History VisualNovel / HatofulBoyfriend

* MultipleEndings: Typical for the genre, with a total of thirteen. Each of the love interests have one, with Sakuya, Okosan, and Shuu having an additional, incomplete Normal ending that cuts off right before the true ending. Azami also has two, if you decide to take up the Torimi Cafe summer job and either [[spoiler:play ShipperOnDeck and help Azami reignite an old flame with Rabu, or help her dump him and start a new biker gang under Azami's wing.]] The PS4 and Vita remakes have an exclusive route unavailable in the Steam release, but can be viewed for free on Moa's gumroad [[https://moa810.gumroad.com/l/JdSCc here]]. Only after completing everyone's true ending, does it open up the BBL route.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Happens in Bad Boys Love.

** You will never, ever look at Chukar partridges the same way again. After playing ''Hatoful Boyfriend'' to completion, Chukar partridges feel like singly terrifying little fluffy heretics [[spoiler:for causing biological genocicde on the human race.]]

* SixIsNine: In the BBL route, [[spoiler:Ryouta and Sakuya discover that volume 6 from a encyclopedia is found missing in the sealed-off wing of the school, a second volume 9 having taken its place.]]

** [[spoiler:The Hawk Party is composed of warmongers while the Dove party is focused on peace.]]

** If the player opts into the BBL route, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Ryouta and the protagonist wished for a world where humans and birds would no longer fight. Shuu tries to carry out the wish by wiping out the remaining humans.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Happens a ''lot'' in the [[MoodWhiplash Bad Boys]] [[WhamEpisode Love route]]. [[spoiler: Ryouta, however, by far gets the worst of it, particularly when the identity of Hiyoko's killer is revealed.]]

* DepopulationBomb: [[spoiler: As a result of the H5N1 pandemic and war with the newly-intelligent birds, humanity's numbers have fallen to less than 140 million. It can fall straight into extinction depending on the route.]]
* DoWellButNotPerfect: Tends to be how you get the standard endings for some of the birds.

* ExtranormalInstitute: St. Pigeonation's.
* FantasticRacism: Fantails towards... well, pretty much every sentient creature. Also, [[spoiler: two-sided racism between birds and humans is a huge plot point in the Bad Boys Love Route]].

** The fact that Kazuaki [[spoiler: smells of bleach.]]
** [[spoiler: Nageki]]'s route in itself has too many to list.
** Oko San's [[spoiler: fantastic speed]] and [[spoiler: a strange concoction that Shuu makes him drink.]]
** Anghel's rambling about [[spoiler: "demon spores".]]

** Recurring theme of Ryouta [[spoiler: being sickly.]]

* GayOption: Hinted at but defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans. [[spoiler: That is until the UpdatedRerelease added her as a love interest giving her the "To Be the True Java Sparrow" ending where Hiyoko and Azami form their own motorcycle gang after beating down Buster and a bunch of thug birds.]]
* GenocideBackfire: [[spoiler: Humans attempted to wipe out bird-kind through an artificially created virus, but the virus instead gave birds the intelligence to wage war on humans.]]

** Turns out to be ''enforced''. [[spoiler: Because of political tensions between birds and humans after the birds' rise to sapience, the heroine has been sent to a birds-only school to test how closely humans and birds can interact. If she doesn't romance anybirdy, the experiment is considered a failure, and [[BadEnding the Hawk Party condemns humanity to destruction, starting with the heroine]].]]

** [[spoiler: In the manga, Okosan can also see him, and in ''Holiday Star'' it's said that only the pure of heart can see ghosts.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Hiyoko and Yuuya]] on the Bad Boys Love route. Although if you get the full ending, you find that [[spoiler: Yuuya was saved just in time, and Hiyoko might be revived.]]

** You will never, ever look at Chukar partridges the same way again. After playing ''Hatoful Boyfriend'' to completion, Chukar partridges feel like singly terrifying little fluffy heretics.

