My one year Hatoversary was on the 24th of November. I celebrated with some fried chicken that I named Yuuya; the affair was consummated rather quickly.
Today, we're gonna go over what happens with all the other bird's routes! And by this, I mean it's going to be a super-duper quick runthrough of their story arcs so we can learn more about them. Also, full version of the game routes instead! Yay! (Of course, since this is going to be shortened, I won't feel guilty about sharing the route info with you all)
For ease, I'm sticking everybirdie into one post, but they'll be under bolded, centered titles so you can navigate them quicker.
Narcolepsy-sensei
(wait until I talk BBL with you about this guy)
Now, with Kazuaki, I'm pretty certain whichever thing you pick won't really matter. For all intents and purposes, though, I'm gonna pick Student Council, but we'll save that dialogue and such for when we reach Sakuya's route. However, we'll be taking Math Class because Narcolepsy-sensei is the math teacher, after all.
Of course, the class picnic involves us, once again, slumbering next to him.
When Tanabata arrives, we let him escort us home.
(his wish consists of something along the lines of, "I hope I wake up in time for the teacher's meeting." and generally reads like a reminder list)
Since we're taking so many math classes, Kazuaki is very quick to praise us for doing so good on tests.
Also, let's go to the fuckin' festival with this man he's great.
You may have noticed by now, but it seems Kazuaki is a little hesitant to engage in any relations with us outside of school. Whether this is because of the whole teacher-student thing or some other reason, we shall find out soon enough.
At the festival, he feels a bit dizzy, and Hiyoko makes a bit of a fuss over the matter. The fireworks start up and the two make idle discussion over how they work, with him mentioning how beautiful they are, but then
(the jerk fell asleep WAY TO JUST IGNORE YOUR STUDENT FLIRTING WITH YOU)
whachoo talkin' 'bout you's a strong hunter-gatherer lady and you ain't need no man to tell you yer pretty
On the day we wake up too early, we stick around to help Kazuaki with some test grading. He apparently likes sweet tea, mango especially.
Into second term! When we find the ID, instead of hunting down Shuu, we head for the teacher's office and find Narcolepsy-sensei. I'm going to keep pestering you all to remember the Id is a student's from 2-2, named Yoshio. This is relevant to someone we'll be discussing much later. Kazuaki acts a little weird about the whole matter, but assures us he's got it all taken care of.
Oh by the way in the full version we encounter MOLTING SEASON
After all the feathers are removed, Hiyoko's sharp hunter-gatherer smelling powers notes that Kazuaki smells rather like chlorine, and he cheerfully responds that it's the bleach!
Kazuaki: No, no, I dozed off and got stuck in the washing machine last night, that's all.
And then he falls asleep while she reprimands him. Best teacher.
(p.s.: keep note over this bleach thing, it will be a Very Important Thing later on)
At the next school festival, we end up getting asked by Kazuaki to help him at the reception desk, to which this excellent response is made:
Out of all otoge protagonists, Hiyoko is the very best of them all. No arguments.
Obviously, during the the Kazuaki vs Shuu showdown, we side with the former. Shuu makes a keen observation:
On November 10th, Ryouta asks if we've an idea where Kazuaki lives, as he'd left his phone behind in the staff room (in the demo, it was his wallet).
Hiyoko decides he probably spends 97% of his home time asleep.
A paper slips out from his phone case:
A photo of a bird, it seems, but as it's been scribbled all over, there's no way to see who it is. This led to lots of fandom speculation, with some coming veeeery close to the truth as to who was in the picture (actually, properly identified who it was, but with the wrong background scenario over it).
Kazuaki tells us not to worry over the picture, and Hiyoko finds it a little surprising that someone with his disposition would deface a picture so. This odd side of him is a little worrying ...
The full version features a scene where we get stuck inside the school after hours, slamming into Shuu in the halls. He acts pretty suspicious and asks if we've seen anything (obviously, relating to the fact that he has a bad penchant for slicing and dicing up students, most likely in there).
He sends us into the prep room to grab some files for him and, lo and behold, the fat bastard locks us in.
laughs
also Kazuaki arrives before Shuu can get back to probably maybe most likely chop our head off huzzah!
The doctor makes up some bullshit excuse about forgetting she was in there and Hiyoko makes some joke about him being
Clive Wearing.
Hiyoko runs off, but the two teachers proceed to have a little confrontation.
It seems our beloved sleepy teacher is aware of what the doctor does around the school ...
At the shrine on New Year's, Kazuaki mentions he drew the chicken of ill omen as a fortune (yeah, bird-related fortunes, go figure - we pull the budgerigar blessing, thankfully).
