Previous thread: >>48534833This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?
Found an interesting blog (their eroge posts are under 〇エロゲ個別感想)http://5nemu5.blog33.fc2.com/
>>48570755>Christmasyou're several days too late
The previous thread got bump limited by random losers so I'm asking it here again. Any news on new Hulotte and CUBE next year?
>>48571182CUFFs just released a game in collaboration with Azarashi Soft. Apparently the routes are pretty decent.
>>48570858Good find. I always want to see Japanese opinion that are not EGS users.
>>48571201Yea but the rest of 2024 is empty from them so I'm hoping 2025 will be it.
>>48571201I wonder why they decided to use the CUFFS brand for it instead of CUBE when it doesn't look anything like CUFFS' other games and doesn't share any of their major staff (writers, artists, etc.)
I want to like Hulotte's eroge, but they tend to squander the cool gimmicks they come up with and I end up just being disappointed. Their artists do good H-scene work, though, I will admit.
>>48571252>but they tend to squander the cool gimmicks they come up with and I end up just being disappointedAre there any moege with cool gimmicks that actually use them well?
>>48571257Clochette games tend to do better with their gimmicks.
yes, we need more gimmick.
Just finished Evolimit, was a banger for sure. Final battle got up to some ridiculous levels, just how i like it
>sub 8.00*yawns*
>>48571490Propeller's games look nice. Hopefully I'll have the time to check out Evolimit next year since I'm in a chuuni/action mood.
>>48571505It should definitely scratch that chuuni itch. I very much enjoyed the non-action aspects too
>>48546324I always like to recommend Axanael as an easy VN. It wasn't the first VN I read in JP but it was the first that made me go "Yeah this was worth the effort, this one VN makes it worth it"The story is a love letter to otakuism. Sakura's route literally starts with a gun fight at Winter comicket because she can't get a doujin she needs. The story is dialogue heavy which makes it an easy read. The UI and intro paragraphs are probably the hardest parts
>>48570755TO that one anon who was interested: Scarlett is pretty fun so far. give it a go.
>>48570755>What are you playing?Nursery Rhyme. Finished the routes for Makina, Yukina, and Tita, and currently doing Rin's route and saving Krile's for last. Fun charage with awesome art/music and cute interactions, I wanted to finish the game before the end of the year but I got distracted by a bunch of silly stuff so it'll end up extending a little into January.>What are you looking forward to?Just Anemoi so far, might pick up other new games depending on how much other people praise them.
>>48570858>disappears forever because fc2 are stupid bitchesnothing personnel
The girl i like the most always ends up being whoever route I did first
>read oretsuba, they said>Jackson's prose is mind-blowing, they saidI'm just shitposting, this VN is fucking wild holy shit, I'm somehow completely unspoiled and knew literally nothing and it's absolutely nuts so far.
>>48571726The opening didnt sell the game for me and the spanish song was weird.
>>48573924It seriously looks like a hell of a fun VN from the screenshots I've seen.
>>48571252This is like thr 5th time I've seen someone say this about Hulotte. Scared me off of installing orefukachi
babe wake up, another kohki meltdown dropped
>>48574524Is there a release date for After yet?
>>48574524cat on the left has a cock
>>48573940I liked it from the opening, and the spanish skng was weird but in a good way. It's fun so far. (Mid chapter 1)
>>48571724>The story is a love letter to slopglad i dodged the bullet
>>48575127otakuism*what are you even doing here? you should leave /jp/...
>>48571724I mean i like iwayuru otaku contents and all the creative fanart and doujins and videos and all that stuff but I don't necessarily like when a work gets meta and is about that. Sometimes it can be really good like in Lucky Star
>>48575166>>48575140>>48575127>>48571724shitposting aside, has anyone here read comic party? is it really 70h long?
>>485745602025
>>48574189discussed it last thread and that isn't even all. Here's him schizoing on some guy that complained
So whatever happened to minato soft's wagahime gacha? Did it crash and burn as it should?
>>48575631and here's the edited version of the initial comment (it is now 1000% longer)
Which server is this>>48575651
>>48576214http://discord.gg/t9w4r4uvby
>>48573380That reminds me of fc2 blog that contains reviews and guides for many doujin h games disappeared months ago. I wonder what happened?
Uh-oh, erogebros, I thought japs know difference between real life and fiction?
>>48576477monobeno?
>>48576535Yeah. Not sure about what should I read next, considering giving monobeno a try.
Lupercalia, monobeno, rewrite...
>>48576477Seems like a westoid passing shit through mtl, japanese would use lolicon, specially someone reading otaku media
>>48573924is this recommended to read prelude before the main game, or it's not needed?
>>48576739Yeah it's better to read this, other than the parts included in the main game.
>>48576477A lot of the younger/newer otakus aren't fans of toddler shit
>>48577395Thats why you're supposed to start reading lolige at 13 yo when you're close to loli heroines yourself
>>48570755She's a real cutie!
>>48577559>13 yo when you're close to loli heroines yourselfMonobeno is closer to like 5 or 6
>>48577559Primula... My childhood love...
Monobeno protag face looks so retarded I don't want to read it anymore
>>48575631what the fuck is his problem
>>48577717the fucking retard sold his IP because some guy at Avex told him they'd finally animate Alternative (they did, it sucked and S3 got cancelled). What you're seeing now is a man that has spent 7 years of life trying to convince himself that he hasn't fucked up massively and that things can still be turned around if fans just support the next project. Not the 3-5 previous next projects, but the new next project. That will finally do it.
