Scanlation is generally not officially approved and operates in a grey area, so you don't need to ask... or rather should not bring it to the author's attention if you want to keep getting scanlations.
As for how to contact translators, you would have to go to the translation group's page or social media and contact them. Depending on what kind of work it is and what the group focuses on you should choose to approach someone who most likely has an interest in the material.

There are also some translators who do commissions, but that will cost you money.

Very well, I have delayed it long enough, it is finally time for me to make another proper VN recommendation post. I have laid out the work for a long time, now I can post it here as well. Engarde!

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Fatal Twelve

Synopsis:
Shishimai Rinka was a high schooler who ran a small café named Lion House in place of her grandmother. She lived her life much like any other person her age, but one day, she was caught up in an explosion while returning home on the train alongside her friend, Hitsuji Naomi. In an attempt to save her friend's life, she shields her on instinct the moment the explosion goes off, losing her life in the process. However, before she knew it, she was back at Lion House, happily chatting with her friends as if nothing had happened in the first place.

A few days later, she found herself in a strange world. Here she met Parca, an odd girl claiming to be a goddess. It turns out that she had somehow become a participant in Divine Selection, a ritual carried out over twelve weeks by twelve people, which allowed them to compete in order to undo their deaths.

Duration? 22-24 hours (going for 100% completion will generally take longer as bad endings are not instant and there are unlockable missable scenes)

Gameplay? The gameplay is based around making choices to figure out mysteries and reveal the regrets of the other contestants to achieve victory.

Fatal Twelve is part of the rather overdone "death game" genre, but with quite the unique approach. If anything it's that trope done right, with meaningful character development and proper mysteries to solve. The detective style gameplay keeps the player on their toes, while the overarching plot and the truth behind Rinka's death and the circumstances of her friend Miharu also appearing in this world between life and death pulls them along with ever growing intrigue.

Presentation is great thanks to the gorgeous art and slick UI. It also has some memorable music and voice acting.

Yuri? Most of the yuri is a spoiler, but let's just say that it turns out to be a core theme of the story and is delved into appropiately over time.
There are multiple endings, but the true ending is the most yuri.

Version? For some reason the PS4 and Switch versions of the game contain extra content that the PC ports never got. So there is a genuine argument to be made for getting the console releases instead.

Sexual content? None.

Recommended? The story may appear bleak at times, but it is building towards something grand. It is a visual novel anyone with an interest in solving mysteries can enjoy.

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Please Be Happy

Synopsis: Born as a fox in the forest of Korea, Miho carries with her the memory of a traveler who showed her kindness and spoke of home. Now more human than fox, Miho has spent a long, long time searching for her person. She arrives by airship to Wellington, one of the jewels of the floating island of New Zealand.
Despite her years spent observing humans, she still has a lot to learn about their culture and society. She's made a living so far as a thief, her heightened senses allowing her to easily take advantage of people. She's also seen a lot of the worst of what mankind has to offer. It's only after meeting Juliet, the owner of a small library, and Aspen, an aspiring novelist, that Miho starts to understand what kindness is, and that there's more than just the bad stuff when it comes to people.

Duration? 16-20 hours (for both routes combined)

Gameplay? The game's choices come down to some very important forks, two individual major routes for Miho's two love interests. Beyond that there is not much player input. The presentation is stylized with no textboxes, but rather speech and thought bubbles like in a comic book. Exposition will often be done all across the screen in different eye-catching ways. PBH clearly doesn't want to bore the player with a industry conforming experience.

Yuri? There are two major routes to follow, Aspen's or Juliet's. Both have their own extensive romance with Miho, but there is lots of content for both, as the trio interacts a lot. Without spoiling anything, the relationships explore new frontiers rarely seen in yuri VNs.

Version? All versions of Please Be Happy are the same, although the physical special edition release is nice to have, despite being pricier. There is nothing wrong with the Steam or console digital versions though.

Sexual content? None.

