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Just got to the end of it. Not since Ken Wolfe's El Hazard: Earth did I read a fanfic that so neatly took up from where the original material left off, and so perfectly complemented it by providing something it did not: a sense of completion. On my impressions of Hanako's path I mentioned being a ...

I think what xperroni is getting at is a "loli" is a female character who is either young, or looks younger than they really are (in Emi's case she does not look 19, she looks closer to 16 or so) More or less. What I'm trying to say is that a sizable part of the people who use the word "loli" take ...

I have a Spider-man costume in my closet. Does wearing that make me Spider-man? No – as much as you wouldn't be a shark if you dressed like one. But in those cases the term is more specific – "Spider-man" is the name of a fictional character, "shark" refers to any number of cartilaginous fish spe ...

Correction: A word means what people who know what the word is use it for Yes. That's why, say, "gay" continues to mean "cheerful" and nothing else, "bead" is still strictly a synonym to "pray", and "samurai" is a servant to a Daimiyo – regardless of whether they have martial training or not – and i ...

Most people probably disagree on the basis that it's factually incorrect. Only that "loli" is not a physical measurement unit, nor can it otherwise be unambiguously defined. You seem to think of the term as relating strictly to age, and that may well have been its origins – but ultimately a word " ...

Oddball wrote:You really should have picked up pretty quickly that she wasn't just some standard pedophile-bait character.

Sorry for being slow?

I loved the realistic way Emi's path played out. He found it unsettling... I guess that part of what bothered me, besides how her path stirred memories of real arguments, is that at first contact Emi looks cute and vaguely childish; combined with her short stature and ponytails, it all gives her a ...

inquisitivenegro wrote:Dude uses way to many quotation marks for me to read this seriously

Then again, I didn't come here for seriousness...

And what cliches are you talking about? Simplistic views? When I referred to "genre's cliches" and a "simplistic view" I was talking about eroge works in general. I did write several times that KS "deviates from the norm", gives "depth" to its characters and is even "subversive" at times, but I ...

Emi's conflict of fear of emotional intimacy is a very real and rather common problem in real-life relationships. Is it possible that you felt a bitter aftertaste because you know or knew someone who had difficulty letting others in and tried to compensate for it/distract from it by being overly ...

The thing is, while each path in katawa shoujo has hints of cliche conventions, with the exception of lily, it ends up subverting the hell out of (lily isnt pure cliche, but a little moreso than the rest) Of course Hanako's path has its own unique twists, but I feel its approach to genre ...

I finished Emi's path a couple days ago, and Hanako's just now, and I wanted to share what my impressions were. Though you probably got plenty of the same by now... Anyway. (By the way, this is going to be pretty spoilerific, so don't read on if this kind of thing bothers you.) I got into Emi's path ...