Posted under General
idk, I thought that if a furry wanted to look for books that use furry characters and tell a story based in a furry universe.
I wonder if furries actively try to look for that kind of content.
There's also content of slice-of-life with animal characters.
So like Night In the Woods (not a VN but tells a story allthesame) and other sorts of content.
Furries actively search for content in these feilds to support?
I do actively search for games with anthropomorphic animals.
vulpes_artifex said:
I do actively search for games with anthropomorphic animals.
Same
Can't speak for others but I do, the reason I bought Major/Minor back when it wasn't free was because of the anthros despite me being skeptical about Visual Novels
Semi-Passively, I guess? I gravitate towards xenofiction in general, although that means I'm actively casting a net for everything nonhuman protagonists/perspectives.
Here; https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Xenofiction
Best I can do to help if you go looking, yourself.
The only piece i really gravitated to was beastars... Might just be cuz it's kemono. but i really did like their concept of realistic anthro world. I guess i don't really care if the characters in my media are anthro or not. Maybe i'm not really a deep in this fandom them.
benjiboyo said:
The only piece i really gravitated to was beastars... Might just be cuz it's kemono. but i really did like their concept of realistic anthro world. I guess i don't really care if the characters in my media are anthro or not. Maybe i'm not really a deep in this fandom them.
Have you tried watching Brand New Animal (BNA)?
The plot is a bit rushed but it has some good OSTs and I
do like the concept.
Just saying that BNA is "ok", don't be that hyped because they kinda rush it after the middle of the series when the only problem with beastars is near the end after chapters of Legosi learning a new technique...just to not use it lol, the ending in general was kinda of letdown at least in the manga.
My recommendation is Odd Taxi, I "think" you can even watch it with "normies" because it has a "vibe" of a more serious animation, characters don't act "too much" like anime and no it's not because of Tanaka or Imai....
But yeah the thread is more about VNs and literature ah...well, I found Beacon Pines really good, this game leans more like a VN that you "move your character for the next story beat" and it's one of the few games that got a nice balance between how kids really react or act and good writing.
Updated
I do with manga and just plain old books. Not interested in VNs as much though.
closetpossum said:
Have you tried watching Brand New Animal (BNA)?
The plot is a bit rushed but it has some good OSTs and I
do like the concept.
I did, it was quite the let down all right, none of the characters really clicked to me and the allegory felt much worse. Probably cuz the anthros could just morph back to human.
notknow said:
Just saying that BNA is "ok", don't be that hyped because they kinda rush it after the middle of the series when the only problem with beastars is near the end after chapters of Legosi learning a new technique...just to not use it lol, the ending in general was kinda of letdown at least in the manga.My recommendation is Odd Taxi, I "think" you can even watch it with "normies" because it has a "vibe" of a more serious animation, characters don't act "too much" like anime
and no it's not because of Tanaka or Imai....But yeah the thread is more about VNs and literature ah...well, I found Beacon Pines really good, this game leans more like a VN that you "move your character for the next story beat" and it's one of the few games that got a nice balance between how kids really react or act and good writing.
Oh yeah, beastars feel off by the final fight in the manga for me. Such a shame too, i really did love everything up until the 2nd half of the love failure arc.
And i still haven't watched odd taxi, i need time for that.
Sometimes I do, but I find I've been resisting the urge to do so a bit more lately after getting burned by stuff that's super forgettable a few too many times.
We're kind of exceptionally easy to market to sometimes, y'know that?
I really do wish I could find more things that I personally click with and had an impact on my life like Night In the Woods.
Despite the simple art style, the characters are still very relatable for me. I really wish more games would come out that were
furry and like NITW
Many years ago I made a forum thread asking for such books. Without looking back I believe the redwall series was recommended and I did get water ship down from the library around that time, I also rather enjoyed the silverwing series and I even happened across an autographed copy of the first book.
These days when I go book shopping I'll usually grab any book with a fox on the cover along with anything else that piques my interest, although not all of them are good there has been a few that were great fun. I enjoyed the wonderling, the shady hollow mystery series, and scary stories for young foxes which took inspiration from h.p. Lovecraft and bram stoker.
While I haven't actively searched for any books with furry characters in some time, I do keep a lookout for any I happen across. I have quite the extensive library by now and those make a notable amount of it just by chance.
This isn't quite the same thing, but fluffybooru and later fluffy-community acted as a reposity for text-based media. Even if you're not interested in the content, you might find the format helpful.
benjiboyo said:
I did, it was quite the let down all right, none of the characters really clicked to me and the allegory felt much worse. Probably cuz the anthros could just morph back to human.Oh yeah, beastars feel off by the final fight in the manga for me. Such a shame too, i really did love everything up until the 2nd half of the love failure arc.
