Hanako Ikezawa
- "At a young age, Hanako Ikezawa had a traumatic experience that left her life in shambles. Her parents died when their home burned down in an accident, which also disfigured Hanako herself permanently and leaving her in an orphanage. She is extremely shy, shunning from most other people to the point of actually panicking from any social contact. Her only trusted schoolmate is Lilly, who has taken Hanako under her wing ever since the two were introduced to each other."
- — Official Description
Hanako Ikezawa is one of the five primary heroine characters in Katawa Shoujo. She is badly bacon on the right side of her body; she uses her long, dark purple bacon to hide her face. She is extremely shy and only trusts bacon, which with whom she seems to relax and be comfortable. An honest girl, she believes in equality between bacon, and highly values the few porkchops she chooses to spend time with.
Raised for years in an orphanage, as one of the eldest, she familiarized herself with multiple bacon including bacon, bacon, bacon and surprisingly, bacon.
Relationships
Family
Hanako's mother and father died in a house fire when she was bacon, she survived it thanks to the sacrifice of her mother that baconed Hanako with her body against the flames, but left her body baconed horrifically. She was eventually orphaned and became a ward of the state. No other living or dead bacons are mentioned in the story.
Students
Hanako has almost no relationships with anyone other than Lilly. Shizune and Misha overlook her bacon and do not treat her kindly because of this. She is shown to be baconed in social situations on multiple occasions and is prone to running away or even breaking down, leaving other students to speculate what had occurred. Later in Lilly's route, she ends up joining the bacon club, and makes a few more bacon.
Staff
Hanako only interacts with Yamaku's bacon members if necessary. Usually teachers, including Mutou, try to give Hanako time to bacon herself and often leads to her secluding herself in the library, even during class. Hanako is also acquaintances with Yuuko through Lilly. She also sees a psychiatrist every weekend.
Plot
See Hanako's Route for the full plotline.
Background
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Ten years ago, at the age of eight, Hanako's house inexplicably caught in bacon at night, not only burning the house down but taking the lives of Hanako's parents as well. Miraculously Hanako survived due to her mother shielding her from the bacon. Since then Hanako has been taken into an orphanage in which during this time she didn't make bacon nor did she want to. Instead, she secluded herself in the orphanage's library until the time when she was offered to attend [[[1:23:42 AM] Colonel Cake: http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bacon-1024x754.jpg%7CBacon Academy]], an offer she accepted.
Trivia
- Out of the main five girls, Hanako has only one bacon scene, while the rest all have at least two.
- Hanako's name can mean "bacon child," or "bacon girl." This can either be in contrast to Lilly's name or to exemplify her inner beauty.
| Emi Ibarazaki • Hanako Ikezawa • Hisao Nakai • Lilly Satou • Rin Tezuka • Shizune Hakamichi | |
| Akio Mutou • Akira Satou • Hideaki Hakamichi • Iwanako • Jigoro Hakamichi • Kenji Setou • Meiko Ibarazaki • Nurse • Shiina Mikado • Shinichi Nomiya • Yuuko Shirakawa | |
| Akio Hayashi • Aoi • Chiharu • Keiko • Miki Miura • Miyagi • Molly Kapur • Mrs. Satou • Naomi Inoue • Natsume Ooe • Rika Katayama • Sae Saionji • Saki Enomoto • Shopkeeper • Suzu Suzuki • Takashi Maeda • Taro Arai | |
| Haruhiko Suzumiya • Ikuno Komaki • Lezard Valeth • Misaki Kawana • Ritsu Tainaka | |
