Hello! We have a Discord community for people who enjoy all kinds of Japanese media, including anime, manga, light novels, games, and of course, visual novels.

We like to hang out, chat about what we're playing or reading, watch anime together, host VN readalongs, game nights, and other community events. In the past we've also done giveaways, Secret Santa, talent contests, and even partnered with Frontwing for a Kinsenka giveaway. We are also partnered with Fuwanovel as well as VTuber Purin Lapin.

We also have "Media of the Month" discussion channels, where everyone can talk about a featured anime, manga or light novel, game, and visual novel each month. We are also planning to start watching anime together every weekend starting next friday (the anime to watch has yet to be determined).

If you're looking for people to chat with about visual novels or Japanese media in general, we'd love to have you join us!

Invite link here.

I need help using an emulator on a visual novel. Where do I go for that?

I downloaded nee chan no susume. I even got the emulator to work but it get an error. It says something about cmd text snd the rest is Japanese. I need help to get this game to run.

Hi friends! What do you think?

Shop Crush is a mysterious shop simulator and hybrid VN with psychological horror elements, set in the early 2000s.

In this hybrid visual novel, you run a small thrift shop, get to know your customers, figure out what they really want, and decide what to put in front of them. Every customer has their own personality, preferences, and hidden motives - and it’s up to you to figure them out.

Behind each customer is a small psychological mystery waiting to be uncovered. Read their behavior, make the right calls, and balance profit against customer trust as you try to keep the shop running for one more day.

I’m a beginner when it comes to VNs, and I’m not really sure what I should read next. The problem is that I’m not very interested in the usual VN tropes.

A lot of the VNs I see seem to put a huge emphasis on romance or harem stuff, usually with an all-female cast and a male MC where all the girls want to be with him. I don’t actually hate harem stories two of my favorite anime are the Monogatari series and The 100 Girlfriends, and both are technically harems so if you know a VN with a similar kind of dynamic, I’m open to recommendations.

What I’m really looking for is something unique, with great themes and strong character writing. Preferably something on the longer side and without H-scenes. I’m a huge fan of mystery, horror, and thrillers, so those are a big plus.

Here are the VNs I’ve read so far, ranked from best to worst:

Umineko

Higurashi

Steins;Gate

The House in Fata Morgana

AI: The Somnium Files

Danganronpa

Fate/stay night

Ace Attorney

Zero Escape

I’d really appreciate any recommendations, especially if you think there’s something that matches my taste

A frustration I've been running into with the last two VNs I've read (hundred line and fsn) is that both of their auto advance modes are trash. Simply being that the auto advance is the same timing for non voiced and voiced text and only in the latter it waits for the voice line to play before proceeding with the same auto timing. This makes it so when you tune the timing for a voiced line to progress well the non voiced lines are sped through at an insane speed since they're timed off when the text finishes displaying on screen. It's really annoying how in HL I can set auto during a voiced segment and it proceeds well then as soon as it ends it starts blazing through text so fast and the only way to remedy this would be to make the text appear slower which is its own downside.

So what VNs are able to keep a good cadence between both of this while staying fully in auto mode?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3913950/

Looking for a Visual Novel Community? Join YOU and VEE and HER!

Hello! I’m Zenotar, and I’d like to invite you to YOU and VEE and HER, a laid-back Discord community for visual novel fans.

A major part of our server is our range of community bookclubs:

Monthly Bookclub: Each month, members nominate and vote on a visual novel to read together. This month we're reading Nukitashi!

Turbo Bookclub: A faster-paced club focused on shorter visual novels that can be completed within a limited timeframe. They are currently discussing Z.A.T.O and picking there next VN!

Odyssey Bookclub: Dedicated to longer visual novels and full series that benefit from a more relaxed reading schedule. Currently they are working their way through Majikoi!

The Golden Moege Bookclub: For those Moege enjoyer who wanted to read along and Discuss everything about Moege in a relaxed vibes. Currently they are reading Musicus.

Our bookclubs cover dozens of visual novels, and anyone is welcome to participate. Members can also create and host their own clubs, whether they want to focus on moege, otome, BL, a particular developer, or anything else. You can also show others your own VN reading in our What are you reading channels, so people may come in and join to discuss it with you.

We also regularly host activities outside of visual novels, including anime watchalongs, full-motion video game streams, and mahjong games. Members are encouraged to organise their own events too!

