Hatoful Boyfriend was originally created as an April Fool's Day joke in 2011 by artist Hato Moa and her doujin circle, PigeoNation. It proved to be widely successful. By the end of the year, a complete game was developed. The story revolves around a girl name Hiyoko, who, despite being human, is invited to study at St.PigeoNation's Institute for Gifted Birds. At the start of the story, Hiyoko finds herself in avian form and has no memories as to how she became a bird when she remembers being a human. The basic plot of the game is, with help from the other birds, determining what happened in your past.

This is Yuuya, the flirty and flashy school health committee chairman. He is a fantail pigeon.

Hato Moa and her fellow doujin artist, Damurushi, were guests at AoD 2016. Of the two artists, I felt that Damurushi was, artistically, the most talented of the two.