Utawarerumono 2 pls. THAT’S CLEARLY A BONE MASK!
Anyone else hear about Anonymous;Code?
it HAS to be, TTT2 is done, Utawa is re-airing right now without a doubt to build anticipation for the second game. I really jsut hope this doesn’t turn into an announcement of an announcement at the end of the anime.
He’s really pumping out the work lately, I do hope nothing suffers from it and becomes like his R;N. Still looking forward to it.
Have you never read a route that you really liked despite not liking the heroine?
Lucia route. Second least favorite character going into the route - favorite route of the VN.
I think that’s very rare though. I either like the heroine, so I like the route, or I dislike the heroine, so I skip the route. If a character is just meh, I’ll sit through the route for as long as it feels worthwhile, but it rarely ends on a positive note.
A lot of the VNs I’ve read don’t really have heroine routes, so they all get disqualified immediately… It’s been a long time since I last read a VN too, at least a year, so I’m probably forgetting a lot 
Tsubaki’s route from G-Senjou was a surprisingly fun read - all of the routes were.
Similarly, the only Sharin no Kuni character I liked was Ririko, but Natsumi and Sachi had good routes.
I’m not sure if Hisoka from Coμ counts. She was my favorite, but there were definitely times where I had to remind myself that~ It’s a definite for Mayu-Mayu though. Wasn’t expecting anything from her route, but it was fun.
I didn’t like Rimu at the start of Deardrops, and there really wasn’t anything that good about the VN, but I had a more positive outlook of her character by the end of the route.
I remember not liking Kudou in Da Capo, but god I spent a lot of time trying to get that route. It’s been so long I don’t even remember most of Da Capo outside of Kotori, Alice, Yoriko and Izumiko’s basic plotlines, so I don’t know if it was worth… but I spent a lot of time on it. (Nemu worst VN character ever?)
Anzu in DCII counts as well. Probably my favorite route - the most memorable at least. No pun intended.
Also foggy memories, but I remember the cast of Kazoku Keikaku taking time for me to like them.
Haruka in Litbus had a good route.
Disliked all of the main ShiniKiss characters at first, but I remember liking two of them by the end of it (that VN was a draaaag.)
Akira in Yosuga no Sora was a bundle of fun, but I hate those types of characters. The route was a bundle of fun though. (Nao worst VN character ever?.)
Everyone in The Second Reproduction. I think it’s supposed to be that way though >.> It certainly knew it’s target audience.
Nekoko and Aeka from Yume Miru Kusuri IIRC. Another oldie buried behind memories~ Didn’t like the characters but boy those routes were… something. I only really remember the endings, but they were (terribly?) good endings.
I’d say some Cross Channel characters, but I don’t even remember which parts were from which routes. Most of my joy in that VN involved the misery of characters I disliked… Haven’t happily clicked choices like that since KOTOR, but you gotta stick with Youko man.
Kana ~Imouto~ comes to mind. I wish I could talk about that but… I don’t remember a single thing about it, apart from IIRC it had a flashback with choices… which irritated me slightly.
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I know a lot of people are going to want to kill me for saying this, but Lucia is probably my second least favorite heroine of all time. that said though, her route was damn good. or at least the first half of it was. it kinda fell off towards the end; but it started off insanely well.
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Disliked all of the main ShiniKiss characters at first, but I remember liking two of them by the end of it (that VN was a draaaag.)
[/quote]dude, I was actually pretty interested in it when I started, but I have to agree. it was not that great.
[quote=“Takafumi, post:307, topic:108”]
Haruka in Litbus had a good route.
[/quote]yet another thing I bet people will hate me for. Loved Haruka’s character, hated her route… still don’t quite understand that one myself though.
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Nao worst VN character ever?.
[/quote]once again you and I find the weirdest things to agree on. Nao is the only heroine I hate more than Lucia.
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Have you never read a route that you really liked despite not liking the heroine?
