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    melo4496 reacted to Funnerific in What are you reading? Untranslated edition   
    Verdict on Sakura no Mori † Dreamers:
    Worth it for the long, substantial and overall actually pretty good common route. The heroine routes are short, clearly made out of obligation, have shit writing and are effectively a bonus.
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    melo4496 got a reaction from Daivix in I'm stuck! Help me to start another VN, please!   
    Kara no shoujo 2 is better than it's previous game. You should read it.
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    melo4496 reacted to Fred the Barber in Flowers -Le Volume sur Printemps-   
    Flowers -Le Volume sur Printemps-
    https://www.jastusa.com/flowers-spring.html
     
     
    Summary
    Surrounded by immense walls in the middle of a forest, lies the prestigious all-girls school, Saint Angraecum Academy. It's a school that prides itself on growing bright and cultured young women.

    The academy's special Amitié program is designed to help foster new friendships among students that will last a lifetime. This is why Suoh Shirahane, a painfully shy girl with a mysterious past, has enrolled. As her first year of high school begins, she is filled with hopes of a new life.

    Follow Suoh as she navigates her new friendships and attempts to unravel the many mysteries at the academy, including occult rituals and the mysterious disappearance of fellow students. As spring warms into summer, so do friendships until they blossom into something more. Suoh's heart opens for the first time, but is it okay to like a girl?
     
    Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order
    Route Guideline
     


    Mayuri Kohsaka
     
    Good End
    Bad End
     

    Rikka Hanabishi
    Good End
     
    Attribution
    Summary and image from the game's official site, http://flowersgame.com
    Walkthrough created by @Fred the Barber
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    melo4496 reacted to Tay in Preview of New Site   
    Hey everybody,
    Here's a preview screenshot of the new front site. If you have a sec and want to share your off-the-cuff impression, that would be helpful! Otherwise, there will be a closed beta that starts once the new front site is successfully re-deployed on the server. I hope to launch the site for-reals next week.
    Thanks!


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    melo4496 reacted to Clephas in Reflect on your VN History!   
    My beginning was Tsukihime and FSN.  I first played them in early-2009, about the time when my anime fansubbing 'career' was reaching its height... and fansubbing itself was beginning its rapid decline due to the fact that Crunchyroll's basic subs were getting good enough that their streams were beginning to dominate.  Tsukihime was an eye-opener... it had never occurred to me before that combining visual and audio elements with a novel-style narrative could be so interesting.  I instantly fell in love, and within six months, I'd read every localized VN that existed at the time. 
    In late-2009, I was introduced to Translation Aggregator...  and I began my VN-reading 'career' with Jingai Makyou. 
    That was a Spartan baptism of fire for VNs, if there ever was one... Though I already knew verbal Japanese, my first introduction to Japanese literary narrative was... educational, to say the least.  Many turns of phrase, words, and grammatical usages that simply didn't exist outside of the written word were common in Jingai Makyou.  I quickly realized that I needed to reassess my own understanding, and I reluctantly began the study of kanji I'd been avoiding like the plague until then.
    My second VN in Japanese was Dies Irae Acta Est Fabula.  I was stunned... just stunned.  I'd never imagined that a story that went so far off the deep end in fantasy could exist... and it was that VN that doomed me utterly.  Within a month, I was spreading my 'wings', playing anything that I could get my hands on.  I began taking contract work, instead of the one-on-one commissions I'd previously relied on, and I completely rebuilt my lifestyle around playing visual novels.  To me, work rapidly became simply a way to pay to import VNs... and I'm afraid I went a bit crazy.  The first three crates full of second-hand VNs that arrived emptied one of my savings accounts completely, and it was only after I'd spent somewhere in the range of twelve grand that I realized I had a problem.
    It took me the better part of a year to rebuild that savings account and 'adjust' my way of thinking to manage my new addiction.
    By the end of that first year, I'd pretty much read all the recommendations I'd gotten from friends and several bloggers.  Sanahtlig was one of those people making suggestions at the time, but his tastes and mine only seemed similar on the surface, so we parted ways for a time (he's a gameplay-VN and H addict, whereas I'm a story whore).
    I was pretty much completely on my own until I encountered Fuwa in 2012... and found myself a home.  I started my VN of the Month thread in September of 2013 and have been going strong every month since, playing the latest non-nukige releases every month.
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    melo4496 reacted to havoc in I am back, and got my bachelor   
    Well nobody probably noticed, but I have not been posting for pretty much the entire year.
    I did lurk around the site though.
    As for why, well it has been a pretty hectic year.
    In the last quarter of my third study year my mother got diagnosed with breast cancer and that really took up most of my time last summer, together with assuring I did not flunk anything.
    Well afterwards during summer vacation I was basically in charge of the household, as my mother just had her surgery and was starting on chemotherapy.
    She did not react well to it and got herself a urine way infection and spend the next two weeks in the hospital.
    After the summer vacation I was busy again with school this time for my final year and having to deal with my minor, as well as a lot of stress at home.

