Free demo VN of Kirakira, Suika, and Da Capo.

Woo hoo! Mangagamer has just released the demos for -look at title.- I'm downloading kirakira and suika, and we'll see how it looks.

If you wish, the demos can be found at
http://www.mangagamer.com/main/
Note: 18+ please.
Unless you're mature enough. Are you?

Update on VN regulations

http://www.minori.ph/

Well well well. Looks like minori is finally giving a fairly decent explanation for blocking foreign ips. They say they're surprised because so many foreigners complained about it (Maybe it's because minori is popular overseas than in Japan. I'm not sure.)

Apparently, minori as well as many other eroge companies are being challenged with the issue of the "Freedom of Speech".

Recent VN Regulations and Restrictions

Ok well, time to spill forth and collect the news that have been affecting a certain sect of the Visual Novel industry. To be specific, it's the eroge industry. Now for most of you, you probably won't give a damn, and don't really care, so you don't really need to read this. But it is quite interesting to read anyways.

The beginning came from this article on Canned Dogs.
"TBS news reports that all rape games will be banned from sale or production in Japan. It has been decided. It is estimated that this particular genre takes up about 10% to 20% of the entire industry but the PC software independent review committee has made the decision to ban all these games."
To sum it up for you, it wants to ban rape games. Simple, right?

~Moonshine~The Story Of Dependence, And Letting Go

This is a review of the al|together 2008 4th release Moonshine. This is an extensive (I believe) review, and will contain spoilers so you have been warned from here on out.