At the same time, you as the main character come to terms with the changes in your own life and maybe find love in the end.Īs visual novels usually do, Katawa Shoujo requires some time to complete. When playing it, you learn to see past the girls ’ disabilities and appreciate them for all their adorable and annoying quirks. But surprisingly there’s no need to worry, as rather than being gross and fetishistic, Katawa Shoujo handles its themes gently and respectfully. The premise sounds alarming : a dating simulator made by 4chan in which you try to pick up disabled anime girls. There he meets five interesting girls, all with varying personalities, looks, and of course, disabilities. As a result of this, he transfers to Yamaku High School, which specializes in providing education and healthcare for disabled students. That might sound like a bit too on the nose, but in the hospital, it’s revealed that Hisao has chronic cardiac arrhythmia, which requires him to take medicine daily and have frequent checkups. Our main character, Hisao Nakai, ends up hospitalized because of a heart attack that was caused by a girl confessing her lov e to him. So, you might be wondering, what is the finished product like?
It gained tractio n online on the imageboard several years later and the internet’s most infamous group of trolls decided to make a visual novel out of it – hence the name of the developer, Four Leaf Studios. Who ever thought 4chan could give birth to a game this wholesome? The concept o f Katawa Shoujo started as a simple sketch of cute, disabled girls o n the last bonus page of an erotic doujin shi nearly twenty years ago.
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