Katawa Shoujo: After 12 years, it's finally here

[HakureiSM]

Lilly route complete with a good end. Again, reserving thoughts for now. Target 3: Rin.I went back and tested it and there is actually a bad ending, but it's so hard to get you pretty much have to be deliberately trying for it. Lilly's route has one as well, but rather than a separate bad end it just cuts the story off at a certain point.

Also the decision between joining the art club and dying a horrible death by whiskey and gravity got me laughing for a good while. (Rin route)

I didn't have to try hard at all

[Totaku]

Ok I'm almost done with Emi's route right now. (I can tell I'm on the climax since Emi's fixing to reveal about her secret regarding her Father that she's been keeping from Hisao up till now since she reinvited him back to her home) So I will be doing Rin's story next.

I was considering writing a bit of a report on my view regarding the Emi's route (actually I'm considering doing the same with all of them!) And express my views on it. So I will be giving a heads up that to be prepared to see lots of black spoiler tags when I do this.

But before I do that I want to make sure everyone else thinks it would be fine for me to give my analysis of the story from my perspective.

[Magical Moerin~♥]

I say go for it.  If anything, it'd at least be interesting to see your thoughts on it.  Hell, I would probably do the same if I wasn't so, um, ineloquent and bad at that kind of thing. >.<

[Kinoko]

It released the week after I stopped waiting for it ;_;
Shizune, here I come!

[Jana]

...I hope I can bring my completion of Emi's route from my old laptop to my new one.
If I can't though, it's not like I'll be upset at having to do it again.

[Suikama]

>Shizune Route
>See animation

Mishaaa ;_;

[HakureiSM]

Wow I'm really good at finding bad ends, and I haven't even finished one route.
Or maybe I just suck. Either way it's more amusing this way

[Suikama]

>Shizune route
>Suddenly sexy Kenji

what how did i get here am i on the Kenji route

[VIVItheFujoshi]

>Shizune route
>Suddenly sexy Kenji

decided to go for Shizune route 
( i ended Rin route now - good one and bad one. saved in the moment of the climax ask, and chose the answer who look "diferent than the rest" this give me the abrupt bad end. after decided for the answer who i choose first, and this give me the good end.)
how i can say, i feel fuzzy incide for the good end. and that sad part "delirium"...holy god, you are a real artist, Rin. (snif) i want be more like you.
Edit: o lol Kenji route! they changed the cgs. nice.

[Suikama]

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[HakureiSM]

I just finished Rin's route. It took me 8 hours. What the fuck is wrong with you people

[Walthermelonz]

oh my heart Lilly is pure love

[Suikama]

I just finished Rin's route. It took me 8 hours. What the fuck is wrong with you people

We aren't slow readers that's what

also KENJI IS CYCLOPS

oh god all this Kenji relevation

ITS LIKE IM REALLY PLAYING THE KENJI ROUTE

[Kinoko]

Just reached the end of actm1 Shizune's route. The animations oh my god.

[Suikama]

oh god Misha

KS DEVS YOU LIED TO ME

IM NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS


AHAHAHAHAHA

THE RUMORS WERE TRUE

THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE

BUT MISHA'S DISABILITY REALLY IS THAT SHE IS A L*SHOT*

[VIVItheFujoshi]

Playing Shizune route, more interesting than i believed. she is nice and works hard.
BUT KENJI STOLE MY HEART WHY YOU ARE SO CUTE GAH
now im feel more better for be a Hisao/Kenji shipper. it begins NOW.
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[Garlyle]

BUT KENJI STOLE MY HEART WHY YOU ARE SO CUTE GAH

You are not alone ;-;

Still trying to find the excuse to play this when the SDA Marathon is going, but we'll see which route I end up on first.  (I really... don't have a favourite, except I don't like Emi much)

[Great Thing]

Good end'ed Rin's route. If Emi is easy modo then Rin must be... medium-hard or something, since I did some testing and she has 2 bad ends that seem to hinge on single choices. Interestingly (or not), at least one of the important choices goes from being a 2-way 50/50 bad ending choice to a 3-way choice (with 2 being safe) depending on one of your picks beforehand.

