The natural interactions are what make this story not only unique, but very sensible. Their disabilities are not totally ignored, yet they are a plot theme rather than a central problem in their stories. This isn’t some sort of fetish eroge, nor is it an overly focused take on the issue of handicaps. This has been said by a lot of people already, but I’ll put it here anyway: it’s not what you may think.
So much hype in fact that five days ago I decided to give it a shot. Being part of our Skype group and a contact of mine in MSN, she counted down the days to Katawa Shoujo’s release. One of the dev artists, gebyy-terar (who I prefer calling Salt), is an acquaintance of mine. I only caught wind of the project again just before New Year. Especially since back then the very idea of cripple sex was appalling at best.
I did know of its development around 3 years ago, but I generally just dismissed it as /a/ screwing around because, well, that’s how their image is. I’ll be honest here I never actively followed KS. Nonetheless, he learns to cope with his new environment, his condition, and eventually the relationships he forms.
The school is known for being designed to mostly cater to the development of physically handicapped students, a setting which puts off Hisao. Under his doctor’s and parents’ urges, he was forced to transfer to Yamaku High School.
The story, based on concept art by RAITA, is centered around Hisao Nakai, a high school student who was just discharged from the hospital after suffering from his first episode of arrhythmia. Katawa Shoujo is an eroge by Four Leaf Studios, an English doujin circle composed mostly of people from 4chan’s /a/ board. I don’t want to stuff this post with return greetings.
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