    After the second term I had to start on my internship and on my bachelors thesis, which basically comes down to a full work week.
    My mother was still recovering at that point and I did not get along with my supervisor, which did not help with all the stress.
     
    Somehow or another I still managed to succeed and get my bachelor, still haven't quite figured out how I managed to do it.
    So yeah I managed to get my bacherlor in chemistry.
     
     
    Only thing left now is to decide what to do afterwards.
    Still have not quite figured out what to do next.
     
    I am torn between finding a job and going for a master in chemistry.
    I just cant seem to make my mind up about it, working sounds like a good decision but I wont be earning as much as I would with a masters degree.
    On the other hand if I go for my masters degree, I will have to start living on my own (no problem there), but I will also have to pay for that all.
    Which will mean I have to start borrowing, and that will probably amount to 30.000- 40.000 euro which to me is quite the sum.
    I just cant seem to figure out what the right decision is.
    (Note it was not my parents paying for everything, were I come from you get studiefincanciering for 4 years or the length of your study which covers most of the costs minus any material needs.)
     
    I just needed to get that off my chest for a bit.
    That and brag a little bit .
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    melo4496 reacted to Nosebleed in Some Useful Tools to Help Read Manga/Books in Japanese   
    So we all know there's multiple ways to help us read Japanese VNs by now. All Japanese VNs have text you can grab and display, which makes them an easy target for practicing reading. There's one downside though, visual novels are typically incredibly long, especially if you are a beginner (yes, even the shorter ones can take a while to read if you're inexperienced). I always thought this downside affected lots of people that wanted to practice reading but didn't have the time/energy to read through an entire VN in Japanese to start with.
    However, other mediums like manga and LNs are much more difficult due to requiring you to either constantly look at a dictionary or just know all those kanji from memory (with the exception of manga that have furigana, but those are usually aimed at younger audiences and might not be the most interesting). It felt unfair that such fun media couldn't be used as easily to study Japanese.
    Well luckily yesterday I was talking to a friend on discord and fanboying over the Monogatari Series with them and they ended up showing me a few tools they used to read LNs, and after that I myself looked up for ways to read manga in Japanese, and thus we come to this thread in which I'm hoping to share something useful with those of you who wish to read these mediums as a way to practice Japanese.
    Note: If you know any other/better software, please by all means share it!
    Kanjitomo
    Kanjitomo is an incredibly useful software to read manga on your computer. It detects kanji/words by simply hovering over them with your mouse. But not only that, it gives you the reading/meaning of those words/kanji. And lastly, if it fails to show the correct kanji, it shows you a list with similar looking kanji for you to browse, it also lets you edit the individual kanji contained in the word in case it guessed the 2nd or 3rd characters wrong, thus always letting you pick which is the right one.
    Some screenshots: 


