Boon

Well, I must say, good call on that "generic insults" remark... *slow clap* Well, not really; that was a rather generic comeback anyhow. But anyway... Superfluous to the novel or not, your indication that the novel's main purpose is to make one cry is blinded and biased. It should be common knowledge by now that Key's Common Routes are humor-based introductory orientations to get you friendly with the girls and get closer with them... as you do with most if many harem VNs. This is basic fundamental Visual Novel 101. Furthermore, such a technique has proved to be successful among many people, if not you, hence it isn't really as pointless as you indicated, but rather your taste is pointless in the usage of judging this piece of work.

Sigh, god... dealing with this moron is a pain in the ass. God, that's such a laughable statement, its humor especially emphasized by how much you try and "intellectualized" it. Humor is humor. Makes people laugh, yes? Then it's effective humor. Does it serve a purpose? Yes, make people laugh. Hence the very opposite of "pointless" and "serve no goddamn purpose". Your point is invalid. Rife with them... and yet you seem to imply that you never understood the values of any of them... at all. That's amazing. You know, ironically, the highly-held Grisaia also has such pointless humor. I enjoy them, and don't think they're any more pointless than Key's humor, but hey, that's just me pointing out something that actually HAS A POINT. Weird, huh? Hah. I knew you'd caught on to that mistake I made. But to be fair, you were 100% inaccurate for your statement this time. No purpose my fucking ass. Your remarks had no purpose other than to serve your ego. How's that for a criticism? Oh I don't care what you think you're entitled to, Lieutenant Kaffee. I'm just pointing out your blatant faggotry like a good citizen. Sparkly whites suit you, I think.

So... making people laugh, that's useless, yes? Right. Bitter childhood, hm? Daddy didn't love you enough? Clannad Season 1 says hi. Hello pointless humor! AND OH LOOK! THERE'S KANON! BEWARE OF THE POINTLESS HUMOR OF REWRITE'S COMMON ROUTE!!! Oh, I'm used to it. I've seen it a lot on the Internet (mostly consisting of American/Western mentality for obvious reasons). And I'm probably as tired of it as you are tired of the so-called pointless humor... or whatever. No, my opinions probably... no, definitely aren't "above criticism"... but so aren't yours. So when I see something objectively critical like "too much filler and no purpose" without a sense of subjectivity... man, that just ticks me off. You know, instead of something like, "This thing doesn't suit my taste," or something more tasteful like that. Oh, and for the record, These VNs originated in Japan. Western criticism is an accessory. It's like Americans complaining that sushi sucks.

Just to add, not every good story has to deal with progression and character development. Stuff like Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou are considered funny for a reason. And then of course, there's the kind of slice-of-life that does nothing but have pointless meandering throughout the series because it's relaxing. It's fun. Like I said, lighten up; not everything has to be srs bns to be a good story.

Exactly. You aren't. Period. To quote Jackie Chan... he doesn't get American humor. And sometimes, neither do I, as a Chinese. So just stop. You aren't humored. That's your problem. Don't make it the story's problem. It isn't.

Something that I can tell that you will probably judge all over the place and won't like, so... save it.

It's called humor. Some people actually find this funny. Lighten up. Seriously, people complain about the stupidest things.

America - f*ck yeah! Also, Danger Zone is surprisingly addictive. Respect the cock! Tame the cunt! Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel defend Star Wars... not that it needs much defending.

Funny enough, I'm with the prude Tiagofvarela on this one. The h-scenes in Grisaia never appealed to me anyway. I never mixed the appreciation of good stories with porn, so porn mixed with good stories are rather 'meh' to me. Furthermore, premarital underage sex (at least definitely underage for Makina's case) never felt romantic to me. First dates, watching the moon, watching a horror movie with your girlfriend, and other corny date-ish stuff like that are more fun than watching two people fuck away with cum and sweat. Like I said, porn and good stories separated. It's not a pretty sight to mix them, at least for my own preference. Besides, the extra replacement scenes might be fun. They might further develop the characters for all we know. Realta Nua's Fate scenes gave us that epic Saber-Dragon, for example. Sure, the other two routes sucked with their extra scenes, but who cares? My favorite character is Saber. But yeah, Grisaia might have something like that. Michiru's sex scenes always felt ooc to me anyway, so it'd be nice to have extra scenes to give her the much-needed character growth in her route.

