Eventually a small group of enthusiasts broke off and started their own development forum, taking the name Four Leaf Studios, and got to work. The 4chan anon community, as attracted to conceptual and intellectual perversity as they are to all perversity, went fucking berserk about the prospect of making the game real, and successive threads flooded the forum with ideas and proposals. The name of the game translates to Disability Girls, though that’s inaccurate-the word katawa in this context is an unprintable epithet for the disabled, connoting worthlessness. The idea lay dormant until some anonymous fan translated the work and posted it to 4chan in 2007.
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And because it’s pretty easy to slot common stereotypes regarding certain disabilities into the archetypal clichés that infest the dating-game genre. The original idea itself was… funny… because a lot of dating sims are as disrespectful of women as society in general is of the disabled. The sketch, by an artist who publishes fanwork under the name RAITA, posited a dating game where all the girls were disabled-two amputees, a burn survivor, a blind girl, and a deaf-mute girl. It was developed and released by a self-assembled group of fans of the idea of Katawa Shoujo who came together as a reaction to a sketch in a translated piece of Japanese fanwork. It’s a dating game-well, romantic visual novel there’s some nuance between “visual novel” and “dating game” that I don’t have space to go into here.
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The rest of this review will be me explaining the joke. Publisher: Four Leaf Studios Katawa Shoujo is hilarious.