Tyrael

2014, in a single phrase, was "Visual Novel" for me. 
 
Around January, because of a friend in a local forum insisted, I decided to play 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors.
 
It was easy enough to find the ROM and an emulator, as the game is DS exclusive.
 
In two-three weeks, the game was done. I'd gone through all endings, and loved most of them. The true ending left upon me a mark I still bear: My love for visual novels.
 
At this point I'd just gotten a 3DS. Knowing my now-favorite game had a sequel, I knew I had to play Virtue's Last Reward. Coincidentally, around the middle of February, the game went on sale, and Virtue's Last Reward was mine.
 
I played through that game in several weeks as well. The moment I finished the true ending, I called the very same forum friend. I thanked him over and over.
 
The moment I'd ended that call, I'd changed.
 
Eventually I stumbled upon Ever17, and soon, Fuwanovel. 
 
Then... I'm here. I love you guys. I love this community, I love the jokes, I love spending time here, I love discussing VN's with you:
 
You've all made my life better.
 
I thank you all.
 
 

Do you love traps? or are you just interested what exactly draws people to them? then this thread is for you.
I will add every anime/manga involving traps so you can go check them out and convert to dark but kawaii side~
 
Anime
Asa Made Jugyou Chu!
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu (+ sequels)
Boku no Pico  (Yes, even this)
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
Happiness!
Himegoto
Hourou Musuko
I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
Kaichuu!
Kamichu!
Kuragehime
Lovely★Complex
Maria†Holic
Maria†Holic Alive
Minami-ke
Minami-ke Betsubara
Minami-ke Okaeri
Minami-ke Okawari
MM!
Moyashimon
Moyashimon Returns
Natsuyasumi.
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Futari no Elder
Ouran Koukou Host Club
Pico to Chico
Pico x CoCo x Chico
Princess
Sasameki Koto
Shion no Ou
Shounen Maid Kuro-kun: Tenshi no Uta
Shugo Chara!
Steins;Gate
Stop!! Hibari-kun!
You're Under Arrest!
You're Under Arrest! (1996)
You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle
 
Manga
Ai no Shintairiku
AKB49: Renai Kinshi Jourei
Aki-Sora
Asa Made Jugyou Chu!
Asuka Hybrid
♂Docchi♀
Boku mo Kitto
Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa
Boku no Otouto no Kawaisa wa Ijou
Boku wa, Onnanoko
Boku x Kano
Bokura no Hentai
Brocken Blood
Butterfly
Chocolate de Cousin
Chotto dake Mirai Gakuen ni Youkoso
Cosmos
F. Compo
Fudanshism: Fudanshi Shugi
Greed Packet Unlimited
Himegoto
Himitsu no Akuma-chan
Houkago Hokenshitsu
Hourou Musuko
Joso-Bu.
Josou Shounen Anthology Comic
Judas
Kaichuu!
Kakumei no Hi
Kamichu!
Karen ni Musashi
Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou
Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou
Kuragehime
Kyou Kara Onnanoko
Mahou Bloomers
Maid in Japan
Maria†Holic
Marugoto♥Anju Gakuen
Mei no Naisho
Mint na Bokura
Mizuho Ambivalence
Moe Kyun!
Never Give Up!
Nicoichi
No Bra
Nonono
Onee-chan no Onegai
Onna no Buki ga Tsukaete koso Otoko no Ko Desu.
Onnanoko Tokidoki Otokonoko
Oto x Maho
Oto☆Koi
Otoko no Ko wa Maid Fuku ga Osuki!?
Otoko no Ko wa Maid Fuku ga Osuki!?
Otomegokoro no Jiyuugata
Past Future
Power!!
Pretty Face
Princess Princess
Prologue
Prunus Girl
Reversible!
Sakura Saku
Samurai High School
Sazanami Cherry
Sensei Anone.
Shouri no Akuma
Skirt
Susume! Kitako Housoubu
Suzunone: Wakaokami? Funtouki
Tenshi Ja Nai!!
The iDOLM@STER: Neue Green for Dearly Stars
Tutor Maid
W-Juliet
W-Juliet II
Yubisaki Milk Tea
Yuureitou
 
I'll add manga links later~
 
Feel free to tell me if you have any recommendations you want me to add and join in conversation about traps here

Hi there,
 
I thought about making this thread to look back at my year 2014 and tell you something about it. So you can learn a little bit more about my humble person.
 
