Hisao Nakai

Hisao Nakai (born 4th Jan or 1st April, 1980s) is the protagonist of the 2012 Japanese visual novel, Katawa Shoujo.
== Overview ==
Hisao is a male high school student diagnosed with chronic and . In the prologue, he collapses from a major heart attack. Due to his heart condition, he transfers to Yamaku High School in class 3-3, and although initially resentful of his placement in a school for those with disabilities, he eventually adapts to his new lifestyle. Through his new relationships and interactions, he begins to reconsider his preconceptions towards disabilities, including his own.
== Romances ==
=== Emi Ibarazaki ===
Emi is an energetic, extroverted strawberry-blonde girl with twintails and forest-green eyes. She has , having had her original legs amputated below the knees as a result of a car accident. Despite her disability, she still has more than enough lower body strength to walk, and is in fact a successful track runner.
She values good diet and exercise, and is on friendly terms with the head nurse of Yamaku; she promises to keep tabs on Hisao's exercise in exchange for having him as a running partner. Indeed, she meets Hisao by literally running into him in the hallway, and endangers his heart on more than one occasion.
Hisao feels guilty whenever she pouts, equating her expression to that of a sad puppy. Emi is Rin's friend and hall mate due to both having extremely passionate vocations and complementary disabilities. However, she has trouble getting emotionally close to people, because she is afraid of losing people important to her.
=== Rin Tezuka ===
Rin, a girl whose arms were almost entirely deformed due to a birth defect, uses her feet to accomplish everyday tasks with surprising dexterity. She has short red hair and dark green eyes, and wears a boy's uniform to avoid the awkward situations that would arise from using her feet while wearing a skirt.
Rin's unique personality has brought about awkward situations with her peers, especially for Hisao; as a result, some people do not talk with her, such as Lilly. She is nonchalant with the other students and about their disabilities in general; she often inquires about other people's disabilities as a hobby. As a result, she is seen as extremely blunt.
She is Emi's friend and hall mate, as their physical abilities complement one another. Her role in the school festival is being the sole painter of a giant mural posted in front of the dorms. Her name was designed as both a homage to legendary cartoonist and a pun based on her talent as an artist and disability (the first kanji in her surname means "hand").
=== Lilly Satou ===
Lilly is the class representative of 3-2, a class composed of students who are blind or partially blind (including Kenji); she has been blind since birth. The tallest member of the main female cast, she has long blonde hair and blue eyes - her father is Japanese and her mother is Scottish with family in . She is very polite and ladylike with a motherly demeanour, not wanting to intrude on others' private life (including Hisao's reasons for being at Yamaku).
It is also noted that she had previously attended a strict all-girls school. In contrast to Misha's fast-paced attitude to Hisao's transfer, Lilly takes things at her own relaxed pace, helping Hisao to adjust to school life in the midst of a busy festival. She is Hanako's closest and initially only friend; she regularly has lunch and tea with her, and accompanies her grocery shopping.
She is also on a friendly basis with Yuuko. Shizune and Lilly have been seen to not get along, perhaps due to the fact that direct communication between her and Shizune is not feasible (she cannot see Shizune's sign language and Shizune cannot hear her or speak to her).
=== Shizune Hakamichi ===
Shizune is one of Hisao's classmates who serves as the student council president and class representative of class 3-3. This bespectacled girl has short dark blue hair and eyes; she is both deaf and mute, communicating primarily through Japanese Sign Language. Her friend, Misha, is almost always at her side, translating everything from and to Shizune, allowing for communication with other people.
As others have described her including herself, Shizune is strong-willed, forceful, and manipulative, but occasionally displays a softer side and reveals her emotions. She has an intense intolerance of Lilly and initially indirectly dislikes Hanako as a result. Her name was designed by the game's developers to be a pun based on her disability; the kanji for her given name mean "silent" and "sound".
=== Hanako Ikezawa ===
Hanako, as a child, suffered an accident in which her house burned down, taking the lives of her parents. The right side of her body is heavily scarred from the incident and has left her traumatized. Her long, dark purple hair hangs down her back, and her fringe covers the right side of her face, which hides much of her scars.
She has spent most of her childhood in an orphanage and was bullied during her time in elementary and middle school, so she was offered to go to Yamaku because of the discourse. Initially, she is incredibly shy towards anyone except Lilly and Akira. She is another one of Hisao's classmates, but is frequently absent, preferring to spend time reading in the library where she can be alone.
== Girlfriends ==
 	Emi 	Rin 	Shizune 	Lilly 	Hanako
DOB 	14th Mar (19) 	13th Mar (18) 	6th May (18) 	7th Feb (18) 	10th July (18)
Eyes 	Green 	Green 	Blue 	Blue 	Grey
Hair 	Blonde 	Brown 	Blue 	Blonde 	Purple
Height 	151 cm (4'11") 	161 cm (5'3") 	158 cm (5'2") 	171 cm (5'7") 	164 cm (5'5")
Weight 	41 kg (90 lbs.)	50 kg (110 lbs.)	53 kg (116 lbs.)	59 kg (130 lbs.)	52 kg (114 lbs.)
Figure 	70/51/74 	83/54/78 	88/52/85 	89/61/89 	86/56/84
Figure 	(27-20-29) 	(33-21-31) 	(35-20-33) 	(35-24-35) 	(34-22-33)
 	B 	AB 	O 	A 	AB
Disability	No legs 	No arms 	Deafness 	Blindness 	Burn scars
==Trivia==
* Hisao's eyes differ in almost every CG.
* Hisao is the same height as Lilly, though his weight is unknown.
* Hisao's personality develops differently between routes as he adapts some of the girl's characteristics.
* Different developers have given different answers when asked about Hisao's birthday. It's either 4th Jan (the day Katawa Shoujo began production) or 1st April ().
* In the cinematic before "Act 2: Form", he's shown wearing the school's gym clothes, which contradicts the quote "I was exempt from taking part in gym class at Yamaku, so I didn't get issued with one."
* Some time after Hisao's name was decided on, the developers learned of a published Japanese psychologist with the same name, and acknowledged in the Dev Blog that the connection was complete coincidence.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Hisao Nakai" article on the Katawa Shoujo Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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