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->''"''Hatoful Boyfriend'' is a Japanese dating game for people who think that Japanese dating games are way too normal and logical."''
-->-- [[{{Website/Cracked}} Cracked.com's]] [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19827_the-6-most-insane-video-games-about-dating.html "The 6 Most Insane Video Games About Dating."]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Happens a ''lot'' in the [[MoodWhiplash Bad Boys]] [[WhamEpisode Love route]].
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* 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.]]
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** In the bonus content you unlock by completing Bad Boy's Love, [[spoiler: Sakuya and Nanaki are dragged into it as well.]]
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** The dialog between Shuu and Ryouta about [[spoiler: Hiyoko's head in the box]] is very similar to the final reveal of [[spoiler: {{Se7en}}]].
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[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ Two drama CDs have been released and a third is currently in post-production]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ Two Three drama CDs have been released and a third is currently in post-production]], released]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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* GayOption: Defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans.
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** Shuu apparently sounds like [[TheMoomins Snuffkin]].
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* RealPlaceBackground: The Torimi Cafe, where the summer job scenario takes place, [[http://ameblo.jp/torimicafe/ is an actual, bird-themed cafe.]]
** Also, secondary characters Azami, Rabu, Kenzaburo, and Mr. One are apparently actual birds from that cafe.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The guidebook greatly expands on the characters' backstories, particularly Shuu's[[spoiler:/Ichijou Utsuru's]]
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* MoodWhiplash: The endings of Ryouta and Nageki's routes can come as quite a shock if you've grown used to the game's silly and comedic tone. The Bad Boys Love route in the full version, even more so.
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* MoodWhiplash: The endings of Ryouta [[spoiler:Ryouta and Nageki's Nageki's]] routes can come as quite a shock if you've grown used to the game's silly and comedic tone. The Bad Boys Love route in the full version, even more so.
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* [[spoiler:MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Blink and you'll miss it, but your first clue that things in this game aren't quite as cheerful as they first seem comes when Hiyoko decides to go for a run: One of the things she passes is the post-apocalyptic remains of a city.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a lot for a pigeon dating game. See also MeaningfulBackgroundEvent in YMMV section.
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[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ A drama CD is currently in post-production]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ A Two drama CD CDs have been released and a third is currently in post-production]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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** 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]].]]
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** During one of the flashbacks in BBL route, we learn that Yuuya's stepfather killed Yuuya's biological father to have his mother. [[{{Hamlet}} That totally doesn't remind us of anything...]]
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** [[OMFGCata Jesse Cox]] did a brief one as part of his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QgNERGRN40 Fan Friday]] segment.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a lot for a pigeon dating game. See also MeaningfulBackgroundEvent in YMMV section.
** 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: "devil's spores".]]
** Recurring theme of Ryouta [[spoiler: being sickly.]]
** In BBL route, the game takes a step further and highlights the meaningful words with a different colour.
** 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: "devil's spores".]]
** Recurring theme of Ryouta [[spoiler: being sickly.]]
** In BBL route, the game takes a step further and highlights the meaningful words with a different colour.
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->''"If I was playing this and my parents walked in, I would switch to porn. It's easier to explain."''
-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTFpQSulms One of Youtube commenters]] on the video Let's Play.
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** "That's terrible! I mean, Okosan is a nutcase and I don't know what he's saying half the time, but he really does like pudding!"
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* TwoTeacherSchool: The main game has only Kazuaki and Shuu. [[spoiler:BBL shows us the principal, but only briefly and not while he is still among the living.]]
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->''"''Hatoful Boyfriend'' is a Japanese dating game for people who think that Japanese dating games are way too normal and logical."''
-->-- [[{{Website/Cracked}} Cracked.com's]] [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19827_the-6-most-insane-video-games-about-dating.html "The 6 Most Insane Video Games About Dating."]]
'''''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 decides to go to a high school for birds, St. [=PigeoNation's=] Institute. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs There, she dates pigeons]].
The official website is [[http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/index.html here]], two download mirrors for the free version are [[http://www.freem.ne.jp/game/win/g03372.html here]], and an English translation for the free version is available [[http://sce.inkwash.net/main/ here]].
[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ A drama CD is currently in post-production]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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!!''Hatoful Boyfriend'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: The homeroom teacher, Kazuaki, ''falls asleep while teaching''.
* AbusiveParents: Sakuya's father, while not physically abusive, has incredibly racist views that he indoctrinated his son with and seems to care more about Sakuya's prospects as the future family heir than his own personal wishes, something confirmed in Sakuya's extended ending where [[spoiler:he's kicked out of the house after he confesses to his father that he wants to become a musician]]. Not only that, but the Bad Boys Love route reveals that [[spoiler:said father refused to feed his stepson Yuuya unless he abandoned his full brother's egg and it was only through Yuuya's tricks that said brother even had a family to begin with...and that brother was none other than Sakuya. In other words, Sakuya's "father" would have had him thrown away were it not for Yuuya actually caring about him and, as Yuuya points out, he would disown his "son" in a heartbeat if he ever found out about this]].
* AffectionateParody: Of the whole DatingSim VisualNovel genre.
* [[spoiler:ALoveToDismember: Doctor Shuu does this to your head if you focus on him.]]