Target 4: Shizune.

[Magical Moerin~♥]

There's... Bad Ends other than Manly Picnic?  Huh.  Must've gotten lucky with Hanako and Rin, seeing how I seemed to get good endings for them. >.>  Hopefully this streak will keep up for Shizune, ahah~

Hmmm... I wonder if her route will confirm my theory about Misha?  Only time will tell, I guess.

[Kinoko]

What are you talking about? Manly Picnic was obviously the best end.

[HakureiSM]

Manly Picnic is indeed a perfect end, but there's another on Rin's route, which is actually bad

[Totaku]

Welp I'm done with Emi's Route and got the good end (or would that be best ending considering that all was achieved with success.

I guess I shall now right my analysis on Emi's Route:

Everyone should know by now getting Emi's route should be easy assuming you played the demo: It mainly involves ditching the other girls (Lilly, Hanako, and Shizune) and when you get to the race track and the Nurse tells you to try running with Emi just simply "go for it" have a heart attack, promise to be careful from there on and then your pretty much set for Emi's route.)

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS MY THOUGHTS AND ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTERS WITHIN THE EMI ROUTE OF KATAWA SHOUJO IT HAS BEEN KEPT HIDDEN UNDER SPOILERS AND IMAGES TO THE ROUTE ARE LINKED, VEIW AT YOUR OWN RISK!

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A young Athlete, full of energy and hope, yet a dark secret keeps her away. Can you earn her trust and her love?

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Emi Route Act 2: Form

As expected Hisao begins to start practicing on his new workout routine he promised Emi which was an uphill battle for Hisao as expected. But regardless he succeeds for the day. In general the routine would be workout, then go see the nurse, shower, partake in class, have lunch with Emi and Rin, more class, then free time afterward which on some occasions Hisao would go check on Emi in the track field. Going in order of the days, one thing I found a bit amusing was how much a tease the Nurse was. He seem quite an enjoyable character due to this. XD
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Eventually Emi asked Hisao to come to the tract meet that took place on the weekend, which when he went he met up with Rin (who still was pretty much Rin) and Meiko, Emi's mother (who's one delicious MILF)
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Course when the track meeting started we watch as Emi runs through her events.
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During the event Rin brings up some of her awesome sage advice regarding Emi. (You should listen to her! She knows everything!)
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Emi at her Emiest huh? So Hisao pays close attention and notices how Emi's competitive spirit show as she take off from the starting track and races to the finish line, she's like a whole different beast when in a competion. Besides that after the relay we noticed Hisao slightly limped at the finsh line, not that it was much Hisao did express concern, but she shrugged it off saying she'll let the nurse check it later.

Later on, at another meeting on the roof and listening to Emi discuss her plans of becoming a pirate in her future... (Seriously Emi, your way of future career thinking is rather awesome, now practice up them pirate skills and partake in "Talk like a Pirate Day" then you'll likely do better for your future)
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...She brings up that she wants to invite Hisao over with Rin for a picnic, sounds kinda fun!  Course later that day after Misha had fun teasing Hisao since she knew he was hanging on the roof with Emi and Rin, she informs Hisao of a letter that arrived for him that was sent to his room.

Course that night Hisao met up with his nutjob room mate Kenji who had a bunch of books and continued on his ever-going conquest to stop the Feminist Regime (This is why you will alway be awesome Kenji, fight for the manliness of "Man"Hood!),course brining up the fact that I was on the roof with Emi and Rin made Kenji flip out as usual. And mentions how they could of token advantage of me up there. Kenji explains on the other hand that he know what he would of done if he was on the roof (hindsight of manly picnic anyone? GODDAMN YOU KENJI!)
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 When Hisao went into his room he found the letter that came... It was from Inawako....and while Hisao read some of the letter he obviously was a bit upset with the fact that the girl he once knew who only sat in the hospital with him only to leave without a goodbye would suddenly write a letter to him. So he pretty much threw the letter away (miss the trash though) Trust me Hisao,I been through a situation like yours, I'd be mad too.

