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Soon fellow neets edition

READ THE FOLLOWING, THIS IS IMPORTANT

>Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support:

1. If you downloaded your VN from Fuwanovel/Mofu, you're on your own.
2. Be in Japanese locale
3. Read the Readme
4. Read the wiki below
5. Google it

>FAQs, Recommendations, and Other Useful Things:
http://visual-novels-general.wikia.com/wiki/

>Need a novel with a specific element?
http://vndb.org/g

>What's wrong with Fuwanovel/Mofu?
http://pastebin.com/s6Me2D9i

>Download Links:
http://pastebin.com/U7HUj0fk

>Current visual novel translation status:
https://archive.moe/jp/search/tripcode/%21%21UcDDlzwANFs/type/op/
(archive.moe is down)

Previous threads:
>>122203507
http://pastebin.com/zeiYgLrs

This general is for the discussion of English-translated Japanese visual novels. Some untranslated discussion is allowed in moderation, but please keep in mind that the primary purpose of this thread is for translated games, and anything else will only be tolerated for as long as it does not hinder this purpose. If you see a blatant shitposter or someone being rude, please REPORT and ignore.

Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.

Thank you.
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Reminder to "Why are you reading a VN only you can read?" /jp/ rejects on sight!
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>>122394067

2nd for lolis
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3rdor best girl
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I downloaded Higurashi and Higurashi Kai a long time ago but never played them. Just noticed that Mangagamer released the second episode on Steam. Is it worth playing the new release which apparently has all the original sounds, and waiting for them to release them episode by episode over a number of years, or should I just play the old version with a clusterfuck of patches from higurashi tweak wikia applied?
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Looks nice
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>>122394640
It's shit.
-/jp/
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>>122394640
It's not shit.
- had"I read more Japstuff than everybody that ever visited /jp/"ler
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8th for slut
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>>122393498
Umineko is a rip-off of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Zodiac_Murders
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>>122395521
9th for sluts-only-for-you are best
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Can /vn/ recommend me a good, funny VN?
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>>122395858
Ikikoi
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>>122395718
Inspired by, you faggot. You've been rekt before, so stop the bullshit.
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>>122395760

you're thinking of a nymphomaniac

nymphomaniac = god tier
slut = shit tier
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>>122395894

You finished my post before I even began. Sasuga anon
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>>122395760
A slut that's only for you is just a normal girl, and not a slut. It's like saying "a gay man who only likes girls" or "a football player that only plays basketball"... it's contradictory.
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>>122396046
>>122396158
Chill, it isn't the 9th post anyway
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>>122394890
This girl is too cute for the game to be shit. I hope its not.
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>>122396034
I've never posted it before, and it's pretty blatant.
Heck if it was just inspired R07 would at mention that, but he doesn't because he just copy-pasted like the hack he is
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>>122394640
>machinetl

why ? what's the point ?
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>>122396604
I don't get it, you probably didn't even read the Tokyo Zodiac books, if you had you'd know it's completely different, yet here you are talking about it based on knowledge from a wikipedia page summary. Shaking my head anon.
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>>122397615
I did read, there is a lot that is similar.
The fact that it begins with the tirade of a crazy old man trying to revive his perfect woman.
All the occult elements to obscure the mystery.
The closed rooms, they way they are done.
Heck even the true culprit is similar to Umineko's.

Even the meta aspect is similar since TZM is about trying to make sense of a series of murders that happened decade before.

You are just completely deluded because you are a crazy fanboy
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>>122396698
>those ribs
Disgusting. I'm not sure I would take tubs over that, but both are gross.
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>>122396698
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>>122398236
There is similar, but it's not a rip off, which you would know if you had *actually* read them both. Completely different themes and direction.
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>>122396698
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>>122396698
嗚呼嗚呼嗚呼嗚呼
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test desu
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Post VNs
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>>122400871
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>>122400871
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>>122401006
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>>122401226
>tfw EOPs will never even know what they're missing out on
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>>122396698
Thanks Mister Skeltal
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>>122400871
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So I'm retarded. How do I search multiple tags at once on vndb?
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>>122403157
homepage -> click visual novels -> filters
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Why do we have to delve into fucking yaoi otome to escape moe waifu faggotry? This medium sure is going places in EOPland.
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>>122403226
Thanks.
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>>122403282
>Why do we have to delve into fucking yaoi otome to escape moe waifu faggotry?
If only you knew Japanese and could delve in to the brilliant works of Ninetail, Akebei Soft3, Nitro+, and Light.
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>>122403126
Please tell me this is a satirical crop and not an actual tiltjob. No VN could possibly have that shitty widescreen CGs.
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>>122403282
>to escape moe waifu
why would you ever want to do that?

