Hisao Nakai is a normal high school student, currently in his final year of high school. One day Hisao receives a letter from parties unknown in his locker and waits at the written place for the sender. The person who wrote the letter turns out to be his crush; while speaking to her, he suddenly collapses. He awakes in a hospital bed, and is told by the doctors that the reason he collapsed is due to arrhythmia, a rare heart condition that causes his heartbeat to sometimes become irregular. Due to this, his parents have enrolled him in Yamaku, a school for disabled students of all kinds.
Great upload, Fantastic Game must play.
Excelent game. The first impression makes you think that its somewhat gross, because of their disabilities, but the conflicts of the game later on are great. I don’t recommend it for eroge, bur for thinking about the story.
I played 3 different routes within this game earlier in the month before my PC died, but I do agree. At first it seemed a bit odd because of the various disabilities, but you find that there’s a lot of charm within these characters that sometimes you forget about things like that, and the story goes a lot more smoothly 🙂 So far I only played with Hanako, Rin, and Emi’s routes…
This is quite possibly one of the best VNs I’ve ever played. The stories are incredible, with even the weakest ones being rather good. The characters actually feel human rather than the cardboard cut-out stereotype. Don’t let the disability thing put you off, the storytelling is too good to pass up!
Highly recommended!
PS: In my personal opinion, you should start with something like Emi or Lilly’s route, save Shizune’s for middle and then go either Hanako or Rin route as the last one (there are only 5) as both Hanako and Rin’s routes are truly remarkable. Infact, to me, Rin’s route easily beats any other route in any other VN I’ve played.
You know I really should have gone that way, but I started off with Rin. She was one of the most interesting girls I have seen in a very long time. Emi and Lilly’s route’s are great and a good warm up.
A lot of my friends love rin for some reason .. but I for one really hate her… No I’m not exagerating i really hate her.. I loved hanako and Lilly rotes..
then i liked emi.
shizune is ok..
but I hate rin.. so much
i cant isntall this game plz help
i cant install this game .plz help…
im using window 7 32bit.and when i want install this game it say (window cannot access spicified device,path or file.you may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item).
lol , hanako’s route is god damn amazing . one of the best eroge bishoujo out there ( her scars are beautiful too)
u know , i’ve been wondering about emi’s roue , like are there 2 illustrators? the emi in CG looks so different u know , the only CG i find close to normal is the CG when she’s on the bed after Hisao visits her.
this is eng?
god , of course this is eng , every eroge in this website is in eng O_O
Of course it’s in english. The game itself was made in America.
Um, I heard that there was a part two to this. Is there any truth to the statement? I defiantly hope a game like this has a part 2.
No, there is no part 2.
You mean Act 2? Yeah, sort of.
First released was act 1, then the full game.
Let me just say that I absolutely love Katawwa Shoujo. Nearly all the ones I’ve seen so far have had a passable story at best.
While obviously there is no other VN like this, are there any others that have such amazing stories?
DEARDROPS is amazing in storyline and quality to me, as well as the soundtrack. :31
omg, THE SOUNDTRACK.
i just loove it 😀
and i havent finish the whole game but i right off the bat when to Riho’s route ;D
it’s. so. good.
do you know where to download the soundtracks?
Thank you!
OMG! I’m posting this while I’m still playing the game ’cause I had to say this: I spotted a Phoenix Wright (aka Gyakuten Saiban) reference!
*SPOILER ALERT ON!*
In the scene titled “Cold War”, when Shizune and Lilly start arguing there is an animation that reminds me a lot of PW: first two horizontal thumbnails of each their faces, then a full-body of them and then a close-up version whenever one of them speaked. I missed some “Objection!” there, but I LMAO for good. XD
*SPOILER ALERT OFF!*
Well, that said I’m going to keep playing it. ^^ I hope to meet another PW reference like this one. LOL
Man~! I just finished my first walkthrough (Emi’s path). So beautiful! >_< I'm a 21 years -almost 22- guy, but still this VN almost made me cry. There were a precise scene, but I will keep the spoilers for myself. 😛
I love this VN. It's so different to anything I've played last now. Even the player interface is different showing you the name of the current scene, the soundtrack playing that moment, how time you have played… I give this game a 9/10. The 1 point it miss is because of the ecchi CG. I don't play these games online for the ecchi content, but a little more of fanservice would be realle appreciated. LOL
And know I just made sure I watched all of the possible routes in Emi’s Path: the good ones, the very good ones, the regular ones, the bad ones that turn to good ones… and even her bad ending. I hate so much the bad endings! T_T Sadly, I’m kinda of curious and want to know every possibility… even if it means going through all possible endings. D:
I never did them. Only for Shizune and hers wasn’t even that bad. My friend was telling me about the bad endings and I just can’t do it. Would spoil all the routes I’ve done.
