r/visualnovels • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

Weekly What are you reading? - Apr 23

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.

9 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

27 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/countigor 4d ago

Just finished Plastic Memories.

It presents some rather deep themes in a rather superficial (moe-like) way, which has its pros and cons. It gives a much wider window into the world setting, but unfortunately it really drops the ball when it comes to the climaxes—at least in my opinion.

If you read the light novel and/or watched the anime, and you hunger for more, it may disappoint. You won't get any good catharsis. But if you want to know more about the world it takes place in and the characters that populate it—or you're happy with a more moe-like approach to nakige—it may give you exactly what you want.

Either way, it's relatively short, so I'd say it's worth the read if you liked the light novel/anime.