Pigeonation, perhaps finding some time for romance in between classes. Set across the better part of a year, Hatoful Boyfriend situates players in the role of Hiyoko Tosaka, a not-so-everyday girl as she embarks on her first semester as the sole human pupil of the all-bird high school St. But what if we subverted this database and took this anthropomorphism fetish to a satiric conclusion? Well, we’d most certainly end up with something akin to Hatoful Boyfriend, the infamous “weird pigeon dating game” that’s just crazy enough to work. Many of these works (and Japanese games, in general) are no stranger to attractive anthropomorphised beings NekoPara has its cat girls, Neptunia has its console goddesses, even non-game entities like Wikipedia and Linux have found themselves signified by cute anime girls. These tropes can be abstract themes, such as tragedy or loneliness, or they can be tangible attributes and costumes, like glasses or maid outfits.
Pop culture critic Hiroki Azuma once wrote that the archetypical visual novel is less concerned with telling a meaningful story than it is in favor of presenting a database of moe characteristics for audiences to choose their favorites from.
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