True bro. I’m 22 years old guy but i found this game very touching and i end it today with Hanako 😉
Why put this here when they have downloads on the game’s site?
A Lot of people, me included, don’t know about various things like that- if this was never uploaded, then I would never have found it and never played it. oh, god, am I glad I played it.
I think he was asking why they didn’t just link to the website for the download. The site and game were originally created in English.
And, the answer to the original question is: This site profits when you use their download links, as opposed to them linking to the original site.
thank you very much admin, i greatly appreciated your work & i’m ready to help you whenever you need it ^^
help, everytime i get to a certain point in the game the game suddenly closes and opens up notepad.
help i really want to play this game
Yeah, I had that same problem too. The problem seems to be an error in renpy.
It’s the part where he’s having an internal monologue and there’s a black transparent box over the screen, right?
You’ll just have to hurry through it, saving every time it transitions to a new page. Once you get through it, you won’t have that problem(make sure to save at the scene “Gateway Effect” and use that for when you wanna start the game over.
Absolutely amazing game. I played it when it was stilling the making up to the end of act 1 and decided to wait until it finished. Props to everyone who worked on it. I played a couple other VNs while I waited for this to finish since it interested me so much, but none of them kept my interest. I’ve played through Emi and Lilly’s paths on this one though, and am now working through Shizune’s. Next will be Hanako and then Rin. So well made. Truly impressive. Those who worked on this deserve great jobs doing such work if they chose to continue down this path. Can’t give enough praise. Really can’t. Thank you for all of your work.
This is the 2nd VN I have ever played (too lazy to play others =.=). And I regret playing Hanako route first T.T because imo its has the most incredible story.
Note* that I just started playing and havent played any other routes yet =.=. I picked Hanako 1st out curiosity, mysteriously and shy cute girl is my weakness because im one as well…but as a guy (=.=!)
hey i agree with ur comment there lol. Hanako was the first person that got my attention when they show the CG around the classroom. I thought: Shes really a mysterious, shy looking person with her hand over her face like that. I noticed she has scars on her hand so maybe she had some on her face too O_O;;
that just makes me wanna know more about her. Sadly i got Lilly on my first route, but thats ok xD at least i know abit on what caused her scars
why the girls dont have voices???
Because this game is fan-made and with no budget.
If only there was voices this VN would make it on the top 10 doujin VNs
You realize this is indie, right?
Even without voice acting, this VN is one of the best out there. Hanako and Rin have by far some of the best stories in a VN that I have seen.
What makes this VN so great isn’t the disability gimmick but rather the characters themselves that are unique, yet feel very human! I haven’t felt so attached to a character in a long time and I haven’t cried at the end of some of the routes since Edelweiss and Little Busters.
I like this game. A pity there aren’t any voices in it, though… kinda like the PC version of Deus Machina Demonbane(without the voice patch, obviously).
this happened since yesterday, why???
anybody know what happened???
What? What’s happening?
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING, YOU FOOL! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
Hello, admin. First of all I want to thank you for putting up all these amazing games on a single site.
This game and everything else has been working perfectly. However I have one question:
How do I make the game fit to my screen? I have quite a wide monitor, and all the games except Ef (which automatically adjusts the resolution on full screen mode) appear square instead of rectangular on fullscreen mode, thus having black spaces on both sides. This is not a problem per se, but I’d highly appreciate it if you knew a solution and gave it to me.
You can’t, the game was made in that aspect ration, if you change it it’d be stretched.
Mediafire links are down
I just want to point out that i LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!
this game is made by collaboration of programmers in 4chan.org, called themselves 4 Leaf Studios.
great game, teached me to love a person despite of physical flaws.
