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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: [[http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/116918 Deliberately so]].
--> "I wanted to create something that seems ridiculous and crazy at first glance, but that once you look into the world, you would fall into the depth."
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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.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]]. A remake of the original game is available to buy on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/310080/ Steam]]. The second game, ''Holiday Star'', has an English demo available [[http://www.hatoking.com/downloads/holiwin_eg.zip here]], and the full version can be purchased [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE107643.html here]]. moa810 is also working on another sequel, and is requesting all fans to [[http://moa810.tumblr.com/post/45491953725/let-your-bird-appear-on-hatoful-world send her pictures of their pet birds for a chance at stardom]].

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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.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]]. A remake of the original game is available to buy on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/310080/ Steam]]. [=PS4=] and Vita versions were released in July 2015. The second game, ''Holiday Star'', has an English demo available [[http://www.hatoking.com/downloads/holiwin_eg.zip here]], and the full version can be purchased [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE107643.html here]]. moa810 is also working on another sequel, and is requesting all fans to [[http://moa810.tumblr.com/post/45491953725/let-your-bird-appear-on-hatoful-world send her pictures of their pet birds for a chance at stardom]].
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** Shuu apparently sounds like [[TheMoomins Snufkin]]. Which is understandable, considering that he is voiced by [[TakehitoKoyasu Takehito Koyasu]].\\

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** Shuu apparently sounds like [[TheMoomins Snufkin]]. Which is understandable, considering that he is voiced by [[TakehitoKoyasu Takehito Koyasu]].\\
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** The heroine can suggest NightOnTheGalacticRailroad to Nageki, who replies that he's already read it, though he did like it. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} This tells you a lot about Nageki.]]]]

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** The heroine can suggest NightOnTheGalacticRailroad ''Anime/NightOnTheGalacticRailroad'' to Nageki, who replies that he's already read it, though he did like it. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} This tells you a lot about Nageki.]]]]

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* BlindIdiotTranslation: There's a point in the manga where the scanlator translated "oku" (100 million) as "billion", thus inflating the human population by a factor of 10.



* WritersCannotDoMath: The world's backstory covered in the start of BBL is laid out in more detail in [[http://mangapark.com/manga/hatoful-kareshi/s1/c11/6 the manga]]. Nanaki's chalkboard says that there were 102 billion humans alive in 2068. Now, in 2014 there are 7 billion humans alive. How does the population get fourteen times bigger in ''fifty four years''? Can Earth even support that many people? Were they actually spread onto space stations and outposts on other planets and this just never came up?
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** [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai OreHato: My Little Nicobar Can't Be This Cute]]

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** [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai [[LightNovel/{{Oreimo}} OreHato: My Little Nicobar Can't Be This Cute]]
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*** [[{{GreekMythology}} Nor does his response...]]

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*** [[{{GreekMythology}} [[Myth/GreekMythology Nor does his response...]]
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* BadEnd: As usual for the genre if you don't go all the way with any romance. It involves [[spoiler:Hiyoko being executed by the Hawk Party]]. Surprisingly, this ending makes more sense once you've played the Bad Boys Love route. There is also one caused in the demo version by [[spoiler: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.]]

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* BadEnd: As usual for the genre if you don't go all the way with any romance. It involves [[spoiler:Hiyoko being executed by the Hawk Party]]. Surprisingly, this ending makes more sense once you've played the Bad Boys Love route. There is also one caused in the demo version by [[spoiler:staying in the infirmary to wait for Ryouta. Ryouta, as Doctor Shuu cuts is implied to have cut your head off and stuffs stuffed it in a box.box (this ending also serves as a preview for Bad Boys Love). The ''normal'' ending for Doctor Shuu might also be considered this.]]
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* AlwaysNight: The oneiric Holiday Star is this, since it's in outer space. [[spoiler: And also because Holiday Star is an Eldritch-hive mind composed of troubled wandering souls who cannot leave.]]
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* WidgetSeries: The premise of the game is considered to be very far outside the mainstream box.

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* WidgetSeries: The 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.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: [[http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/116918 Deliberately so]].
--> "I wanted to create something that seems ridiculous and crazy at first glance, but that once you look into the world, you would fall into the depth."

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At Tanabata, if you choose [[spoiler:the fourth option (initially not available) for "the mad love of a fallen angel", you'll get exactly that - a crazed bleeding-heart dove named Anghel Higure convinced he's a fallen angel.]]