On the following day Emi, Rin and Hisao head out to the park just a short ways from the art shop and find a spot in the park
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Sadly this fun came to a screeching halt when the picnic was kinda stopped thanks to rain. Emi yells at the rain, but what's the point, it's not going to listen, so instead the group decide to go to the Shanghai Tea House to eat cake and tea there and guess who works there?
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Yuuko of all people! And while she still her silly self, she gets us a seat and gets the order...Emi continues to tease Hisao as usual over cake and after dining they leave once the rain stops. So everyone heads back to the school. When Rin leaves, Emi says she was going to go to the race track, but however it starts raining again. And while Hisao tries to reassure to her that she run with her, she says not to worry and save his energy for tomorrow. Still though Hisao was concerned since it was raining after all....

The following day, Hisao comes to the track but doesn't see Emi, so he decide to partake in his workout without her and talks to Nurse shortly afterward who explained to him that Emi was sick in bed. He agreed to the nurse he go check on her and course later after he passed some time at the library and talks to Yuuko about books that went missing he heads over to the girl's dorm.

When he arrives there and knocks on the door, allowed to come in. He sees a very sleepy Emi who seems to have just woke up. She seems better and in fact before too long in the conversation, she and Hisao get into a pillow fight that turned into a westling match, then then turned into almost romantic moment....till she coughed.

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However it would turn into a bonding moment as she ends up thanking Hisao for actually caring to come over and check on her, before too much longer she ends up falling asleep by him and he ends up kind of stuck  as while she's sleeping she has a good grip on him. So he decides to say by her side, course it wouldn't be long before Hisao noticed Emi was having a nightmare and mentions her about her dad in her sleep.
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When Hisao wakes her up he asks Emi about the nightmare and her dad, but she's reluctant to tell him about it. So Hisao tells Emi that if something is bothering her to please talk to her about it. They agree to it and Hisao then leaves to head back to his dorm.

The following day Hisao continues his normal routine as he slowly improves and by around lunchtime he meet Emi on the roof of the school. It's there where she finally admits she has a crush on Hisao.
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And just before the bell rang....SCORE!!
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Hisao you lucky dog! Emi and you have now developed a romantic relationship! Soon they head back to class and Hisao is met by Misha who compliments once again on Hisao's casanova tactics with Emi. And thus from there Hisao knows he's in love with Emi and is kinda drifting in thought while he goes through class that day....

END OF ACT 2 EMI ROUTE

PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON ACT 2 OF EMI'S ROUTE

This Chapter started out interesting as I got to know more about the cast, especially the Nurse and Emi as they were the most vital character in the plot. At this point I kinda felt like I needed to know more about them since I had a feeling they would be very important for later on. Course I also enjoyed meeting Emi's mother as well (GODDAMN SHE'S HOT), Rin is still Rin and her ideas on life are still as weird as ever at this point. The Nurse stuck me as very important since he worked with Emi since the days following her accident as she worked on relearning how to walk and eventually run on prosthetics. I have a feeling at the time that he might be able to fill me in on something very important or I might be able to assist him in something regarding Emi.

At this time also Emi's limp didn't quiet catch on to me right then either as it seem likely that I thought she would see the nurse about it (See Act 3 for details), but later on I would learn more regarding it... Other than the silly shenanigans that Emi would pull with Hisao during the time of the picnic even and at the tea house I felt things were shaping up nicely. Eventually when she fell sick from running in the rain, I knew Hisao concern would probably result in a romantic turning point for Emi and him and as it turned out that following day it was nice to see the 2 kiss. I actually felt a soft sense of happiness at this point knowing they sort of became like a couple. Course knowing about the accident and also Emi's crys for her dad in her nightmare, I sort of put the 2 of them together thinking this what Emi's was dealing with in her nightmares. Course her not telling Hisao about it made me wonder what this would mean. At this time, I was hoping Hisao would eventually seem to understand, but I gave him some to see if it would sink. As of this point though, I felt kinda happy, but the turning would take place at Act 3 which discuss after this. Over all very nicely done...

