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Can anyone refer me to educational visual novels?


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21 minutes ago, Ranzo said:

Other than that I dunno, Go! Go! Nippon!??? I don't know how educational that is supposed to be.

It's actually a very decent tourist guide to Tokyo + a few other touristy areas in Japan, but the ecchi elements make it quite a questionable choice for educational material. :P Plus it's rather long, I think it has 10+ hours of content in the latest version.

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And I find it rather amusing that SonoHana: Yuririn is one of the top games in that educational tag Palas mentioned. A yuri game that teaches girls about diet? That sounds wrong on so many levels... :wahaha:

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2 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

It's actually a very decent tourist guide to Tokyo + a few other touristy areas in Japan, but the ecchi elements make it quite a questionable choice for educational material. :P

I thought this was an all-ages title

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4 minutes ago, Dergonu said:

I thought this was an all-ages title

Very much so... But still has fanservice. After all, it was made for weebs by a Japanese company, how could it not have fanservice? :P

EDIT: It's mild BTW and literally just a few CGs in the whole thing, but still, not something you want to show to kids in a Western school. :>

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15 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Very much so... But still has fanservice. After all, it was made for weebs by a Japanese company, how could it not have fanservice? :P

EDIT: It's mild BTW and literally just a few CGs in the whole thing, but still, not something you want to show to kids in a Western school. :>

Teaching all the important parts of the Japanese culture

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16 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Very much so... But still has fanservice. After all, it was made for weebs by a Japanese company, how could it not have fanservice? :P

EDIT: It's mild BTW and literally just a few CGs in the whole thing, but still, not something you want to show to kids in a Western school. :>

Kids these days watch Game of Thrones, they can handle an anime butt.

(Though, in reality, we know that's not how it works. 3D nudity and sex is okay, but a single CG with some slight 2D nudity is filthy and disgusting.)

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1 minute ago, Dergonu said:

Kids these days watch Game of Thrones, they can handle an anime butt.

(Though, in reality, we know that's not how it works. 3D nudity and sex is okay, but a single CG with some slight 2D nudity is filthy and disgusting.)

Oh, yeah, I didn't mean I would be worried about kids seeing it, I would be worried about the teacher being (literally?) torn apart by overprotective parents and prudish school administration. :P

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32 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Very much so... But still has fanservice. After all, it was made for weebs by a Japanese company, how could it not have fanservice? :P

EDIT: It's mild BTW and literally just a few CGs in the whole thing, but still, not something you want to show to kids in a Western school. :>

Now, you got me interested :P Although I think I'll wait for steam summer sale ;)

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I know of no VN that actually teaches real world information through a VN medium. Closest thing I know is Go! Go! Nippon, which tells you enough.

Read The House In Fata Morgana if you come away from a VN having learned something, though. The game's primary messages cut DEEP, and touch issues that few VNs ever seriously tackle.

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16 hours ago, olivia_tinker said:

(ie, for classroom settings) that teach students through storytelling? 

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I doubt we will be able to help you without some sort of precise guidelines. Visual novels in general are entertainment first and foremost; albeit many of them might often delve into sort of educational topics or infodump about a particular subject, you rarely stumble upon games that were made precisely with educational purpose in mind. To be honest, there's a bunch of them available, but the only one that comes to my mind at the moment, whilst being english language is probably Go! Go! Nippon! (the 2016 version, to be precise). It's one of the very few visual novels, that were created precisely in an effort to teach gaijins a little bit about Japan from a traveller's perspective. It tries to be quite informative, while not being solely a boring, educational guide of some sorts. For what it is, I think it did it's job well.

By all means, it's definitely not a 100% educational work, though.

I know there are some free amateur evn's that dabbled in educational purposes, but I haven't really checked any of them, nor do I think their quality level warrants for a good experience. In fact - most of them do suck.

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1 hour ago, AustriaVNFan said:

Well, funnily enough I can think of this one. (ChuSinGura)

It gives you a very good and detailed idea about the historical happenings concerning the 47 Ronins. A lot of things told there and even the names of them are mostly authentic, you just need to realize that the ronins were not cute girls :P

Wow, education through loli porn. Only in Japan. :wahaha:

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