Recommended? Please Be Happy could very well be considered Studio Elan's magnum opus. A work that just does everything right: Presentation, voice acting, writing and romance. It is the full package. While Studio Elan works tend to have polarizing reception, Please Be Happy is universally acclaimed. For good reason.
The story is fairly unique, following a world where non-human species co-exist with humanity and the setting of New Zealand is certainly unheard of in visual novels. Much like the far off island itself, this story is laid back and kind of mysterious to outsiders. This story tackles deeply emotional themes and treats all of these topics tastefully. The romance build up across the two heroine's routes is perfectly paced. Both Aspen and Juliet can give something to Miho that she desperately seeks, in their own individual ways.

This is a story about healing. And we all need a little bit of that.

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Blackberry Honey

Synopsis: Set in England during the mid-19th century, Blackberry Honey is a tale about maids, music, and unexpected romance.
The story begins when our heroine, Lorina Waugh, is fired from her previous position as a maid in the stately home of Hartwell. With a large family back in Liverpool to support and a string of unsavoury comments circulating about her rather sudden dismissal, Lorina’s search for a new place of employment leads her to Bly.
Forced to work for fourteen hours a day, with little chance to rest, Lorina is bullied by the senior maids and, most embarrassingly of all, by the twelve-year-old daughter of the Lennard family, Lady Constance.

One of the only maids who deigns to speak to Lorina is the mysterious Taohua – but Lorina wishes she wouldn’t. Despite her lowly status, Taohua has her own private bedroom, never goes to church with the rest of the servants, and rarely interacts with anybody. Her aloof, almost cat-like personality, coupled with her peculiar complexion, eyes, and name, have inspired more than a few rumours around the Shropshire countryside that she might be a witch.
Lorina knows she should keep her distance from Taohua, and she wants to most desperately… but maybe there’s a pinch of truth to all the rumours, because she soon finds herself under the older woman’s spell.

Duration? 5-8 hours

Gameplay? Blackberry Honey is a kinetic VN (no choices), which tells its story at its own pace. The visuals and music are very immersive and the writing keeps one's attention, but beyond re-reading this great work there is not much variety or replay value. There are no unlockables or completion rewards either. Just a simple to the point VN in every way.

Yuri? The major focus of this story is of course on the developing romance and that is also what it most exceeds at. With a slightly dark and painful story like this, how that romance will end up may be uncertain, but you owe it to yourself to see it through.

Version? For Steam an 18+ patch is required to unlock the sex scenes. Denpasoft offers both the all-ages and 18+ versions separately or with patch. The console versions are universally the all-ages version.

Sexual content? The game features several sex scenes, but it's not the main focus of the story. The all-ages version naturally cuts out these scenes. Personally I say they aren't that necessary for enjoyment of the story, but they can convey the girls' feelings rather well.

Recommended? Blackberry Honey is historical fiction done right, with a deeply immersive writing style, good atmopshere and beautiful art. The relationship between Lorina and Tao is at the center of the tale, but there is a lot more going on around them. The story is bittersweet, with many trying times and also solace found in the arms of each other.
Perhaps ebihime's most popular work for a reason, I highly recommended it. This VN surely stands the test of time with its grounded historical narrative.

Nice, always great when that happens~ What's your final playtime?

Around 8 hours, although I didn't play the unlockable side-stories at the time. Now I have, which added like 2 more hours. It's a comfortable length in my opinion!

Here's the link to an archive containing of all kinds of FLOWERS supplementary material.

I'm not entirely sure if sharing this is against the forum rules. Doesn't look like it, but please delete in case it is.

This is an incredible resource to say the least. I should probably add it to the opening post...

...Alright. I can narrow it down to just a single comment for you:

Automne is still objectively better written than Printemps and Hiver though, whether someone likes it or not.

It's the highlighted part of the quotation. It is fully indicative of the problem I have. It's the crux. Because yes, I'd really want to hear you explain in which universe this doesn't read immediately as someone outright claiming to have a correct opinion. (And yes, I understand that by "it" you were referring to "Automne" in the context of the original comment.) The correct opinion, I should probably say. If you will respond by saying that I'm reading and interpreting all of this in bad faith, then you'll have to believe me that I've absolutely tried not to.

