Top products from r/visualnovels
We found 27 product mentions on r/visualnovels. We ranked the 67 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Chiru Twilight of the golden witch[5th to 8th episode]
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
Language: Japanese only
2. Steins;Gate - English Version (Best Edition)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
This product includes:The Steins;Gate game DVDDRM free
3. Umineko No Naku Koro Ni [1st to 4th episode]
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 2
Language: Japanese only
5. Fate/stay Night Game - Visual Novel
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Imported From Japan.Novel written by Type-Moon co-founder Nasu Kinoko.Your PC is required for Japanese support. If you have help to move the game software, should be Find way to help yourself.
7. EVER 17: Out of Infinity
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
From the writer of the Critically aclaimed Zero Escape series containing 999 and Virtues Last Reward
9. Japanese in MangaLand 3: Intermediate Level (Japanese in MangaLand Series)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
10. Japanese in MangaLand 2: Basic to Intermediate Level (Japanese in MangaLand Series)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
11. Japanese in Mangaland: Learning The Basics
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
12. Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (Japanese and English Edition)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
13. A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
14. Memories of Ice (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 3)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Tor Fantasy
15. Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Tor Books
16. The Fruit, Labyrinth, and Eden of Grisaia Full Package (Multi-Language) [Japan Import]
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Game language: Japanese, EnglishEnglish language included.RegionFree
17. Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 3rd Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Routledge
18. A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Yale University Press
There was a similar question here a year ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/78tr3b/jops_of_rvisualnovels_tell_us_your_stories_of/), and I should probably re-post my reply from there, considering it apparently was well-regarded.
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I was introduced to anime at around late 2007, and by the first half of 2008 I noticed that I started to understand some simple words and phrases. That seemed like a chance to learn a language with minimal effort, so I gave it a try. The other factor was that kanji were always mysterious (and therefore attractive) to me, and I was really curious how a writing system like this works.
So I went to a nearby bookstore and bought a few Japanese language textbooks. Immediately I fell in love with the grammar, which was much more logical and structurally-beautiful than anything I have ever seen before that. Unfortunately though, all the textbooks that I bought had the same big flaw: they required you to learn a lot of words and kanji by heart to be able to read the example texts even in the early chapters.
Since my visual memory and lexical memory are really weak, that was like hitting a wall. I wanted to learn more grammar, but couldn't move forward because of arbitrary lexicon requirenments. So, at around 2009 I gave up on the textbooks I had and started googling for alternatives, and quickly stumbled on what I to this day consider the best language textbook ever: "Japanese in Mangaland".
https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Mangaland-Learning-Marc-Bernabe/dp/4889961151 https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-MangaLand-Basic-Intermediate-Level/dp/4889961860 https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-MangaLand-Intermediate-Level/dp/4889961879
It is brilliantly well-structured, gives all the "conversational grammar" that is completely ignored in "textbooks for serious people", but is dominating the Japanese found in anime and manga. It also gives a lot of examples, which look like taken from anime/manga situations, which makes it even more fun. And, most importantly for me, it does not ask you to learn 50-70 arbitrary words every chapter just to understand the grammar examples.
If you are anime/manga/VN fan, and still below N3 level, you should absolutely check Japanese in Mangaland out.
At around the same time I also stumbled upon a very efficient method of learning kanji: mnemonics. Instead of trying to remember each of the characters visually of mechanically (by writing it many times), you can look at its components (called 'radicals') and derive (or at least associate) the character's meaning from them. It does not work for all the kanji, but for those it does, it is so efficient, that you can easily learn 400-500 basic kanji within 2-3 weeks.
Unfortunately, the book that I was using for that is not available in English, but I've heard that "Kanji in Mangaland" and "Remembering the Kanji" are somewhat similar to what I've been using, so you should check it out also. Even if you know more than 500 kanji, you should try the mnemonics just to understand the method and be alble to apply it yourself.
After that I became very confident in my language skills. To the point that I ordered Suzumiya Haruhi light novels from Japanese Amazon. That was a mistake. I spent like two days deciphering the prologue (4 pages), and had to give up for some time. The problem was, despite knowing most of N3 grammar, and around 500 kanji, it was not nearly enough to read unadapted text by Tanigawa Nagaru. There were too many unfamiliar words and kanji. And the fact that the senteces were insanely long didn't help at all.
Thus I needed a way, to learn more words and kanji. And I found it in writing song lyrics by memory. The technique is like this: you take your favorite anime/VN song. Since it is your favorite, you should remember it somewhat well. You find the lyrics online and go through it, looking up all the unfamiliar words and kanji. And then, when you have free time, paper, and a pen (boring university lectures are especially good for that) you try to write the song's lyrics by memory. After repeating this several times, you should know all the song's lexicon and kanji quite well, and can move to the second favorite one. After doing for 5-6 songs, your vocabulary should become much bigger and your kanji count would probably be around 800-900.
For me that was the point when I tried to read some manga (for me it was "Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai"), and by the end of the 3rd volume I suddenly realized that I AM ACTUALLY READING IT UNTRANSLATED. Reading as in "reading without looking into dictionary every few minutes". That was one of the happiest moments in my life.
Unfortunately, it was still not nearly enough to read Suzumiya. Nevertheless, it was enough to start reading simpler LN: "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai". That made me feel that I AM ACTUALLY READING IT feeling again.
It was around 2012, and at around the same time I discovered the VN medium, starting with F/sn. I did not dare to try it untranslated yet (remembering the Haruhi fiasco that happened twice), but in about a year of reading simple manga and LNs I decided to try some simple VN as an experiment. So I went to VNDB in search of well-rated untranslated simple VN (for the metric of "simplicity" I chose it being a SoL nukige), and found Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo. It was even easier to read than I expected.