You needed to be taught to love people despite physical flaws?
I already knew that! Hell, that’s 1st grade stuff right there!
i love eroge
1.after i save the game and after that i restart computer my save file has been gone why my save gone(where that place save)
2.this game don’t have sound plzz telle me why??????
Just that plzz conet my E-mail or post here i waitng your replay Admint ^^ thx
I have no idea what’s wrong man.
Try re-downloading, and if that doesn’t work, try re-downloading it from the game’s site.
If that still doesn’t work, try asking on their tech help board, they’re more than willing to help you fix the problem.
Hello!
First:
To your Problem with the Saves:
The saves are somewhere in a Folder named …\…\renpy\katawashoujo_actual\ . Search for it and make a copy of the saves somewhere else on your disk if the problem can’t be solved. Maybe you have something like ccleaner executed with every boot which automatically kills everything you did on your last session?
Second:
This game has sound! What you mean is that it has no voices.
Why? Well this is a free game made by people who volunteered to spend a hole bunch of their lifetime to create a great game. They are no professionals and to pay for professional voice actors was impossible because the game is free. And there are not a lot of girlfriends willing to be a voice in an eroge. That’s why.
But nevertheless, it’s still a great game, esspecially under this circumstances.
Absolutely love this game. the story is beautiful and i fall in love with Hanako the first time i saw her in game(ofc that time i didnt know her name :P) wanted to go for her for my first playthrough. but ends up with Lilly. at least shes friend with Hanako lol xD Ok time for 2nd playthrough, Hanako FTW 😀
There should be some walkthroughs for the Act one that will help you get onto each characters route. I’m sure google can help 🙂
ah yes. I was following the walkthrough comment Daishi wrote up there xD i got Lilly first because i didnt know each of the chars name at first 😀
Anyway, i finished Hanako’s route and got all her CG… but for some reason it left me feels…empty? and kinda unsatisfied ToT
A friend of mine says Rin’s route is the best, try that.
I here there is a lot of DRAMAZ.
Well, see, the sex scene in Hanako’s route is SUPPOSED to seem forced and unfulfilling; she didn’t really want to do it, but felt at the time it was the only way she was gonna get Hisao to stay with her.
The end scene elicited an internal cheer from me, though.
Hanako’s route ended too abruptly, otherwise it could have been the best of the bunch.
SHUT UP NO IT DIDN’T Y U BE MEEN 2 MAI WAIFU
tnx admin 🙂
awesome,mediafire,i love you admin
this game is a must it even has a all age 4 the little ones great story thoe will they make another one.
Considering the popularity of this, unless they just don’t want to, they’ll likely make another.
I hope so, at least.
I am beyond impressed that something of this quality came from a team of devs over a forum dedicated to a post on 4chan. lol Major props. Anyone know if thay have a way to donate since this game is f2p? :p
One of the best eroges I’ve ever played, The only I miss is more avaliable girls, but ignoring that it is just wonderful, hope they release some adds for it, version 1.2 or something like that XD
This game has ruined all other VNs for me. It’s too hard to top the storylines. All of them. Even with the low number of adult scenes it;s still the best one ive found so far.
Lol what he said. This is easily the best VN I have ever played/read all the routes have a story attached and for a F2P VN thats some accomplishment! To fully enjoy this I recomend going one route a day that way you don’t finish it too soon to really enjoy it. (also do ALL routes both good and bad) You may find yourself re-playing your favorite route/s often. this gets an 11/10 from me, a random stranger!
Ok, so by now I already played this, all of the translated
Sono Hanabira,Kira Kira, Kira Kira curtain call and Deardrops.
Do you guys have any other sugestions? I really like plots like Deardrops and Kira Kira, but any romance VN will do it
(I already looked at all of the music ones ^^)
Can anyone tell one VN with some eroge scenes, but not focused on it? I’m perfectlly fine with VNs that have like 2 or 3 sex scenes in the whole game. In fact, I’m looking for games like this.
Any sugestions?
Maybe you can try this VN ?