[/quote]I once read a route where the heroine was my favorite character going in, then my least favorite when I found out more about her, then my favorite again once she started playing the harp, but then she dropped a couple slots again once she started playing chess with the protagonist. Oddly enough, her maid was my favorite character by the end, but that whole time it was my favorite route. (props x 1000 if someone can actually guess who I’m talking about)
We have very different opinions. Lucia is my all time favorite heroine, she’s the one that completely stole my heart. Until now, I haven’t found any other girl who could do this. The closest ones would be Asuna from SAO, Yoru from IMHHW and Yukinon from Oregairu. But they are still very far from Lucia.
very different indeed. All of the names listed are on the lower end of my list; except for Yoru, but I haven’t played Konosora yet.
But at least I agree with you regarding Haruka’s route in LB! It was also the one I least like (the drama felt forced for me). But I also didn’t like Haruka (I hate outgoing, playful girls. And also onee-chans, senpais or girls that tease you. And also, forgot to mention this, childhood friends that are with the protag since the childhood usually have a boring relationship with him, since the two of them already know each other and for a long time)
That was the charm of it. The drama was forced, and a bit stressful, but not to NagiAsu levels, so it was enjoyable.
Wow, you hate more stuff than I do… o.o
I enjoyed NagiAsu far more than it, and the drama didn’t feel forced for me. They were teenagers with feelings and dramas a teen normally deal with.
What kind of girls do you hate?
I generally like outgoing and playful girls, but I can agree on everything else. Granted, I have found that I can very much enjoy a few of those characters when done properly, but for the most part I hate them too.
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The drama was forced, and a bit stressful, but not to NagiAsu levels, so it was enjoyable.
[/quote]wait… did you not like NagiAsu? I for some reason thought that you did. huh. I wonder how I got that.
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The drama felt more forced that a bi-weekly k-drama for middle aged wives, and I should know, I’ve watched a lot of those.
The ones I don’t like. Specific traits rarely have anything to do with it. Some people you just like, others you just don’t.
My thoughts after it ended were: I wish I could give this 11/10, but I can’t, so I’ll give it an 8/10.
I enjoyed it a lot, despite it’s problems, and if Tari Tari and Shirobako didn’t exist, NagiAsu would be the best P.A. Works anime IMO.
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oh ok, so then I was remembering correctly.
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The ones I don’t like. Specific traits rarely have anything to do with it. Some people you just like, others you just don’t.
[/quote] you know, this is probably the most wishy washy statement about preferences I’ve heard in a long while, but I’ll be damned if I don’t agree with it.
Ahaha, it’s hard to not be wishy-washy about that kind of stuff. Too many exceptions and unknowns to just blame something on an archetype.
If you looked at my top 30 anime characters list, there’d be at least one personality of every category. There’s Tsunderes, antisocial characters, reverse traps, royals, food-addicts, slow talkers, sport fanatics, bubbly characters, fashion fiends, shy people, club presidents, otakus, book lovers, onee-samas, airheads, yanderes, detectives, heroes, slaves, singers, models… the list goes on and on.
I’m all for disliking a certain character, but I can’t say I hate a whole category of characters~
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Oooh, Anonymous;Code has my interest. Sounds crazy interesting.
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Gonna start reading the Zero Escape (999 and VLR) series very soon. I hope they live up to their reputation^^ It’s written by the same guy who did Ever17 or something like that, isn’t it?
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It is! And they’re both really fun, as escape games and as visual novels
I’ve just finished Clover Day’s common route. It was short, but pretty enjoyable. There were a lot of flashbacks and they were very useful to set the mood of the story and to give us some information. It felt really nostalgic, there were some very heartwarming moments. And all the heroines were likable for me, there wasn’t a single one I disliked. But also there was no one that I LOVED.
While there was no specific song of the soundtrack I found AWESOME, there was hardly any annoying song there. Almost all the songs were good.
