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I'm looking for a visual novel with simple japanese (I have a vocabulary of around 6000 words from a language deck) that is good enough to make me to want to finish reading it. I'm still a complete begginer in japanese apart from knowing the aforementioned vocab so easy gramar is a plus as well.  Also I'd prefer if it's not very long. Thanks.

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https://vndb.org/v21768

2265 lines, well paced. Not literally the easiest thing you can read, but not really hard either. Bonus: I will answer any questions asked on Discord about it / the lines in it (Zakamutt#8430).

https://vndb.org/v13321

Easy to read (moreso than shinimasu), fun main character, free. A bit long at maybe 20k lines, but not very.

https://vndb.org/v15636

Mostly easy to read, one voiced character. Short.

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6000 words is solid vocab start (it's possible to start from about 1000 words), but you really should study grammar if you want to read. For starting VN's a rule of thumb is you want N3 (maybe N4 at the very start).

Here are some easy VNs

*翠の海
*そしての世界より
*星織ユメミライ
*Ley Line 黄昏時の境界線
*この大空に、翼をひろげて

None of these are short though.

Reddit has a list too:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnyyDt7jimEz-dgeMSKymRaT2r3QKBPm9AzqZ6oUWAs/pub

 

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3 hours ago, kokoro said:

Yuzusoft games are easy to read and have decent porn, so there's that.

They are also very, very long.  Also, you need to pick and choose which ones.  I wouldn't recommend Dracu-Riot or Senren, as both have action scenes that a beginner won't be able to read easily. 

 

3 hours ago, Chronopolis said:

6000 words is solid vocab start (it's possible to start from about 1000 words), but you really should study grammar if you want to read. For starting VN's a rule of thumb is you want N3 (maybe N4 at the very start).

Here are some easy VNs

*翠の海
*そしての世界より
*星織ユメミライ
*Ley Line 黄昏時の境界線
*この大空に、翼をひろげて

None of these are short though.

Reddit has a list too:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnyyDt7jimEz-dgeMSKymRaT2r3QKBPm9AzqZ6oUWAs/pub

 

I wouldn't list any of those above as being in the 'easy' range.  Yume Mirai is about as hard as a charage can get, Leyline has action narration and internal monologues, as well as choices of language that will be hard for a beginner to pick up on.  Midori no Umi is out of the question as well.  In addition, all those games are long, lol.

A rule of thumb if you are a beginner who wants something easy is to avoid anything with a plot... because you probably won't be able to read it. 

I'd recommend Love Revenge or Erect as a beginning, since both are easy to read and aren't excessively long.

Edit: Also, anything with excessive internal lingo or complex jargon should be avoided (unless the reader is already familiar with the subject matter).  As such, even if it weren't for other issues, someone unfamiliar with the occult who is just beginning shouldn't play something like Leyline or Dracu-riot.

A few more suggestions:

Tsuyokiss (series)

Love Rec

Natsuiro Recipe

Ren'ai Karichaimashita

Kemono Musume no Sodatekata (this one might have issues with Shinto concepts, so if you are unfamiliar with Shinto... go in prepared to learn, lol)

 

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On 9/25/2019 at 5:22 PM, Clephas said:

They are also very, very long.  Also, you need to pick and choose which ones.  I wouldn't recommend Dracu-Riot or Senren, as both have action scenes that a beginner won't be able to read easily. 

 

I wouldn't list any of those above as being in the 'easy' range.  Yume Mirai is about as hard as a charage can get, Leyline has action narration and internal monologues, as well as choices of language that will be hard for a beginner to pick up on.  Midori no Umi is out of the question as well.  In addition, all those games are long, lol.

A rule of thumb if you are a beginner who wants something easy is to avoid anything with a plot... because you probably won't be able to read it. 

I'd recommend Love Revenge or Erect as a beginning, since both are easy to read and aren't excessively long.

Edit: Also, anything with excessive internal lingo or complex jargon should be avoided (unless the reader is already familiar with the subject matter).  As such, even if it weren't for other issues, someone unfamiliar with the occult who is just beginning shouldn't play something like Leyline or Dracu-riot.

Hmm fair enough. I haven't played that many charage so I don't know many of the truly easy ones.

I put Leyline because the sentences are short and the dialogue is super simple and standard if the reader's watched anime. It doesn't matter if you can't understand the one incantation, you can see what's going on. Most of the other ones are for the same reason, simple dialogue/short sentences.

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