Moe waifus are the best.
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>>122403639
oh its real mang.

It was posted a while ago, i tilted it and we all made fun of the original because it was basically sideways.
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>>122403659
>Moe waifu
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>>122403638
>Akebei Soft3

That company is legit shit though, just like the game you posted a cropped vndb screenshot of.
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>>122403638
>Ninetail
Not sure if serious.
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>>122404083
Ain't waifu shit.
>>122404147
The protagonist of Kikaijikake is a man's man.
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Post you're waifu EOP edition.
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Trying to play Phantom of Inferno in 2015 is like trying to perform autio fellatio by bending your spine backwards. DVD games are fucking garbage. 2012 remake translation or even just a port to Intergration when?
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>>122404605
>2015
>not performing backwards auto-fellatio
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Any of you play Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji?
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>>122404272
>The protagonist of Kikaijikake is a man's man.
Tierra is much of a protagonist than Masaya most of the time, Masaya is only the protagonist during the slice of life and ero scenes but Tierra is the pov character during most of the story scenes

>Ain't waifu shit.
Aerial is shit shit though
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>>122406181
>Aerial is shit shit though
I haven't read it yet, but it remains non-waifu shit.
Also, I don't really put much weight in your opinion because people call Muv Luv Alt shit all the time even though it's a great game.
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>>122404449
Im a man of simple taste.
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What did she mean by this?
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>>122408386
You lost me
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>>122408386
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>>122408386
>>122408541
lmao virgins
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>>122408386
THUNDER THUNDER THUNDER THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvL3G_iamk

Is this what Dovac really looks like? I used to hate him, but now I just pity him. No wonder he only gets laid in eroge.
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>>122410503
>sekai project
Almost opened your link.
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>>122410503
No way. That's Dovac?
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>>122410503
Who is Dovac?
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>>122410503
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>>122411280
is that actually dovac?
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>>122410587
>don't talk about untranslated games, those belong in /jp/
Okay, then let's talk about games that are getting translated. Oh wait, no, we can't do that because we all hate SP and JAST. People are even starting to shittalk MG's new game Euphoria so I don't know whether it's actually interesting and plot-driven or just a nukige with extreme content.
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>>122411521
>Shittalk a game which is literally a scat fetish nukige
I mean, of course we're going to shittalk shitgame.
We don't hate JAST, and most of MG's stuff is pretty cool.
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>>122411521
I'm excited for Euphoria.
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>>122410503
All those games look so trashy, glad I'm not an EOP.
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>Haruka 90%
We can talk about that, right?
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>>122412281
I hope it does well so that they bring over more AliceSoft games. Pretty hyped for Haruka too.
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>>122401725
That was said a million times and I have yet to play VN that is amazing.
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>>122411479
Dovaciin, Dovaciin
naal ok zin los vahriin
wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan
fod nust hon zindro zaan
Dovaciin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
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>>122412281
>>122412405
>gameplay
Is it good? Seems mediocre
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>>122412405
#ninjatopia #blowjobtopia #rapetopia #tentacletopia #futatopia #dogtopia #yuritopiamaybekindofnotreally
I'm a little upset they chose something so edgy for the first thing to bring over. If it does poorly, Malicesoft might not bring anything else over, which means no Tsumashibori or Rance 6.
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>>122412405
I hope it doesn't do well so I can listen to more butthurt coming from EOPs
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>>122412281
Both the Alice Soft general and /hgg/ seem more appropriate desu
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>>122413113
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Can we talk about the newest hit vn?
http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ165225
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>>122418245
Is this just a Sengoku Rance knock off?
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Can we talk about why its ded/10 on a Sunday eve?
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>>122419285
Because it's a Monday morning
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>>122419285
>>122419502
Means wagekeks are in bed or at work.

NEETs are too busy actually playing visual novels.
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>>122419651
>NEETs are too busy actually playing visual novels.
Indeed
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I hate how Key games force you to play through every girl's route to get to the true end.