    Advantages:
    Easy word lookup Very customizeable Let's you actually import images and scroll through multiple images in a single folder. Also supports Chinese Disadvantages
    Can get laggy sometimes (mostly on startup) The zoom feature can get somewhat annoying to control Although it lets you import files, I found the file viewer annoying to use and prefer to just use some other software to open the images Download (requires Java to be installed): http://kanjitomo.net/
    JGloss
    This software is primarily geared towards books. What it does is it lets you import .txt files (or copy text) and open them in the reader. After that it places furigana on top of all the words, and also creates a glossary of words on the right for you to look up if you need. One feature I really appreciated in it was that it only displays furigana for the first instance of a word only, forcing you to memorize the word after that (although if you want to, you can select the word and it'll look it up for you regardless).
    Now you might be thinking, doesn't Translation Aggregator also do something similar? While TA does indeed have these same functions, TA is mostly practical for smaller chunks of text, not whole sections of a book.
    Screenshots:

    With translation enabled:

    Advantages:
    Easy way to read large chunks of text with furigana Can use different parsers. Can also place the English translation underneath the words if needed Creates a glossary of words for an easy lookup Pretty costumizeable interface (you can change the font/size/colors/etc.) Also works with German Disadvantages:
    Requires you to copy the text or have a text file of the book you're reading, which doesn't always happen. Parsing is not perfect and you may find some weird results at times (but that's the same for any Japanese parser). It seems to have a certain limit of text it can display (I kept running into an error when I imported a lot of text), so you may not be able to import whole books but instead have to copy multiple chunks (they're pretty big chunks though) Download: http://jgloss.sourceforge.net/
    Yomichan
    Yomichan is an Anki add-on that lets you read text and look up words while simultaneously being able to create an anki deck for the words you want. This tool is incredibly useful if you want to study and read a book at the same time.
    Screenshot:

    Advantages:
    Lets you read entire books at once (you can also copy the text) Very easy to create an anki deck with the words from the text Disadvantages
    No furigana on the text itself  Requires you to have the book in a .txt file More useful for studying than actually reading Download (requires anki to be installed): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/934748696
    Capture2Text
    Capture2Text is a simple but intuitive OCR (Optic Character Recognition) program that lets you select a part of your screen to convert into text. It's useful to grab whole sentences from a specific bubble of text or a sentence from a book and automatically copy them to your clipboard, which you can then use to do whatever. If you're a translator, it makes the script writing process much easier since you don't have to manually input everything.
    (I don't really have any screenshots since all the software does is grab and copy text.)
    Advantages:
    Easy way to grab text from an image and paste it onto your clipboard (or someplace else) Works well in conjunction with other software like TA. Disatvantages:
    The recognition can fail pretty hard depending on the font used (you can easily end up with scrambled jibberish) Download: http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/
     
