Yumefumi.

Why we built this.

We love visual novels. We’ve spent years reading them, arguing about them, recommending them to friends, watching the medium produce some of the most ambitious storytelling anywhere, and watching the tools for engaging with it fall behind everything else.

Films have Letterboxd. Books have Goodreads (flawed but functional). Games have a dozen options. Visual novels have VNDB, a magnificent twenty-year catalog effort that everyone in this medium owes a debt to, and not much else. Reviews live in scattered Discord channels and decaying Reddit threads. Spoilers leak everywhere. Discovery means asking the same five power users in the same five servers. New readers bounce off because there’s no clear place to land.

We’re also developers. We make visual novels ourselves, through Myosuki, our studio under ContentCrepe LLC. Being on both sides of this medium, reader and creator, is what made us realize the problem wasn’t being solved by anyone with the time to solve it well. So we took matters into our own hands.

Yumefumi is what we wished existed when we wanted to track our reading, write seriously about VNs without spoiling them for someone else, find recommendations that respected our taste, talk to other readers without dodging plot reveals, and support the infrastructure that keeps this medium alive past its original publishers. It’s the platform we’d want to use ourselves, built carefully and built to last.

What this is.

Yumefumi is a tracker, a discovery layer, and a small editorial publication, all built around one medium · visual novels. You can mark VNs as planned, reading, finished, paused, or dropped. You can rate them on a half-star scale, keep private notes, and write reviews that respect the spoiler line. You can follow other readers and see what they’re finishing in real time.

What we won’t do · rank reviews by engagement, sell your data, drop ads in the feed, or let the recommendation engine become a placement product. The editorial side and the commercial side are walled off from each other architecturally, not just by policy. No ads. No data sold to anyone, ever.

Where we come from.

Yumefumi is owned and operated by ContentCrepe LLC, a Delaware limited liability company based in Dover, Delaware. ContentCrepe also runs Myosuki, our visual novel studio.

That sounds like a conflict of interest, so we built the company around a hard architectural rule · ContentCrepe and Myosuki’s own VNs get no preferential placement on Yumefumi. The recommendation engine, the curator picks, and the editorial shelves can never know which VNs are ours and which aren’t. The only commercial surface where publisher money buys visibility is the clearly-labeled Publisher Picks page (and the partner block on individual VN pages), both sage-walled and visually distinct from everything else.

Where the catalog comes from.

The visual novels you see on Yumefumi · their titles, descriptions, tags, covers, producers, release histories · come from VNDB under the Open Database License (ODbL). VNDB is the catalog authority for this medium and has been for two decades. We display and build on its data; we don’t replace it. We send revenue back upstream to support the work · see /preservation for the details.

User-generated content (your reviews, your lists, your notes, the discussions, the curators’ editorial edits) is yours, governed by our Terms and Privacy Policy. Catalog data · VNDB ODbL has the full attribution detail.

How we keep this running.

Subscriptions, not ads. The Free tier is a real tracker; Pro adds the recommendation engine, session timers, the live activity feed, and the things heavier readers actually use; Patron is for readers who want to fund more of this than they personally consume.

2% of gross revenue leaves the company as preservation grants for the fan-translation archives, rescued-media projects, and volunteer work that keeps visual novels alive past their original publishers. Quarterly ledger at /preservation.

Talk to us.

hello@yumefumi.com for general questions or feedback. support@yumefumi.com for account, billing, or anything that’s broken. Privacy + DMCA + security disclosures also route through support · see /contact for the full directory.

We read everything. Replies usually land within a few business days.