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childofyomi) wrote2014-11-21 03:51 pm
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General blurb:
Miu Hinasaki is the daughter of Miku Hinasaki and is one of the playable characters of Fatal Frame (Project Zero) 5: Nuregarasu no Miko. Like the previous installment, "Mask of the Lunar Eclipse", Techmo hasn't made any plans to release it outside of Japan! There is no major fan translations or patches yet, seeing as the game just came out September 27th, 2014. Give it time! Currently, I haven't played it and I'm still waiting for the chance. However, Miu is not my first Fatal Frame muse; I've played Sae Kurosawa, Rei Kurosawa, and Misaki Asou in the past.
Majority of my information comes from the Youtube user, GirlGamerGaB, who's fluent in Japanese and English (she's Dutch) who has taken time to translate it as she's played through the game. But Being an avid fan of the series, I'm pretty familiar with the canon and can say straight up that the games are like their predecessors.
"LET'S STICK SHRINE MAIDENS INTO HORRIBLE SITUATION TO APPEASE THIS DARK FORCE!"
So let's go ahead and go through the major spoilers and some notations I've made while watching the LP.
Major cut for spoilers, and trigger warnings for suicide and suicidal ideations to be on the safe side:
Miu Hinasaki is stated to be the daughter of Miku, while Yuuri is listening to a recording left by Miu's foster daughter. Miu got it in her head that her mother is residing on Mt. Hikami. She goes up the mountain, naturally, by herself. The game may or may not be loosely inspired by the suicide forest in Japan, there's no confirmation I found of this. This may be fan speculation, simply because like the suicide forest, there's mass suicides, even pacts between schoolmates (such as some of the brief characters, Haruka and Fuhuyi), even the main character, Yuuri Kozukata. It is a common core belief in Japanese folklore (hell, even paranormal folklore) that spirits with unresolved issues and sadness come back as vengeful spirits. As such, the mountain, mountain tunnel, and cable car station are very, very haunted.
Unlike the previous games, as you would have guessed, the timeframe in which the story starts is sometime during the 21st century, as the previous games took place between 1980-1986. There is no known link between Minakami Village, Himuro Mansion, or the Kuze Shrine, just throwing it out there. Even if there's a bit of an odd coincidence between the Minakami Village and Mount Hikami having to deal with flood waters! Minakami Village was eventually destroyed by a dam built up, fyi.
Anyway, back to Miu. Miu seems to suffer from some form of adopted child syndrome, meaning that she's felt a deep detachment from her adoptive parents and the summaries even go far as to saying she never knew the love of parents. Somehwere down the line, for whatever reason, Miu became deadset on tracking her birth mother, who disappeared when she was three years old. We later come to learn in diaries left behind by Miku that wasn't the case: she says she had to leave her daughter, in order to preform what is called the "Yuukon Ritual". Miku, never forgiving herself for leaving her brother behind, preformed the ritual in order to escape that pain and possibly make amends with her brother.
As time goes on, we learn that Miu's very existence seems to be a contradictory. Miu is, in fact, a Yomi Ko. A child that's born of a union of a spirit and a mortal woman, much like the Romanian Moroi, is the best away I can akin Miu to someone. I cannot find anything online quite yet with actual texts in English regarding yomi kos, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't exist, so I doubt that this is a game exclusive term! While it isn't stated outright, it is heavily implied that Miu is not only Miku's daughter, but also Mafuyu's. To further back this, in one flashback, Miku was chosen by Kazuya Sakaki as a bride, but was rejected because of Miku's strong ties to Mafuyu. Eventually, we see Kazuya's neck snap and he is then seen inside of the sacrificial box. So as weird as it is, the implication is likely true! This is not the first child in the series to be possibly born between a brother and sister, as we see with Ayako.
Like her mother and even her ancestors (Sae, Yae, and Ryozo Kurosawa especially), Miu possesses a sixth sense. But given her yomi ko status, her sixth sense is arguably the strongest of amongst any other Fatal Frame character. Something that wouldn't be so surprising, considering how strong Miku's was. Miu is able to sense spirits, but as well possess the ability of "Kagemi, otherwise known as psychometry in western paranormal. She is able to read emotions, even pick up fragments of a memory or an event by touching objects or people. What breaks her away from the typical psychometry is that she can also perform this on a defeated ghost, allowing the player to see what happened to the spirit, moments before their deaths.
As time goes on, we see Miu trying to fill that void by modelling, in hopes of becoming an actress. But her spiritual powers, as well as her existence, prove it difficult for her to connect with others. We see her being scolded and ridiculed in a memory by her adoptive mother, furthering Miu's feelings on her adoptive parents are anything but trivial. When Miu travels up to the mountain and to the flooded shrine, the Matchmaker places Miu in a coffin box, intending her to be a sacrifice. Miu is freed and brought back by Yuuri, who accompanies her down the mountain to the Kurosawa antique shop where Yuuri and her friend reside.
