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.
Katawa Shoujo
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Regards,
S
Thanks.
so, cheers for the Admin!
A thousand blessings! A wonderful year's gift!
well its a fan-project, the whole game. So it would be quite expensive to get a good seiyuu cast for it ;)
I hated it.... I like happy endings
and it's not that "they were 2 lazy 2 add voice" it's a fan made, so they didn't have that big of a budget to add voice acting..
it's a GOOD game, and you got it for FREE, so just be grateful already..
And Admin, I think you should have stated in the discrimination that this is a free project, hence no voice. Maybe people will be more open-minded with their accusations...
And yes, this game is amazing, or the more so because it's a fan-work. These guys deserve a shit-ton of praise.
*extreme veneration for the admin*
Thanks admin!
*drooling*
Rin's path has left me emotionally tired now for 2 days..
Anyway, if you liked Fam Project, you should try Kanon - it has some really touching stories too. =)
Btw. if anybody wonders/worries about the 18+ - the H-scenes can be disabled (just as the girls, ha ha ha. Boy, now i feel bad) but are anyway made in just the same sensitive way as the rest of the game. Except maybe for Emi's Path ;-)
On another note, I fail to see what you mean by "abusive". Could you elaborate? Don't be offended. I'm just curious.
Sirious through, any recommendations else for someone who liked stuff like KS, Fam.Project, Ever17 and such?
other than those i havent played any others that were sweet and calming for the mind
these are violent(very) and sex oriented but actually have a decent story in a way: Cross+channel, Sengoku Rance(the main story made me cry a lil but i wouldnt recomend the other rance games cause theyre all extreme), swan Song, and Yume Miru Kusari.
These i recomend after you feel like your up to a different change of pace but they may not be your cup of tea. I know because it was hard to push myself thru some of these... ;_;
Manly men aim to please(tho im not actually that manly). Thank you for the words of appreciation and you are welcome. you make me feel like a hero :)
ManlyMan~away
Secondly I was going to download is straight from their site but it's overloaded, then I get the Rin picture that says "I've got no arms to hug you with" while she's looking so nonchalant... It's both sad and cute at the same time. I don't understand. T_T
I'll still read it of course. Kinda worried about the fact it's 18+ though, will there seriously be h-scenes...? I wonder how those'll turn out...
Hey admin, just keep an eye out that Kikouyoku Senki Tenkuu no Yumina (Yumina the Ethereal in english) will be released in the early of 2012 so it could be somewhere on this month or next. But I will keep an eye out for you if you want me to :)
A simple google search will satisfy your needs for a walkthrough...
its not a walkthrough but its a full flowchart that will give you 100% completion
I've done two solid nights reading until 4am because I'm so hooked, and I've only managed to complete two routes so far XD
I'm savouring everything. The artwork is frigging beautiful.
I thought that they had already stopped working on it & never going to release the full of it.
been waiting for you to upload it...
so is forest the next one to upload?
this is with both the windblows version and Linux version from the website....be warned.
That's right at the begining!!!, I'll update python to make sure it's not that.
But this is amazing...yeah not bad at all.
I like the Shizune route.
I, myself, was a little bit overwhelmed when I first started this VN, as I had never really had any exposure to anyone with a disability before, and I am embarrassed to admit that at first I was judgmental of such people until I played and completed Katawa Shoujo.
The art was done to a relatively high-degree, especially given the circumstances of the production team. The music tracks are also great. Being musically-oriented myself, I have trouble liking a series or VN if the tracks aren't enjoyable, however, again Katawa Shoujo more than fits the bill.
Personally, I will treasure this VN, as it taught me a very valuable life lesson, and helped me to be less narrow-minded and shallow, which is no mean feat.
Kudos to Four Leaf Studios, your hard work and determination over the years is very much appreciated!
However, props to the 4Leaf team for working so hard on something that was ultimately free lol that's a lot more than I can do, and for bringing the medium of VNs to a lot wider audience.
Some routes of Katawa Shoujo, to me, were truly wholesome, and that's precisely what reels me in. I'm also a fan of unlikely/taboo/unrequited love in fiction, so this VN was refreshing to read.