Well, I would say my "offline" year was pretty usual. I worked the whole year in the same job at the same company and thats good because mostly I like it. I've an interesting task and much freedom. It wasn't that challenging but it's okay (I like to have some stress).
 
My personal life was also the same. One thing that changed (offline ) was that I gained a new hobby which made my freetime more diversified. I've started to play golf (how snobbish ). It's fun and I kind of have a little talent for that. But I havent played a tournament till now so I'm still at the starting HCP 54.
 
Another thing that happened is that I discovered Go!Go!Nippon! on Steam at the end of winter in 2014 and totally get hooked by VN's with that. DAMN!!! I played it not because I was so much into Anime, Manga & Stuff (I was totally not) but because I always was a fan of the japanese culture and way of life. After 2 or 3 months I've tried several other Vn's, I finally made an account here and thats the reason you all now have to endure my existence (MUAHAHA). With that several other changes came to my life. At first i was sucked in the Love Live Universe by the game in July. After I loved the game that much I watched the Anime that lead to my addiction for animes. And in the last month I watched Nisekoi and loved that also, so I had to read the manga. And now I'm also sucked in by that. You see it's a vicious cycle I can't escape anymore. But I also don't want to escape that because I enjoy everything of it.
 
Thats the Review part I would say. Now to the thanks part. Therefore you have to know a little bit more about me. I'm a person who doesn't really enjoy it to be with other humans. Well, it isn't so that they don't like me or I don't like them (in contrast, I would say most people really like me, but only god knows why ). I'm just no real fan of humanity. Many people just cheat, lie and do nasty things. So I try to avoid it and have not really a bunch of friends, just acquaintance. My hurdle or beeing a friend is really high you have to know. I have 5 People i would call friends and all of them I know longer than 25 years. So that enough about that... What I really wanted to say is that I found here many people I started to like and maybe would call something like friends. I thought about listening them here but because I could forget something I will not. Everyone who feels adressed is the right one . To all of these thank you for that enjoyable second part of this year. It was a lot of fun and i'm thankful that you are here and chat with me. I hope that will go on in the next year.
 
Another thing to the site here. I was part of a bunch of community but none o them caught my attention like that one here (I think nowhere i made even 100 posts and here I'm almost at 500). Also to all the people at TS3 -> thanks for your time spending with me.
 
To summarize -> Thank you all for your beeing, I enjoyed every day and hope that will continue.
 
So and now to the Wishes part. I'm not a greedy person so that will be short. I'm just hope I will be happy.I hope I can go on here and enjoy it to be around and meet many new people. In my job life I hope I can clarify my future. Somehow I've some wanderlust and I think I'll try to get a job in some other country.
 
So I hope I didn't forget something or just wrote crap. IIf you have made it to that point -> Thank you for reading!!!
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tl;dr: Thank you all !!! I think I jad a really good year and you were part of that.
 
And another fact... That thread I didn't made for my own. You all can post here your year and your wishes for the new one. Let us be a part of your thoughts.
 
And now... I wish you all a happy new year and don't party too hard to see you here around next year .
 
Edit: One thing i forgot. Thats the first Thread I created here so I hope you enjoy it ...

It's just a song calm down pls
 

 

 

 
this show has such great music ugh

F*ck yes!
 
the next person is older than 20

I understand. Out of all possible people, you probably weren't expecting me to make one of these. 
First of all, don't delude yourself. I'm not writing this next to a fireplace with snow coming down outside with hot chocolate on my secretary and the dog sleeping at my feet. I'm in my cold room with the dog barking at the door, probably heard some kind of noise outside, with no drinks or sustainment of any kind and rain is pouring down outside.
At any rate, here you go, my very own Christmas Message to ya'll.
 