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Act 3: Prespective

Following class Mutou pulls Hisao to the side to talk to him about pursuing a career in the field of science seeing that he's good at it and actually convinces him to make a club (which at the moment mainly consist of Hisao and his teacher) once the meeting is adjourned, Hisao heads over to the track field to talk to Emi to see if she was busy tomorrow. She explains that she's pretty much free and so they make arrangement to have a date that day to make up for the trouble from their picnic incident.

So the following day, Hisao goes to the track feiid to meet Emi who's actually dressed in her casual attire this time!
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They head back to the park while Hisao carries the basket in tow, course being just the two of them, they their food before they have a playful wrestle in the grass.
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Admit it, she's damn adorable when she smiles.
After more romantic flirting when Emi gets up and they start to head back she come under some pain in her left leg. Apperently she is still suffering from pain that shown up since the track meet back some time ago. Hisao expresses concern for Emi, but she claims to be alright and so lets her be for the time being hoping she'll be alright.

The following day at the track field after practicing, Emi continues to suffer from her leg problem and thus Hisao emphasis that she needs to see the nurse.
Course after he completes his run for the day and goes sees the nurse he finds out Emi hasn't come in for a while. Thus he hasn't been able to check on her legs for irritation or infection. So the nurse asks Hisao to talk to Emi and get her to come in.

So during Lunch, Hisao waits for Emi on the roof while he talks to Rin about where Emi's at (even though Rin's still lost in her psudo-logic) till Emi comes up to meet them on the roof. During lunch Hisao has a talk with Emi and encourages her to go see the nurse which eventually Emi agrees to do.

The following day, Hisao goes to the track field to only find out Emi hadn't arrived, so after doing his run he goes see's the nurse to ask what happened, and he forgot to explain to him the Emi's restricted from running for the time being.

Later on that day, Hisao would visit Emi in the girl's dorm and finds out that she is now wheelchair bound and has her prosthetic legs taken away till she recovers. Most of the time, was spent chatting about her legs but eventually it turns into pillow fight when ended up with Hisao being pinned down by Emi on the bed...
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Evnetually this turns into a blushing contest, which then turns into.....something sexual....Actually it was quite a romantic competitive kinda sexual incident. Kinda nice considering Emi's character... Course after the saddle riding ended Rin comes through the door asking to look through the window. Disregarding the fact the two of them were naked she goes to the window to look for a cloud only to miss it. (Wow Rin, you really do have an interesting life) Then she leaves Hisao and Emi and goes about her business. Course the two decide to wrap things up and get back to getting prepared for tomorrow's run

Either way, sort of a nice event. The following day Emi comes down to meet Hisao at the track field to help Hisao work out, course...Emi seems to have something else on her mind.... She asks Hisao to take her to the shed where the track gloves were kept (since she claimed she wanted to race around the track via wheelchair... It wouldn't be long once they got in that it would turn into something else.

Once again another sexual romp inside the shed where they end up finding... the team captain's Lubricant! Emi then explains that the captain was actually gay and explains they he uses the lube for special reason....then out of no where.....
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WANNA DO ANAL?

WHHHHYYYY? Wasn't last night's romp more than enough for you?! Was what ran through my mind. This was just random and out of no where! And yet Hisao's like "Lol ok!"

So Hisao lubes himself up and put Emi in position...
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Then J-J-JAMS IT IN!
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My Lawd, Emi's expression is priceless here! I couldn't help but find that bit amusing. It's probably the only bit that was amusing. XD

Anyways, moving on, after their lube incident they pretty much called it a day and when Hisao cleaned up he went back to his bed room to take it easy for class except he fell asleep and didn't wake up till most of class was over. He however meets Kenji outside who continues on his epic quest to stop the evil Feminist Regime.
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Telling him that he's going to be on a life or death mission and if he didn't return in 3 days told him to pick the lock to his door and get his book to send to the media to reveal the truth of the Feminist movement (You a hero among men Kenji)

I think I forgot to mention that at the library, Yuuko has been able to find out that someone stole the book that she thought were missing and found them in the boy's dorm. Yet she didn't take them back because she was afraid, the "theif would be on to her" I aware...Yuuko might be just as nuts as Kenji just on a more mellow scale. If only Kenji wasn't so panic around women.