* MediumAwareness: "What's the number in the top-left-hand corner say?"
* {{Meido}}: Ryouta dresses up as this, and Hiyoko can join him.
** In the bonus content you unlock by completing Bad Boy's Love, [[spoiler: Sakuya and Kazuaki are dragged into it as well.]]

* MissingMom: [[spoiler: If you focus on Ryouta, then you find out his mother dies.]]

* MultipleEndings: Typical for the genre.

* OfficialCouple: It's not definite, but [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Ryouta]] seems to be the most canon love interest for Hiyoko as he's the one who [[spoiler:stays with her spirit in the hopes of him being able to be cured of his disease and her being able to be transplanted into a body someday]] in the good ending to the Bad Boys Love route, the last route you can unlock.

* OminousSavePrompt: This happens at the end of every chapter in BBL. This is also the only time players can save during BBL as well.

** [[spoiler: The guidebook reveals that Shuu lost his parents in a human extremist bombing. [[CreepyChild He was rather pleased by this.]]]]

* PunnyName: The (quail) teacher and (partridge) doctor have surnames punning on the Japanese for "quail" and "partridge". The library freshman's personal name is based on "nagekibato", the Japanese word for "mourning dove". [[spoiler: The partridge is operating under an assumed name, so this was probably deliberate on his part.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: In the Bad Boy's Love route, you find out that the game actually takes place in the year 2188!]]

* UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]

* AfterlifeExpress: The bird afterlife consists of [[spoiler: traveling the universe on the Galactic Railroad until you forget your past life and are reincarnated.]] Judging by the human girl's [[DontFearTheReaper familiarity with the Conductor]], this is also her fate after all those bad ends in the previous game.

* [[BloodMagic Blood Science]]: MadScientist [[spoiler: Tohri Nishikikouji]] uses [[spoiler: Anghel Higure]]'s blood to help power [[spoiler: his canon and materialize the will and drive of fanboys and fangirls]], turning it into an offensive beam capable of destroying buildings.
* BeamOWar: The scene where [[spoiler: Tohri's cannon]] splashes against the barrier around the school.
* DeflectorShield: Courtesy of Anghel's RealityWarper powers, [[spoiler: Tohrii's attack against St. Pigeonation's]] is thwarted by a magic shield.
* DontFearTheReaper: The Conductor in ''Holiday Star'' is pretty laid back and gives advice like "I dunno, kiddo. We never recommend [[spoiler: haunting as a deathstyle]] choice, y’know? Too easy to go all black and bitter." It's revealed at some point that he is [[spoiler: Death, as seen in the Bad Ends]], and Hiyoko considers him her friend. They go all the way back to the demo version!
* EmpathicEnvironment: Holiday Star's Mount Pudi has rain on it when the emotionally troubled Nemo/[[spoiler: imposter]] Kazuaki cannot remember his real name.
** The Throne Room on Holiday Star also TurnsRed when [[spoiler: The King turns OneWingedAngel in desperation to keep our heroes on Holiday Star.]]
* EpiphanicPrison: [[spoiler: Holiday Star]] is a place that traps souls who are emotionally troubled and/or weak willed. The only way to leave this place is if enough of the trapped individuals realize [[spoiler: they have something worth living for in life/reality/outside Holiday Star]].
* GenreShift: ''Holiday Star'''s first two stories are loony absurd adventures, with minor darker hints here and there. The third story is similar, a fantasy-RPG-ish romp. [[spoiler: Until the end of that one, and the ''fourth'' is nightmarish and aferlife-y.]]
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: The enormous hydra-like "Increased" King can only be defeated by Nageki using his planisphere to burn down The King's lighthouse.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The King's lighthouse projects Holiday Star's inhabitants' greatest desires to keep them perpetually happy.]]
* {{Lunacy}}: In the third chapter of ''Holiday Star'' [[spoiler: anyone watching the lunar eclipse will immediately enter a dream-filled coma/proceed onto the oneiric afterlife.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the last two chapters of ''Holiday Star'' [[spoiler: everyone who watches the lunar eclipse immediately falls unconscious. While unconscious they dream they are riding a galactic railroad, which ultimately leads to the afterlife. In the real world J.B. Leone explains that everyone who watched the lunar eclipse is in a coma due to avian brains being unstable from unnatural development. So is the visit to Holiday Star the protagonists actually visiting an ethereal plane, or is Holiday Star completely imaginary and due to neurons misfiring in their unstable brains?]]

