Disabled Girl Eroge “Katawa Shoujo” Developed by 4chan
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Nov 18, 2008 00:00 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Announcements, Doujin Soft, Eroge, Internet, Katawa Shoujo
The newly launched homepage for 4chan developed English language disabled bishoujo eroge Katawa Shoujo / かたわ少女 (or “Cripple Girl” if we render it into English) went live recently, and the game has attracted a great deal of note (mostly derision) from Japanese observers; nonetheless, it looks to be an interesting project, so let us look it over.
The basic pattern the game takes is fairly standard: a visual novel with five female characters, each with their respective play paths; presumably a harem ending is also possible. The only caveat is that, like a great many doujin visual novels, the game will not be voiced.
The characters are as follows:
Lily Satou – 佐藤リリー – Blind
Hanako Ikezawa – 池沢華子 – Disfigured by burns
Rin Tezuka – 手塚凜 – No arms
Shizune Hakamichi – 羽加道静音 – Deaf-mute
Emi Ibarazaki – 茨崎笑美 – Both legs amputated
Something for everyone, then.
A release date has not been announced.
The game looks to be tastefully and sensitively realised, if we excuse it its rather jarring name, rather than a purely guro work, although a final verdict will have to wait until release.
The site explains the process by which the game came about:
The New Year of 2007 was bound to be business as usual for the /a/ board of 4chan until on 4th of January, Anonymous posted an omake page from a doujin by Raita of doujin circle Zettai Shoujo, detailing character art for a dating sim he dubbed “Katawa Shoujo”.
For reasons we will never know, someone’s genius idea of actually realizing Raita’s idea of the game caught on like wildfire and soon suggestions ranging from tender love stories to depraved sex fantasies were running amok in the thread.
The insane idea of creating an actual original game, based on nothing but a single picture and the sparse ideas Raita had written in the margins titillated the imaginations of Anonymous so much that people became truly serious about the fledgling project.
Soon, there were development forums and for the next months, ideas and suggestions were flying around, with people trying to flesh out their ideas, drawing sample art, writing sample text, trying to control the chaos of dozens of people arguing and bickering about the direction of the game.
From there, the most active people began the actual game developement as a working group named Four Leaf Studios and the project truly took off in the summer ’07.
Your first port of call is of course the official Katawa Shoujo site.
Via Itai News.
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i want the mute girl~!
imagine, a girl who can't bitch, nag or whine all the time~!?!?
If I remember correctly, the deaf/mute is the tsundere, so.......
still, if she doesn't groan or moan, i'd miss the audio... it's not all about the visual to me ^^;
you never had sex with a mute girl i guess? they make croaking sounds.
Ribbit.
I'm becoming ever more strange do to this site.It's a sad day when you want to fuck a mute girl....out of curiousity of how it would sound.They can still pant you know.
no one is mute only deaf
Yea and if you took the time to learn how to sign to her then if you dont wanna have her sign bitchin to ya all you have to do is slap her hands which could be fun in it's own way.
Hmmm, it looks sick... but fun at the same time... i just want to see the different techniques "the guy" will use to seduce each girl.
Okay, so how does the mute girl and the blind girl communicate -*-?.
through touch,
if you know what I mean.
Just because a person is blind doesn't mean they can't talk. And a thing called braille is helpful too. Mute people are usually taught sign language.
One of the sketches were shown clearly she uses sign language. ^^;;
But when they're blind AND mute? That's a double whammy right there. I guess it severity of the case depends on whether they were born like that or became like that.
Haven't you seen "The Miracle Worker"?
She's a deaf-mute, not blind and mute. The blind girl can hear and speak fine.
Ever heard of Helen Keller?
The mute girl signs to the pink haired one (Misha or something) who then speaks to the blind one. The blind on speaks and the pink haired on translates it to sign for the mute one.
I more potent question is how the deaf mute girl and the blind girl communicate with EACH OTHER.
