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Katawa Shoujo |OT| (VN, Free, Waifus, etc)

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FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
I'm late reporting it, but progress update on Japanese translation (in Japanese). Lily's, Rin's and Shizune's routes are all done and reviewed, they'll just go back over them soon for smaller typos and minor fixes. Emi's and Hanako's are done but still being reviewed and revised. Once it's all good, they'll start debugging. They're expecting the release sometime this year, or the end of January 2015 at absolute the latest.

It'll be interesting to see how the full game's received by Japanese players.
 
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Valjean Lafitte

Banned
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Bumping because Suriko, one of Katawa Shoujo's writers (Lilly, Hanako) just released a new path for the game!

...sort of.

It's a route for Miki Miura, a supporting character that only appeared in Hanako's route, and it's being released in the format a text file packaged with a new theme song for the character written by NicolAmarfi, the game's composer.

Download here

Why do I think this is worth bumping the thread for when it's essentially just a fanfic? Because it's actually based on a scenario that Suriko had drafted for her while KS was being made, and since it's a known fact that at one point during development a Miki path was considered...do the math. This may be as official a new "route" we'll ever get.

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And, you know, it's fucking Miki. So read it. Now.
 
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Dynamite Ringo Matsuri

Member
Wuuuutttt. I just faked myself out into thinking that there was somehow a new path to explore :l

Although I still have yet to complete Lily's path. I'm on a Mac now so all of my progress no longer even exists lol. Dunno that I wanna go back thru Hisao, Hisao, Hisao, Hisao, Hisao, HIIISSAAAOOOOOOOOO, but I just recently completed Gone Home and To the Moon so I'm kinda in the mood for this emotional type stuff?
 
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spyhunterzero

Member
Yeah, I switched over my my files to my gaming PC and I guess it didn't transfer the saves off my lappy. Not sure if I want to go through everything again. My body's not ready!
 
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FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
IT'S HAPPENING

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Katawa Shoujo 1.3, featuring the long-awaited Japanese localization, will be released digitally on 1st of April 2015.

We also will participate in Comitia 112 at Tokyo Big Sight on 5th of May 2015, where this release will be sold as physical media. Visit booth こ29a for your own hardcopy of KS.

We're sure many of you have been looking forward to this release. Hope you'll enjoy Katawa Shoujo!

- Aura
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Owlowiscious

Member
I know Japan is different than other countries, but that post should have at least acknowledged April Fool's day and said it wasn't a joke post or something.
 
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FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
The Katawa Shoujo Japanese Translation is live!

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Katawa Shoujo 1.3 featuring the Japanese localization is now available! Three years and change after the original release, KS can be now read in the language of the image that originally inspired the birth of the Katawa Shoujo project. We'd like to thank and congratulate the translation team for their completion of the project, and hope you all enjoy the new language option for our stories.

Download the release from our website or directly from these links:


As always, we greatly appreciate your help in seeding the torrent releases. 1.3 is a standalone release that completely replaces previous KS releases and it's the recommended version for new readers.

Don't forget that we're participating in Comitia 112 on the 5th of May. Please visit the translation team at booth こ29a and say hello! Hardcopies of Katawa Shoujo in dvd cases featuring weee's artwork can be bought at the event.

- Aura

Here is a message from the translation team:
We would like to thank everyone who have been patiently waiting for the Japanese release for more than 3 years since the release of version 1.0. It was truly a long journey with many challenges for us the translation team as well. We're happy that we have succeeded in reaching the final goal. The Japanese translation and the release of Katawa Shoujo could not have been made without the tremendous support from dev folks in Four Leaf Studios, the members of JP translation team, among many other people. We would like to express our thanks for making this release possible.

Katawa Shoujo is a monumental game, which was made in English language, by a team of non-Japanese individuals, with a visual novel format which is very familiar to us Japanese. Despite the title's first hand impression, the stories in the game were very sincere, which received praise across the world. It is undoubtedly a memorable piece, or rather a phenomenon in the history of games (One evidence is that searching for "Katawa Shoujo" in youtube will show 63800 videos posted).

I myself was moved so much when I played this game, which was the reason I wanted to people in Japan to know more about KS. That was also the cause for me to translate it into Japanese.

As the Japanese Otaku culture spread around the world over the years, its influence has culminated into one masterpiece, and now it is being brought back into Japan. It's fascinating how things have come to a full circle, and I feel lucky that I could take a part in this. In a way, I felt it was a mission for me to complete the translation and make it public. That determination has kept me going till now.

Our team has given the best of our efforts into the translation. Please enjoy.

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7 years since the release of Act1 in 2008, and 3 years since the full version in 2012. English visual novels were far more in the niche back then. However in the past year or two, we are seeing more and more English visual novels in Steam and other platforms. Perhaps Katawa Shoujo had its influence in paving the way for Visual Novels.

I'm hoping that the release of KS Japanese translation would increase interest in other novel games outside Japan, and perhaps their translation as well.

-hir​
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