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nakige

nakige noun: a Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.

Noun

nakige (plural nakiges or nakige)

  1. A Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.
    • Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy. Take 2001's Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (The Eternity You Desire), for example, which was released by eroge label âge, a division of ACID. Soon after high school student Takayuki Narumi falls for his classmate Haruka Suzumiya, she goes into a coma after a car...2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154
    • The medium is dominated by nakige, the crying genre, much like how superheroes dominate comics and sitcoms television.2011 November 10, Alex Mui, “Visual Novels: Unrecognized Narrative Art”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Johns Hopkins University, page B5

Examples of nakige in a sentence

  • Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy.2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154:
  • Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible.2019, Robert Ciesla, Game Development with Ren'Py: Introduction to Visual Novel Games Using Ren'Py, TyranoBuilder, and Twine, page 90:

Forms of nakige

pluralnakiges
pluralnakige

Origin of nakige

Borrowed from Japanese 泣きゲー (nakige, “crying game”), a compound of なき (naki, “crying”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game. Compare tearjerker.

Questions about nakige

What does nakige mean?
Nakige means a Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.
How do you use nakige in a sentence?
Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy.
What part of speech is nakige?
Nakige is a noun.
What is the plural of nakige?
The plural of nakige is nakiges.

Words near nakige in the dictionary

  1. nakhudas
  2. Nakhóta
  3. Naki
  4. nakie
  5. nakies
  6. nakige
  7. nakiges
  8. naking
  9. nakir
  10. nakirs
  11. nakkaalaaqite

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