Recently played through Katawa Shoujo for the first time and fully completed it. It's definitely an incredible game and I think it helped me realize some things about myself. Rin best girl, but Hanako is adorable as hell.
@@conductorfishy Me too man, I think this game gives me some lessons and helps me understand some worldviews from people on certain circumstances. I absolutely adore Lilly and Emi, but Hanako is adorable.
@@Saoshinkid 9 years of the most pure innocence, 9 years gone, 9 years gained, 9 years of memories I’ll forever hold. 9 reasons to play again, 9 more to play. Next year, it will be 10.
fuck, dude. For some weird reason that made me a bit sad. edit: I just realized for the "first" time, after all these years, I still have Rin as my YT avatar. what is happening
10 years and it's still going strong. I love this game, the memories I've created, and the wonderful community who has kept it alive for all of this time. Here's to another 10. :)
I haven't played KS in about 10 years. I'm at a point in my life where I feel a little lost, anxious, and stagnant. I'm unsure of what I want to do with myself, and where I want to go in life. However, I remember how joyful and hopeful KS made me feel after reading it, all those years ago. Perhaps it is time to pay my old friends at Yamaku a visit once again, and find some clarity.
This song makes me think of my kitten, she used to always lay on my lap when I was reading this VN all those years ago... (Sometimes she would skip a few lines on accident lol) Treasure the ones you love...
The year I was first reading through Katawa Shoujo was also the last year I had my great grandmother. It can be depressing to think of those gone, but it also gives you an opportunity to reminisce about your time with them. I think this piece, with all it's nostalgia, captures both of those feelings perfectly.
I still think about this game sometimes. Being a musically inclined individual, I'd usually associate the scenes in the game with the music itself, which would make it much easier for me to feel the emotion behind the scenes that would play out. While this isn't technically in the game itself, I still felt wave after wave of nostalgia, and it's almost as if it was always there. I love it, honestly, it's like finding a stuffed animal in your closet that you loved as a child.
Finished playing the game recently. 11 years late huh lol... 11 years. Lilly is my fav, Hanako is second best. I felt compelled to leave some comment here since seeing such an outpouring of love at this game moves me every time, on every little video I can find on youtube, this game will never die boys. I've told many friends about it. Spread it and cherish it.
I listen to this song and think back to when I was a confused high schooler ignorant of all the madness in the world. I never really had any close friends as I kept moving. To me, I thought no one wanted to be close to me because I was weird, stupid or just ugly. Katawa Shoujo was the first real visual novel to open my eyes to the fact that I was never alone in the world - a sentimant that a parent wants to tell their child growing up, and also something that a real friend will tell you in your adult life when self-doubt hits. Katawa Shoujo may not be something I will read again as a man as it's lessons I have taken and have grown with - those being 'Love and accept yourself and others. "Strangeness" is just another aspect that makes you different from others and a gem among the "normal" people of the world. Find solace in love, and don't self-limit.'. Thank you FourLeaf Studios for helping myself and many others find themselves. Ten years on, I hope we have all have found what we were truly looking for.
It's wonderous to enter a community as old as this game's, and find it's full of nothing but wonderful people. There's not one commnent section, not one discussion I've seen that hasn't been agreeable and nice - whether it took place last week or eight years ago. It really reflects the purity and beauty of the novel itself, doesn't it?
7 months after my last comment, this kinda looks like a diary now, but yet again i've started to read Katawa Shoujo, gonna take Hanako's route again, the best one in my humble opinion, this VN is truly one of a kind to many of us, i thank 4chan a lot for it
@ That's simply because Hanako's route ends when Lilly is still in Scotland for the first time. If it had gone on as long as Lilly's, Hanako would be better off
Found out about this game i wanna say 3 years ago but ive forgotten most of that time by now but i still remember this game and bow much i love the stories as well as the soundtrack. Still have to go finish lily's and emi's routes then i will have seen all of them
Hanako would be hailed as a queen or goddess in the real world. Thousand adoring fans would await her to make her happy. Maybe its time to start the church of hanako.
+WhiteChocolate144 Of course! Whenever I can't find a song I like yet can't find I hunt it down and upload it. In this instance Sebastien removed it from his own channel, which was somewhat irritating. I figured as long as I gave him credit I could reupload it. Picture and all. Hopefully he has no issues seeing as it's free for download on his website here sebastienskaf.com/audio/.
+mariozeldascatmanfan thank you so much!! :) he did, I noticed that. Same with "smile sweetly" another song I really love. As far as I'm concerned, it's a miracle I got to hear this again. I can never thank you enough!!
Time passes and will pass, it is something that we all have to accept, however painful the wound may be. This is a little recurring that only happens, without warning, but you decide if you want to avansar or not. it seems motivational phrase badly done but, this is so.
It's true though, i've been fucked up pretty much since i was a little kid, but now i feel like i'm truly taking a break from all of that, even if It comes back to haunt me, i don't care, i'm just gonna enjoy the meantime
Just finished the Sisterhood fanfic after replaying the game again. The whole story + the fanfic really has made quite an emotional impact on me and I’ve learned a whole lot from it. ❤ really love this game, and I recommend reading through the Sisterhood fanfic especially if youre a fan of hanako
+Vora Z He deleted quite a few of his RU-vid videos, his official reasoning on his twitter was "I did some cleaning." My best guess is he didn't like the pieces as much as his others, and wanted to get them off his channel. Most of theme still exist on his website though. sebastienskaf.com/audio/
Well I don't believe that's fair. Raindrops and Puddles is a beautiful song, so much so that I committed myself to learning it on the piano. He should have just left the video there on his channel. What a shame. Thank you for the explanation though. I appreciate it.
pdf of piano sheet music via the wayback machine web.archive.org/web/20150221212859/dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57956891/Sheet%20Music/Raindrops%20and%20Puddles%20%7E%20Two%20Years.pdf