Not long after, Miu takes advantage of the fact Yuuri is sleeping, she takes her camera, determined to resume the search for her mother. On the way out, Ren Hojo tries to stop her, to which Miu is surprisingly defiant and tells him he can try and stop her. Miu tells herself if Yuuri can fend off ghosts, so can she! She somehow is able to find her mother in a box and bring her all the way down to the antique shop, just as Yuuri had did for her. While all the women are asleep in the shop, Ren attempts to stay vigil and fend off the ghosts who attack them. But we later learn the ghosts aren't after the girls, they're actually after Ren for numerous reasons relating to the Yuukon ritual.
Personality notations:
What makes Fatal Frame protags tricky is that we often see them fleeing in terror or just overcome in terror period when they are in the games. As the series goes on, we see more and more of the characters' personalities. In my opinion, the characters are more flushed out in the fourth and fifth games. Miu included, to some degree. What struck me the most about Miu is her matter-of-fact delivery to Ren Hojo, taking the camera obscura and telling him she was going to find her mother, whether they had a say in it or not, and he can try and stop her. She leaves him stunned, leaving him there with no choice but to watch over Rui and Yuuri, because he's already overwhelmed with them and his past resurfacing.
She goes to the mountain with nothing but the clothes on her back, against numerous wishes of adults and peers alike. She clearly is alone and isolated and feels abandoned. Even in the end of the game, she calls her mother a liar when she returns to the spiritual world. Above all, when we see the beginning of the game, Miu has it in her head that her mother is alive, when the game is pretty much saying otherwise. How can a woman be left alive in a box for over ten years and still live? We do not know, other than I am pretty sure Miku ended up spirited away like her brother and countless others. Let's be blunt here: the Hinasaki/Kurosawa/Mukanata family is not known for their good luck. It's implied owning any spiritual items like the camera obscura is sealing your fate and making you magnet for ghosts!
Not only that, like Yuuri, her ability of psychometry leaves her unable to connect with others. Miu seems to struggle making basic social connections, because she can see what they're thinking, feel what they're feeling, and constantly picking up on the spirit world. Multiply that with the fact that Miu is practically a child born of a spirit, she's already having it rough. Her adoptive family seems to ridicule for being obsessed with the notion of her mother being up on the mountain and her dreams of becoming an actress. As much as I hate to say it, but Miu's actions to find her mother are very selfish, she leaves others worrying for her and seems to be a little bit of denial that the odds of her mother being alive are pretty low.
Not only that, but Miu seems incredibly naive, the poor thing. Her disillusionment with her family as well as those in the Kurosawa antique shop further this. But even then, Miu may seem selfish and naive in her obsession of finding her mother, she does genuinely care for those around her. She successfully stops Yuuri from following Osse Kurosawa's spirit (the black bride) into the river, clinging to her and telling her not to go. She does what she can to help, even if there's an awkwardness to Miu finding social connections.
When Yuuri uses her psychometry to see into Miu's past, watching her model and her adoptive mother's ridicule, Miu wakes and coldly snaps at her, telling her she will never forgive her. With that and telling Ren he cannot stop her, Miu is surprisingly assertive, firm, and bold when she's able to be, and she's pretty good about stunning those around her. She comes off as meek and whimsical, but when she puts her foot down, she really does put her foot down. She doesn't have to raise her voice, it is her firmness that speaks volumes in her.
Unfortunately, with her upbringing, there could be a lingering sense of shame attached to that. Thankfully, Miu doesn't seem to blame her mother for her situation, she assumes that her mother vanished and that appears to be what her adoptive mother told her. It's not until the later half of the games where Miku has to leave, Miu calls her a liar and bursts into tears. She does gain some resolution to that, but Miu will always feel like she never had anyone to care for her. Naturally, we can assume Miu is very, very independent. She seems to be the defiant type, but not in the atypical teenager way of defiance. She does what she wants, because she doesn't seem to rely on others. Because she never had that luxury growing up.
Miu is a lot like her mother, strong-willed, and dedicated. But she seems to put her well-being on the line when she goes up to the mountain, clearly well over her head in a heap load of ghosts and even being lost. Remarkably, even when she's been stuffed into a box, tossed in what was going to be a watery grave, Miu rebounds pretty well. She doesn't seem to be too shaken by the ordeal, she picks herself back up, and not-so-subtly sneaks out later on back up the mountain with something that's not her. It would be funny to me if it wasn't so sad.
Miu wants to be loved and cared for by a mother and father. She does what she possibly can to find that by going back to the mountain numerous times until she's forcefully given a resolution by her mother's spirit going back to the spirit world. This makes me see Miu is still a child, she's still growing up, and she's still learning how things work. While she's a child and a teenager, she is very mature for her age, she doesn't pout. Much! She displays her emotions like any other person, she doesn't shove them aside. When everything is said and done, and they have to get off the mountain, the world is Miu's oyster. But even then, with that set in front of her, Miu still has to struggle with going into adulthood as well as struggling with her paradoxical existence of lingering between the world of the living and dead. She'll still find it hard to connect with others, because she's far too empathetic, she will still pick up on their feelings. She'll be an outcast both revered and respected as well as feared to some degree.
