Katawa Shoujo 2

The only thing set in stoneabout creativity is that nothing is set in stone. We at the Four LeafStudios know that as well as anyone. Throughout the development ofKatawa Shoujo, we changed our minds countless of times about grandvisions of the project, and about minute details as well. After KSwas released, we felt like we were done, finished both emotionallyand creatively. We didn't want to stay with KS anymore, but where togo from there?

After about a year ofsoul-searching we realized that we hadn't done anything of relevancefor about a year and panicked a little. Katawa Shoujo 2 was broughtup again. Maybe we should just accept our fate and go for it? Do wehave motivation? Could we get inspired by returning to thatuninspiring setting and having to write about teenager drama onceagain? After some unfruitful discussions and a lot of hemming andhawing we decided to use the most powerful development tool known to man: voting. Everyone would simply votefor or against making KS2 and we'd abide by the democratic decisionno matter what anyone actually said about the issue.

I think just abouteveryone's mind was blown when it turned out that every single votewas for “yes”! I couldn't believe it myself. Just like that, wehad changed our minds on the biggest rule for ourselves, the one wethought was truly set in stone. So, that was it. Half excited, half scared, we set out to make KS2, but how?What would it be like? What should it be like?

It would be a failure, as we found out.

Finding an unified visionbetween a great number of people is difficult. The proverb aboutchefs and soup goes for devs and visual novels just as well. Theoverall approach for KS2 was the first point of conflict. I arguedthat there was no point in making a sequel unless it's essentiallythe same thing again, which made delta threaten to quit on the spotbecause he'd rather cosplay Misha at the next Oktoberfest than make KSall over again. Suriko thought he was being clever by suggesting acompromise with a female protagonist and a girl love theme, buteveryone was wise to his self-serving agenda and shut it down immediately. Not that anyone was really that attached to Hisao as the protagonist. Five people, individually from each other, suggested a plot revolving around killing Hisao in the most unfortunate ways. Too bad the only thing everyone hated more than Hisao were the proposed plot concepts.

Katawa Shoujo (かたわ少女, 'Disability Girls' or 'Cripple Girls') is a. The game is composed of a Prologue, which contains two short scenes, a first act (labelled. Jan 04, 2013 Katawa Shoujo is a visual novel about disabled girls. Positives: Good selection of sprites, nicely mixed and edited mostly from RoB and SotN; it's easy to identify which enemy from CV they originally were, but their KS 'skins' are sufficiently edited to add a personality of their own.

With an immediate bad end in the direction of going the high-concept route (which Silentcook pointed out was utterly ridiculous given the topic we're talking about), we thought maybe we couldlet the story write itself if we could come up with asufficiently strong cast. That's what some creators are able to do,I've heard. As for us, the sheer amount of moecharacteristics, fetishes and thinly veiled dream girlfriends fast became impossible to deal with, and since everyone isvery adamant about their tastes being supreme, compromise was hard to reach. Thediscussions soon became very much like actual office politics, with people colluding to support each other's inane ideas, backstabbing, threats to quit and even blackmail.

Visual concept design wasn't going any better. We had a bunch of unused character designs left over from KS 1 (half of which various devs wanted to cram into the sequel for no good reason) and the artists jumped at the chance to create worthy spiritual successors to classic designs like Hideaki and Jigoro. Delta threatened to quit once he heard that moekki would get to do character design, but we made sure she would only be working under strict supervision of kamifish which calmed him down a bit. The character design process overall caused quite a bit of anger and resentment, eventually resulting in every single completed design being rejected. Things were not looking good for us.

As a final desperation move we turned to our resident expert in lowest common denominator, climatic. He suggested we should do a fandisk for KS that amends the lack of certain 'fundamentals' in the original game. This would be appealing to the widest audience. The concept involved things like a beach event, a pool event, a hot springs event, Shanghai turned into a maid cafe, catgirls, doggirls, foxgirls, bunnygirls, sheepgirls, a cute but a bit tsundere little sister character, a perverted otaku best friend character, a stalker character, a harem ending, a harem ending, a harem ending, a haunted house, inexplicable superpowers, alternate dimensions, mecha battles, magical girls, zombies, fantasy MMORPGs and a clown.

This titanicproject didn't even need a metaphorical iceberg, it sunk because ofits own impossibility. All that remains are dozens, maybe hundreds of concepts, all rejected for one reason or another, many ruined friendships and the memory of the worst month of my life. We truly tried our bestto find a vision worthy of a sequel of Katawa Shoujo, but regrettably it just was not to be. We're sorry.

