Previous thread: >>50424864This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?
>>50467575>What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?Ima, oretsuba, albatross
HELP ME FINISH https://vndb.org/v49991 I'M GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>50467604Try asking the dude who uploaded the screenshots?
>>50467666vndb doesn't have dms, and he clearly reached the normal end and uninstalled. there's a good end too, an omake, and something else that i can unlock, probably another omake/end
>>50467604why should we play this
>>50467840it a hidden jop kamige also the ost has 1 unironically good track
>>50467846>ost has 1 unironically good trackpost it
>>50467848i need to record audio from my system, i'll try
>>50467846where did you even find it?
>>50467848https://vocaroo.com/1lIGx0fXnIi2the second minute gives me a lot of nostalgic undertale vibes>>50467859i found it on bangumi, and a fellow anon on /vn/ downloaded it and reuploaded it for me. i think you can find the link in the archive
>>50467944Do your parents know you post here?
>>50468093you can be nostalgic for early 20s
>>50468105If you're an underage faggot, yes.
>>50468105>you can be nostalgic for early 20swhat the FUCK are you smoking anon? what are you nostalgic for? locked in your room because of covid playing eroge?
>>50468500who doesnt miss not needing to go outside
>>50467575Now this is good character design.
>>50468500NTA, but I assume by "early 20s" he was referring to the period of his life after he was ninenteen.
>>50468773i doubt he made it to his 20s yet, he's saying "nostalgic undertale vibes"
>>50468500>early 20s>covidHaha...yeah...I'm young enough that covid happened when I was in my 20s...
anybody got the school days remaster yet
>>50469154he came to my mind yesterday actually. he claimed to grow up homeless, yet his parents were academic professors, and then he wrote one story about how one of their tenants shot himself in the head and he had to wipe the brains from the walls or something. serious case, i wonder what was going on
>>50469161I guarantee he didn't not go to Cornell and his parents are just as much of bums a he is, all alive unfortunately. He can't even be honest about how many VNs he's read, it's questionable if he has even used a PC before.
>>50469169i did see that guy on another account on twitter recently so he's still kicking lol. he got all those backloggd guys on some weird obscure games
can't you guys just discuss vns instead of random weirdos on twitter
the most emotional I've been reading Chuushingura so far has been this random nobody, right before the raid. I wonder why they didn't bother making him a girl.
>>50468113>>50468500i meant for YOUR early 20s. 2015 was 10 years ago
>>50467604Try asking the dude who made the game?
>>50469465i figured out that's he's an unironic autist who doesn't reply to his fans
>>50469468Try figuring that out AFTER sending him a message and being ignored for a week, not before it.
>>50469480no, he's actually autistic. i datamined his old website, dude is OBSESSED with thighs. since at least 2001. he's definitely one of those high functioning autists who don't care about feedback.but yeah, i'm still waiting a week...
>>50469484>dude is OBSESSED with thighsSame
>>50469988http://blue.ribbon.to/~dametarou/asitop.htm
>>50469072ya (you) me too when it goes up somewhere
>"No, no, this isn't cheating, it's just method acting to help you get more into character for cosplaying!"And I thought NTR plots couldn't get more retarded.
>>50469484>>50469988脚線美
>>50469484>he's definitely one of those high functioning autistswow, good thing there's no one like that on this board
>>50470255none of us are high-functioning, otherwise we would be busy creating instead of consooming
>>50470416>otherwise we would be busy creating instead of consoomingnormalfag cattle mindset. people who hold the idea that people always have to produce things are usually those who produce low quality stuff that isn't worth any wasting time with
>>50470476we are talking about high-functioning autists (aka savants)
>>50470002Impressive, I'm wordless
>>50470171>playing cuckshit and complaining?
>>50470476truth nuke
>>50470576I'm not complaining. I enjoy the retardation.
>>50470604moebro...
>>50470416>none of us are high-functioningIf we managed to learn japanese, even more than the average japanese, we are high-functioninghttps://streamable.com/1l1om0
>>50470661femoid dropouts living off stream donations are below average
>>50470645I don't get it.
