If your first response to that headline was "what are these words, and why are they being put in that order?" That's understandable—the present discourse taking place in the Japanese gaming community is, after all, centred around a genre we don't get to talk about too often over here: The visual novel.
Here's a quick run-down. Earlier this month, Takiya Iijima, the author and developer of a visual novel by the name of Apathy Murder Club, took to Twitter to announce he'd be taking legal action against a streamer who'd violated a request on its Steam page, imploring players not to stream the thing until August 8. We are here because that didn't happen.