>>48578136He fucked his golden goose beyond repair
>>48578136>>48578490Just make another one lol.
>>48566499https://vndb.org/v1704
>>48578504On his stream he once told a story about how he was trying to pitch a slice of life anime script, but every party he went to rejected him because they knew him as the "kiminozo and muv luv guy" and thus expected the anime to have a big twist, but Kouki kept insisting it doesn't and is actually perfectly normal. They all refused to believe him and thought he's going to reveal it halfway through production and fuck the project in the ass.He's like that superman actor that killed himself because everyone only knew him as superman, he'll never get a new project going.
>>48578814kek
>>48578814ok that's actually hilarious
holy mother of soul
Other than Setoguchi, are there any other VN authors that have produced light novels? Or any other typical novels that you think are worthwhile.
>>48579143Kinguasa. Though as much as I enjoy CoTE, calling it worthwhile would be a stretch
>>48579258Big fan of Kinugasa's VNs even despite most of them lacking satisficing endings, mainly akagoei. I couldn't get into CoTEI gave it a read for the first volume and I didn't really like the MC, big stepdown from Kaito, Hidetaka or even RukaI also don't have a good impression for how things turn out later from what I've seen
>>48579143cross channel man
>>48579294>Big fan of Kinugasa's VNsWhat does each VN excel at? I was thinking Akagoei but Ryuusei's girls look better. I'm not sure which to read in my holiday.
>>48579301Main thing they share are charming/fun protagonists, Both the MCs for Akagoei and Ryuusei are funny and massive assholes. Reminiscence is a bit different, MC is good and the general setting is interesting and there's some battle of wits to go around, not the best but serviceable. Also has one of my favorite imoutos, she's NBR but the story with her and the character herself are great
>>48578814i almost feel badbut i don't because he's the kiminozo and muv luv guy
>>48579347It's his punishment for the alien NTR.
>>48578955>not on a CRT monitorsoul gone
What's the difference between Plus and normal mode in Custom Reido 5?
>>48579301You read Akagoei because of Kaito and humor not because of heroines, though those are good, just don't expect any coherent plot and ending. Reminiscence is mid as fuck but Rin makes it worth it, top tier girl, though once again for all the talk about how brilliant MC is he gets outsmarted on all main plot points, lmao
>>48579143If you don't count spinoffs of their vn's, so only original ln's: Sakurai Hikaru,Yuuichirou Higashide, Kinoko Nasu, Fumiaki Maruto, Mareni, Kurashiki Tatsuya, Mikawa Ghost, SCA-Ji, Hoshizora Meteor, Minakami Tomohiro, Hayakari Takeshi and probably a ton of other who I can't remember rn.
>>48583612And fucking Zero no Tsukaima was written by vn author as well, so you can say all isekai shit that is popular right now is thanks to vn writer, lol.
>>48583649The current isekai craze is more attributed to WN bullshit. At least with VN and LN there's some kind of editorial filter to sift through trash while nowadays half popular trash WN get to have an anime.
>>48583649Zero no Tsukaima didn't invent isekai though. Trends just come and go like how mecha used to e popular in the 90s - early 00s.
>>48583649i thought mushoku tensei/re zero/konosuba started the isekai trend
>>48584100It was SAO despite not being technically isekai
I wanna play Astra Air, but I'm worried I won't like it as much as I did Memoria because I've gotten tired of VNs and lately nove many have been worth the time I put into them.
>>48584097Narou started as fanfic site and like 80% of it's output at the start was ZnT fanfics about people being summoned by Loise, Re Zero author started his writing career from ZnT fanfics, and I'm sure he was not the only one.>>48584097Mecha was much more popular in 70-80s than in 90s though, like half of 70s anime output was super-robot shit because Mazinger Z made billions in merch.
>>48584543Then wait until you want to play some? It's not like the game is going to disappear tomorrow. Just go read some books or something
This is gonna be very specific rant but secondhand prices for older eroge and older JPRGs even with JP copies has gone up due to western anime social media influencers.This is annoying as hell since i don't want to shell out $70 for a game.Fuck Scalpers.Thank fuck for piracy.
>>48584878I knew that it's all over once we have anime 'influencers'.
>>48584878You're buying from the wrong places then. I bought around a dozen copies of jp ps1/2 games and didn't encounter any outrageous pricing. I even bought 月下の夜想曲 for $50 when the english version is well over $200. The most expensive secondhand game I got this year was Langrisser 4/5 final edition for about $100.
>>48584878Why would westoids buy untranslated japanese games because their youtuber told them to?
>>48585399for the same reason you play untranslated games simply because eops can't play them
>>48585399internet rep maybe. Like buying japanese mario games or zelda for collection even though they can't read basic hiragana.
https://x.com/t_kurashiki/status/1874057585227424254
>>48586015Okay, this is fucking embarrassing lol https://x.com/t_kurashiki/status/1874082479696732388?s=46
Where can I find eroge's OSTs? I mean, when they aren't on the cat's website, nor on youtube/spotify. Some of them are on bilibili, since japs don't seem to take them down there, but chinks compress songs way too muchcan't find vocal collection for untri and hakkenden>>48586323well, writing something is still better than not, so he isn't wrongthough that would be true for anyone else, not just him
>>48586386get on ABI used to use hikarinoakari but they closed down last yearCheck out khinsider sometimes they have it
>>48586386https://vk.com/konpekiI used to be able to see the posts before but now I can't probably I need a VK account.