And i still haven't watched odd taxi, i need time for that.
Beastars also gets a solid
from me for not knowing the difference between poisonous and venomous.
A few weeks ago, me and two of my pals made a trip through Germany and at our destination was a manga store. My only thought was: "Do they have Beastars?"
Ended up buying 12 of the available 22 volumes. (I also agree the end is rather mid... but I don't really care that much. Have seen worse endings and I love the rest of the story.)
Also, I actively search for videogames and other media with anthros in them.
votp said:
Beastars also gets a solidfrom me for not knowing the difference between poisonous and venomous.
Just in case someone here doesn't know: If you bite it and you die, that's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, that's venomous. And if it's a situation where it could be either or both, that's toxic.
Though I can understand a Japanese work like Beastars or Pokémon getting it mixed up; the same kanji (毒, どく doku) is used for both, from what I can gather.
Updated
votp said:
Beastars also gets a solidfrom me for not knowing the difference between poisonous and venomous.
lendrimujina said:
Just in case someone here doesn't know: If you bite it and you die, that's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, that's venomous. And if it's a situation where it could be either or both, that's toxic.Though I can understand a Japanese work like Beastars or Pokémon getting it mixed up; the same kanji (毒, どく doku) is used for both, from what I can gather.
wouldn't that be the english translator's fault?
closetpossum said:
I really do wish I could find more things that I personally click with and had an impact on my life like Night In the Woods.
Despite the simple art style, the characters are still very relatable for me. I really wish more games would come out that were
furry and like NITW
There's a recently released Night in the Woods-inspired game out called Fall of Porcupine, and of course there's Revenant Hill to look forward to. You could also look up Button City, which is another narrative adventure game featuring anthropomorphic animals and themes of friendship.
I remember back when everyone and their mother had their own website, I found a gigantic list someone compiled of media that had anthro or talking ferals in them. I used to go to the library and request books on the list be transferred over so I could borrow them. Good times.
closetpossum said:
wouldn't that be the english translator's fault?
it would.
lendrimujina said:
Just in case someone here doesn't know: If you bite it and you die, that's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, that's venomous. And if it's a situation where it could be either or both, that's toxic.Though I can understand a Japanese work like Beastars or Pokémon getting it mixed up; the same kanji (毒, どく doku) is used for both, from what I can gather.
I think you guys might be flipping poisonous and toxic.
I mean, in normal speech "poisonous" is used all the time to refer to things that are venomous, and is in fact listed as a synonym in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. And "toxic" is much more commonly used to refer to stuff that's dangerous to ingest but I'm not sure I've ever heard someone call snake venom "toxic".
closetpossum said:
wouldn't that be the english translator's fault?
I guess spoilers?
This has nothing to do with translation; you can drink venom. A point brought up in Beastars is discrimination against "poisonous" reptiles and the idea that they make everything they touch unsafe, to the point Legosi's grandfather Goasha, a Komodo Dragon, was effectively used by his grandmother to commit suicide by simply kissing him and ingesting his venom.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6563220/
sipothac said:
I think you guys might be flipping poisonous and toxic.I mean, in normal speech "poisonous" is used all the time to refer to things that are venomous, and is in fact listed as a synonym in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. And "toxic" is much more commonly used to refer to stuff that's dangerous to ingest but I'm not sure I've ever heard someone call snake venom "toxic".
In normal speech people also use "inflammable" to mean something is uninflammable, "literally" to mean figuratively, and a billion other such things. Toxins can be ingested, injected, inhaled, or simply absorbed into the body through skin contact. A venom, specifically, must be injected. Zoologically, the terminology is more specific than general usage.
https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/poison-vs-venom
vulpes_artifex said:
There's a recently released Night in the Woods-inspired game out called Fall of Porcupine, and of course there's Revenant Hill to look forward to. You could also look up Button City, which is another narrative adventure game featuring anthropomorphic animals and themes of friendship.
Honestly I personally would like to dive into creating games like these. I'm really into the "SoL, coming of age, growing up" speel. Anyway there's information about what goes into creating those "platformer" adventure story telling games?
As far as personal skills go I could at LEAST attempt a Visual Novel myself.
closetpossum said:
As far as personal skills go I could at LEAST attempt a Visual Novel myself.
Well there is Ren'py if you want something free.
Paid stuff I think there is...TyranoBuilder on Steam? There is a "visual novel maker" from KOMODO but it seems very buggy for their price...
It is kinda obvious but it's good if you know the basics of programming like Boolean, variables, whiles... you gonna need it if you want something a bit more interativa and/or with routes, but it's fine if you want to do a Kinetic Novel but its a niche into a niche...