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
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At Tanabata, if you choose [[spoiler:the fourth option (initially not available) for "the mad love of a fallen angel", you'll get exactly that - a crazed bleeding-heart dove named Anghel Higure convinced he's a fallen angel.]]
** 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.
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* GenocideBackfire: The reason birds run the world is discussed in BBL.

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* GenocideBackfire: The reason [[spoiler: Humans attempted to wipe out bird-kind through an artificially created virus, but the virus instead gave birds run the world is discussed in BBL.intelligence to wage war on humans.]]



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* GhostAmnesiaGhostAmnesia: [[spoiler:Nageki doesn't realize he is dead until the protagonist talks to him. In the BBL route he eventually remembers the reason he was DrivenToSuicide, but in all other routes he either passes into the afterlife too early or remains trapped in the library.]]
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The world's backstory covered in the start of BBL is laid out in more detail in [[http://mangapark.com/manga/hatoful-kareshi/s1/c11/6 the manga]]. Nanaki's chalkboard says that there were 102 billion humans alive in 2068. Now, in 2014 there are 7 billion humans alive. How does the population get fourteen times bigger in ''fifty four years''? Can Earth even support that many people? Were they actually spread onto space stations and outposts on other planets and this just never came up?
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* GayOption: Hinted at but defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans. [[spoiler: That is until the UpdatedRelease 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.]]

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* GayOption: Hinted at but defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans. [[spoiler: That is until the UpdatedRelease 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.]]
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* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]: It's heavily hinted at throughout the main game, but only confirmed in the Bad Boys Love route.

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* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]: AfterTheEnd: It's heavily hinted at throughout the main game, but only confirmed in the Bad Boys Love route.



** 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.]]]]

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** The heroine can suggest a novel version of ''Anime/NightOnTheGalacticRailroad'' NightOnTheGalacticRailroad to Nageki, who replies that he's already read it, though he did like it. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} This tells you a lot about Nageki.]]]]

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* 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.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:And who you wish to.]]

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* BadEnd: As usual for the genre if you don't go all the way with any romance.
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romance. It involves [[spoiler:Hiyoko being executed by the Hawk Party]]. Surprisingly, this ending makes more sense once you've played the Bad Boys Love route. There is also one caused in the demo version by staying [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:And who At Tanabata, if you wish to.choose [[spoiler:the fourth option (initially not available) for "the mad love of a fallen angel", you'll get exactly that - a crazed bleeding-heart dove named Anghel Higure convinced he's a fallen angel.]]
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* AffectionateParody: Of the whole DatingSim VisualNovel genre. The first and second games contain a lot of loving pokes at adventure [=RPGs=] too.

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* AffectionateParody: Of the whole DatingSim VisualNovel genre. The first and second games contain a lot of loving pokes at adventure [=RPGs=] too.too, especially in Anghel's route.

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* GenreShift
** If you take the Bad Boys Love route, the game shifts from a humorous pigeon dating sim to a [[spoiler:dark mystery/thriller]].
** ''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.]]
** 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!]]

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* GenreShift
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** If you take In the Bad Boys Love route, the game shifts from a humorous pigeon dating sim to a [[spoiler:dark murder mystery/thriller]].
** ''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.]]
** Anghel's route also [[UnexpectedGameplayChange unexpectedly turns into a into]] [[spoiler:a battle RPG]] close to the end. [[FridgeBrilliance [[spoiler:[[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!]]Points!]]]]


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* 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.]]

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* AfterTheEnd: Part of the back story of why civilization is the way it is.

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* AfterTheEnd: Part of [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]: It's heavily hinted at throughout the back story of why civilization is main game, but only confirmed in the way it is.Bad Boys Love route.



* CerebusSyndrome: Most of the game is rather silly and lighthearted. Then you get on the Bad Boys Love route in the full version, or play the last chapter of ''Holiday Star''...

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* CerebusSyndrome: Most This happens in most routes of the game is rather silly and lighthearted. Then game, although in different ways each time.
** Shuu's route progressively becomes darker the closer
you get on to the [[spoiler:DownerEnding]].
** Ryouta's route, while largely lighthearted, has a rather touching and heartfelt ending.
** Nageki's route hits this hard during its final moments, [[spoiler:with the reveal that Nageki has been DeadAllAlong, leading to a huge {{TearJerker}} of an ending.]]
** Kazuaki's, Yuuya's and Sakuya's routes all have a {{Downplayed}} version of this.
** Completely {{Averted}} with Okosan's route, which is ridiculous from beginning to end.
** The
Bad Boys Love route in hits this the full version, or play hardest. From the last chapter of ''Holiday Star''...moment [[spoiler:Hiyoko's dismembered head is found in a box, and the route starts for real]], the whole game takes a turn for the dramatic.