Hisao would meet with Emi later on as she would explain to Hisao that she would like to actually spend some time preparing for exams that are up ahead and would like to do it alone. Hisao tries to convince her that he'll work with herm but she preferred to do it alone to avoid any chance of sexual encounter.

During the week that passes, Hisao grows concerned with what Emi said to him, it's as if she is attempting to grow distant from him and it begin grow concerned and realizes it all probably links to her "dad" in some way. Course after class he is called in by Mutou to discuss more science club related stuff which he agrees to come in and talk with him about for the moment.

Course during his conversation with Mutou he gives some very important sage advice that he thinks might be helpful concerning his situation with Emi.

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This stuck me as important to both me and Hisao in general since it may be Hisao's been approaching Emi the wrong way concerning her past and decides to take it into consideration when he goes to see Emi at the girl's dorm.

When he finally approaches her and start striking a conversation it all went well till he started asking about her father again which then got her upset and tried to convince her he can trust him, but she was very determined not to tell him and felt Hisao was pushing the envelop.
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This of course lead the situation to get worse and hisao realize he wasn't getting anywhere and so he backed off from Emi before the situation got worse and return to his dorm to think a bit about what happened....

The next day, when Hisao goes to the track field, he sees Emi who actually thanks Hisao for his conversation last night regardless of how it went for she was able to sleep peacefully for once. This kinda surprised Hisao, but not in a proper way, because it's like she's still trying to withhold something important that seem to be the driving force that's causing Emi to be so close, yet distant.

Eventually after the run Emi and Hisao go to see the Nurse and when Hisao goes in he asks the nurse about Emi and why she acts the way she does. The nurse was able to reveal one think to him....Emi is very stubborn about personal matters and that the only way he can be able to allow Emi to open up to him was to be patient with her and when the time was right, she would reveal the truth to him. He realize this was very important and took it to consideration realizing that perhaps this is really why he was unable to get Emi to open up about her father. The only thing he can do is...wait....

The following day, Emi end up inviting Hisao over to her home after visiting the nurse which came to Hisao's surprise and realize this might be a very good moment to see what he can learn from over at her home (course without talking to Emi directly)

When they arrive there, Emi's (super damn hot) mother greeted them at the door.
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She had already prepared a meal for Emi and Hisao before they arrived and so they had a talk about how things been going and so forth. The conversation however leads to Emi's mother asking Emi if she'll see her father this year. This is when things got dramatic, as her mother realized she made a mistake bringing it up, and tried to change the subject, but before that Emi darted off to the bathroom.

(This is when you have to make the "make or brake choice on Emi's route and how it ends" Selcting to go after Emi leads to a depressing end result however talking to her mother leads...)

Hisao talks to Emi's mother and she reveals a bit about Emi and about the accident that happen to her, but because of a promise Emi made to her, she cannot tell her what happen to her father. But like the doctor, Emi's mom tells her to be patient. However it is around during the conversation Emi walks in when they discuss how he feels Emi's relationship isn't getting anywhere and that is when she lashes out at Hisao telling him to leave. Her mother tells Emi to reconsider and before too long Emi finally realizes her mistake of being so rash, but Hisao realized that things have been heating up since he was there and decides to excuse himself from the family so that he could take the remaining day to think about how to approach Emi come the following day since she seem already apologetic....

END OF EMI ROUTE ACT 3

My Thoughts considering Emi's Route Act 3

By now I can say this, at first the story seem all cute and bubbly, when I reached here it took a big turn, mainly with Emi. The H scenes revealed to me that Emi's seem competitive at first which I thought kinda fit her. But it was the lube incident that kinda killed it, but it happen so quick ,so random and so fast, that it seem kinda like Emi was desperate to have Hisao jam it into her.... Feels so forced and makes her seem like a slut....(sorry but that's how I see her), but if I disregard this fact, Emi seems like a girl with troubles under the surface. She may look cheerful and happy on the outside, but inside, some really bothers her and is continues to bother her to the point she distances people out of fear that she'll loose them...