 
Merry Christmas.

-Mr. Poltroon

That ended up somewhat short, didn't it? Let's make up some more stuff on the spot. Like... like... oh yeah. My experience on Fuwanovel and stuff!
 
I found out about Fuwanovel, and Visual Novels, right around the start of this year. What introduced me to visual novels was a very enjoyable game for me, by the name of "To the Moon", I highly recommend you play it, never know when my hitmen might knock on your door.  Right around the same time, and purely by coincidence, I also found out about the Phoenix Wright series, another excellent group of games I suggest you play, for your own good health and whatnot.
To the Moon showed me good storytelling that could come from this media, while Phoenix Wright showed me the comedy that would later become the reason why I play Visual Novels (I know, terrible reason, though perfect match for a terrible person).
 
While searching for more, because people always want moar, moar, moar, I found out about this website. 
The first Visual Novel (at least in a truer sense) I played was Ever17.
I was very scared, since I am a victim of the altogether too common irrational fear of the unknown, you see? Anime didn't have all that much of a good image in my mind at the time. I later found out my image was spot on, at least relating to nukige. 
Having thoroughly enjoyed the first game, I proceeded to play the sequel and prequel, and this is where I first used Fuwanovel. I used a walkthrough for Never7, and the first I found was the Fuwanovel one.
 
Moving on, Fuwanovel became my place for walkthroughs. No, I had no idea I could download them here. Wonderful.
The first VN I downloaded from Fuwanovel was Little Busters, and for a while, the only one. I fear the unbeknownst to me, I'll remind you once again.
Keeping with that logic, I stuck with All Ages titles for a good 5 or 6 titles, it took me nearly a year to get through these. Of course, All Ages eventually ran out (at least those I was interested in), forcing me to try my first "eroge" so to speak, G-Senjou no Maou.
Quite a challenge, considering it was my first contact (of my own volition) with pornography of any kind  . You may choose to believe this or not, but I'm simply not very interested in matters of copulation.
What a terrible topic, moving on. 
 
I eventually reached Grisaia no Kajitsu in my quest for mighty loot. I adored it. Like, really, to the point where it made me make my first post on the forums.
I always make an account even for one time searches. Simply a pet peeve of mine, disregard it.
You can check my first topic here, where you'll notice I was trying to keep any and all warped personalities under wraps.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/4111-greetings-equally-addicted-human-beings/
 
 
But that's enough about Fuwanovel, it's not like any of you care about that old thing anyways, right?
Let's address myself now, I'm sure you're all itching to learn about my own life, asking questions like, "How much further can he boost his ego?"
I'll show you:
I'm a 28 year old man with a job at a local sports club (management side, don't ask me to do exercise, pls) which is rather well connected to my family. Great 'friends' with the chief, actually.
 
Two sisters. Two parents. Exempting the older sister (that hater ), we all live together.
My family is a fairly happy one, but I've come to think, just how different is it from other, perhaps more normal, families?
It's pretty much a free-for-all around here. If an argument starts, younger sister uses up all opportunities to take a jab at the parents, the parents argue with each other and I attack everyone. If we all sit together to eat, making fun of everyone and everything is the norm, usually at someone's expense. And the main thing? The heavy, heavy use of sarcasm. 
 
Don't think I'm a wrinkled old grumpy man, this is how I was born and raised, and to be honest, it's plenty fun.   I don't know what kind of image that gave you, probably a despicable one, but we're all happy people. I'm a natural pessimist, which when coupled with my usual personality does not produce good results, but what can one do?
 
 
This makes me what I consider to be a horrible person. Makes fun of everyone, but doesn't get involved himself. Takes a jab at everything, even what he agrees with. Avoids any kind of responsibility, using "I think" and "Perhaps" to escape certainties. A craven to no end. This is who I am, and I'm well aware of it. My family is well-known as a funny one, myself included. That one guy who's fun at parties, but you might not be interested in getting too attached, might you come to understand what's beneath the funny surface.   
 
