History Characters / KatawaShoujo

* FlatWhat
-->'''Kenji:''' "[[HypocriticalHumor As expected of blind people.]]"
-->'''Hisao:''' "What."

** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=yxykil8d8ff30lxqi7p9qpm2 HNNNG!]]

* ArtEvolution: Her sprite was upgraded to look slightly more mature and to be more in line with the other girls, although this brought on arguments that she was much sketchier than the others, which have smooth lines. (The picture to the right is too low-resolution to adequately show the difference, just a heads up.)

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/list/yandere/1 Fan art]] frequently casts her as a {{Yandere}}/{{Yangire}}

* MeaningfulName: [花] (Hana) in "Hanako", means flower. The -ko in feminine names is almost always written as [子], meaning "child" or, more rarely, [小], meaning "small", but it's more often pronounced shou. However, ko ''can'' be written as ç�« - which means "fire" or "flames".
** In addition, the kanji used in her name, [華], has a meaning closer to "bloom" than to "flower", indicative of the "blooming" likely to occur in her arc as she learns to face her fears.

** Hanako as a StringyHairedGhostGirl. Occasionally [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/1289 parodied]] in [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/1267 fanart]].

* CatchPhrase: [[VerbalTic "Ara ara"]], even though it appears in English as "My, my."
** BeamMeUpScotty: Averted in the weirdest way. She does say "Ara, ara" in the Japanese script for Act 1...but not in the same scenes and points as she says "My, my" in the English script, confusing some inquisitive fans into thinking it never really appeared.

* MemeticMutation: On the Shimmie site: [[YamatoNadeshiko "Lilly is too classy for X."]] X being anything ranging from arguments to silly acts.
** Also, her rivalry with Shizune: "Who's there?....no answer, must be that deaf bitch."

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
-->'''Rin:''' "... so that's why I'm trying to figure out if there is something I need to figure out and then figure that out before it's too late and all hope is lost."

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean
-->'''Rin:''' "I prefer to do it horizontally, IfYouKnowWhatIMean."
** Get [[AllMenArePerverts your mind]] [[ThatCameOutWrong out of the gutter!!]] [[DontExplainTheJoke She's talking about painting.]]

* MemeticBadass: Rin is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crippled_Masters Crippled Master]]!

** [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/930 Rin is hugging you.]]
** [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/828 But... she's got no arms to hug you with...]]
** [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/935 LEGHUG!]]

* NonUniformUniform: Since Rin uses her feet for day-to-day things, she wears a boys' uniform (with pants) to avoid the [[PantyShot obvious problem with a skirt]].

* EpilepticTrees: Why ''is'' she there, anyway?
** KS dev has confirmed that she [[http://s895.photobucket.com/albums/ac153/AriasV/?action=view&current=MishasDisability.png broke a nail in 3rd grade]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A common question to the developers is if she'll have her own route. [[IsntItSad She won't]].[[http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6771/iismisha.png Isn't it sad?]]

* MemeticMutation: On the on-site image gallery, all anonymous users have the name "Shiina 'Misha' Mikado". It has thus become common for users to call out Misha for saying something stupid/irrelevant/etc, followed by "Wait, I'm Misha."
** This is a reference to her ThirdPersonPerson tendencies when translating for Shizune.

-->"WAHAHAHAHAHA~"

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
--> '''Misha:''' "Of course we're not trying to get you to join just because we would obviously benefit from you joining the student council and therefore have an incentive to try and get you to..."

* {{Dissimile}}: This exchange with Kenji while he's ranting about the "second most shocking moment in his life" in "soap".
-->'''Kenji:''' "It was like in the openings to some kind of anime show, you know how there is always a part where the main dude is fighting his rival, and they fly at each other and clash swords and there's like, big dramatic colored auras and zoom? It was like that, but with poo."

* GayOption: Sort of... [[spoiler:if you get his ending to Act 1, [[DownerEnding you die]]. [[UnfortunateImplications Real subtle.]]]]

* ScaryShinyGlasses
--> '''Hisao''': "It's Kenji. He seems to be in a friendly mood, although the light glinting off his glasses in the dark gives him a sinister look."

-->'''Kenji:''' "There can only be one, [[ShoutOut like in]] [[{{Highlander}} that foreign movie]] where there could only be one, and in the end there is only one dude left, because that was the point."

Both homeroom and science teacher of 3-3, and just as much out of touch with his class as he is out of touch with reality. Probably born to be a teacher (no matter how much his students disagree), his greatest skill is the ability to ignore irrelevant things completely (no matter how much anyone who wishes he'd remember their names disagrees).

* MismatchedEyes: Natsume

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Naomi

Classmates who appear in the gallery or the classroom, and may have parts in the finished VN.

** KS dev has confirmed that she [[http://s895.photobucket.com/albums/ac153/AriasV/?action=view¤t=MishasDisability.png broke a nail in 3rd grade]].

Despite being left with legs amputated below the knee, Emi is perhaps one of the most cheery, happy-go-lucky girls on the entire globe, let alone the school. Not one to be left in despair even after the accident that claimed her legs, Emi views her disability more as a blessing, her prosthetic legs having brought her to the heights of her ability on the track team rather than becoming a permanent obstacle.

