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I thought of something fun, /jp/. We could have a VN book club. We vote on a VN once a month or so. Then we take about week to read on our own. After that we discuss the VN for a week or two, so to allow any latecomers. Once we've wrapped up discussions, we could give it a short review and rating.
Doing this would encourage more variety with /jp/, exploring content that would otherwise be disregarded, and potentially inspire new content.
Would anyone be interested in doing this?

>> No.39611536

>>39611495
Me!

>> No.39611569

Sounds like a very good idea. Would be an excuse to actually work through some decent VNs rather than my usual trashy eroge

>> No.39611599

>>39611495
Yes

>> No.39611711

>>39611495
When do we start?

>> No.39611721
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OK! Looks like there is some interest. I haven't actually gone through any VNs outside of Katawa Shoujo myself. I wanted to get into VNs for a bit, but discussing normally sucks.
I'm going to sleep. Feel free to make some suggestions. I'll make a strawpoll later.
>>39611711
SOON

>> No.39611741

so long as theyre in english and are easy to get a copy of, this sounds great, vns are mostly all i play nowadays anyway

>> No.39611793
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>>39611741
Yeah, they should be in English, and it'd be appreciated if someone knew where they could be pirated. If not, I'll try and look for them.

>> No.39611801

>>39611495
Let's make it more fun by reading the VNs untranslated and having discussions in Japanese.

>> No.39611813

>>39611801
I don't want that.

>> No.39611869

>>39611801
It'd be interesting if at least one anon did read them untranslated. Just to see what differences there are. It'd encourage more anons to learn Japanese so they can enjoy the unadulterated product.

>> No.39611890

>>39611793
>it'd be appreciated if someone knew where they could be pirated
typically nyaa, even if there isnt a torrent for a vn in english you can just download the jap version and patch it yourself. i would personally stay away from official translations if possible for a lot of vns due to bad localization but thats just my opinion and sometimes itll be all you can get

>> No.39611973

Make sure you set up easy to remember dates for it. Say first tuesday of every month the VN is posted and we come back on the 3rd to discuss it. Also try to discourage continuous posting in her inbetween. It should be a thread with a purpose not just another shitposting general on the board.

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>>39611890
to add to this, vndb for easy finding of english patches

>> No.39612302

Please don't forget to make suggestions. See ya in a few hours /jp/.
>>39611973
That sounds like a decent schedule. I think Wednesday would be a little better.
I really don't want this to devolve into a general. Already have enough of those. Not sure what measures could be taken, but there's time to figure it out.

>> No.39612949

>In a week
Does that mean everyone has to be finished with the VN by then or what?

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>>39612949
OP did say he isnt real experienced with VNs so i doubt hes read ones that go on for 80+ hours

>> No.39613271

>>39612949
You don't have to finish within the week. Just preferably within the discussion period. Those that don't finish in time will just have to miss out on a bit or be spoiled.
>>39612998
We may have to make adjustments, but that's okay. We have time to sort things out.

>> No.39615873

I'm interested because I haven't read very many VNs. It'd be nice if an anon shared a DDL for those on networks that don't appreciate torrent.

>>39612302
>I really don't want this to devolve into a general. [...] Not sure what measures could be taken, but there's time to figure it out.
I think the key thing to avoid generaldom is to not keep a thread up 24/7, especially for the sake of having a thread up. Could schedule discussions to be spaced apart, like two weeks to a month. Or tie club threads to a date like the 15th of every month or every other Tuesday.

Could make a standalone thread for the chosen read. By nature of being an organized club, it's going to feel tenuously general-like. To attract those interested in the idea of a VN club you're going to need to call attention that a thread is also a VN club thread. So the subject could be like "/jp/ Reads - Steins;Gate" and the OP would contain author, premise, related links for DL and reference, and discussion prompts related to the thread's VN. This way the thread is open to both anons following the club and anons interested in the work but otherwise uncaring about club activities.

>> No.39618093

>>39611495
Sounds fun. I'm always done to get more reading practice in

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39618328

great idea i suggest we start with something easy to read (not too long and probably not part of a long running series) so more people can join

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>>39615873
>It'd be nice if an anon shared a DDL for those on networks that don't appreciate torrent.
I might put whatever we're going to read on a filesharing service.

As for the rest, sounds good. We'll go for every other Wednesday 1st and 3rd.
>>39618328
That's what I was thinking as well. I'm still looking for suggestions on what we read, though I'll look for interesting VNs myself. I just don't want to choose VNs that a lot of people have already gone through.

