History YMMV / KatawaShoujo

* {{Anvilicious}}: It's a [[strike:dating sim]] VN. And you're a boy with a ''[[StealthPun heart problem]]''!

* CrazyAwesome: Kenji.

* CrossingTheLineTwice: Averted. Since the original concept was quite possibly intended as [[RefugeInAudacity edgy satire]], one might expect the BetterThanItSounds to take this form. But instead it seems to be a reasonably nuanced and respectful take on the subject.

* BetterThanItSounds: A VisualNovel where all the girls have a disability. And it got its earliest beginnings on ''4Chan''.

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

** Non-canon art casts Akira as being in TheMafia or the {{Yakuza}}. It helps that she appears to be DressedToKill.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoj9m6HZVSE "Shadow of the Truth"]], in comparison to the lighter tone of the soundtrack, is intense and haunting.

* TokenShipping: Fan works and non-canon art pair Akira with Shizune's still unseen younger brother and [[AttractiveBentGender fellow cross-dresser Hideaki]].

* Moe

** Rika and Saki, the girls of the non-existant expansions from the [[http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2011/04/announcement-future-plans.html 2011 April's Fool]] post, may be taking this route. So well-drawn, so convincingly presented, that several fans wish they were "real" and a few fanarts have already appeared.

** Also one can say that "People with Disabities are just that ''people''" is a very strong messeage in this game. Pretty deep Aesop for an eroge.

** All the extras from Hisao's class.

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

* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming: During Shizune's ending [[spoiler:Hisao had a an episode with his heart during the Festival and is generaly feeling sorry for himself when Shizune, despite not being able to hear him due to her deafness and only vaugly aware of his emtional state, simply gestures with her arms for him to look out at the beautiful scene of the Festival Around them. This quickly snaps Hisao out of his rut and causes him to enjoy himself again It is at this moment that hisao starts to feel as though he is falling in love with her]]
** Also of note Hisao [[spoiler:playing Chess with Hanako in the tea room during her ending]]

* MemeticMutation: "Get out KS devs" is usually a stock response when ''anyone'' decides to talk about it on the image board of its origin. See the character page for more memes.
* UnfortunateImplications: If by the time of the festival, Hisao still hasn't picked a girl, you are forced to drink with Kenji on the roof. He vents his troubles with women, [[spoiler:and you take a fatal header off the building. So either you pick a girl, or die lonely and depressed]].

* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming: During Shizune's ending [[spoiler:Hisao had a an episode with his heart during the Festival and is generaly feeling sorry for himself when Shizune, despite not being able to hear him due to her deafness and only vaugly aware of his emtional state, simply gestures with arms for him to look out at the beautiful scene of the Festival Around them. This quickly snaps Hisao out of his rut and causes him to enjoy himself again It is at this moment that hisao starts to feel as though he is falling in love with her]]

** Also of note Hisao [[ playing Chess with Hanako in the tea room during her ending]]

* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming: During Shizune's ending [[spoiler:Hisao had a an episode with his heart during the Festival and is generaly feeling sorry for himself when Shizune simply gestures with arms for him to look out at the beautiful scene of the Festival Around them. It is at this moment that Hisao starts to feel as though he is falling in love with her/]]

* LesYay:
** At the very least, it seems designed to provide the maximum amount of subtext along these lines, given that ''all'' of the potential love interests come in pairs. The Lilly/Hanako routes only split in the last choice of Act 1 and even then you spend the festival with [[{{OT3}} both of them]].

* LesYay: At the very least, it seems designed to provide the maximum amount of subtext along these lines, given that ''all'' of the potential love interests come in pairs. The Lilly/Hanako routes only split in the last choice of Act 1 and even then you spend the festival with [[{{OT3}} both of them]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: It's a [[strike:dating sim]] VN. And you're a boy with a ''heart problem''!