#insani — Public Fediverse posts

My four part May Sky analysis concludes with a trip to the mountains and, apparently, snow in the hot month of August.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/may-sky-visual-novel-analysis-4/

A U.S.-centric take on how to localize Japanese high school classes in a way that is intelligible for readers familiar with 4-year high school systems.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/localizing-japanese-high-school-classes/

I use textual evidence in May Sky to induce that it almost certaintly takes place in 2005 and 2006.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/evidence-that-may-sky-vn-begins-in-may-2005/

The first of a four-part in-depth analysis of the script of May Sky, one of the best of the 31 visual novel localizations to come out of al|together. A lonely newly-minted salary man meets a mercurial teenage shrine maiden…

https://thenewleafjournal.com/may-sky-visual-novel-analysis-1/

In part 2 of my 4-part May Sky visual novel analysis, a salaryman and shrine maiden fight about feelings, social decorum, and root vegetables.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/may-sky-visual-novel-analysis-2/

With the help of an open source Adobe Flash emulator called Ruffle, we take a look at the original Flash version of a Japanese visual novel called Gogatsu no Sora (localized for al|together 2008 as May Sky).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/adobe-flash-version-of-gogatsu-no-sora/

La’s Silver Hair in True Remembrance

La, the 17-year old co-protagonist of the excellent visual novel True Remembrance, has silver hair. The rest of the cast have seemingly natural and expected hair colors. I study La’s unexpected silver mane.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/las-silver-hair-in-true-remembrance/

#Butterflies #FreewareGames #Insani #TrueRemembrance #VideoGameHairColor

I review Insani’s 2008 local treanslation of Satomi Shiba’s excellent doujin freeware visual novel, True Remembrance.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/true-remembrance-insani-visual-novel-review/

I compare my al|together visual novel rankings with the Visual Novel Database average user scores for all 31 pieces.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/comparing-my-altogether-vn-rank-to-vndb/

al|together Visual Novel Ranking (10-1)

I rank the top 10 visual novel translations to emerge from the 31 pieces translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/altogether-visual-novel-ranking-10-1/

#17VisualNovelCircle_ #AMidsummerDaySResonance #alTogether #alTogether2005 #alTogether2006 #alTogether2008 #CollageVN_ #FloodOfTears #FreewareGames #Insani #Japan #KiriKiri #MaySky #Narcissu #ONScripter #RedShift #ShootingStarHill

al|together Visual Novel Ranking (20-11)

The second part of my al|together visual novel ranking covers the ten translations I have ranked 20-11.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/altogether-visual-novel-ranking-20-11/

#17VisualNovelCircle_ #ADreamOfSummer #alTogether #alTogether2005 #alTogether2006 #alTogether2008 #AtSummerSEnd #EnoYamamotoTen #FreewareGames #FromTheBottomOfTheHeart #Insani #KiriKiri #milkcat #ONScripter

al|together Visual Novel Ranking (20-11)

The second part of my al|together visual novel ranking covers the ten translations I have ranked 20-11.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/altogether-visual-novel-ranking-20-11/

#17VisualNovelCircle_ #ADreamOfSummer #alTogether #alTogether2005 #alTogether2006 #alTogether2008 #AtSummerSEnd #EnoYamamotoTen #FromTheBottomOfTheHeart #Insani #KiriKiri #milkcat #ONScripter

al|together Visual Novel Ranking (20-11)

The second part of my al|together visual novel ranking covers the ten translations I have ranked 20-11.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/altogether-visual-novel-ranking-20-11/

#17VisualNovelCircle_ #ADreamOfSummer #alTogether #alTogether2005 #alTogether2006 #alTogether2008 #AtSummerSEnd #EnoYamamotoTen #FromTheBottomOfTheHeart #Insani #KiriKiri #milkcat #ONScripter

Moonshine – Visual Novel Review

Reviewing one of the more unique and polished al|together visual novel translation projects, Moonshine.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/moonshine-visual-novel-review/

#alTogether #alTogether2008 #FreewareGames #Insani #Moon #ONScripter

I am working on a project to review 30 free doujin visual/sound novels that were translated into English with the consent of the creators between 2005 and 2008. My latest review was of "From the Bottom of the Heart" ("Negaeba"), a story that takes about 10 minutes to read, but leaves the reader with more than that to think about.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/visual-novel-review-from-the-bottom-of-the-heart-negaeba/

I wrote a separate analysis - linked in the article.

#visualnovel #soundnovel #videogames #freegame #doujin #negaeba #insani #gamereview