* [[spoiler:AlternateHistory: In which the [=H5N1=] virus was more severe.]]
* AuthorAppeal: Oko San is based on moa810's own pet bird.
* BadEnd: As usual for the genre if you don't go all the way with any romance.
** [[spoiler:There is also one caused in the demo version by staying in the infirmary to wait for Ryouta. Doctor Shuu cuts your head off and stuffs it in a box. The ''normal'' ending for Doctor Shuu might also be considered this.]]
* BerserkButton: For Oko San, this is inferior pudding.
* BigDamnHeroes: On the Bad Boys Love route, [[spoiler:just when things look at their bleakest with a trapped Kazuaki and Anghel dying from poison gas and a broken Ryouta submitting to Doctor Shuu, Oko San and Sakuya show up to help]].
* {{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]].
* BlandNameProduct
** Calorie M**te
** [[{{Beatmania}} Keymania IIDX]]
* BloodKnight: Sometimes the heroine expresses her barbaric heritage, for example, "I must return to my people with the spoils of war, lay my bloodied sword at the feet of my great king, and celebrate my conquest of all the lands from here to distant Macedonia."
* {{Bookworm}}: Nageki
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The various clubs at the school include the track team, the student council, and the birdwatching club... which, in a school for birds, basically amounts to voyeurism of (and by) school students.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a ''lot'' in the [[MoodWhiplash Bad Boys]] [[WhamEpisode Love route]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer
** Kazuaki is a world-famous math genius... and a narcoleptic who falls asleep in the middle of talking.
** The player character may also be one, since she's apparently already passed a year at one of the most demanding private high schools in the world, despite being a cave-dwelling barbarian, and sometimes protests things in [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness rather erudite terminology]] for someone who couldn't finish her reading assignment.
* [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo: Nageki's discovery of love forces him to go.]]
* ButThouMust
** If you join the student council then you are forced into the vice presidency. Fair enough: you're the only other person on it.
** A creepy example occurs during Doctor Shuu's best ending in the full version: when he asks you if you love him after [[spoiler:he's killed you and is currently carrying your severed head around]], your three choices all say "Yes." ItGetsWorse: He doesn't [[spoiler:carry your head around at the moment of dialogue. He has attached it to Labor 9, or the Scarecrow. You can only answer "yes" because you don't have free will anymore.]]
* CarnivoreConfusion: A major plot point in certain storylines.
* CerebusSyndrome: Most of the game is rather silly and lighthearted. Then you get on the Bad Boys Love route in the full version...
* CharacterBlog: [[http://okosan.tumblr.com/ Okosan has a tumblr.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Yuuya, who amongst other things tells you that doves reach sexual maturity after only one year and interprets the act of looking at nest-building materials in a specific way.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oko San and Higure Anghel.
* ClubStub: The Student Council. If the heroine joins, there are two members. Otherwise, it's just Sakuya, who doesn't seem to be in touch with his class's opinions or even want to be there.
* [[ContemporaryCaveman Contemporary Cavewoman]]: The heroine is a hunter-gatherer who lives in a cave.
* CreepyPhysical: The doctor, Iwamine Shuu, offers to give you some interesting drugs. [[spoiler:He also promises to examine your insides ''most intimately'' once he's done preserving your head.]]
* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Doctor Shuu]] appears to rocket-jump over the MoralEventHorizon in the Bad Boys Love route. Then he reveals that he's doing all of this because of [[spoiler:his unrequited love for Ryouta's father and sincere desire to fulfill his dying wish]]. It doesn't excuse the horrific things he's done up to that point, but it does make one feel at least a twinge of pity for him.
* CurseCutShort: One of the Punkgeons does this.
* DamningWithFaintPraise: In the first scene with Ryouta, he offers to make breakfast for our heroine. Her answer? "Maybe I'll take you up on that, if starvation looms!" Ryouta's cooking is ''maybe'' preferable to starvation? Gee, thanks for ''that'' vote of confidence... Which is odd, because she says that Ryouta's cooking is delicious if she talks to him during the class hike. Maybe it was just her typical LargeHam way of speaking?
* [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor: Doctor Shuu]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Sakuya, if you focus on him.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Nageki did this five years ago.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: In the English translation of the demo, [[spoiler:Kazuaki refers to the bird in his marked-out photo with female pronouns, implying that she was his dead lover]]. This became a bit awkward when the full game version came out and revealed that [[spoiler:Kazuaki's photo was most likely of his dead ''brother'' Nageki]]. Fortunately, this was corrected in the separate English translation for the full game.
* DumbMuscle: You start with 1 wisdom, 800 vitality, and 5 charisma, and you do not get more than about 35 to 40 possible points of stat increase throughout the game. However, if you attend math class on all the elective days, [[GeniusBruiser you end up top of the class]].
* DysfunctionJunction: PlayedForLaughs [[PlayedForDrama or Drama]], depending on the route.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Yuuya is the main guy who does this, but Sakuya is also French-blooded.
* EvilLaugh: Doctor Shuu does this a lot.
* ExtranormalInstitute: St. Pigeonation's.
* FireForgedFriends: Ryouta and Sakuya on the Bad Boys Love route.
* ForeignQueasine: "Excuse me! One half-dead fried rice, please!"