Took a break for a while there, but came back and finished up the all-age Tenshin Ranman. For the heroines in the original game, they mainly just extended a few date scenes, a bit more epilogue, and added some more CGs, so it's not terribly different in that department. The main reason to play this is for the new heroine, Wakaba, of course. Both of the new characters are pretty nice and integrate well into the common route. I thought Wakaba's route was one of the better ones in the game, and I liked that the central conflict was focused on MC himself and his 天罰. Made it a bit different than the others. Anyways, decent enough read and a nice way to close out the story on these characters for good.
>>50470661The fuck is she saying, I'm too dumb
Thanks to the guy that recommended penguindrum for the subahibiness a while ago. It was a nice watch, I'm not sure if I would say it's an exact subahibi equivalent though, it wasn't schizophrenic/horrorful enough but still a very nice watch. I doubt there's an anime with the same kind of scaji vibe
>>50470793glad you enjoyed it. if looking for the schizo aspect and interested in film, try love exposure by sion sono. his filmography is worth giving a try but the closest is probably love exposure. and there's also inio asano manga. i think most of his stuff is worth reading, not just punpun
>>50470861Will absolutely check that. I had seen some clips of love exposure before but not the whole thing. Being as you are quite cultured do you have any vn recs based on haibane renmei? It's my favorite anime of all time and would love to find similar media. Or if anyone else knows for that matter. I've tried to find similar stuff in anime and even literature but to no avail.
>>50470913ever read haruki murakami's hardboiled wonderland?
>>50470954I actually bought it a while ago but never started it. You're right, the premise is quite similar hmm
>>50470793>penguindrumWATCH REVUE STARLIGHT REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
id rather read visual novels
>>50470991Ok bro I will, I just started texhnolyze but will watch that and report in a couple of weeks hopefully
>>50469281How's the ero in this ge?
>>50471575unfappable because of coloring see vndb screenshots
>>50471592I love Chusingura deeply, but even I can’t defend that. It feels like they were going for some odd lighting choice, a dark room where only the heroine is visible. Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking?
Lesbian kamige where I play as the girl? I wanna be the girl AND fuck the girl
>>50471852uhm, seabed is the only yuri kamige but i don't think the have explicit sex. if you want sloppa then hanabira
>>50471859>seabed is the only yuri kamigeReally? But yes YES that's what I'm looking for. Non-sexual notwithstanding. If anyone has anything else I'm open
>>50471852I remember Baseson made some yuri moege under a sub-brand a few years ago. No idea if they were any good though.
>>50471894then also noctuary
>>50471852Flowers is pretty good but it's all-ages
>>50471852mahou shoujo?
>>50471852Akai Ito was very good but it's all ages.
girls can't have sex and youre a disgusting pig if you want to see that anyway. all-ages is the correct way to experience gl content
>>50472080You know what? This but unironically.
>>50472080I want a threesome with a lesbian couple in my eroge.
>>50472116I am a feminist who proudly supports the rights of lesbian couples, and for that reason I willingly volunteer to help them through the difficult process of child-rearing (by donating my sperm) (I can only donate it directly for plot reasons)
Japanese is such a beautiful language.
>>50472080I agree. There's a very fine line before yuri transitions into gross lesbian porn.Proclaiming undying love to each other: Pure, yuriKissing on the lips: Gross, not yuriPeople who don't agree don't understand yuri.
>>50472351What about cutting and sucking each other's blood?
>>50472351all I know is seeing two girls kiss during a 3P is hot
>>50471592I wouldn't read Chusingura for the ero, it's decent enough but there's not a lot of it and it's VERY spread out in a very long game. Also all the bestiality scenes are short gag scenes and not actual h-scenes.
>>50472351I don't know about that I just want to be a cute little girl and get gently penetrated by the hands of another cute but dominant girl, preferably taller than me
>>50472343just like that dogen video
Just finished Manosaba as my first JP VN. How would more experienced people rate the difficulty? I'm thinking of reading KnS 3 next but I worry it might be too difficult. It's also been 10 years since I read KnS 2...