I do not have a problem with discussions having high levels of intensity. I have them all the time about the things I love. I have a fundamental issue with discussions of other type. But I'd want to answer which type and what's the issue, as well as some of the other parts of your comment, after reading your response first.

I do not consider that an opinion. An opinion on whether someone likes something or not, that is definitely subjective. But the writing is just objectively better in Automne, both from a literary point of view and in execution. I can't say if this is a consequence of the translation mind you, but Automne even on a thematical and mystery level is just more coherent than Printemps and Hiver. Yes, you can LIKE or PREFER any of the novels more and call them your favorite, that is completely subjective. This is why said it's totally up to opinion which one is the best actual work.
But Printemps and Hiver both suffer from badly connected twists/mysteries/motivations, which all are not subjective, those are just actual flaws of these works, whether that matters to someone or not. Writing can after all take a backseat to prefered relationships and characters in many works.
Ete is far closer to Automne in its consistency and I absolutely understand why it is so many's favorite too.

I suppose our views are simply incompatible, just like I concluded the first time we discussed the series. You may take offense to me calling something a fact when fiction is all about interpretations, so if it makes you feel better, lets say that whatever I refer to as a "fact" is just the closest possible approximation to a fact that writing can lend to us.

A detailed explanation on what specifically and precisely you mean by "the game very clearly portrayed" and on how you've arrived at your conclusion certainly wouldn't hurt. Chains of events, character interaction and dialogue, introspection and narration in general. Everything you deem to be relevant for your argument.

I have neither the time nor the energy to resume a years old debate, sorry to say. Mayhaps if we had continued back in the day, when all the VNs were still fresh in my mind I would care to, but even back then you quite openly ignored or waved off serious plot issues I brought up in quite a lot of detail, so I do not fancy a repeat of that.

In retrospect when looking through this thread it may appear like I'm on the negative side when it concerns Hiver, but I really do believe it's an amazing VN. I more or less agree with some people saying the mystery's resolution was lacking, but that wouldn't destroy all the emotional pay-off and character work it provides.

I don't even need to look through this thread, because I remember nearly every turn and detail of the tragicomedy that had transpired here three years ago quite sharply and vividly. Suffices to say that... Yeah, no, sorry. I do not believe it. Not that I suspect you of lying or anything, that's not it. Problem is, you had far, far more issues with Hiver that you seem to be willing to admit at the current point in time. Issues which, according to my current understanding of FLOWERS, would uproot its original, newly developed and re-introduced ideas which it builds throughout. So you're either just holding back, if unintentionally or unwillingly, or don't fully grasp the depth and seriousness of ramifications of those problems you've originally had or still have. Problems and issues which I do not believe to be present.

Adorable that you believe you can tell me what my "true" opinions are...

How's that for a conversation starter?

To answer your question, that is more of a conversation ender. At least that's what's happening now.

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Unrelated, but Iwakura Aria is out today. Been looking forward to that one~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3197710/Iwakura_Aria/
https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/45341850/5a12003c4f91ffbf536284798e3589b4112e70a0.jpg

I just finished it. This was a really solid yuri VN, with high quality art and intriguing character writing. It has been a while since I have been so sucked into a narrative that I just binged it all in one go.
I just wish there was a bit more somehow. More art, more story, more of Aria and Ichiko...

Yes, this is a legitimate script patch for the English release of Printemps. So far, it alleviates only the most frustrating aspects of the official localisation: missing lines, one minor scripting oversight, and a single case of a misnomer. The final goal is to eventually iron out all of the small stuff like typos and occasionally funky grammar.

Wasn't the translation already fixed? A double fix. Truly the double band-aid of writing.

I hope that we'll eventually have it, but it will probably take a very long time for it to appear in places one should not talk about. Unless one of my partners in crime will grace us with a scan, which is probably not going to happen. Cause those books are expensive and precious as hell...

Scanning without cutting out pages is unfortunately pretty hard, so I see the problem.