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Doctor Iwamine Shuu
* GamerChick: Hiyoko enjoys going to the arcade.
* GenreShift
** If you take the Bad Boys Love route, the game shifts from a humorous pigeon dating sim to a [[spoiler:dark mystery/thriller]].
** Anghel's route also [[UnexpectedGameplayChange unexpectedly turns into a battle RPG]] close to the end. [[FridgeBrilliance It does finally explain why, compared to your Wisdom and Charisma, your Vitality score is so humongous: in this battle it doubles as your Hit Points!]]
* [[spoiler:GhostAmnesia]]
* GISSyndrome: Subverted. Stock photos are used for the bird characters and the loading screens, but they ''are'' properly cited in the credits.
* [[spoiler:GovernmentConspiracy: The Hawk Party's Operation Hurtful, which includes the creation of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 H5N1 virus]]. On the other hand, they also get angry if you don't hook up with anyone.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs: "Everybirdie", "Nobirdie", "Anybirdie".
* HotBlooded: The heroine: "MY HUNTER-GATHERER BLOOD BOILS! [[{{Kiai}} AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!]]"
* HundredPercentCompletion: Getting at least one ending for each bird unlocks the Bad Boys Love route, and completing ''that'' in turn gives you a "thank you" picture after the credits a full set of documents in the Library. Getting all of the endings for each bird unlocks a post-BBL epilogue, the last Gallery image, and a Library item with a bonus scene.
* IdleRich: If you join the student council, you can bully Sakuya into helping clean the office at the end of the semester, which ends with you having to teach him how because he's never done his own housework before.
* ImAHumanitarian: The birds have no problem with eating poultry. [[spoiler: And, if you focus on Doctor Shuu, then he cooks Yuuya into something resembling a roast chicken.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: The basis of the game!
* [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight]]: Happens in Bad Boys Love, and is a huge CrowningMomentOfAwesome for almost everybirdy involved.
* [[spoiler:ISeeDeadPeople]]
** [[spoiler:You are the only one who can see Nageki.]]
** [[spoiler:When you die in the BBL route, it is revealed that Ryouta can as well. Also referenced in the Drama CD when he talks to his "dead friend" Nageki in the library about one of the seven mysteries of the school: students who draw in library books are said to get cursed. As Ryouta suspects, there is actually some truth to this...]]
* 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.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Let's just say that it's a very good thing that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Oko San]] and [[TalkativeLoon Anghel]] ''weren't'' [[ShooOutTheClowns shooed out]] in the Bad Boys Love route.
-->'''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]].
* LetsPlay: Angie Gallant's [[http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=67529 legendary let's play]] of the free demo version might just be the reason you're here right now. She has now done a [[http://brokenforum.com/index.php?threads/hatoful-boyfriend-the-search-for-fat-birds-good-end.1028/ follow up]] for the full game.
* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: Yuuya suggests you check out the blog of [[http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/ Brian the Pigeon]].
* MadScientist: Doctor Shuu wants to feed steroids into Oko San just to see how his body will react to them. [[spoiler:It turns out that he is a researcher for the Hawk Party.]]
* MadnessMantra: Near the end of the BBL route:
--> [[spoiler:'''Nanaki/Hitori:''' Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Yep, this game acknowledges the difference between human and bird lifespans.
* [[spoiler:MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Blink and you'll miss it, but your first clue that things in this game aren't quite as cheerful as they first seem comes when Hiyoko decides to go for a run: One of the things she passes is the post-apocalyptic remains of a city.]]
* MediumAwareness: "What's the number in the top-left-hand corner say?"
* {{Meido}}: Ryouta dresses up as this, and you can join him.
* TheMerch: There are already plans for tote bags, pins, St. [=PigeoNation=] ID cards and more. Various styles of St. Pigeonation bags, shirts, cups and even a thong with Yuuya on it can be found at [[http://www.cafepress.com/hatostore/8525512 the Cafepress store]]
* MisplacedWildlife: Justified: the setting is a prestigious high school for sapient birds, and attracts students and faculty from all over the world. The heroine is still [[LampshadeHanging surprised to encounter a mourning dove in Japan]].
* [[spoiler:MissingMom: If you focus on Ryouta, then you find out his mother dies.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The endings of Ryouta and Nageki's routes can come as quite a shock if you've grown used to the game's silly and comedic tone. The Bad Boys Love route in the full version, even more so.
* MultipleEndings: Typical for the genre.
* NightmareFetishist: You are this if you pursue Doctor Shuu. He even calls you out on it [[spoiler: before he vivisects you]].
* NorioWakamoto: In the drama CD, pudding-obsessed Oko San is voiced by Norio Wakamoto. [[HilariousInHindsight This finally fulfills]] [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh his wish to be a bird]].
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The official website has many of these. People trying to get others to play this game typically have to use lots of these too, as most rational people's initial reaction to hearing about it is something along the lines of "Wait, something like this actually ''exists''?!?"
* NoticeThis: On the Bad Boys Love route, several plot-important phrases are highlighted yellow.
* 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.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: [[spoiler:The Hawk Party, which apparently meets in a pitch-black room. Coffee, anyone?]]
* [[spoiler:OrphansOrdeal: Nageki, Kazuaki, and Hiyoko.]]
