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It isn't an issue. Rather, the accompaniment of voices makes it easier for those used to translating by ear, though most are using an extracted script in any case.

Somebody with an account nominate Hinaori Kagome from Comyu... I'm not interested in registering for another forum at the moment, lol.

From the top left, it's Yumiko, Amane, Michiru, Makina, and Sachi. Upper right is H-scenarios for non-heroines (I think there is also a twosome in there, but I may be mixing it up) and below that are short skits/scenes with the main story in the lower right corner. WARNING: Do NOT play the main story unless you intend to immediately jump into Rakuen, as it feeds right into it on a cliffhanger that had me throwing things at the walls.

There are a ton of recommendations that might fit your tastes in the Visual Novel Discussion board, so feel free to look through it, unless you want me to recommend you something untranslated. Anyway, welcome to Fuwa.

http://vndb.org/v8213 http://vndb.org/v5349 http://vndb.org/v646 http://vndb.org/v5909 http://vndb.org/v3767 (this entire series) http://vndb.org/v11955 http://vndb.org/v9847 http://vndb.org/v4942 http://vndb.org/v7685 http://vndb.org/v10237 http://vndb.org/v7650 http://vndb.org/v2369 This is a list of series with gakuen and moe to semi-moe elements with a fantasy sort of setting. I deliberately cut out the really dark stuff, because that is obviously not what you are looking for. Ayakashibito, Shinigami no Testament, Bloody Rondo, and Trouble@Vampire the darkest of the group and might be too much, though they aren't nearly as bad as the stuff I usually recommend. Kamikaze Explorer, Naka no Hito Nado Inai, and Dracu-riot lean farther towards the moe end of the spectrum. The Tiny Dungeon series is a fantasy series about a school based in a pocket dimension where demons, divine beings, draconic humanoids, and humans train together in the art of fighting and exploration. It is hilarious, interesting, and has a good set of characters.

*feeds Shinobu-chan a few hobos, whom she promptly sucks dry, tossing their withered corpses to the side* Welcome.

... it is like Prism Ark? Sorry, not much like that that isn't pure crap out there. That kind of attempt at fusing moe and absurdly badly-designed settings and action/serious story together tends to fail when it comes to VNs.

My top is the Kara no Kyoukai movies (I really see them as a single, incredibly long movie)... then the UBW movie. The rest? I don't really like most anime movies, honestly. lol

tbh, most of the chuuni series in the last few years have been pathetic, save for the final season of Shana. They lack that sheer sense of melodrama and self-importance that a good chuuni anime/game/manga/etc. needs. Most of them spend too much time on the slice of life and comedy parts, thus making the series' overall less interesting. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun's latest season also was decent, but it also left me hating it because I wasn't interested in something based before the original Index series. I thought I was going to be able to see some parallel progression, but I had to give up on that...

Don't worry, even if you are a monster, I like you enough not to care. Some of my favorite VN characters are monsters, evil priests, or near-sociopaths, lol.

Mahou Sensou and Noragami have me itching for chuuni deliciousness...

http://vndb.org/v963 This one has a nice cow-girl heroine, but it isn't what you are looking for. I'm just taking the opportunity to advertise, lol.

I'm not sure whether Kaguya is male or female... but I honestly don't care. 'Him' is more convenient than 'it' or 'him/her'.

Welcome. When you are ready to begin playing your VNs in Japanese, feel free to ask me for recommendations matching your tastes. For translated games, check out Kaguya's thread here: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/2151-50-translated-vns-you-should-read-before-you-die/ I don't agree with everything on his list, but this should at least give you something to do.

Humans are weak. For once, I don't say this in a manner meant to express my own, generally cynical, way of looking at human nature in general. I say this rather to emphasize a simple reality we tend to forget when we get caught up in our immediate problems and issues, buried in the minutiae of our daily lives and the suffering and despair swirling in our souls... human beings are terrible at dealing with problems without some kind of 'support' to keep them on their feet. In my case, it was the distraction of books first, then adding games and anime later on, with VNs being my latest addiction. For others, it is the presence of someone who cares. For others, it is the existence of someone who is worse off than themselves (a disgusting way of comforting yourself, but that's humankind for you). For yet others, it is a community like this one, a thin thread that leads you to others who share a common interest or quality with you. People need something to depend on, just to remain sane at times. Supportive words from another human being when you are at your worst is often all it takes to help you retain something resembling a healthy psyche. Alone, without such supports, humans break down in a ridiculously short period of time. I'm sure that there are people who can remain sane and stable with only their own thoughts for company. However, such people fall into the realms of living saints and madmen, so expecting such of yourself is harsh and fundamentally ridiculous. If a community like this can grant you a form of salvation, then there is nothing wrong with it. A sense of commonality is often the only thing that keeps us from going over the edge. There is no shame in any of this. If anyone says otherwise, they are either a sociopath (an individual incapable of comprehending empathy and its necessity for both the giver and receiver), an ideologue (thus being fundamentally incapable of admitting when they are wrong or accepting the truth of opposing ideas), or a liar. Oddly, Naomi, it is confessions like this that often remind me that I'm not any of those three, sad as that is. Empathy and the desire for it are often all that separates a human from a monster wearing a human's skin.

Ah, I didn't read School Days either... my brain automatically edits all mention of the game or anime from my consciousness when I'm not concentrating, lol.

I haven't read them all... but I've read most of them. Exceptions are Katahane, Symphonic Rain, Never 7, Dysfunctional Systems, and Deardrops. With all of those it was a lack of interest, more than anything else. That goes especially for Never 7 (as the only game in that series I actually enjoyed was Ever17).

I don't know much of what the LNs you are talking about are like. It looks like your straight fantasy/action series, but since I haven't read them, I don't know for sure.

*does unspeakable things to nosebleed's loli with a spork, a pickle, and seven bottles of chocolate sauce, but just waves at the yuri-lolis with a smile before tossing them a few 'toys' and leaving them to it*

Comyu, though amaterasu is taking a rest from the translation right now.

*looks sad, because he can't do evil things to a loli* Welcome to Fuwa.

*uses his evil powers to make the loli instinctively despise and want to obliterate lolicons, chuckling maniacally* Welcome...

*vanishes with the loli for a few minutes, then returns with a beautiful young woman in her twenties who vaguely resembles the loli, leaving her for kanaimouto* Welcome...

*accidentally devours the lolis along with the donuts and fails to notice* Welcome...

If there are no live torrents, I suggest copy-pasting the Japanese letters from the vndb page into the search box on Anime-sharing... a live ddl is bound to pop up, considering Togainu is translated, as I recall. This is the rule of thumb for the downloading of any non-commercially localized VN, if there is no live torrent. Though, most of the time fans keep the downloads alive somewhere. I haven't played a translated VN in almost four years though, lol.