Chipushishi is a Japanese solo indie developer, and the completed game is planned for release on DLsite (R18). The project first drew widespread attention when it was announced in 2022, but little to no new information has surfaced since 2024.

His pixel art is absolutely stunning. He has also contributed artwork to 16bit Sensation (Anime) and Hapymaher, along with Umamusume fan art.

Hi r/visualnovels ! I'm one of the two developers of Spirit Talk, a hand-drawn cozy visual novel launching on Steam on June 8th.

The game follows Julia, a young witch who inherits her mother's magic shop and discovers she has the gift of contacting spirits. Her neighbors come to her with unresolved grief — a husband who needs to say one last thing to his wife, a brother trying to let go, a granddaughter who just isn't ready — and Julia helps them find peace through spells, potions, and a lot of quiet conversations.

Every character is fully hand-drawn, and the trailer is voiced. We wanted it to feel like a proper emotional story, not just "cozy aesthetic."

Oh, and there are two cats in the shop. Obviously. 🐱🐱

Would love to hear what you think — especially if you've played VNs that stuck with you emotionally. That's the kind of game we were trying to make.

🔗 Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4002100/Spirit_Talk__Cozy_Visual_Novel/

IMPORTANT NEWS:

Japanese Fantia creators need to censor new and past works or face dire penalties. One of them is the authorities getting notified.

For those unaware of Fantia as a site, its similar to Patreon for artists to post their work and get paid for

It was announced on May 19, so

they've only got the remaining 5 days to revise their past works

・Requests to revise the relevant content, immediate takedown, or deletion

・Freezing or closure of the fan club if no improvements are made

・Disclosure and reporting of log information to police or other relevant authorities if serious legal violations are suspected

The latest change is causing many artists to just delete all their old works just to be safe

At this time its unknown fully why this is happening from what I can gather. I'll be following this situation

The only thing we do know is that Article 175 of the Penal Code is involved in it.

However in the recent years a d especially in the last few months. Banks and Payment Processors have been getting involved with declining lawful payments to Japanese Creators.

Even though we don't know if this is then causing this, its very suspicious its happening to Japanese art again.

And I am also afraid if other platforms like pixiv and dl site also followed this. It will ruin so many artworks, games and doujins.

Welcome to the weekly "What are you reading?" thread!

This is intended to be a general chat thread on visual novels with a focus on the visual novels you've been reading recently. A new thread is posted every Thursday at 4:00 AM JST (or Wednesday if you don't live in Japan for some reason).

Good WAYR entries include your analysis, predictions, thoughts, and feelings about what you're reading. The goal should be to stimulate discussion with others who have read that VN in the past, or to provide useful information to those reading in the future! Avoid long-winded summaries of the plot, and also avoid simply mentioning which VNs you are reading with no points for discussion. The best entries are both brief and brilliant.

Use spoiler tags liberally!

Always use spoiler tags in threads that are not about one specific visual novel. Like this one!

• They can be posted using the following markdown: &gt;!hidden spoilery text!< , which shows up as >!hidden spoilery text!<. Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning and end of the spoiler tag because this will break it for users on http://old.reddit.com/. In other words do this: >!properly hidden spoiler!<, but not this: >! broken spoiler tag !<

Remember to link to the VNDB page of the visual novel you're discussing so the indexing bot for the What Are You Reading Archive can pick up your post.

I see this type of advice given often in this sub or the subs for individual visual novels like Gnosia, Umineko, and Grisaia.

PSA: If you don't like enough about a visual novel within 2 hours (from the characters to the story or lack thereof), you're probably wasting your time.

Even if Steins;Gate is a masterclass character analysis with time travel, you will not appreciate the whole package if the first half of this 35 hour vn was miserable.

Other vns that "get good eventually" are just hard reads for most people. Muv Luv being a full game to get to the good part is an insane recommendation. If you bounce off of the beginning, again, the rest of the series will not flip that. It will be fun and whimsy to awesome, or insufferable to "really?"

If you have experiences with visual novels you trudged through and ultimately thought were overhyped, share some stories. While we can't stop reading what we already read, we can help help advise new fans who see only the positives, spend tons of time and money on visual novels, only to feel pretty lukewarm. Even veteran readers fall into this trap, much like any hobby.

I got through chapters 1-4 (question arcs) of higurashi and just started the answer arcs. I don’t read any longer than like two hour sessions. it just feels like a while and I kind of wanted something fresh (even though chapter 5 is refreshing in its own way). is this a good idea?

Hey guys, I recently discovered the Amakano series and have a few questions.

First one : So I started to play Amakano 3 (my first game in the Amakano series) and just finished the "tutorial" part I guess ? (The part where I didn't have any choices to do). Now that I can choose the activities, I was wondering if I have to only choose one person to hang with for the rest of the game or if I could play chill and still get a route later in the game ?

Or, should I just discover the game by myself and avoid thinking too much ?

(Please avoid spoilers 🙏).

Second one : Amakano 2/2+ art style also caught my attention, and I am planning to get it. Should I play Amakano 2/2+ then come back to Amakano 3 or vice versa ?

Third one : Kind of the same question as the first one but for Amakano 2. Are there any tips before playing the game (to avoid having a "bad" run) ?

PS : Yes, I posted these questions on the megathread but I didn't get any answers so I made this post (I deleted my previous comment in the megathread)

PS 2 : I saw that you need to play the previous amakano games to fully understand amakano 2+, but I don't really have time to fully play 4 more games before playing the rest, is it really important to invest time in Amakano 1/1+ and SS/SS+.

i just finished chapter 1 of fmdm today and i enjoyed it so much up until the non consensual h scene.(sorry for my wording i don’t want to get taken down) i loved the story and all and i admit i should’ve expect this as it’s from nitroplus but idk as a girl its kind of hard to read through. are there any more of these scenes in the story or are they mostly consensual? pls try not to spoil as ive only finished chapter 1, thank you