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I'm looking for recommendations for... anything, really. I don't care if it's an anime, manga, visual novel, whatever (as long as it's been translated to English, at least). I want a yuri series with an actual relationship. Endless episodes of girls half-flirting and blushing at each-other doesn't count. An actual relationship, where both parties acknowledge that they're into the other, go on dates, have dumb arguments, whatever. There are series that focus on straight couples instead of teasing confessions, even if they're vanishingly rare, but I don't know of any lesbian works like this.

Don't start with Aselia. It's VERY slow. It takes like five hours of pure visual novel to get to the first bit of gameplay. Play Kamidori first if you're into SRPGs, one of the Raidy games (2 is mechanically better) if you're into dungeoncrawlers and don't mind yuri/lots of rape. Really just play Kamidori. It's one of the best gameplay-VNs outside of stuff like Phoenix Wright or 999 and has pretty minimal adult content.

This series owns, can't wait for people bitching about competent female characters who aren't sexualized. Plus crazy 3D gear scenes, an OP by Revo, and animated giant fights. Maybe an Urobuchi-esque filler ending. Easily the best 2013 anime announced so far.

I find the lack of Shirou Emiya in this thread disturbing. If you go outside of visual novels Shiki Ryougi could possibly work for both questions, but tsundere is a pretty dumb thing to categorize her as. She's certainly badass, though. Aoko Aozaki is pretty awesome and the main character of a visual novel, but it hasn't been translated yet.

Ha. Probably next Christmas or something. Toady started on the Army arc a few months ago with armies that would move and attack places in adventure mode, which spun off into tracking, which somehow spun off into fixing goblin fortresses, which spun off into work on all other nondwarf civ settlements. He's now working on multi-tile trees and flowers/fruits. Toady has the most WTF work flow.

Yo. Been involved on and off for about 4 years.

7 movies, an adaptation of the lame Epilogue from the novels, and a recently announced adaptation of the good epilogue (Mirai fukuin/recalled out summer). Yuki Kajiura composed or arranged all of the music in the series. The credit themes were all performed by Kalafina, a group formed by Kajiura for the series. It consists of Keiko Kubota, Wakana Ootaki, and Hikaru Masai. They had a fourth member, Maya, but she was dropped from the lineup after the second or third song recorded (I believe she's only in Sprinter and ARIA). Kalafina went on to continue doing anime theme songs, notably Magia from

It's going to be 25 episodes and cover at least one more story arc from the novels.

lol It's going to be the Realta Nua version, which has extra music, artwork, added voices, and, yes, cuts the abominably written porn scenes. It's an all-around superior version to the original and essentially the definitive version. Like six bad porn scenes do not outweigh the stuff added by RN. Between RN, Mahoyo, and the Tsukihime remake supposedly cutting the porn, TYPE-MOON is clearly moving to a more all-ages niche and I hope that they can start to drag the rest of the gameplayless visual novel medium along with them.

Isn't Princess Waltz the one with the girl who is basically Saber with breast implants?

Monster Girl Quest, maybe? It's pretty gross, though, heavy on vore and the main character is a kid. Submissive male is not really a thing that sells in Japan.

The unix command line allows one to finger a coworker casually. Command lines are fun in general if you know what you're doing. You can do some crazy and, well, esoteric stuff.

No. They all look like they do in the real world. That happened in episode 1. Plus his sister isn't a gamer. Episode 4 had not-awful pacing for once, but ugggggh dammit why are there so many tentacles harassing a 12-year-old-girl this is not something anime needs more of goddammit

Episode 3 was... kinda bad honestly. The deaths are incredibly telegraphed, and frankly I didn't care about any of them. It might have been better as a two-episode thing with less blatant death flags, but this is pretty clearly a side story and I'm not sure if that would give it too much weight. I dunno if this could have been salvaged. Also the girl saying she'd sing and then humming was incredibly silly. Hopefully it goes back to episode 1/2 quality.

dat Kajiura dat A-1 Pictures That's pretty much what I knew about SAO going in. It was going to be damn pretty, in both visuals and audio. And it is. Kajiura's channeling some kind of Celtic pop thing that's surprisingly distinct from her recent stuff. The battle music is kinda overly reminiscent of Fate/Zero, though, and there's some wonkiness in how it's actually used. It's still definitely got the visual prettiness going for it, though. As for the overall show... eh, I'm giving it the 3-episode test, at least. The concept is kinda silly, but whatever. My biggest problem with it is th

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-allears.gif Tell me more about Japanese culture without being able to spell the name of their capital correctly. It' child porn. You have to be pretty fucked in the head to get off on it. Like, jacking off to children is pretty much the definition of pedophilia. Get help.

One of my friends bought Portal 2 for like 5 people, myself included. Dude is pretty cool. Probably not getting anything else, though.

Fate/Stay Night is basically a must-read in general. Umineko and maybe Higurashi are also pretty great, at least in the plot and music departments. Their default art is godawful, though. Higurashi has a patch to swap in redrawn sprites, I'm not sure if Umineko does.

Aselia is pretty cool, if very flawed (primarily in that you could cut out a whole lot of bullshit fanservice and not hurt the core concept at all, and used that extra space to elaborate on actually interesting stuff). The actual battle system is one of my favorites, but the overworld mechanics are really wonky and unbalanced (there's pretty much no reason to ever build half of the structures, IIRC, and movement in general is kind of clunky). A more fleshed-out version of the actual combat system with more than four main archetypes, one of which is kind of useless, and a "fuck you, I win at ev

It really isn't worth the frustration maxing all S-Links on vanilla or FES P3. P3P and P4 loosen the requirements to where you can reasonably pull it off with planning instead of staying glued to a guide.

Haruhi is... okay. It's very good for what it is, but what it is isn't very good, if that makes sense. It's very good meaningless bullshit, with a pretty great narrator and an interesting take on its genre, but at the end of the day it's still meaningless bullshit. It's by no means bad, and is probably worth watching, but it's not really memorable or a must-watch.

Utawarerumono. Eien no Aselia. Kamidori. Fire Emblem. Super Robot Wars. Battle Moon Wars. Disgaea. You are factually incorrect, good sir.

That's odd. I've got a friend who's playing 1 at the moment and he says it's a godawful slog. I rather get the impression that he's only still playing to see how awful it can get. Nothing points to it being even "decent".

Odin with Thunder Reign (level 63) is just as reliable and is available 25 levels earlier.