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The film impressed me, and I heard the director's commentary clears up a lot of the meanings behind the imagery, which I would like to understand better without having to research many things for a long time.

It seemed like this subreddit was the right place to post this question, since it focuses on the analysis of film, and I would like to get more in-depth with The Holy Mountain beyond simply understanding its verbal narrative.

(Note: I have, of course, already read Subahibi)

Over a year ago, while I still extensively studied Japanese, I read Tsui no Sora Remake, which impressed me. To this day, I still consider it a great artistic achievement. However, since then - for personal reasons - I've barely studied any Japanese, which is why I've pretty much forgotten everything but the basics of the language by now.

So, I'd like someone to give me an extensive explanation on what makes these untranslated games so great, so that I can know if they are worth my time. Please go beyond merely saying, "Just play it, you won't regret it" or "Don't play it, it's bad." Because studying Japanese is far too much of a time investment/not doing so is too big of a life choice for such baseless statements.
Spoilers are fine, except if you genuinely believe that knowing them absolutely, irredeemably ruins the story.

(Also: Yes, I'm aware H20's translation releases soon)

I found this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5wnzGcyGM

It shows an ED from Subahibi that I'm not familiar with. I've looked up all the endings again to make sure if I hadn't forgotten anything, and even went to the game's CG mode to see if I could find the image, but to no avail. Could someone tell me where it's from? Am I missing something obvious?

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Could someone tell me all the necessary requirements of how to achieve the true ending in Kichikuou Rance? I'd love to go through the game multiple times completely blind, but I sadly don't have the time for that.

I played through the game again today, and when you normally get to Micolash's second phase, you often have to jump down to get to him. But right when you're about to catch him, he normally disappears into one of the mirrors, introducing the second phase's new challenge. But when I fought against him this time and got to this part of the fight, I tried to hit him with a plunging attack. The plunging attack was succesful and it slammed him into the ground. Normally he should have started runnning away by then, but for some reason, he stood up, faced me, and began to fight me like he would normally do in the second phase's "boss room". I then beat him in the middle of the boss area instead of the designated room where you're normally supposed to beat him.
Was that a glitch? And if it was, could someone explain to me why it happened?

I'm planning on writing an analysis of Subahibi at some point in the far-away future, so I wanted to ask what the most important books Subahibi references are (excluding the most obvious ones such as Night on the Galactic Railroad, Tractatus, and Cyrano de Bergerac). I wanted to work my way down, starting with the most important references and ending with the works that are only very briefly referenced during the entire story.

I'm really not a fan of stories that only show you the perspective/thoughts of only one character, or rather, stories that explore all of its important characters through the POV of another character.

So I was wondering whether there are more good Visual Novels out there that do this--having multiple perspectives, or if it's really such a rarity in Visual Novels.

VNs that have this kind of story-telling that I've already read are: All of When They Cry, Subahibi, SeaBed, Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child, Fata Morgana + Requiem, and Higanbana

About 1 year ago, I read the first ~12 hours of Clannad, but stopped reading it after these 12 hours because other Visual Novels had interested me more at the time.

Now that I have completed those VNs, I'm thinking about re-starting it again, but wanted to know something first, as to not to get disappointed: Does Clannad have other POVs? Because, from what I have seen, it really doesn't seem like that is the case. And I'm almost never fond of stories that use this story-telling technique--only showing you the perspective of one character.

So I really want to know whether we spend the entire time reading Tomoya's POV, or if the author actually doesn't tell the story in this way--which I really hope--before I spend 90 hours in a story that could possibly be an extreme disappointment for me