>>48586386soulseek
>>48586015>>48586323kek
Can you please recommend a game where every heroine is an anime, manga or a cosplay otaku?Maybe something like Hamikuri but set in a manga club or a doujin circle.
Happy New Year. This year for sure...
https://x.com/yuzusoft/status/1874108255150223363New Yuzu this year.
>>48586511>>48588008>>48587363Thanks, I guess... I wish there was an easier way beside being in a secret club or making an account on some shady russian website. I guess there is a chink website for eroge's osts somewhere, or else they wouldn't be on bilibili every time
>>485922622025 off to a good start
>>48592262Looks like a pretty good year for moege fans already.New yuzusoft, amakano 3, marmalade, asaproject , another hamidashi fd and the project koku's working on for purplesoft.
Yuzusoft games are like eating cardboard. I've played some three or so and always dropped just as the route that I'm going for is about to end. Both the protags and the heroines feel so fucking common and "trite" that I can't work up the motivation required to power through what's left. On top of that the story of the game is always just some filler shit that exists for the purpose of occupying space, with no greater meaning, so that reduces my motivation even further.
>>48592443I like the older games of theirs that I've played. Is there a consensus for when the Yuzusoft formula starts? I haven't played any of those yet.
Oh hey, I forgot this was happening. Pretty sure it was supposed to be a 2024 release though.
>>48592262Hopefully no lolis so I can laugh at them
B-but dead medium etc
>>48592443I wouldn't use same harsh words as you, but this is similar to what I felt after giving Amakano a try.Maybe my depression level was not high enough to enjoy a pure moege like that. And I specifically played it because I was feeling depressed and wanted something pure and cheerful with romance.Yuzusoft games work nicely as a comedy if you like the writing. Azarashisoft's comedy just wasn't as funny to me.
>>48586386send me the VGMDB link and I will see if I can get those for you
>>48592575I like Amakano, but even I can admit that Amakano 1 is a bit of a snoozefest. The writing gets better in Second Season.
This year, i want a lot of gyarus.
>>48592559
>>48592762do westoids just never understand the concept of quality over quantity?
>>48592772the quality of new games are pretty low compared to the best games of 10 years ago
>>48592772You are out of your mind if you think we have quality nowadays, specially with the era of AI closing in
Anyone that's played KiraKira have any idea why the game won't boot up? Gives me no message, nothing to work with.
>>48592762>less slopvinnies are healing
>>48592262>New amakano, new yuzusoft, new key and new qruppo the same year>>48592644https://vgmdb.net/album/130514I had more but I forgot, oh well, I will remember the names if I really want themSomehow, vocal collections are harder to find than ost collections
>>48593375>new qruppohaha...
I'm noticing a lot of votes on old VNs this year on vndb all of a sudden. Stuff from 2004 that had 5 votes and last got voted in 2014 suddenly have two more votes this year. Hmmm
>>48593375We'll get one Alicesoft announcement too, but it'll probably be another married-wife nukige... sigh...
>>48593375>new qruppoIs there any truth to this? I hope so, but I've not heard anything.
very relatable choice
>>48593375>>48592415We need new Clochette too and it will be the best year in a decade.
>>48593375happy 2025pixeldrain DOT com SLASH u SLASH NzbAes72
>>48593874I want more Oshiki and Clochette real bad. I hope they aren't dead.
>>48593557>Is there any truth to this? I hope so, but I've not heard anything.There's nothing on their website or any of their social media, so doubtful. They've been quiet for a really long time, I know they're getting the nukitashi anime (which will be a fucking disaster) organized but surely they also have to be working on something.
>>48592522If this leads to tone work's revival I'm all for it.
Happy New Year, bros. I'm on my Korea vacation. Went to Aquafield Goyang for example - 100% recommend it.Also it's interesting to get the tourist experience in a country where you don't know the language and can't read anything. I love Japan, but can't get this there anymore.>>48593054Tried Locale emu? Seen "nothing on boot" from games that needed it.
>>48586015he deleted it, what a coward
>>48595220Alcohol is one hell of a drug. I bet those tweets felt rather embarrassing when he sobered up.
>>48595220>>48595311Not the first time he's done it, a while ago some anons here were talking about a meltdown on his twitter account but when I woke up and saw the links he had already deleted it all.
what was it, i missed it
>>48595390He was calling himself best eroge writer still alive while comparing to other famous ones by name or something like that.
so which ending was the true ending for this?
>>48595783whatever one you liked more. "true endings" are a meme
>>48593557it's been 2 years since henpri, surely they are working on something since>>48593902Thank you anon
What was the best VN of 2024?
>>48597166monmosu if you are straight, ooe if you are a fujo
>>48597166unravel trigger
>>48595390>best eroge writer still aliveMarutofags, we must defend our author.
>>48597258He said "eroge writer".
>>48592415B-but... but what about plotge?
>>48586386kfmax bbs
>>48597477>what about plotgeAvesta and scifi-ge from ihanashi no majo authors
>>48597166Lip lipples
>>48590971https://vndb.org/v10637I believe this fits your description
>>48597905Thank you! I don't think I even heard about the game.Does Koyori have a proper route?
>>48598752I'm afraid I don't know, in fact I haven't played much because a couple years ago I got stumped by the metric ton of otakuspeak the game throws at you early on, I considered giving it another spin after breaking through my current reading list
Question: if I were going to translate a VN myself (it isn’t a massive one so I understand the undertaking isn’t huge) what would the best way to format it beI was thinking some sort of excel sheet with the character names, lines and translated lines as columnsI ask because I’m doing this randomly for a Japanese dlsite user I know as a surprise and don’t have access to the actually game script or whatever
>>48599798>>>/jp/vnts
>>48595783Is this a joke? The game makes it pretty clear which one is the true ending. You have to clear every other route including the two hidden routes, the title screen changes, etc.
