User blog comment:Darkravenlord/Rance V VI Review/@comment-30776383-20170124003347/@comment-27013423-20170124011813

There's a considerably high number of people in the VN that hate Rance because he's a rapist jerk, probably because many VNs fans are also fans of moe, vanilla stuff and a rapist protagonist is like the worst shit ever. People that hate about Rance really are the people that have no idea what it is. It's especially funny when someone calls it a nukige.

The funny thing with the Rance Series is that it attracts people that aren't fans of VNs or even porn games because of they're actual games with good gameplay/characters/plot/etc, making a huge fanbase for an eroge but many of which are not into VNs or maybe even flatout hate them. This alienates the series in the VN community with only a fraction of it being Rance fans, while its infame there makes those ignorant about it believe that it is just about a dude that goes around raping girls with nothing more to it.