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I agree the usual 2-3 line UI for them makes them take forever to get through. I suspect this has to do with Japanese people being famously underemployed throughout the 2000s, so they had lots of free time.

Some of them like When they Cry or Planetarian have full-screen text - those are the ones Japan actually calls "novel games". Those are usually more worth reading.



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