My dejected reaction was a semi-humorous observation of what seems to be a shift in your mentality and attitude, which, if it's really happening, I happen to appreciate. So I would say that you should consider this to be a weird dig at you only if you still genuinely stand by what some of the things you had written here precisely two summers ago. Well, maybe not by "what". It was mostly about tone of some of your messages. Tone which had made me cry out "god, I don't want to deal with this!" and had finally made me eschew the hope of having any sincere conversation about Flowers in this forum. A conversation I would be more willing to have then if I were better equipped for it as I do now, but back then it felt like a bit too much, a bit too frustrating and alienating.
(Fyi, I'm not writing this expecting any kind of consolation or attempting any kind of gross guilt trip. Just finally choosing to voice those feelings.)

I'm sorry you feel that way, but I am neither ashamed of anything I wrote about FLOWERS nor did I change my mind in any way. And I have never had a different opinion than the one stated which curiously gave you the impression that I changed.
Tone is irrelevant to me, I know I can be rather blunt. Judge me by the content of my posts, not their "tone", if you will.

Your uh.. "alienation" based on normal discussion of the material seems to be more of a you issue, rather than something I did. That's my perspective. Perhaps you do not discuss content quite this intensely most of the time? If you cannot engage with the flaws of something you love, then how strong is your love really? That is something that might be worth considering. I love FLOWERS. And I can see that it's not perfect and I can admit to myself when something in the series disappoints me. I also never once claimed my view is the correct one.
That's all.

Less a recommendation and more a review, but through the Hella Yuri Steam curator I noticed Eclipse: Special Forces releasing today and immediately downloaded the demo, because what was I supposed to do? Ignore the monogendered butch heaven with enigmatic, masked rabble-rousers? Pft.

I have been keeping an eye on this one's development for a long time. One thing I want to immediately add is that this goes way beyond "butch" girls. Loathe as I am to use terms like "reverse trap" (no really, I despise this term), it mostly captures the idea. This artstyle is basically BL art, but the artist decided to call the boys female and called it a day. I have no issues with androgynous designs mind you, but this is stretching even my broad spectrum.
Of course art is not a make-or-break it thing for me. Writing takes that spot for VNs.

which makes the permanently visible menu buttons on top the text box stand out even more. I really, really don't want to be mean to a newly released Yuri VN, but I was reminded of E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy

Probably the most obscure insult I have ever witnessed, but it evokes a clear image haha

Turns out this VN is made in Unity. Not RenPy, not TyranoScript or any other VN engine, not even something custom made. But Unity. And whilst performant Unity games exist, I believe this is the reason for the main shortcomings.

I was always confused by the claims that Unity games have terrible performance, but it turns out that most of the Unity games I played are considered better performing. I believe UsoNatsu, a very good recent yuri VN, also operates in Unity. It was also a performance drain before they patched it early on. Interesting.

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So yeah, I've sent checks notes one hundred and fifty pieces of FLOWERS fan art by a couple dozen of artists six weeks ago. So far only two of them were uploaded.

I admire your dedication... Though I feel that the spam might actually just turn the image uploaders more spiteful.

• The fan book that was distributed during the event also contains the second part of the story. It's mostly about Suoh and Mayuri living their working adult life together, with Suoh starting her career at an old, distinguished bookstore.

Need Need Need NEED Neeeeeeed that! Please if you ever come by a scanlation of this run it by us! This is the best thing I have ever read with mine mortal eyes.

Automne very much is the best individual FLOWERS VN in my opinion and it is not even close.

I find it curious that your attitude towards the topic of having opinions has seemingly shifted in the last couple of years.
But maybe I shouldn't get hung up on these things. shrugs dejectedly

I do not understand your point. Did I not, in very visible letters, write "IN MY OPINION"? Is this a malfunction on my screen? A glitch in the system?
I'm sorry if you were not trying to get a dig at me, but your dejected shrugging implies some form of disapproval of my behaviour. Explain, if you would...

The Steam Summer Sale may be over, but there is still more good news everyone!

