Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about KATAWA SHOUJO!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Katawa Shoujo is a bishjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios . it tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities . the game is licensed under the the gameplay of Katawa Shoujo is choice-based, in which the player reads through text . Hisao is forced to transfer to a school specialized in providing education and healthcare for students with disabilities . 4chan’s four-leaf clover logo was discussed extensively on the 4chan image board . a development group was assembled from users of 4chan and other internet communities . most of the art, sound, and animation many of the locations in the game are based on real places . four leaf studio announced that it had no plans for its members to collaborate on new projects . Act 1 has since been updated for several additional languages . on April 1, 2015, in lieu of their traditional April Fools’ Day prank, Four Leaf Studios released the Japanese translation . on July 27, 2014, the International Spanish version was released and made available for download that same day . the full visual novel has been released officially in English, French, Spanish and Japanese . Four Leaf Studios announced the end of support and development for the visual novel and official translation projects . downloads for the complete novel and Act 1 alone are he transfers to Yamaku High School in class 3-3 due to his heart condition . his main hobbies include reading and chess . some time after hisao’s name was decided on, developers learned of a published despite her disability, Emi still has more than enough lower body strength to walk . she values good diet and exercise, and is on friendly terms with the head nurse of Yamaku . Emi is Rin’s friend and hall as a child, she suffered an accident in which her house burned down, taking the lives of her parents . she has spent most of her childhood in an orphanage and was bullied during her time in school . Lilly Satou ( , Sat Rir) is the class representative of 3-2, a class composed of students who are blind or partially blind (including Kenji); she has been blind since birth . she Rin Tezuka is a girl whose arms were almost entirely deformed due to a birth defect . she wears a boy’s uniform to avoid awkward situations that would arise from using her feet while wearing a skirt Rin’s unique personality has brought about awkward situations with her peers . she is nonchalant with the other students and about their disabilities in general . her role in the school festival is being the sole painter of a giant mural Shizune Hakamichi is one of Hisao’s classmates . she is both deaf and mute, communicating primarily through Japanese Sign Language . her friend, Misha, is almost always at her the kanji for her given name mean “silent” and “sound” Misha is Shizune’s best friend and only fellow member in the student council . she is the first to befriend Hisao in misha is one of the few non-disabled students attending Yamaku . she was not in the original concept sketch by RAITA . choices are prompted throughout the narrative until the reader reaches an ending . endings vary from Bad to Neutral to Good . the neutral ending is arguably the most bittersweet of the three . all endings end the story in each respective girl’s in Act 4 . Emi’s and Rin’s “Bad Ending” that finishes their stories during Act 3 . Hisao spends the act- some reviewers and fans praise the game’s sincere and respectful treatment of the setting . others critics were less warm, with Dave Riley of Otaku USA Magazine claiming the game had “bad prose and bad characters” “Red Velvet” was written primarily by musicians Sebastien “NicolArmarfi” Skaf and Andy “Blue123” Andi . two previously unreleased bonus tracks, “When It’s