I always get bored reading through some girl I don't care about's route and end up dropping it.
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>>122411479
No. That's just some youtube shill. Talks like a total goober too.
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>>122394203
because that accomplishes something other than you being a fucking retard
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>>122421190
It's like a free (You) so it only encourages me.
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>>122419721
Why are you posting a VN only you can read?
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>>122419651
>have money but no time to use it for the things you enjoy
or
>have no money but have all the time in the world

there needs to be a fucking middle ground.
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So, in the most visual novels that I have read, the girl always says something like feeling the dick twitch right before it cums, is that a real thing 3DPD can do or what
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>>122425326
Shove a dildo up your ass and wiggle it around and you'll have an answer.
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>>122425326
the vag is supposed to be one of the most sensitive regions in the human body, so I wouldn't doubt it.
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>>122423826
There is a middle ground.
>be a NEET and use NEETbux to buy things you don't actually need but still want
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>>122423826
The middle ground is being an electrician/plumber/other trade skill contractor. You can choose what you want to do and you get paid absurd amounts because nobody does it.

Either that or doc/postdoc. Postdoc is the dream world I've heard tale of, where you get paid a stipend to sit around your own lab for a year and then return negative results with no accountability and no boss.
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>>122411521
holy shit it's time to stop typing
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>>122429806
>posted 3 hours ago
Lil' late
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>>122430129
yeah...... didn't think thread was this slow
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>>122425326
Yeah it's a real thing. That's why if you ever have to fake an orgasm you need to clench and unclench a few times to be convincing
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>>122423695
Why are you memeing a meme only you can meme?
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>>122430376
>Male
>faking an orgasm
How what?
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Is it possible to use the suntan patch for Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort along with the English patch?
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105th for Saber!
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>>122432729
Only for fandisc
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>>122432803
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>>122432838
Fandisk has an English patch?
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>>122432964
Nope
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>>122432925
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>>122432983
So the suntan patch can't be used for anything for EOPs?
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>>122433125
その通り
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>>122433150
>
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>>122432729
It works for me, kinda weird though.
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>>122433702
Oh, it did? Well shit, I guess I spoke too soon.
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>>122433764
Yup, though maybe its just me but it doesn't seem to work properly. They're tan, but naked lol. I'll probably try to fix it later.
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Is this SFW?
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>>122434208
>They're tan, but naked lol.
Kimi to Boku to no Kishi no Hibi did something similar, where you could just have everyone naked from the start thanks to a patch. Pretty weird
>>122434325
That's funny as hell
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>>122434208
>they're naked
>try to fix it
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>>122434325
>reptiles with tits
Excuse me?
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>>122432675
For when you jerked off too many times that day or you're just too drunk
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>>122434576
Judging by the title of the game, the dragons are representative of the Big Breast and Flat chest factions respectively. Their depiction as dragons locked in a titanic struggle serves to emphasize the global importance of the argument and the potential for destruction in their pursuit for their ideals.
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>>122434390
Oh, that would make sense. Thought I did something wrong.
>>122434468
Hey man, just found it weird to be crying on campus naked and tanned. I liked it though.
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>>122394616
>just released second episode
Well that was out of fucking nowhere, I was checking their site regularly for news of it and didn't know when the next was gonna drop. Thanks anon
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So uh... does Majikoi S actually get good at some point? All I got so far is pointless fanservice.
Tsubame's route was okay with the tournament but that's the only 'exciting' thing that's happened.
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>>122436784
It's a fandisc.
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>>122436784
The true route is great, you just have to suffer through the rest of the game to get there.
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>>122436904
Majikoi SEQUEL
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>>122438096
Most visual novel "sequels" are just fandiscs.

Like Majikoi S.
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>>122438246
S for SEQUEL
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>>122438391
S for SHIT
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>>122438391
Ignoring the fact that it's a fandisc and the S doesn't stand for anything, if that's true then what does A stand for.
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>>122438480
>>122438391
S for h-h-hidoi.
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>>122438391
S for SABER
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>>122438598
A for filicide?
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>>122438391
S for SNAKE
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>>122438532
For me, they said on their website:
>We were going to make this a fandisc, but we realized it was going to be big enough to be a full fledged sequel, so we made it a sequel
The fact the creators themselves call it a sequel, and specifically not a fandisc, means that to me, calling it a fandisc is just being contrarian
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>>122438532

