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Hello,  I'm proud to announce a new event next Friday!
Fuwanovel is having a livestream on February 3rd @ 7 PM EST with Watercress. We will be vibing on our discord 's voice-chat. Having a good ol read-a-long of A Field of Flowers and Stars and Q&A afterwards. It's a sci-fi yuri OELVN that was my directorial debut as head of software engineering.

It will be hosted by me, the software engineering director of Watercress.
Kevin, one of the narrative directors from Sarchalen
@TheForeverLoneWolf, Studio Director of Watercress
Watch the read-a-along and Q&A here on Watercress's Twitch
Hang out with us Fuwacord's voice chat.
or be a square....
February 3rd EST @ 7 PM US EST
 
Visual Novel Intro
Raine, a genius mechanic with a lust for adventure, thrives in the frontier of space accompanied only by her shipborne AI navigator. Well into her travels, she makes a critical error while piloting, jumping through an unstable wormhole and crash-landing on an unknown planet. There, she makes first contact with a young species of sentient beings that look a lot like humans with a hint of… goat? To return to her home, Raine must repair her ship before the wormhole closes. However, in this unfamiliar place, she makes a friend that forces her to question what she really wants.

 
A Field of Flowers and Stars is a collaboration between Watercress, Somnova Studios, and Sarchalen Visual Media for YuriJam 2019.

Itch.io Page | Release Devlog (contains known issues)
Hi Fuwanovel! This is papaya from milk+ visual. We just released a brand new short yuri VN! Three Lilies and Their Ghost stories is a kinetic yuri visual novel, featuring three distinct stories surrounding ghosts and lesbian relationships. A romance set in 90s rural China; a horror set in 2010s suburban America; a sci-fi thriller set on a fictional 2030s floating island—one after another, witness three stories and see how thin the line separating us from the afterlife truly is.
With only ~30k words total, ~10k per story, Three Lilies is a free, short title you can take on in an afternoon, with active presentation inspired by the enshutsu in Mahoyo and Tsukire. While this is nowhere near as heavy as our first title Soundless, there are still content warnings for things like suicide from a height, familial death, bullying, vomiting, suggestive content, animal death, discussions of terminal illness (cancer) and climate change speculation. Player discretion is advised.
Full Summary
As long as humans exist, so will their ghosts. Three different areas, three different decades, three different tales. Join our lesbian protagonists on their supernatural adventures—and witness how thin the line separating us from the afterlife truly is.
Lily of the Countryside
During the ‘90s rural migration in China, rumors spread of an "inescapable" abandoned village on one of the Shengsi Islands. A young woman named Song Anna decides to hunt this village down, but during her hike she stumbles and falls into thick fog. When she comes to, Song Anna finds herself in the village...and she’s not alone.
Lily of the Suburb
One Halloween night in 2010s United States, Aayla and Najwa, two college students in a relationship, receive a call from Aayla’s little sister Deja asking for them to pick her up from a party. They’re roped into dropping off two of Deja’s friends, one of which seems oddly tense. On their way to their first stop, they get lost in the neighborhood, and soon find themselves in an empty copy...
Lily of the City
In the 2030s, the United Nations contracts a tech company to build floating cities for displaced climate refugees, which become infamous for their "survivor lottery" systems. One such city floating in the Atlantic Ocean suddenly experiences an unusual power outage. Two plant maintenance workers, Tara and Anzu, their third polycule member Kiran, and the Director of Island Operations go down to investigate, and what they find is...
Features
~30k words, with around ~10k words per tale Highly active cinematic experience Accessibility features such as font choices, image and audio captions, screenshake disable, and a photosensitive mode Chapter select following the first clear of the game 9 anime-style CGs and a gallery that allows you to view CGs, backgrounds, and cut-ins. Screenshots

I mean, he is a 14-year-old teenager. As a former teacher, I assure you that he is way less idiotic than some real kids can be (Not all of them, of course, but there is always "the one")
 
As of the thread, I'm happy to say that after almost one year reading it, I... dropped White Album 2.
I really don't have too much to say about this one. It is great in everything that it does, but I found two issues: it is too long, to the point that I was loosing interest because I knew that I'd have to read X more hours just to finish the "cheating route". The second issue is also related to its lenght. I almost didn't play any VNs the whole year. 2022 was basically the year that I finished Little Busters for the second time, started reading WA2 and that's it.
As soon as I decided a few weeks ago to drop WA2, I was able to play AI: Somnium Files 2 in just a few days, half of Summer Pockets: Reflection Blue and 70% of 13 Sentinels' story.
Again, I love WA2, its twists, its setting, it as a whole, but I felt that I needed to move on, and probably I'll never complete it, and I'm fine with it.

