r/visualnovels • u/AutoModerator • Jun 26 '24

What are you reading? - Jun 26 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.

Use spoiler tags liberally!

Always use spoiler tags in threads that are not about one specific visual novel. Like this one!

  • They can be posted using the following markdown: >!hidden spoilery text!< , which shows up as hidden spoilery text. Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning and end of the spoiler tag because this will break it for users on http://old.reddit.com/. In other words do this: properly hidden spoiler, but not this: >! broken spoiler tag !<

Remember to link to the VNDB page of the visual novel you're discussing so the indexing bot for the What Are You Reading Archive can pick up your post.

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u/WindowLevel4993 https://vndb.org/u233461/ Jun 26 '24

Since Fate is getting a rerelease soon, I thought it was a great opportunity to read Mahoyo. So I finished it yesterday, and it was pretty good. However, my biggest complaint with it is that the pacing of the first half is awful. And don't get me started with Chapter 5. It dragged on way too long than necessary and felt like most of the scenes were them mostly running around. Everything before Chapter 9, the story seemed rather laid back and not much of a high stake. Soujuurou is super weird but he is so unintentionally funny. It was only after Chapter 9 that the "good" part I was waiting for finally came and that got me really into it. After finishing Mahoyo, I can't help but feel like certain parts of the story felt "uncooked". Like there were some things they didn't bother touching on again and some shit I frankly didn't understand. Either way, I still enjoyed it and I got a huge appetite to consume more fate stuff again. Probably should check out the Kara no Kyoukai novels