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A fun, simple story that should be told anyway. But yes, watch the formatting. Keep at it!

Aha, Brogurt, good job. Now you convinced me! It remined me of a Japanese online news paper article I read a few years ago that described that more and mor shy and "less attractive" girls are being seduced by "loverboys" like Tenshin, because they are seen as easy targets. Hanako, a shy girl who jus...

Very interesting! I liked it, since I think the butterfly effect sometimes actually works like that in reality too. I didn't mention a few things in my Japanese culture tips, but from what I hear, that way of suicide is rare in Japan. Hanako would be more likely to go into a forest, perhaps even htt...

Mirage_gsm, what you say is also true, it's best to be honest. But that is exactly the hard part, I think: how to be honest and yet be understood. If the other fundamentally disagrees with what I say, no progress will be made no matter how honest I am. I feel that what works best is to be honest in ...

Thank you for this great story! Hope to read more other works of you some day!

shiroi_midori, thank you for your story! I've also thought I should exercise more, so I think it's most unfortunate that you got hurt just when you tried to do so. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I guess situations like yours are why here in Europe it's often recommended to visit our physician befor...

I expected that this would crop up somewhere along the line. The situation is going to be elaborated more on in the coming chapters, but that's all the assurance I can offer you. Well, I do think it's in interesting alternative interpretation of Hanako, so I ask nothing more than to be convinced. P...

If those two choices were presented to me in the game, my reasoning would be: "Okay, I'd probably, IRL, take the more confrontational choice, but that'll probably bad-end me. Let's take the one that makes me semi-uncomfortable." As a man in his late 30ies, I've had to make such choices enough in re...

Now it's not even dreams... I remember this place, can it be the subconscious mindscape? As a young teenager, I dreamed of and imagined a place like this often, the dark city of eternal dusk... In my case, completely desolate,empty, endless, as I wanedered around, looking for a way out. Fortunately ...

Personally, I think most of the sex scenes were handled very delicately and helped a lot to further the plot ( Except in Emi and Lilly's route ). I think that even in the case of Emi and Lilly the sex scenes are also meaningful and advance the plot, but in a more symbolical way. They also help defi...

Interesting! How they met, the dream world, a metaphor from a fantasy novel, I 'd say as Hanako is into books, not so much games. A great idea!

The key to good conversation is good listening. I admit that's hard for me. :P As I already said in a different thread: I think I should try to talk to people in words they can understand, in ways they are willing to listen to. To know how to speak to someone you have to listen to what they have to ...

As for KDS, I made a thread for discussing that too, so let's move it there. Edit: that got locked. Oh, well. Let's stop it here then. Now to put this thread back on topic: Oli, what you saw were sex scenes indeed. They may be a bit softcore for you, but that's what they mean when they say that the ...

I think it's both. Some people will be attracted by the idea of playing a pr0n game, and then find out that it turns out to be not really pr0n at all. A great bait and switch, for the best, I'd say! Some people will be repulsed because they can't handle nudity or depictions of sex, and loose out on ...

Well, I'm glad you liked this link. Eric S. Raymond is one of the more extravagant figures in the free and open source community. He is no only a good programmer and prprolific writer, but also polyamourous, which means he knows how to pull of love triangles (or more?) in real life and still make ev...