* NonstandardGameOver: In ''Holiday Star'' this happens if [[spoiler: the player chooses a wrong choice during the fourth chapter. This wrong choice causes a character to get absorbed into The King's twisted hive mind, which The King considers living "happily ever after."]]
** Can also happen if [[spoiler: the player fails to transform into a magical girl by flubbing the transformation line in the second chapter.]]
* PowerCrystal: In ''Holiday Star'' there are three of them: the garnet, the lapis lazuli, and the topaz. [[spoiler: However, only the topaz is the stone which will get everyone the good ending; the garnet and lapis lazuli are fakes.]]

* TankGoodness: [[spoiler: Miru and Kaku's method of stealing Christmas trees]]. Sakuya's security forces did not expect something so drastically powerful, and even Yuuya's CrazyPrepared high-powered rifle did little to stop it.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Once [[spoiler: The King]] is defeated and [[spoiler: his Holiday Star]] is destroyed, he is left totally distraught and alone. However, once he joins The Migrant and the former Holiday Star citizens on the galactic railroad, they offer him sweets such as caramels and sugar cubes to cheer him up. Other stories in ''Holiday Star'' do mention [[spoiler: The King/original Kazuaki]] as a sweets-lover, so perhaps The Migrant and the ex-citizens offering him his favorite foods would mean the start of a new friendship as well as emotional healing.

* UncannyVillage: [[spoiler: Holiday Star]] is a gorgeous place and its citizens and ruler are friendly enough. [[spoiler: But why does The King briefly become monstrous looking whenever he gets upset?]]
* ViralTransformation: [[spoiler: Anyone who stays on the Holiday Star for too long will lose their individual identity and become a King/part of The King himself.]]
* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler: Tohri creates one, powered by fanboy/fangirl imagination through Anghel's blood.]]
* YaoiFangirl: [[spoiler: Tohri's laser]] is powered at first by standard {{otaku}}, and then by these. Unfortunately, he didn't forsee that fangirls [[ShipToShipCombat who bicker about the best pairings]] would be such an unstable power source.

* BlandNameProduct
** Calorie M**te
** [[VideoGame/{{Beatmania}} Keymania IIDX]]

* PunnyName: The (quail) teacher and (partridge) doctor have surnames punning on the Japanese for "quail" and "partridge". The library freshman's personal name is based on "nagekibato", the Japanese word for "mourning dove". [[spoiler: Both the partridge and the quail are operating under assumed names, so this was probably deliberate on their parts.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Okosan has a much less prominent role in the BBL route, as does Yuuya. The roles they do have are far more serious as well, though they aren't without their humorous moments. Oddly enough, Anghel not only has a significant role (as opposed to not appearing at all outside his own route) and the third most screentime, but he's his usual silly self the entire time.

* {{Bishonen}}: The ICPSS function renders every pigeon you encounter as a human the first time you see them, and they're all quite pretty. Except Oko San, [[RuleOfFunny who is rendered as a bird in a boy's school uniform]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, it's [[WidgetSeries that kind]] of game. [[HiddenDepths Or is it?]]]]

* WidgetSeries: Even by the standards of visual novels, which are already very Japanese, the premise of the game is considered to be very far outside the mainstream box.

* ObviousBeta: The Vita version is very unstable, having at least these issues: crashing often, text sometimes appearing at irregular rates, music gradually becoming distorted until you close the game and start it up again, issues with the skip option, and significant loading times for a VN. Unfortunately, this extends to the sequel as well.