So after imprinting a lot of anatomic vocabulary into my brain, I finally tried a much more challenging task: F/ha, which was yet untranslated at that time. And... I actually managed it. I cannot say it was easy, but I was still understanding what was written.
After the realization that I can read untranslated Nasu, it was a matter of time untill I completely stopped bothering with any translation for any Japanese media that I watch or read.
Happy End
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It was in late 2013. After that I basically stopped "learning" Japanese and started "using" it. Everything becomes super easy when you can google Japanese words and grammar structures in Japanese. By now I have finished a lot of untranslated work including notably hard ones like Muramasa and Monobeno, passed JLPT N1 (it was my first JLPT lol) two years ago, and am researching ways of relocating to Japan.
Think about it this way: Reading primary sources that require previous knowledge to understand before you have that knowledge removes an entire level of appreciation you could be having for the work. Almost to the point to where reading it now would likely be just as valuable as not reading it at all. You're effectively paying your respect to their work by learning it properly.
I think it's important to distinguish your reasons on why you want to learn philosophy. If your main goal is to learn as quickly as possible, then contemporary books are the best. In anime/VNs/storytelling, it sounds cool to say "I've read the entire works of Plato, Descartes, and Kant," but in real life it's usually the single worst way to learn philosophy, and definitely won't do their knowledge justice.
Aristotle's teachings are over 2300 years old. We've had a lot of time to think about what he's said (much of it incorrect). On top of this, different philosophers have studied different fields. Just jumping from philosopher to philosopher won't do you any good, since each are likely going to be talking about very different topics. For the record, it takes about 4-8 years of university study to really digest everything that's happening in a single field, and there are over a dozen of them.
That being said, "The Problems of Philosophy" is a good general introduction to the concept of philosophy. A Little History of Philosophy is a personal choice of mine. Just remember, there are no shortcuts.
Not stuff that necessarily came out in 2015, but things I read/saw/discovered in the last year:
Text extraction is easy. You can find programs that read the in-game text as you play the game.
As for text replacement: Grab a hold of someone who is either familiar with VN engines or a reverse engineer.
As for translation at your level: Knowledge of Japanese grammar is more important that Kanji recognition since you can look things up. If you want to learn more grammar, I would recommend picking up these three grammar dictionaries ([1], [2], [3]) and reading through them.
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789004546
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar-Seiichi/dp/4789007758
[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Advanced-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789012956
In my experience, the difference between comics and graphic novels can be pretty blurred, and is often more about the presentation (in terms of paper quality and cover thickness) and quantity (the contents of several comics may be printed in a single volume to create a graphic novel) - for example "Preludes and Nocturnes" can easily be considered as a graphic novel, however its contents were originally published as eight comic issues.
its just the standard english release of the game (non special edition). Idk why they decided to call it the "best edition." (at least that's what I've gathered)
Here is the link to the game from amazon.
It's definitely better received in the West than Japan, just check out jp amazon reviews or EGS
I recently found physical copies of both parts on Amazon for around $30 each with free shipping.
A quick searched turned up the same seller charging $40 each now, which is still not bad
http://www.amazon.com/Umineko-Chiru-Twilight-golden-episode/dp/B004FQH5E4/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1457022175&sr=8-9&keywords=umineko+no+naku+koro+ni
I guess you already got a link in the other reply, but just for additional options, I personally just ordered it from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07V23FX47
Actually, checking the other site linked, it looks like it says "Pre-orders closed" so an alternative might even be necessary.
Well, you can either go to Amazon and pay $400 (and I greatly recommend this if you have the money to spend), or you can get it through less legitimate means.
Slightly better than the $287.49 it's currently going for on amazon
Will do!
Well, it's available here if you want to try Amazon.
Difference between this and this?
How about this?
It was released last year :3
http://www.amazon.com/Steins-Gate-English-Version-Best-Pc/dp/B00K886062
You can actually find Japanese copies of it on Amazon (regular) here https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Arts-Rewrite/dp/B004GUTDY4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1466890877&sr=8-4&keywords=rewrite
Though as of writing this there's only 1 copy left and you'd still need to find the fan translation. There's a localized version coming of a much newer version of Rewrite, but as we mentioned there's no ETA on that.
Except it's totally in the realm of possibility because Japanese people isn't good when dealing with unexpected disaster, given the context that this game came out in 2012, right after nuclear disaster in Fukushima. There're so many evidences that point to the lack of accountability of human rather than nature disaster got out of hand. In Japanese media, there're also many works that criticize this symptom, the more popular example are the anime Your Name and Shin Godzilla movie in 2016.
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Subahibi is very critical about the paradoxical nature of peaceful everyday life. People that seek the world that has no friction (>!Mamiya and his followers!<), people that turn blind eye to the truth just for the sake peace ( >!Kiyokawa and Senagawa!< ), even the prologue >!has 2 dead end because Yuki accepts her Wonderful Everyday!<. It is so peaceful that it becomes toxic-ate, and when disaster hit nobody knows how to react, it is the paradox of harmony. I highly recommend a book called Japan: the paradox of harmony, it is a very nice read if you interesting in the topic that i just discuss, it isn't a must read to enjoy Subahibi but it could enhance the experience a bit when you could understand Japanese's sensibility.
As I said, Planetarian is one of the few games I've bought, I was hinting that I pirated all the rest.
Don't think they've been licensed in the west so you'll have to pay out your arse if you want the hard copies. F/SN is available for the low price of only $415
I recently encountered the same problem. I ended up ordering a physical copy.
Umineko
Umineko Chiru
Those should work with the translation patch.
Yeah, but I was seeing this page with the 15 dollar used copy. Not sure if it's a legit deal, might be missing everything except the disk, and as I said, no idea how the drm works in these. Do you know if I can use it?