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Well, I tried to have a relatively diverse mixture of genres. It's just I tend to lean towards dramatics (Nukitashi is actually here largely because I wanted another comedy) "No Key or Leaf". Did you not notice WA2 and SumPoc? Hello Lady is often cited as a rival to RuiTomo as Hino Wataru's best work, and it has an upcoming localization, so I feel it has an edge. I didn't try to give a sampling? More just "There are the acclaimed works in the medium, so if they interest you read them/support them when the localizations come out". Interesting analysis. All I'll say while I think what you say over is that I wrote in my natural writing style.

It's not really either, I'd say. It simply here to intrigue people into being invested in works that may interest them.

Well...that's a lot of words. That said, it's probably worth mentioning that a lot of your critiques of YU-NO wouldn't exactly apply to the remake...

Most Sci;Adv fans consider Chaos;Child better than Steins;Gate (even a friend of mine who prefers SG admits that CC is objectively better). Also, I wanted to focus on works that people in the community knew well, but people outside likely wouldn't. That's why I ultimately choose to exclude Fate, BTW.

So basically it was just people being sad about an utsuge ending, and the devs throwing them a bone.

Technically, yes, Kaguya did do an old list. But hers is incredibly outdated (not just for VNs in general, but translated ones especially) and undetailed. All they have are ripped synopses from VNDB, and very maybe a short paragraph. Mine has proper content information, images, and descriptions that are at least a full page in length.

Oh Tyr, you may not be here in person, but you will always be here in spirit.

So good to see you bothered to drop in, Hatan.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up. Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization. Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it. Cheers~

Are you seriously asking people to spend 260dollars just to get a glorified fan fic shorter than the average writing contest submission?

That seems extremely reductive and petty on Type-Moon's part.

Is there a reason why FSN hasn't gotten an official localization? Age, maybe?

Never because Nasu would sooner write five arcs of FGO than actually give a fulfilling story.

Serika got beaten by Taiga of all people. Injustice of the highest regard.

I honestly find this whole thing rather mindless. Maybe it would mean more if the girls were all from moege and romance games, maybe, but a huge number of girls are from plotge with radically different genres. It's like comparing apples and oranges.