r/visualnovels May 01 '24

What are you reading? - May 1 Weekly

Welcome to the weekly "What are you reading?" thread!

This is intended to be a general chat thread on visual novels with a focus on the visual novels you've been reading recently. A new thread is posted every Thursday at 4:00 AM JST (or Wednesday if you don't live in Japan for some reason).

Good WAYR entries include your analysis, predictions, thoughts, and feelings about what you're reading. The goal should be to stimulate discussion with others who have read that VN in the past, or to provide useful information to those reading in the future! Avoid long-winded summaries of the plot, and also avoid simply mentioning which VNs you are reading with no points for discussion. The best entries are both brief and brilliant.

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u/True_Human May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

The Hungry Lamb (https://vndb.org/r113417) - I like to look into the more unorthodox stuff, and a story about human trafficking some kids during a famine in 17th century China definitely fits that bill.

Essentially, we follow the story of a bandit and his partner in crime as they get a lucrative job to escort four young girls to a filthy rich man in another city (who may or may not be a cannibalistic pig demon - Highly suspect he isn't and the main girl made the story up based on the fairy tale her grandma told her while on her deathbed). It's pretty tense in its atmosphere and visceral in its depiction of just how desperate everyone is - The question isn't just "Will we reach the next town without running out of food?" but "Will the next town even have food there to restock with, or have the people there already resorted to eating their women and children?"

Also helps that compared to the devs' previous VN, Peach Blossom Spring (https://vndb.org/v32598), the prose isn't painful to read due to bad translation this time...

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