But this is who I am, and I know it well. Self-improvement seems fake and hollow to me. Being yourself seems the best way of life, so that's how I do it.
 
 
Now... Let's tie this all up with Fuwanovel and finish up. I'm sure at this point only a couple of you have read this far, but worry not, I wasn't expecting anyone to really read this anyway.
 
Fuwanovel is the only forum where I've stayed this long (not even a year yet, huh?). The reason for this is how I haven't been reprimanded much about my manners. I strongly feel that if I can't be myself, I've no place here. And, to be honest, I'm totally fine with not having a place anywhere, I know I'm not a person who's easy to get along (especially on a bad day, lovely). Strangely, though, Fuwanovel hasn't shunned me away like I thought it would, so it's certainly a happy surprise. 
 
In the end, thank you everyone, for making me happy (so self-centered ) and letting me feel at ease here.   
There's a courtesy kind of thanks, and then there's this kind of thanks. They're different, and especially when coming from me, one of them is pretty rare.
 
I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a fantastic New Year, because I do care about the seasons, for believe it or not, I too am human.  :xmas:
 
EDIT: Because I really have nothing better to do (lies, it's all lies), I have made this for your laughing at me pleasure: https://soundcloud.com/tiago-varela-3/sets/christmas-message/s-4tn1T

Sure, why not?
 

 
Merry Christmas, everyone. Hope you're all enjoying your holidays.
Forgive my horrible timing, I was busy wasting my time in nord ruins of Skyrim these days.
 



 
I've already wrote how did I get to know about visual novels in my small introduction on my profile page, but I don't mind saying it again here - I discovered G-Senjou no Maou on a hentai-streaming site. I've been using torrents for downloading for quite some time before that, so I searched for torrent trackers that might be seeding it and accidentally stumbled upon Fuwanovel. After finishing Haru's route I downloaded Grisaia no Kajitsu and If My Heart Had Wings afterwards. At that time I've become interested in the forum of Fuwa, and I registered my first account (it says "retired" now).
 
My first impression was a little odd, to say the least. I've been an active member on an anime forum before coming here, but I haven't seen as many people having waifus and preferring 2D world to 3D as here. I enjoy both of them myself, but I still prefer 3D to 2D. I grew accustomed pretty quickly, made a couple of friends. "Kinda" tried to contribute to this awesome community of yours, but that good will didn't last for long. Partly because of my own laziness and partly because of the lack of any attractive things to contribute to.
 
Now, "Pretty Much Entire Life History" part is coming up. Are you really interested?
 



 
I'm 17 years old. Born in Russia, living in Italy with my mother and her partner. No brothers or sisters. My father can as well be dead. How the heck did I end up here? A few months after I was born my father took my mother and me to our parents to Ukraine. Upon arriving there he told us that he thinks he's not ready to have a family yet. Living us to our parents, he returned back to Moscow. My mother, after recovering after the stress, received an offer to go working in Italy. She accepted it, and I was left with my grandparents. A few years after she got there, she found a man who she fell in love with. They started living together and at that time she started to prepare the documents for me to transfer here. She spent more than 6 years doing it, and at the time everything was ready I was 12 years old. Upon arriving here the family of her husband started to create all sorts of troubles to me and my mother. We've never been able to discover the true reason behind it, but the most plausible possibility is that once her husband discovered that his children he had with his previous wife were being jealous of my mother and me he decided to get rid of us. Under the pretence of finding a job as a manager of a restaurant to my mother, he moved us with our belongings to a new place, where we spent 2 years until we had to close because we weren't able to pay rent nor for the restaurant, nor for the place we were living in anymore. At that time my mother got in touch with a man we're currently living with. He invited us to stay with him, and so we're living together for a third year already.
 
Happy end? Not really. The man has tons of his own problems to solve, so he can't fully dedicate his attention to us. Can't say he's any eager about it either. To heat the house we have to use electric heaters because there's no heating in the place we're living. We can't keep constantly turned on either because the electric bill grows to the sky. We do have a fireplace, which fills the apartment with smoke whenever you try to start a fire in it. Apparently the chimney is too short for the smoke to escape efficiently. Perhaps I should add that there are no jobs to be found here. But we're living near the sea, so I suppose it's all worth it. Too bad it adds enormous amount of humidity to the apartment, though.
 