    I know it's not groundbreaking and it might not even be as appealing as just grabbing text in a VN, but I find manga and LNs very fun and less tiresome to read and so these tools come in really handy for that purpose.
    Think of it this way, do you want to start practicing Japanese by reading an entire visual novel with more than a thousand lines from the get go, or would something smaller like a 20 page manga chapter be a little easier for starters? Of course, this doesn't mean you shouldn't try to read visual novels, they're great practice, but I think a lot of people lose themselves when starting off with them and perhaps these tools will help keep the focus on studying and memorizing things a bit more instead of just reading.
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    melo4496 got a reaction from narino in Hi! Nice to meet you all :D   
    Usually I'd say Kara no Shoujo but I think it's too dark for you.
    G-senjou is a good mystery VN, a lot of people like it. The main heroine is like a detective and she's so awesome.
    Little Busters! for Friendship, Comedy and Drama.
    Welcome to the forums!
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    melo4496 reacted to Nosebleed in Why people are so insecure about the subject of h scenes in vn?   
    Porn doesn't have to be art. Porn can just be porn. That still doesn't discredit its existence in any way, shape or form.
    Again I'm repeating myself but this comes down entirely to people's taste in the genre. You clearly hate sex scenes, and that's fine, but don't bash other people and call them delusional for merely having a different preference.
    You are literally trying to justify a personal preference of yours as some universal fact, and I'm sorry to tell you but that won't go anywhere.
    And let's assume everything you said is true. That h-scenes give a bad name to vns, that h-scenes are pointless, that they literally only harm the medium. EVEN THEN, that is still no reason for people not to like them.
    I think you should just accept the fact there are different audiences in the medium and in this case you're just not part of it. 
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    melo4496 reacted to Fiddle in Organizing Visual Novels   
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    melo4496 reacted to DarkZedge in Top favorite Vn developers? Name yours!   
    So in short I made this thread to see what your favorite vn developers are and towards that purpose I ask you guys to make a top three developers and why they're your favorites along with your favorite vn by them (untranslated or translated).
    To start with the right foot I'll name my top three picks. 
    Innocent Grey - Developers of Cartagra and the Kara no Shoujo series, their great pacing, mystery and simply amazing art style place them at the top of my list. Love them, plain and simple Clock-Up -  They've made Euphoria and Eroge!, I admit that while I haven't read things like Maggot Baits (Which I wish one day I'll be able to) I really enjoyed what I've played from them. Yuzusoft -  Do I really need to elaborate here? Dracu-Riot! and Noble☆Works, I quite like their romance and comedy that goes along with a good story and art style as well. Well that's about it for my top three and I ended up leaving out other ones that I really liked, Minatosoft, Moonstone, Overdrive, Navel among some of them.
     
    Now I ask you guys, what's your top three developers and why as well as some examples of vn's they've made if you want to.
     
    As always thanks for your input and have fun.

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    melo4496 got a reaction from Chronopolis in Mahou Shoujo Translation Project   
    Good luck on your project  
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    melo4496 reacted to Chronopolis in Mahou Shoujo Translation Project   
    Mahou Shoujo (Mahosho) Translation Project

    Progress
    TL: 11/40 Chapters (updated 2/28/2016)
    Editing: ~3/40 Chapters
    QC: 1/40

    You can always check the Live Progress Report on google docs. That page will always be up to date.
    Project Introduction
    Description
      Game info (and screenshots)
    Staff
    Timeline
    Looking for: None at the moment
    Contact
     
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    melo4496 reacted to Decay in New VN to read   
    Please give us something to work with. What kind of VN are you looking for? Help us narrow down things down, because the list of possible recommendations is huge. Most translated VNs are either charage or chuuni.
    Otherwise, my suggestion is to go here and work your way from the top down: https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=olang-ja.tagspoil-0;rfil=type-complete.lang-en.released-1;o=d;s=rating (except for cases where sequels are rated hgiher than previous games)
     
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    melo4496 reacted to Kosakyun in Tell us about your inexplicable mental associations   
    Well, whenever I see Rooke in a thread, I immediately think that his post is about prose.
    I was proven wrong in this thread, but it's still an association I commit most of the time.
    Also, about this...
    We pronounce it in-ven-to-ry, but we're not really a country of origin for the English language. I guess its because of how syllabic our own national language is.
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    melo4496 reacted to Dergonu in Any other Grisaia fans here?   
    You are all wrong of course. The best girl is none other than Sakurai Mifuyu.
    Who the fuck is that you ask? This girl of course!
     

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    melo4496 got a reaction from Kawasumi in What are you playing?   
    Reading Island, and I love Rinne.. I want to read her route right away..
    Legend / Tradition + Time Travel + Comedy
    I like Setsuna. He's funny, childish and most of the time stupid. I thought he was a hetare (well he's indecisive), but he proved me wrong in Karen's route. The summer-island setting is really good...

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    melo4496 reacted to Hayashi in VN Collection Post   
    Hey guys, most of you guys might not know that I am actually a VN collector (Pretty massive one) and I would like to share what i own so far.
    I am a ultra Grisaia Fanboy. Keep that in mind.
    And also let's make this post into VN collection post for people to share their loot?
    Room of Grisaia?


