#yorhel

[kuruvn]

Rest In Peace, Legend. 😔🫡 ....... ......

vndb is a pillar for visual novel community. thanks for giving the vn enthusiasts this important, useful site. (*i hope this site won't die down now, the vndb site became an important part of life for me and for all visual novel enthusiasts)

[snakussy]

I dont normally post about ppls deaths. But rest in peace yorhel u gave us almost 20 years of being able to actually know what the fuck visual novels were out there. No one in fandom history was as strong as you.

In his honor I give you the quote vndb forced me to look at today

"My dick was dying."

[snakussy]

I know someones inevitably gonna try to dig up something problematic about Yorhel because this hellsite always does that when someone dies. but I want visual novel fandom to know that without Yorhel, you would not have western vn fandom as we know it

Visual novels in the west 20 years ago were a vague, incredibly niche concept. We knew they existed and we envied Japan for having things like Amagami on the ps2 or Evangelion Girlfriend of Steel on the Playstation. But like...unless u knew Japanese or some random fan group like Asenheim Project popped up with a translation like the angels they were, chances are ur experience with vns were either dating sim shitposts from newgrounds or hard to find games on deviantart.

And then this random nerd in 2007 created VNDB and suddenly we knew so much. The first proper damn database for visual novels and it was beautiful, goddamn it. The popularity of vns spread rapidly because we had KNOWLEDGE. Official translations, fan translations, fan made games, etcetera.

Its been the same looking site for 20 years. And now the creator of it is dead and I am mourning.