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BLON Education | Visual Novels: Somewhere Between Comics and Video Games

12 September 2026 10:00

Visual novels are a unique game genre that straddles the line between storytelling and interactivity. How do visual novels differ from—and resemble—comics? What themes and what kinds of players does this genre attract the most? Is this a natural evolution of the comic book medium, or simply a sad inevitability in an age of attention deficit, when reading alone has become too boring? I’ll present a few of my favorite examples of visual novels, and we’ll discuss them together with the audience.

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BLON Education | Visual Novels: Somewhere Between Comics and Video Games