Who was the best waifu of 2024?
>>48600454Setting aside my issues with using the word 'waifu' to mean 'female character from Japanese 2d media', as I accept that battle has been lost and the zoomers have won, I'm a big fan of the Hegemon King.
>>48600478What if he means "wife"?
Post some very important CGs.
A VN just taught me certain English idioms actually do translate pretty well in Japanese.
Any VNs with a similar level of power scaling to the Shinza Bansho series?
is サラダの国のトマト姫 worth reading?
>>48601364it's the greatest love story ever toldeven arino kachou played it
>>48601342I assume you've read other light chuunige like Silverio?
>>48601342I like the Senshinkan powerscaling, it's kind of silly but it's always fun.
Am I the only one who uses the sprite viewers (if its a proper one that lets you add several and change clothing and posture) to fap after going through a nukige scenes if none catched your attention for fapping today? last scene today was a fellatio, not something I usually can get off to, so to the naked sprite viewer and tomorrow back for more...
>>48601918I use sprite viewers to make silly poses and jokes.
>>48601342Demonbane
Looking a behind the scenes of 誰彼it seems leaf had a lot of hopes for it, like an anime opening,new gameplay system and all.I wonder if it getting a ps2 port with enhancements later on would have helped it like it did with ルーツ and うたわれるもの since both were received in same way at first as tasogare but less harsher. Probably not,lol
Happy New Year other /jp/!
I need help. I visited Tokyo in October 2023, and I remember seeing a poster in Akihabara for a visual novel that should have come out a few months after October. I'd like to read it now, but I can't remember any details besides the fact that it was a moege (from the look of the poster) and that it was about sirens or some island or summertime in general. does it ring any bell?
>>48607507If this was in 2022 then it sounds like samenana
>>48607532I don't think it's that one, if I remember correctly the poster had one single girl in an ocean of bubble or something.
>>48607507https://vndb.org/v45561 ?
>>48607628I'm pretty sure it's this one, thanks!
>randomly have spare DLsite points>加奈いもうと is like 3 dollars>yeah why notDid not expect that. What an unlikely favourite. I only went there because they kept bugging me with emails and I walked away with a broken heart. Romeo's 2/2 or something with me now; I'll go KazoKei and try throwing my head at Saihate
good jop vinnies from pre-96?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747760/_Refusal/>神座万象・第十四機関>正田崇とGユウスケによるサークルの事。Since light disbanded, can Masada also release Dies Irae, KKK, Senshinkan, etc., on Steam? Right now, only the EOP version of Dies Irae is available.
>>48613562light still exists and owns the copyright
>>48613562why do you want a steam version
>>48613651I thought light had dissolved, but even if it had not, doesn't Masada still own the Shinza Bansho IP as the author, since he's releasing Avesta as a new entry in the series?
>>48613686I want to buy it to support them, without the hassle of purchasing from a Japanese site.
>>48613703why do you want to give money to steam 2.0?just import the original physically through a proxy at that point
>>48613703Just get the Masada premium box. Too bad payment processors decided to discriminate against Japanese companies and make this more difficult than it needs to be.
>>48613716>>48613735i like sucking gaben's cock, ok?
>>48613741my condolences, little goylem
Which one?
>>48614093The X button (not pictured)
>>486140932DGF usually has better release quality, cracks included and so on. I usually default to them.
>>48613562Light did dissolve, but they came back from the dead in 2021. They've only released Magatsu Barai since then though>>48613687Masada probably owns the Shinza universe as a story concept, but Light would still have the copyright for the existing games. Masada only wrote the scenarios, he wouldn't own the voice acting, code, music, sound effects etc
>>48613703You gotta love how westoids are killing japanese media while thinking they are actually helping themTruly a brainwashed region
>>48614375It's literally free money from thousands of chinese steam users and they don't even have to give them h scenes. It's not like they're ever going to only sell stuff on steam, it's just another place they can get profit.
>>48609195How is the drama? "We have to have sex because you're dying, sis" or does it all progress naturally? I don't have a good track record with Tanaka.
>>48614439Don't worry anon, I will have the last laugh when I see the latest yuzusoft have no school uniforms nor lolis so they don't risk repeating what happened to their last game and lose hundred of million in yen from china as you said
>>48614463What?
>>48614496What he's talking about is the very real possibility that developers self-censor their works in order to avoid getting booted off of steam.
does anyone know any good chuunige that doesnt have a school setting?
>>48614463>>48614511This isn't an issue as long as there's an original version available on Japanese stores. Developers already "self-censor" their works when they make all-ages versions. They're releasing an all-ages YnS on steam soon to cash in on the free money I was talking about.
>>48614530muramasaman's game
>>48614496Steam has eroge developers grabbed by the nuts since once their game get rejected from steam there are no second chances. There is no "can i change this?" or "i will remove it from the game please let me in!" once they get rejected your game is forever banned from steam, they basically injected fear into eroge developers so they try to be as tame as possible and censor as much as they can to not lose their only chance to become the next nekopara
>>48614571already read it
>>48614463ironyggers really need to get a torture worse than hell
>>48614573>Steam has eroge developers grabbed by the nutsImagine actually believing this.