    Grisaia
    NSFW













     




    http://imgur.com/OTjD5U9 NSFW
    http://imgur.com/dx3qCho NSFW
    http://imgur.com/YHKUG3O NSFW
    Key Stuff
     



    Some other VN










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    melo4496 got a reaction from Templarseeker in Hello   
    Good stuff:
    Gsenjou - Mystery, Battle of wits
    Kara no Shoujo 2 - Murder mystery (read the prequel first) 
    If you know japanese:
    Leyline - Mystery, Comedy, Magic
    Nanarin - Mystery, Comedy
     
    Welcome to the forums~
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    melo4496 reacted to Turnip Sensei in What are you playing?   
    Seeing how much I enjoyed Kara no Shoujo I just couldn't keep my hands off the sequel. KnS2 is going to be my entertainment for the weekend.
    So far I read the prologue/Hitogata part. It was surprisingly interesting, although somewhere in the middle I almost forgot I was reading KnS. Still I really enjoyed the chemistry between the children and the secluded village had it's own pretty cool atmosphere. I really wouldn't have minded reading more about that. If I had to complain about something, then why wasn't Nanako&Naori a thing. 
    But yeah, it's still nice to get back to the normal flow of the game. I heard the investigation systems were improved, so looking forward to that. And voiced Reiji, and more Yukari...
    Also, damn KnS2 is pretty. Graphics aren't that important to me in VNs, but what can I say. Really beautiful art is just really damn beautiful. 
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    melo4496 reacted to Clephas in VN with out of ordinary stuff   
    Hello, Lady
    Bradyon Veda
    Dies Irae
    Vermilion Bind of Blood
    Electro Arms
    Zero Infinity
    Soranica Ele
    Devils Devel Concept
    Kajiri Kamui Kagura
    Silverio Vendetta (refer to my blog for recent posts on this one)
    Akeiro Kaikitan (same setting as Nanairo)
    Draculius (a bit old but really good good)
    Evolimit
    Bullet Butlers
    Ikusa Megami Zero
    Ikusa Megami Verita
    Madou Koukaku
    Hapymaher (there is slice of life, but the VN as a whole isn't about the slice of life)
    Jingai Makyou
    Muramasa
    Tokyo Necro
    Ruitomo
    Sorcery Jokers
    Shinigami no Testament
    Gensou no Idea
    Sousei Kitan Aerial
    Satsukoi
    Sinclient
    Tiny Dungeon (series)
    Tenshi no Hane wo Fumanaide
    I could go on forever like this...
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    melo4496 got a reaction from Mr. Wolf in VN with out of ordinary stuff   
    Magic + Comedy = https://vndb.org/v10016
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    melo4496 reacted to Arcadeotic in Angel Beats English Translation Discussion   
    This has been a known subject in a certain VN community for a while, but I think now is the right time for this place to know about it.
    Here's the deal: the translator of Angel Beats TL project just posted a video showing proof of that this translation isn't a complete lie, and this has been going on for 2-2,5 moths by my rough estimate.
    Here's the video
    The translator also posted a survey on if the audience wants honorifics to be present in the translation, and about a partial patch and on what route it may be on: http://goo.gl/forms/IvT6fM4cpQ
    Here's the progress thus far, albeit in a little more peculiar form, but it's there nontheless: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hNQ-u36mto5xgYT_zPGikLGbu95XwrF5fx9m0KnGJac/edit#gid=0
    I'll try to update this thread always when a new TL update comes around
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    melo4496 got a reaction from sleety* in Kara no Shoujo - The second episode problem   
    That notebook icon is for "investigation" and is available only in Tokisaka's perspective. Right now you're still in the prologue so yes, it will be available later.
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    melo4496 reacted to Silvz in Favorite VN sprites   
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