- Complete list of otome game manga. Otome games are typically story-based visual novels aimed at women. The goal is to pursue one of a number of love interests, aiming for the best case 'Good End' with their chosen love. However, there are usually many branching paths and other endings, including 'Bad Ends' where they may even meet their demise.
- BuzzFeed Staff Hatoful Boyfriend is a Japanese game in which you are a human called Hiyoko who goes to pigeon school. The goal is to seduce and date all the interesting pigeons at said school.
- Princess Closet: Free romance otome games dating sim. An otome game that she had played in her previous life, with a struggle to avoid the Otome Game.
- Once again, while at the school, you must woo a pigeon of your choice. It’s as crazy as it sounds, but also hilarious. Current popular series with less-crazy plot lines include Ikumen Sengoku, Diabolik Lovers, and Mystic Messenger. In all cases, otome games draw their roots from Josei and Shojo manga.
New English version of Hato Moa's 2011 PC game to launch this summer
North American video game publisher Devolver Digital announced on Friday that it is collaborating with British independent game developer Mediatonic to publish an English remake of Hato Moa's Hatoful Boyfriend (Hatoful Kareshi, literally 'Pigeon-ful Boyfriend') dating simulation game this summer. The game will be released digitally in English for Mac and Windows PC. A playable version will be available at next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) convention by appointment.
The original otome game (romance games for female players) began as an April Fool's joke that inspired a free downloadable version in July 2011. A Hatoful Kareshi Plus updated release launched in August 2011, and a full version of the game was released in October 2011. Hato Moa released an official English patch for the game translated by Nazerine in 2012. The Hatoful Kareshi HolidayStarsequel debuted in December 2011.
In the game, the player is a human female who is seeking to fall in love with a pigeon at a school for gifted birds. The game features portraits of every bird that suggest what they would look like in human form.
It's a game about, and please bear with me, dating pigeons. You find yourself, a human female, at St. PigeoNation's Institute, which is home to the best and brightest sky dwellers. Some of you may.
The original game's cast includes:
Ryōta Kawara (voiced by Shintarō Asanuma in the Drama CD), the protagonist's childhood friend.
Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane (Akira Ishida), a pompous and prideful bird of French nobility.
Kazuaki Nanaki (Hiroshi Kamiya), the protagonist's homeroom teacher who is more than just a little bit spacey.
Nageki Fuji (Mitsuki Saiga), a mourning dove whose first name literally means 'mourning.' A loner who spends most of his time reading books with one wing.
Yūya Sakazaki (Koji Yusa), a separated half-brother of Sakuya. The rumors say that he's quite the playboy (playbird).
Shuu Iwamine (Takehito Koyasu), the chukar partridge doctor at the infirmary. He's been seen asking his pupils to give him various body parts for his experiments.
Okosan (Norio Wakamoto), a strange pigeon that often speaks gibberish. He is apparently on a quest for pudding, but according to rumors, the pudding he seeks is not just any common dessert.
Hato Moa released three Hatoful Boyfriend drama CDs between 2011 and 2012. A manga adaptation launched as a webcomic in 2012, and publisher Takeshobo released a compiled book volume in 2013.
This year's E3 convention will be held in Los Angeles from June 10 to June 12.
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Creativity is a weird thing. An artist can plan and plan, but once they put pen to paper, or lips to an instrument, or begin sketching their first character design, the entire project can suddenly shift. Once the ideas leave a person’s mind, they can radically change on paper. Pigeon mac. And even weirder than that? You have zero idea how any of it will be perceived.
A perfect example is Hatoful Boyfriend, a dating simulator about a human girl in a school full of pigeons. It's free to play now for Xbox Game Pass subscribers on PC.
Hato Mao, who created Hatoful, didn’t mean to create an international sensation when she released her game. She wanted to make a simple parody of otome games, otherwise known as visual romance novels. Romance novels, as one fan wrote in a Guardian essay defending the genre, “do not concern real life.” Rather, they delve into the absurd.
For people who enjoy that type of delving, getting caught up in the world of otome games and romance novels can hit buttons like nothing else. It’s the type of passion that can be open to gentle parody, which is how Hatoful started.
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“The idea of Hatoful Boyfriend came to me in 2011, the day before April 1. I wanted to learn how to create visual novels, and I thought I should start with something short, simple. I decided to make a visual novel about birds, because since childhood I adored them, especially pigeons. In addition, I like to write scripts more than draw, so it was much easier for me to use pictures of pigeons rather than draw people,” she said in an interview with the Russian website Look at Me.
She goes on to describe the game as “originally a silly joke” which very quickly became a big hit. The site hosting the game crashed as word of a pigeon dating sim made its way through social media. With a hit on her hands, she decided to develop the game further.
A few months later, a newer iteration of the game came out. Less of a personal gag, Mao had learned that people really responded to her game about dating pigeons. So she decided to really give people a game about pigeons, one with a fully-fleshed out world and dark secrets to uncover.
After a player gets through the bird-filled puns (teachers saying “Is everybirdie here?” is just solid writing) and meets all the eligible birds of St. Pigeonation’s, like the flirty Yuuya Sakazaki or the slightly mischievous Ryouta Kawara, they get a chance to date and the game ends. Or does it?
It does not. After the credits, Hatoful Boyfriend takes a much darker turn, also in line with some otome games. In a segment of the game that appears after the credits, titled Bad Boy Love, the world of dating pigeons is suddenly revealed to be a dystopia in which humanity and birdmanity have been at war with each other, each trying to infect the other with infectious diseases.
The player learns that the protagonist’s parents, who were attempting to broker peace between the two factions during a hostage negotiation, were shot and killed years earlier. Suddenly, the bodies start stacking up at St. Pigeonation’s, and the protagonist’s past comes hurtling back.
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It’s a sudden twist on what’s already a very fun idea. If you want a game that will do more than you’ve expected and surprise you from a narrative perspective, it’s time to accept the invitation from St. Pigeonation’s.