Changelog

The news section has been rebuilt. The front page shows the latest headlines next to the day’s releases, reviews and trailers, gathered from about two hundred Japanese and English sources. Each section has its own page: Headlines, Reviews, Releases, Community, Creators, New on VNDB and Trailers. Releases lists what came out in the last month, what is on sale and the store rankings; Upcoming lists what is still to come.

Recommendations you can steer. Filter by platform, year, difficulty, studio or staff, tune the signals behind the score, and see why each title was picked. Mark anything as read or not interested, and pick the layout you want.

The home page is now a daily read: the week in figures, what moved, and a directory of everything the site publishes. Upcoming Japanese releases and every past club pick have pages of their own, and title pages gained their full cast and credits.

A style pass over the site. Headings and spacing match from page to page, numbers line up in columns, and light lines separate sections instead of heavy boxes.

Your stats page rebuilt: how your taste is scored and how it has shifted, how much Japanese you have read, and where you stand against everyone else. Browse results sort into rankings too.

Community leaderboards, plus a builder: rank any era, platform, length or tag by rating, divisiveness, drop rate or Japanese difficulty. Each ranking shows how it was counted.

A new Trends page for what the community is reading: what is hot this week and which way it moved, plus the biggest jump in every month.

Every week the club picks a very short visual novel and reads it aloud together. Nominate and vote in Discord, and the pick for each Sunday lands on the events calendar.

A month or season can now have a theme, and nominations have to fit it.

Pick your own roles from a self-serve menu in the server.

Added this page: one place to follow major updates across the site and the club bots.

Guess which of two visual novels ranks higher by VNDB votes, rating, or release year, and build a streak.

New calendar page showing VN of the Month and Season, Movie Night, and other club events.

Nominate films and vote any time, right in Discord. Winners are announced and published to the events calendar.

VN log embeds now link to jiten.moe and use its covers when the VN is on jiten.

The legacy monthly commands were retired, including the pool, completions, and leaderboard. The feature now runs on Hikaru as part of the reading club overhaul.

Voting cycles with nominations, image-rendered banner, profile, club stats, badges, and season overview cards, per-guild scoping with manager grants, and deeper jiten.moe and VNDB integration.

VN of the Month announcements now include a rendered banner image with covers and reading stats.

Reading sessions from the Kizuna texthooker are logged automatically as VN reads.

Answers to common questions about learning Japanese with visual novels.

A daily Japanese word with VN example sentences, on the site and posted to Discord by Ichijou.

Add VNs to a wheel and spin to pick your next read, with a group mode for club picks.

Vocabulary practice for absolute beginners, alongside the kana quiz.

Build VN cover collages and tier lists you can share with a link, and browse a curated list of beginner-friendly VNs.

A new settings-menu option shows NSFW covers uncensored site-wide, remembered across visits; click-to-reveal stays the default.

A daily featured VN and a filterable random VN picker.

Ichijou posts the daily featured VN and a summary of the day's VN news to Discord.

The backend API behind the stats browser is documented and open for third-party use.

Sexual tags and traits are hidden by default on VN and character pages.

VN pages now show official site and store links in the sidebar, pulled from VNDB release data.

The top search bar now returns VN results directly.

VN detail pages gained a language stats tab.

VN pages gained a stats tab with rating insights and comparisons, plus links to jiten.moe. Browse pages added a random button.

Browse VNs, Recommendations, VNDB Stats, VN News, and the Kana Quiz, plus a homepage redesign. Powered by a new backend fed by daily VNDB data dumps.

A new Discord bot for vnclub.org, launched alongside the stats backend.

Two new guides shipped alongside the stats browser launch: the Yomitan pop-up dictionary, and playing VNs on Linux with Bottles.

The in-server VN and eroge news feed was removed. News coverage moved to the vnclub.org news page.

Log views now show per-title totals: total time, characters, and log counts.

New guides for reading VNs on Android: GameHub Lite, Kirikiroid2, and a mobile texthooker setup.

The site was rebuilt from the ground up on Next.js with a new design and navigation. Five new guides launched with it, covering Anki, Meikipop, Magpie, NP2, and ShaderGlass.

Title autocomplete with VNDB IDs, a log update command, and improved undo.

Sakura, the anime sub-bot for LJTA, now supports quiz verification.

A new log overview command with server-wide and global immersion stats: activity timelines, media breakdowns, and top readers and titles.

A VN and eroge news feed channel for the server.

Profile cards show total characters read alongside time stats, and use your server avatar when you have one set.

Added a log library view and reading heatmap, and improved log stats and profiles.

Pin a message in a thread by replying to it and pinging the bot.

Game logging, comments on logs, detailed log views, an undo button, sticky messages, and tighter date handling.

Logging now works across servers, and Sakura launched as an anime-focused sub-bot for the LJTA server.

Messages with enough unique reactions are reposted to a highlights channel.

Time-based immersion logging with a reader role and level system.

Added user profiles, paginated leaderboards, and a help command.

The core guide to learning Japanese with visual novels, plus a community page.

Member verification now uses leveled quizzes.

A guide to OwOCR for extracting text from VNs that regular texthookers cannot hook.

Monthly VN feature for VNCR: suggestions, monthly picks, completions, and a points leaderboard.

Adopted as our reading club bot, with VN logging, ratings, server leaderboards, and role rewards. Hikaru started from the open source VN_Club_Bot project, which we took over.

New guides for the Agent texthooker, JDownloader, and a VN time tracker, one week after the guides section opened.

The guides section opened with JL and text hooking guides.

The site began as a resource collection: where to get VNs, discovery tools, and utilities.

VNCR's server bot went live with welcome messages, a guide command, Confirmed Reader role management, and Anki leaderboard info.