The plot also struck a chord with me, as I'm actually under similar circumstances to Hisao, however my story isn't quite as exciting.. ;)
Might I ask you for other VN recommendations, perhaps ones you really enjoyed?
Thank-you.
Ironically one of the best things it had in it's favor was the fact that a western team wrote it, but they hurt themselves by forcing a setting and culture they know little about (Japan) onto the game. Akward sex? Heroines that are non-virigns? A group of attractive girls in a game and it ISN'T a harem game? These things just don't happen with Japanese eroge. I can only imagine how much better this game would have been if they would have ditched the "this is Japan" pretext and all the cliches and baggage that comes with it.
Also all of the stories seem to just end, without a proper ending. It almost feels like that they were sick of working on it so long and just ended the game about 2/3's of the way through. In these types of games you are supposed to have an introduction, some strife/conflict, and an eventual resolution. With many of the endings the "resolution" is a paragraph of text at worst, or a single scene at best. You never really get the felling that that conflict/strife is properly resolved. Maybe that is supposed to be the point, but to me it felt like the plots just left me hanging.
Hanako and Rin's "resolutions" are especially broken. I can't even tell if they are supposed to be happy endings or not.
And then you have really unbalanced plots as well. Without giving too much away, there is one girl you never really properly have sex with and another girl that you ask to be your girlfriend REALLY early on and yet there is no inkling of a relationship until almost the end of her arc. The sex scenes are irrelevant, but a believable plot and proper pacing is important.
I agree about the isolated plot lines as well. The fact that you are "locked in" after act one feels a little odd.
Plus, like the guy before me earlier, there is no sense of overall conflict/dilemma, other than the obvious ones. In the end for every route, it just felt like a series of events happened that worked out in the end. That's not really a story, that's just a bunch of exposition. In the end, it doesn't matter how "interesting" or "unique" your characters are, if they're not doing anything in the story.
Like I said earlier, in the end Katawa Shoujo just felt mediocre for me. I can understand how hard those guys worked and the passion they felt for the material, but what they wrote didn't feel like a visual novel for me, it just felt like 5 separate stories with "unique" characters. As for unlikely/taboo/unrequited love, no path made it seem like it was that way because no conflict was properly established in most routes. Things just happened and people ended up together. I dunno why I'm making such a big deal about it but I really want people to understand that Katawa Shoujo is really just scratching the surface of what VN can truly achieve and if you liked Katawa Shoujo, know that there are a lot better VN that really deserve attention.
Personally, I like to play all the routes with both good and bad endings, as I'm always curious as to what could've been.
You should be able to find said flowchart with a quick Google search.
the flowchart is there in my previous post
can't download for now just when i found the full version T,T
I have used this site for a while now and never dropped a thanks, but here it is. Thank you Admin!
Shizune Hakamichi:
1: Yeah, of course.
2: Ask about Shizune's deafness.
3: She has a point. Attack aggressively!
4: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
5: She was cute.
6: Wait for Shizune and Misha to come to a decision.
7: Yes.
8: Don't drag me into this! I've done my part!
9: Take it easy.
10: Try to dodge the subject.
11: Refuse.
Following this path will leave you with 3 CG's blank. To complete the CG's for Shizune's route just choose to "Comfort Misha" instead of "Refuse" to unlock all remaining scenes and CGs.
Rin Tezuka:
1: Yeah, of course.
2: I think I've got everything I need to know
3: It's a trap. It's smarter to play defensively
here
4: I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you.
5: She wasn't cute.
6: Read my book
7: Yes.
8: Don't drag me into this, I've done my part.
9: Take it easy.
10: Sorry, I'm not in really good condition.
11: I'm interested in the art club.
12: I wish I was as good as you.
13: It makes me feel lik I'm stuck.
14: I want to be more like Rin.
15: You won't get a chance like this again.
16: What about Emi?
17: I want to support her.
18: Is that why you're being so supportive of Rin?
19: It doesn't matter
20: But if you found someone like that, then what?
