#0 - Cross†Channel (MEDIUM ~25h DON'T READ THE STEAM VERSION, READ THE 2003 VERSION WITH THE FAN TRANSLATION, all the TLs are terrible but this is the least horrible)
Another masterpiece by Romeo Tanaka aka the Kamige machine. An exceptionally deep story about the eternal and difficult cycle of trying to find connections with other people through any means (communicating, creating, sharing...) to escape the overbearing loneliness that is inherent in our human nature with one of the strongest and memorable conclusion i've ever seen.

--Alone. Emptiness. No one to connect with. Yet i must share with the world, i am very lonely but accepting true loneliness would mean rejecting my human nature. I turn on my broadcasting station hoping that my voice will reach someone, even if it doesn't, just wishing that my words will be heard is enough to ease my mind. I speak.

Is anyone alive out there?
If you are, please listen.
[...]

We will keep endlessly rebuilding our antennas and broadcasting aimlessly because this is who we are, believing that someday we will be understood by someone else. Yet this is the most beautiful (and painful) part about being human.

To you the one reading this, with which i crossed channel at this fixed moment in time,
never give up on connecting with the world in your own way.
Keep creating about what defines yourself, keep crossing channels with other people,
everyone has the power to touch someone else heart.
Show to the world that you are alive. Prove to yourself that you are alive.

I will most likely never know if you've ever stumbled upon there,
maybe you like the same things i do, maybe you think the same way i do, maybe you were curious, maybe it was by accident.
But be proud of showing what's making you yourself
Until we cross channels again.

#0 - Umineko when they cry (VERY LONG ~150-200h)
Warning: Consuming this work is deemed dangerous, it will permanently ruin your perception of japanese media as almost nothing else can compare to it.

I came in with extremely high expectations after all the good i heard from it and it still blew them out. All episodes are excellent with intense endings and just keep getting better and better until the grand finale. Incomparable to anything animanga related as it surpass them all without any exceptions, and can only be compared to actual litterature. A masterpiece among masterpiece, that challenge and respect the reader intellect who actually try to solve the mystery, which is surprisingly deep and multilayered.

Will you, the reaper, seeker of the truth, chose to lower the curtain on the witch's tales? or firmly believe in illusions and fairy tales until the end?

#0 - Wonderful everyday down the rabbit hole (LONG ~50h)
Written by a guy who is very interested and cultivated in classic litterature/philosophy and at the same time cannot stop retweeting futa porn on his twitter account, just from that you can already tell that this is pure unfiltered life changing kino. Sca-di is truly the writer of all time.
If Yoru no Himawari is not playing at my funerals, i'm resurrecting and going back home

The road that leads endlessly up the hill.
The peak that lies foggy in the distance.
It's just like our own journey through the world.
There's no worrying about what lies at the peak.
We have only to enjoy the journey up the slope.

#1 - Higurashi when they cry (VERY LONG ~120h+)
Kino alert! Kino alert! Forget about the very bad anime adaptation that literally skip the whole moral of the story and read Peakurashi. This is a novel in 8 parts, the first 4 parts are the question arc, in theses chapters you will go through 4 almost unsolvable mysteries (1 per chapter) with jawdropping plot twists that will make you question everything and everyone. The 4 remaining parts, are the answers arc where the story will answer each mysteries one by one, you won't need to think, you will just need to sit down, watch and accept the truth behind everything. With the truth will come some important life lessons and one of the most beautiful story i've ever read. One thing is certain, the higurashi are not going to be the only one to cry.

I will not quench your thirst.
For you seek the truth and could not accept that.
I will not quench your thirst.
For the truth you desire does not exist.

But I still want to quench your thirst.
For I am the one who cast you into the desert.

#1 Muv-Luv (Extra + Unlimited + Alternative) (VERY LONG ~90-100h+)
Pinnacle of japanese fiction, lots of low/no actions points and worldbuilding but got some of the highest peaks in anything i've ever experienced. The best handling of character deaths i've ever seen, an absurd amount of main characters die and none of their death feel cheap.

Alternative will show you what true terror is, the terror to fight in an unwinnable war where the average survival time on the battlefield is 8 minutes, where your only purpose is to sacrifice your life for a lost cause.
Be ready before playing it, and take a box of tissues because this hit very hard. Basically Attack on Titan if the author wasn't a püssy and went all in with the characters death while still making all of them important, don't expect any characters being superhuman or plot armor it doesn't exist in Muv-Luv, everything happen as it should happen, everybody die when they should die, hope is reserved only for the fools who still haven't faced reality.

#1 - Full metal daemon Muramasa (VERY LONG ~70h)
Imagine Berserk/Vagabond/VinlandSaga but way darker and infinitely better written by an actual gigachad novelist who exclusively masturbate to swordfighting books like a real man instead of anime sh*t for weeb. A story about the philosophy of Morality and Self-righteousness, widely seen a masterpiece by basically everyone who played it, i have not a lot to say about it, the only thing better than Muramasa is Muramasa.

Where there are demons, I slay them.
Where there are saints, I slay them.
Good is not my nature.
Justice is not my purpose.
The righteous path is not mine to walk.
Good and Evil alike shall perish beneath my blade.

#1.5 - LittleBusters! (LONG ~50h+)
Better than Clannad but felt like it didn't used all of it's potential in the end so i can't rank it higher. It got the best and saddest final route in all of Key visual novels, Refrain is absolutely phenomenal. A story about friendship and accepting that nothing last forever. The ultimate Key tearjerker. If you played or watched Clannad and thought it was sad you will die playing this one.

I believe that stories are written and read to rebel against the fact that you only live once.

#2 - Clannad (VERY LONG ~80-100h+)
Not reading Clannad should be a criminal offense, First part of Clannad is a 8.5-9/10 enjoyable but reuse a lot of common tropes from KANON/AIR. On the other hand After stories can be literally life changing depending of your state of mind when you read it. A story about accepting growing up, and the importance of childhood. Overall probably the weakest Key novel story wise, but everything else is done absolutely perfectly.

Do you like this school? I really really like it. But, nothing can remain the same forever.
Even fun things and happy things, nothing. Nothing stays that way forever.
Even so, can you still like this place?

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