No, most of the porn scenes can just be cut out and have no effect on anything. There is one scene in alternative that is plot relevant, but whatever they do to change it can only be an improvement. While the Jp all-ages releases apparently slightly toned down some of the violence, even those didn’t actually…

If you let everything auto-play, you’re probably looking at around 70-80 hours for all of them combined. A bit less if you don’t care about listening to voices and just skip to the next line as soon as you finish reading, but still probably 60 at an absolute minimum. A bit more if you do additional routes in Extra,…

The all-ages versions of the JP releases apparently toned down some of the gore very slightly, but it sounds like this one will only remove the porn. And you reeeeeeally aren’t missing anything from those aside from the one plot-related scene and... well.... I’m curious what the all-ages version does for that and…

The fact that the porn scenes can be completely removed should say something. People don’t read through 60+ hours of text for 20 minutes of sex scenes. Both of these are true for most story-based “porn games”; the porn is completely superflous and nobody pays money for them and sits through the rest of the game just…

Visual manga, redundancy aside, has it’s own issues as visual novels don’t really resemble manga at all. Manga is about 99.99999% black and white, while visual novel visuals would much more accurately be described as “anime-style”. Visual novels mostly use character sprites on backgrounds with text on the bottom. So…

That sounds like Angel Cop, which I've never seen but is infamous for those things (and I read mentioned recently, otherwise I wouldn't even remember)

It should be noted that Urobuchi only wrote the first 3 episodes. He had some role in the planning phase, but he didn't make all (or maybe any) of the major characters or decide all the things that were happening. He does not have anywhere near the influence here as he did in Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass, or even…

Mixed Koimonogatari is the climax of Monogatari Second Season and a direct follow-up to the events of Otorimonogatari—which makes it feel more than a little odd that Araragi, the franchise’s protagonist is absent from the climax of his own story. On some levels, this works well—Araragi could not do what Kaiki does.…

Yeah, space is definitely an issue too. I accidentally bought the wrong thing when trying to buy the extra docks and have 2 extra pages as a result, and I'm still feeling the pinch. I'll probably have to buy a bit more at some point.

Perhaps, but the animation wasn't the problem.

Indeed. Does anybody remember Akican? Of those that do, how many actually liked it? (I couldn't finish the first episode, it was awful)

I've been amused at how many pixiv artists I've seen that used to be all or mostly Touhou and now are suddenly all or mostly KanColle.

Kan Colle is a free-to-play game with payment-based elements. This isn't a particularly unique model of game operation. What is unique is the fact that the administrators actively discourage players from paying for content. The game can be played to its fullest without paying for anything, and nothing is closed off…

Without a doubt, the biggest gaming phenomenon of Japan this year involved the game which had anime girls as battleships. It's too bad that most people outside of Japan can't play it.

It's 9 BDs, which means 25 episodes.

It's safe to say Neptunia will make the jump at some point, but probably not until at least a year after launch. Same for Tales games, those WILL appear on PS4 at some point.

See, when Final Fantasy succeeds, console JRPGs succeed with it. We live in a world of imitator culture, and when a Final Fantasy VII or a Final Fantasy X comes along and sells 5-10 million copies, it becomes the vanguard for the genre. It encourages big developers and publishers to release their own takes on the…

When it was announced, a lot of guys were FURIOUS that "their" studio was making a show for women instead of a show for them.

It's clear because studios don't just make a decision to make an anime 2 months before it airs on TV. It was also hinted at over a year before the commercial happened.

Earlier this year, four shirtless anime boys appeared in a commercial—a commercial that became so popular that a full anime series about them was ordered. That is how Free! was created. And, as you might expect from those beginnings, Free! is a shameless cash-in—though that doesn't make for an unwatchable show.