>>48614530Silverio
>>48614511>>48614573Yuzu doesn't release on Steam first. Who cares about the version foreigners get?
>>48614530Vermilion Bind of Blood
>>48614573>>48614463Anon, the really important thing you're overlooking is that steam bans visual novels because one specific individual on the steam approvals process hates them and refuses to approve any of them. That sounds like an insane schizo conspiracy theory, I know, but it's actually true. Evenicle 1 was allowed and 2 was banned. Kara no shoujo 1 was allowed and 2 was banned. Games that got fucking SWITCH releases were banned from steam.Censoring your game won't do shit, you'll still get banned. And also you're just fearmongering since Yuzusoft has been getting their VNs on steam since 2017 and so far there hasn't been ny censorship.Also fucking Maitetsu is on steam.
Gonna start Summer Pockets in prep for the new Key game coming out this year. Is there a recommended route order?
very rude of these classmates to make comments on personal drama like this
Lmao
>>48614652>Yuzu doesn't release on Steam first. Who cares about the version foreigners get?Devs make more money from chinks nowadays, so they going to pander to steam now. Just watch next yuzu not having a loli character. Screenshot this post and I'm going to laugh at you later.
Am I a bad person for enjoying all the Setsuna suffering?
>>48617817No.
I finished 催眠性指導 -Secret Lesson- and for a complete nukige... honestly airi made me fall in love... just for her 10/10The game was way too autistic with requirements for different endings or scenes with the order of picking and what week you act or what order... but whatever, even if I was a bit disappointed about it just being as vanilla as mind control gets it's still gonna age very well, probably one of the best mind control games out there right now.The Airi epilogue made me go gosling for sure.
>>48617816If it wasn't over in 2023 why would it be over now? Also some of their old games skipped having any lolis, so even if their next game did turn out not to have one it wouldn't necessarily have anythign to do with what you're saying
>>48618019>it wouldn't necessarily have anythign to do with what you're sayingIt would actually, because (insert schizo boogeyman here)
>>48617817Like 80% of the game is just Setsuna suffering porn.
Do you think they ever made an eroge using real sex sounds? I wonder...
>>48618147Almost certainly not because I've had sex and it doesn't sound like eroge.
New yuzusoft art looks worse
>>48618646Looks the same to me.
>>48618653Nah, something looks different
>>48618670It's mainly the eyes
>>48618704Probably yeah, I prefer old eyes. Coloring too maybe? Cute heartshapes tho.
>>48615879Luckily our girl Koharu dabs on them good.
>>48618821>dabsBut does /ourgirl/ mog them?
>>48583612Makes me sad we'll never see another volume of Minakami's "Gunning for Nosferatus", it had a great start, kinda reminiscent of Angel Bullet.
>>48614451Some of the story beats are clichéd, but they're played around with tactfully after the fact to not jar the read. Protagonist-man is amateurishly written at worst, but there are enough sufficiently developed facets that lead him to desire her to make it a believable thing. Their relationship is a natural product, yeah. One of the better 'beautiful romance' stories I've seen
I love unlockable harem routes, a man should strive to impregnate as many women as possible
>>48622450not moe
>>48622726What can be more moe than creating new moe creatures with moe creatures wombs?
>>48622450harems only work when all the women are mentally ill
>>48623091Women are the cutest when they are at least a bit mentally ill so it makes sense
>>48622450I like harems better in action adventure LNs than in romance VNs
>>48622440I-I bite on my hair too sometimes, it's not nice actually having it in your mouth
wtf
>>48624645my favorite doujinshi scenario
>>48624658do you self insert into オヤジ?
>>48624669hahaha yeah totally...
>>48624697...
>>48624729Very nice. Keep going.
>>48615879Probably the most realistic depiction of the interpersonal gossips within teenage girls in eroge.
>>48623682I bite on my hair too and it really helps to relieve stress and calm down. Not sure why it's not like that for you.
>>48622440Nanami is the cutest. Even if she becomes an yandere.
Anyone who played Daitoshokan console version can tell me if Kingyo is worth switching over? Haven't progressed far into the game.
>>48628252>all agesNever play all ages first
Do you feel superior for playing stuff that others can't because of language barrier?If it's not translated it's probably trash so wondering the reason
Speaking of all ages, how does Musicus ero content? Is it obvious before the h scene? I plan to play the Nintendo Switch version of Musicus and then go back to the pc version for ero content.
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>>48628788lovelycationbros... we were trash all this long...
>>48628788Calm down
>>48628788I also feel superior to JOPs because I MTL my VNs, lol they actally wasted so much of their time learning a language lmao
>>48628788yep, that's how we cope for wasting 10 years on learning a dead language
I'm reading Astral Air right now, Why is it not as fun as when I read Hoshizora when I was younger? Why is it boring me? Is it over for me, have I gotten all I can from VNs already?
>>48628892>Is it obvious before the h scene?yeah, I did the same
>>48630013The only good favorite vn is probably sakumoyu, so....
>>48629290Needs お仕置き for this naughty behavior
>Reading VN>Forced common route kiss scene>Dopped immediately
>>48630072Okay thanks
>>48628892>>48630072Do you guys know if the switch version adds a lot of content? I checked the CGs and it doesn't seem like much.
>>48630391https://vndb.org/r97495
>>48630326Wait until you read amatsutsumi and see the forced cheating scene
>>48628788I wouldn't say superiority; it's more like a profound combination of pity and secondhand embarrassment.
>>48630514Bro, seriously?