>>50472874just try to read what you want to read stop concerning yourself with stupid reddit ass shit if its too hard you'll naturally move to something else
Is there anyway to get lunatranslator working on Linux or am I just going to have to niggarig textractor using Lutris?
>>50472343Some day i really need to work on my katakana reading compression, everytime english words in katakana comes up it make me like 10 times slower
when is scaji's next big vn coming?
>>50473401he can still cook one last pro-suicide magnum opus
Words Worth was kind of what I was looking for. I always wanted something where the MC was a retard and everyone treated him like one. I'm enjoying it, I just got to the light side.
>>50474159is it really 30h long?
>>50474163It depends on how long the chapter two of the game will be, but if it's the same length as chapter one it should be more like 22-23 hours, probably slightly longer, so let's say 25h. It's more like a Doukyuusei type game, there's not a full on plot, much of the time is spent finding your way around the dungeons and slashing enemies and solving the puzzles, like trying to meet the characters in Doukyuusei. So give it a try when you're in the mood for that.
>>50474181i will play it next year once i reach 1993
>>50473566I wish he'd set an example before that.
>>50472874I only played it for a few hours, all the way back when it released, and I wasn't paying attention to the difficulty of the language at all - but I would say that it was probably more or less average. I agree with >>50473098, you're probably better off dodging Scatji and other intentionally obtuse works for a while but if you managed Manosaba then you should be able to read just about everything you want, even obtuse works. They would be painful but all you need to do is enjoy it more than you are irritated by the complexity of the language.
>>50467575I’ve been researching notable works from the early 2000s—please let me know if you have any recommendations.
Which staff role is responsible for sprite animations/changing expressions/all the visual + auditory creative stuff that happens on screen? Is it 演出・スクリプト?
>>50475109I know Qruppo has their scenario writers do a bunch of it but I'm not sure that's the case for all companies.
>>50475109Isn't it both? 演出 plans the scene while スクリプト implements it into the code. That's like asking whether the game designer or programmer makes the game. Also, the guy above me said it but more often than not they're the same people.
Theres no concept cooler than the law of balance in the universe
>>50475837>law of balanceWhat's that?
>>50475837I don't understand what this means either
>>50475879>>50475886He ia a shitposter who has not read his second VN yet, please ignore
>>50475904Oh I looked it up and it's apparently how they translated 善悪相殺 in the English version of Muramasa? wtf, poor EOPs
Is VNDB full of speedreaders or do I just read extremely slow? I always spend 2x more time than the average length score.
>>50476207A mix of both
>>50476207My favorite are the people that put in times for nukige but say they ctrl'd the h scenes.
>>50476207it's full of EOPs that ctrl through everything, none of the ratings there are worth anything. the only worthwhile thing there is the raw data, namely the tags and the list of games and publishers
>>50476207You're normal, the COPs reading Cross Channel in under ten hours are the strange ones.
>>50476207There are voice skippers which is something egstards do as well, if you skipped voice you didnt read the vn. Simple as.
>>50476207>Is VNDB full of speedreaders or do I just read extremely slow?If you actually read the reported times VNDB uses to calculate the average, they'll all say things like>just read the trial>only read two routes, skipped the h-scenes>downloaded a save, read the h-scenes>got bored and ctrl'd to the true routePeople can freely admit to skipping massive parts of the game and it somehow counts just as much as people who actually read the damn VN.
>>50475916>>50475886>>50475879trying too hard
>>50476436TRVKE
>>50476917Sorry that you read the EOP fanfic version...
Imouto Saikou daze
>>50476207you can reportfag the ridiculous times. i've reported like 5 chinese readers and gotten all their submitted times destroyed>>50475837>>50476917kill yourselves eops
>>50477902>>50477361>>50475879>>50475886>>50475916>NYOOOOOO IT'S ACTUALLY "Mutual Slaughter of Good and Evil"!!!!google what "localization" means before embarassing yourself further
>>50478105they're mocking him because he obviously read it in english autistic sperg>google what "localization" meansor, for a crazy thought, we could just refer to it as 善悪相殺. you CAN read it and reproduce it, so you don't need to localise it for people in this thread. right?
