KS skyrocketed in popularity and, for a time, was discussed more than all other visual novels combined. The catalyst for these events was the release of the visual novel Katawa Shoujo, by the now defunct 4 Leaf Studios. And curiously, most of those affected claimed to have lost all desire to masturbate a phenomenon that normally persisted for weeks and which I can personally attest was real.
Thousands took up distance running, drawing, writing, and tea drinking. That Summer, 4chan’s horrible boards were inundated with the most positive community I’ve ever seen in my life people who’d developed a sudden and drastic desire to improve themselves.
But he did and set in motion a bizarre chain of events that would collide with my life only twelve years later on the tenth of January 2012 a hot Summer night that would leave me in tears and inspired to improve my life. It’s strange to think that if Raita hadn’t made those sketches in the back of his pornographic magazine when I was six years old that my life might have gone very differently.
