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Lambdabesta.

I think, quite suddenly, I've realized just why I have such admiration and respect and just overall love for Ryukishi07 and all the works he creates, and the root of that is Comiket.

For those who don't know, Ryukishi07 is the creator of the When They Cry series. He writes visual novels, though he's worked on other things as well, as part of collaboration (which is the process of creating visual novels to begin with, with all the background music, the visuals, the animating process-). He sells his work at Comiket, the largest self-published comic book convention in the world. He has been doing this since Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: Onikakushi-hen, the very first of his novels and, as far as we know with his pen-name, the first thing he's published ever, came out in August 2002.

From there, he's gained an amazing reputation, had anime adapted from his work (which is not common, at least not when the visual novel has only two people working on the story and the game save for the music) and has worked with other companies since due to the success of Higurashi.

His visual novels are freaking HUGE. Seriously, they are longer than some novels people work on for years. And he has put them out, twice a year save for 2003, since Higurashi.

Sure, they may be very guttural at times. They are raw, filled with pure emotion, narration devolving into screams, or cries, or words of joy. Yet this is the strength of them, they are pure emotion and pure heart. Every single story, I know he's poured his soul into, and from this he has become successful. There was no publishing company save for him, his brother and his best friend. There was no chance this would catch on. There was, actually, a very high chance that his work wouldn't make as much money as it cost time to put into it.

But he sold it anyway, with his charmingly poor art and his love of mysteries, and it's grown so big.

Because he loves telling stories, scaring people or making them feel something. And he took a shot.

And despite everything, he's so kind with his fans, so grateful and thankful. He's genuinely happy when people read his work.

And that's simply the most inspiring thing in the world to me. That's why Ryukishi is one of my role models.

Would you lick Lambda's butt crack?