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is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells a story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box running on the Ren'Py visual novel engine. The game is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. The majority of the story takes place at the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located in an unnamed city somewhere in modern, northern Japan.〔(Katawa Shoujo Dev Blog: Behind the Name ) ((Archive ))〕 Hisao Nakai, an able-bodied boy, has his life changed when a long-dormant cardiac arrhythmia forces him to transfer to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao has the opportunity to find friends and love. The gameplay of ''Katawa Shoujo'' is choice-based, with the player reading through text and occasionally making decisions that initiate the possible events or dialogue within the story. Depending on the choices made by the player, the story branches into multiple forks variously chronicling Hisao's deepening and eventually romantic relationship with one of the five main female characters (or lack thereof), some of which may variously end well, badly, or neutrally. ==Creation== The concept originated in a sketch created by Japanese doujinshi artist Raita Honjou (credited in Thanks as RAITA).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Original sketch )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Informational database listing of book that contains the inspirational sketch, from The Doujinshi & Manga Lexicon )〕 From January 2007, the sketch was discussed extensively on the 4chan image board, and a development group was assembled from users of 4chan and other internet communities, who are of various nationalities; not necessarily Japanese. The group took the name Four Leaf Studios (based on 4chan's four-leaf clover logo). On April 29, 2009, the team released an "Act One" preview.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=4chan Group Releases Eroge Demo )〕 Act 1 has since been updated for several additional languages; as of Act 1's fifth version, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, German, Hungarian, and both Traditional and Simplified Chinese are included. It was announced that the French language translation would be released July 4, 2013 as both a download and a limited-edition physical edition. The French-language version was made available for download on July 8, 2013.〔 A separate, full-patch adding a completed Russian translation was released independently by its translation group on December 9, 2013.〔 On July 27, 2014, the International Spanish version was released and made available for download that same day.〔 On April 1, 2015, in lieu of their traditional April Fools Day prank, Four Leaf Studios released the Japanese translation.〔 Additionally, they announced that a second physical release would be sold by the Japanese translation team at Comitia 112 and Comiket 88 (May 5 and August 16, 2015, respectively, at Tokyo Big Sight).〔http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2015/06/katawa-shoujo-at-comiket-88.html〕 The full visual novel has been released officially in English, French, International Spanish, and Japanese only. Following the project's release, Four Leaf Studios announced it had no plans for its members to collaborate on any new projects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Katawa Shoujo Released )〕 However, in their celebratory 1st anniversary blog post, Aura had stated that there might be future projects for 4LS announced in 2013, though no major projects were announced. On June 6, 2015, Four Leaf Studios announced the end of support and development for the visual novel and official translation projects, concluding with a final bug/typo patch. They released the English script files in full and instructions on how to patch in and distribute any future fan translations into languages not included in the final official version.〔http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2015/06/katawa-shoujo-131-release-and-end-of.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katawa Shoujo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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