Katawa Shoujo Forums

Inspired and inspiring — great pacing and a consistent cadence of mood which is by turns both foreboding and hopeful; I had to remind myself to breathe at several points. Frankly, this makes the chapters hard to read - but in the best way. Hard in the way it is when one challenges oneself to push th...

3/4 Of the Way, More or Less Time files when you’re juggling bricks of text. I don’t have a lot to say at this point except — 1, my favourite parts of this story are yet to come, and — 2, in taking breaks to let scenes and chapters settle, I’ve had the opportunity to read works of fiction here that...

Designer Threads October 22 - Monday Evening Tetsu had desperately, perhaps ill-advisedly, wanted to surprise Rin with something for halloween - both Misha and Emi had only been too willing to help. “Doesn’t matter that it’s fragile - it only needs to last one night.” Tetsu thought. It was beautifu...

Happy Jack the Lantern October 20 — October 27; Saturday - Saturday The week leading up to the Halloween dance was a mad rush of activity — unlike the school festival, this was every person for themselves; designing and making costumes, experimenting with face paint, and trying to get a date to the...

Epiphany du Jour October 21 - Sunday evening Friday night notwithstanding, Rin had no issues with Misha — Rin knew which hand held the leash in Misha’s relationship with Shizune and, despite Tetsu’s opening up verbally and speaking to Rin, there was no reason not to continue with Misha’s sign langu...

There's a couple of things you could have noticed - one intentional, the other not. The first is breaking this scene up into sub-scenes with em-dashes; the sub-scenes are small and, temporally, follow fairly quickly on each other throughout the day around a central plot point (aftermath of Friday ni...

All the Shots You Don’t Take October 20 — Saturday Rin had gotten in and to bed well before Emi had — finding Rin’s door closed, Emi went to bed herself. The party had developed a decidedly awkward air after Rin and Tetsu had so abruptly left. Emi wanted to blame them for poor manners, but had enou...

Second Stealing for First October 19 - Friday evening Rin and Tetsu walked a while in silence - only the moon lit their path. The air was crisp; the cheering warmth of autumn days had wholly left the air, but the chill of winter had not yet arrived. Not wanting to run into anyone from the party, Ri...

Showdown at the Shanghai Corral October 19 - Friday evening The week - what remained of it - had gone well; Rin and Tetsu made light conversation - what passed for light with them at least - and talking with Rin felt almost .. natural to Tetsu. He didn't have to force himself and Rin was utterly no...

Mechanics of the Work October 17 — Wednesday afternoon “Hey Tetsu - ah, hi.” Tetsu’s attention was focussed on something attached to his door handle that he had been fiddling with; interrupted, he turned to face Hisao. All this time being near-neighbours and they hadn’t really interacted as such — ...

A Game Called Patience October 15 - Monday evening Hello old typewriuter! A very interesting and positive thing happened last weekend - Rin stayed over night in my room! No, it was ntohing like that -- she slept on my bed until she didn’t, and I slept alone on the floor, until I wasn’t. I always th...

Coming Attractions October 15 - Monday afternoon School was done for the day and Emi was brushing Rin’s hair — “Say what?” “Tetsu - he’s a good cook. He made us dinner - teriyaki and curry - not together. The curry was better.” “Well, he fed you - I guess now he has to keep you,” Emi was, of course...

It's nice, seeing you've been able to keep the conversational style the same since the last episode. I need to go back now and get properly caught up - it's been a while since I started reading this. Also nice to see this seems to be the season for Jigoro to get some screen time; even if he does ten...

Waking Up October 14 - Sunday morning Tetsu’s first thoughts on waking were, in more or less this order - “Sunlight. Morning. Girl.. there’s a girl in my bed. But I’m not in my bed, I’m on the floor - and she’s on the floor. How did we get here?” Tetsu wasn’t the sharpest when he first awoke. “Oh -...

Moonlight Ballet October 14 - Sunday morning, early Being nearly a new moon, the only light coming through the window was that of grounds lights. “This is not my room.” Was Rin’s first thought. Her second thought was “And I hate sleeping in my bra. Ouch.” Trying to avoid looking at Tetsu’s alarm cl...