Happy Tenth Anniversary, Katawa Shoujo!

Good lord, ten years already, huh? For those of you celebrating all ten of those, I hope it’s been an incredible decade full of memories, and tears (happy ones of course!) For everybody else, myself included, I hope for pretty much the same.

While I only had my first experience with Katawa Shoujo barely four years ago now, the communities and all its people that I’ve come to associate with to this day make up for it in full. This website of course wouldn’t exist without Katawa Shoujo, but neither would I! Without Hanako, I… well, honestly, I might be a completely different person than I am, and not in a good way.

So here’s to every person on the dev team at Four Leaf Studios. Such a simple project has reached countless people across the seven billion on this Earth, and touched every single one. You have truly created something beautiful, and you deserve every bit of praise you get. Thank you so much for everything, really.

Happy 10th Anniversary, Katawa Shoujo!

-Potato

Happy Birthday - 2021

While it hasn’t exactly been three years since the last blog, it’s definitely close enough! 

First off, let me wish our lovely girl Hanako a very happy birthday! Another one comes and goes, doesn’t it? A kiss in the night, and the shiver on your skin. It’s a nice time to celebrate. Why don’t you read a compelling book to ring in another year for her? Go for a walk, or play a game of chess with a friend. Do something with her in mind! Big or small, it’s sure to put a grin on her face, wherever she may be.

Hi, my name is Potato!

I took over the site quite some time ago from the previous owner; he’s still around and we communicate constantly, he just doesn’t have the time to go looking through image sites for more Hanako pictures! Luckily, I do. If you’ve ever seen me around, you’ll know that I’m a massive Hanako fan, to the point that I started drawing just so that there would be more art of her in this big world of ours. I care about her as much as I’m sure a lot of, if not all of, you guys do as well. I will cherish this site and what it’s accomplished as long as I breathe.

I’ve made so many friends the past few years, and I get constant pings for Hanako art, so if someone happens to make it, I will most likely be aware of it! Of course, if you have any you think I haven’t seen (or honestly, Hanako pics in general always make me smile!) feel free to email me on the contact page.

I’d like to thank everybody who still frequents this site, enjoying what collection we have here. I’m slowly adding more and more, but I don’t think we’ll ever get the amount that I want; every Hanako picture in existence! It’s something we can strive for though, huh?

Are you with me? I’m with you.

Take care of yourselves. Please continue enjoying this site.

-Potato


Our First Birthday!

Wow, it's already been a year. As cliche as it sounds: time really flies.

In this time I have had the good fortune to meet many other people enthusiastic about Katawa Shoujo and a certain girl from it. A year ago today I bought this domain with the little spare cash I had as a meme, not really to do anything with it, however seeing that such a domain needed something to go with it, I went on to squarespace, signed up and uploaded 4 pictures as a placeholder. Now there are over 1500 total, and that's with me choosing not to upload a lot of them due to meme/quality concerns.

So what's the plan for the future? Well the site isn't perfect, I really wanted to tag all of the pictures so they could be searchable but that task is going to take weeks at a minimum, most likely months. Along with that, a lot of art is not credited, and I do not feel like this is fair to the artists who made these, so that will be the highest priority.

I want to thank everyone who's ever, and continues to, visit this site. I really appreciate it. Another huge thank you to all the people who donated to this meme. I don't want to get into numbers but this site isn't cheap to run, already it's been in the hundreds total. This is fine, I can afford it, but the help does really, well, help!

As I write this I will upload a bunch of new Hanas to the site, some I just haven't had time to do before. If you see any Hanas that aren't on here, or want to message me about anything, my email is SHG@Hanakoisbestgirl.com

Thanks for reading,

SHG

Happy Birthday Hanako! (Minor site update)

Wow, it's July 10th already. Beyond the halfway point of the year, it's gone by so quickly!

Well I wanna speak for all of us in wishing Hana a happy birthday, there are plenty of special birthday pictures in the archive (I'll get to tagging them at some point I swear!) so if you wanna get in the atmosphere feel free to find them!

And well yeah, that's about it. I'm still adding new pics most days so I encourage you to keep coming back to see the new ones, and if you have any pics that aren't on here, or want your pic on, just hit me up at SHG@hanakoisbestgirl.com . I hope you all celebrate this special day by eating some bacon and maybe some light reading, I'm sure she'd like it.

Thanks for reading,
SHG

Completed Phase 1 of the site, on to phase 2

Hey, so to start I wanted to apologise for NSFW coming a bit later than I said, I wanted to make sure it was ready and I put it off a little bit, sorry.

But I do wanna say we have no successfully implemented over 1000 images, removed a lot of the duplicates, and added a NSFW section, so go us!

So now is tagging every picture with searchable descriptions and artistic credit, which is something Ive vowed to do from the start, and will begin now. There is already an inbuilt search (https://www.hanakoisbestgirl.com/search) but because there aren't any tags its pretty useless right now.

So yeah, that's what I'm gonna be doing for the next few weeks, along with uploading new Hanas I find. One last thing: The NSFW section is pretty small so I implore you to help contribute to it. I know theres way more lewd Hanas but I just made the mistake of not saving them :(

Thanks for reading,
SHG

So what now? (Update, Cleanup, NSFW etc.)

Hey, this post will be on about what's to come for the site.

So firstly, I found out that tagging is already integrated, so when I'm at the point when I'm uploading low amounts of images I can easily do it. However I have at this moment 800 pics that are all untagged, meaning I'm going to have to go through them all manually. Part of the job I suppose, but it'll have to wait.

I've spent today trawling through Hanako images, and have about 300 ready to upload, with another 850 to sift through as well. What I'm going to do is give them a quick rundown then upload all the ones I think aren't duplicates, which should bring the total number to about 1250. I will then go through all the pics and weed out all the duplicates, and try to group alternate versions of the same image (e.g. uncoloured/coloured) together. I think this will get us down to a round 1200 by the end of Thursday. So if you log on tomorrow (Thursday) and see a ton of duplicates, that's why.

I've also started on a NSFW gallery, but I want to sort out the basic SFW galleries before I get to that so expect that on Friday/Saturday. It currently has about 40 images but that's because in my current searches I haven't been saving NSFW images, so I will have to go through some common sources again.

Once these are sorted I can move onto other things, like tagging all the pics, implementing a search feature etc. If you have any other suggestions for things you'd like to see feel free to comment below

I also want to say thanks for all the people who have visited, and the community reception of this site has been great, so I only want to make it better for you guys/girls, hope you keep visiting!

Thanks for reading,
SHG

 

Hello World (Cliche I know)

Hello, I am writing this to let you know about the site

So right now the site is in a weird place, I've just got a bunch of stuff so I can upload pictures of Hana, however squarespace doesn't really support membership creation, community contributions or forums etc. Nor tagging of pictures (I mean there are if I run it as a blog but that's cumbersome, however I might have to)

This leaves me in a pickle as I believe that all of this stuff is essential to maintain the site, as I don't think I can do it exclusively on my own, at least for months/years. There are work arounds though, such as squarespace contributor accounts and the like.

So while I will be looking for an alternative site-builder for the future, for the next few months at least I have this. If you want to help contribute you can email me a request to at shg@hanakoisbestgirl.com or just send pictures through it.

Feel free to comment with suggestions and things you'd like to see

Thanks for reading,
SHG