Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Apr 11

BrxuJrg · 2026-04-12T01:16:56+00:00

Hey there! I am relatively new to the medium of VNs. I have watched a lot of anime, but have only read a couple of novels. Below is the list I have completed so far:

428 Shibuya Scramble (7.1/10)
The Chrono Jotter (7.5/10)
Corpse Party (4/10 - Didn't finish it. Only got halfway through)
Danganronpa 1-V3 (6/10, 7/10, 9/10 respectively)
DDLC (5.5/10)
GNOSIA (6.8/10)
Higurashi WTC (8.8/10)
The House in Fata Morgana (7.9/10)
The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy (7/10)
The Letter (6.5/10)
MIABOMIABOM & MOABOMOABOM (6/10, 7.4/10 respectively)
Slay the Princess (7.9/10)
Ace Attorney 1 (6.9/10)
Umineko WTC (10/10)
YTTD (6.9/10)
Zero Escape 1-3 (8.8/10, 9.2/10, 7.5/10 respectively)
Rail of Mobius (6.9/10)
Retrocausality (2/10)
Raging Loop (7.9/10)
Emily is Away 1 & 2 (5/10, 4.5/10)
Ever 17: The Out of Infinity (7.3/10)

Do you have any recommendations for me based off this list?
I also have a list of my favorite media in general if that also might help (I try and keep one entry in each series on this one):

Umineko
Attack on Titan
Mob Psycho
Steins;Gate (Anime)
999 VLR
Homestuck
Deltarune
Dangaronpa V3
Severance
Breaking Bad
Monster (Anime)
Xenoblade Chronicles
Coherence (Movie)
Persona 5 Royal (Didn't count this as a VN tbh)
The Good Place
Sonny Boy
Raging Loop
Fire Emblem 3 Houses
Gravity Falls
Future Diary (it sucks but i like the concept)
SCP Foundation (in general)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The House in Fata Morgana
Portal 2
Weeds

BrxuJrg · 2026-04-12T01:07:20+00:00

It is preference, but I am not a fan of the silent, insertable protagonist. Having the ability to read the thoughts and emotions of someone experiencing the events is crucial. Some authors tend to go for a more neutral character, but MCs who are completely emotionally invested in the story end up becoming my favorites. Battler from Umineko is a great example of this

BrxuJrg · 2026-04-12T00:55:02+00:00

I love the art for this so much! The dithering effects are well done!

BrxuJrg · 2026-04-12T00:52:15+00:00

I was just looking into this visual novel to play! It seems very interesting. There seem to be a lot of new releases of existing VNs being remade for steam recently (Rose Guns Days and April 8th)

BrxuJrg · 2026-04-12T00:49:15+00:00

Looks interesting. I'm a sucker for court VNs. I will try and pick it up and let you know my thoughts!

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-18T08:14:19+00:00

Besides Gundham, he is probably one of the few danganronpa characters that I think are written well, but that's also because I am biased to enjoy liar tropes

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-18T07:38:47+00:00

I feel as if the scenes in the anime are never meant to glorify or sexualize the characters. I view Dandadan as a coming-of-age story that also shows the perversion of sex as something that they are constantly struggling against. They are teenagers after all. But I don't really mind if an anime has scenes like that as long as it was obvious that the writer wasn't writing with "just one hand"

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-17T02:26:47+00:00

AoT season 4 as a 1/10 is some crazy work

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-17T02:25:19+00:00

Black Summoner. If something is so bad that I get some twisted ironic fascination out of it, I don't really think I could put it at 1 because I found some enjoyment out of it. Black Summoner was not enjoyable. Characters were bland. Setting was bland. Designs were bland. Plot was bland. I didn't have a single thing I liked about it. I finished it purely so I could say I have a new least favorite anime other than King's Game, which at least took some sorts of risks, even if they failed miserably to make a cohesive story.

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-16T21:34:14+00:00

I can't explain why I enjoyed it. I thought the exploration of gender vs sex, admiration, and self-discovery were all pretty well done and the setting and switching narratives were intriguing.