Team ANPIM, the dev team which made several small yuri VNs has released them as a VN collection, this time all themed around adult yuri slice of life!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3601840/Adult_Life_Yuri_Bundle_by_Team_ANPIM/
Four stories with cute/philosophical adult yuri in them.
The best part? It's completely FREE, just like the publisher Quill Yuri's other titles like Lachesis or Atropos and The Final Prize is Soup. Their only paid game is Death Becomes You (another good yuri VN). So while you are at it, may as well add their full library to your account.

Anyway, the compilation's stories are:

My Dream Is To Be a Model, Not a Maid!
An aspiring model spills coffee on a rich lady and instantly gets turned into a maid as compensation. Hijinks ensue.

There’s No Way I’d Fall in Love With a Womanizer, Right?
The kind protagonist helps out a pretty woman on a drunken bender and instantly feels attracted to her. Turns out she is a womanizer though and from here on it's a cat and mouse game about trying not to get swept up by her.

The Moon That Fell for the Star
A convenience store clerk helps out a strange woman and lets her crash at her home. And they became roommates!

Love Goes Toward Love
Cafe worker falls in love with pretty lady from the rival cafe. And on top of that a love triangle? The drama!

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Mr. Jones, you genuinely dont know what hyperbole is? Or is this all just some sort of joke? I'm apalled if this is the latter. I'm out.

Just loaded up the "Recently Added" page - the average number of tags per upload, at this very moment and excusing anything that might be on my very short blacklist, is 7.8

I genuinely don't understand what you are even trying to say with this. Perhaps this conversation has run its course. I leave the rest to the mods.

@Zesc
You didnt understand my points and are poisoning the well wherever you can. Not to mention your penchant for projection of my intentions. You are not worth engaging with. I just wanted you to know that your approach is very unfortunate.

Sigh... there are database sites like Visual Novel database that are enitrely made for the purpose of tagging every aspect of a visual novel. But unsurprisingly on actual storefronts the same VNs do not have the same dozens of tags, because this is an unnecessary distraction, not to mention very easy to spoil content or overinflate perception with irrelevancies. There is a single page with a blonde girl? Add the "blonde side character" tag! The protag is secretly a bad guy? Add the "evil protagonist" tag!

I give up...

@Mr. Jones
Most of those garbage tags are not used. That's why they dont interefere with anything. They are clearly vistigil or gag tags that dont actually get used wherever they (could) apply.
I accused you of inteelectual dishonesty because you replied to my post about hypotheticals and hyperbole with "but where are stories with 100 tags???" as if you were playing dumb. Sigh...

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This could be remedied by improving the search function to search through the synopsis. You must comprehend why giving a story hundreds of tags is inane...

Can you find me a story on here with hundreds of tags?

What a terrible deflection... Please stop being intellectually dishonest. You said that adding a bunch of superfluous tags like the ones I mockingly mentioned would be helpful, so I confronted you with the end result of such overzealous tagging. Are there any stories with the 80s or America tag? No? It is almost as if we had been talking about hypotheticals.

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Genuinely all of the tags you're mentioning have at least the potential to be helpful. When there's a lot of stories updating at once, or when I'm trying to find a specific story that I don't remember the title of, more tags are actually better, they help make series more distinctive in my brain. I've found myself more likely to enjoy manga where a protagonist comes from a fantasy setting to Japan than the reverse, so tags recognizing the difference helps me find what I like! How... awful? I guess?

This could be remedied by improving the search function to search through the synopsis. You must comprehend why giving a story hundreds of tags is inane...

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

I do find it fun that in hindsight I can call Marvel's Thor 1 a reverse-isekai now lmao

Since isekai typically is about a character from our Earth engaging with a world that they are out of context in, such as Alice going to Wonderland. With reverse isekai Thor is going from Asgard to Earth, and a lot of the movie's story focuses on how he's an out of context element that engages with our world in a unique way due to being from another realm. Regardless of whatever pop culture origins isekai as a term started as it's evolved into a very broad term and genre used to describe many different series and scenarios.

