

Further, he learns to accept himself more.Īt face value, Katawa Shoujo is not special. Disabled people can be very resilient and have lives and problems of their own that do not center solely on their disability. Whomever Hisao chooses, he learns how physical disability does not preclude people from having hopes and dreams. Each girl has a unique personality and disability of her own (hence Katawa Shoujo which translates to “Disabled Girls”). Hisao meets five beautiful girls, one of which he may choose to romantically pursue. Luckily for him, Yamaku has a sex ratio of 60 to 40 in favor of females.

While Hisao is uncomfortable with his new status as someone with a disability and attending a school where such statuses are common, he has no choice in attending. Yamaku is a school that specially caters to students with disabilities. Essentially, his heart is fragile and he is recommended to attend a new high school: Yamaku High. Hisao, after having a heart attack during his crush’s confession, has recently been diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia. Katawa Shoujo is a perfect example of how having good characters can carry a romance far.Ĭreated in 2012, Katawa Shoujo is a rather typical visual novel romance game. In other cases, we care about the characters because they have such good backgrounds and stories that we can’t help but be drawn in. In some cases, we care because we can easily imagine ourselves as the main character. For a romance to be successful, the audience needs to have a reason to care about the characters.


One requirement not mentioned was good characters. As someone who is a sucker for a good romance, I would have to disagree. That's doable and has in fact been done in the past, but by and large I'd say it has to be about an order of magnitude or so harder on the creator than simply writing or drawing porn using characters I don't have any preconceived notions about yet.Group project summary by group leader Victoria KeatingĪ common mistake about romance is that it is an easy genre to write. I don't as a rule want to see characters I happen to like for "non-porn" reasons essentially "reduced" to fap material - as much as I appreciate the latter for its own reasons, I mean, I am posting here, right? -, so for that sort of thing to have a chance of working for me it'd need to be done really, really well and in particular still respect the original characters enough to satisfy me. (The classic rule #34 actually works much the same for me. As valid a position as any other, surely. Well, the topic of the thread is "which characters would you like to see more rule thirty-vore of", right? Well, it so happens that my personal answer essentially boils down to "none of them, I'd much rather see new and original ones". Just like you can't make rule 34 of a work that is already porn. if the character vore in canon, than it's not rule thirty-vore.
