The following will contain minor spoilers, although the writer has tried their best to include as few as possible. It also has the goal of teaching the player a lesson about our preconceptions about disabilities as well as breaking the mold of visual novels before it. So what makes Katawa Shoujo special? Unlike most other visual novels, it has an important and always present theme that it carries throughout its entirety: empathy. Each of them have their own effect on Hisao which changes the way he views the world and the decisions he makes in life. Each of these girls have their own disabilities and routes, which are determined by the choices of the player and can result in good, bad or neutral endings. There are five main girls that Hisao can interact with: legless Emi Ibarazaki, scarred Hanako Ikezawa, blind Lilly Satou, armless Rin Tezuka and mute and deaf Shizune Hakamichi. The VN branches into different paths depending on the player’s choices. Initially bitter about his situation, the player, controlling Hisao, can create relationships and interactions with other students where he learns to grow as a person. The story revolves around Hisao Nakai, a boy who is forced to transfer to Yamaku High School, a school for the disabled, as a result of a heart condition. The studio, consisting of fans brought together by a mutual love of VNs, was created to develop and produce a visual novel based off the image which is now available in English, French, International Spanish, and Japanese. The image circulated the 4chan image board in 2007 where members of the image board formed Four Leaf Studios, named after 4chan’s four leaf clover logo.
One of the most prolific of these visual novels is Katawa Shoujo, translated as “Disability Girls.” Released in 2012, it originated from a sketch of girls with various disabilities by Japanese artist RAITA.
However, there are many that stand out among the rest for their exceptional quality and their ability to tackle mature topics. Visual novels (VN) have often had a bad rap of being glorified dating sims that contain hentai, or mature sexual content. How Empathy Makes Katawa Shoujo Worth Playing
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