rankendrake

Wait... does that mean... my workload just jumped?

For those interested in a good, solid game without any H scenes, Baseson's recently released Sengoku Koihime is all ages. Then again, a friend who played it said it's pretty damn obvious it's meant to have H scenes rather than not, so expect an 18+ version of it sooner or later.

We've been marked as Machine TL? Wow, I'm impressed. Somebody must be jealous of how fast we're working that the only way they can explain our sheer speed is that we're using Machine TL. What a wonderful start to the new year. Means I'm so fast I can afford to slack off now.

The overlapping actually looks like an intentional effect though. Wouldn't have realized it if you hadn't pointed it out.

Trying to complete one campaign run of Omerta, City of Gangsters before the holidays end.

Exams end in a few days. After that, probably can see a little more progress on Yuzu route...

It's actually happening to most of the East Asian economies. Apparently declining birthrates go hand in hand with economic development. It's just that Japan, being the first in the region to rev up its economy is also seeing itself as the first to deal with the problem. That being said, they aren't doing that good a job, and most Japanese companies are already switching gears to deal with the silver consumers (aka old retirees, silver-haired). The native xenophobia means that they can't really absorb enough immigrants to fill the numbers. The farms are already suffering from a lack of manpower these days. Given that it's a phenomenom not limited to Japan, I would say, nah, the love industry isn't the cause, since other countries don't seem to have as big an industry in that field as Japan. Would like to comment though, that quite possibly, the sheer strength of the love industry in Japan is due to native culture and circumstances. Each country has certain ideas about sex, family and marriage. In Japan's case, sex isn't as taboo as in the Western worldview. However, the institutions of marriage and family are very heavy. Anyone who has ever watched K-drama would be able to observe the kind of heavy-set role the mother-in-law plays in Korean families. In Japan, that's not exactly the case, but the roles of a husband and a wife are very firmly set. A husband does x ( where x involves working, working hard, for money, to support the family) while the wife is the homemaker (housewife). First off, can you see how these roles break down a little in today's genderless world? Why can't a wife be the breadwinner? And a househusband? Why not? It's frowned upon somewhat still over there. Next you see how much pressure it puts on the poor dudes to do well in their career? Japan is like, at one point, the only country surveyed (I think it was out of developed countries) where women don't actually want to climb the career ladder, but simply want to marry well and live as housewives. Factor in the current high costs of living in Japan together with the moribund economy, and you see how guys don't exactly want to get into a serious relationship? Now, some entrepreneurial Japanese have simply picked upon this market for relations that don't go anywhere. In the culture of Japan where sex isn't as frowned upon, they are able to operate a little more openly than most, and can therefore show themselves as pretty big as compared to more underground operations elsewhere.

Hmm, mentioned before that I bought sofmap LEs of every Navel game since a certain point, but time to do a proper list here I guess. Shuffle! Love Rainbow Sekai Seifuku Kanojyo Sekai Seifuku Kanojyo World Wide Love Navel Plus Tsuki ni Yoriso Otome no Saho Otomoe Riron to Sono Shuuhen

Pupupu~ I'm the new TLC/TL working on Yuzu route :3 Unfortunately that means that common route is still same old, same old... So partial patch is still stuck in the same place as before...

Hmm, if anything, this place is active then. Isn't my first forum, but things usually don't get so worked up in just the intro threads...

Currently playing... Koiken Otome cos I'm working on it, starting on Otome Riron soon after exams.

Hi all, I thought I might as well intro myself here since I've taken up a position in a group. Online Nick: rankendrake (short form drake/rake is ok) 23/M from Singapore. Been into anime itself for just over a decade now, I think. Moved on to VNs couple years after that. Other than that, avid card game player I guess. VNs I've played? I'm a Navel fan because I like the primary artists Aoi Nishimata and Suzuhira Hiro, so bought and played Sekai Seifuku Kanojyo and Tsuki ni Yoriso Otome, now going through OtomeRiron. Also played Otoboku2. Also a smattering of Softhouse Chara, Alicesoft and Eushully games. Started out TL not in VNs but in manga and doujin scanlations. Iko-subs, if anyone is familiar with it. Currently doing TL for flyingpantsu's Koiken Otome project, so that's how I got here in Fuwanovel. Otherwise I would... I guess it sounds selfish, but I would just play games directly in Jp since it was that much faster to go straight in than to wait for TL. Nope, I don't actually have any formal schooling in the language, but one day, while reading VNs with text hooker and translator (yes, from that primitive time >_<) I just went, this is too slow, I could probably read it faster raw, and... pop, I guess. Since the Koiken Otome project is likely to take a while, I probably be sticking around for the foreseeable future. EDIT: PS. sorry for default photo >_< I'm not at home, so I don't have access to my stock.