Follong this path will leave you with one CG blank. To complete the CG's for Rin's route just choose, "But aren't you happy people are interested in your pantings?" This will unlock the remaining 1.
Emi Ibarazaki:
1: Yeah, of course.
2: I think I've gor everthing I need to know.
3: It's a trap. It's smarter to play defensively.
here.
4: I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you.
5: She wasn't cute.
6: Read my book.
7: Yes.
8: Hey, come on. Cut me and Lilly some slack...
9: Go for it.
10: Offer to run with Emi.
11: Press Emi.
12: I suppose I can spare a few minutes.
13: Sure, why not?
14: Talk to her mom.
If you follow this path you will have 1 mission CG. To unlock all CG's for the Emi path, at the final choice, choose to "Go after her". You will get another choice: choose to "Downplay the issue" to get the bad ending, and choose "Give in and let Misha know" to get the final CG and an alternate
way to get back to the good ending.
Lilly Satou:
1: Why?
2: Ask about the Library.
3: It's a trap. It's smarter to play defensively
here.
4: Hi, I'm new here. Hisao Nakai. We're in the same
class.
5: She was cute.
6: Go talk with Hanakao.
7: Maybe...
8: Hey, come on! Cut Lilly and me some slack!
9: Sorry, I'm not in very good condition.
10: Go for a walk into town.
11: Tell the truth.
12: Ignore his insane ramblings.
13: Ask about Hanako.
14: Address it.
15: Talk about Hanako.
16: Mention the letter
After everything is done you should have all CG's of the Lilly route.
Nanako Ikezawa:
1: Yeah, of course
2: Ask about the library.
3: She has a point. Attack aggressively!
4: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
5: She was cute.
6: Go talk with Hanako.
7: Yes.
8: Hey, come on. Cut me and Lilly some slack...
9: Take it easy.
10: Sorry, I'm not in very good condition.
11: Go to the library.
12: What do you think, Hanako?
13: Admit it.
14: Do you want to go into the city?
15: Agree with Lilly.
Following this path will leave you with 3 empty CG's. In order to unlock the other three CG's in the Nanako route, when asked to help out in the council, choose "I've done enough work for the council already.". Then, at the end of
Act 3, choose "How about we call it a day?". Then, in Act 4, choose "Agree with Lilly". Also unlocks the final CG. Cut Petals - When on the phone, select "Trust my own judgment".
Thanks for your advice.
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.
then i liked emi.
shizune is ok..
but I hate rin.. so much
First released was act 1, then the full game.
While obviously there is no other VN like this, are there any others that have such amazing stories?
i just loove it :D
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!
*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
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, 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.
help i really want to play this game
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.
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 (=.=!)
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
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.
anybody know what happened???
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.
great game, teached me to love a person despite of physical flaws.
I already knew that! Hell, that's 1st grade stuff right there!
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
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.
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.
Anyway, i finished Hanako's route and got all her CG... but for some reason it left me feels...empty? and kinda unsatisfied ToT
I here there is a lot of DRAMAZ.
The end scene elicited an internal cheer from me, though.
I hope so, at least.
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?
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
10/10
masterpeice
i dont know what to do with life anymore.....i feel depressed.....:(
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.
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.
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!
lots of boring text
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.
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?
No, not every site on the Internet is made to make money.
and thank you for going through the effort to make these novels available to us english-speakers :)
ahhhhhh... bored people with too much time on their hands, you can never underestimate them
Been playin alot of VN's, but this one made a mess of me...
I was so angry and irritated during the Rin path, but the end was a nice touch.
Shizune's I kinda sped through it, kinda regret it. considdered doin it over again, but I must try to move on from this game...
Emi's was emotional and cute, with a touchy ending.
Hanako's path was... weird. not because of her "disability", but things felt forced upon her, which kinda made me feel uncomfortable. The ending was really nice, though had a feeling of "is this really the end of this path?"
Finally, Lilly's path was the one that made the biggest mess of me tbh. I cried my eyes out by the end, and I am really glad I played this game.
