About
Yumefumi.
A tracker for visual novels with spoiler-aware reviews and a curator-edited catalog.
Why we built this.
Films have Letterboxd. Books have Goodreads. Visual novels have VNDB, a 20-year catalog effort that the medium owes a lot to, and a dozen Discord servers. Reviews live in those servers and in old Reddit threads. Discovery usually means asking a handful of regulars whether a title is worth your time. New readers bounce off because there isn’t an obvious place to land.
We also make VNs ourselves, through Myosuki, our studio under ContentCrepe LLC. The gap was obvious from both sides. So we built Yumefumi for ourselves first.
What this is.
Yumefumi is a tracker and a small editorial publication for visual novels. Mark VNs as planned, reading, finished, paused, or dropped, with half-star ratings and private notes. Write reviews that mask spoilers based on what each reader has finished. Follow other readers to see what they’re finishing.
We don’t rank reviews by engagement, sell data, run ads in the feed, or let the recommendation engine become a paid placement. The editorial side and the commercial side are separated in code, not just policy.
Where we come from.
Yumefumi is owned and operated by ContentCrepe LLC, a Delaware LLC based in Dover. ContentCrepe also runs Myosuki, our VN studio.
That looks like a conflict of interest, so we wrote a rule into the codebase rather than into a policy doc. ContentCrepe and Myosuki’s own VNs get no preferential placement here. The recommendation engine, the curator picks, and the editorial shelves don’t know which VNs are ours. The one place publisher money buys visibility is the labeled Publisher Picks page (and the partner block on individual VN pages), both sage-walled.
Where the catalog comes from.
The visual novels you see here (titles, descriptions, tags, covers, producers, release histories) come from VNDB under the Open Database License (ODbL). VNDB has been the catalog authority for this medium for two decades. We display and build on its data; we don’t replace it. We send revenue back upstream. See /preservation.
User-generated content (your reviews, lists, notes, discussions, curator edits) belongs to you, under our Terms and Privacy Policy. Catalog data · VNDB ODbL has the full attribution detail.
How we keep this running.
Subscriptions, not ads. Free is a real tracker. Pro adds the recommendation engine, session timers, and the live feed. Patron is for readers who want to support the project beyond what Pro covers.
2% of gross revenue goes out as preservation grants: fan-translation archives, rescued-media projects, and the volunteers who keep visual novels reachable after publishers shut down. Quarterly ledger at /preservation.
Talk to us.
hello@yumefumi.com for general questions and feedback. support@yumefumi.com for account, billing, or anything broken. Privacy, DMCA, and security disclosures also go to support. Full directory at /contact.
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