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Here are two general questions that are of interest to me. What are some of the influences behind your compositions (i.e. composers, particular musical traditions, movies or other media in which music interacts with text and images)? I am also curious about how the music, text, and images work toget...

The main reason, why we read things and perceive fictional characters as 'real people' to a degree, isn't because we think exactly or even similarly to the author about them. It's moreso because our experiences and feelings (which are more often than not very different from that of the author to be...

Every nontrivial character takes on a life of its own. ... I think it is not unreasonable to argue that the real Rin is fully defined by whatever made it into the VN, no matter how. That is a great point, and it made me think of an essay that I read in a literary theory class I took a few years ago...

I have become most attached to Rin because I see a lot of her in myself. Thinking back to high school and before, which in my case is a very long time ago, I can imagine that some of the people who attempted to interact with me wandered away perplexed and avoided me thereafter. I was, at the time, r...

As many here probably have, the first time I went through this novel, I chose options that seemed to fit best with Hisao (and not necessarily what I would do in the situation). It seems that doing this can easily lead to Emi's story, and it did for me. Though Emi is outgoing and athletic, while I am...

This seems like as good a place as any for my first post. I found this visual novel and this forum through a rather roundabout route. Recently, out of curiosity, and because I enjoy weirdness, I started searching the web for bizarre video games, and I found many Japanese titles on people's lists of ...