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Just dropping in to say I've been sticking with the anime even though I'm not enjoying it too much. But I did really like Haruka's arc in the recent episodes! Now I like her quite a lot. That personality of hers gave her good potential to begin with . I find that as the show goes on, I like some of the characters more and more. Guess that's the magic of shows/storys/VNs like these. I particularly like Nishizono, Haruka and Kurugaya because she's cool .

I remember showing Narcissu to my friends way back in uni, too. A few of them actually finished and enjoyed it, yet for some reason, when the sequel came out in English, none of them bothered to take a look .

One of my go to emoticons is (^O^)~

Yeah, Kotourasan was a surprise for me as well, though I have to say the drama died die a tiny bit after that first episode. Megu from GJ Bu is cute indeed! She reminds me of Ui from K-On .

*Throws masterball at HaruKaizo* What the--even that didn't work ? Welcome to the forum !

Nice images~ That last one (O///O) ! My favorite character is Shion .

Metaler, GJ Bu was a pleasant surprise for me, too! I thought it was boring during episode one's first ten minutes, then the characters' quirks became clear and I got really into it. Sasami-san is also awesome indeed, funya~

Hm, okay SnowPoke, I might give it a shot! Tamako Market is no life changing anime by any means. It's just a nice show for me to watch on a Friday evening. In that sense, it is kind of like K-On to me. Tamako is really cute! Hohoho B).

Tay, indeed, I think a lot of people here are creative people! Sitting through a long VN does require a lot of patience and passion. Haha, thanks SnowPoke! I'm doing my best alone so far by keeping the scale nice and small. It's tough when you have a full time job as well. Dizzyworld2, Clephas, it is true~ Building a VN takes up so much time. My game is tiny in scale, and still the time required always creeps up. A month long project turns into 3 months, etc. It's a climb for sure.

Wow, Aaeru, I had no idea you lived in Sydney Australia! For some reason, I just assumed nobody is local on the forum ~ We should bump into each other during a con or something B). I'm wondering if VNs are hard to introduce to people because they consist of still images and a ton of reading, which might seem uninteresting for a lot of folks. Indeed, I think a lot of people assume that VN means porn. That's a tough barrier to break.

I've actually made a few way back when I was in uni. They were horrible, though, so let's just pretend I never said that . I've also played a few English VNs back then for research, too. It is a little distracting when they try really hard to be Japanese. It's understandable, but yeah. I'd love to see an English VN that embraces the fact that it's Western. The thing is, in that case, I'm not sure if it'll be embraced, so the audience might be at fault here as well. As mentioned in another post, I'm currently building a game that has heavy visual novel aspects. I've definitely excluded all honorifics from the script. It's not set in any particular country, either.

Just wondering how strong is the VN community in everyone's countries? Here in Australia, VN may as well be completely unknown. We have plenty of anime fans, but only a tiny portion of them play any VN. When I took a trip to Hong Kong a few years back, I was pleasantly surprised to find there were plenty of folks who read VNs, even if they struggled with the Japanese. The English translations are less helpful for them because they speak Cantonese over there. A lot of anime shop owners genuinely know and care about the content in their stores. There was even a shop dedicated to doujinshi, many of which were from Key. You'll never find anything like that here back in Australia. I found the community there to be really friendly. Thanks!

Cried during the K-On movie? That's cute ! The film was pretty all right indeed. It feels like not much has happened in it, but I appreciated its realism. No contrived breakthrough performance, etc. They're just a small school band, so of course they'd never really have a major audience, but that's all right because they're having fun. That kind of theme. Also, no over the top crying from Sawako when she got that gift from her students. She probably gets them every year so as an adult it hardly affects her. I can't help but think that if the same thing happened in Clannad, the whole class would embrace each other and have a huge cry about it. That said, I do think that I prefer my K-On goodness in 20 minute doses B)!

I enjoy playing and watching SC2 as well ! But I'm bad at it and hardly ever play the game . It's no good for me because I rage when I lose B)...........

Oha (^O^)/~

Welcome to the forum !

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai has some VN references sprinkled here and there . There's a girl in the show called Sena who loves her some eroge XD!

Unfortunately, like Down, I dropped this after just the first episode because of the lack of tension. If it's a show about tanks, I'd rather they depict wars' realities, etc. Still, it might have been a good show I just never got to know .

Damn, I actually dropped this after just two episodes. Maybe I should give it another shot~

I went to both Hong Kong and Japan a few years back, and I actually ended up buying way more stuff in Hong Kong than in Japan . Visual novels are awesome, but they do often come in big boxes, so those spaces get used up real quick. Their price is, of course, another factor. From memory, I picked up: - Ever17 PSP Limited Edition. - Planetarian. - Sola DVD Limited Edition boxset. And that's really about it. I really wanted the Narcissu image album, but it was nowhere to be found even in Akihabara. There were a few other rare Narcissu doujin that were disappointing unavailable. But when I came back home and checked online, there were available in a few places .