By now it was quite clear to me why Emi wasn't going to reveal to Hisao about her dad or at least what happen to him. But what surprised me is why Hisao didn't seem to realize it....Either he is really stupid, or he didn't want to speculate on the issue in fear that if he brought up to Emi it would destroy their relationship. I tend to prefer the latter. Course thanks to all the hints from left by Mutou, Nurse and Emi's mother, it's quite clear what up with Emi. The only thing that I wondered at this point is will Hisao be able to patch things up with Emi. He seems to be heading the right direction, but I wasn't sure. Even I grew concerned at some point when Hisao talked with Emi and she lashed back because I thought I may have screwed up, but thankfully I didn't. And apparently, in Emi's route , there's only one way to screw up and you'd have to disregard everything the Nurse and Mutou told you.

Anyways, hopefully things will patch up by the next act.

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Emi's Route Act 4: Motion

The chapter begins on the following day at school as Hisao questions about Emi as he goes to the field track for another round of running, Noticing Emi's not there he wonders if she's trying to avoid him after what happen back at her home.

He decides wait till lunch to meet up with Emi and Rin. He goes up top and finds that only Rin's there. He ask Rin about Emi and what's been going on. But as usual Rin is her usual round and about self. But as Hisao continues to explain, Rin comes to realize that Hisao seriously wants to talk to her. Just then Emi comes through the door and Rin excuses herself. This is when Hisao takes the opportunity to fully express to Emi after she apologizes about yesterday's incident that he want to really help her even thought she can handle the problem herself and even explains to her about what her mother explained to him yesertday. It was then Emi realizes how serious he truly wanted to help her and this is when Hisao admits he loves her and and hugs her as she brakes down crying.

With this Emi now knew Hisao was committed to really being by her side and would be willing to wait for her to tell her what is going on. So she tells him that she would explain everything to him on the next day.

The following day, Emi and Hisao complete their run early in the morning and have a quick talk with the nurse who when Hisao talked to privately. The Nurse explains to him that today is a very important day for Emi and that she would explain to her what it would be soon enough.

So with that, they left to take the bus to go to Emi's home, where Hisao encouraged Emi to try to treat the truth like your warming up for a run. Which she takes seriously into commitment.

When they arrive at Emi's home, they meet up with Emi's mother who had prepared a meal for them and following that she drove them to a graveyard site. It was there where Emi took Hisao to where her father was. A Grave Stone with Emi's father's name on it.
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It's here Emi explains to Hisao slowly but surely the reason she brought him here. Starting by explaining her favorite color, how she doesn't have many close friends, that she is technically a year older than other student due to being incapable of moving during theca time of the accident. And finally she makes it clear that on the day of her accident, she lost her father.
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She explains from there, it's due to this she felt she couldn't get close to anyone because she was afaird she would lose them just like her father. She even explains that she had another boyfriend before Hisao who she even refused to get close to. But then she finally comes to the point with Hisao....That he was the first person who truly cared about her and her well being thus why she is willing to share him all of this.

And thus the tow embrace each other in a loving hug.
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From there, Hisao let Emi pay her respect to her father and the two were taken back to school by Emi's mother.  Which then Hisao took her back to her bedroom only for her to ask Hisao to come in to her dorm room. It's there she ask Hisao to say with her....just simply stay with her. Not for tonight, not forever.... but for as long as they live.

From there the two spent the night embracing in romantic love making (while wearing a condom)  and they both sleep in the bed that night and Hisao would then finally realize he has found true love in the time he was there.