This makes even less sense. Thor is not from another world in the sense of Isekai. He is an alien from another planet in the same universe. That is not isekai.

Do people who dont even seem to understand what an isekai story actually is really make the best judges of whether a "reverse isekai" tag makes sense...?

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

If you want it so bad, any story tagged "reverse isekai" is just an isekai story. Use the already well spread tag instead of making up another that doesn't even make sense the longer you think about it?
This site is already critisized for over tagging works and this is a very obvious example of that. I can understand gag tags to a degree, but this is too much. Do you tag any school story with "school"? Do you need a tag for whether a story takes place in the 80s or 2010s? Do you tag it "America" if it takes place in the USA?

I think I listed all the reasons why this tag is a bad idea. I've got nothing more to add.

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Most of the stories that had travel to or from another world were never called isekai in the past. It was simply not a tag. The tag came about with a very specific theme/type of other world exploration in mind and not a good one. Ultimately whether you like isekai or not, there was no reason to invent the dumb term "reverse isekai" which does not make sense etymologically or historically.

By definition all isekai means is "another world". It doesn't even differentiate which direction it goes. Thus there is no "reverse" isekai, unless you literally speak of stories with no other world involved. Then it would be a reverse isekai, but that's just all standard story-telling in existence.
This is why I made the comparison of heterosexuality vs. homosexuality. One is not the reverse of the other and most people would find it offensive if you did call it that.

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Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories

wha

Also yeah I don't think the majority of stuff tagged with Supernatural on here has characters coming over from another world? Usually they just co-exist with humans, that's how pretty much all of our vampire stories are.

Do I have to mention the obvious examples? For Shounen anime you got Bleach. For sci-fi you got basically half of every single TV show having this plot in at least a couple of episodes. Lots of JRPGs love to have characters or invaders from another world as plot points (the other usual one is "ancient civilisation which may or may not have come from space").

Coming from another/parallel/time slipped world or dimension is a very common trope in fiction. Before the dreaded isekai garbage started to be overused, the concept of a protagonist going to another world was also common and didn't need its own stupid tag anyway. Isekai does appeal to a more specific Japanese fantasy of some generic boring male self-insert jumping to another world to get a harem or become super important and amazing, because power fantasy. Isekai is to other world exploration what fast food is to a 5 star meal.

In that light, I am disgusted by the idea of making a concept as simple as characters visiting from another world be associated with this term.

I take this comment as a sign it will get better then. Still haven't managed to get much farther than the very start into it after everything so far just seemed so wrong after the first two parts...

It's not hard to surpass Printemps, the weakest of the 4. And while Ete does engage in some melancholy, Automne revels in it. Usually which one is the "best" for fans comes down to whether they prefer the more light hearted dynamics of Ete or the deep melancholy of Automne.

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Does this really require a tag, let alone one this absurd? Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories. This is not relevant to Isekai. That's like calling homosexuality "reverse heterosexuality". It makes no sense.

the self-harm is necessitated by the whole blood magic deal of the premise but it's definitely not "edgy" in that way. They way ATIB touches on grief, depression and suicidal ideation is stomach churningly well done actually. reading it made me legit uncomfortable at times bc it was more relatable than i'd care to admit

It's always those with real life issues who seem to be drawn to this kind of content... I hope you are doing better now.

It took me about 8-9 hrs to play through it, letting voices play out. It did feel like it was over in a flash but that's mostly because i was glued to the screen and at the edge of my seat the whole time xD The story itself is very well paced imo, doesn't drag or rush at any point.

Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say. It's just strange that I have seen plenty of fanfiction with 100k words plus. Not to mention the enldess word count of Japanese Light Novels. Elan has gone longer and longer as time went on. It's hard to remember that Highway Blossoms was fairly short.

I am not too fond of overdone self-harm and edgey content for the sake of edge, but I assume ATIB has more substance than that. I must add it to the list right away.

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Plan #1: I've been meaning to make a few image upload requests for a while now, because Dynasty is seriously lacking in not just quality FLOWERS art, but pretty much any FLOWERS art.

