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[ArcCain]

Was Kenji gay?

[TheHivemind]

Was Kenji gay?

Nope.

[KeiichiO]

This is kind of a silly question, but what exactly does Hisao mean when he says, "I wish I could be there for Hanako" when taking her back to her room after the birthday party?You know, after she gets drunk and all touchy feely. Does he mean to have sex with her? Or simply being there with her to comfort her? I don't know, I've always misunderstood what he meant by that exactly.

[Cereal_Guy_Dan]

First, thank you once again for being open to accept questions. Your job on KS was finished long ago, yet you continue to grace your fanbase w/ accessibility. It's very much appreciated.

Sorry if it's been asked before - mainly a Hanako path/Crud/Suriko question - but would be glad to hear from any writer about any path. Are there any specific scenes in which you consciously wrote Hisao to make a faulty assumption about something rather ambiguous (not counting major plot points, obviously)?

Specific scene in mind is when H reveals his scar to Hanako and afterwards she looks at her watch and starts to say something, but he cuts her off and says something like "I'd better be going. Be glad to get some sleep". I've wondered if she may have been checking the time to see if there was time to do something together (such as a trip to the Shanghai) - but drops it when he cuts her off. Is this/is there a scene written specifically in which he "drops the ball" as a result of how he misinterprets a situation?

Oh, one other quick thing - I know Aura has written additional material on this forum as well as Crud on his blog - could you please point me to any 4LS writer generated additional KS material in public forum? Any fave fanfics?

[Sgt Spice]

I have a question, two questions for Aura

Would Rin only get the offer for a scholarship should she go back into the exhibition, or would she had been offered it regardless of whether or not she stayed there? Is the sole requirement for getting offered the scholarship dependent on her presence or could it have been offered to Rin through Nomiya by whoever offered it?

Also does Rin even do the exhibition in the other arcs, or only through hers?

[Aura]

First, thank you once again for being open to accept questions. Your job on KS was finished long ago, yet you continue to grace your fanbase w/ accessibility. It's very much appreciated.

Sorry if it's been asked before - mainly a Hanako path/Crud/Suriko question - but would be glad to hear from any writer about any path. Are there any specific scenes in which you consciously wrote Hisao to make a faulty assumption about something rather ambiguous (not counting major plot points, obviously)?

Specific scene in mind is when H reveals his scar to Hanako and afterwards she looks at her watch and starts to say something, but he cuts her off and says something like "I'd better be going. Be glad to get some sleep". I've wondered if she may have been checking the time to see if there was time to do something together (such as a trip to the Shanghai) - but drops it when he cuts her off. Is this/is there a scene written specifically in which he "drops the ball" as a result of how he misinterprets a situation?

Oh, one other quick thing - I know Aura has written additional material on this forum as well as Crud on his blog - could you please point me to any 4LS writer generated additional KS material in public forum? Any fave fanfics?

Hisao for sure is imperfect with these things, and drops the ball many times during the story.

It's pretty questionable to call our crap "additional material". The stuff out there is mostly just random things we wrote for laughs, or because we talked about something outlandish, or were drinking alone on a Tuesday night. Just search the fanfiction subforum for topics started by 4LS members, and you'll find weird shit like these.

[Aura]

I have a question, two questions for Aura

Would Rin only get the offer for a scholarship should she go back into the exhibition, or would she had been offered it regardless of whether or not she stayed there? Is the sole requirement for getting offered the scholarship dependent on her presence or could it have been offered to Rin through Nomiya by whoever offered it?

Also does Rin even do the exhibition in the other arcs, or only through hers?

No, the offer she got wasn't hanging on the exhibition.

She doesn't do the exhibition in the other four stories.

[Iwanakosonlyfanboy]

Hey Aura! I was browsing the Mishimmie a couple days ago, and noticed that you made a character named Natsume, I was wondering what was her story, like, what's her personality like? If you already answered this question, I'm sorry for asking. Thank you, and have a good day/night.

[Aura]

Hey Aura! I was browsing the Mishimmie a couple days ago, and noticed that you made a character named Natsume, I was wondering what was her story, like, what's her personality like? If you already answered this question, I'm sorry for asking. Thank you, and have a good day/night.

I didn't make her. She's a "moeified" visualization of me, designed by our art staff because they thought it'd be funny. There's no story or personality or anything, but I've adopted her as an occasional avatar for myself because that's kinda what she is.

[Iwanakosonlyfanboy]

Hey Aura! I was browsing the Mishimmie a couple days ago, and noticed that you made a character named Natsume, I was wondering what was her story, like, what's her personality like? If you already answered this question, I'm sorry for asking. Thank you, and have a good day/night.

I didn't make her. She's a "moeified" visualization of me, designed by our art staff because they thought it'd be funny. There's no story or personality or anything, but I've adopted her as an occasional avatar for myself because that's kinda what she is.

Oh! Makes sense, Thank you for answering, Would you mind if I made a short story about her?

[mav807]

This is a question to anyone on the team who can answer it. Are you guys able to know how many times Katawa Shoujo has been downloaded, and would you be willing to realease that info? Thanks in advance

[OtakuNinja]

Will there be more artbooks?

Man, I don't have any questions.
In short: fantastic. Fucking. Game. Kudos.

Then please post in the "feels-bazaar" instead. This thread is only for questions (and answers ).

[Aura]

This is a question to anyone on the team who can answer it. Are you guys able to know how many times Katawa Shoujo has been downloaded, and would you be willing to realease that info? Thanks in advance :D

We don't track that, and since KS is free to redistribute it wouldn't be possible to know in the first place. We've done some estimates based on some short periods of limited tracking we did, and the best guesstimate is that it's at about 500 000-600 000 copies now. However it might be off by a lot, to either direction.

[Aura]

Will there be more artbooks? :)

It's pretty likely (but not set in stone) that we do something this year for Japan.

[ArcCain]

After you get Hanakos good ending, dose the same stuff that happens in Lilly´s story happen, but now Hanako is together whit Hisao, aka, she get´s more involved whit other people, joins a club, they go on the trip to Lilly´s place?