On Legumentine's Day, he prefers country millet ("they bring back good memories"). He is hesitant to accept, but does anyway.
The end of the year approaches. This ending is little different from the demo one. It's time.
for confessing love to Narcolepsy-sensei.
He goes on to explain that scribbled out photo was of "the most important bird in [his] life" - that the two of them would live through anything, meant more to each other than anybirdie else in the world - but then, that other bird was gone, and Kazuaki was alone. The reason he scribbled out the photo was because, the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't tell if he felt love or hate.
Kazuaki: Rather than forcing all that hatred onto one person, I ... I think it's better to love everyone around you just enough that you won't regret losing them.
Hiyoko remarks that it's a very sad thing, and that she wonders if there isn't a better way.
One more thing on the photo, he says: he burned it. This is Very Significant. With that out of the way, he makes a final proposition:
Kazuaki: I'm sure you'll grow up into a wonderful person, Tosaka. So let's wait until then.
Ryouta
more like kick the cutie
At the class hike, we sit down to eat with Ryouta, who is a little worried that our lunch is just CalorieM**e (game spelling, not mine).
n o
Ryouta ends up sharing his lunch with us. "We can save the Calorie M**e in case of a survival situation" definitely no.
As for electives, Ryouta don't really give a shit what you do because he's a cool guy like that so let's free for all. At the sports festival, we'll be joining Ryouta on the 3-legged race - I don't want to think about how well that will go.
no
shit(second place by the way)
Did we ever hit up the cafeteria before? No? Let's do this. Hiyoko orders one half-dead fried rice, and that sounds really gross because what's in there that is half-dead I just ...
Somewhere else, Hiyoko's attention is caught by Okosan throwing a fit over some pudding. Ryouta is trying his best to calm the other bird.
Of course, we intervene on Ryouta's behalf, with a warcry of "MY HUNTER-GATHERER BLOOD BOILS! AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" which causes Okosan to call Hiyoko a beast queen and him to bolt "like a rabbit from a catapult."
Oh, by the way, in one music class:
Ryouta's tanabata slip:
There's a flyer up for some work at a cafe, but when we head there Ryouta also shows up, wanting to apply. Being courteous, we let him have it (we will do more with this another day, trust me).
Now, let's do some summer festival with best friend!
ugh you are like the perfect husbandove let me have you
Hiyoko suggests yakitori (?! goes Ryouta), which is skewered, grilled chicken. This world fuckin' cray-cray.
Much later, Ryouta invites us to walk home together. Whoohoo! Can we hold hands, too? On the way home, they pass by a swallow and its nest, with chicks in it, making Hiyoko recall when Ryouta was a chick and fell out of the nest - she found him on the ground, and brought him back to the nest.
arigato hato-kun uvu
one night, heading home after an intense arcade session, we find Ryouta in maid attire. Hiyoko is appropriately shocked and when he elaborates it's his job, she flips a little more, until he says it's a transvestite cafe. He even hands her a flier. We shall dutifully ask for him whenever we decide to go inside someday.
fucking ---
A bit later, it is us who ask Ryouta to walk home together, but he's apparently got something to do, so it's a no-go. Despite him saying nothing's wrong, Hiyoko's not convinced. That evening, on the way back from the arcade, Ryouta emerges from the hospital. He wants to talk now.
Ryouta's mother, having never been particularly healthy, is in the hospital. Despite Hiyoko optimistically hoping she'll get better, he's quick to tell her that his mother won't.
and then he starts crying and runs away oh n-no ... come back baby ...
December 24: text from Ryouta - meet in the park at 7.
Apparently, his mother kicked him out of the hospital and told him to spend the day with someone important.
cuties
for this round, it rains on New Year's due to Ryouta's rather depressing storyline.
Legumentine's means gifts, and Ryouta is fond of calm corn. He promises to take Hiyoko out for udon sometime (it is her favorite, after all).
A few days later, another text to meet at the park, urgently and now at this point.
I think we all know what this means.
He mentions how now he's alone, but Hiyoko insists that he still has her - something his mother even said at the end. At this, he does confess that he loves Hiyoko, but it would be unfair of him --
Ryouta: If you were to marry me ... I'd die much sooner than you.
And, now that he knows the pain of being left alone, he wouldn't want that for Hiyoko. He wants to go separate ways, but she won't have it.
Hiyoko: That's what life is, Ryouta! It's unfair, and painful, and sometimes it seems nothing good will ever happen. But fighting on, following our urge to seek happiness anyway ... that's what makes us alive! That's how our ancestors lived, and died, and evolved, and brought us to where we are now!
