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How do you pronounce mana? For languages I don't know, I always default to simple vowels with consistent usage until I'm corrected. So I'd go with ma-na, with each 'a' as in 'pa'. This is the glaring difference between English and many other languages — in 'Abraham', the Hebrew would use the same '...

I find KS to be an interesting litmus test of how screwed up someone's life has been how large a person's emotional capacity is. There, fixed it for you. :) But seriously, I think it also measures capacity for empathy. Humans get involved with characters and their fates not necessarily because of s...

Leaning forward to give someone you love a kiss, even in public, is not reveling in and flaunting your sexuality. :P I agree with you there! However, I'd like to point out that this is a big thing in Japan, where public displays of affection are rare and generally frowned upon. More interestingly, ...

Req wrote:http://i.imgur.com/QkjlLgl.jpg
did a thing.

Rika, Miki and Suzu? Love the idea of the ice-cream on the nose and the terrible problem of what to do with it. Also, the skin tones and... the footwear.

As I get through one of the routes and the main character ends up with the girl of your choosing, I had the distinct thought: "I wonder if they stayed together and what type of life they would have had the last 20 years." I think I need help :lol: No, you have reached the next impulse level for fan...

Munchenhausen wrote:"Pronounce my name."

I bet you she was a Green Party candidate and everyone thought she was doing it for the laughs.

You don't always have to write in a linear fashion. Sometimes you can come back and connect the dots later. This is what d2r pointed out to me, and has helped me immensely. I have a few good scenes where I know what is going to happen, but I don't want to pop it in for a chapter or two yet. So what...

Hi, everyone. If my absence seems curious, it's because I underwent another surgical operation last week. (Somewhat amusingly, I'm temporarily disabled for two months. I swear I'm not kidding.) Anyway, the worst is over, so I have pretty lofty ambitions for the rest of the year as it pertains to th...

As for inspiration in general...really, I'm still working on my first fanfic, but that's as good as anything :) . For me, my original goal was to answer the questions I had about Lilly's route in general. As I wrote, I continued to ask myself that question: what would/should happen next? What would...

Mirage_GSM wrote:That's Sendai, however.
Yamaku is not located in Sendai, but in a small unnamed town from where Sendai is simply the next major city - and even this much is not strictly canon...

This one apologises. Headcanon shouldn't be mixed in with other headcanon. Leads to headaches.

bhtooefr wrote:It's the curse where even if someone starts writing her route, they eventually become demoralized and give up before finishing.

I managed to do an epilogue, sort of... I don't know if I could do a route!

minimike96 wrote:I haven't finished reading all of the stories but, you did an amazing job writing these.
I actually almost cried reading Shizune's and Misha's epilogues.

Thank you! I hope you enjoy any of the other parts of 'After The Dream' that you read too!

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Eurobeatjester wrote:I have a headcanon that Rin and Emi got kicked out of a salon for trying to split a coupon for a free mani-pedi.

If i was that salon owner i would have accepted and and laughed my ass off at the same time.

That would have made three people missing body parts all at once.

Thank you for the advice. The next chapter will probably go into more detail, Takeshi is... interesting to write. You know, I think the VN does say that the school is on a hill, come to think of it. ( I do seem to remember the act 1 shanghai trip resulted in a lost period though.) Mirage_GSM is rig...

I've thought for some time that Nurse's actual name works as a pun on the word "nurse" in Japanese, hence why everyone calls him "Nurse." (Now I'm sure someone with more knowledge of Japanese than I will tell me why that's not doable.) That's what I did in 'After The Dream' (the 12th para of this s...