None of them because what you do is MTL

and it's just released O: I'm definitely buying it

Hello, just a short information post that we revived both the Fuwanovel Steam Group as well as the Curator page again. While it is hard to produce long-form reviews on the blog at high frequency, we can probably do small pitches or disavowals more quickly on the Steam page. Keep tabs on them!

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/fuwanovel
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4774130-Fuwanovel/about/
 

and it's just released O: I'm definitely buying it

I have to add a strong recommendation to follow this with its sequel, Sweetest Monster Refrain.
Sadly Steam have refused to allow it on Steam, but it's available on itch.io.
https://vndb.org/v36965
https://ebihime.itch.io/sweetest-monster-refrain

https://www.livechart.me/fall-2022/tv

Well, if you nerds want to discuss anime seasons it might be worth to post the livechart of the current season, so people can quickly check what's available. What would you do without me :v

Ahem. Reincarnated as a villainess is literally an entire genre in web-novels and light novels, and while Hamefura is one of the earlier ones and did inspire a lot of the other works, it's far from the first one. The first web-version came out in 2014, while there are some similar novels that started in 2013, like It Seems Like I Got Reincarnated Into The World of a Yandere Otome Game, or I Will Live with Humility and Dependability as My Motto.

What if I told you that moege is the true kamige of visual novels? Watch this video and be educated. This meme idea was inspired by a panel I saw at PAX west. Big thanks to @Jrr  for editing.
 

Galaxy Angle, all 3 games from the original trilogy.

Naturally?  Whenever I needed to cleanse my palate of the taste of kusoge, I went back and played something good.  

And why?
I am a person who rarely reads or watches the same stuff twice or more, with a restricted few exceptions. As we all know by now, reading VNs takes a lot of time, patience, and our backlogs are constantly getting bigger as months pass and we get a ton of new releases - even more if you read Japanese-only VNs.
Then, we have those special games that speak to our hearts months after their first playthrough and we decide to give it another try, maybe just to read our fave hero/in route or to have a stress-free time with something that we already know we love.
In my case, there are only three VNs that I fully reread, one that I'm currently rereading alongside White Album 2 and one that I reread just the first hours because I have previously dropped that VN [which after finishing it I got to know that it was a huge mistake what I did before].  So here is my list:
Umineko no Naku Koro ni - For those who know me from before and from the many request threads we got back in the day, Umineko is my favorite VN of all time. My final project for college was about the story, where I analyzed the concepts of truth [portuguese only, sadly]. I decided to read it a second time because I already knew the culprit, mas never got to understand how they did the crimes. Reading Umineko again was an opportunity to appreciate the game without the "magic" lens that blinded me the first time around. I recommend people to read it again too, but only years after the first run, so the experience still feels fresh.
Little Busters: This one is a curious one. I decided to replay it on the Switch because I've never read the 3 final routes [the Ecstasy-exclusive], so I got the game and read it from start to finish.... except when I got into the first new route, I hated it! It didn't feel fun reading the new content, so I decided to skip them altogether a second time. Still, the main story is great and I had a lot of laughs and reexperienced a lot of the story, since I had forgotten a lot.
Kindred Spirits on the Roof - I simply loved the game, but I read it in a time when I was studying a LOT and could not fully focus on the VN. So I simply skimmed through the game and that was it. So a few years ago I decided to start it all over again and I must say it was 100% worth it. All characters are fun to follow, the romance is really well done and let's be frank: listening to Rita singing AND voice act is a gift from the gods.
Sea Bed - If you search for Sea Bed here in the forums, you'll find me bashing the game A LOT. I hated it the first time I tried, to the point that I dropped it even before the third chapter. I didn't like the exhagerated slice of life and simply wanted to get deep into the mystery that, at the time, a lot of people were praising. Then it was released on the Switch and I was going back to read after a year when I didn't read anything at all, even books or manga. So I decided to give it another shot, because I mean, maybe now, with more maturity, I would be able to feel the story. MAN, it was the best decision ever! The story is great, the pacing is purposefully slow in the beginning, but as we get close to the end more and more stuff is revealed and if you don't pay attention, you can miss a lot of nice twists. Even the slice of life scenes were super relevant when I found out the truth behind the story. So if you ever drop a VN - or even Sea Bed -, give it another shot a few years later, because your tastes may have changed and you'll have a blast like I did.
Summer Pockets - The one I'm currently reading because we now finally have a translation for the Reflection Blue content. I don't have much to say yet because I'm still in the beginning of the first route [going with Kamome right now], but I may update here after I get into the RB exclusive content. I simply love the atmosphere and writing of this game, and thanks to its art style and fun cast of characters, it's become a easy Key masterpiece. If you ever feel on the fence about reading SP, please, do yourself a favor! You won't regret it!
 