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The English download site for the game describes it as "the world's greatest pigeon dating sim".
* [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction Bird of Mass Destruction]]: The Bad Boys Love route reveals that Nageki harbored a disease that caused all humans who got too close to him to drop dead on the spot, which was the main reason he killed himself. Unfortunately, some of his body parts were saved by Doctor Shuu, who intends to make Ryouta the new carrier...]]
* PhenotypeStereotype
** The ordinary guy is a rock dove, fan-tails tend to be full of themselves, the mourning dove is introverted, etc.
** Fan-artists also do a bit of this by portraying Hiyoko as short-haired, often blonde.
** [[spoiler:The Hawk Party is composed of warmongers.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:It lets Nageki move on to the next world.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: If you tell Doctor Shuu that Yuuya is lying, Shuu thanks you before kicking you out of the infirmary, saying that he needs to discuss this with Yuuya... alone. Yuuya's reaction: [[OhCrap "...Shit."]]
* ThePromise: The Bad Boys Love route is jumpstarted by one.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is a mix of ''hato'', the Japanese word for pigeon/dove, and "heartful". The paid version of the game is subtitled "-Hurtful Complete Edition-" as well. [[spoiler:Then there's Hurtful Boyfriend and Operation Hurtful.]]
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:If you don't finish any romantic storylines, a meeting of the Hawk Party condemns humanity and orders them exterminated... then adjourns for coffee.]]
* 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".
* RelationshipValues: As usual for the genre, although they are not shown to the player.
* RemovedFromThePicture: If Hiyoko is on [[spoiler:Kazuaki]]'s route, she finds a photo dropped by him that has the photographed bird almost completely marked out. Which, in the Bad Boy's Love route, we learn was probably a photo of [[spoiler: his dead brother, Nageki.]]
* RoyalBrat: Shirogane Sakuya
* RPGElements
** PlayedForLaughs as they are not very important: "Hiyoko levelled up! Wisdom increased by 5!"
** They become a bit more important in the full version where you need to boost the appropriate stats to get the best endings for Doctor Shuu, Sakuya, and Oko San. Additionally, Anghel's route features a turn-based RPG battle and while it's mainly used for parody, it ''is'' possible to lose it and get a bad ending if you botch it.
* SaveGameLimits: The Bad Boys Love route, in contrast with the main Otome route where you could save any time you wanted, lets you save only at certain points in the story.
* SeriousBusiness: For Oko San, it is pudding. [[spoiler: In his ending, he quits school to quest for the true pudding, and you can join him.]]
* ShoutOut
** [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} "Oko San used WING ATTACK! It's super effective!"]] And this is only the first of several such references when Oko San is involved.
** [[http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/ Brian the Pigeon]] won multiple Pulitzer Prizes.
** The BadEnd if you don't go all the way with any romance has [[{{VideoGame/Shadowgate}} a very specific grim reaper screen]]!! It also has double exclamation marks!! Like all over the place!! And one of the inventory items is a Nintendo3DS amongst other things!!
** [[VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale "Nepotism, ho!"]]
** [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai OreHato: My Little Nicobar Can't Be This Cute]]
** The heroine can suggest a novel version of ''Anime/NightOnTheGalacticRailroad'' to Nageki, who replies that he's already read it. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} This tells you a lot about Nageki.]]]]
** Our heroine's [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei in despair!]] Events that happen when she's late leaving school one day (in the full version) have left her in despair!
** In [[VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi bright red text]]: [[spoiler:I did not kill <player name>. This is true.]]
** If you choose to side with Ryouta in the cafeteria, your rage inspires Okosan to flee like a [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail rabbit from a catapult.]]
** Alternately, siding with Okosan will get you calling him [[Anime/PrincessMononoke San of the Forest]].
** The choice of wishes at Tanabata Festival (TakeOverTheWorld, rule the world from shadows, and become a famous artist) could be a shout-out to Adolf Hitler's biography.
* SlasherSmile: Doctor Shuu's human portrait.
* SpiderSense: Hunter-Gatherer Instincts.
* StarCrossedLovers: Anghel claims that Hiyoko and himself were this in a past life. A more straight example would be [[spoiler:Hiyoko and Nageki on Nageki's route when he fades away after realizing that he loves Hiyoko]].
* [[spoiler:SwitchedAtBirth: Yuuya swapped his stepfather's egg with his dead father's egg containing Sakuya so that his brother could have a family and a home instead of being thrown away on his stepfather's orders.]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: Two of the things you can wish for at the Tanabata Festival: TakeOverTheWorld by force, or [[TheManBehindTheMan rule it from the shadows]]? ([[TakeAThirdOption The third option]] is to be a world-famous artist.)
** When the heroine shows up on the wrong day for class, if you choose to return home, she tells Kazuaki: "I must return to my people with the spoils of war, [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy lay my bloodied sword at the feet of my great king]], and celebrate my conquest of all the lands from here to distant Macedonia."
* TalkingAnimal / CivilizedAnimal: The birds are not actually wearing anything, as [[GISSyndrome their appearances are taken from real photos]], but they do go through all the trappings of civilization.