Atrocious.
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>>122438391
S for speaking japanese
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>>122438532
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What are the lastest nukige / sex-based games that have been fan translated?
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>>122439480
last resort
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>want to continue playing VN
>open VN
>go to load game
>remember I'm at a H-scene
>close VN
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>>122439602
I said sex-based games not moege
>>122439607
Is this a new meme?
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english visual novels are over
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>>122436993
Ah alright then, I'm almost done with Monchiro which is my last one so I'll see.
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dedd
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>>122441449
yup
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>>122440641
does this mean it's okay to post untranslated stuff?
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>In comparison to the past me, I don’t really like translation in most instances. If I were to give the intuitive reason as to “Why?,” I’d be predisposed to argue that if a fan was truly fan, then they ought to learn Japanese. After all, to call oneself a visual novel fan without being capable to read Japanese (which the greater amount of all visual novels are written, and untranslated from) is a contentious declaration in some respects. A translation, no matter how ‘good’, by definition, likely cannot surpass the original work if the intent of a translation is to convey the original author’s sentiments. In this instance, my concern with not reading a language in its derivative prose isn’t a technical one (it is true though, that certain phrases are better left in Japanese, untranslatable to most dissimilar languages). But rather, one of scope. There are approximately 8-15 new visual novels being released monthly, with each, having at least fifteen hours of reading time. A translated work however, is announced once in a while, and completed, a year or so (at ‘good pace’) after its announcement. So if the concern was one purely pragmatic (time investment:amount of works read), then certainly, investing in learning a language would provide far more benefits than waiting patiently.
-translator of koirizo
BLOWN
THE
FUCK
OUT
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>>122439480
Bunny Black is the latest one.
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>>122442065
Of course
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>>122442168
where did he post that? fuwanovel?
what were you doing there?
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Did Subahibi ever come out?
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>>122442168
>if the intent of a translation is to convey the original author’s sentiments
For anything that isn't 2deep4u Scaji shit, the author's sentiments pretty much don't matter. His logic that translation can't be as good as the original falls apart there. If a story starts out being shit like Comyu's, no amount of fancy language will save it, untranslatable or not.
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>>122442563
http://mdzanime.me/2015/02/11/on-translating-self-reflection/
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I just knew clicking a hundred times would let me see her naked. Very nice indeed.
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>>122442608
You pretty much misunderstood that.
A translation is taking Japanese, and turning it into English. What's the goal of the translation? If it's to carry the same meaning as the Japanese (the author's sentiments) then the translation will always be inferior. You say 2deep4u shit but it's actually the case for a lot of mundane things, which isn't a phenomenon you can properly understand without knowing 2 languages yourself, I think. If a translation is intended to IMPROVE the original text, like how Arduoc fixed script errors and overall blandess in Kamidori, then yes translations can surpass the original, in certain viewpoints. However, most translations aren't like that; most are, of course, trying to reflect the original Japanese's sentiments, and therefore they are always inferior.
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>>122442895
I understood what he was saying, but I was nitpicking at that particular though process. I know three languages, granted the only translation I've done is a lot cleaner because the languages are pretty close. The goal of translation should never be the equivalent of a human dictionary. The author's sentiments, in the sense of being the particular words used to represent their intent, are mostly worthless. "I want you to put c**k in me anon-kun" and "Take me now" both have the same intent, but the particular sentiment is different. One of them sounds awkward in one language, the other in the other. Operating from the assumption that the goal of translation is to best present the same content to an audience using a different basis of knowledge and shared experience using different words and figurative language, it's necessary to discard the particular expressions used in the original. But that's fine, because it's rare that there isn't some near equivalent in the output language. Sometimes that near equivalent is better at communicating the intent than the original. Japanese stuff loves to fuck with pronouns, and a lot of that kind of thing actually works better in a language like Spanish where you can do the same thing but better. If the rest were translated literally, then the translation would therefore be the same or better than the original for discarding the sentiments but keeping the intent.

It all comes down to whether or not you think the goal of translation is sentiments (e.g. wording) or intent (e.g. meaning).
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>>122443636
Alright. Do you think translations can convey the intent of an author better than the original text? Do you think translations tend to succeed in that?
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Remember guys, math is a language. EVERYONE knows at least two languages.
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>>122443716
They absolutely can. I point to the Spanish pronouns example I gave. Some tricks just straight up work better in other languages. It can be clear that the intent is to mislead with pronoun usage from the Japanese, but the Spanish equivalent can just skip straight past all that and have it be implicit.