Unlike Tiago, I'm a natural optimist. Everything has a positive side to it, you just have to see it. I like pondering about philosophical matters (that's a little hobby of mine). Aside from that - I love music, especially listening to it. Currently learning Japanese, but who cares.
 



 
Pretty Much Entire Life History - check. Ah. Holiday message, right.
 
Happy holidays! I hope you'll spend them having as much fun as you want, doing what you want when you want where you want. Thanks again for such an awesome community, everyone. Please continue being awesome.
 
P.S. Heizei - I'm expecting a similar thread from you now.
 

Very good. I shall deliver the good news and a banquet shall be held! (Evidently, I'm still not asleep)

-puts name down for napkins-

Hehe   Don't worry though, I think you're pretty funny
 
 
It's growing so fast that it will consume us all in no time!
 
 
I blame KS! I stayed up all night last night because I was stuck at 99% completion and I wanted that damn final picture 

your honour, with that answer you have just won a award, please pay attention below.

I'm not a tsundere! baka! 

This... this is masterpiece. It's simply absurd, and hilarious, and absurd. I have never laughed so much from a hentai before.
 
Edit: Yay, 200th post.

Please teach me, senpai!  

Hmm, I guess I should look outside my house once in a while and maybe I'll see one of these "girls".
This would be funnier if I at least had an otaku room

Merry Christmas my loves
 

I feel the anime takes itself a bit too seriously at times. I also thought the old lady plotline was kinda silly. Nevertheless, the way they presented the conflict was pretty impressive and slightly heart wrenching so I have to commend them on that front. I didn't expect it to be a tearjerker like Clannad: After Story for example (god, that show) but I felt sad for the characters regardless which is good considering the first half of the anime did a pretty poor job representing them in a likeable way (the way they presented Nanaka in the first few episodes was pretty bad considering she's the main heroine after all).

The pacing is also pretty horrible. It felt like they just lumped in all the emotional stuff in the final four episodes and expected people to slog through all the bs that came before that to get to the 'good stuff'. I also fear Aoi-chan's voice might have permanently damaged my ear drums  . Overall: It was a pretty good show but the first half felt like a bunch of filler which is a real shame considering the fact that there was more than enough emotional backstory availabl to fill the entire anime in a meaningful way, I think.
 
PS: Sana is a dumbass. Seriously. He takes 'thickheaded' to a new level.

Oh hello there, my name is Tyrael and after lurking on this site for a while I recently decided to become a member of this wonderful community. Therefore I thought it'd be a good idea to introduce myself here . Unfortunately it took me a while before I was able to post this topic since I had to fight the 'stuck in validation' bug first .

About me:
I have been into anime for about a year now but I never really thought about reading a visual novel until the moment I started watching a fantastic show called The World God Only Knows which has a MC who is pretty much addicted to them (even though he only seems to play galge). This made me interested in the topic and so I started browsing the web a bit, searching for english translations of acclaimed VN's which would inevitably lead me to Fuwanovel. I have only been reading VN's for about a month now so I know that I have a lot to catch up to, in addition to me not really knowing which VN's are actually worth reading and such. But I'm convinced you guys will be a great help when it comes to that. In any case, I look forward to interacting with you all on a regular basis.
 
Oh and in case you were wondering where my name is from: http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrael
 
PS: My favourite VN at the moment is Clannad, because it was the first VN I ever read and because I hold the anime very dear as well. My apologies if you were expecting something less 'basic', hehe. Also, please excuse me for any spelling or grammar errors you might encounter, English is only my third language ^^ (Dutch and French being the first two ).

Dragon Ball Z
 
I didn't understand it at the time but the fights were kinda cool :3

Dragon Ball Z
 
I didn't understand it at the time but the fights were kinda cool :3