** Except for the student festival in fall, when your class does a MaidCafe and Ryota briefly appears with a [[{{Meido}} maid outfit]] drawn over his photo. This leads to the usual fanart of everybirdie crossdressing as maids, even those in other classes and the staff. [[spoiler:Oko also appears in a maid outfit during his route, and the Library menu's post-BBL bonus scene shows Sakuya and Nanaki as bemaided birds as well.]]
** And Oko San's ICPSS portrait, while all other characters are rendered as {{Bishounen}}, is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome bird in a school uniform]].
** In the full version, you can see the other classmates dressed up as maids for the MaidCafe, and Ryouta fills in as a {{Miko}} at the local shrine for New Year's.
* {{Tanabata}}: You get to see the wishes of the birds you're the closest to and make a wish yourself to TakeOverTheWorld, gain the MadLove of a FallenAngel, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking become an artist]].
* TeacherStudentRomance: Going with the genre, Kazuaki is an option.
* [[spoiler:TeenSuperspy: Yuuya]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood
** For Oko San, it is pudding.
** When Sakuya asks the player what she loves, she answers "udon". Though she also can't sit still in class unless she's had some [[CarnivoreConfusion red meat]], as she tells Ryouta in the first cutscene.
* [[spoiler:TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In the Bad Boy's Love route, you find out that the game actually takes place in the year 2187!]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Ryouta is this if you don't go with him.
* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]
* [[UptownGirl Uptown Boy]]: Sakuya
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Ryouta can be this if you focus on him.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: You will always see Ryouta in a maid's uniform for the MaidCafe, and if you follow him down his arc you'll find he also works at a transvestite cafe... and goes by the name "Coolene". Of course, he's working there so he can support his mother, but you can ask him to leave.
* WidgetSeries: The premise of the game is considered to be very far outside the mainstream box.
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->''"''Hatoful Boyfriend'' is a Japanese dating game for people who think that Japanese dating games are way too normal and logical."''
-->-- [[{{Website/Cracked}} Cracked.com's]] [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19827_the-6-most-insane-video-games-about-dating.html "The 6 Most Insane Video Games About Dating."]]
'''''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 decides to go to a high school for birds, St. [=PigeoNation's=] Institute. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs There, she dates pigeons]].
The official website is [[http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/index.html here]], two download mirrors for the free version are [[http://www.freem.ne.jp/game/win/g03372.html here]], and an English translation for the free version is available [[http://sce.inkwash.net/main/ here]].
[[http://www.fwinc.co.jp/hatoful/ A drama CD is currently in post-production]], and [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html the English version of the full game can be found here.]] [[http://hatoful.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/hatoful-boyfriend-in-english/ Thank you for the redirect, moa810]].
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!!''Hatoful Boyfriend'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: The homeroom teacher, Kazuaki, ''falls asleep while teaching''.
* AbusiveParents: Sakuya's father, while not physically abusive, has incredibly racist views that he indoctrinated his son with and seems to care more about Sakuya's prospects as the future family heir than his own personal wishes, something confirmed in Sakuya's extended ending where [[spoiler:he's kicked out of the house after he confesses to his father that he wants to become a musician]]. Not only that, but the Bad Boys Love route reveals that [[spoiler:said father refused to feed his stepson Yuuya unless he abandoned his full brother's egg and it was only through Yuuya's tricks that said brother even had a family to begin with...and that brother was none other than Sakuya. In other words, Sakuya's "father" would have had him thrown away were it not for Yuuya actually caring about him and, as Yuuya points out, he would disown his "son" in a heartbeat if he ever found out about this]].
* AffectionateParody: Of the whole DatingSim VisualNovel genre.
* [[spoiler:ALoveToDismember: Doctor Shuu does this to your head if you focus on him.]]
* [[spoiler:AlternateHistory: In which the [=H5N1=] virus was more severe.]]
* AuthorAppeal: Oko San is based on moa810's own pet bird.
* BadEnd: As usual for the genre if you don't go all the way with any romance.
** [[spoiler:There is also one caused in the demo version by staying in the infirmary to wait for Ryouta. Doctor Shuu cuts your head off and stuffs it in a box. The ''normal'' ending for Doctor Shuu might also be considered this.]]
* BerserkButton: For Oko San, this is inferior pudding.
* BigDamnHeroes: On the Bad Boys Love route, [[spoiler:just when things look at their bleakest with a trapped Kazuaki and Anghel dying from poison gas and a broken Ryouta submitting to Doctor Shuu, Oko San and Sakuya show up to help]].
* {{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]].
* BlandNameProduct
** Calorie M**te
** [[{{Beatmania}} Keymania IIDX]]
* BloodKnight: Sometimes the heroine expresses her barbaric heritage, for example, "I must return to my people with the spoils of war, lay my bloodied sword at the feet of my great king, and celebrate my conquest of all the lands from here to distant Macedonia."
* {{Bookworm}}: Nageki
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The various clubs at the school include the track team, the student council, and the birdwatching club... which, in a school for birds, basically amounts to voyeurism of (and by) school students.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a ''lot'' in the [[MoodWhiplash Bad Boys]] [[WhamEpisode Love route]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer
** Kazuaki is a world-famous math genius... and a narcoleptic who falls asleep in the middle of talking.
** The player character may also be one, since she's apparently already passed a year at one of the most demanding private high schools in the world, despite being a cave-dwelling barbarian, and sometimes protests things in [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness rather erudite terminology]] for someone who couldn't finish her reading assignment.