I have been requesting Flowers art on the image section a lot in the past and my nominations never got uploaded so I gave up. Instead the mods picked the same generic popular non-yuri anime of the week yuri ships every single time. It's quite depressing.

One person even ended up recommending their friend/acquaintance to start with Automne, as the supposedly “best one”, in what seemed to be a hope that they'd just bruteforce their way through the story and manage to piece everything together from clues and hints. Suffices to say that the experience seemed to be rather unsatisfactory, because a great portion of narrative parallels went over the victim's head, while they also kept making incorrect assumptions and coming to incorrect conclusions about various things simply because they lacked necessary context.)

Automne very much is the best individual FLOWERS VN in my opinion and it is not even close. So good taste on this random person. Not so bright ideas though.
Fundamentally I always say that you need to play/watch/read things in order. No exception.

Studio Élan's newest VN, 'A Tithe in Blood' is out now!

-a dark yuri visual novel around 70k words long
-English script with JP & CN translations
- full JP voice acting

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2989270/A_Tithe_in_Blood/

I have been looking forward to this since Please Be Happy. Elan is starting to actually become a powerhouse in the yuri VN scene. Although 70k words is actually rather short. I still have to finish Clover Reset before I can start on this, unfortunately.

Just a small start with a handful of untranslated Japanese/Chinese yuri VNs played by yours truly (except for those I didn't).

Japanese

• Class Zen'in Maji de Yuri?! ~Watashi-tachi no Lez Oppai wa Anata no Mono Joshi Zen'in Shiofuki Keikaku~
  This one was brought up before in this thread and my opinion has not changed. While it has its downsides, this is one of the rare yuri harem eroge out there of actual quality. It's nothing deep and I would say even lacking in the romance department, but it's sheer boldness somehow makes up for that.
  Just for the love of yuri NEVER press the "mysterious white liquid" button during sex scenes. It's quite revolting, as expected of MBS Truth. They just can't help themselves.
  https://vndb.org/v12404

• Evermaiden
  Mind you I have only played this a little, as a translation was announced (and probably will never actually be finished), but what I played was great. The art is one of a kind. It's a high production yuri VN with a strong mystery focus. It reminds me a little of games like F/SN or DIVIdead, if not in plot, then it atmosphere. It is an eroge, but I didn't reach any of the sex scenes, so who knows how cringe they are?
  As I can't speak for how well the mystery is resolved I will just have to go by the very positive reception to recommend it.
  https://vndb.org/v31427

• Solfege
  A VN/rhythm game hybrid and one I never played because I am horrid at the latter. However, the art/music/voice acting have always attracted me to solfege. @coolsnail can probably say more about it.
  https://vndb.org/v2113

• Sugar,sugar,sugarcoat
  A very new small indie VN. Finished it just recently and it really oozes that unique charm only indie VNs can. The plot is a bit unconventional, but in summary it's about our protagonist having to woo girls to feed the demoness she is actually in love with. Technically that would make this a harem VN, but there are some twists and turns I dare not spoil... Very cute comfy artstyle though.
  https://vndb.org/v50883

• YumeUtsutsu Re:Idol
  Short stories spin-off to the main Yumeutsutsu games, but lacking an English translation for some reason. This is an outrage! If you like the main games, you will like this.
  https://vndb.org/v28201

Chinese

• Eternal Love & Unwavering Love

Sequels in the ahem... Love series? They build on the titles Symbiotic Love and Melancholy Love, however, unlike those two they haven't been translated yet. I fear they might never get one either. It is not my place to make assumptions, but it is most likely related to costs.
The first two VNs set up an incredibly shocking cliffhanger which will be resolved in these sequels. It is pure torture to be denied this conclusion. Please play this if you have any means to at all. This series is probably some of the best Chinese yuri (or tangerine as they call it I think?) out there. With the insane censorship that country experiences in recent years we should value the few explicit yuri games that get released all the more.
https://vndb.org/v29663
https://vndb.org/v49516

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