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After reading your recent vote, and then looking at your list, I have to confess you are my most favorite person I have ever met on c-c.

I've been learning Japanese for about one and a half years; only been to Japan once for 2 weeks. At the moment I still use ITH/TA, mainly for Mecab to quickly look up kanji I haven't learnt/don't know yet, which is quite a lot unfortunately. The stuff I've chosen to read in Japanese were because I didn't think they'd be very hard. I probably still have quite a way to go if I want to read OreTsuba or something like that.

With regards to Baldr Sky specifically, the protagonist being voiced helps immensely. It meant that there were less lines I had to read and more that I could understand just by listening. But overall, it's simply not a particularly hard vn to follow.

Oh okay but judging from the comments people seems to have problem installing and playing the game properly.In that case do you still remember where you got the acrade hack from?

Hi.I don't know whether you are the right person to ask about this but I am just going to ask you about it. Sounds like you know a lot about blazblue. Well I am sort of interested in starting the series but I don't really own a ps3/xbox. Do you know of any good working torrent for the PC version of Calamity Trigger?

I just read your Pico to Chico review as well, brilliant stuff.

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And that's how my hopes on Baldr Sky died on a sunny day of May. Shame also for the news on Ixrec but that's to be expected, one cannot live on translating vn for free for thousands of unknown guys.

I got curious in the Steampunk series mostly for the settings and the art, Sharnoth was a great story but near the end I felt like things were slowing down and didn't like much the resolution. I'll try Inganock probably in summer, when I'll have enough time to read and understand what is going on (and meanwhile I'll also read Forest again).

Well, at first it seemed to me like Grisaia wasn't so exceptional mostly because an edgy protagonist and an all-girls school setting are not so uncommon or renowned for the originality or quality of the contents, not that I dislike them, take KoiTate as an example. Also, as I said, the developer is well-known for a totally different kind of titles, that didn't help at making a good impression too.

Wait, authors are paid by the amout of text? Really? That's something new to me.
I'll never read a common route in the same way again...

I don't deny the value of the characters in SR, as you say it's clearly a character-driven story and it's totally my problem if I didn't feel any attachment to them. Though I don't deny that during certain scenes I felt the weight of the drama, expecially from Torta.

I try to avoid ongoing series to as much as possible but I always get curious and it's also fun to follow the hype or discussing/watching single episodes from week to week with someone.

I'll try to read Buddha then, now that I know Tezuka's ability in storytelling I'm definitely interested in his other famous works (I'll read the review when I'm done so I'll tell you later). Let's see if I can get it done before the re-vote.

I understand your point on Angel Beats!, I honestly enjoy it after any rewatch but as it gets better the flaws also become more evident, the compression of the episode and the resulting lack of development in the relationships are the most noticeable but for the purpose of the series it doesn't feel so revelant though. Don't worry about the score system, I know everyone use their own so I never worry about them, just seeing AB! getting halved was a huge change so I wanted to ask anyway.

I should probably support the import of vn too, but I didn't find any title really worth of the expense (even if I was tempted by YMK and the bundle pack of Edelweiss). I tend to save money for the original japanese products as well even if the prices are way higher. Not that my collection is that large anyway, right now I only have Little Busters!, the limited for Rewrite and I've been planning for years to get G-Senjou no Maou. I just can't fight my manga fetish so it's hard to economize.
Had I lived in the USA I could've made more of these purchases without the worring of the customs blocking it and getting arrested for porn trade, that's another point I have to consider everytime.

Amaterasu slowing down seems like a miscalculation from the perspective of fans, we have to consider that Ixrec is doing two long titles (Rewrite and Comyu) in a row, but it took him an average of two months each for shorter projects like Forest, Sharnoth and A Profile. Indeed he's probably one the best when it comes to speed and choosing titles, I should probably do Moon and Inganock someday since the other works have proved to be worth of the time spent on them.

I didn't know about the status of the other translators so thanks for the informations. I was especially curious about Seinarukana for the art and setting but after trying Eien no Aselia and stalling it in the first few minutes I don't know how to feel about it anymore. It also seems that the other tl star TakaJun is having a hard time in the last months, so Majikoi and Eustia are to be delayed for who knows how many years too.

Grisaia is actually a big consolation, the hype surrounding it is very high for an average eroge and since it comes from the Frontwing (the Djibril Angel Tentacle house) I'm all the more curious.

If you are referring to my "Kitchen's feel" for F/SN that's totally ironic, of all the thing I may have not liked in the story the food digressions are considerably the least of my worries. It's true however that for their huge amount of text is hard to find a novel that doesn't stray from the focus, and it's hard to understand why since vn are different from manga or anime as they don't need fillers to keep going and selling as much as possible, they are already complete stories the moment you buy them. Probably, this is my assumption, authors put passion in their works trying to make the reader fit in the setting as much as possible, like passing their own mindset to you, and the great amount of slice of life or general contents are the best way to accomplish this.
This is maybe also my problem with SR, or, to mention another valide title, True Remembrance, I seldom felt any empathy for the characters and my interest for the story dropped consequentially. But I sometimes feel like hating vn too when the story is stretched way too much (I was close to stop playing Umineko many times during the beginning of various chapters) but I always find the will to keep on, largely repaid for my perseverance many times (like for Katahane and Cross Channel). If I had to judge critically every titles basing my score on how much they avoid pointless contents I probably wouldn't have any top-tier rated vn. Or maybe only Tokyo Alice, why not?

Katahane is like I expected, not outstanding but simple and relaxing. The three endings felt a bit forced though, they could compress everything in one go and the result would've been the same.
Yes, I'm keeping myself busy in this period by reading lot of manga (my faith in anime kind of crumbled after the past season and watching LoGH and Wolf Children right in the middle of it didn't help). After reading Adolf I needed something to calm my mind, so next I'll probably watch Azumanga Daioh to ease my mind. Seriously, why most of the people think that Tezuka is the japanese equivalent of Walt Disney? Both Apollo's Song and this are so tragic that many drama titles become silly in comparison, I'm scared of what I will find if I read anything else from him.
Tsui no Sora was because I needed to get to 400 completed anime and I felt like watching something horrible would have been fun since it's been too long I last watched anything plain bad.

Speaking of plain bad titles, I noticed that you have rewatched and halved the score of Angel Beats!, does it mean that you completely changed your mind on this title and if so why? (I'm already guessing something though, the critics on AB! tend to be almost the same after a while).