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Thanks for the kind words. Or, are you, by any chance, the developer/writer itself? Nope. Cpl_Crud and Suriko are the ones responsible for writing Hanako's route and I'm neither of them. I don't even live in Australia. :) I am curious as to whom wrote this given that some ideas in this story share s...

Heh, not sure if that's an improvement.

Mr. Satou actually comes off more of a douche here than in Fluff's Lilly storyline, I didn't think it was possible, but there he is in all his douchey (Is that a word? It should be a word.) glory. I could be mistaken, but I believe Fluff's Mr. Satou's first action on arrival was to throw an unprovo...

I think I'll avoid speculating on where this is going to go, other than to say that it looks like an Emi ending has been ruled out? (Unless Hisao goes massively OOC. Or I'm missing something obvious.) Funny, I thought the exact opposite. The emergence of the blind art club member and possible retur...

Thanks for the thorough evaluation. You've actually phrased some of the aspects behind that chapter way better than I ever could.

And then collaborative effort games like Katawa Shoujo wouldn't be so special anymore. Oh, it'd still be special, simply due to the scope, refinedness and the fact the team saw it through. Lots of people can draw a picture or two, or write a one-shot or script a basic game. Not many people have the...

Additionally, he's sad because none of his pupils actually get those lectures he holds every day in class. Again, except Hisao. Screw speculation about how much the girls' lives would suck if Hisao hadn't come along. They have nothing on Mutou.

Emotional trauma such as bullying can and does lead to PTSD if it's severe enough.

The way Hisao's parents just dumped him in front of the school then buggered off just didn't sit right with me. They actually also helped him move in there, but they did that while Hisao was having his first class session. Anyway, only Emi and Hanako have PTSD (if Kenji was traumatized by feeling t...

Look at what she says in the last scene: "E-every birthday was the same. Everyone doing their best to pretend that I mattered. Everyone doing their best to pretend that I mattered. Everyone pretending everything was all right... for that one day of the year." "I didn't want to exist, but they would...

I believe there are SOME high schools that hold back students whose grades are too low to get their diploma, although others will simply make students drop out. Anyway, it's not so much that the Japanese aren't familiar with the principle of "being held back". They also know what "skipping grades" m...

Did she get held back a year or two? Why not? Emi was held back because of her injury. IIrc we're never told what Keiko's disability is, and even if it isn't related to her being held back, people are held back all the time. I thought of mentioning this when I was editing the chapter, but decided i...

I wasn't too sure how it worked in Japan so I just applied the western equivalent. How would it work, by the way? Does the hospital supply his medication? Or maybe you can get it through the mail there? I always figured that Yamaku might have its own pharmacy in the nurses' building. With all the d...

Maybe, but it might be offset by the fact that Lilly's probably the girl who's best at playing the ideal daughter-in-law role. And it's not like it was Lilly's fault that Hisao forgot his medication and rammed straight into someone at the airport. Well, not entirely her fault. And you probably shoul...

But, I don't think I've seen any fics that explore what would happen if Lilly held it against Hisao (or even went mother bear on him), which I see as a very plausible reaction for her, so I decided to do this. I dunno. Lilly has the tendency to hog people's burdens and try to shoulder as many of th...