That's simple to get around, I read something similar in a fictional novel before. A deaf-mute girl communicated with a blind girl by holding hands and arranging each other's hands into sign language positions.
just wanted to say that in game it seems the deaf/mute girl(Shizune)doesn't get along with the blind girl(lily)because of the fact that she never knows shi is there due to her lack of speech ability and lily is unable to notice that shi is using Misha as a translator due to the fact that she can't see the signing.
You should go play ONE, it's quite enlightening (has a blind girl and a mute girl). Old-school goodness, and it's even translated for your enjoyment. :)
http://akane.is.moelicious.be/
This should be interesting,
though I've always viewed the "disabled" fetish was something that fed of our desire to nurture and protect something that is weak and helpless.
lol, I remember that thread back then, anonymous never cease to amuse me
Saw the "no arm" and I went OH MY GO-! LOL
I find the no arms the most attractive. :) (don't ask why)
I see they are using Ren'py to make the game. More power to them. I'm quite surprised they were able to get together such a motivated team.
dre-san... I'd imagine you've imagined how cool it would be to be with a no-legs, no-armed, deaf, and mute girl...
to all others, I believe he means to rape...
and the girl I described, can't fend off an attacker nor scream.
incidentally, the girl dre likes, can headbutt him.
Finally!
I first saw this image on iichan YEARS ago, I was so enthralled by the tender thought put into describing and depicting the characters. Not just another flesh game, there was soul... But then I was told that it was just a concept, no actual real game existed, and therefor there would be no other 'official' art of the characters. Very upsetting.
And now this! Thankyou Artefact, thankyou so very very very much!
hell I'll play it. looks interesting enough
We are moved to tears by the sheer fact that 4channers managed to do something cooperative and productive...
Still, good job... I guess... Definitely going to try it out.
Oh wow!
has anyone checked out the sampled soundtrack it's pretty damn good. rest of this game or novel also looks really interesting. I'm being attracted to Hanako and Rin. Can't wait to play this.
looks awesome :)
A game that will definitely get a two thumbs up from the disabled community. Looks to be awesome!
That depends on the kind of disability.
Good. I need some other girls to love other than Bikko.
hmmm . . .interesting topic . . .
Also note, in a different take on the Tsundere, it seems she has the biggest chest as well.....
man, this is really good, I dont understand exactly wat I like, but it's really "moe", in a way, i mean, this is really something u want to protect and stuff, really good yes, really good
Lol looking forward to play this one
I forgot to add that hopefully it will be released eventually and not end in development hell
A deaf/mute tsundere...? Now this I gonna see.
Deaf/mute is win/mute.
I want a copy of this ASAP
Did I hear tsundere?!
This just crossed the fine line between eroge and JUST FUCKING WEIRD. lol
I have been looking forward to this game for along time. When it is finally released my life is ttopping so I can play right through the whole thing 5 times.
Don't care if it's FUCKING WEIRD. Don't care if it's eroge.
CARE THAT THEY ACTUALLY MADE IT.
Wow, I'm glad to see that half of the character names I suggested made it into the game.
Whats the other half?
Out of curiosity, can you provide some examples or translations of this "Japanese derision" of the game?
I'm curious as to what they actually have to say about this.
Plenty decry it as being "weird", but leaving those aside, there are those who accuse it of being a Key rip-off, those who basically won't accept a non-Japanese made doujin game (some slow witted commenters ask "why are the characters Japanese?"), etc.
Generally the reaction is very negative.
This was to be expected. One can't really blame them though. In my experience many Otaku (not all of course) are quite the xenophobic bunch, right up there with landlords and Onsen owners. I've heard many voices who say Anime and Manga should have never left the country. Hell, sometimes I'm thinking this too while hoping I would've still managed to get exposed to it somehow. It will be interesting to see how this turns out and what the reactions are when it's actually finished. I remember there were arguments about a Japanese version too.