* [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo: Nageki's discovery of love forces him to go.]]
* ButThouMust
** If you join the student council then you are forced into the vice presidency. Fair enough: you're the only other person on it.
** A creepy example occurs during Doctor Shuu's best ending in the full version: when he asks you if you love him after [[spoiler:he's killed you and is currently carrying your severed head around]], your three choices all say "Yes." ItGetsWorse: He doesn't [[spoiler:carry your head around at the moment of dialogue. He has attached it to Labor 9, or the Scarecrow. You can only answer "yes" because you don't have free will anymore.]]
* CarnivoreConfusion: A major plot point in certain storylines.
* CerebusSyndrome: Most of the game is rather silly and lighthearted. Then you get on the Bad Boys Love route in the full version...
* CharacterBlog: [[http://okosan.tumblr.com/ Okosan has a tumblr.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Yuuya, who amongst other things tells you that doves reach sexual maturity after only one year and interprets the act of looking at nest-building materials in a specific way.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oko San and Higure Anghel.
* ClubStub: The Student Council. If the heroine joins, there are two members. Otherwise, it's just Sakuya, who doesn't seem to be in touch with his class's opinions or even want to be there.
* [[ContemporaryCaveman Contemporary Cavewoman]]: The heroine is a hunter-gatherer who lives in a cave.
* CreepyPhysical: The doctor, Iwamine Shuu, offers to give you some interesting drugs. [[spoiler:He also promises to examine your insides ''most intimately'' once he's done preserving your head.]]
* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Doctor Shuu]] appears to rocket-jump over the MoralEventHorizon in the Bad Boys Love route. Then he reveals that he's doing all of this because of [[spoiler:his unrequited love for Ryouta's father and sincere desire to fulfill his dying wish]]. It doesn't excuse the horrific things he's done up to that point, but it does make one feel at least a twinge of pity for him.
* CurseCutShort: One of the Punkgeons does this.
* DamningWithFaintPraise: In the first scene with Ryouta, he offers to make breakfast for our heroine. Her answer? "Maybe I'll take you up on that, if starvation looms!" Ryouta's cooking is ''maybe'' preferable to starvation? Gee, thanks for ''that'' vote of confidence... Which is odd, because she says that Ryouta's cooking is delicious if she talks to him during the class hike. Maybe it was just her typical LargeHam way of speaking?
* [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor: Doctor Shuu]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Sakuya, if you focus on him.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Nageki did this five years ago.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: In the English translation of the demo, [[spoiler:Kazuaki refers to the bird in his marked-out photo with female pronouns, implying that she was his dead lover]]. This became a bit awkward when the full game version came out and revealed that [[spoiler:Kazuaki's photo was most likely of his dead ''brother'' Nageki]]. Fortunately, this was corrected in the separate English translation for the full game.
* DumbMuscle: You start with 1 wisdom, 800 vitality, and 5 charisma, and you do not get more than about 35 to 40 possible points of stat increase throughout the game. However, if you attend math class on all the elective days, [[GeniusBruiser you end up top of the class]].
* DysfunctionJunction: PlayedForLaughs [[PlayedForDrama or Drama]], depending on the route.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Yuuya is the main guy who does this, but Sakuya is also French-blooded.
* EvilLaugh: Doctor Shuu does this a lot.
* ExtranormalInstitute: St. Pigeonation's.
* FireForgedFriends: Ryouta and Sakuya on the Bad Boys Love route.
* ForeignQueasine: "Excuse me! One half-dead fried rice, please!"
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Doctor Iwamine Shuu
* GamerChick: Hiyoko enjoys going to the arcade.
* GenreShift
** If you take the Bad Boys Love route, the game shifts from a humorous pigeon dating sim to a [[spoiler:dark mystery/thriller]].
** Anghel's route also [[UnexpectedGameplayChange unexpectedly turns into a battle RPG]] close to the end. [[FridgeBrilliance It does finally explain why, compared to your Wisdom and Charisma, your Vitality score is so humongous: in this battle it doubles as your Hit Points!]]
* [[spoiler:GhostAmnesia]]
* GISSyndrome: Subverted. Stock photos are used for the bird characters and the loading screens, but they ''are'' properly cited in the credits.
* [[spoiler:GovernmentConspiracy: The Hawk Party's Operation Hurtful, which includes the creation of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 H5N1 virus]]. On the other hand, they also get angry if you don't hook up with anyone.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs: "Everybirdie", "Nobirdie", "Anybirdie".
* HotBlooded: The heroine: "MY HUNTER-GATHERER BLOOD BOILS! [[{{Kiai}} AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!]]"
* HundredPercentCompletion: Getting at least one ending for each bird unlocks the Bad Boys Love route, and completing ''that'' in turn gives you a "thank you" picture after the credits a full set of documents in the Library. Getting all of the endings for each bird unlocks a post-BBL epilogue, the last Gallery image, and a Library item with a bonus scene.
* IdleRich: If you join the student council, you can bully Sakuya into helping clean the office at the end of the semester, which ends with you having to teach him how because he's never done his own housework before.
* ImAHumanitarian: The birds have no problem with eating poultry. [[spoiler: And, if you focus on Doctor Shuu, then he cooks Yuuya into something resembling a roast chicken.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: The basis of the game!