That's cool . I'm writing a novel too so I know it's really hard work. Good luck with it! Here's some K-On creepypasta thing I wrote last year : I never wanted to write about this, but I have lost contact with a friend, and I want to know what happened. Below are recounts of my final conversations with him. I have dated them in hopes that it might help find some answers. 04/12/2011: A Japanese friend of mine really loves K-On!. Out of respect for his privacy, he will remain unnamed. When the K-On! movie was announced, he kept telling me that he would watch it in cinema at least once. After his first viewing, he constantly rambled on about how great the movie was. Honestly, I was a little jealous. 08/12/2011: Most people leave the cinema once the credits roll. This friend of mine is different. He appreciates the staff’s work, so he always sat through the credits. After seeing the K-On! film a second time, he watched the cast roll again. As it ended, and he was getting up to leave, a cleaner noticed him and demanded that he left right away. That upset my friend a little. He was indeed about to leave. There was no need for that cleaner to be mad. The cleaner said, “It’s for your own good”, but that’s just non sense. 14/12/2011: Because of that bad experience, my friend went to a different cinema for his third K-On! movie run. No way would he let what happened last time stop him, though. He sat through the credits again. Once the screen went black, he picked up his bag and prepared to leave. Just as he turned for the exit, he heard sobs coming from behind him. He thought the next movie had already started. When he turned to look, however, the screen was still pitched black. There was nobody in the cinema, either. My friend was sure he heard sobs, though. In fact, he could still hear them now. The weeps sounded like Azusa’s. My friend decided to wait longer and see if anything else would happen. That was when a security tapped his shoulder and dragged him out. The cinema staff actually warned him to never come back. 28/12/2011: My friend was determined not to let the matter drop. Two weeks later, he returned to the same cinema. The staff seemed to have forgotten his face. Feeling triumphant, he sat through the movie for the forth time. The film was now a chore to watch. He just wanted to find out what happened afterward. The credits ended, and once again, my friend heard Azusa’s sobs. He ducked under the seats to avoid the security’s flashlight. The room’s lighting changed, and he peered over a chair to see what was on screen. There was a shot of Azusa crying in bed, except there was no color. It looked more like a storyboard sketch. The sobbing that played fit with this picture. Suddenly, Azusa’s cries came to a stop, and silence filled the cinema. A photo of a needle appeared on screen. Not a drawing, but an actual photo. The needle sat still on a table. There were traces of a white powder spilling across the desktop. My friend no longer knew if this was meant to be a part of the K-On! movie. There was no way it could be. The cinemas’ lights had come on minutes ago. The photo was replaced by a black screen again. Azusa’s voice returned. This time, instead of crying, she murmured in a depressed voice, “Senpai… senpai… senpai…” My friend felt chilled to the core. Whatever this was, it was scaring him to death. He just wanted Azusa to stop, but she continued to repeat that same word. As Azusa’s voice droned on, Tenshi Fureta Yo began to play. It was playing at half the speed. The girls’ voices sounded demonic at that pace. My friend could recall his hands trembling at this point. The song suddenly stopped. There was no fade out. It just cut off as if someone had hit the mute button. Azusa had also stopped muttering. A line of white text popped up over the black background. It read: 「捨てられた」 When my friend sent me that, I had to ask him what it meant. He said it translates to something along the lines of, “I have been abandoned.” The text showed only for about a second before disappearing. This time, nobody caught my friend loitering in the cinema. It was he who ran to the staff for help. His vision blurred as if he was on the verge of collapse. The doctor he saw told him to just get some rest. 6/01/2012: My friend was the kind of person who went online every day. For him to be offline this long worried me. At last, upon his return, he told me the smells of blood and powder haunted him. When he asked his local friends to sit through the film’s credits, some ignored him, while others tried but were pulled out by security. The cinema staff all seemed to overact. They must have been hiding something. My friend said whenever he tried to sleep, Azusa’s voice would plague his every dream, either sobbing or whispering her senpai’s names. I wanted to give him some emotional support. Before I could type a single sentence, however, he said, “They’re coming. I have to go.” And then he was offline. 30/04/2012: Three months had passed since I last talked with my friend. To be honest, I had given up hope of ever seeing him online again. But on this day, he came on to send me just one message, “I’m off to rewatch the film.” 27/06/2012: My friend appeared online for a few seconds before disconnecting again. I am uncertain if I had just imagined it. 02/08/2012: This morning, when I logged online, I received an offline message from my friend, “She is dead.” That was the last I ever heard from him. The day this movie came out on DVD, I picked it up to seek some answers. As I had feared, none of the things my friend mentioned were included in that disc. If anyone has heard of similar tales, please let me know. I just want to know the truth. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing those, sanahtlig! Never knew there were all those JRPGs on the PC. I always thought there's a disappointing lack of titles on this platform. Though honestly, the real problem is finding time to enjoy them . It's not on PC, but I've been getting pretty into Luminous Arc 2 on the DS. Looking forward to Fire Emblem Awakening, too. Sorry for going off topic ! For the PC, as mentioned in an earlier post, I've played through Utawarerumono several years ago. For a visual novel, the combat is actually really well done. The cast is also likeable, which is so important. I've tried to play Tears to Tiara recently, but for some reason was unable to get into it the same way I got into Utawarerumono. It might just be my lack of patience as of late, though.

That's cool, people. Man, I can't believe I forgot about Tamako Market! Sorry, Tamako-chan ~ This indeed is a great season. Though I have to admit, a few shows I'm watching largely because the visuals are pretty, like Sasamisan, Tamako Market and Vividred. High production quality works.

@Aaeru: Haha, that's all right. I'd like to know how I can make the game better, anyway. Yeah, I'll share it here when it's ready . @RainHeaven: Yeah, being able to do it in a less formal setting is nice. Of course, writing in VN format does present its own challenges, too . @SnowPoke: Doing it solo is indeed a pain! I'm doing mine with a minimal amount of sprites. No matter how small we set the project's scale, it always turns out to be more time consuming than we expect. @Ryoji: I've actually been pursuing a novelist career for quite a while, too. Over ten years now, haha. I was too immature during high school and uni so nothing I wrote turned out good. That, and the fact that I was a noob. I've been writing a new novel seriously for the past three years and so.

Welcome Riichan! Planeterian was one of my first VNs, too. I hope you enjoy Ever17! It's near the top of my list B).