Sooooo, what about you? Which VNs have you read more than once and why? Do you have a similar story to one of my list?

Right now I'm rereading umineko as I have been bullied by the book it's self to reread it, this and higurashi are the only big books I have ever reread seriously. However I will be reading saya no uta on holloween, I don't celebrate it but I think I should at least make some sort of tradition out of it.

Corpse Party: played it multiple times before I even really got into VNs because it's a pretty good horror game which frankly there aren't many of.

Grisaia no Kajitsu: read the 18+ version first, skipped every h-scene cause they were bad, read the 17+ version after finishing the series, didn't like that they cut non h content from it.  To this day I'm not sure which version I like more.

Island: got a friend to read it years after I did, decided to reread it since there's a lot going on in that novel and I wouldn't be able to hold a conversation about it without a refresher.

Dangrope 1 and most of 2: played them and had mixed feelings, was present for irl friends playing them as my mixed feelings turned to mostly negative feelings.

Ace Attorney 1: It's a good game with exactly four cases and no fifth case, would replay again.

999: Played it on my own, liked it, made my friends play it while I watched.

Some of VLR: Played it, hated it, but my friends finished 999 so they tried to play it (I think we only got through like two play sessions before they bailed).

Cooking Companions: Haven't replayed it yet, but I liked it and it got an update a while back and it's October right now so I'll almost definitely replay it before the end of the month.

Katawa Shoujo, Majikoi (all of them), Ayakashibito, Grisaja, Hoshizora no Memoria, Muv Luv, Ever 17, Fate Stay night, Clannad, Little busters are the ones i remember right now, probably quite a few more though.
As for the reason: I just wanted to read it again, happens all the time for me.

And I love rereading things, especially JVNs I read a long time ago, just to see how my JP improved over the years.
One of my favorite VNs of all time is notorious for its language difficulty, can't wait to read and fully understand it one day!

I'm also not a big rereader.
I think I only reread one route in Collar x Malice several times. Like right after finishing it the first time. And then again a week after that.
The cause? The worst case of brain worms of my life because of an evil cat bastard man:

The route didn't even manage the landing! The ending had so many things unnecessary things to it that were just why
But nope Shiraishi's character writing and his chemistry with Ichika murdered me like nothing else before!
The good thing was that rereading his route really improved my understanding of him and raised my opinion of the writing even further (except of course the ending).
 

So far there are two:
1. I've read Princess Evangile three times. First time +18 English version (it was one of my first VNs), then All-ages English version, and finally, last year, All-ages Japanese version (PSP). And it's very possible, that there will be fourth time There's something in that VN that pulls me back - it was a lovely feeling to revisit it, and meet old friends again. It become my "comfort VN" - together with the next one...
2. Konosora (If My Heart Had Wings) - this one I read two times - once in English (with retranslation patch), and then later I read PS3 version - Cruise Sign in Japanese (I even actually bought physical copy of it). I think I will revisit this one too some time.
I guess we could also count MashiroIro Symphony (2 times) - but this was slightly different case, since those two reads were back-to-back - I read PC version, and then PSP one in one go.

