My impression is that 99.999% of visual novels are dating simulators for teenagers. Basically the same audience as all the teenage ‘school life’/romance anime, and equally produced in bafflingly huge quantities.
I fail to see much of a difference, frankly. Perhaps only that most teenage manga/anime stop right at the boundary of smut, leaving much to the reader/viewer’s imagination, or alternatively leave a lot of people blue-balled.
My impression is that 99.999% of visual novels are dating simulators for teenagers. Basically the same audience as all the teenage ‘school life’/romance anime, and equally produced in bafflingly huge quantities.
I mean, there is also an entire subgenre of smutty visual novels.
I fail to see much of a difference, frankly. Perhaps only that most teenage manga/anime stop right at the boundary of smut, leaving much to the reader/viewer’s imagination, or alternatively leave a lot of people blue-balled.
I mean more that the smutty ones probably have a wider audience.