scoopnokes wrote:FrozenKimchi wrote:I've read another insight from /v/
(don't know the source though so forgive me)
So it's actually not about seducing and nailing disabled girls. The girls happen to have disabilities, but the more you get to know them, the more you come to realise that they are girls just like any other. They are humans with hopes and dreams, and messy, fucked up insecurities about being alive and happy. They are not strange people - they are regular ordinary human beings who feel the way they feel not because they are disabled, but because they are ordinary. They are the universal allegory for humanity; the archetypal human; the mess you become when you feel sad and alone and unworthy. They are the girl next door, the prom queen, the bookworm, the tomboy, and all the baggage that comes with that - nothing more or less.
They resonate with you because you recognise your flaws and needs and desires and triumphs and victories, and those of the loved ones you know and care about. You want to make them happy, because you want them to be happy, because you know them and are them, and in some way you believe everyone you love deserves to be happy.
You are not alone, and you are not strange. You are you, and everyone has damage. Be the better person.
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this is stuck in my head and makes sense too
The fact is that many see it, many can understand this view point. Possibly grow from it. But only if they're open minded to believe and experience the nature that KS tries to offer and open the audience to. If someone is not open to the idea just cause of the synopsis of KS, then KS will go misunderstood and then be seen as taboo. If someone sees you pull a chair out, the exact chair you wish and were going to sit it. They stand there for a bit looking at you. Do you think "hey thanks for pulling it out for me" or "bitch that's my chair"? Those who don't see the situation as something more than what it is wouldn't mind or think otherwise of it. But if someone comes in with over analyzing things without an understanding would mistaken this act.
Applied, KS, we come in not expecting anything but a VN about a student transferring to a school designed to help those in need. There are those who come in thinking, mission objective: sex + disabled girl = win.......
Like what Frozen brought, it's more than anything a story about finding ourselves and looking pass the shallows view points. Look beyond the scars, the blindness, deafness, missing limbs. Look at what makes us us. If the true message can get across, KS could be less frowned on. Sure we can ignore them and say it's there loss, but if we're really fans of KS why would we let something the devs worked hard on for 5 years for free become sometime less than what it deserves?
While I respect the views that are coming forth here I must say this one thing.
Those who cannot or will not understand what Katawa Shoujo is really about are neither a lost cause nor the reason for a crusade.
If Katawa Shoujo, more specifically Rin, has taught me anything it is that the first step to understanding is to first realise that sometimes you cannot understand.
While we may sing it's praises anyone dead set on thinking Katawa Shoujo is Cripple Sex, there is little else we can do about it other than hope that they're feeble and narrow mind will at some point grow and learn, not just about Katawa Shoujo but life in general.
One cannot force another to believe any more that one can force another to stop believing. To do so would be a grave insult to Katawa Shoujo, whos basic message is to not descriminate nor hate anothers differences.
Also we should not bring the Developers wants or needs into this kind of argument. They did not create Katawa Shoujo with the express intent of it being lauded over, or greatly respected, It is something for the people who understand it, and it is foreign to those of wish it to be foreign.
Katawa Shoujo is Katawa Shoujo, no amount of pleading, praising, advertising or reviewing will change that, and people will think what people will think. If they cannot even get past the title I don't believe that they are ready for the experience.
