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[cpl_crud]

You just mentioned that you didn't have an art team at the beggining, and this came to me. How did you... recruit a team? Did you simply asked people you knew? Or used 4chan/some kind of forum?

We had some artists from the original forums, but for one reason or another they all quit.


Recruitment was haphazard; we had a forum on this page for recruitment where anyone could volunteer, and we posted a lot on 4chan and the like to get people to come here.

I think Weee/Ramez did a write-up about it on her blog, and I'm pretty sure Aura put info about the process into the 4LS blog as well...

[300BillionDegrees]

Recruitment was haphazard; we had a forum on this page for recruitment where anyone could volunteer, and we posted a lot on 4chan and the like to get people to come here.

I read in that forum that you were cursed and all the artists working on your projects ended up spending time in the hospital at one point or another. Did you ever break that curse, or are all of your artists still doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some during the job?

[Silentcook]

Nearly everybody is doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some time during a four-plus-year job. Now, if you want to call that a "curse"... :p

[Leaty]

Were Lilly and Shizune class representatives in their first and second years?

[Suriko]

Were Lilly and Shizune class representatives in their first and second years?

Yes.

[TheHivemind]

Nearly everybody is doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some time during a four-plus-year job. Now, if you want to cal that a "curse"... :p

Hey man some of us don't go to hospitals because we can't afford them and just use haphazard first aid techniques when we get hurt.

[brythain]

Were Lilly and Shizune class representatives in their first and second years?

Yes.

That actually has quite important implications. Also for fanfic.

[ArcCain]

That actually has quite important implications.

How so?

[brythain]

That actually has quite important implications.

How so?

It would establish that both Lilly and Shizune likely possessed certain attributes in common, and that these attributes may have been fairly consistent.

In many Japanese high schools, class reps are chosen for academic superiority and decent ability to handle class routines and paperwork. This isn't always the case—worst case, you get picked randomly and every year the teacher asks "Who was class rep last year?" and you get it again. However, from what we see of the girls, they both are pretty competent types in their own ways. There's a lot more that can be said.

I guess this is only implied, hence speculative, so belongs in the headcanon thread or some such. I apologise for the spam.

[Evotic]

Is there ANY CHANCE for Katawa Shoujo 2? And if you don't mind, can you give an explanation to why, and also the timeframe that we can expect for the release? Please. Pretty please?

[Razoredge]

I want to ask something.
Is Miki have a specific sexual orientation? Or she's just really open-minded about this?

Yeah, it's an akward question, but I need to know this for my writting XD

[Mirage_GSM]

Is there ANY CHANCE for Katawa Shoujo 2? And if you don't mind, can you give an explanation to why, and also the timeframe that we can expect for the release? Please. Pretty please?

No chance.
Because the devs said so:

Q: Will there be a fandisc, sequel, or prequel to Katawa Shoujo?
A: No. There will be no other work in any way related to Katawa Shoujo.

Timeframe: Never.

[Aura]

Is there ANY CHANCE for Katawa Shoujo 2? And if you don't mind, can you give an explanation to why, and also the timeframe that we can expect for the release? Please. Pretty please? :P

Of course there's a chance, but it's pretty unlikely.

Making visual novels, especially of Katawa Shoujo's magnitude, is extremely hard work. Since we avoid commercializing KS, the only incentive we have for making a sequel is our own motivation and interest. Let's say we are starting a new project. We could either make a KS sequel, or something else. The problem with making a KS sequel is that it's less interesting than the other option, since that could be literally anything we're into and KS isn't that great in comparison. It's a highschool romance, a trite genre that visual novels are completely saturated with. Even though KS's setting is mildly better than a generic Japanese highschool, it's heavily burdened by some bad design decisions we made when we were beginners. There just aren't any upsides to making more KS compared to a fresh start, except the guaranteed popularity (which we don't give a fuck about) and the already existing setting reducing workload (which isn't really an upside). Thus I, and probably most other 4LS members would rather use our time, creativity and efforts into something that interests us more than Katawa Shoujo 2

Of course at some point in the future we might change our minds about all this, or planets might align in just the right way. This is partially why we reserve the rights of KS to ourselves. I just don't see it happening, realistically. That's why you shouldn't expect a sequel to happen.

[Kon22]

Honestly, KS doesn't need a sequel. It could be done, but it just doesn't need it. Some other project from 4LS, and that's any other VN or maybe something completely different, would be exciting to see. More than a KS sequel, really.

[Aura]

Honestly, KS doesn't need a sequel.

There's a faction of KS fans who disagree. We've got some feedback from people who feel the stories are incomplete and should be continued to the adulthood of the characters in a sequel.