Doujin (amateur) Visual Novel Artist: milk cat June 18, 2007

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The Japanese are a disturbed and insane bunch. If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, you’ll know that more Japanese school kids are whooping their teachers’ asses, literally. During World War II, they experimented on enemy soldiers in numerous inhumane ways. Thankfully suicide rates have been dropping and fertility rates have been rising in the land of the rising sun.

That said, I have no illusions of living in Japan. Firstly, cost of living is high. Plus I have already established that the Japanese are a crazy bunch. If you still do not believe me, I will soon blog about an upcoming Seinen Moe anime titled Kodomo no Jikan as a demonstration of their insanity.

However, their insanity has given rise to their incredible imagination that I admire. They’ve came up with incredible works such as Battle Royale and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni that are understandably extremely violent, but contain underlying controversies and philosophies.

The Japanese mind, despite being mostly insane, is surprisingly innocent as well. I’ve come to this conclusion after watching enough anime and playing enough visual novels. In fact, I want to introduce to you guys a certain doujin VN artist who calls himself milk cat.

Quite a few Japanese visual novels and anime focus on childhood friends, and there is no other artist out there that perpetuates this innocence better than milk cat can. You can denounce the innocence of his works as childishness, or you can just appreciate their beauty and truth of who we were, and could still have been.

I believe milk cat is in his twenties now, but I’m not sure. In the afterword of his latest work, A Dream of Summer, he did mention he has a stable job. Thus he will not be doing doujin VNs for a living and will have lesser time to write VNs.

I recommend playing these VNs before bed to get full satisfaction out of them. In fact during key parts of the games, being interrupted will kill the experience considerably.

This is milk cat’s homepage: http://milkcat.jp/introduction/hitonatu/index.htm

Without further ado, a brief introduction to his works:

A Dream of Summer

ヒトナツの夢

Download here: http://at2006.haeleth.net/game.php?id=16

Toshiki, the realist.
Mizuna, the girl he met on the roof.
And BROY, the school band whose members surround them.

It’s the summer of their third year, and Toshiki must face not only the school festival, but also a promise that he may never be able to fulfil.

Gameplay tips: The true ending is ending 1, and it is quite difficult to get. I did not get ending 1 at first. Concentrate more on “braidy” and ignore other people if you want the true ending.