So where do we go from here? We decided that what we're going to do now is to skip KS 2 entirely and go straight for creating Katawa Shoujo 3. From how our planning is going, it's looking to be absolutely magnificent, with so many amazing features and stories. We're really excited and confident about this project and hope you're too. Look forward to hearing more about that in about a year.

- Aura

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katawa shoujo 2: a new luv

hisao nakai is at yamaku skool and meats lots of people. but 1 girl he really really likes. kind of a follow on to kenji's bad end please r&r

a/n: hi guys! i just finished this visul novel. it was really gud i likd rin best coz she was so random but i also like misha and shizune sometimes specially when they made hisao do stuff for them in the council lol but they really shud have got together in the end. lilly and emi are stupid, so dont expect me to like them in this fic! lol. i like hanako's bad end cuz she gave hisao what for but she didnt really have a personality i mean reading books is okay but that's like all she did hahaha. lilly's route should have bin about akira, maybe i'll do a akaira route after i finish this fuc but first i have this idea and i think maybe if team four star studios do another ks game maybe they cn taken me on as a writer? plzplezplez _

i wnt tell you who hisao gets with it is a surprise! but its not any of the main girls cause they've all got theri own routes. it's not misha either cuz she's a plebian.

hisao nakai wakes up in the hospital after falling off the roof after drinking too much with kenji. 'i have bad news' seed the nurse 'your heart is even worse now cuz you drank loads'.

'fuck' says hisao.

later on hisao goes back to school in a wheelchair cause his heart might give out if he walks. he goes back to his room n is really sad and depressed. kenji was explode for taking in alcohol so at least that was some thin, hisao thought. then the door cocked. it was shizune and misha and they brought hisao sum chocolate cake. its a wonder that neither misha or shizune are fat cause they eat loads of shit but then again has anyone seen a fat japan person. i no people say that misha is fat but tbh i weigh amor than her and I'm definitley not fat.

anyway

'you okay hisao, we cum as soon as we heard' said shizune all comforting. misha rubbed her legs. (a/n: hisao learned sign language we just didn't read about it and when you do you kinda read it to yrself in your head so thats why shizune speaks now okay)

'yeah i guess' said hisao sadly. he couldn't even get tuned on by the thought of misha and shizune doin it. later on he tried masturbating but it didn't work n all hisao got was a cramp in his rist.

NEXT MORNING

hisao was wheeling his chair to lesson when that bitch emi ran into him. he piled all his coffee in his lap 'HEHE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU PISSED YOURSEL' said emi all sluttily.

'FUCK OFF' said hisao (a/n: i know its kind of out of characetr but emi nearly killed him before remember besuids he was in hospital!)

emi tries to pull puppy dog eyes but den misha runs into her n cause misha is the least anorexic out of every1 emi fell over and her legs flue down the corridor.

'HEY HISAO' said misha.

'OI' said emi.

'CAN U HEER SOMETHING SHIZUNE' said misha n laffhed at emi who glared and crawled off. shizune shook her head.

'let's go to lesson now' said misha and so they did. mr muto set them a class task and what they had to do was make a presentation on something. misha and shizune did all the work wile hisao stared out the window thinking ..

rin was painting flowers on the wall ousted when hisao bumped into her.

'hey rin' said shizune lookin at her notebook.

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'hi' said rin.

'want to help with student council stuff we cud use help' said shizune.

'ok' said rin and got up and followd them to the room. they were putting stuff together for tanabarta. rin made a really interesting sushi stall with lots of kawaii charactres on it for the blind students n shizume and misha put together one stall with a computer monitor in it for a sine language translation of the menu for def students (a/n: that would be so cool). hisao made sum paper lanterns. then the door.

'Hello?' said a voice. they all looked up it was hannako. but it wasn't hanako like we knew her this hanako died her hair black and pierced her noise. she had an ipod with rammstein blasting out of it n wore a dress from lolita shop (a/n: lolita is so cool but only rly skinny japanese girls look good in it so i thought hananko would look good in it).

'wats up hanako' said shizune. 'wanna help'

'no thanx mebbe later i got to help lilly take an std test cuz she was bein all slutty with the teachers today' hanako moaned.

'oh god who did she lay this time' misha laffed.

'the art teacher, she asked him out in a cornfeld then took him back to the art room and fuced him' (LOL GET IT CAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPEND IN HER ACTUAL ROOT)

'ugh' rin said 'this is maybe why the paint he gave me was all thick n white n gloopy.'

'haha yer lilly has a paint fetish' said hanako.

'oh well' said hisao 'maybe bring lilly to help'

so hanako did after lilly had her test and lilly walked into the door and then yelled at shizune 'WHY DID THEE VERILY PUT THE DOOR THERE YOU DEF SLUT'.

'LOL' laffed shizune silently

END OF CHAPTER 1