Whether most translations do succeed at it is another matter entirely. Many translators opt for the human dictionary route and as a result things seem awkward when you read them. Compare with the stuff Koestl does. He totally rewrote the "A Magi Nation" scene, but he nailed the intent of the original.
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You know, I really want to learn japanese but I'm just so fucking unmotivated to do beyond my anki reps everyday that I just can't do it.
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>>122444123
>>122444123
Sign up for a class at community college for it then. The fact that you're paying money will be enough motivation to do your damn studying.
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>>122444236
I'm in university and I don't even go to the lectures even though I'm paying for them.
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Are otome gays allowed in these threads?
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>>122444654
Sure man, whats up?
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>>122444031
I see. I understand your sentiments, and in fact my perspective on translations has been brightened. However, despite that, I still agree with >>122442168 in general, for two primarily reasons, which I have encountered quite often in my own translation endeavours:
1) Sentiments (i.e. wording) is often fairly important in a work. Even if intent is 100% conveyed, I would say that the translation is inferior to the original which 100% conveyed both wording AND meaning.
2) The simple fact that the vast vast majority of translators are not nearly competent enough to achieve 100% intent/meaning in the first place.
I have definitely improved my views on translations on an ideal level, but in the "real world", ideal translations are not made, and even perfectly ideal translations are inferior to do changed sentiments. You mentioned in the beginning
> the author's sentiments pretty much don't matter.
However, I think they do. As an "exaggerated" example, every word in certain Shakespeare plays follows iambic parameter. To convey the intent of shakespeare, but to do so without maintaining rhymes/iambic parameter/puns etc will be "inferior" to the original. To use a "common" example, the Japanese have like 100 creative words for female genitals, but a translation will always be forced to either stick to intent (vagina/pussy) and lose flavor, or will be forced to be awkward (love hole/honey pot/flesh crevice).
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>>122444712
Just looking for recommendations. Feeling like I've seen too many of the same shit.
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Has Princess evangelion 2 and imouto paradise 2 been announced yet?
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>>122444031
>He totally rewrote the "A Magi Nation" scene, but he nailed the intent of the original.

Just curious, but which scene was that?
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>>122445069
Nope. Try next year.
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>>122445069
Imopara 2 was in the works by MG wasn't it?
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>>122445652
I didn't hear anything about it. I don't work there though and I certainly do not get paid to shill their great products like boob wars on this site.
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>>122442168
I guess everybody who can't speak Japanese aren't allowed to be a fan of any media from Japan because it's all translated then.
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>>122445652
I think fan translators are actually working on it.
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>>122446059
What I took from " if a fan was truly fan" was that someone who REALLY likes visual novels would be willing to put forth the effort to learn Japanese given the HUGE rewards for doing so. Obviously, you can be a fan without having sufficient passion to give a hoot. I'm a fan of Korean cinematography, but do not plan to learn Korean. That's because my passion is not very high, and plenty of movies have subtitles.
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Is Yandere Translations dead?
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>>122446608
Long since
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>>122446746
Who'll translate Aiyoku no Eustia then?
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>>122412281
It's out!

