Tag Archives: May Sky

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.

A U.S.-centric take on how to localize Japanese high school classes in a way that is intelligible for readers familiar with 4-year high school systems.

I use textual evidence in May Sky to induce that it almost certaintly takes place in 2005 and 2006.

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…

With the help of an open source Adobe Flash emulator called Ruffle, we take a look at the original Flash version of a Japanese visual novel called Gogatsu no Sora (localized for al|together 2008 as May Sky).

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

I review May Sky, the penultimate visual novel submission to the al|together festivals. This 2008 translation of Gogatsu no sora, which features two lonely characters who are “[m]ore than strangers, less than friends,” ranks among the finest and longest al|together novels.

〜An ambitious visual novel review project begins〜