>>50478105Google what a "hangman's noose" is before embarrassing your parents further
>>50478124are we gonna pretend that it's NOT easier writing it without a japanese ime?
>>50478105>>50478130ill spell out the problem for you since you seem to be a little slow in the acuity departmentno one here even knows that 善悪相殺 was localized as "law of balance" and its not an obvious translationcuz we didnt play the english releaseso no matter if its fitting or not you shouldnt use iti would suggest the vg thread if you would like to discuss the law of balance and other localized terms because the discussion here will not prove very fruitful
>>50478145>no one here even knows that 善悪相殺 was localized as "law of balance" and its not an obvious translationthis is cope. this is literally not possible. you can't not know it's been localized as law of balance if you read 'masayou're a fucking pseud, coping about m-m-muh jop/eop duality instead of discussing actual theme
>trannycord is bad they said>anonymous board is sufficient they said>it won't be overrun by larping eops they saidI welcome law of balance in this thread. All JOPs who recluded themselves from the duty of keeping JOPcords alive deserve this! You should bring more localization choices here for all to us to learn! How did they localize mech names EOP-kun, we called them tsurugi over here
dishonest troons
>>50478153>this is literally not possible. you can't not know it's been localized as law of balance if you read 'masaLiterally not possible! For over a decade since 2009 until muramasa got translated, every JOP, as well as every native who ever read 善悪相殺, thought to themselves....law of balance! You tell them based EOP-kun!
>>50478170see >>50478158
>>50478130i will pretend you have standards>i will post about how cool X is! but... yeah i can't be fucked with IME typing... i mean cmon im not doing all of that... this'll do...listen, my law of good has outbalanced your law of evil. just go back already
>>50475837>killing is le bad
>>50478188>lil jop didn't get 'masamany such cases, maybe you should've read the troonslation
>/vn/ raidIs this technically a thread of balance?
>law of balanceBut what is being balanced?
>>50478214the good and evil
Isn't this the guy who shitted up the thread so badly last time it prompted a mod to finally get off his fat ass and delete his posts? Just mass report him and move on.
jops are the only ones completely balanced by moral laws of muramasa, they know one shitty language (english) and one good language (japanese)
>>50478224>NYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOMEBODY IS DEBOONKING MY COPE NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!!! I WASTED 10+ YEARS ON A DEAD LANGUAGE AND I STILL DON'T GET 'MASA STOP POINTING THIS OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
>>50478201>didn't get 'masaMuramasa is not deep; it is an edgy shonen with a philosophy degree it didn't earn.>The "Law of Balance" is a Narrative CrutchThe central hook (kill a villain, must kill a loved one) destroys actual moral complexity. Kageaki isn't making difficult, tragic choices; he is a robot following a magical flowchart. Real depth comes from organic consequences, not a supernatural plot device that forces drama by gunpoint.>Lazy NihilismThe game's stance that "all justice is just murder" isn't profound; it’s intellectual cowardice. By treating self-defense and fascism as morally equivalent because "both use swords," the story avoids taking any real stance. It’s "enlightened centrism" for people who think apathy is maturity.>Bloat as a Substitute for SubtextNarahara is incapable of "show, don't tell." The game pauses the action constantly to lecture the player on the themes because the writing fails to convey them naturally. Strip away the grimdark aesthetic and the 20-minute monologues, and Kageaki is just a generic, overpowered harem protagonist who wins fights with secret moves—he just whines more while doing it.
>>50478241Truth Supernova.