I mostly don't reread things as my backlog is infinitely growing. I might reread some scenes I like or some H-scenes, but not the whole VN.
 
So far I have only reread 1 VN from beginning to finish and that is Cross Channel. I first read it in English, but I wasn't satisfied with the translation, so I reread it in Japanese. There might be a couple other VN's I might reread in Japanese, because there are a lot of things you really miss in English. Those are not as high priority as reading completely new VN's though.

And why?
I am a person who rarely reads or watches the same stuff twice or more, with a restricted few exceptions. As we all know by now, reading VNs takes a lot of time, patience, and our backlogs are constantly getting bigger as months pass and we get a ton of new releases - even more if you read Japanese-only VNs.
Then, we have those special games that speak to our hearts months after their first playthrough and we decide to give it another try, maybe just to read our fave hero/in route or to have a stress-free time with something that we already know we love.
In my case, there are only three VNs that I fully reread, one that I'm currently rereading alongside White Album 2 and one that I reread just the first hours because I have previously dropped that VN [which after finishing it I got to know that it was a huge mistake what I did before].  So here is my list:
Umineko no Naku Koro ni - For those who know me from before and from the many request threads we got back in the day, Umineko is my favorite VN of all time. My final project for college was about the story, where I analyzed the concepts of truth [portuguese only, sadly]. I decided to read it a second time because I already knew the culprit, mas never got to understand how they did the crimes. Reading Umineko again was an opportunity to appreciate the game without the "magic" lens that blinded me the first time around. I recommend people to read it again too, but only years after the first run, so the experience still feels fresh.
Little Busters: This one is a curious one. I decided to replay it on the Switch because I've never read the 3 final routes [the Ecstasy-exclusive], so I got the game and read it from start to finish.... except when I got into the first new route, I hated it! It didn't feel fun reading the new content, so I decided to skip them altogether a second time. Still, the main story is great and I had a lot of laughs and reexperienced a lot of the story, since I had forgotten a lot.
Kindred Spirits on the Roof - I simply loved the game, but I read it in a time when I was studying a LOT and could not fully focus on the VN. So I simply skimmed through the game and that was it. So a few years ago I decided to start it all over again and I must say it was 100% worth it. All characters are fun to follow, the romance is really well done and let's be frank: listening to Rita singing AND voice act is a gift from the gods.
Sea Bed - If you search for Sea Bed here in the forums, you'll find me bashing the game A LOT. I hated it the first time I tried, to the point that I dropped it even before the third chapter. I didn't like the exhagerated slice of life and simply wanted to get deep into the mystery that, at the time, a lot of people were praising. Then it was released on the Switch and I was going back to read after a year when I didn't read anything at all, even books or manga. So I decided to give it another shot, because I mean, maybe now, with more maturity, I would be able to feel the story. MAN, it was the best decision ever! The story is great, the pacing is purposefully slow in the beginning, but as we get close to the end more and more stuff is revealed and if you don't pay attention, you can miss a lot of nice twists. Even the slice of life scenes were super relevant when I found out the truth behind the story. So if you ever drop a VN - or even Sea Bed -, give it another shot a few years later, because your tastes may have changed and you'll have a blast like I did.
Summer Pockets - The one I'm currently reading because we now finally have a translation for the Reflection Blue content. I don't have much to say yet because I'm still in the beginning of the first route [going with Kamome right now], but I may update here after I get into the RB exclusive content. I simply love the atmosphere and writing of this game, and thanks to its art style and fun cast of characters, it's become a easy Key masterpiece. If you ever feel on the fence about reading SP, please, do yourself a favor! You won't regret it!
 
Sooooo, what about you? Which VNs have you read more than once and why? Do you have a similar story to one of my list?

I'm lurking, I'm lurking! I will be participating more in the next few days, I promise ❤️ Thank you and all the people involved in making the forums alive again

I'm lurking, I'm lurking! I will be participating more in the next few days, I promise ❤️ Thank you and all the people involved in making the forums alive again