I'll take 3 or 4 choices and put them on a strawpoll for a vote. I'll release the results on the 1st Wednesday of the month, the 4th. From there, we will discuss on the 3rd Wednesday which would be the 18th. Once discussion starts to wrap up, I'd like to do a short review sort of thing with everyone's input. I'll probably put together a collage of sorts so we can look back on the year and what we've read. Once we've finished with all of that I'll make another strawpoll with results being released on the next 1st Wednesday.

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I've made a few selections. Before I deliver any false promises, I'm going to try and find and test them.
I hope /jp/ will find the choices satisfactory.

>> No.39621276

>>39611793
>>>/t/1108580
/t/ has a giga torrent of pretty much every English VN in existence.

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>>39621276
Nice. I'll check it out.

I think I've found a working site for those of us that need DDL. It's slow, but I haven't had any issue with the one VN I've tested from it, and it seems to have a decent selection. I wouldn't know. https://erogedownload.com/
They suggest a particular program to deal with mds/mdf files, but I'd look for an alternative.
If that's a bad site, let me know, but it seems fine to me.
I'll still post a nyaa link as well, even if /t/ has it covered.

I'll post the poll in a bit, now that I've found a source for all of my selections. I'm going to allow new answers, if none of the VNs are of any interest.

>> No.39621676
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39621676

vndb pages for the choices:
Saya no Uta (~7 hours) - https://vndb.org/v97
Kara no Shoujo (~24 hours) - https://vndb.org/v810
Yukizakura (~14 hours) - https://vndb.org/v71
Sakura no Kisetsu (~12 hours) - https://vndb.org/v206
Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji (~15 hours) - https://vndb.org/v1660
Iwaihime (~23 hours) - https://vndb.org/v17863

Vote here: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PKglzXlvayp

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Bumping before bed. Please vote!

>> No.39625088

>>39624556
I can't see the results

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>>39611495
I'm in, sounds fun.

>> No.39627341

>>39621676
Why can't we see the results?
Anyways I like Dies Irae and S;G

>> No.39631201

>>39625088
>>39627341
I wanted it to be a bit of a surprise. I'll announce the results on Wednesday.

>> No.39635976

>>39618328
I agree that we should try to steer clear of long-running series. I think variety will be an important factor in our pool of choices. It'll give us something fresh to talk about consistently and anons disinterested in the selection can always check in next meet instead of avoiding us because we're bogged down in a series.

>> No.39645448

bump
the suspense is killing me

>> No.39649464
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I'm going to go ahead and close the poll. Three more days! It'll be less of a wait next time.

>> No.39649479

>>39649464
Why wait three days when the poll is closed? Is it really worth keeping the thread alive for three more days just for that?

>> No.39649494

>>39649479
I guess it won't make a difference. I'll release the results shortly. Along with links to the VN.

>> No.39649541
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The winning VN is Saya no Uta.
https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/2414602
https://erogedownload.com/downloads/song-of-saya/
We'll start discussions on the 18th, the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Hope to see you then!

>> No.39649589

>>39649541
shame, was hoping kara no shoujo would win so i could replay and finish it, but ive never played saya no uta and always wanted to so should be a good time.
see you guys on wednesday

>> No.39650739

For anyone using wine to run the VN, don't forget to set the locale to japanese.

LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine saya.exe

>> No.39651340

>>39649541
Is this the original release or the newer remaster?

>> No.39651392

>>39651340
That's the original.

>> No.39651395

>>39651340
Original. You can get the remaster here: https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/3101791

>> No.39651435

>>39651395
>>39651392
Thanks. I read the original ages ago, so for a reread, I thought I'd go with the newer translation.
DDL: https://mega.nz/folder/58ZWHZjY#0u3U-Uas2niodyoYwJyQmw

>> No.39657464

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_song_of_saya_directors_cut

>> No.39665021

Dammit, I finished it already.

>> No.39665676

>>39611495

>> No.39673080

>>39649541
>Saya no Uta
Of course that would win.

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>>39649541
I felt like reading a VN and now /jp/ has saved me the hassle of looking up which one I should read and even provided a download link. How pleasant, how serendipitous!

>> No.39675984

So do I have to have this finished by Wednesday or are we still aiming for the 3rd Wednesday of the month?

>> No.39676018

>>39675984
3rd Wednesday.

>> No.39676325

>>39673080
I thought that was going to happen, but I also thought that maybe everyone would've already read it so they'd vote for something else.
Guess I can use this chance to read it in Japanese.

>> No.39676706

>>39676325
>Guess I can use this chance to read it in Japanese.
I played it right from the start in Japanese, and at first I thought my locale settings were broken, but it was just part of the game.

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