Visual Novels on Yuzupia

Manosaba The Next page

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first time I ever actually watched a… stage reading? Not sure how else to describe it. And I enjoyed it a lot! Even with my limited Japanese, I was probably able to understand maybe just over 50%, enough to get the general gist of what was happening at least.

I thought it was a good follow up to the main story, and a good way to help Miria’s character grow as well. I was worried it would feel kind of tacked on but I thought they did a good job with it and liked the quality of it.

Sp(L R)ite

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sp(L/R)ite was a game (VN?) I bought because I liked the publisher and the concept seemed interesting. Also it looked short. Very important. I’ve been enjoying quite a few short vns these past few days (q.u.q and Mahouteq being some other ones) and this one basically continued the trend.

Unfortunately, I feel that in some ways this one wasn’t exactly benefited from it, but it also wasn’t harmed by it either. Trying to think of a good way to put this…

Mahouteq

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So after finishing q.u.q I got around to reading Mahouteq, the original game from the author/creator that I wanted to read and man, are these two games extremely different. Yet… also somewhat similar?

Both are absurdist to a degree, just one leans more into surrealism and dark themes where as the other (Mahouteq) leans much more into the absurd humor style.

The games story and setting is also relatively straightforward, and honestly it’s hard to really comment on it other than it’s a game about a girl Luna who tries to make enough money to buy her magical girl figurine. Along the way she meets Aya, Inaka, and some extremely comical villains, and a very long cat.

q.u.q

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

q.u.q is definitely one of the more surreal visual novels I’ve played. I got it because I was actually interested in reading their other work, Mahouteq but figured hey, I usually like seeing how an author/developer evolves so I’ll pick up their first game. Checking that the publisher is the same as the developer of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk, it makes more sense.

halfmoon

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

halfmoon was a VN I picked up because it was both really cheap and also I really liked the art for it. It’s… a strange VN for me to talk about. Both because I felt like there was more to it than meets the eye, but it was so short that it’s hard to exactly say what the author was going for.

The premise is relatively straightforward, it’s a story about a person who in the afterlife is now working a job on various things regarding souls. Some of these tasks involve sorting them into the cycle of reincarnation or sending them into the “hidden” world (which by the description I remember is like merging their soul into a collective). But to be sent to the hidden world, they must not have any attachments or regrets.

The Silver Case

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Silver Case was definitely one of the visual novels (games?) of all time that I’ve read. It’s not my first suda51 game, nor is it my first entry in this connected universe (that I now learned of) as I played and finished Killer7 first. This was definitely an extremely unique experience and I’m glad I got to be able to read through it.

Just from a general perspective, the controls are without a doubt extremely clunky. But I actually found that it added quite a bit to the atmosphere of the game, the way you move through areas and the way the environments are designed give that sort of claustrophobic feeling. This is definitely felt the most in the earlier parts of the game where you’re in the forest and exploring babylon, the limited and stiff controls add a lot. Coming from Killer7, it’s interesting to see how the two sort of compare in this aspect as Killer7 also had extremely awkward controls too (in my opinion).

Mahou Shoujo no Mahou Saiban

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while huh? Well, that’s because most of my efforts have been for finishing Mahou Shoujo no Mahou Saiban (魔法少女魔法裁判, or Manosaba for short) and I really, really liked it! It’s currently in JP or CN only at the moment but given its popularity online I would be surprised if it didn’t get an EN localization at some point or the other.

Full disclosure, I read it in Japanese and my Japanese is definitely not the greatest. So I can’t fully comment on prose or anything like that, but mostly just broad strokes lol. Additionally, there’s pretty much no way for me to talk about the game without going into spoilers so that’s your warning!

Kemono Teatime

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking of games that I bought on release and finished recently… I finished Kemono Teatime! This was a game recommended by a friend and the art style was so cute that I had decided to add it to my wishlist (and then buy when it came out). Some of the staff were behind another few games that I had played, namely Crystar and Crymachina which were both games that I had a fun time with… outside the gameplay. So when I heard that this was a VN with minimal gameplay elements I was excited!

Mahoutsukai no Yoru

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking of things I’ve finished reading, I’ve finished the main scenario for Mahoyo!

Honestly speaking, between this, Fate, and Tsukihime, I think this has my favourite cast of characters. The smaller cast of characters helped a lot, and the linear story helped a lot too. The presentation was also stellar, fight scenes felt very alive, and the use of sprites/cgs was pretty well done too. It made the visual novel feel a lot more alive, and combining that with the pretty colourful descriptions really made the scenes come to life.

Endless Mondays Dreams and Deadlines

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Make that four games in one weekend haha, I recently finished Endless Mondays Dreams and Deadlines and I have to say, really enjoyable experience. I’m glad I played it with the overtime update as well, since I felt that the overtime update really added a lot to the experience (even if I did take a break before playing it haha).

First off, as is usually the case in the VNs I play (since it’s what attracts me at first!) the visuals and ost are really charming! All the character designs are cute and I’m already a big fan of pixel art so that’s an added benefit for sure. The dialogue is funny and snappy, and the overall length of the game is the right length so that I felt that everything they wanted to convey was conveyed, while not being long enough that it felt like it dragged.

GIRLS MADE PUDDING

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So, the story about GIRLS MADE PUDDING is that I initially picked it up because it was the moonless moon developers (though I hadn’t played moonless moon at the time) and it had two girls on the cover, a bike, a maid(!), and the setting seemed to be travelling through towns. This combined many, MANY, of my favourite things. I picked it up and added it to my steam library.

Moonless Moon

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

wow i’m posting a lot more than I usually am, shout outs to short games that I enjoy I guess!

I finished Moonless Moon recently which was a VN I had seen on my steam front page a while back and initially wishlisted it because two cute girls on cover (so hey maybe it’d have yuri! (it didn’t)). It was a relatively short read, I finished the entire thing in under 3 hours.

Revue Starlight El Dorado

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I finished the Revue Starlight El Dorado VN! Revue Starlight was one of those series where I initially never got into because I kind of filed it under the same umbrella as Bandori and other idol shows (I’M SORRY, I saw bushiroad and the gacha so…). When I ended up watching it with a friend I was impressed, and then when I watched the movie I was blown away, so I was looking forward to reading the VN since it had come out!

Hira Hira Hihiru

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t posted in a while but sort of want to get back into posting! I recently read Hira Hira Hihiru for a book club that I’m in with some friends and really enjoyed it! I’m gonna be a bit lazy and copy paste my thoughts here about the VN as a whole.

I’m also thinking of participating in femslash february again this year… Might link my ao3 fics here too :S haha which will expose my writing but it might be fun!