>>48629781>>48628788>tfw have been learning since 2015>tfw still haven't read a single completed VN悔しい
>>48630538pretty sure at that "more than a decade" point even the most small brained brainlet could have learned japanese
>>48630601H-heh, yeah...
I seriously don't knderstand how you guys are even able to learn japanese? Like how do you memorise all the kanji and vocab using them? Ho do you read without having a dictionary by your side all the time?If I could only figure out how to memorise vocabulary I'd already be able to read untranslated VNs.
>>48630614>Ho do you read without having a dictionary by your side all the time?I don't, tho?
>>48630614everybody here is using mtl
Mmmmm... Yes, this is kinohttps://files.catbox.moe/ud7e3f.pngAny other games where I can be a rapist but it remains light hearted?
>>48630651yeah, this. I hide my mtl whenever i want to post a pic to keep up the facade
>>48630614>how you guys are even able to learn japanese? weaponized borderline psychotic autism>Like how do you memorise all the kanji and vocab using them? all i did was anki grinding a rando core deck for like the first 200 words before i got bored and just started reading>Ho do you read without having a dictionary by your side all the time?just do it until you don't need it anymoreFYI download some text to speech shit like voicebox (what jp videos tend to use) and feed it whatever you're reading if it's not voiced, it's much faster to learn that waynames WILL be wrong most of the time, but you can just delete the name kanji and write it in kana instead before feeding it into the text to speech>If I could only figure out how to memorise vocabulary I'd already be able to read untranslated VNs.just read more
>>48630614You learn to read Japanese by reading Japanese.You see the same words in context over and over again in the process of reading and you'll memorize them naturally.Once you get to the point where you know all of the words in a sentence but one, you can generally work out what the missing word means through context clues.
>>48630722>what the missing word meansyou still can't read it without a dictionary
>>48630736yes i can lol
>>48629781>>48630651>>48630703>>48630736Too obvious bro
>>48630744no you can't
>>48630736if it's common enough you can literally just guess like a jp native would guess and just learn the wordif not, you can look up the definition in japanese, get a feel for some examples, and just learn the word that way, just like you would in modern ebonics westoidese
>>48630563The fact it doesn't have neither ntr nor a Infidelity tag on vndb is funny, they don't consider the male protagonist cheating on the heroines to be true cheatingFucking faggots
>>48630614By mostly guessing when I read. I still can't really read katakana or know the difference between は and が.
>>48630736I assure you, I read Japanese without a dictionary using context clues all the time.I do this in English too. Take this sentence for example:>I saw a really cute okapi at the zoo yesterday!Even if I don't know already know what an okapi is, from context I can make a very confident guess that it's an animal.The same concept applies to Japanese.Mind you, it's still a smart idea to use a dictionary when you see a new word in case you're just wrong, but it isn't strictly necessary once you reach a certain level of mastery of a language.
>>48630706>FYI download some text to speech shit like voicebox (what jp videos tend to use) and feed it whatever you're reading if it's not voiced, it's much faster to learn that wayGenius tier. I'll do this now anon thank you.
>>48630768vocaroo>>48630781i'm not talking about meanings, i'm talking about readings. once you go outside "core" 30k or whatever you can't guess shit
>>48630651Finally someone who likes to foster his imagination.
>>48630614Dont do it bro, some people may go crazy during the learning process
>>48630563there is no forced cheating scene in Amatsutsumi but you fuck all the girls in common route
>>48630793>the narrow weight of evil, the evil outsider's path, humanity and animals, beasts. six foolish beasts mislead into dark by by six small dead people of low desires. eight dead kouhai's preservation of the ashesDid I guess it?
>>48630806All of that is forced cheating though. The MC is in a relationship at the start.
>>48630809no, but i asked for the reading, not the meaning
>>48630665I hope that's blood from her hymen...
>>48630793>vocarooback to trannycord you go
>>48630813Reading doesn't matter for non natives.
>>48630796This is unironically a thing MTLers experience, JOPers simply cannot understand it. We have a far more nuanced understanding of the text than they ever will. JOPs have never Actually read a VN.
>>48630796>MTL fosters writing your own fanfic like trannylators do.Okay?
>>48630824concession accepted
>>48630827We're trying to enjoy works here, not larp as speakers >>48630793> vocaroo
>>48630806Dropped. Wow, Purple Soft LITERALLY cannot stop making bad decisions in their VNs huh?
>>48630824>>48630833cope
>>48630817yes, it is :D
>>48630793Yes, I don't know how to pronounce Japanese words until I either hear them pronounced or look it up.This is also true of English, I pronounced ennui wrong for something like fifteen years until someone corrected me.But for reading a visual novel, how a word is pronounced is about as relevant as stroke order.
>>48630836Yeah some people aren't trying to larp but just want to consume otaku media.
>>48628788Anyone can learn to read Japanese relatively quickly (<1 year). If you want to do it but you don't because of laziness or ineptitude, are you not inferior to someone who has?
>>48630841Sometimes I just speedread the words even if I know the reading, something I read out every word in my mind. Both offer a different experience but in the end the meaning is what's important for us western otaku.
>>48630793>vocarooLink to the server?
>>48630810MC doesn't understand what "relationship" means at the start of the game, anon
>>48630857I have never achieved or worked hard at anything in my life, so learning japanese is almost literally impossible for me.
>>48630868I, the reader, do. My consciousness is the MC's subconsciousness.
>>48630872VN protagonists for this feeling?
>>48630876Freud's cat, huh?
