![]() ![]() These things are apparently wildly popular in dōjin soft fandom, but I was totally ignorant of them until that conversation. Unlike many VNs, it’s a purely linear story, no branching (this is sometimes called a ‘kinetic novel’, but people don’t seem to use that in reference to Umineko). ![]() (’Dōjin soft’ is a term kinda like ‘indie’). Umineko: When They Cry ( うみねこのなく頃に Umineko no Naku Koro ni, literally When The Seagulls Cry) is a very long series of dōjin soft visual novels which start as a questionably supernatural murder mystery and, as I understand it, get increasingly metafictional after the characters end up in purgatory. We were talking about the astonishing scope of Homestuck, how there isn’t really anything that uses the medium like it, and she got very enthusiastic about me blogging this…
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