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Books about visual novels?


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I have a decent collection of books that are related to video games in one way or another (development diaries, encyclopedias, artbooks, etc) but I haven't had much luck finding any targeting visual novels. Doing a search for "visual novel books" only seem to get me results for comics and graphic novels.
Are there any books about visuals novels that someone here can recommend? I don't mind if it's in Japanese, since I'm currently learning it.

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I know of one academic book on visual novels, this one: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=pl&lr=&id=AXSuBAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=visual+novel&ots=Q_neD06m7i&sig=aNeZb9gZ6NGc5qWgO63pp0wNlMU&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=visual novel&f=false

I only read fragments because the specific topic it is about was kind of outside of what I was looking for. I also had ambivalent thoughts about what I read, but still, this might be literally the only piece of literature on VNs available in English. There might be some Japanese ones, but I also wouldn't be surprised if things were similarily barren out there – I mean, particularily with eroge, I don't imagine it being a prestigious topic. 

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That is pretty much the only book I already know of, but I saw some bad reviews for it so buying it seems like a bit of a risky gamble. And yeah, I imagine books on VNs would be far less likely to sell well than books on regular video games, but I'm thinking there might be some Japanese ones. I would love to read a development diary of some sort, especially for more well-known titles (like Key's VNs), but that is probably hoping for too much.

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From what was available for free, that book seems to be way too barebones on the subject. It would be nice to see a work diferentiating the origins of the genre within pc gaming (erotic focus) and console gaming (non-erotic focus) or questioning if VNs are for western adventure games what JRPGs are for western RPGs.

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On Amazon.JP, there's actually a "History of Eroge" book in Japanese.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/エロゲー文化研究概論-増補改訂版-宮本直毅/dp/4881818597/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/358-2814548-5781603?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N08SVS7QT2S0BP36KNTS

This is something I personally wanna check out and possibly translate in the future.

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