* MoodWhiplash: The endings of [[spoiler: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. The manga, which is largely cheerful absurd short comics, also has several chapters end with Kazuaki explaining the history of the setting - like how a plague swept humankind and killed seventy percent of them.

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* MoodWhiplash: The endings of [[spoiler: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. The manga, which is largely cheerful absurd short comics, also has several chapters end with Kazuaki explaining the history of the setting - like [[spoiler:like how a plague swept humankind and killed seventy percent of them.them]].

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* WhamLine: "I wonder why he [[spoiler:lied about going straight home]]...?"

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* WhamLine: WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Hiyoko's head and decapitation]] at the start of the Bad Boys Love route.
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** A massive one kicks off the Bad Boys Love route: "Inside the box... [[spoiler:is a.. human's... head.]]
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"I wonder why he [[spoiler:lied about going straight home]]...?"
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** Shuu will watch the festival fireworks, wishing that he could be [[VideoGame/DarkSouls so grossly incandescent]].
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** ChaoticMonki (a.k.a. Cry)'s Let's Play had a disappointingly short run of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SnF_Y2vnso two]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMTnd9MR_g episodes]] without even finishing a storyline, enticing at least some of his fans to play it for themselves.
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* PrecisionFStrike: If you choose not to falsely confirm Yuuya's alibi after [[spoiler:Shuu accuses him of going through his papers]], he simply responds with [[spoiler:"...[[OhCrap shit]]."]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:And who you wish to.]]
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* 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]].
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* :UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]

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* [[spoiler:ALoveToDismember: Doctor Shuu does this to your head if you focus on him.]]

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* [[spoiler:ALoveToDismember: Doctor ALoveToDismember: [[spoiler:Doctor Shuu does this to your head if you focus on him.]]



* [[spoiler: GenocideBackfire:]] The reason birds run the world is discussed in BBL.

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* [[spoiler: GenocideBackfire:]] GenocideBackfire: The reason birds run the world is discussed in BBL.



* [[spoiler:GhostAmnesia]]

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* [[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.]]

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* [[spoiler:GovernmentConspiracy: GovernmentConspiracy: The Hawk Party's Operation [[spoiler: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.]]



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

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



* [[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...]]

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* [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction [[PersonOfMassDestruction Bird of Mass Destruction]]: The Bad Boys Love route reveals that Nageki [[spoiler: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...]]



\\
Speaking of which, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars this isn't the first time he's voiced a villainous doctor named Shuu]]...



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

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



* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal]]: [[spoiler: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]
* [[spoiler:WhamLine]]: [[spoiler: "I wonder why he lied about going straight home...?"]]

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* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal]]: :UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: It turns out that intelligent birds did not naturally come about...]]
* [[spoiler:WhamLine]]: [[spoiler: WhamLine: "I wonder why he lied [[spoiler:lied about going straight home...?"]]home]]...?"



* [[spoiler: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!

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* [[spoiler:DontFearTheReaper]]: 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!
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It\'s out on Steam now, so I changed that bit.


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.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]]. A remake of the original game is currently in development and is scheduled for release (on Steam!) August 2014. The second game, ''Holiday Star'', has an English demo available [[http://www.hatoking.com/downloads/holiwin_eg.zip here]], and the full version can be purchased [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE107643.html here]]. moa810 is also working on another sequel, and is requesting all fans to [[http://moa810.tumblr.com/post/45491953725/let-your-bird-appear-on-hatoful-world send her pictures of their pet birds for a chance at stardom]].

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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.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]]. A remake of the original game is currently in development and is scheduled for release (on Steam!) August 2014.available to buy on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/310080/ Steam]]. The second game, ''Holiday Star'', has an English demo available [[http://www.hatoking.com/downloads/holiwin_eg.zip here]], and the full version can be purchased [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE107643.html here]]. moa810 is also working on another sequel, and is requesting all fans to [[http://moa810.tumblr.com/post/45491953725/let-your-bird-appear-on-hatoful-world send her pictures of their pet birds for a chance at stardom]].
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* GayOption: Hinted at but defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans.

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* GayOption: Hinted at but defied, to the great disappointment of Azami's fans. [[spoiler: That is until the UpdatedRelease 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.]]

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