But there were two flaws: excessive comedy (specially dirty jokes) and the pervertedness of ALL the characters (except the teacher). Really, the pervertedness of the heroines completely destroyed their cuteness or moeness. And the protagonist was SUPERperverted (even his father was, lol). It was really annoying.
And about the plot, there wasn’t really a plot. Well, there was a bit of it, but I wouldn’t call it plot. But (at least for me) this is good, because it means there is no plot to get in the middle of the routes, so they can focus more on the heroines and their own plots.
My expectations for the routes: all the routes are bigger than the common route, so this can count as a plus point, but it can be the opposite too, it all depends on the quality of the routes. There was no romance in the common route, so they saved all the beginning of it to the routes, and this may be bad. But still, I have high expectations for the routes, since the common route really impressed me. I just hope the protagonist doesn’t know all the heroines’ problems (since he knew all of them since childhood), because I always like “the big revelation” part.
Ugh, but I still have to wait for Yakusoku Translation to finish at least one of the routes. Also: I created a no-HCG patch to play it (I don’t know if the common route had H, but apparently not, but I don’t know why the trial version in vndb is listed as +18), so if anyone wants it, just contact me. It doesn’t take off the H-scenes, just the HCGs, since you can easily skip those with ctrl without seeing any gross image.
I basically have 3 ‘favorite’ non-Key VN things, and the rest, I’ll go through them one by one:
1: Type Moon
I started Tsukihime first and finished Arc’s route, put it on hold for some reason after that. Ended up reading FSN then and loved it (for the record: Heavens Feel > Unlimited Blade Works > Fate), so I went back and continued Tsukihime after that.
Ciel’s route was okay, and then I started the Far Side routes and those are what made Tsukihime for me, they were really damn great (Kohaku a best). After Tsukihime I read the PlusDisc and then Kagetsu Tohya. At that time the translation for Fate/Hollow Ataraxia wasn’t finished, so I played Fate/Extra to kill some time (doesn’t really count as VN, but hey). When the FHA tl was released I read it right away and it was great.
Now I’m waiting for the Tsukihime Remake, hoping that Nasu will eventually get off his lazy butt and stop playing Dark Souls and Bloodbourne all day, and for the tl of Mahoutsukai no Yoru.
As a side-note, I’ve watched Kara no Kyoukai, Fate/Zero, Fate/Prototype, half of DEEN’s FSN and am watching UBW.
2: MajiKoi
Not a lot to say here really, a friend recommended this to me and I read it (before the final tl patch was out), and I just enjoyed every bit of it. After finishing all the routes that were translated at that point, I read the translated parts of MajiKoi S, and then Sayaka’s route in MajiKoi A-1, and later came back to the first VN and finished it when the final tl patch came out. Now the team that translated MajiKoi is working on S, and another team started translating A-1 with the goal of translating all the A’s, and just 1 or 2 days ago those teams merged to Skyspear Translations, so here’s hoping that all the MajiKoi’s will be translated soon™
Top 5 girls in no particular order: Wanko, Miyako, Tsubame, Benkei, Momo
3: no Naku Koro ni
Haven’t quite finished Umineko yet (Finished Ep4 yesterday, dat Dreamenddischarger scene, Ange a best), but so far it’s awesome, and Higurashi was really great too. While reading Higurashi I even kinda recognized Ryukishi07’s writing style from Lucia’s route in Rewrite. Another funny thing I noticed is how the music is getting better with each game, so I’m expecting a lot from Umi Chiru here (which I will start in ~30min btw) 
Those are my 3 favorite non-Key-Franchises for VNs, but I’ve read other stuff too, like G-Senjou no Maou, Katawa Shoujo, Hoshizora no Memoria and Grisaia no Kajitsu. Currently on-hold are Ever17, Katahane and Narcissu; after I finish Umineko I’ll either continue one of them or read Ayakashibito. And once summer semester is over, I’ll read Air like I promised in my introduction, and Kanon if I get to it :3
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