snowbell55 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 I've been looking at pics of VN collections recently and noticed this is quite common. The below posts show several examples: On 9/24/2015 at 8:37 AM, storyteller said: Living in Japan, most everything I buy is naturally Japanese. However I figured tonight's purchase was worth mention. So, I decided to go and buy my first ever physical copy of VN. What I planned on buying tonight: Dies Irae or ChuSingra 46+1 What I ended up buying tonight: Hidden Content On 2/7/2018 at 8:51 AM, Asonn said: New stuff arrived today: So I had to readjust my setup: It doesn't seem to be limited to Japan-only releases either: Mangagamer seems to follow the convention on occasion as well - the Princess Evangile and ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two Limited Edition box sets both did this: Any idea why this is done? I imagine it helps the products to stand out on a store shelf, but is there maybe another reason? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakauchuujin Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Think it has to do with it working quite well when displaying. Personally I think when the boxes are big they look best when they are horizontal. Just think about how screens mainly are 16:9 rather than 1:1 or 9:16 or how people prefere horizontal pictures rather than vertical pictures. As for why smaller boxes usually don't do it, I would assume it has to do with saving space which the people making VN boxes clearly don't care about. As for why western publishers do it I would assume that is just since the artwork for the japanese version is already horizontal and they don't want to change the art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veshurik Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 At first I didn't understand anything... thought, you are talking about dialogue window in games... Oh... To be honest, I don't know why? Usually it... how it looks? And how developers see?.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormwolf Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Veshurik said: At first I didn't understand anything... thought, you are talking about dialogue window in games... Oh... To be honest, I don't know why? Usually it... how it looks? And how developers see?.. Yeah, i was thinking the same he just meant rectangular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freestyle80 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 To emphasize the art? more room to draw heroines? dunno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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