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    Reverse Hype (excitement for obscure, old things)

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    I assumed that since it didn't receive an anime adaptation or a fan translation that is was under-appreciated. Looks like I was wrong. 

    You're tantalizing me so much~ 

     

    Edit: Looked up Lamune. Wow, I just realized that you're translating that VN. I should really pay closer attention to news about VN fan translations. 

     

    Well, it's not like I have any of those goods either, I just happen to have a magazine that shows them :-)

     

    And TBH Lamune is in trouble, so that's why I haven't been saying much about it, but I should try to find someone else to translate it before any more time goes by

    Reverse Hype (excitement for obscure, old things)

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    Yeah, Snow isn't really obscure, it never got animated but it was a big-name visual novel at the time.

    Here are some Snow goods you could've bought if only you'd known about it, sorry ;-)

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    But I agree it's nice not to ignore the old VN's (ahem, Lamune)

    I still need to read Snow and a bunch of older VN's from the classic era

    Too bad most of my time is taken up with work and anime-watching

     

    reading untranslated VN

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    Yea but when I'm reading the VN I'll be looking at the Hiragana...

     

    And thanks for the tips :D Hope I learn enough to read a VN without looking up a word every 10 seconds by end this year xD

     

    @nosebleed

    I just realized we are communicating on 3 different threads O_O, you're everywhere lol

     

     

     

    Yea but there's a fundamental difference between English and character based languages. The thing with English is there's a space between each word, allowing me to see what is 1 word. Let's say I know 0 English and Japanese. I could tell you each word lies between 2 spaces for English. However, for character based languages like Chinese and Japanese, there is no way to tell this.

     

    Under ordinary circumstances, nouns, verb stems and adjective stems will be written with kanji instead of kana, so that kanji serve as delimiters.

    Young readers/children often read kana without any kanji, but their books often do have spaces between words.

    Spaces aren't necessary with English, either.  They make reading easier, but it is not impossible without them.

    YOUSHOULDBEABLETOUNDERSTANDEVERYTHINGI'MWRITINGHEREBASEDSONLY

    ONYOURWORDKNOWLEDGE,ALTHOUGHITMIGHTBEANNOYINGANDTAKEAWHILE

    Learning to Read Japanese

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I studied the readings, too.  I wouldn't have to do this if it were always possible to discern the meaning of a word you've never seen from the individual kanji.  Sometimes it is.  Sometimes is isn't.  But in fact, I don't see how you could get by without it unless

    -your vocabulary is so vast that you never have to look up words with a dictionary

    -you always use a text hooker or furigana, in which case you could argue that you don't really have to study kanji anyway

    Moeges

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    Narrative quality, dialogue quality, character development, quality of presentation, audio (music and voices), and visual (tachie, CGs, backgrounds, etc).  These are the basic elements of a VN.

     

    A kamige is basically a VN where either all or at least three of these aspects exceed the base level of quality by a large degree (though this is basically an objective observation of a subjective phenomenon, so it isn't absolute).  It is difficult for a moege to become a kamige because the narration, dialogue, and presentation tend to be weak in moege (this is endemic to them as a whole).  Not only that, since most moege companies tend to limit the number of non-H CGs, the visual aspects are dependent on a few CGs for each heroine and their tachie. 

     

    Since VA quality is generally the same across almost all commercial VNs and the same goes for musical quality (with a few exceptions), there is generally no way to stand out from the rest with audio, either.  So what do you have to create a kamige?  You have presentation (incidentally, even moreso than visuals, Favorite does this really well), character development (the reason why charage have almost completely replaced common moege), narration, and dialogue.  Generally speaking, a kamige will excel in at least two of these four areas, in addition to audio and visual aspects. 

     

    Again, this is an objective observation based on experience of a subjective phenomenon, so there are going to be exceptions (Tsukihime is one). 

     

    Does that answer your question,　素人君?

    Moeges

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    Looking at just the first page of the fan projects forum: Konosora TLC patch, Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete, Witch's Garden, Nursery Rhyme, Majikoi kind of (I think they focus on absurdist/slapstick comedy more than moe), SakuSaku, KoiNatsu, Amairo Islenauts, Noble Works, Clover Days, Magical Marriage Lunatics, Hoshimemo fandisc, LovelyxCation (moe dating sim?), and Aokana. So much moege. There's a definite bias here, but I think that's fine. Some of those are most probably going to disappoint me, some I may never try, but several of them seem nice.

     

    I think this bias betrays the spirit of the forum, where people are generally more willing to translate VNs with a looser understanding of Japanese than what VN translators used to have. Fuwanovel seems to enable that sort of behavior, and moege is right up their alley since it's easy to understand with translation assisting tools.

    What Anime are you watching now?

    in Anime/Manga Talk

    Posted

    Super Sonico anime turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would.  At the beginning, it somehow didn't impact me very much, I kept thinking to myself, "this show is for fans of Super Sonico, and I'm not particularly a fan of Super Sonico."  But then it started getting really funny, right around the time of the cruise ship episode, I think.  And my favorite was the one about the stray cat.

     

    I also got many moments of mirth out of Miss Monochrome.  It's my favorite short anime I've watched since I watched Tonari no Seki-kun

    there are many people on fuwa: a word game

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

    Posted

    Can a poem be written one line at a time?  Guess there's only one way to find out.

     

    I hope these will be 5 line poems.  After five people have posted one line each, the poem is finished.  Then another poem can start.

     

    But in particular, I hope the poems will each have the following format:

    All poems should be 5 lines.

    Lines 1, 2, and 5 should rhyme with each other, and they should be the same length (in syllables).

    Lines 3 and 4 should rhyme with each other, and they should be the same length as each other.

    And, lines 3 and 4 should be a shorter length than lines 1, 2, 5.

    So please look back at what other people have written.  If it's done right, *some* kind of poem should result (I didn't say what kind)

     

    Here's my first line:

     

    There are many people on Fuwa

    (9 syllables)

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