End of Emi's Route Act 4

Overall Analysis of Emi's Route

To put it simple, it started cute and silly. And built up some pace till we reached a point where we finally found love only to have it turn into a conflict due to Emi's conflicts of hiding her past trauma from everyone. It's obvious that the experience shook up Emi pretty badly which is why she wouldn't truly get close to anyone. But it was through Hisao's determination and paying close attention to those that knew Emi the most that he was able to help Emi to realize that she couldn't keep her past bottled up and thus allowing her to finally free herself from her guilt and fears. Overall, the story is cute and touching since it kind of saw it as a young affectionate Romantic story line. Personally I enjoyed it.

Course I still have a few small qurims with it. Mainly with the obvious stuff. Like I mention earlier, I question if Hisao is not smart or he just didn't want to cause scars deeper than what happen already with Emi. Cause the fact that her farther died in an accident was flagged all over the place, yet Hisao acted like he didn't notice. Then there is the lube incident, which just seem out of place and out of the blue. And it painted Emi as a strange girl with a mad desire for love making. Though I will say like I said before, her expression in that scene was worth it. For me to take a pictue of that. But really....still seem so irrelevant. All the other H scenes seemed to work even though they were mostly we'll just what they are...standard love making. Still no reason for me to complain as the whole route itself was actually fun and worth waiting.... So I'm fine with the turnout.

RATING OF EMI'S ROUTE

Characters: 8 Emi's route was filled with plenty of sage advice characters and of course Emi herself she herself is nice in both of her build up
Plot: 6 Kinda ok, I really wish the whole "my Father is dead" secret was a little more hidden and not so obvious.
H-scene: 5 One scene that kinda made it feel forced "The Anal scene" It just seem so irrelevant every other scene however seem to feel ok. Course it kinda painted Emi in a different light than I expected or wanted.

Final Verdict: This story was kinda fun, so I enjoyed it. Though like I said, Emi's story could of use tweaks here and there, but overall it's not bad. And has it's share of good, funny, and lovable moments. Emi's route is sort of casual and laid back in general. It's only that certain H scene that kinda made Emi pull a 180 on what I expected her to be like. But regardless, it's a nice little sappy story that's worth the time.

END OF ANALYSIS OF KATAWA SHOUJO SPOILER EMI'S ROUTE: GOOD END

DONE! Onward to Rin's route!

[HakureiSM]

Rin route summary and commentary: I guess a cat is fine too.

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It all makes sense now

[qno2]

Agreeing with everything there regarding Emi's route.

They made the "big revelation" so obvious that I began to think that it was something else and they just wanted me to think that he died in the accident; with the Devs triumphantly looking down at me saying "so you thought he was dead? Silly you! trololololol". Honestly the whole "science"-part seemed like an excuse to make Hisao seem less retarded: "Don't jump to conclusions, look and check, don't take anything for granted ... even if it doesn't take a scientist to guess her backstory...". Guess he was being a scientist there... erm, Hisao, better you drop that idea real quick then. Sadly some psychologists still check the most trivial things that even I - as someone someone studying the subject - can't believe anybody would waste money/time/energy on that ... Hisao, become a psychologist then! Or a pirate, harr, just as useful I suppose.

And the anal. ... if I'd want to justify it we could say that she needed a replacement for not being able to run to get her thoughts off of her issues.
Sadly I won't justify it with this petty excuse. 
Her expression and the reaction of them afterwards were gold though. Awkward indeed, for them and the reader. Aside that I was actually positively surprised at how, say, decent the other h-scenes were, considering I'd normally disable them (was interested in how they dealt with the material). Although my only experience with h-scenes is Nasu (causing me to hug the skip-button on all those scenes) so I guess you could call me traumatized (no, a cat it not fine too HakureiSM, please don't remind me... please... damn you Nasu, damn my curiosity; some things are better left unknown, I shouldn't have opened the catbox).

And Rin. YES. Look at that cloud! 'twas just a fleeting dream and possibly had the color of 42 or prussian blue!

Sounds a bit harsh re-reading my comment. Still liked it and it might be the best kind of VN after something I've finished not too long ago (murder mystery tunrs into something that's hard to describe vs. pretty basic love story, back to the roots, maybe even a parody of cliched love stories that didn't really make itself clear as such).
Can't help but chuckle at how I got into this route. Imagine a boy saying that he actually didn't want to date his newfound true love, he just tried to see if a certain action would lead to his own death. Mr. Charming right there I suppose.

