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Fatto.- Aura
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We would like to thank everyone who have been patiently waiting for the Japanese release for more than 3 years since the release of version 1.0. It was truly a long journey with many challenges for us the translation team as well. We're happy that we have succeeded in reaching the final goal. The Japanese translation and the release of Katawa Shoujo could not have been made without the tremendous support from dev folks in Four Leaf Studios, the members of JP translation team, among many other people. We would like to express our thanks for making this release possible.Katawa Shoujo is a monumental game, which was made in English language, by a team of non-Japanese individuals, with a visual novel format which is very familiar to us Japanese. Despite the title's first hand impression, the stories in the game were very sincere, which received praise across the world. It is undoubtedly a memorable piece, or rather a phenomenon in the history of games (One evidence is that searching for "Katawa Shoujo" in youtube will show 63800 videos posted).I myself was moved so much when I played this game, which was the reason I wanted to people in Japan to know more about KS. That was also the cause for me to translate it into Japanese.As the Japanese Otaku culture spread around the world over the years, its influence has culminated into one masterpiece, and now it is being brought back into Japan. It's fascinating how things have come to a full circle, and I feel lucky that I could take a part in this. In a way, I felt it was a mission for me to complete the translation and make it public. That determination has kept me going till now.Our team has given the best of our efforts into the translation. Please enjoy.----7 years since the release of Act1 in 2008, and 3 years since the full version in 2012. English visual novels were far more in the niche back then. However in the past year or two, we are seeing more and more English visual novels in Steam and other platforms. Perhaps Katawa Shoujo had its influence in paving the way for Visual Novels.I'm hoping that the release of KS Japanese translation would increase interest in other novel games outside Japan, and perhaps their translation as well.-hir
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Greetings,
We are the guys who translated Katawa Shoujo into Latin American Spanish, but you'll see the option as "International Spanish" within the game. We were given the chance to give the fans a message. Because of a lack of imagination, this'll be a history lesson.
The beginnings of this project were pretty shaky. In the days when the KS demo was the only thing that had been released to the public, a group of fans wanted to work a Spanish translation into the demo, though for whatever reason that didn't occur. Later in time, past mid 2011, one of us thought that it would probably be interesting to start the translation anew, see how things went from there. But 2012 rolled in and Katawa Shoujo v1.0 came with it, that meant the project would have to either be cancelled or reworked and extended to encompass the full game. For better or worse, the latter was chosen.
Up to that point, it was pretty much a one-man-show, making progress a very slow thing. That changed momentarily when a new member was added, yet it wasn't long before things came to a stop once again. Soon after, the project was left to die a very slow death.
As luck would have it, though, someone else appeared asking about this mess, wanting to help. With that new addition to the team, progress picked up again, then came the site, the forums, the IRC channel... Afterwards everything started taking proper form with new team members signing up and followers popping in. But even then nothing really went smoothly, during the lifetime of the project, some highs were reached as well as very deep lows, with many instances of people vanishing, leaving things unfinished at best. Nevertheless, to some of us it was too late to quit.
We are a group without a name, most without a past in the medium of visual novels, with no experience in translation, and probably without future projects. The goal was always to deliver a translation of the best quality we could offer. We are aware that the Spanish-speaking world is vast and varied, but we hope that most people find our work acceptable and enjoy the game for what it is.
After struggling for over two years with this, we can finally say that we're done and that Katawa Shoujo v1.2 is out now. To those who stayed and helped, this translation is for you. Thank you, and good bye.