>>/vg/551078912>>/vg/551079340
>>50478241Trvkenvke
>>50478241thanks chatGPT
>>50478241>Muramasa is not deep; it is an edgy shonen with a philosophy degree it didn't earn.maybe you should stick to moeslop. i hope this is more of an iq issue and not about your japanese knowledge otherwise you'd make all us jops look badthe fact that you are copypasting a chatgpt-slop shitpost says it allhttps://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/550603369/#550637596
>>50478241>Strip away the grimdark aesthetic and the 20-minute monologues, and Kageaki is just a generic, overpowered harem protagonist who wins fights with secret moves—he just whines more while doing it.RAILGUN MAGATSU
>>50478241>—>;CHATGPTGOD
>eops got linked and are using the thread as an arena to argue about the Rule of Equilibrium with arguments written by chatGPT>>50476917i blame you faggot
>>50478275>only chatGPT is using semicolonsPlease tell me you didn't graduate high school.
>>50478241memes aside, that shitpost made me realize how smart muramasa is and why it's the most important vn of the century assuming i'm not the only consciousness in this universe of course, otherwise it's subahibi
>>50478241Muramasa really isn't all that deep if you think about it for more than a minute.
>>50478285share with the class
>>50478285>that shitpost made me realize how smart muramasa is?
>>50478292>>50478299it gives us (as in the society) the literal recipe for world peace. it's unobtainable obviously, but still it's a valid answer
>>50478307Are you 14?
>>50478309>Ad hominemare you 12?
>>50478307>if we all stopped killing each other, war would be no moreProfound, I can see how Muramasa is the most important vn of the century.If it wasn't for Naruto proposing that same idea one year prior, it would even be the most important piece of fiction of the century.
>>50478283nice try but literally nobody uses —only AI do this shit
Can we talk about VNs? I finished Manosaba two days ago. It was okay.
>>50478307Posts like yours make me realize why we will never be taken seriously by fans of actual literature.
>>50478322>another disingenuous faggotsaying>killing is LE BADis one thing. explaining why it's le bad it's another thing. ever everybody understood this (aka if the message was shilled by mass media) this would've become realityinstead we get psy-ops like "a just peace" which means total west victory and total russian collapse that will only bring 1m more dead ukrops'masa and logh should be mandatory reading in high-school
>>50478335>actual literaturepost 5, assuming you know how to read
>>50478334i'm reading words worth, i'll finish it today or tomorrow and then report on whether the fandisc is the best thing hiruta ever wrote.
>>50478338Socialism is, although unattainable, a perfect economic philosophy.I guess that makes The Communist Manifesto the most important work of its respective century as well?
>>50478405>I guess that makes The Communist Manifesto the most important work of its respective century as well?is it not?
>>50478334yeah i don't know what these other faggots are talking about but i'm reading chusingura. i'm not entirely convinced of it yet but it's fun. i thought this would be like majikoi set in the edo period. it seems to do everything good but nothing great, yet, but oh well, i'm having fun and it's pretty comfy
muramasa isn't supposed to be some kind of philosophical argument. you read it for the main character, who is a whiny and violent faggot. it's not a vn you can enjoy if you're not a whiny and violent faggot yourself. its morality and philosophy aim to be sole aesthetics. hanachirasu is more subtle and coherent in narrative messaging
>>50478450>say your iq is 100 without saying it
>>50478482This is a real sub 100 IQ tier response.
>>50478450To make matters worse, the philosophical outlook of the main character keeps flip flopping around according to what the plot necessitates. It's all style, no substance.
>>50478496>no argumentsconcession accepted. are you the same guy who got filtered by subahibi?
>>50478537Only 70iq midwits like subahibi
>>50478551i'll take that as a yes
>>50478551truth nuke
>>50478537muramasa is midwitcore.
>>50478615you are low iq
>>50478422I love Inre's history autism. Which route are you on?
>>50478627>midmasa fans have to let chatGPT think for themGrim.
>>50478673already accepted your concession herr midwit
>>50478638Yasubee's. i've kind of got all my stocks in Chikara and Emoshichi, but Yasubee's seiyuu has an incredibly charming voice>Inre's history autismto its credit, while i say i'm not convinced, it's gotten me quite fixed on the politics of feudal japan during my downtime, so it actually does present some things quite convincingly and i ought to retract that
>>50478638>I love Inre's history autismIs it a game that expects you to know things from Japanese history, or does it actually teach you?