>>48630872If you start today and never stop, in 2 or 3 years you won't feel like that
>>48630872>I have never achieved or worked hard at anything in my lifesame but I still learned japanese
>>48630852>>48630841>>48630867i don't care about your cope, just don't say retarded shit like you can "guess" the reading of unknown vocabs (jukugo aside), even 18+ vinnies put furigana on rare words because natives have the same problem
>>48630889back to djt, nigger
>>48630882That's what I said to myself 8 years ago. I achieved only the absolute basics and nothing more. Nothing usuable without MTL alteast.
>>48630894see >>48630827
>>48630872I have seen at least two fags go through the learning process all the way up to "Can read while only occasionally needing a dictionary" in less than 2 years on the LN threads, and that's just the usual attention whores that need to announce their life events constantly.Yet here people cope and seethe as never-evers and constantly try to cope further by thinking anyone that actually knows Japanese must be lying.What the fuck causes such a massive difference?
>>48630903>Yet here peoplewhy do you see one or two random subhumans posts and think it's every poster in the thread?
>>48630889I can. What are you going to do kek, stop me from your discord?
>>48630903I'm sure other people do know japanese, the problem I have is that I'm mentally damaged through not having had any valuable childhood formative experiences that made me believe I could do anything if I gave it my all.
>>48630889I didn't say I could guess the reading, your stupid brain just can't read any language correctly.>Once you get to the point where you know all of the words in a sentence but one, you can generally WORK OUT WHAT THE MISSING WORD MEANS through context clues.
/vn/iggers hours?
all I need is textractor and google lens
>>48630889>just don't say retarded shit like you can "guess" the reading of unknown vocabswhat are radicalswhat are phonetic componentsyes chuunishit tends to pull obscure arcane readings that fuck over this notion but 90% of the time you can easily guess correctly
>>48630923and to this i replied that you will NEVER be able to read it unless you look it up. i agreed with you about the meaning right away
>>48630889What is your point? I can't read exceptionally rare words without looking it up in a dictionary, so what?
>>48630924That's what I'm thinking.>meta djt talkHas to be a pathetic raid.
>>48630943>I can't read exceptionally rare words without looking it up in a dictionary, so what?I can. wwwwwwww
>>48630939Sorry, VNs are boring apparently I don't think even actual JOPs here read them.
>>48630936>obscure arcane readingsthose has furigana, there is nothing obscure about >>48630793, all those use regular on'yomi readings
>>48630936How long did it take you guys to get through the core 2k/6k anki deck from the djt guide? After doing so, did you feel that going that far with isolated vocabulary studies helped you?
>>48630943>I can't read exceptionally rare words without looking it up in a dictionarySo true. It is for that reason I struggle with being able to fully commit to enrolling in a class.
>>48630903any LN that doesnt shit the bed and get axed by volume 2 tend to work as self improvement books masquerading as a story, if not outright ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWA stuffironically enough this goes double for isekai shit due to the constant near DBZ style powercreep and inevitable training arcsin the end LN readers are far more used to "just do the thing harder until it works out bro" like their favorite protag
>>48630952Never used that garbage.
>>48630962same, google lens just works
>>48630962Around 2k words in and I actually appreciate the business terms cause I can read an article and can understand basic economic information. I understand it probably won't be used in daily conversation, but I like it.
>>48630966For me, my brain just works. Google's CEO's daughter sucks my dick.
>>48630706>all i did was anki grindingIf you're purely interested in learning Japanese for media reasons there are easily hundreds of perhaps not useless but certainly non-essential words in Core6K. Like the idea that 航空便 was such an important word that it should have been in Core2K, let alone 6K or even 10K was silly.
>>48630945I guess I'll go read something
>>48630984My thoughts exactly brother.
>>48630939Whenever I post about a VN here nobody replies or the discussion dies down after a few posts. You fags have turned this thread into a news feed, so you have no right to complain now
>imma bury my head in the sand for a whileyou still will NEVER be able to read obscure vocabs without lookups, deal with it
>>48630952>from the djt guide?djt is sabotaged trash, use the kaishi 1.5k deck insteadassuming 10 new cards a day and actually doing it daily you will start to spot words you now know by the first week
It feels good to be envied and hated simply for learning japanese. That hasn't happened with any of my other languages.
>>48630980maybe read the rest of the sentence first before vomiting words niggeri literally agreed with you before you even vomited on the thread
>>48630995post about a VN I like then I'll reply
>>48630997It's not like mumpsimuses don't suffer the same in westoid either way.Though that's changing recently now that everything in the west is now written and spoken in simplified ebonics rather than english.
>>48630938No, dipshit, I don't have to look it up, I have to wait until I hear someone pronounce it, which in a visual novel usually takes about ten seconds.Even if I could commune with the 神々 and get the reading for every word I see beamed into my skull when the moment I see it, it wouldn't fucking matter at all because the precise pronunciation of obscure words has about as much relevancy to my ability to read a visual novel as what color socks I'm wearing.
>>48631066let me know when you'll finally try reading an unvoiced vinny or, god forbid it, a book
>>48631077>vinnyand the tourists out themselves once again
>>48631079sorry, i meant Visual Novel™ by elf™ (formerly Sound Novel™ by Chunsoft™)
>>48630952I did Anki for about six months and made a very unimpressive amount of progress in that time. When I switched to reading visual novels I saw much faster improvement in my abilities and quickly stopped doing Anki entirely because I felt it was a waste of my time compared to reading.It varies from person to person, but I don't think heavy isolated vocabulary studies are very efficient.They can be good for quickly memorizing foundational, important vocabulary like colors, numbers, days of the week, that are easier to learn in the context of each other than they are to learn through gradual osmosis. And if you want to put Anki on your phone and do it while eating breakfast or whatever that's obviously going to be a lot better than nothing. But after you've reached a very basic, foundational level of Japanese (like a preschool reading level) I think that all prime studying time should be used on reading, not flashcards.
