Story

Nakai Hisao finds a mysterious letter in his math textbook that directs him to meet the anonymous sender outside. To his surprise, the sender turns out to be his crush! As she confesses her love for him, he collapses in the snow and the next thing he rememebers is waking up in the hospital. He is told that he has arrhythmia, a serious medical condition which causes his heart to sometimes beat irregularly. His parents decide it would be best for him to transfer to Yamaku, a school for students with physical disabilities.

About the Game

The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, with each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system.

It is the product of an international team of passionate amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.

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