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Week 10's out~

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/63848-light-novels-arrive-in-the-u-s-again.html
http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/ToRead.pdf
 
Studies have shown that youth spend far less time reading than previous generations. There are many reasons for the causes of this phenomenon. Let's focus on the effects, specifically the effects in relation to visual novels and the western community. Visual novels rely heavily on language, many of which have higher word counts than the average ink-on-paper novel. I feel that this discourages westerners who are already weary of reading.
 
I began considering this after looking at the extreme limited niche market for light novels published in English. The writing style for many light novels appeals to the intended Japanese audience. "According to Japan’s Publishing Science Institute, light novels accounted for approximately 23.5% of the country’s general paperback sales in 2011" I included that statistic to demonstrate that reading is not an issue for eastern culture, thus visual novels are also seeing continuing success. 
 
My question for you is: How can we expect visual novels to become a well known medium in the west when less people in general find pleasure in reading?

Clannad had a lot of good bgms that moved me. In particular:
 


gives a mysterious feel
 



 
and the menu theme:
 



 
 
Thanks for the heads up, Clephas

1) Waking up with a headache from sleeping in until noon
2) When the Shockwave plugin crashes on Chrome
3) When your waifu isn't real

Confession: I may have become a Fuwa addict. I should have been in bed an hour ago but I keep thinking 'one more refresh, one more reply'

The solution to arachnophobia is smushing the little pests before the have the chance to irk you out.
 
Confession: Been gone for waaayyy too long.

Week 9 is finally up, I'll work on Week 10 right away. I'll see about getting it out today~
 
Enjoy enjoy~

I'm always a little girl at heart, no matter if I say I'm romantic-comedy.

Week 5's up yada yada yada, you know the drill. It's starting to feel weird bumping my own thread and seeing my posts one right after the other.... derp

Week 9 is finally up, I'll work on Week 10 right away. I'll see about getting it out today~
 
Enjoy enjoy~

Yay Week 8です!
 
Enjoy as usual~!

Week 7's uploaded, enjoy enjoy~
 
We're on a good pace, I'm meeting the 6 topics a week goal. At this rate we should be finished around June maybe~

I'm always a little girl at heart, no matter if I say I'm romantic-comedy.

Confession: I cameo in one of OriginalRen's latest Akiba Vlogs.

this is pretty much the only way to get the full experience of that thread.

Week 4's up... but idk why it's not processing. 待つしかないか～
 
Update: It's FIXED
 
Enjoy~

Yeah, this is actually the 1001th since I didn't notice and wasted my 1000th post on that motivation thread. Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
 

 
Anyway, what should I do then...
Well, just a quick re-introduction, I guess.
 
I'm Satsuki, a Vietnamese guy that is studying abroad in New Zealand. I'm a 3rd year student in IT course.
I started getting into manga/anime about 3 and half years ago. At that time, I just came to NZ, and had no friend whatsoever here. The internet connection was pretty bad too, so I couldn't do any online gaming with my friends back in Vietnam. I was so bored, so I started looking for some "comic" to read (Doraemon, Detective Conan...). And that was when a pink haired girl on the cover of an "unknown comic" attracted me - she was Nakagawa Kanon from The World God Only Knows. And I started reading. That was the first time I know about words like "manga", "anime", "galge", and of course, moe. Not long after that, I got curious about anime, so I decided to try out one, and soon got addicted after marathon-ed through the whole Madoka series and both two seasons of TWGOK.  
6 months after, when I was reading a manga (can't remember which one), I had a fateful encounter with my waifu - Noumi Kudryavka. The scanlation team of that manga was using her CG for their credit, and her cuteness shot through my heart right from the first sight (yeah, sound so shameless, I know, but who cares). I immediately tried to look for her. That was when I know about Little Busters, about Key, and the Visual Novel world.
All sort of thing happened, and here I'm today, no longer be a newbie brat with limited knowledge inside a spoon. Of course, I'm still just a chicken, compare to tons of people on Fuwa here, so please take care of me in the future! 
 
 
 
Some random facts about me:
- When I pick a M/A/VN, art is always the top priority for me. If the art sucks, then no matter how good the story is, I will still throw it right out of the window.
 
- Despite being a dedicated member of Vietnam Key Fan Club, the only Key's work I watched/played were LB, AB!, RW and Planetarian. No Clannad, no Air, no Kanon for me. Reason above.
 
-  My VNDB list is ridiculously long with over hundred titles. However, most of them, or actually, every VNs outside of the "finished" list, I only played like half of the common route or less. I just simply download everything that caught my eyes, despite knowing that I will never have the time to finish them all.
 
- I bought a bunch of nendoroid, even though I have no where to put them (I'm living in school apartment. My room only has some basic furniture).
 
- Despite all of my rampages about H-scenes, I still have some pure nukige in my collection. Stuff like Marunomi, Double Phase, Erohon wo Sutete and such...
 
- I tend to just do what I want without caring about how other people think about me. In the end year project of my Game Development class, I even used my OELVN at that time from Pure Ribbon studio for my presentation (of course, 99% of the class looked at me like "wtf is this freak talking about?"). I even watch anime and play VN after school, using school's PC when the internet connection at my place got all tsuntsun.
 
- Not much different than in 2D world, I'm also only interested in girls that are younger than me IRL. No, not like primary schooler or something. But still, if I ever get a girlfriend, she will have to be younger than me (or at worst, same age). Going out with an older girl just makes me feel like she is my older sister, rather than girlfriend.
 
- I sucks at writing, even in my language. My highest essay score was 6/10.
 
- My first crush was my classmate in high school. Now I think about it, she is pretty much a 3D loli...
 
- My friend is a cross-dresser. Because of him, I took an interest in cross-dressing myself. Haven't got a chance to actually do it though...
 
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Geh, I talked too much. Ugh....

Smooth Cyrillej1, smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSk8bN_spvE
 
I like the piano version a lot more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSk8bN_spvE
 
I like the piano version a lot more

Woah woah woahhhh! buddy!
 
Share me the wealth or the swag!

Hey all,
 
Here is a new series where I cut the acting and share my thoughts on what is currently on my mind or what I feel like talking about at the time. I hope this beta series is enjoyable for some of you; feedback is greatly appreciated!
 
As always, stay awesome, and thanks for watching!
 

I'd like to think I'm not as introverted as this says I am lol. Though it is a fact I rarely start a conversation on my own.