Tag Archives: al|together 2006

The 2024 Olympics made me remember a note by the author of Midsummer Haze about writing the visual novel’s afterword during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Good news about the availability and accessability of a freeware visual novel that we covered here at The New Leaf Journal.

I use the case of an unnaturally intelligent 6-year old visual novel character to describe a specific character-writing flaw in fiction.

I compare my al|together visual novel rankings with the Visual Novel Database average user scores for all 31 pieces.

I rank the top 10 visual novel translations to emerge from the 31 pieces translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals.

The second part of my al|together visual novel ranking covers the ten translations I have ranked 20-11.

The first of three legs of my al|together visual novel ranking covers novels 31-21 on my list.

Introduction a 3-part series wherein I will rank the 31 al|together visual novel translations from 31 to 1.

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

I review an al|together-translated visual novel with unusually high production values and a main character with braids.

On noting the identical first names of the protagonists of two Midsummer visual novels I reviewed back to back (without knowing the names in advance).

The most difficult part of my al|together visual novel review project was finding what I needed to run Midsummer Haze…