Romance is the backbone of the literary world. When it comes down to it, everyone likes it. Craig Mazen of script notes, (The guy that said she hulk exists to fuck the hulk. Don't @ me, just jogging your memory.) says that movies targeting men have to sneak in the love story and it is people who like pure romance movies who are brave. But I disagree. I think that generally, men don't like romance movies because men think of romance differently from women. I don't have a smart way to state the previous sentence.

Women's romance is varied from erotica to chased Amish, to Viking (which seems awesome) and each of them has its own rhythms and structure that readership expects, desires, and wants clever variations on. And they are medium-specific. Romance is the publishing industry and it is female consumer-oriented.

But then, DATING SIMES, VISUAL NOVELS, ADULT VISUAL NOVELS. (Full sentence. The verb is implied.)

Men's erotic media is forming its own rythmes. Pornography generally is set up for sex pay-off. Most Japanese visual novels are very corporate, i.e. against innovation and overwhelmingly nerdy with virgin energy. There hasn't been a medium for male erotica before AVNs.

It really excites me that this is the cusp of a comply different type of storytelling because of the subject matter. Sure, there are a lot of visual novels out of Japan for the last couple of years but it is extremely corporate-dominated, and authors have different publishing rights, and culturally their story structures will be different from European. But when you get past boring cultural nerd shit, this is still a brand new medium.

Female-oriented romance genres got built upon trial and error. Fans reading works and reacting to those works with their own. And that is what is happening with AVNs.

UPDATE
I have all the scenes written. I want to flesh out a bit more of the character interactions before I start sending it to editors. I've been had daz running through renders. The major backgrounds are set. I'll keep plugging away. The Patreon rewards come out on the third Wednesday of the month.

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