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Fuguriya has been in operation since 2006 and has to date released nine eroge, eleven light novels, three drama CDs, two web serials, a ten-part mini drama series on YouTube, and one OVA based on their most popular eroge. That's not bad for what is considered a niche developer.
The only "eroge" companies I can even name are not on the list at all. Forgive my ignorance but are compaines like Key, Minori and Type/Moon not considered the same?
I'm not surprised considering how extremely specialized their audience has become. I've never heard of most of those no longer operational companies outside of LUST, Nexton, and Clover. LUST didn't fill their niche well enough. Nexton I believe has gone on to bigger things, though I could just be mistaking their name. Clover I may be mistaking for another company as well, but I think they got pushed out of their niche with the srpg style bishoujo games. I'm surprised Illusion isn't listed though, they seem to still be going strong forging on in the 3d style eroge. GIGA isn't listed either despite recently releasing another spin-off of the Baldr's series.
Type Moon, minori, Key, Giga, and Illusion are all companies that have all existed for longer than the time frame of the chart. The list was based on companies that started in 2002.
That being said, the world of eroge companies is finicky. Sometimes they change names, sometimes they get absorbed into their parent company, sometimes they just go idle because the workers forgot about the company...Nexton I know is the parent company of Baseson (if it's the same Nexton that I'm thinking about), so they aren't publishing because they have sub-divisions under them doing the publishing. Key is also a sub division of Visual Art's which owns some of the companies that the chart lists as inactive.
I don't doubt the validity of what Zepy's trying to say with the chart as the eroge market is quite saturated with just about everything you can imagine (there's a brand doing monster-girl eroge...don't ask...). The names we commonly hear are just the few out the giant pile of smut that have made a name for themselves.
That being said, the world of eroge companies is finicky. Sometimes they change names, sometimes they get absorbed into their parent company, sometimes they just go idle because the workers forgot about the company...Nexton I know is the parent company of Baseson (if it's the same Nexton that I'm thinking about), so they aren't publishing because they have sub-divisions under them doing the publishing. Key is also a sub division of Visual Art's which owns some of the companies that the chart lists as inactive.
I don't doubt the validity of what Zepy's trying to say with the chart as the eroge market is quite saturated with just about everything you can imagine (there's a brand doing monster-girl eroge...don't ask...). The names we commonly hear are just the few out the giant pile of smut that have made a name for themselves.
I have of course been around the eroge scene a while, and yes, this happens all the time. We've seen many companies we worked with go under, and it's a shame. Even our "parent" JAST, which was an influential company back in the 1990s, is gone. But we're still here, muhahaha!
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