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Two Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis
Since the spring of 2021 I have been working on a project to review nearly all of the 31 freeware Japanese visual novels that were translated into English and submitted to the 2005, 2006, and 2008...
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A Dream of Summer – Visual Novel Review
A Dream of Summer is the official 2006 translation of a 2005 freeware Japanese visual novel titled Hitonatsu no Yume. The original Japanese novel was created by milkcat, who, unlike most developers of...
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Hair Color in A Dream of Summer
I recently completed a review of a visual novel titled A Dream of Summer as part of my al|together visual novel translation review project. A Dream of Summer is the official 2006 translation of a 2005...
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Narcissu (Insani version) VN Review
Narcissu is a freeware Japanese visual novel by Stage-nana. It was first released in Japan on August 2, 2005. On August 21, 2005, Insani made available an official English translation of Narcissu, and...
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Moonshine – Visual Novel Review
Moonshine is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese doujin freeware visual novel called Tsuki no Terasu. The original novel was created by circle Sakura Mint. The translation was completed by AstCd2...
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My Black Cat – Visual Novel Review
My Black Cat is the 2006 official English-language translation of a 2005 freeware Japanese visual novel titled Watashi no Kuroneko. The English translation was completed by Ben Carter and submitted to...
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al|together Visual Novel Rank Intro
Back in December 2020, I came up with the idea to review nearly all of the 31 doujin Japanese visual novels translated and contributed to the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together Festivals. I introduced...
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al|together Visual Novel Ranking (31-21)
31 Japanese doujin visual novels were translated into English and contributed to three translation festivals – al|together – which took place in 2005, 2006, and 2008. Here at The New Leaf Journal, I...
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al|together Visual Novel Ranking (20-11)
31 Japanese doujin visual novels were translated into English and contributed to three translation festivals – al|together – which took place in 2005, 2006, and 2008. After writing full reviews of 29...
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al|together Visual Novel Ranking (10-1)
31 Japanese doujin visual novels were translated into English and contributed to three translation festivals – al|together – which took place in 2005, 2006, and 2008. After writing full reviews of 29...
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Comparing my al|together VN rank to VNDB
The English visual novel localization community translated 31 doujin Japanese visual novels from Japanese into English for three al|together translation festivals that took place in 2005, 2006, and...
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Defining Maria Sakamaki Syndrome
I reviewed an excellent freeware visual novel called Collage on June 9, 2023. While my review was overwhelmingly positive, I did have a few complaints. One issue that I highlighted in my review was...
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