Extreme, ridiculous fanservice tends to mostly be a miss for me. Like, I loved Keijo & all the glorious Keijojo memes, but I could never get into Seikon no Qwaser or Valkyrie Drive, for example. Dunno, I'm still not quite sure what works for me when it comes to funny fanservice.

Yep, I see what you mean. I don't regret watching Valkyrie Drive nor do I think it's bad, but there are so many uncomfortable moments in that show that me rewatching it is highly unlikely.

I still wish they hadn't turned up the fanservice with Lucoa so much, but oh well, it is how it is.

I'm fine with it since they turned it up so much that it went past fanservice into comically ridiculous territory.

and the only drawbacks I've heard about are all minor issues or stuff to do with the hardware.

i.e. BotW on the handheld screen being the current superior playing experience because it seems to have a much better framerate there.

also, please don't be another bomb like Skyward Sword plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It got a perfect 10 across the board and I haven't heard of anyone hating it, so I think it's fine.

I wasn't talking about quality or opinions though, it's all about production value. I'm just saying there's no way something as short as strawberry vinegar is going to be sold for 30+ dollars.

Haha, 35 dollars is far too expensive for a short game like strawberry vinegar, no matter how good it is (it's great). Pygmalion is actually more expensive than Nights of Azure with that price point, although with the high ratings on vndb I think a lot of people found that it was worth it.

You do realize that VNs are often available for free or extremely cheap usually after a year or two on special holiday? Strawberry Vinegar was $1 or 2 on Valentine's Day even though it waz $15-20 on its release.

It's a 35 dollar Visual Novel and from what I know based on common sense, free means no payment at all. It's not a stretch to assume you meant piracy, so you'll have to excuse me for that one. Plus Jay is totally into Yang though, so tough luck.

^Is this Pygmalion? You do realize Jay is literally old enough to be her dad right? He's the father figure. A bit odd too to consider the main cast bland when Jay responds with minimal emotions. Even when the sentence is exclamatory I can barely hear his voice at all over the soundtrack. Oh well.

Edit: Did you also just casually say that you're going to pirate it?

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Has anyone here completed "The Shadows of Pygmalion"?

Are we given any choices in the game? Or it is only reading without any choices?

Also am i the only one thinking the main cast are actually the bad guys after playing the demo?

There are 3 choices close to the end of the game, since a vast majority of this game is the common route.

No, they're not the bad guys, this game is just different shades of gray instead of being plain black and white a la good vs bad.

Just going to re-quote myself from a post that I made just above your comment:

So after finishing Shadows of Pygmalion, I have to say -- This pretty much is the equivalent of Madoka Magica if not better in terms of the story, but it's also definitely much gayer. So buy it, play it, it's fantastic.

Fate/Extella Official Anthology is WAY gayer than I thought it'd be. For an official anthology for a game with either female or male protagonist to choose from, they actually picked the female one for the vast majority of the content here. The male protagonist was used only a handful of times, so this manga might as well be a yuri manga. Christmas came early this year.

I just received the Fate/Extella Official Anthology manga that was released last Saturday and it's pretty much a yuri manga. I don't deserve this treasure since I understand nothing but it's so good nonetheless.

For all that though, criticism of cultural products is a totally valid thing to do since culture not only reflects us but affects us as well. So somebody really should stand up and question it, even at the risk of getting it wrong or worse, saying something not nice about something we enjoy. It's totally reasonable to say "I think you're wrong" in response (and in fact you should, that's what they call dialogue), maybe less so to claim that they're attacking out of a sense of malice or trying to oppress you somehow.

I agree, but I wish we got a proper dialogue. Somehow it ended with (according to the article):

Interviewer: "Why don’t you Japanese people follow what the UK does?"

Interviewee: "Why don’t you British people follow Japan, since we’re more civilized, and have lower crime rate than the UK?"

It also doesn't help that we're seeing this from this Nogami's point of view. He's the one describing the entire interview. The way he described the interviewer was that she seemed almost vindictive towards this sort of content with the way he compared her to a...hitman in Black Lagoon. Hm. Right.

Well that was a less civilized discussion than I expected. It was also far too predictable and overdone at this point:

A: "Violent video games are turning people into criminals!"

B: "No, violent video games let people displace all their violent tendencies!"

Although I suppose it's still interesting to see that people still have those kinds of views until now.

Yay, more Yuja. I still remember the time when people would take in-game screenshots of Serenity kissing other female servants because her Noble Phantasm involves kissing.

http://www.siliconera.com/2017/03/02/spike-chunsoft-localizing-428-shibuya-scramble/

Whoa, apparently 428 Shibuya Scramble's getting a localization after all this time. Only thing relevant here in terms of yuri is that I believe this is the source material of the Canaan anime.

No problem, glad I could help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC8V2ZvarvQ

Here's the TV CM that I was talking about by the way if anyone was curious.

It's definitely not apt to use Ritsuka yet without proper confirmation. Even her nendoroid is still named Gudako. Hakuno is assuredly the canon name because the source materials (the games) use it as the default name for both protagonists; pretty big difference with Ritsuka being the canon female name based off of an adaptation that featured her as an extra in the background while some other guy uses the name.

On the bright side, I've heard people say that an interview with Aniplex mentioned something about wanting to use Gudako as the protagonist if they ever create more fate/go anime adaptations. The only reason (according them) that they used Gudao was because he already had a voice in the Drama CD, so they just went along with that. That latest TV CM just teased anime Gudako and ugh, when will it happen?

In regards to the pairing names involving the Protagonist of Fate/Grand Order, she does have a canon name - Fujimaru Ritsuka, similar to how the Fate/Extra protagonist's canon name is Kishinami Hakuno. So with that in mind, can all of the pairing names with the Protagonist be changed to Ritsuka instead for consistency's sake? Also change the single Medea x Gudako pairing name, since Gudako is another nickname for the protagonist. Thanks.

Was it ever officially confirmed that Ritsuka is her canon name too? Or are you basing this on Danbooru and other similar sites?

One of the best sabers alongside Nero and Mordred.

Saber is Okita Souji and Archer's Nobunaga by the way, for those curious.

So you were talking about my problem with faces rather me not liking the manga?

yes.

Try to respect others' opinions

It seems you took that one negatively, so I suppose I apologize. I wasn't being sarcastic though, it is pretty amazing how one goes to the idea of hentai when shown ranges of different over-exaggerated facial expressions; it wasn't intended as a slight against you.

Just read Kakegurui.

It was... okay.

I was disappointed. I guess it was my fault to get hyped reading commemts of how amazing it was.

The side yuri was meh at best. Nothing too much praise worthy like Yuri Kuma or Flip Flappers.

The only thing i could praise is that author of this manga can make good hentai. The expression of every character in manga make me uncomfortable like i was reading hentai entire time. Props to author for that.

I guess i need somerhing normal and less crazy after this.

Amazing. Your hot takes never ceases to amaze.

So... Uh....
Little birdy told me that uh... Honey Select will be getting yuri support at the end of april... 'n' stuff...

This is one of those times I'm glad I had no idea what this was and had to look it up. Go me.

all the time, on almost every thread*

I was trying to be nice :(

...but yes, that's true.

I'll be honest... its basic storytelling, and easily noticed given that the characters themselves do a lot of that exposition, maybe too much.

...Implying that basic storytelling and having layers to the story beyond the telling of the story are somehow mutually exclusive...? Or somehow because the ending was easily telegraphed based on how everything was built up somehow makes it lose depth too. I really find some rather head-scratching stuff here sometimes.

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