>>48631077Why are you so obsessed with pronunciation?Yes, if I read an unvoiced visual novel, I may pronounce some words wrong in my head while I'm reading it. If it's a play on words or a pun, or perhaps something poetic, this could mildly affect my enjoyment of the book for the ten second period of time between me reading the word and looking up how its pronounced. Or I could ignore it, and keep going, and still probably enjoy the book pretty much exactly as much as I would have anyway.What a horrible state of affairs. Clearly I should never have learned Japanese at all, and invested the time I wasted on it into a more rewarding pursuit like competitive Scrabble or the Simpsons Hit and Run any% speedrunning community.
>>48631206i'm not obessesd with anything, i was just deboonking the other anon's false claim. you clearly know how things are so you don't need to cope, i don't have anything against you sis
>>48630995I reply when I know what to say. Forgive my social skills anon. But please post about what you're playing. It's always appreciated.
>>48631234>i'm not obessesd with anythingYou sure >>>/jp/djt bro?
>>48631090So ironic. I like it.
>>48630889>vinnies
>>48631234>deboonking>cope>sis
>>48631355good job for acquiring 3 new words
>>48631394
vns aren't fun anymore, unironically they were better when I first discovered them and read them all in english.
>>48631554all the good ones are already translated anyway, except sakuuta and toki
What an ugly ass dog.
>>48631628It's kind of cute in a derpy way
>>48631628Tomoya probably looks better than you.
I think I'm retarded. How do I make Textractor skip newline characters so I don't have these annoying white spaces in the output text? There's a replacer extension but I don't know what character it wants as a newline character. I don't even know if it's regular expressions or unicode or what.
>>48631772Bruh literally just copy and paste the newline and put it in regex replacer
>>48631791Okay, I am retarded. I didn't even notice there is another replacer extension specifically for regex.
>>48631812You aren't retarded, anon. You just overlooked it. Don't insult yourself so easily.
Finished Koharu's route. White Album 2 is actually really similar to KimiNozo. The general structure is more or less the same. The main difference is that the writing is 20x better in White Album 2 and the side girl routes aren't braindead stupid. Well so far anyways, but I don't expect that to change. I actually really like relationship drama, but it's a hard thing for authors to write.
does learning japanese count if you used a lot of sugar and amphetamines to achieve it?
>>48631822I will read KimiNozo and KoiNaku this month. I wonder how they compare to WA2. I have memoff titles in mind for next month
>>48631820I guess it isn't actually a linebreak that I wanted, just a whitespace. I don't know why it's turning linebreaks into a single whitespace but it's working now, thanks.
Just set up Neko Project, what are the best PC-98 exclusive eroge? I'll accept stuff where the PC-98 version was superior to later ports too.
>>48631925nooch trilogy, play with a guide and suffer anyways
>>48631925v8716
>exclusive>other portssis....
>>48631982I'm making an exception for when the PC-98 version is clearly definitive.
>>48631999left: pure unadulterated SOVLright: forced artificial soul
>>48630614>spend years growing up watching anime>develop "ear" for the japanese language>get serious about learning it>memorize hiragana and katakana>anki to start off with some basic vocab memorization>start reading vns with texthook and yomichan for dictionary look ups>mouse over word I dont know in clipboard page>if I see that word used enough times, I no longer have to mouse over it>keep reading>look up a grammar structure I don't get on rare occasion>keep reading>eventually figure out readings for certain words at a glance purely from instinctively knowing how two or more kanji's are read when placed together>sometimes my vague understanding of those words is spot on when I mouse over them>keep reading>keep reading>the reading doesn't stopthis has been my case at least.
>>48632089>>spend years growing up watching anime>>develop "ear" for the japanese languageFrom here normalfags already fail.They are dubfags because they can't read subs fast enough and/or just "watch" anime in the background while shitposting on twitter/reddit/4chan.
>>48630796this is exactly the my experience except i read in japanese with lookups
>>48631925Giten Megami Tensei.
>>486309526k is overkill anki is useless once u have read like 2 or 3 vns infact i would say its actually harmfuldo whatever it takes to get urself to that point and stop sweating the small details then u will win (u dont rly win anything but u get to read ur porn games with a smug look on ur face)
>>48630872u can make japanese that first thing if u really want it enough i mean my iq is like sub 50 and i still managedused that drive and applied it to other areas of my lifenot doing so bad now but u gotta start with something dude even if its not some ching chong language
>>48630872Keyed.
>>48631689なぁ〜んちゃって
>>48632654I love Hotaru and her upbeat theme. Probably my favorite heroine from any game. That shortcake pun was funny.
>>48632698I get it - I originally picked the game up because her character design left a strong enough impression on me.
I am a beefeater if you know what I mean.
>>48631925狂った果実First VN with a yandere heroine
>>48631999left looks actually cool and unique.
>>48634835kyoudai's never seen a ps1 game
>>48630651>>48630703sometimes i want to take a pic of a vn that I mtl, but I'm playing something where the interface is translated or it got an incomplete translation, and some of translated text appears on the screen, so I can't take a picture...
