Anonymous asked:

So, Knowing that you like asshole characters, do you like Rance from Rance series?

Decent character, from what I've seen. But as I said a week or two ago, I only ever played about 80% of a route of Sengoku Rance, so that's the most exposure I have to him.

Also, i have been asking this to "knowledgeable" persons in the visual novel medium (well you probably dont care what i do) but, how big do you think the visual novel community is? (only """"hardcore"""" visual novels like "moeges", "kamiges" and "nukiges", excluding things like danganronpa and ace attorney) I would say it is like 5000 weirdos or so.

That heavily depends on how you define "community" in the first place. Do we mean people who actively pay attention to the VN world and discuss it online, or do we just mean everybody who plays them? Are we extending this to players of low-effort Western games that look like they were shat out directly from Tumblr's anus?

That aside, here are some quick stats that I can find:

• The VN subreddit has over 500 000 members.
• One prepatched torrent of TY2 alone has over 10 000 downloads since late 2020.
• Doki Doki Literature Club had a peak of 7400 concurrent users on Steam. Less flavour-of-the-month VNs seem to reach a peak of a few hundred.

So, as we can see, the number is probably somewhere between a few hundred and half a million. Hope that helps.