* [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight]]: Happens in Bad Boys Love, and is a huge CrowningMomentOfAwesome for almost everybirdy involved.
* [[spoiler:ISeeDeadPeople]]
** [[spoiler:You are the only one who can see Nageki.]]
** [[spoiler:When you die in the BBL route, it is revealed that Ryouta can as well. Also referenced in the Drama CD when he talks to his "dead friend" Nageki in the library about one of the seven mysteries of the school: students who draw in library books are said to get cursed. As Ryouta suspects, there is actually some truth to this...]]
* 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.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Let's just say that it's a very good thing that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Oko San]] and [[TalkativeLoon Anghel]] ''weren't'' [[ShooOutTheClowns shooed out]] in the Bad Boys Love route.
-->'''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]].
* LetsPlay: Angie Gallant's [[http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=67529 legendary let's play]] of the free demo version might just be the reason you're here right now. She has now done a [[http://brokenforum.com/index.php?threads/hatoful-boyfriend-the-search-for-fat-birds-good-end.1028/ follow up]] for the full game.
* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: Yuuya suggests you check out the blog of [[http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/ Brian the Pigeon]].
* MadScientist: Doctor Shuu wants to feed steroids into Oko San just to see how his body will react to them. [[spoiler:It turns out that he is a researcher for the Hawk Party.]]
* MadnessMantra: Near the end of the BBL route:
--> [[spoiler:'''Nanaki/Hitori:''' Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Yep, this game acknowledges the difference between human and bird lifespans.
* [[spoiler:MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Blink and you'll miss it, but your first clue that things in this game aren't quite as cheerful as they first seem comes when Hiyoko decides to go for a run: One of the things she passes is the post-apocalyptic remains of a city.]]
* MediumAwareness: "What's the number in the top-left-hand corner say?"
* {{Meido}}: Ryouta dresses up as this, and you can join him.
* TheMerch: There are already plans for tote bags, pins, St. [=PigeoNation=] ID cards and more. Various styles of St. Pigeonation bags, shirts, cups and even a thong with Yuuya on it can be found at [[http://www.cafepress.com/hatostore/8525512 the Cafepress store]]
* MisplacedWildlife: Justified: the setting is a prestigious high school for sapient birds, and attracts students and faculty from all over the world. The heroine is still [[LampshadeHanging surprised to encounter a mourning dove in Japan]].
* [[spoiler:MissingMom: If you focus on Ryouta, then you find out his mother dies.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The endings of Ryouta and Nageki's routes can come as quite a shock if you've grown used to the game's silly and comedic tone. The Bad Boys Love route in the full version, even more so.
* MultipleEndings: Typical for the genre.
* NightmareFetishist: You are this if you pursue Doctor Shuu. He even calls you out on it [[spoiler: before he vivisects you]].
* NorioWakamoto: In the drama CD, pudding-obsessed Oko San is voiced by Norio Wakamoto. [[HilariousInHindsight This finally fulfills]] [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh his wish to be a bird]].
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The official website has many of these. People trying to get others to play this game typically have to use lots of these too, as most rational people's initial reaction to hearing about it is something along the lines of "Wait, something like this actually ''exists''?!?"
* NoticeThis: On the Bad Boys Love route, several plot-important phrases are highlighted yellow.
* 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.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: [[spoiler:The Hawk Party, which apparently meets in a pitch-black room. Coffee, anyone?]]
* [[spoiler:OrphansOrdeal: Nageki, Kazuaki, and Hiyoko.]]
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The English download site for the game describes it as "the world's greatest pigeon dating sim".
* [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction Bird of Mass Destruction]]: The Bad Boys Love route reveals that Nageki harbored a disease that caused all humans who got too close to him to drop dead on the spot, which was the main reason he killed himself. Unfortunately, some of his body parts were saved by Doctor Shuu, who intends to make Ryouta the new carrier...]]
* PhenotypeStereotype
** The ordinary guy is a rock dove, fan-tails tend to be full of themselves, the mourning dove is introverted, etc.
** Fan-artists also do a bit of this by portraying Hiyoko as short-haired, often blonde.
** [[spoiler:The Hawk Party is composed of warmongers.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:It lets Nageki move on to the next world.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: If you tell Doctor Shuu that Yuuya is lying, Shuu thanks you before kicking you out of the infirmary, saying that he needs to discuss this with Yuuya... alone. Yuuya's reaction: [[OhCrap "...Shit."]]
* ThePromise: The Bad Boys Love route is jumpstarted by one.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is a mix of ''hato'', the Japanese word for pigeon/dove, and "heartful". The paid version of the game is subtitled "-Hurtful Complete Edition-" as well. [[spoiler:Then there's Hurtful Boyfriend and Operation Hurtful.]]
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:If you don't finish any romantic storylines, a meeting of the Hawk Party condemns humanity and orders them exterminated... then adjourns for coffee.]]
* 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".
* RelationshipValues: As usual for the genre, although they are not shown to the player.
* RemovedFromThePicture: If Hiyoko is on [[spoiler:Kazuaki]]'s route, she finds a photo dropped by him that has the photographed bird almost completely marked out. Which, in the Bad Boy's Love route, we learn was probably a photo of [[spoiler: his dead brother, Nageki.]]
