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* [[Approval of God]]: RAITA appreciates all of the team's work in developing the VN.
* [[California Doubling]]: Most of the backgrounds for Yamaku High are actually pictures of the [[wikipedia:Brown University|Brown University campus]] (located in Rhode Island).▼
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Aura actually said "Sure why not" in response to the question of whether Yamaku's mascot was a fish.
* [[Doing It for The Art]]: One look at [http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-history-of-katawa-shoujo.html this] blog post should tell you everything you need to know.▼
▲* [[California Doubling]]: Most of the backgrounds for Yamaku High are actually pictures of the [[wikipedia:Brown University|Brown University campus]] (located in Rhode Island). Additionally, in an instance of ''actual'' [[California Doubling]], the kitchen from the Ibarazaki house appears to be of a not especially uncommon design in the San Francisco bay area.
* [[Defictionalization]]: The origins of the game itself.
▲* [[Doing It for
** Special mention goes to Mike Inel, the man single-handedly responsible for all of the wonderfully-made animated sequences you watch to kick-start Act 2. [http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2012/01/curious-case-of-mike-inel.html You can read more about his involvement here.]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Kenji Potter for Kenji. [[Harry Potter|The reason should be obvious]].
* [[Fan Translation]]: The game has been fantranslated into Russian, with a translation into Ukrainian also in progress.
* [[Jossed]]: [[Word of God]] says that Molly is not a ''Katawa Shoujo'' character and her appearance was merely a cameo.
* [[Name's the Same]]: This game doesn't have the first [[Pita-Ten|overly energetic, pink-haired Misha]].
* [[No Budget]]: The dev team is creating ''Katawa Shoujo'' for free, on their spare time. They also refuse donations, instead encouraging people to donate to a charity.
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** Parodied in the April Fool's joke, which showed it being loaded with [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]], [[Product Placement]], and [[Take That|being on Steam]].
** [[Word of God]] says that being an international team, splitting the any possible donation money fairly would be impractical.
* [[No Export for You]]: Oddly enough, this time it's ''Japan'' that doesn't get it, as only the demo has been translated into Japanese. Also counts for most other countries, as other than English (the language the game was written in), it's only available in French and Spanish (along with Russian, as noted above).
** Averted for Japan as of 2015. The team released a Japanese translation on April 1st, with a hard copy distributed on May 5th at Comita 112.
* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fanboy/girl]]: Many developers started as fans of the project.
* [[Saved From Development Hell]]: The project, until its 4th January 2012 release, was in development for 5 years, a period of time landmarked by at least one almost-total restart, several script re-writes, members of 4LS leaving/shown the door for one reason or another and a few art revisions. It also was very close to death within the first few months of its conception, resulting in the aforesaid restart.
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* [[Shrug of God]]: They are [[Teasing Creator|Teasing Creators]] after all. They even say some [[Blatant Lies]] to troll.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Said word for word by Aura in response to the question of whether Yamaku's mascot was a fish.
* [[Teasing Creator|Teasing Creators]]: The devs, especially in regard to [[Word of God]].
{{quote|'''delta:''' We've also been known to troll, lie, change our mind, and make stuff up on the spot, so good luck with that.}}
* [[Troubled Production]]: Inevitable for such an ambitious fan-made project. Having to coordinate multiple programmers, artists, and 5 writers (one for each route), many of whom were working on the game only as a hobby and ''didn't even live in the same country'' contributed to numerous delays in development. There were also many internal conflicts within the team, leading to high turnover rates among the staff.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: There's still people convinced that at one point the developers made routes for Misha and other girls, and [[Dummied Out|remains of these scrapped paths can be found in the code of the game]] or can be accessed through some strange means. The devs never intended any other girl besides the main five to be dateable.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: According to [[Word of God]], there were ''massive'' amounts of content that were ultimately cut from the final version of the game. The following comes from snippets of interviews and Q&A sessions with the devs.
** [[Gay Option|Kenji was going to have his own route at one point]], but it got cut due to technical difficulties and time. Or rather, the whole route was trimmed down to a near-immediate [[Narm|and strangely hilarious]] [[Bad End]] in which {{spoiler|you get too drunk and fall off the roof to your death}}.