http://tanoshimi.xyz/2015/11/16/kami-no-chinpo/
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>>122446797
Nobody right now. The partial came out *exactly* 3 years ago and there has not been a peep of anyone picking it up. Three years, anon. There's not a high chance of someone picking it up in the future, either, considering the length of the game.
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>>122446903
I'll learn moon and translate it myself.
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>>122446903
I'll translate it, just give me more time to learn jipjap.
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>>122447034
can this be a new meme? i want this to be a new meme.
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>>122447158
I promise I will. Give me at least 10 years to finish college and learn moon and translate it. Just stay alive until then.
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>>122447034
Yeah, sure. So you say now. There's a reason that people don't finish translation projects, you know. It's like that Fyodor Dostoevsky quote:
> ... to say that he was stupid or dull would be a great injustice. I'll simply repeat what I have said above. He entered upon this path only because, at that time, it alone struck his imagination and presented itself to him as offering an ideal means of escape for his soul from darkness to light. Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our last epoch- that is, honest in nature,desiring the truth, seeking for it and believing in it, and seeking to serve it at once with all the strength of his soul, seeking for immediate action, and ready to sacrifice everything, life itself,for it. Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices,and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them.
Mainly
> Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices,and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious (translation) ... is utterly beyond the strength of many of them.
I started translating a VN and it is grueling. It has 9,000~ lines. I go through 100 lines through about an hour of dull work every morning. It's going to take me 3 months to finish, daily dedication to something I don't really enjoy. Aiyoku is 65,489 lines. About 10,000 are translated, *maybe*, so that leaves you with 55,000. Are you willing to tediously work on this for hours every day for 1.5 years? For NO benefit to yourself, except that OTHER people get to read it? I don't think that's likely, anons.
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>>122447667
Give me 10 years. Screencap this post.
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>>122447667
I'm gonna do it, believe in me.
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>>122447667
Also, what are you translating?
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>>122447667
I always had fun translating stuff from English to my native language.
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>>122448000
https://vndb.org/v12589
I'll admit the huge amount of sex makes this even more dull (and slightly harder in some respects) than your average game but overall I think I've got a grasp on the process. The only reason I'm even able to go as fast as I am is because I don't care too much about preserving "sentiments" and have gone entirely on "intent" which for porn makes it way easier. Someone TL'ing Aiyoku would have a harder time.
>>122448159
I happily translate doujins, song lyrics, etc for friends, but holy SHIT vns are on another goddamn level. A doujin has like, 200 lines maybe, a song has 50-some, VNs have fuckin' unending thousands of lines, most of which are lengthy and hard to word properly. It beats on your soul. You spend like 6 hours straight translating a day for the first week and you've hardly made a dent. You weep.
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>>122448453
>https://vndb.org/v12589
>every girl is cowtittied
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>>122448558
I like lolis but I don't really like fuckin' them. It's purely a coincidence that there's no pettanko.
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>>122448639
There's an in between.
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So what does /vn/ think of the Teisou kannen zero game?
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>>122448842
Hot as hell.
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>>122448453
I ran into that problem myself. It especially hurts because all the lines are in one big document, so even when you spend hours on it you've barely scrolled down the page. The trick is to just break it into manageable chunks, translate a section at a time, and if you're struggling with a part (either because you don't know how to translate it, or you're just really bored), go translate another section that you like more, or just stop working on it for a while. The other solution is to stop posting about it, because if you keep saying you're gonna do it, people will expect you to, which creates pressure, which can actually make it harder to translate. Just remember that nobody's forcing you to do this, you can do it at whatever pace you like, and if you want you can quit anytime.
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>>122448453
why are you even bothering to TL that?
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>>122449217
I have it split into chunks of 100 lines a day. The laziness I feel far exceeds any pressure, the only pressure I really feel is to actually succeed at something and do something vaguely important (to me). The best thing that happened to me was learning Koirizo had a translation riddled with errors, because if people didn't care about THAT, they won't care about mistakes in my translation either (moreso decisions to change things than mistakes), so a lot of the pressure of living up to expectations was lessened. If the going gets really bad I'll just drop it to 50 lines a day and finish in 6 months, or even 25 and in 1 year. I wouldn't WANT to do that but it's an option I'll take over quitting, for sure.

And yeah, what a fuckin' huge document; sometimes I hit like space or something and scroll down a lot, so I have to slowly go through like a thousand untl'd lines to get back to my place. What a downer.
>>122449237
1) I like it a lot
2) It's pretty short
3) I didn't know what I was getting into or how much work it'd really be
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>>122449625
Well keep up the good work, I'm rooting for you.
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>>122449217
>>122449625
one thing that helps alot is if you can get a decent programmer/scripter/hacker that can rip the text from the game for you in a logical manner. it's night and day working on one large block of text in notepad compared to being able to have the text ripped out in sequential order in notepad, or being able to work and edit all the text as an online document then run a script that dumps it all correctly into said text document.
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>>122394067
Did they translate Nonchan's route?
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>>122449917
Thanks, I just hope I have enough determination.
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>tfw you're beating guts at 3 AM
what are you up to /vn/
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>>122452797
Setting up my bot for a game and then going to continue getting my heart broken by KnS.
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>>122452797
Reading this VN that recently came out called Life is Strange.
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>>122452797
3 AM here as well
I've been trying to get back into Rance VII after giving up for a while.
First time through and playing blind, I wasted so much time in the beginning trying to fuck all the girls.
>look up a guide
>find out all my tactics/armies are shit
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Goddamn I always get so depressed after finishing a VN.