The anime watchalong club does 3 weekly watchalongs on fri/sat/sun as well as other unscheduled watchalongs and anyone is free to host their own!

The server also features Vee, our visual novel-focused bot, which can be used to play music or look up information about VN's.

Whether you want to read alongside others, discuss your favourite visual novels, discover something new, or simply hang out with other VN fans, you’re welcome to join us!

http://discord.gg/youveeher

I have little info to give, sorry. It’s a virtual novel that takes place on a boat I’m pretty sure. With multiple love interests none are human I believe there three or four of them One of them is a dragon I’m pretty sure.

I have only checked on ITCH.IO so far haven’t found it but I might have missed it

Вот коммент "давай проверк на ларп, назови три фута в вн😁" я как будто в жизни не слышал слово "фут" в вн сообществе

He estado rejugando Senren Banka y hace tiempo quería hacer un análisis más serio a Yoshino Tomotake.

Terminé haciendo una primera parte centrada principalmente en la ruta común: su relación con la maldición de los Tomotake, la llegada de Masaomi y el origen de la maldición.

Me interesaba especialmente analizar cómo todo este contexto termina influyendo en la personalidad de Yoshino y en su relación con Masaomi. Esta primera parte es más de contexto, mientras que las siguientes van a entrar bastante más en su psicología.

Dejo el video por si a alguien le interesa

Reposting because I forgot the text on the body.
I am a bit behind on new releases of vns in english. There were any big releases since june patch or oficial?

Do you guys know about any eroge that might be similar to huniepop, winter memories or kaijuu princess?

I played them (and their continuations) and I really loved the fact that they are really fun to play and not only goon material or full text no fun

Plz no spoilers

Hi

I am kinda fatigued of excessive H scenes in VNs. It's not so much the frequency but these days a badly built up H scene pisses me off to the point of uninstalling.

I know some romance VNs with great build up (for eg. Katawa Shoujo, White Album) but I am getting tired of the romance genre as well.

I am looking for non romance options where the H scenes make sense, out of necessity, frustration, dark reasons, lore reasons, etc. Whatever scenario/genre really. The closest example I know of is Fate Stay/Night but frankly the Non H-scene Realta Nua version is much better there.

Sorry if this is an oddly specific request lmao.

Thank you for suggestions!

Hi i spent around 30 hours on the game and I don't understand how the game really works, what are the different routes ? Is there any otder to them? Also are they the continuation of the story, just an alternative ending or a whole new a story that rewrites the events we already experienced on our first route.

I already know that there is the hero route linked to Ichijo, the revenge route to Kanae and I also have access to a guide but I don't know if I have to do all the routes, if it's worth it. and what the differences between the routes are.

Also, regarding the love meter, I don't know if it's important to focus on only one character to receive bonus scenes or H scenes.

Another question, but how many chapters are there? I thought there were 5 and I've already finished chapter 5, since then the story focuses on Ichijo and Kageaki.This leads me to believe that the first 5 chapters determine which paths the player takes based on their level of affection for the two heroines.

Last, last question, sorry... but on the Love Meter, there's always a character marked with a "?" who dies at the end of each chapter. I imagine it's the people Kageaki kills because of the law of balance but Does this affect gameplay in any way? Or is it simply a narrative element conveyed through gameplay? Similarly, a character from the Love Meter appears completely black, I imagine I'll unlock them later.

Sorry for the big pack of questions but i only played one visual novel before and i rly love fmdm so i'd like to know how the systems of the game works to have the best experience possible, thanks for anyone that takes time to answer my questions !

Hello visual novel society, it is Hata (the menace lol)

we at Fuwanovel returned back to activity after a terrible second post-revival hiatus between 2024 and 2026. From May 2026 on, we began forming a new team again and through July and August, we produced about 40 articles on the blog again, spread out across different genres. Among them there was an article with 7 monthly tables collecting most of the VNs worth checking out during all of 2026. Surely you missed out on something there!

Among our team we now have such a crazy variety of different people it allows us to give a comprehensive overview of what happens in the VN scene as a whole now. We will obviously not be able to catch every title unless we resort to a super short news blips format that doesn't require full articles to be written, but we are doing our best.

We wanted to present you with the best article that resonated most with our crowd since the beginning of July. And if we're allowed, we wish to be able to post our reviews and non-news posts here in future as well.

Short but sweet,

we're back friends and you were sorely missed.