I get what you are saying, but yeah, you'd be right in saying that passing her off as a loli would be a disservice to her character, though I can't really blame you, considering that you're merely on the common route, where her depth wasn't really explored yet. In fact, compared to most lolis, she was much more 'straight' and 'stoic' than say, Komari. Many lolis are horny for some reason (excluding Komari); Kud is far from that. And it's not just the sex. Kud is more 'serious' than most lolis with a great sense of humor (Komari in this case); Kud don't do jokes much.

"Sir! We've picked up a faggot who thinks only his opinions are the best!" "My God! What a huge dick!" "What should we do?" "Just ignore him. Opinions are opinions. People are smart enough to ignore such one-sided comments."

More like specific standards. People can really underestimate the things that satisfy a rapist... surprisingly enough for the nukige industry. Like this kind of bullshit. A joke of a rape. Honestly, it undervalues the horrors of rape more so than hardcore rape scenes that take rape realistically/seriously. Also, demon-rape is boring. I'm not a non-human, so the non-human part is kinda unrelatable. Same reason why I can't jack off to tentacle rape. Good enough. If it really does involve the story as an integral part of the battles/RPG, then it's better than the standard JRPG I've seen in VNs.

In fact, is any Rance that good at all? I've heard a lot of praises, but I don't really like the RPG element... If the story is worth it though, then maybe I'll play it... :/

Well, as the rumor mill goes, there are claims of rape porn reducing the number of rapists out there. This discussion was especially prominent during the release of Rapelay, where several individuals defended the game from the anti-rape hippies, who probably linked video game violence as the cause of real life violence as well.

Yep. That's the main reason I love her. The adorable-ness was a plus, but it's her kind heart that attracts me. By the way, how is Kudryavka an archetype though? I thought her bullied foreign exchange student character was quite unique... well, at least uncommon. It's not as common as Saigusa's noisy girl archetype for sure.

Sigh... It's a matter of taste, really. *shrugs* Honestly, the term of "originality" gets thrown around so much that it loses its significance nowadays. Just because it's a generic archetype, it doesn't mean that it isn't an entertaining archetype. That said, the entertaining part is subjective to each person's taste and perspective. Personally, Komari is my favorite heroine, so. *shrugs* I thought her innocence and fluffiness were quite adorable. I'm pretty sure Japanese people like this kind of stuff a lot more than Americans too, so it might just be a cultural clash thing for more people around here to not like this kind of thing.

Alternative between DCPC and Captive Market (surprising contrast, but it didn't bother me). Currently on Kotori's route for DC. And as for Captive Market, Anastasia just jacked herself off on the stage in front of a crowd of men... while being photographed. Daaaamn. lol What a humiliation for that pompous whore. Her pride as a commander is slowly being stripped away... Looks like Daness is next. Looks like it's a gang rape this time. Can't wait to get a taste of her... I actually prefer her and other tone-skinned females than the pale-skinned Anastasia. Pale skin is boring, so it's a shame that Daness didn't get to participate in acts as humiliating as Anastasia's in her own route. I'm currently on Anastasia's route, and yet here, it's Daness who receives the gang rape treatment, not Ana who merely masturbated herself in public. To me, this gang rape is gonna be much more fun than watching some stupid bitch masturbate herself (especially when you consider that the gang rape is going to last alllllll day long... hell yeah), so you can say I'm more excited about this particular scene...

Because many people lunked it up with quality nukiges by saying that "euphoria is so dark and edgy with all its rape and stuff". Give me a break. Those people have no idea what they are talking about. Their so-called comments about banning the game because they were disgusted by its content? They haven't seen nothing yet. I mean, English-translated nukiges aside, many other Japanese rape nukiges have some serious s*** that would scare the pants off those hippies.