1. Yume Miru Kusuri (sweet story with silver hair girl, sorry i forgot her name)
2. utawarerumono (sad ending, but filled with love/ rpg genre)
3. bazooka cafe (sweet story with green hair, business woman)
just some recommendation from me, i’ve played that games before
How can I transfer the progress from computer to another? I played Katawa Shoujo on my old laptop and already finished 3 routes (Lily, Hanako, Emi). Now I want to copy Katawa Shoujo on my new laptop but the problem is, copy paste doesn’t work on the game progress. When I played the pasted Katawa on the new laptop, the Load and Extra button on the main menu is grayed which meant that my progress wasn’t copied. What to do?
truely a beautiful game. this automaticly makes the top on my list. the soundtrack is pretty amazing even though i finished only one path i can easily recommend this.
10/10
masterpeice
after finishing th game:
i dont know what to do with life anymore…..i feel depressed…..:(
While it has some beautiful moments, I think most of this VN is overrated by the community.
Aside from Lily’s route, the writing/content is not really top notch, and there’s a huge discrepancy in the quality of the different routes. Shizune’s route is especially bad.
Of course it’s impressive for a non-funded indie project, but it’s not the Holy Grail of VNs.
At last, finally had someone to agree with.
I agree that Lilly’s and Hanako’s route are probably the best among all, but I kinda felt that the other girls could use some story improvements. Not to mention the developers assigned different authors for each of the girls’ story.
And I’m kinda clueless as to why most players would recommend Rin’s route as the best, it’s long (not a problem at all), and the fact that I can’t quite understand her thought process have made her route disturbingly annoying for me. That said, I’ll probably have a second try on her.
The reason this is considered to be such a great VN is because of how well done it is.
Think about it. You said that Lily’s route is really good, right? Well, most people think the opposite, that Lily’s route sucked.
See, it’s all subjective. Some people like some characters and their stories more than others, everyone sees it differently, but one thing is certain: Everyone thought at least one of the routes was great. Unlike most VNs, where all the routes are pretty good, this one has specific routes that are FANTASTIC to certain people.
Also, I’m tired of people talking about how they hated a specific route and bashing people who liked it. Everyone feels different, dipshits!
this game is a little tiring
lots of boring text
You disgust me.
you insane bro?
Nope, you just disgust me.
Well of course there are “lots of boring text”. It’s a visual novel. There’s a LOT of reading.
“It’s a visual novel. There’s a LOT of reading.”
You don’t say? I read a lot in my freetime.
Some friends said that this game is “awesome” and then i also saw the rating of around 8/10 points somewhere. I prefer action but i’m also a drama guy. So i had some expectations. But in my opinion this game is MEH.
to be blunt, is this site safe?
how do you guys make money from this?
my norton said that this site is suspected.
is this site safe?
and are the downloads safe?
Yes, it is safe.
No, not every site on the Internet is made to make money.
thanks for the quick reply.
and thank you for going through the effort to make these novels available to us english-speakers 🙂
This game is so damn nice totally the the stories of the Girls are so different but yet totally nice and sad! love this game and totally i agree love is not on appearances or looks my gosh i think beyond their disabilities !! i think they are more determined to push trough in life unlike some people without disabilities some do suicide and stuff!! zzzz yohoho!! but my fav story is Lily’s And Hanako’s route and you know i think lilycand Hanako is the one that loves you till the end unlike the protagonist ex girlfriend !! but of course play the game ill not spoil the ending you will understand 😀 how nice this game is!
It looks like a amazing game!! 😀 I’m downloading!! xD thanks for the links!! :3
Question. What are the different parts for? I downloaded all 3, installed the first one and it was ready to play and in English. What exactly are the other two for?
If you have all the parts needed stored in one folder, then when you start extracting the first one, it’ll continue unpacking data from following parts. Try moving only part 1 to different folder to check it – you’ll get “unexpected end of archive” error.
ahhh, gotcha. Thanks much! I’ve been wondering about it, since it’s happened to more than one game. Would download all the parts, put them in one folder, and extracting the first one was all that was needed to play. Thanks again!
sir it appears there had been an error in the uploaded file. its seems to have been corrupted for part 2 and part 3. hope u get this soon thanks
really awesome!! considering that it’s something just some guys from 4-chan has came up with on a whim
ahhhhhh… bored people with too much time on their hands, you can never underestimate them
It wasn’t created on a whim. There was concept art done by the artist RAITA(i do believe).