Kawata Shoujo - <3

[l_the_fangirl]

Kawata is apparently not a nice word in Japanese - something like "Cripple" or "Retard" or both. Meaning that Kawata Shoujo doesn't have the nice translation of "Disabled Girls" provided with it - it means something more like "Gimped Chicks." With a name like that, and the fact that it's by Anonymous 4-Chan Four Leaf Studios, you might be forgiven for running away on a pogo stick.

Kawata Shoujo turned out, however, to be a wonderful, beautiful game about coming to terms with disabilities and young love.

I fell in love with Rin, a mercurial, probably aspie, artist. Did I mention she has no arms, and painted a mural with her feet?

I did, not just my character. Play this. It's sensitive, well written, and highly recommended.

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In less OMGsqueee~ news, hexadecamal math in class today, oy gevalt... still a lot simpler then advanced Algebra, and managable, and interesting.

Comments

[blackbluesock.livejournal.com]

Do you know where I can find this game? I've wanted to play since I've known one of the girls has an anxiety disorder. ^_^

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/ is the website; downloads are for Mac, Windows and Linux.

That would be Hanako, I think. That or the girl from the library, whajufrig, Yuuko.

Guessing what psychological and learning conditions they have is half the fun. Rin is almost certianly Aspie, if not actually autistic.

[blackbluesock.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Danke.

Yep, that's her name. ^_^

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

The burned face is the least of her problems.

And I LIKE that.

Next stop: Lilly, the blond Yamato Nadeshiko.

...oh, yeah, she's also blind.

(watches heads explode from congnitive dissonance)

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

..."It is best to avoid gigolo play, then you will get none of the girls"

MAN WUT. The liner notes from the original picture that started this mess == absurd.

Also, Shizune does seem to use ASL instead of some form of JSL in canon. That's... kind of odd, but useful from a fanart standpoint, as I know smatterings of it.

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, conversion to binary and decimal, and Stupid Accounting Tricks that make computation easier.

[jake-richmond.livejournal.com]

This sounds familiar? link?

[jake-richmond.livejournal.com]

NVM!