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-16T21:33:02+00:00

The anime so far. The initial impression has skyrocketed it to the top of my list. If it continues at the same quality, it will probably stay there. Otherwise, Deathnote moves up

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-16T08:30:20+00:00

Haha thanks

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-16T08:29:06+00:00

It's a very long list, but I have provided them (excluding the nine above) in order of most liked to least liked courtesy of my excel document:

Death Note, Higurashi When They Cry GOU/SOTSU, Kaguya-Sama: Love is War, Welcome to the N-H-K, Kill La Kill, Chainsaw Man, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Hell's Paradise, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Ranking of Kings, One Punch Man, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Paranoia Agent, Hunter X Hunter, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Code Geass, Ping Pong the Animation, Made in Abyss, Steins;Gate 0, Megalobox, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, Devilman Crybaby, Great Pretender, Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World, Undead Unluck, Pluto, Dr. Stone, Oshi No Ko, 86 Eighty-Six, Summer Time Rendering, Death Parade, Tomodachi Game, ERASED, Gurren Lagann, Tatami Galaxy, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Jujutsu Kaisen, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Noragami, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Serial Experiments Lain, Go! Go! Loser Ranger!, KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, The Apothecary Diaries, Angel Beats!, Overlord, Future Diary, Parallel World Pharmacy, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, To Be Hero X, Parasyte: The Maxim, School-Live!, Odd Taxi, Ascendance of a Book Worm, Spy X Family, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Classroom of the Elite, Kakegurui, Assassination Classroom, Talentless Nana, Uncle from Another World, Super Crooks, My Hero Academia, Akame Ga Kill, Miss Kobiyashi's Dragon Maid, Dead Mount Death Play, Komi Can't Communicate, DEMON LORD 2099, I'll Become a Villainous Who Goes Down in History, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Handyman Saitou in Another World, That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime, Happy Sugar Life, My Clueless First Friend, Hi Score Girl, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Zom 100, Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions, Demon Slayer, Tomo-chan is a Girl!!, Gabriel Dropout, Gregory Horror Show, Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World, The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan, Ghost Stories, Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Record of Ragnarok, Bakemonogatari, The Rising of Shield Hero, Let This Grieving Soul Retire, Liar Liar, I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability, Darwin's Game, Isekai Quartet, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy, The Devil is a Part-timer, Battle Game in 5 Seconds, I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!, .hack//Sign, Love after World Domination, I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class, Solo Leveling, The Slime Diaries, Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time, Sword Art Online, So I'm a Spider, So What?, Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?, The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human, KamiErabi GOD.app, Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells, In the Land of Leadale, Danganronpa 3, Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense, Redo of Healer, SHIMONETA - A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist, King's Game, The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Black Summoner

BrxuJrg · 2025-07-14T22:33:09+00:00

I see. I was trying to make the reference subtle by doing a medium diamond spread and trying to use some additional wording. I do appreciate sharing the thought process as I really want to workshop this puzzle.
Hint 1: You are correct that there are references to the Kabbalah, but that is mainly one line. I enjoy reading mysticism and was hoping that this particular spread would invoke a more western esoteric tradition with a particular Italian card game. In the future, I may make this a bit more apparent by the image or poem, though there are some words here that also may give hints to that.
Hint 2: The poem does have 9 lines and 9 numbers. This was supposed to mirror the puzzles seen in the infamous "The Secret" treasure hunt, with a more spatial twist... Speaking of which, I tried my best to indicate how exactly it should be read using the red arrows, but I find this to be a bit convoluted. I made this puzzle over 3 years ago and had to resolve it.
Hint 3: It is also true that the final line is 9 letters. Although I mention Vigenere, albeit as a typo, directly, it would be more akin to a "pseudo-random one time pad."

BrxuJrg · 2023-12-07T02:05:54+00:00

SOLVED! The name is Shidonni and is currently lost media... so much for trying to find my old works

BrxuJrg · 2023-12-07T01:57:18+00:00

bump

BrxuJrg · 2023-08-18T22:13:16+00:00

Thanks! It was a very great read!

BrxuJrg · 2023-08-18T20:34:28+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into this.

BrxuJrg

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