That said, I've been thinkin about this too much, it has caused me to have sudden urges to cry whenever... This VN had done an amazing job on making you really feel attached to the characters, and its hard to let go once all the paths are done. Due to this, I Can't stop thinking about them, and I kind of want to see more and see a... I dunno, conclusive ending.
This game is worth playing, no matter if you want romance, drama, sex, life-changing events, doesnt matter. you will not regret it, even thought you might end up like me, which isn't the best feeling in the world. makes me really appriciate that I have someone of my own.
I did Hanako's route first, and it feels like I'm betraying her...uuu....
I suppose not all can be pure and pristine as Hoshimemo.
Do I have to put the files on the same folder?
I haven't downloaded the game yet but I got an error when I tried playing a different game that had separated files so I'm guessing this would be the same :|
Help would be greatly appreciated :D
This game just hit me like a truck. Must admit, I was not expecting such a good plot and OST from a western VN (it is kinda peculiar).
Hanako was enough to blow my mind, I am afraid I can not even start a new path, I feel disgusted and tainted whenever I try, like if I was betraying her (my strong sense of fidelity and loyalty will not allow me). I finished her path three days ago but I can not stop thinking about her, her personality and tastes are pretty similar to mine, not to mention the fact that she is just awesome. I am just going to play her path again until I get satisfied.
Can not remember the last time that I actually felt that way (and trust me, I've played far too many VNs and watcher far too many animes, I may cry easily, but to have my head tormented by a character is a thing that I thought to be impossible, at least after two years ago, when I started to actually distinguish my feelings for reality and fiction), I have fallen in love with her. Call me whatever you want, I am actually a 'no life' anyways; world seems to be far from interesting without people like Hanako (shy, kind, cute, interesting etc...), people nowadays appear to have no shame and all the romance and partnership is gone, nonetheless I rather be a 'no life'.
And also, if there is someone matching my description (which is actually likely to happen) I apologize, it is just that I never met someone like that before.
Just to say I have no problem with any of the girls disabilities as I have my own.
rin route is just.. amazing i really like her
whats the difference with the regular Katawa Shoujo and the one with the 1.3J?
At my first run, I just followed my \own feeling\ and ended on Lilly route and straight to the good ending...
Then I followed the 4 other routes but most of these left me with a feeling of something missing... The only one who felt really fulfilling was Emi's... The other one miss some \long term\ future...
I didn't like the Rin's route... Well, somehow, I don't like Rin's behaviour and way of thinking... Are there only people who do like her ?
- most likeable characters : Lilly, Emi and Hanako (for Hanako, I think that if the good end was more fullfilling, she'd get the second place close to Lilly)
- most heart-breaking bad end : Hanako then Emi.
I somehow think that the sex scenes are out of place in this story... should they be absent, the game would really have been \all-ages\... This is even more sad as the game is quite an eye-opener on the situation of people with disabilities (at least those who fight to have a life... and it matches with what I saw in \real life\)
Definitively a very nice story... and be prepared for a very long read if you plan to go through all 5 routes and all endings.
Fuck you game , you are supposed to give me "research" material not feels.
One of the top tier best eroge out there. Must play
If you do not have this downloaded stop what you are downloading/fapping or both and download this (namely from the actual dev site as it is free there too) as you will love it!
This was my first VN and it is my favorite out off all the other VN's. This game WILL give you feels and no you can not man your way through the feels (reading and not skipping text) as the only way to love it is to play/read it.
Yes, this game has sex and I do not consider this game porn in anyway as the sex comes from people actually in love (you will be in love too) and is not just pointless smut. The sex brings them (and you) closer together.
Every other VN pales in comparison to what 4 leaf studio (group founded on 4chan) has created. Fate, NekoPara, Doki Doki, etc. all can not do what KS has done for me, and that is to feel every single emotion.
I remember my first playthrough of the game and I was on Lilly's route. One part made me so upset I bashed the desk and went and cried for 10 minutes. There has not been a game that has ever made me upset, angry or sad sure but not both at the same time. I knew this was an amazing game when I felt upset over a fictional character I did not know I feel in love with.
Also this game was made by a community, simply amazing.
All in all, it's a must play if you're into dramatic romances with happy endings.