Despite being left with legs amputated below the knee [[spoiler: after a car accident]], Emi is perhaps one of the most cheery, happy-go-lucky girls on the entire globe, let alone the school. Not one to be left in despair even after the accident that claimed her legs, Emi views her disability more as a blessing, her prosthetic legs having brought her to the heights of her ability on the track team rather than becoming a permanent obstacle.

Beware of '''SPOILERS'''.

* BlueEyes

** KS dev has confirmed that she [[http://s895.photobucket.com/albums/ac153/AriasV/?action=view&current=MishasDisability.png broke a nail in 3rd grade]].

* NonUniformUniform

* MrMagooAndTheMonster: With Hanako.

* MrMagooAndTheMonster: With Lilly.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite never saying it in the VN (This is not surprising, since the VN is English language.), [[VerbalTic "Ara ara"]] has become her semi-official catchphrase, since it's typical for her character archetype. She says "My my" several times though.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite never saying it in the VN (At least in English), [[VerbalTic "Ara ara"]] has become her semi-official catchphrase, since it's typical for her character archetype.

* MemeticMutation: On the on-site image gallery, all anonymous users have the name "Shiina 'Misha' Mikado". It's thus become rather common for users to call out Misha for saying something stupid/irrelevant/etc, followed by "...wait, I'm Misha."

Despite being left with legs amputated below the knee, Emi is perhaps one of the most cheery, happy-go-lucky girls on the entire globe, let alone the school. Not one to be left in despair even after the accident that claimed her legs, Emi views her disability more as a blessing, her prosthetic legs having brought her to the heights of her ability on the track team rather than becoming a permanent obstacle.

* Les Yay: Between Naomi and Natsume. Might be this, it does say gay right between the two in their concept picture.

* Les yay: Between Naomi and Natsume. Might be this, it does say gay right between the two in their concept picture.

* MemeticBadass: Rin is the Crippled Master!

* MeaningfulName: [花] (Hana) in "Hanako", means flower. The -ko in feminine names is almost always written as [子], meaning "child" or, more rarely, [小], meaning "small", but it's more often pronounced shou. However, ko ''can'' be written as 火 - which means "fire" or "flames".

** Get [[AllMenArePerverts your mind]] [[ThatCameOutWrong out of the gutter!!]] She's talking about painting.

*MeaningfulName: Hisao can be written as "life story" + "male/hero" (雄), and Emi is "blessed with beauty" (恵美).

*DeadpanSnarker: Very prone to snark within his [[FirstPersonSmartass within his narration]].

*DeadpanSnarker
---> '''Hisao''': I have never heard somebody talk so heatedly and defensively about absolutely nothing before.
*HeartTrauma

*MeaningfulName
*MemeticMutation: "HNNNNNNGGGGG!"

*GirlishPigtails

*MeaningfulName
*MemeticMutation: "[[{{Squick}} Gimme the chocolate, Hisao!]]"
** [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/921 What's so bad about that?]]
*PeekABangs

*ShrinkingViolet
*TwoFaced

*BeamMeUpScotty: Despite never saying it in the VN(At least in English), [[VerbalTic "Ara ara"]] has become her semi-official catchphrase, since it's typical for her character archetype.

*ClassRepresentative
*FeminineWomenCanCook

*[[MarySueClassic Mary Sue]]: WordOfGod is that she ''was'', but rewritten in an attempt to avoid this trope.
*MeaningfulName
*OneeSama: Seems to be this for Hanako, and to a point for Hisao as well.

*YamatoNadeshiko

*DeadpanSnarker

*MeaningfulName: Family name.
*MemeticMutation: [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/879 Rin in a bin.]]

*TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
*WholesomeCrossdresser: Sort of. She would have obvious problems with a skirt, so she's allowed to wear the boy's uniform for convenience's sake.

*ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive

*MeaningfulName
*{{Meganekko}}

**[[CompletelyMissingThePoint She's deaf, not blind.]]
*{{Pantyshot}}: Getting one of her is as visually erotic as the game has gotten so far. [[YourMileageMayVary Unless you count]] Kenji and his [[CensorBox fig leaf.]]
*SpiritedCompetitor

*TheSpeechless

*{{Tsurime}}
*ZettaiRyouiki

*EnsembleDarkhorse: A common question to the developers is if she'll have her own route. [[IsntItSad She won't]].
**[[http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6771/iismisha.png Isn't it sad?]]
*HollywoodPudgy

*NoIndoorVoice: "WAHAHAHAHAHA~"

*CensorBox: Kenji, wearing a fig leaf, is the only character to appear nude in Act 1.
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}
*ConspiracyTheorist

*HeManWomanHater

*EyesAlwaysShut
*MemeticMolester - Unfortunately.

*AbsentMindedProfessor

*{{Dojikko}}

*{{Bifauxnen}}
*ButNotTooForeign
*FanWank: Fan works and non-canon art [[TokenShipping pair]] her with Shizune's still unseen(as far as game appearances) younger brother [[AttractiveBentGender Hideaki]].

*TokenShipping: Often shipped with fellow crossdresser Akira(see above).