READ THE FOLLOWING, THIS IS IMPORTANT >Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support: 1. Be in Japanese locale 2. Read the Readme 3. Read the wiki below 4. Google it
Previous thread: This general is for the discussion of English-translated Japanese visual novels. All posting of untranslated visual novels belongs on E-celeb shitposting is not allowed. Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.
Every year, Visual Novel fans wonder why Japanese animation isn’t being taken more seriously by critics. I get it; in 2016 alone, just look at the blend of history and tradition in Clannad, Katawa Shoujo, or Lucid 9 to glimpse the versatility and sophistication Visual Novels have to offer. Why then are Visual Novels not taken seriously?
And then the otaku shrug their shoulders and go back to conversations about who the best girl is, whose waifu is trash, and how irrational anyone must be to playing a VN as soon as female characters show some T&A.
Here’s a thought: maybe critics would be more enthusiastic if the face of Visual Novels weren’t pro-Gamergate, anti-Ghostbusters trolls. I wonder how many people who were once neutral towards Visual Novels have developed an instinctive aversion to it, associating Visual Novel girls with anonymous entitlement?
Here’s another thought: maybe that’s not unfair. Maybe becoming the visual of choice for misogynistic harassers is the unsurprising result of a fandom that has spent years normalizing the objectification of women
Nathaniel Hall
why is it when irru and co post here someone screams e-celeb shitposting, even if its actual vn discussion
Evan Adams
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Asher Taylor
It's just one autist who replies to them from multiple IPs.
David Ross
>words you will never hear from a girl
again
Gabriel Morris
@196433792 If anyone actually replies to this, they're contributing to the cancer of this general.
Oliver Wood
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Brandon Fisher
Most likely angry pedos
Brayden Taylor
Autism.
Levi Mitchell
it's unlikely since pedos are happy with Runa and we got her thanks to them. proof i'm a lolicon
Anthony Adams
For past 2 years I've been thinking that disliking plot in VNs is sort of self-irony but reading that some people genuinely call majikoi chuunishit made me realize that there are actual retards out there with their brains replaced by moeblob.
Jackson Rivera
how do i become a /vn/ eceleb? I want people to shitpost about me
Isaiah Wilson
>happy with both shit route and shit girl
Josiah Hill
So, who's /ourguy/, Irru or Trip?
Michael Torres
Why not both?
Andrew James
Quof will be when he finishes the LxC cake routes. I can't wait for them to be done!
Leo Jackson
>Shit route yes it was >Shit girl You take that back you scum. You and me one on one behind the gymnasium tomorrow.
Blake Mitchell
Trip seems like a cool guy. Irru is a faggot riding on his coattails.
Brody Gomez
I know right.
Ryder Phillips
See you space cowboy
Gavin James
ARE THOSE
Jack Gutierrez
If /vn/ magically had a team of illustrators, musicians and programmers ready to make a VN and ONLY had to come up with the plot, how do we make it a kamige?
Elijah Morris
Cute pantsu.
Gabriel Campbell
>[File deleted] Nope. I'm #1 lewd poster here.
Josiah Ross
>how do we make it a kamige
Netorare.
Joseph Anderson
Lolis
Ian Young
you done good
Liam Johnson
Yes! I'm so excited for this! Hopefully Quof will be done with at least one of the routes soon.
Jordan Davis
Cute lolis fighting in giant robots in space
Isaac Fisher
Copy Monobeno but with more mainstream appeal characters.
Jack Brooks
every major character is great old one and they're playing a war masqueraded as a high school setting.
Alexander Anderson
9/11 but with gay muslims instead
Brody Wright
428 Shibuya when?
Juan Rivera
Saber when
Sebastian Cox
>Quof actually lied about dropping LxC1
Aiden White
Is there some guide to getting started on translating VNs? And I don't mean the translation itself but the technical process, dumping the moonrunes in a text file or something, replacing them with english, etc. etc.
Also what's some EXTREMELY short but decent looking eroge which I can test the waters with?
Isaac Roberts
If muramasa doesn't come out this year I will commit Sudoku.
Hudson Gray
yeah the guide is finding a vn you want and seeing if the engine it runs on has tools already made for it. If it does you can decompile it and find out where text is stored and start changing it. Assuming you pick something that already has a good set of tools it's pretty easy. Hardest part tends to be wordwrap since japs have spaghetti coding.
Luis Wilson
With Rakuen being in final QA stage will it finally be released on 2017?
Eli Allen
Become quof's slave
Caleb Miller
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Jeremiah Taylor
christmas miracle
Gavin Garcia
yeah since SP doesn't actually do QA.
Adam Young
It's like Mushishi, but with a small group of cute girls wandering the lands helping other cute girls.
James Perez
Biman.
Jayden Martin
Heart boner activated.
Isaac Foster
Like Berserk but with cute girls. Bonus points if the nurse and teacher have a route.
Sebastian Perry
Post Umi
Carson Butler
Maitetsu, Lose's epic tale of love and loss starring Tanezaki Atsumi as Hachiroku, is coming to a PC near you this 2017. VNs will be saved.
