Tone Works and Frill are No Longer Owned by Publisher Visual Arts

Tone Works is one of many VN studios owned by publisher Visual Arts, who also possess the rights to the popular studio Key (Clannad, Planetarian, etc.). Tone Works is responsible…

Piracy survey from BL Games World

BL (Boys Love) Visual Novel website and Twitter page BL Games World has published a survey about VN piracy directed towards all kinds of readers and genres, not just that…

MAGES Is Nearing Insolvency. What Will Happen To The SciADV Series Now?

The company MAGES.inc—formerly known as 5pb.—was established in 2005 by Chiyomaru Shikura, and would go on to release some of the most popular and influential visual novels of all time,…

Project: Eden’s Garden Demo Released

According to the creators, Project: Eden’s Garden is a Free-to-Play visual novel game inspired by Danganronpa. Taking the formula of a murder-mystery visual novel video game, and applying it to…

Did Katawa Shoujo start a subgenre?

“The adrenaline is pumping. You’re totally committed. You are going to make this, and it will be awesome. Fame and fortune will follow. You’re going to transport your audience to…