Katawa Shoujo

Spiral of despaaaaair until your emotions were bruised and crying horribly... Or was that just me? >_>

Less crying with bruised emotions, more yelling at my computer to stop whining about how hard art is. I mean, c'mon Rin, I can do this crap easy! Watch!

See? Art.

Well I'm not gonna get into any kind of crazy opinion base rebuttal because I'm sure you get the good points of Rin's route too sooo...
Failure Hero, I give that drawing an e out of 10. Would look at again.

That's especially funny considering the French word for Pipe is... pipe.

I get it on a "this probably affects people with real human emotions" level, but I don't get it on a "I'm an overly combative kind've-an-ass" level. Which probably explains my love of Shizune as well.

I didn't have time to look up such trivialities! I was making art!

Ahahaha exactly. But I didn't find him annoying in the beginning, I'm used to crazy friends like him.

In the begining, I liked Kenji, I just grew more and more annoyed with him as the routes went.

"I GET IT, OKAY ? SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR PARANOID CRAP, I HATE YOUR BGM ANYWAY !"

That's how I felt about all the love interests, actually.

I was sad when they changed Rin's Theme from the teaser. The version in the full release didn't have the same playful spirit. The multiple views we got of tertiary characters and their integration into the story were actually more interesting to me than the 'main girl' on whatever route I chose.
Impressions:
Emi was probably the easiest route to connect with and one of the best written. Lots of overlapping little clues from different parts coming together. It was also hella obvious and straightforward. Anyone with a brain could see what was going to happen. This didn't stop it from being fun, if a bit cliche.
Lily's was the most overly dramatic and bla-bla-bla. A lot of people said the ending was heartwrenching, but I just found it incredibly ham-handed and unfulfilling. Lily's character could have been explored way more and I would have enjoyed some more threading the lines with Hanako involvement on this one.
Rin's route was a VERY good look at what it would be like to try and sustain a relationship with a cloud-cuckoolander type character without stable connections to anyone else. I quite enjoyed it, even if I think they both kinda screwed up in this one.
Hanako: felt like this was a bit unfinished, to be honest. A lot of good ideas that didn't necessarily congeal into a good and fulfilling whole.
Shizune: Needed a Jigoro route. This route was probably the worst with the words/important stuff ratio. It also had the least interactivity and an extremely poorly worded choice. Shizune herself is an interesting character, but the route plodded around a lot and introduced a lot of red herring type stuff that could have been really cool, but never really panned out.

Yeah, now I remember, Lilly's was overly dramatic. It was sweet though.

So I think this is my favorite piece of Katawa Shoujo fan art:

Kamina Shoujo or Katawa Lagann?

Look at this one:



Proper credits: rtil from deviantart.

Katawa Lagann. Oh double chainsaws girl I'd put my faith in you any day to mow down deadites.