* RoyalBrat: Shirogane Sakuya
* RPGElements
** PlayedForLaughs as they are not very important: "Hiyoko levelled up! Wisdom increased by 5!"
** They become a bit more important in the full version where you need to boost the appropriate stats to get the best endings for Doctor Shuu, Sakuya, and Oko San. Additionally, Anghel's route features a turn-based RPG battle and while it's mainly used for parody, it ''is'' possible to lose it and get a bad ending if you botch it.
* SaveGameLimits: The Bad Boys Love route, in contrast with the main Otome route where you could save any time you wanted, lets you save only at certain points in the story.
* SeriousBusiness: For Oko San, it is pudding. [[spoiler: In his ending, he quits school to quest for the true pudding, and you can join him.]]
* ShoutOut
** [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} "Oko San used WING ATTACK! It's super effective!"]] And this is only the first of several such references when Oko San is involved.
** [[http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/ Brian the Pigeon]] won multiple Pulitzer Prizes.
** The BadEnd if you don't go all the way with any romance has [[{{VideoGame/Shadowgate}} a very specific grim reaper screen]]!! It also has double exclamation marks!! Like all over the place!! And one of the inventory items is a Nintendo3DS amongst other things!!
** [[VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale "Nepotism, ho!"]]
** [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai OreHato: My Little Nicobar Can't Be This Cute]]
** The heroine can suggest a novel version of ''Anime/NightOnTheGalacticRailroad'' to Nageki, who replies that he's already read it. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} This tells you a lot about Nageki.]]]]
** Our heroine's [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei in despair!]] Events that happen when she's late leaving school one day (in the full version) have left her in despair!
** In [[VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi bright red text]]: [[spoiler:I did not kill <player name>. This is true.]]
** If you choose to side with Ryouta in the cafeteria, your rage inspires Okosan to flee like a [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail rabbit from a catapult.]]
** Alternately, siding with Okosan will get you calling him [[Anime/PrincessMononoke San of the Forest]].
** The choice of wishes at Tanabata Festival (TakeOverTheWorld, rule the world from shadows, and become a famous artist) could be a shout-out to Adolf Hitler's biography.
* SlasherSmile: Doctor Shuu's human portrait.
* SpiderSense: Hunter-Gatherer Instincts.
* StarCrossedLovers: Anghel claims that Hiyoko and himself were this in a past life. A more straight example would be [[spoiler:Hiyoko and Nageki on Nageki's route when he fades away after realizing that he loves Hiyoko]].
* [[spoiler:SwitchedAtBirth: Yuuya swapped his stepfather's egg with his dead father's egg containing Sakuya so that his brother could have a family and a home instead of being thrown away on his stepfather's orders.]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: Two of the things you can wish for at the Tanabata Festival: TakeOverTheWorld by force, or [[TheManBehindTheMan rule it from the shadows]]? ([[TakeAThirdOption The third option]] is to be a world-famous artist.)
** When the heroine shows up on the wrong day for class, if you choose to return home, she tells Kazuaki: "I must return to my people with the spoils of war, [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy lay my bloodied sword at the feet of my great king]], and celebrate my conquest of all the lands from here to distant Macedonia."
* TalkingAnimal / CivilizedAnimal: The birds are not actually wearing anything, as [[GISSyndrome their appearances are taken from real photos]], but they do go through all the trappings of civilization.
** Except for the student festival in fall, when your class does a MaidCafe and Ryota briefly appears with a [[{{Meido}} maid outfit]] drawn over his photo. This leads to the usual fanart of everybirdie crossdressing as maids, even those in other classes and the staff. [[spoiler:Oko also appears in a maid outfit during his route, and the Library menu's post-BBL bonus scene shows Sakuya and Nanaki as bemaided birds as well.]]
** And Oko San's ICPSS portrait, while all other characters are rendered as {{Bishounen}}, is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome bird in a school uniform]].
** In the full version, you can see the other classmates dressed up as maids for the MaidCafe, and Ryouta fills in as a {{Miko}} at the local shrine for New Year's.
* {{Tanabata}}: You get to see the wishes of the birds you're the closest to and make a wish yourself to TakeOverTheWorld, gain the MadLove of a FallenAngel, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking become an artist]].
* TeacherStudentRomance: Going with the genre, Kazuaki is an option.
* [[spoiler:TeenSuperspy: Yuuya]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood
** For Oko San, it is pudding.
** When Sakuya asks the player what she loves, she answers "udon". Though she also can't sit still in class unless she's had some [[CarnivoreConfusion red meat]], as she tells Ryouta in the first cutscene.
* [[spoiler:TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In the Bad Boy's Love route, you find out that the game actually takes place in the year 2187!]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Ryouta is this if you don't go with him.
* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]
* [[UptownGirl Uptown Boy]]: Sakuya
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Ryouta can be this if you focus on him.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: You will always see Ryouta in a maid's uniform for the MaidCafe, and if you follow him down his arc you'll find he also works at a transvestite cafe... and goes by the name "Coolene". Of course, he's working there so he can support his mother, but you can ask him to leave.
* WidgetSeries: The premise of the game is considered to be very far outside the mainstream box.
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