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When Mutou introduces himself to Hisao, he is referred to as the 'science and homeroom' teacher.

Does that mean he teaches them every subject or just science?
If it's the latter, why do we never see any of the other teachers? Is it because they wouldn't add anything to the story?

He teaches only science, and takes care of homeroom for Hisao's class.
There is a mention or two of other teachers, not taking Nomiya into account. But yes, you don't see a whole lot of extras exactly because they are extras.

Yet another question from me.

1) Who came up with the idea of Misha and her story line?

StudyOfWumbology wrote:Yet another question from me.

1) Who came up with the idea of Misha and her story line?

Crud came up with the idea for a sign language translator, all writers developed the character together and A22 wrote the story

Do you feel that the sheer amount of love expressed in this game between two characters such as Hisao and Emi is possible in real life?

rb867 wrote:Do you feel that the sheer amount of love expressed in this game between two characters such as Hisao and Emi is possible in real life?

Well yeah dude, it is just regular old love going on there, it's nothing earth-shattering. It only seems earth-shattering because it's high school.

Here's an illustration for you. It's the way I figure things play out:

Hisao and Emi are super-happy together for a while, but they don't go to the same college. They drift apart and eventually, they break up. Hisao takes it harder than Emi, or at least spends more time talking about how hard he's taking the breakup. Then they both get distracted by all the cool stuff you get up to in college, and get over it.

Eventually they both meet someone else and it happens all over again. But they remember each other, and eventually they stop focusing on how the breakup hurt and start focusing on the good bits. Maybe they run into one another a few years out of college. They talk like old friends, and then part ways again after exchanging email addresses.

Fifteen years after that, Emi will be at his funeral. She'll talk to his wife and tell him what a great honor it was to know him. She'll go home and cry into her lover's arms, who will understand the whole high-school romance angle because she'd been through it too, once. Then they'll go to bed.

TheHivemind wrote:

rb867 wrote:Do you feel that the sheer amount of love expressed in this game between two characters such as Hisao and Emi is possible in real life?

Well yeah dude, it is just regular old love going on there, it's nothing earth-shattering. It only seems earth-shattering because it's high school.

Here's an illustration for you. It's the way I figure things play out:

Hisao and Emi are super-happy together for a while, but they don't go to the same college. They drift apart and eventually, they break up. Hisao takes it harder than Emi, or at least spends more time talking about how hard he's taking the breakup. Then they both get distracted by all the cool stuff you get up to in college, and get over it.

Eventually they both meet someone else and it happens all over again. But they remember each other, and eventually they stop focusing on how the breakup hurt and start focusing on the good bits. Maybe they run into one another a few years out of college. They talk like old friends, and then part ways again after exchanging email addresses.

Fifteen years after that, Emi will be at his funeral. She'll talk to his wife and tell him what a great honor it was to know him. She'll go home and cry into her lover's arms, who will understand the whole high-school romance angle because she'd been through it too, once. Then they'll go to bed.

Thanks for the insight! I guess you're right the love aspect is blown out of proportion because realistically it would not often happen in high school but rather in college or university. Also that progression seems to be reasonable, although I don't know about Emi taking it so easily. She seemed so hesitant to even get close to Hisao and after she finally did she never wanted to leave him. Her situation seemed abnormal and so I'd think she would have a tough time breaking bonds. I'd go as far as to say she may even try to go to the same college considering her lack of thinking towards the future. If that happened they would most likely wed.

Although it's hard to argue with the pathwriter

TheHivemind wrote:Fifteen years after that, Emi will be at his funeral. She'll talk to his wife and tell him what a great honor it was to know him. She'll go home and cry into her lover's arms, who will understand the whole high-school romance angle because she'd been through it too, once. Then they'll go to bed.

TheHivemind wrote:because she'd been through it too

TheHivemind wrote:she

Horrible tease, you are.

First of all, before I get to my questions, I would like to thank everyone who took part in creating this game. It is truly a moving, amazing masterpiece.

My first question is "What are you guys planning to do after making such a successful game?"

Secondly, did you have any characters that were scratched before the full game was released? If so, what was their importance or role?

Shadowstalk wrote:First of all, before I get to my questions, I would like to thank everyone who took part in creating this game. It is truly a moving, amazing masterpiece.

My first question is "What are you guys planning to do after making such a successful game?"

Secondly, did you have any characters that were scratched before the full game was released? If so, what was their importance or role?

We do something else, of course, the "second album that nobody likes because it's not the same as the first". I don't know what else to say. I mean, the success of KS is pretty meaningless as long as we keep doing noncommercial stuff just for a hobby, so there's really no need for us to get stuck in that.

KS had plenty of characters that were scrapped or never even made it past the idea stage, mostly fairly inconsequential minor characters or unnecessary subplots revolving around side characters. Some characters that were removed were several of Lilly's family members, underclassmen friends of Lilly and Rin, some event-specific characters that were scrapped as the events they were involved in were nuked, the captain of the track team that is still mentioned in KS and I'm sure several others.

Shadowstalk wrote:First of all, before I get to my questions, I would like to thank everyone who took part in creating this game. It is truly a moving, amazing masterpiece.

My first question is "What are you guys planning to do after making such a successful game?"

Secondly, did you have any characters that were scratched before the full game was released? If so, what was their importance or role?

What am I planning to do next? Something completely different, obviously (SHAMELESS PLUG OVER).

As for the second question, Aura pretty well covered it already. We had a lot of side characters who got cut on account of space, time, not wanting to overburden the art team with more sprite requests, or because they were hilariously bad ideas (SHINJI THE GAY TAILOR).

TheHivemind wrote:(SHINJI THE GAY TAILOR).

Which route?

To Aura,

May I use Katawa Shoujo as the basis for my art project? It will strictly be for schoolwork, non-commercialized of course.

For TheHivemind,

1) Am I the only one who thought Emi's lemon scene was symbolic of her stubborn refusal to give up, no matter what the situation? I was thinking along the lines of, "This is difficult, but I started this, etc..." Or, maybe I just didn't look deeply enough at that facial expression of hers...

For Aura,
2) Don't you feel guilty that nobody will be able to walk into Chinatown with their KS-inspired gfs (well you get what I mean to say) and buy a nice heart plushie or Satou music box, all because of the age-old promise of not going commercial with KS?

OtakuNinja wrote:

TheHivemind wrote:(SHINJI THE GAY TAILOR).

Which route?

I'll never tell.

Tang wrote:For the Hivemind,

1) Am I the only one who thought Emi's lemon scene was symbolic of her stubborn refusal to give up, no matter what the situation? I was thinking along the lines of, "This is difficult, but I started this, etc..." Or, maybe I just didn't look deeply enough at that facial expression of hers...

There is an element of that, I suppose. Part of the reason we decided Emi would be the one to go down that road is because of her... adventurous nature, so obviously she was gonna see it through to the end.