takahashi Yoshirou is an uninspired student in his final year of high school. He follows his father's footsteps and one day will inherit his father's legacy to own one of the biggest company holdings in Chiyoda, Tokyo. When final year started, he decided to create a reading club, a club that is solely for Yoshirou and serves as a relaxing -napping- room for him. However, his peaceful days are interrupted by his friends, Eguchi Tomoya and Iwasaki Junpei, who start to come to the reading club room regularly for their band practice. One day, a mysterious female classmate decides to join the reading club despite Yoshirou's efforts to present the club's posters in the most awful way possible.
Join Yoshirou and his friends in a story of dreams, painful life, fated love, and forgotten wishes.
 
Main Characters





 
Demo Progress
Writing/Editing/Translation - 100%
Art (Characters/BGs/CGs/UI) - 100%
BGM and SFXs - 100%
Vocal Songs - 30%
Programming - 80%
 
Full Game Progress
Writing/Editing - 100%
Translation - 50%
Art (Characters/BGs/CGs/UI) - 25%
BGM and SFXs - 20%
Vocal Songs - 30%
Programming - 10%
 
Links
Twitter Website Patreon Tumblr
 
Thank you for your time,
Stella Circle Team

What do you think of Da Capo 3 X-Rated? Have you read any of the others in the trilogy before? 
Y'know, I've been thinking for a bit that our tastes seem to be pretty similar and having read your review of this I now am convinced they are and kind of really really want to read this. I was interested at first, but that combo of tsundere + childhood friend + twintails + canon heroine is much too strong for me to ignore lol. Thanks for writing the review :D. 

I just finished a rather obscure moege, Koiiro Chu! Lips, and have to admit - it was nice.
After reading discussions over at vndb forums I was worried, but, as it turned out - needlessly. True, the game is built around popular tropes, but it is executed nicely, characters are likeable, and I haven't got to the point of being tired/bored by those tropes yet
Setup is little similar to what we'll later see in SakuSaku, the main difference being that Karen is honest Cupid, and not loli shinigami dreaming of changing her occupation
Game uses "anime-format", similar to Heart de Roommate, complete with episodes, previews, eye-catcher screen in the middle, etc.etc. However, playing OP and ED for each episode was little too much. So, overally it was nice, but I think HdR executed it better.
Common route does good job at presenting all characters, and there are lots of funny bits in there as well. I liked the SD CG's very much. It would be nice, if there was a route for Rinka (iinchou), as she seems to be nice girl too, but well, can't have it all...
As for routes, I started with Karen

It was nice love story, I really liked Karen in it, and how the whole story unfolded. There were some tear-jerking moments near the end too.
Next was Shizuku-sensei

This route was very good too, with many funny as well as romantic moments. There is also nice plot twist, with Shizuku being actually
There were also some nice thoughts about relationships in general thrown into dialogues. And dialogues between Karen and Mei in previews for this route's "episodes" were absolutely brilliant, the best in the whole game.
After that I went onto Misaki's route

While Misaki herself was sweet, her route felt little bland, despite writer's effort to spice things up using Yuu It wasn't bad, but in terms of "how much did it move me", it was the weakest.
Then, Nagisa:

I found her rather annoying in common route, but her route surprised me, as I got to really like and care for her. Also, this route gives off some KEY vibes near the end
And finally, the highlight of the whole game, and the "true" or main heroine - Mirai

Man, I have soft spot for tsundere and osananajimi heroines, and here it was done really well. That route hit me hard in the feels many times - even in supposedly mundane moments. Mirai is great, as far as tsunderes go, she's for me right up there with Kotori Habane from Konosora (well, maybe slightly behind, Kotori being still my best girl ). Truly great route, I'm glad that I saved it for the end.
I really liked the way H-scenes were handled in this game. If I have any fetish, it would be vanilla And the scenes in Koiiro are great, clearly of the "making love" rather than "fucking" kind, filled with some sweet (and sometimes even tear-jerking) dialogues. This is one of those games that wouldn't do well as all-ages title, at least not without some serious rewriting to show all that affection in some different way.
Graphics and music were good, nothing to complain about.
Translation is rather on the "liberal" side. Something like Fureraba, but with some meme references/4chan speak thrown in. It works surprisingly well, and it's mostly done with comedic bits. Serious moments are serious, just as they should. There are many typos, but besides that, it's good.
So, overally, I think it deserves something around 7.5/10
Quite enjoyable experience, if you're not totally anti-moege, give it a try.

I've never had a GF, so what could I know... (maybe that's why I'm reading VNs )
Nevertheless - I think almost everybody would agree, that communication is essential for good relationship. Also, sneaking/hiding won't work forever. So you two should definitely talk it over. You don't want to spend all your time pretending - that's exhausting.

Shizune in Katawa Shoujo .
Yumiko in Grisaia no Kajitsu . Bit on the violent side. Michiru is also antagonistic like....
Yuzuyu from Fureraba is extremely verbally antagonistic. Rina is also on the competitive side somewhat....
Kei throughout the entirety of ef - the first tale .
Kyou from Clannad ..... is quite violent (played for laughs though). Fuko acts bratty at times too (and she's adorable!).
Azuki in Nekopara series butts heads with the rest of the cast often.