It seems her words eventually get through to him, and after more dialogue, he says he was glad he was born, if only to meet her.
I want all of you to engrave this picture into your mind for later reference, then go off and buy the full game just to play the BBL route so you will fully understand it.
I'm not fond of going in depth on Sakuya's and Yuuya's routes - they end, mostly, rather undramatically. Yuuya just turns out to be a secret agent of the Dove Party, who works against the Hawk Party (this group seeks to eliminate all humans from the earth). In his storyline, you lie with him against Shuu (somehow, Yuuya ends up saying something about sexy and luxurious sunbathing ...), and eventually, one evening, after being gone for months, he shows up out of the blue and, if you say the right thing, he'll drag you off into the life of a spy, which can only end with legendary tales left in your wake.
Sakuya, we learn, has an artistic side, and deep down, beneath the snotty ways and such, he would prefer to be a musician rather than follow in his father's footsteps. He features two endings; one that ends rather unspectacularly and cuts with him ending up living in Hiyoko's cave, the other extends this, with him even finding bookings, and receiving a letter from Yuuya, saying he'd like to talk someday ...
Okosan is unique with his love of pudding. The two of you go on some rather odd adventures, which culminates in how his route concludes; the more normal end has the two of you packing up and going on a quest for the True Pudding, which is apparently seven colors and godly or some shit. The extension of this is actually finding the pudding - also, it turns out Okosan is like a god or some shit and ascends to become Lord Puddi, who eventually just turns all the world into pudding.
I'm not shitting you.
There is one character, however, who I dearly want to showcase, if only for a little while. I won't reveal much about his ending or anything like that, but we'll see where this gets us.
The Crimson Angel of Judecca
just how many drugs is this guy on, anyway?
Remember that one character I said was exclusive to the full version? Anghel? Yep. Well, you'll remember the student ID from class 2-2 belonging to Yoshio - well, that's Anghel, and it's basically implied that by never activating his route, he'll run off to confront Shuu and become one of his ... experiments, to say the least. Laaaame.
Now, after a couple of runs through other character's routes, a new option will appear at the end of your Tanabata wish choices: The mad love of a fallen angel. Sometime in July, someone will come smashing through a window with the sound of crashing glass, which we all equate to Anghel just barrel rolling through windows without giving a shit.
I'm not shitting you. He fuckin' leaps through windows.
Also he talks like he's LARPing some intense JRPG. I couldn't make this up if I tried. By the way, he's not hurt - he's a bleeding heart dove, which are fairly common down in the Philippenes, if I'm not mistaken.
That is, also, apparently where Anghel hails from. He calls Hiyoko Edel Blau of the Blue Sky - in fact, he gives similar names to basically every main character he runs across.
ryouta you shut your sassy little ass up and go run around being a maid or some shit god
One day, Anghel comes crashing into Hiyoko's class, and Sakuya reveals his not-so-inner bigot:
and then Hiyoko gets the urge to call him Bananaman, which somehow actually does catch on and he's called that a few times through the remainder of his route.
In late July, he asks if he should open the door to the other world - basically, this is what I was talking about earlier: by choosing not to pursue Anghel, he would make this decision on his own, and run off to confront whatever evil is in the infirmary, namely Shuu.
In August, you can invite him to the summer festival (and when he shows up we get a Pokemon reference). He also gives you a charm.
We can sum up the rest of Anghel's route as a lot of fuckery: we learn he freaks out when addressed by his real name, he calls Shuu "Wallenstein," he continuously refers to his red plummage as "crimson breast" and talks of spreading evil, somehow manages to draw others into his bizarre delusions, he is part of the manga club (and makes hilariously adorable scribbled drawings), and ... stuff, which we'll get to. Also, if you manage your time well, you can even get some scenes where Anghel interacts with characters he'd otherwise never meet, such as Nageki, who he refers to as Textoris Melodia Funus.
also he flips shit when you get him bitter black beans for Legumentine's and nearly chokes on them trying to eat them to get rid of them.
Near the end of the year, Anghel drops a letter in Hiyoko's desk, telling her to meet him in the infirmary. We end up popping in just as this showdown happens.
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You read right. Shuu has, somehow, gotten dragged into talking like this.
Did I mention this all somehow culminates into some crazy turn-based battle? No? Well, it does.
fucking hell Moa.
(I advise you take a lot of gym classes throughout the year to up your HP for this fight)
With that, I conclude this long post wrapping up the stories of the other dateable characters. Next time, we'll cover some odds and ends and I'll highlight what is possible the coolest lady you will ever encounter. Carve it into your soul!!
