Category Archives: VN Analysis

My four part May Sky analysis concludes with a trip to the mountains and, apparently, snow in the hot month of August.

In part 3 of my 4-part May Sky story analysis, a salary man displays poor social skills in breaking news and expressing his feelings to a mercurial teenage part-time shrine maiden.

In part 2 of my 4-part May Sky visual novel analysis, a salaryman and shrine maiden fight about feelings, social decorum, and root vegetables.

The first of a four-part in-depth analysis of the script of May Sky, one of the best of the 31 visual novel localizations to come out of al|together. A lonely newly-minted salary man meets a mercurial teenage shrine maiden…

La, the 17-year old co-protagonist of the excellent visual novel True Remembrance, has silver hair. The rest of the cast have seemingly natural and expected hair colors. I study La’s unexpected silver mane.

You are not dreaming. My detailed study of hair color (natural and unnatural) in A Dream of Summer is now live.

Where the literal interpretation of a visual novel heroine’s white hair and red eyes is the correct interpretation.

MYTH, a peculiar visual novel (to put it gently) introduced a pink-haired young woman in one of its first scenes and wasted no time making clear that her hair is actually pink.

A spoiler-filled follow-up piece on Shooting Star Hill, the story of a boy, a lonely girl, and their relationship.

A spoiler-filled analysis of a short freeware visual novel, From the Bottom of the Heart.