Oshirikko Venus (お尻っ娘ヴィーナス) . The more I consider Apricot Cherry's fun visual novel series, the more mixed I feel about the visual novel industry.
There are not one but two novels in a series that is dedicated to booty lovers. Here is the synopsis of the first one courtesy of VNDB:
The hero, Kanji Toyama is an ordinary boy with one exception.
His eyes being able to see small subtle movement that most don't see. But mostly uses his gift to see outline of people's butt mostly those of girls. His fetish for butts awaken after seeing statue of Venus in person as a child. Despite this gift and love for butts he lived a normal life, until one day he found an unrivaled butt ....
Based on my understanding, that unrivaled butt belongs to main heroine Hisamekawa Shizuku, my favorite character. My discontent of not being able to read Oshirikko Venus is compounded by my enjoyment of Shizuku. I love her character design and, from what little gameplay I have seen, her mysterious personality. I was able to hear some of her dialogue, voiced by Kasuga An, and she's wonderful. That teasing tone of voice is pleasing to me.
There are three, other heroines with nice butts: the first novel's deredere Ayame Sakura and tomboy Saotome Ken'ya, and the second novel's Nishizono Suzune-sensei.
You may be wondering, "That's good. Where can I buy it so I can start enjoying the "plot"?"
Unfortunately, after more than a half-decade since their releases at the time of this article, it is not probable that they will be localized and translated to English. It's a multi-faceted problem because there has to be extensive coordination between the Japanese publisher and developer and the Western publisher and localizer to be able to have visual novels in English and probably not many Western visual novel fans have heard of Oshirikko Venus. Yes, a person could use text hooking and extraction programs to try to read it, but they offer a subpar experience.
I understand the appeal of boobies of all sizes, but it's unfortunate that Japanese visual novel studios still haven't really considered the appeal of booties enough to even have a good chance of having novels such as Oshirikko Venus localized outside of Japan. Although I don't have much experience reading localized visual novels recently, I know there always was some focus on breasts in every one that I did read. Most of them only had a few CGs and a little dialogue about butts. That was the case even with nukige, which of course only have "plot."
Even more than a half-decade after the release of the second visual novel, a localization of the Oshirikko Venus series would be welcome for finally showing extensive love for some great hometown.
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