Few years ago, I post an article regarding this game in my old blog.
And now, finally, this game is released.

For you who don’t know about Katawa Shoujo:
Katawa Shoujo mean, disabled/cripple girls. This is a Japanese style of Dating Sim, or more precisely, a visual novel and released by Four Leaf Studio. For short, it’s a text heavy game
If you like to reading Novel or short story, this is a good choice for you.

When this game was in development, I was expecting if this game will be SFW, a.k.a Safe For Work. But when it released, I saw the download link is saying about 18 years old of minimum age, it mean this game is eroge, or NSFW.

To be honest, I kinda dissapointed. Because this is a eroge, it mean not everyone can play it (but probably, it doesn’t matter, kids these day don’t care about rating at all). But thank god, the amount of ero scene is not that much and I enjoy the story.

Just like most visual novel, you will play as Hisao Nakai, a lucky bastard (with hearth problem) that will dating (and hopefully have sex) several girls in the process, so yeah…
And here are the candidate (see picture above from left to right)

Lily Satou (Blind)
Hanako Ikezawa (skin damage on her right half body)
Rin Tezuka (her both arms are gone)
Shizune Hakamichi (Deaf, and mute)
Emi Ibarazaki (her both legs are gone)

Other girls (didn’t appear in the picture):
Misha (Shizune’s translator. She’s got a loud voice and drill hair style)
Yuuko (Part timer librarian and waitress)
Miki (tanned skin girl who lost her left hand)

Katawa Shoujo is delivering messages to all of us, of how disable people run their life.
We must admit if there are lot of “normal” people in the community who are thinking if disabled people are useless because the’re not normal, because they loosing something (physically), because they’re waiting for their death, because they’re disgusting for being imperfect, and their imperfection made them deserve no love nor happiness, and their imprefction made them a second class citizen, or even third class citizen…

And I don’t talk bull shit here.

The reason why I know this because I do have disabled friend, I know how he struggling for equality, how he must facing problem over problems.
And this is one of many reason why I’m interested with Katawa Shoujo.

Contrary to what most common people believe, disabled people don’t live in pathetic life. Sometimes common people treat them like they’re also mentally disabled, and this game can open your mind of how they run their life.

I must admit though, not everybody are happy. They do struggling to overcome their problem, like how they must walking alone without vision, running without legs, communicating without hearing, eating without hands, dealing with people who saw ugly appearance, and many others…

During my first encounter with my blind friend, about 6 or 7 years ago. I was questioning, how did he actually operating a computer? He said he can use computer, but how? So I go to his home and find the truth, he shows me how he working on a computer.
And I was like “ow, I see. Bill Gates seems care about blind people too”
And they even can play games, some of them are even kicking ass on Starcraft II game, good god

Anyway…
This game is an Indie Game or a Doujin Soft. However, this game is distributed freely under Creative Common License. if you’re interested about this game, you can download it on katawa-shoujo.com