* SurpriseCreepy: Who even knew that a parody pigeon dating simulator could even inspire a Nightmare Fuel page?

-->'''Poster on the Let's Play thread:''' You are now realizing that without Anghel and Okosan, the joke characters, [[spoiler:all the main characters and all human life would be gone by now]].

* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler:Nageki, Kazuaki/Hitori, and Hiyoko.]] Lampshaded by Angie Gallant in her walkthrough: "Fiction abhors a [[spoiler:happy orphan.]]

* AdultFear: The Bad Boys Love route is ''full'' of this. [[spoiler:Hearing Nanaki/Hitori Uzune talk about feeling like he'd failed Nageki, his only living family, again by not picking up on any warning signs ''as his brother died in a fire on the other side of the door'' is horrifying.]]

[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ Four drama [=CDs=] have been released]] in Japanese, with some English translations [[http://lexlee20.tumblr.com/post/36478452545/hato-drama-cd-translation-index here]]. There is a partially translated [[http://lexlee20.tumblr.com/post/26389518613/hato-guidebook-compilation-post guidebook]] which gives some [[AllThereInTheManual other information]]. Some manga have also been released - ''Absolute Zero'', high fantasy from Anghel's POV; elaboration on some character background hinted at in ''Holiday Star''; and some monthly stuff [[http://mangafox.me/manga/hatoful_kareshi/ translated by fans]].

* CocaPepsiInc: A religious example. Hiyoko mentions that she comes from "Shint Buddhist" family. Both Tanabata and Christmas are celebrated in this universe. Anghel mentions reincarnation in his ramblings, but his human portrait also has crosses (a symbol of Christianity, a religion, which has nothing to do with reincarnation) and his name means "Angel" -angels belong to Abrahamic religions, not to Dharmic ones.

'''''Hatoful Boyfriend''''' (Japanese title はーとふる彼氏) is a game about a human hunter-gatherer girl (named by you, default Hiyoko Tousaka) who goes to a high school for birds, St. [=PigeoNation's=] Institute. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs There, she dates pigeons]].

[[folder: Tropes found throughout the ''Hatoful Boyfriend'' series include:]]

[[folder: Tropes specific to ''Holiday Star'' include:]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, it's [[WidgetGame that kind]] of game. [[HiddenDepths Or is it?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, it's that kind of game. [[HiddenDepths Or is it?]]]]

Also see the [[Characters/HatofulBoyfriend Hatoful Boyfriend Character Page]] for tropes specific to certain characters in this series.

* AfterlifeExpress: The bird afterlife consists of traveling the universe on the Galactic Railroad until you forget your past life and are reincarnated. Judging by the human girl's [[DontFearTheReaper familiarity with the Conductor]], this is also her fate after all those bad ends in the previous game.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Happens in Bad Boys Love, and is a huge CrowningMomentOfAwesome for almost everybirdy involved.

* MrImagination: Okosan and later on [[spoiler:Anghel]] are prone to mix the real world with their imagination and drag you along their fantasies. It goes even further than that, [[spoiler: as this syndrome is rationalized by a scientific biological explanation]].

* ObviousBeta: The Vita version is very unstable, having at least these issues: crashing often, text sometimes appearing at irregular rates, music gradually becoming distorted until you close the game and start it up again, issues with the skip option, and significant loading times for a VN.

* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler: Nageki, Kazuaki/Hitori, and Hiyoko.]] Lampshaded by Angie Gallant in her walkthrough: "Fiction abhors a [[spoiler: happy orphan.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Okosan has a much less prominent role in the BBL route, as does Yuuya. The roles they do have are far more serious as well, though they aren't without their humorous moments.

->''"If I was playing this and my parents walked in, I would switch to porn. [[WidgetSeries It's easier to explain]]."''

-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTFpQSulms&lc=qomVJm6H4r3-lC27Pm90_rdyavAyPOb-HeeAsYRQF_4 One of the Youtube commenters]] on the video Let's Play.