Time to get the RNG to decide the next target for me. See, Misha, I'm fair; otherwise you wouldn't have much of a chance here (curious about her reason for being there though).

- RNG is speaking, please wait warmly -

... what do you know. Misha, you are in luck.

Pre-Edit: I should just post this instead of fiddling around with phrases and then decide to not post after all. Just post it, c'mon. 
Edit: See, wasn't so hard after all, pressing that button.

[VIVItheFujoshi]

im still playing Shizune route.
Suddenly, wtf is Youki (with short hair and a recolor) there??? is Shizune relative to Youmu?? ...oh is only Jigoro. 
and the familiar reunion. oh surprises. to mush awesome in one image.

[Great Thing]

Good end'ed Shizune's route. There's a bad ending, but hilariously there's also only one actual choice during the entire thing. If you can't figure out which option gives you the bad end you probably shouldn't be allowed to play these things. Or use a computer.

Also I was going through the scene select and I noticed there's an extra scene space in Act 1 that wasn't there in the demo. It's a festival scene judging from its positioning. Wonder what that's about. Edit: nm, guess they split Hanako's festival scene into two for the full release.

Target 5 True Route: Hanako.

[Kinoko]

How the hell does Hisao become fluent in conversational sign language within two weeks max?


Also True Route is Shizune route.

[Stuffman]

True route is manly picnic, end of discussion.

I agree with qno2 remarks on Emi's route.

The "big revelation" was so pointless that the entire route left a bad taste in my mouth. Glad I got it out of the way first. It did have a lot of Rin and the Nurse in it though, both of which are always fun

I did Shizune's next which was quite a bit better IMO. It felt more like a proper story with a lot of character development every step of the way, rather than trying to lead up to one big event. It also doubled as Misha route and gave a plausible explanation for why she wouldn't be one of the five heroines, so I'm glad her issues got addressed.

[qno2]

Before starting Misha's route (won't do it today anyway, it's 4am over here) I wanted to check the effects of some choices and see the bad end of Emi's route. Something odd struck me...

So I 'screwed up' at her house, got thrown out, everything else. After that, yet another chance provided by Misha. One choice leads to the bad end, okay, all clear, no problem; the other leads to the end we've seen before.

Now the odd part is the talk between Hisao and Emi. If you screw up at her home but take the slightly more intelligent approach with Misha you get a scene in which Hisao does the exact mistake he's been doing for the whole time: giving her the feeling that he considers her to be a helpless damsel in distress, the poor cripple who needs help (honestly thought that this mistake emerging from Hisao's 'crisis management' was more important than her problems in opening up to others), his help in particular because 'he's awesome and wants to help her'. And he doesn't do anything else, not even his love declaration is pointed out to be his first one, Emi doesn't confess and apologize either. And yet you get the same ending (including the cemetery); which seems odd to me, one of the biggest and most important issues wasn't resolved at all. After all, none of them are helpless as long as they are moving, that was her theme, right? But he's effectively implying, at least from her perspective, that she's not able to do so without him. You could call this a healthy supportive relationship that she was supposed to achieve in this story but the 'knight helps other knight' analogy leaves a better aftertaste than 'helpless damsel/cripple needs knight and cannot go on without him'.

Either I'm taking this scene the wrong way or it's just adding to the list of tweaks necessary I guess.

Maybe they planned a third ending, one where they get together for now and break up a bit later akin to her first relationship (would've been without the cemetery scene I guess). Or this was all a tad rushed, just like some of Emi's sprites still had a few sketch-strokes and how some of her CGs didn't really look like her at all (and more like her alternate loli self).
Okay, now I'm nitpicking.

Enough about her though, I'll need to mentally prepare myself to bear the stupid-looking-drills and the laughter.

[Vinyl PX]

Finished Hanako route, yay!
Missing one scene thought :I
Next up: Shizune, according to Keine