I played this game… I tried to go after the doctor pigeon then my best pigeon friend found my severed head in a box the next day… Actually… I got murdered twice… but I did get the library pigeon and the teacher pigeon.
This is a real thing. I’d read about it once and could not stop laughing! I’m pretty sure the makers were making fun of their own genre (a common theme in japan these days…they know they’re weird), but they wrote it in such a way that at some point the player gets used to the parody and genuinely enjoys the storyline.
The gag is that ‘heartful’ is an expression in Japanese, a sort of mishmash word that means more or less what it sounds like. Except that ‘heartful’ would sound like ‘haatofuru’ in Japanese pronunciation, which is just a beat away from ‘hatofuru’ which would be ‘Pidgeon-full’ .
First!
First pigeon lover ? Oh noes ..
Oddly enough I have heard of this before. Nothing like a human girl going to a high school full of pigeons…..
Everybirdie should play this game, at least for the lulzs and the fact that you can also be killed and decapitated.
Bah, partridges are not pigeons.
Either way, I prefer a nice pheasant.
This is a good game, I dated the one in the library. And then I had a moment.
At only five bucks and change, I can see this page making many sales of this game just to people who want to see what the heck is going on.
So… is there a link to it?
http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091090.html
Fun fact: Japan is the prime exporter of WTF in the entire world.
Scratch that, in the friggin’ UNIVERSE!
I don’t think this is Japanese. if it were, wouldn’t most of the stuff be in Japanese?
Notice how it says it’s the “English version”?
that, and Hato is Japanese for Pigeon…I think.
^You are correct
is this real? if so http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/970 said it first
wait… pigeon dating game is real? O.o
i though it was made up by Manly Guys Doing Manly Things….
I don’t think this is Japanese.
Thanks for the good news here.
It’s Japanese.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/02/16-1/human-x-pigeon-love-returns-in-english-hatoful-boyfriend-official-translation-released
It’s actually an Otome game made with Ren’py.
=)
This.. I don’t even… What.
I played this game… I tried to go after the doctor pigeon then my best pigeon friend found my severed head in a box the next day… Actually… I got murdered twice… but I did get the library pigeon and the teacher pigeon.
… You sound like a crazy.
Lets just say I had a free weekend… and yes, I am slightly crazy.
Oh gosh- my roomie told me about this a few months ago and I didn’t believe her at first. Then she showed me and I was like “what…?” Then I loled.
Since when are mourning doves and chukars, pigeons?
This is a real thing. I’d read about it once and could not stop laughing! I’m pretty sure the makers were making fun of their own genre (a common theme in japan these days…they know they’re weird), but they wrote it in such a way that at some point the player gets used to the parody and genuinely enjoys the storyline.
That is a chukar not a pigeon second to the top, they are game birds like pheasants.
The Medic must like this.
The gag is that ‘heartful’ is an expression in Japanese, a sort of mishmash word that means more or less what it sounds like. Except that ‘heartful’ would sound like ‘haatofuru’ in Japanese pronunciation, which is just a beat away from ‘hatofuru’ which would be ‘Pidgeon-full’ .
GEDDIT
MY FAT PIGEON LOVER KILLED ME. ALSO, PUDDING.
i am 12 and what is this