>>50478892it babies the audience through every real life reference, even things everyone knows like the basics of bushido, the shogunate, etc. although it is still a parody, and i think knowing of the Ako Incident and names like Ogyuu Sorai, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the Tokugawa Shogunate and how all these were perceived, especially in conjunction with one another at the time will do you some wonders
>>50479081>and i think knowing of the Ako Incident and names like Ogyuu Sorai, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the Tokugawa Shogunate and how all these were perceived, especially in conjunction with one another at the time will do you some wondersMaybe when I can be bothered then. Hate having to wiki dive while reading because of Japanese history jokes/references I don't get..
>>50478892>Is it a game that expects you to know things from Japanese historyIt expects you to care so when they spend hours spoonfeeding about daimyos and regions that are never relevant in-game, you don't hold shift.
>>50479197>you don't hold shift.Isn't it CTRL?
>>50478551nigga 70 iq is straight up retarded, not "midwit". the argument doesn't reach midpoint, there is almost no argument
>>50479200PProbably, I can't remember. I never used it myself now that I think about it.At most I just skimmed read a couple info dumps, like in the penultimate route.
>>50478241narahara shills didnt like this
>>50478334I finished Ie no Kagi a few days ago. It was a little disappointing. I was hoping for something more twisted based on the premise, but it ended up being a pretty unremarkable thriller that happened to focus on darker social topics. I enjoyed the characters though, and the writing wasn't bad. Some fun scenes and funny passages. The occasional bit of chemistry trivia was nice too. But I probably would've enjoyed it more if it were longer and actually had H scenes. There were perfect moments for it too, like the scene where Rika was forced to strip naked and fondle the protagonist's balls by a bunch of yakuza as part of a body search. Maybe they thought it would be counterproductive when they were trying to make a point about pedophilia and lolicon? Still a big missed opportunity considering they had MUK doing the art. It didn't go far enough, but it wasn't awful, just fine. Sweet ending too.
>>50478505isnt this like the entire point of the novel though? like its the whole reason why soramachi is so pissed off at him and the whole reason for the ending.
>>50479311I always liked the art style but I can tell this is not the kind of game I actually want to play.
>>50478334I am working towards getting Sanae's ending in Daibanchou. Now that I've beaten the final boss once, the only difficulty is just picking up tricky character clears and reading the huge pile of endgame H-scenes.Here is a screenshot I took of Gou winning a battle all by himself. What an overpowered character. Sun Tzu would be very proud.
how long till Mahou Shoujo Erena ~Nikukan Ingoku no Hate ni~ gets translated already?
>>50480774You could make it happen.
>>50480852not skilled enough
>>50480774This isn't the translation thread, you are looking for >>50474255
>>50480774I didn't want EOPs to ever be able to read it, so I used my mascot powers and turned the whole translation team into magical girls.They are being molested by tentacles in my dark dimension as we speak.
.... visual novels?
>3dpd
>>504811713dpd exists if said 3d is pubescentprepubescent boys and girls are 2.5d
Ash-hadu an la ilaha illa Allah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasulu-Allah
>>50481168Now that we've had a few months to let the dust settle, was Amakano 3 or L3J moege of the year?
>>50481181It was Happy Weekend
>>50481182Really? No offense, but I just don't believe a hooksoft game could ever rise above decent.
>>50481179Why are you professing this here? Fuck off, retard.
whats the best rape vn
hes gone and deleted all of his posts kekpost nut clarity
>>50481183Their non high school VNs are pretty solid
remains me I still have that hooksoft royal box from years ago I never unpacked
mcdonalds or chickfila
>>50481601I prefer Maedaslop
>>50481183Which ones have you read?
>>50481237I really need to start reading yubisaki one of these days
https://xcancel.com/moonstoneTwitt/status/2003386386230182222Moonstone making horror ge again?
>>50481601chickfila for sandwich or fries mcd for anything else
>>50481601amerimutt chains in the untranslated threadforgot eternal dekinais arent allowed to move to japanalso chickfila
