VN engine

I though I could waste some time trying to make a visual novel engine on my own. So I'm looking for a OO language that has a decent 2D graphics library.

Tried Squeak yesterday. Slow as fuck and the morphs don't update unless you interact with them.

Any recommendations?

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>One problem being the Japanese and Chinese sharing code points for their ideographs
But that's irrelevant in modern systems because they can be set to display Japanese or Chinese characters depending on the user's locale.