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[Aura]

I realized that some of class 3-3's students were inspired from some animes (like Lelouch, Haruhiko), is the reason why dev team inspired them because they influenced their lives or they just wanted to name them so for the sake of humor?
Are there any other inspired characters apart from the ones that I counted above? Because I don't know of anyone other.

Clearly, the artists are not creative enough to come up with ~15 original designs at once. Really though, they just thought it'd be funny. It was a big point of contention too, because about half of 4LS didn't like having cameos, and half did.

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

[OtakuNinja]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

Is the mystery umbrella girl one of these cameos? (From Shizune's route) I have a feeling I've seen her before.
And how about the CG showing the art classroom?

[Steinherz]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

I'm actually wondering now, why was Lelouch removed from the full VN, but not the other obvious references (Haruhiko Suzumiya and Ritsu Tainaka)?

[Jobriq]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

I'm actually wondering now, why was Lelouch removed from the full VN, but not the other obvious references (Haruhiko Suzumiya and Ritsu Tainaka)?

Copyright maybe? Haruhiko is just a name reference where as for Lelouch they pretty much used the same character design. Also probably because it would just look weird to have Lelouch staring at you in that CG....

[Steinherz]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

I'm actually wondering now, why was Lelouch removed from the full VN, but not the other obvious references (Haruhiko Suzumiya and Ritsu Tainaka)?

Copyright maybe? Haruhiko is just a name reference where as for Lelouch they pretty much used the same character design. Also probably because it would just look weird to have Lelouch staring at you in that CG....

I suppose so, then again The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya is a fan work.

[Aura]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

Is the mystery umbrella girl one of these cameos? (From Shizune's route) I have a feeling I've seen her before.
And how about the CG showing the art classroom? :o

I'm pretty sure the girl with a parasol is a cameo, but not 100%. I didn't even remember what you were talking about, had to look up the actual CG.

There are no cameos in the art classroom CG.

[Aura]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

I'm actually wondering now, why was Lelouch removed from the full VN, but not the other obvious references (Haruhiko Suzumiya and Ritsu Tainaka)?

Too egregious.

[Guest Poster]

There's one other CG than the classroom one where you can find some cameos from anime, and one CG where there are a couple inside joke cameos.

The festival CG featuring Shizune and Misha in a kimono had CC from Code Geass in the background. Not sure about the other characters near the middle though.

[Aura]

Do you have any interest in interactive fiction outside the domain of VNs?

I had, but then a grue ate me.

[AdvancedCryptography]

Is the name of The Answer a reference to The Question?

[Aura]

Do you have any interest in interactive fiction outside the domain of VNs?

I had, but then a grue ate me.

I see what you did there

On a different note - are you at all worried that KS will define you or overshadow your other work?

Not really. It's going to happen to some (unknown) extent and there's not much that can be done about it. Here are some solutions:

1) Make something that's unarguably better than KS.
2) Make something that KS can't be compared to.
3) Retire the handles and other names we use and create new identities.
4) Never make anything again.
5) Wipe out every trace of KS off the internet and the minds of everyone who has read it.

Anyway, it's not a big deal.

[Aura]

Is the name of The Answer a reference to The Question?

Yes.

[TheHivemind]

Do you have any interest in interactive fiction outside the domain of VNs?

It was (and to some extent, remains) a hobby horse of mine. I even wrote a good section of my Master's dissertation on the subject, which, in case you are curious, turned out to be academic suicide. I also have a lengthy argument about how Homestuckis the internet's natural next step in interactive storytelling evolution which I won't bother going into because I won't be held responsible for another annoying fucking Homestuck fan.

Most recently I've been idly picking away at Black Crown, which is something I wish I could write (i.e. good horror).

I also made an attempt to play around in INFORM, but it turns out my ability to patiently sit down and program my own interactive fiction is minimal. I've been sorely tempted to muck about in Twine, but (obviously) I haven't done that either. One day, perhaps, I'll get 'round to it.

[OutofBlues]

Do you have any interest in interactive fiction outside the domain of VNs?

It was (and to some extent, remains) a hobby horse of mine. I even wrote a good section of my Master's dissertation on the subject, which, in case you are curious, turned out to be academic suicide.

Would you be comfortable explaining why the topic of interactive fiction was academic suicide?

[TheHivemind]

Do you have any interest in interactive fiction outside the domain of VNs?

It was (and to some extent, remains) a hobby horse of mine. I even wrote a good section of my Master's dissertation on the subject, which, in case you are curious, turned out to be academic suicide.

Would you be comfortable explaining why the topic of interactive fiction was academic suicide?

It is awfully difficult to convince a department full of Shakespeare and Byron Shelly devotees that Zork or Homestuck have real literary merit.

By awful I mean "basically impossible."