Characters feel alive to me, until the story's finished.
Just finished Umineko, and knowing I'll never hear fresh Beato/Battler dialogue again really hurts
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>>122453209
>it shows me the fat dude plotting to kill me
>i attack him
>it was a trick all along, the game was baiting me into a trap by showing me that scene
>i completely fell for it
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>>122452797
if i can make it through this route without killing myself i'll finally get to nagisa and riho.
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>>122453356
>if i can make it through this route without killing myself
good luck
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>>122453356
Killing self out of boredom or loneliness?
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>>122453493
>boredom
i'm literally only playing this game because of pic related another anon posted a few threads back.
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>>122453614
NTR is my fetish.
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>>122452797
>tfw impossible to find torrent anywhere
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>>122453821
Nevermind guys, Jast decided that it would be fun to translate it into all ages version
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>>122454020
At least we're getting the 18+ version of the sequel. It's taking forever though.
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>>122453821
torrent of what
the older version?
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>>122454674
I was looking on sukebei and couldnt find it, but then realised it only has an all ages TL and saw that it is on nyaa, so not even worth downloading anymore.
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>>122454741
porn doesn't add anything to the game tbqhwu
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>>122454820
Doesn't matter. Censoring is just stupid.
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>>122454820
But an all ages VN isn't worth playing in the first place
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>>122454861
If a woman gives you a pie, would you refuse it if you saw she took 1 of the 6 slices before handing it over?
5 slices is worse than 6, but it's not like it ultimately matters. Sweating the small stuff is not a wise thing to do. Take stands against censorship when it actually matters, not when porn is cut from an RPG.
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>>122453719
bullying girls in general is becoming mine.
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>>122455047
If I bought a pie and the woman in the counter steals a portion of it, yeah I would fucking refuse. I want the whole goddamn pie.
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>>122454861
yeah it's stupid but I'm not going to avoid playing censored games, that's just pointless

>>122454870
That doesn't make any sense
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>>122455158
Don't change the analogy, punk, you're missing the point. Which is that not having the sixth slice does not make the other five slices any worse. You're looking at a full fledged RPG and refusing to play it (pirate it, I might add) simply because of the sixth slice being missing, thereby putting the other 5 to waste. You're making a big deal out of a small thing, and thereby making a mess of it all.
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>>122455365
Maybe you just don't value that small piece of pie enough.
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>>122455421
You would have a point were this not an RPG, where obviously the RPG and story aspects of the game are far more valuable than the lackluster porn.
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>>122455489
>than the lackluster porn.
really is a shame
looked up the CG set after beating it a few times and can honestly say nothing was lost
also isn't the sequel coming in september?
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>>122455606
But anon, how can I enjoy the sequel to its fullest potential if I haven't played the first one because it was censored?
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>>122455606
It was supposed to be.
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eien no aselia's ending credits always make me tear up
I can't take it
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>>122456307
i hope ISIS targets thomas-chan next.
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Is ImoParadise at least a good fap?
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>>122457203
It's great if you like vanilla with wincest
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>>122457535
Eh, good enough.
I thought you could fuck the sister in KnS but I heard you can't. I need my fix.
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>>122457535
i'm not sure if armpit sex or back-of-the-knee sex are vanilla but i'm pretty sure pegging and bondage aren't.
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>>122457693
Woops, looks like my only reading a few hours of it didn't give the correct impressions
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>>122457693
>pegging
I'm still fine with it.
What other major fetishes are there?
Futa is basically the only thing I can't do.
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>>122456307
Why are you reading a VN only you can read?
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>>122457808
>I'm still fine with it.

>What other major fetishes are there?
just look it up on vndb. michika is the one with pegging/bondage, rio has the other stuff i mentioned, along with sleep sex, haven't finished the route though. and i didn't play much of hiyori's route but she wet herself.
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>>122455158
That's not what's happening though. She's selling you the pie with a bit cut out, you're not buying the whole pie. Her taking a bit before hand isn't theft, until you bought it you had no rights over the pie or say in what happened to it. Her taking a bit out is only relevant if she promised you the whole pie and then took a slice which is not what's happening. If you don't like the h-scenes being cut out (by the way fucking h-scenes!?!) then don't play/buy the game, but you absolutely don't get to act like you've had something stolen from you because the creator of the product decided not to include something. You're an entitled fucking child and you need to grow up.
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What's wrong with wanting to fuck your sister?
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>>122459753
Absolutely nothing.
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>learn Japanese for eroge
>end up losing your virginity to a jap girl that likes eroge
>mfw
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What's some good VNs with monster girls in them.
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>>122460318
https://vndb.org/v10947
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>this is a CG from a VN considered all-ages and SFW in Japan
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>>122460306
Who are you talking about?
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