Go to fuwanovel's data extraction thread and get some tools. See which one can these tools extract. Go and dl a trial or something.
Samuel Howard
With pleasure
Luis Harris
>H scene started, sex and stuff >boner doesn't react >characters start saying I love you to each other >suddenly boner
Why does this keep happening to me, /vn/?
Jordan Nguyen
you like being cucked by an imaginary dude
Aaron James
>I posted it again
Isaac Lewis
I can only enjoy life with alcohol.
Matthew Garcia
Why is her hair floating?
Daniel Edwards
The MC is holding a fan next to the bed.
Elijah Johnson
It's hard with all the semen it got
Aaron Morgan
I haven't been on /vn/ for a few days so I just read from last thread and on a scale of 1-10 how pissed would you guys be if I told you I was the one who suggested they TL Jun'ai Road when they had that open suggestion period?
I swear I didn't think it was something that would break Trip
Landon Campbell
I've liked Tsujidou much more than Hatsukoi. Don't care.
Cooper Torres
Another proof that Quof is /ourguy/
Easton Garcia
I can't believe how much better her route was compared to the others
Parker James
It's a sad example of a good girl in a shit game
Isaiah Phillips
What is it about tone work's that makes people love them, minus Hatsukoi obviously? They have only 3 VNs, 1 of which was panned hard, but people are waiting with bated breath for their 4th project. I'm not hating, I'm just wondering. Hoshi Ori when
Asher Wright
1. stop being a subhuman EOP
Oliver Ward
You joke but this is actually the right answer
Chase Russell
Not mad at all, the VN is good, it's just that Trip has bad taste. he liked Runa's route the most
Nathaniel Hughes
I dunno. Trip doesn't have the best taste but the things he sad about Maki route sound pretty bad. Though it's weird because JOPs were saying Ai's was the only weak route
Ian Sanders
>It’s like listening to any song from Taylor Swift’s second and third studio albums. What did he mean by this?
Matthew Bell
>You joke but this is actually the right answer
I'm not joking in the slightest. I even considered it myself. But ultimately I'm too used to the anonymity of Veeky Forums, 100% unwilling to translate anything for EOPs and I don't play one eroge after another to keep a Twitter account going with new things.
Ayden Barnes
Riho is like million times better. Drama was retarded but as a girl she was the best. She also won the /vn/ poll
Jayden James
>trusting JOPs first mistake.
Leo Morales
guns & cute girls & lolis what vn will ensure I get a good dose of each?
Joseph Ramirez
>Riho is like million times better. >Drama was retarded but as a girl she was the best First of all, you realize I was talking about the route and Riho's route was the only one that I would consider complete shit. Second, Nagisa was the best girl
Jayden Bell
bear with me
protagonist is an alien sent from deep space to study humans after they've been confirmed to be awakening to psionic powers but he doesn't know he's an ayy lmao, has a fake past cobbled together by his spaceship and imprinted in his mind
takes the form of a JP high school boy or some shit, attending a specialized school for kids with psionics as a transfer student, his skills are all SS tier but the spaceship imprinted a memory of him killing someone with his powers so he holds back subconsciously when using them and hits a perfect middle of the road stride
saves some cute girl with his powers and she falls for him even though he's really odd and only gives vague answers about his background because he seems kind and sweet
meets a group of people via girl and they decide to put together a combat team for that year's psionic warfare championship, they make him captain because he seems pretty adept at identifying unique uses of psionic energy and stratagems
his new friends start poking and prodding his memory and eventually find out that he's an alien by finding his ship's AI, who tells them everything very matter-of-factly, including what his original form looked like and how he can no longer change back as the mission was to be a permanent posting and without his knowledge, they keep it hush hush except a really popular guy who's in their friend group, he uses it to blackmail them and splits off to form his own team for the championship
they win later but kid blabbed, turns out there's aliens of other species that have already infiltrated places like the JSDF and are trying to actively steer the course of humanity's growth or prime them to be consumed as biomatter
protag can side with humanity, either alien faction, his own, or find a solution with his friend group
bad end is protag trying to turn back into an alien after remembering everything and becoming an "i have no mouth and must scream" blob of pain and suffering
Gabriel Anderson
Is Last Resort actually good, lads?
Carson Wood
>JP high school Dropped. >specialized school for kids with psionics as a transfer student, his skills are all SS tier FILTERED.
Tyler Jones
Chuunige taht mix every mythology.
Tyler Anderson
ok but here's the thing you can fuck the ship and TWO senseis
also i'm just tired of chuunige having D-level protags who are all about THE WILL TO SUFFER ON
Jayden Reed
Umi and Nagisa are pretty good imo. Riho was shit and I dropped it after that.
Jacob Stewart
Post victims of this tag. Hard mode: no nurses or teachers
Hudson Long
Not really.
Grayson Rogers
Is a borefest after finishing Umi route. Nagisa and Shiori are alright. Couldnt even bring myself to finish Sango and Riho routes