** [http://cplcrud.wordpress.com/4ls-era-fanworks-and-scraps/ One of the writer's wordpress account] has some writings that were considered in early versions of Hanako's route. Among them are Hanako's ''father'' saving her from the fire (which fits in with early character descriptions that only mentioned her father being dead), as well as a [[Left Hanging]] [[Distant Finale]] involving a reunion between Hisao and a much more mature Hanako, many years after she vanished from his life following a second heart attack. Also, one of the entries involves a possible ending for a theoretical Misha path.
*** The final image of Hanako's good ending {{spoiler|where the camera pans to inside a bakery window with two muffins sitting inside}} was originally meant to represent that {{spoiler|[[Visual Pun|Hanako has a bun]] [[Unusual Euphemism|in the oven]], or in other words, is pregnant. This was scrapped in later drafts, though (Hisao ''very deliberately'' uses a condom that he happened to be carrying with him for unclear reasons), and the inside of the bakery is instead symbolic of Hanako and Hisao's future together enjoying the simple pleasures of life. This was most likely done to avoid [[Unfortunate Implications]] from seeming to promote teen pregnancy
** Originally, Lilly would have played the cello as a hobby, and her favorite song would have been Sarabande. However, this feature was cut and the song was instead changed to be the theme of the music box.
*** She also had a guide dog called Niji; after a while, however, the writers thought he added nothing to the story and ditched him.
*** She was originally supposed to be the oldest of 5 children in the family, with Akira being a younger brother. They eventually scrapped the other three siblings, gender flipped Akira and made her the older sister instead, although she did retain the male mannerisms.
*** Yuuko was originally Lilly's cousin, and not a librarian. Much of Yuuko's personality and role was given to Akira in the final product.
** Lilly was originally half-South African, not half Scottish. Likewise, instead of Hanako turning eighteen, Lilly was the one that was meant to have a birthday. They have it in Hisao's room, with Yuuko coming by and bringing alcohol.
** In a very early version of Hanako's route, one of her bad ends would have involved Hisao having sex with a heavily medicated Hanako, which would have been the equivalent of date rape. In fact, her good end would not have involved any sex at all.
*** Her route writer admitted that the first draft written for Hanako was heavily inspired by ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
*** This wasn't ''completely'' scraped. At some point
** Early bad ends past Act 1 would have involved Hisao dying, but they were ultimately removed because the writers felt that having to come up with convenient accidents for each death would feel too much like an [[Ass Pull]]. Hanako's writer wryly notes that he reconsidered killing off Hisao in Hanako's bad endings because he believed that the thought of a life without Hanako worked better as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
** Misha was originally conceived to be as bland and uninteresting as possibile, so that players wouldn't miss her if she was pushed aside during Shizune's path. Very different from how she came out in the end, both in terms of personality (which also led to [[Ensemble Darkhorse|her popularity]]) and role
*** She was also originally planned to be blonde, and lacked her signature [[Drill Hair]].
** Miki was originally planned to have a much larger role in the game; among that, a short bonus route with her as the main character, showing some events from her point of view.
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*** Other sketches show Hanako having suffered even more extensive damage from the fire on the right side of her body, with a blind eye and the leg supported by a crutch.
*** A compromise for Rin wearing a female uniform and keeping decency was thought in having her wear training shorts under the skirt. She also seems to have been envisioned as [[Huge Schoolgirl|much taller]] at first. In general, while the basic design stayed the same, she was more feminine and delicate in appearance.
** The developers [http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2009/07/something-missing.html discussed] giving Hisao a more interesting personality (as opposed to the generic male protagonist ubiquitous in [[Romance Game|Bishoujo games]]), but eventually decided to settle for an average hero with whom players could identify.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://katawashoujo.wikia.com/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo_Wiki There is one here, although it has 14 articles as of now. And the site looks a bit bland.]▼
*** Hisao actually ''does'' have more personality than many [[Romance Game|Bishoujo game]] heroes, but not as much as the [[Love Interest|Love Interests]] of the game.
▲* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://katawashoujo.wikia.com/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo_Wiki There is one here, although it has 14 articles as of now. And the site looks a bit bland
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