![]() The basis of the story isn’t dissimilar from any number of contemporary dating sims, but the game makes its pointed satire apparent when we meet its eligible bachelors: There are no studly anthropomorphised bird men to be found in Hatoful Boyfriend its characters are represented by high definition photographs of various birds. Hiyoko’s got her work cut out for her, because this school is home to some of the hottest doves, quails and partridges to ever grace the screen. Pigeonation, perhaps finding some time for romance in between classes. Set across the better part of a year, Hatoful Boyfriend situates players in the role of Hiyoko Tosaka, a not-so-everyday girl as she embarks on her first semester as the sole human pupil of the all-bird high school St. But what if we subverted this database and took this anthropomorphism fetish to a satiric conclusion? Well, we’d most certainly end up with something akin to Hatoful Boyfriend, the infamous “weird pigeon dating game” that’s just crazy enough to work. Many of these works (and Japanese games, in general) are no stranger to attractive anthropomorphised beings NekoPara has its cat girls, Neptunia has its console goddesses, even non-game entities like Wikipedia and Linux have found themselves signified by cute anime girls. These tropes can be abstract themes, such as tragedy or loneliness, or they can be tangible attributes and costumes, like glasses or maid outfits. Hiyoko and Sakuya's exhange at the end of his route.Pop culture critic Hiroki Azuma once wrote that the archetypical visual novel is less concerned with telling a meaningful story than it is in favor of presenting a database of moe characteristics for audiences to choose their favorites from.In Holiday Star, the scene in the ending where Nageki holds Hitori's wing, as they fall.In the BBL route, Nageki telling Kazuaki that all he ever wanted was for him to be happy.Knowing what happened to everyone in it also makes it a huge Tear Jerker. ![]() The manga's 12th chapter, which details what life in Hatoful House was like, is this.Hiyoko's little speech to Yuuya if you choose to meet with him at the temple in Holiday Star.Doctor Shuu adopting Miru and Kaku as his own children-not in the "future experiment fodder" sense, either, as when the protagonist catches up to him again, Miru and Kaku have redecorated his whole infirmary and he reluctantly let them keep it.They aren't just trying to cheer him up, they're forgiving and accepting him. ![]() That's sweet enough, considering that he always looks scared or about to cry, but gets even better: this is after all the subjects have been freed from Holiday Star.
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