Miu Hinasaki is the daughter of Miku Hinasaki and is one of the playable characters of Fatal Frame (Project Zero) 5: Nuregarasu no Miko. Like the previous installment, "Mask of the Lunar Eclipse", Techmo hasn't made any plans to release it outside of Japan! There is no major fan translations or patches yet, seeing as the game just came out September 27th, 2014. Give it time! Currently, I haven't played it and I'm still waiting for the chance. However, Miu is not my first Fatal Frame muse; I've played Sae Kurosawa, Rei Kurosawa, and Misaki Asou in the past.
Majority of my information comes from the Youtube user, GirlGamerGaB, who's fluent in Japanese and English (she's Dutch) who has taken time to translate it as she's played through the game. But Being an avid fan of the series, I'm pretty familiar with the canon and can say straight up that the games are like their predecessors.
"LET'S STICK SHRINE MAIDENS INTO HORRIBLE SITUATION TO APPEASE THIS DARK FORCE!"
So let's go ahead and go through the major spoilers and some notations I've made while watching the LP.
Major cut for spoilers, and trigger warnings for suicide and suicidal ideations to be on the safe side:
Miu Hinasaki is stated to be the daughter of Miku, while Yuuri is listening to a recording left by Miu's foster daughter. Miu got it in her head that her mother is residing on Mt. Hikami. She goes up the mountain, naturally, by herself. The game may or may not be loosely inspired by the suicide forest in Japan, there's no confirmation I found of this. This may be fan speculation, simply because like the suicide forest, there's mass suicides, even pacts between schoolmates (such as some of the brief characters, Haruka and Fuhuyi), even the main character, Yuuri Kozukata. It is a common core belief in Japanese folklore (hell, even paranormal folklore) that spirits with unresolved issues and sadness come back as vengeful spirits. As such, the mountain, mountain tunnel, and cable car station are very, very haunted.
Unlike the previous games, as you would have guessed, the timeframe in which the story starts is sometime during the 21st century, as the previous games took place between 1980-1986. There is no known link between Minakami Village, Himuro Mansion, or the Kuze Shrine, just throwing it out there. Even if there's a bit of an odd coincidence between the Minakami Village and Mount Hikami having to deal with flood waters! Minakami Village was eventually destroyed by a dam built up, fyi.
Anyway, back to Miu. Miu seems to suffer from some form of adopted child syndrome, meaning that she's felt a deep detachment from her adoptive parents and the summaries even go far as to saying she never knew the love of parents. Somehwere down the line, for whatever reason, Miu became deadset on tracking her birth mother, who disappeared when she was three years old. We later come to learn in diaries left behind by Miku that wasn't the case: she says she had to leave her daughter, in order to preform what is called the "Yuukon Ritual". Miku, never forgiving herself for leaving her brother behind, preformed the ritual in order to escape that pain and possibly make amends with her brother.
As time goes on, we learn that Miu's very existence seems to be a contradictory. Miu is, in fact, a Yomi Ko. A child that's born of a union of a spirit and a mortal woman, much like the Romanian Moroi, is the best away I can akin Miu to someone. I cannot find anything online quite yet with actual texts in English regarding yomi kos, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't exist, so I doubt that this is a game exclusive term! While it isn't stated outright, it is heavily implied that Miu is not only Miku's daughter, but also Mafuyu's. To further back this, in one flashback, Miku was chosen by Kazuya Sakaki as a bride, but was rejected because of Miku's strong ties to Mafuyu. Eventually, we see Kazuya's neck snap and he is then seen inside of the sacrificial box. So as weird as it is, the implication is likely true! This is not the first child in the series to be possibly born between a brother and sister, as we see with Ayako.
Like her mother and even her ancestors (Sae, Yae, and Ryozo Kurosawa especially), Miu possesses a sixth sense. But given her yomi ko status, her sixth sense is arguably the strongest of amongst any other Fatal Frame character. Something that wouldn't be so surprising, considering how strong Miku's was. Miu is able to sense spirits, but as well possess the ability of "Kagemi, otherwise known as psychometry in western paranormal. She is able to read emotions, even pick up fragments of a memory or an event by touching objects or people. What breaks her away from the typical psychometry is that she can also perform this on a defeated ghost, allowing the player to see what happened to the spirit, moments before their deaths.
As time goes on, we see Miu trying to fill that void by modelling, in hopes of becoming an actress. But her spiritual powers, as well as her existence, prove it difficult for her to connect with others. We see her being scolded and ridiculed in a memory by her adoptive mother, furthering Miu's feelings on her adoptive parents are anything but trivial. When Miu travels up to the mountain and to the flooded shrine, the Matchmaker places Miu in a coffin box, intending her to be a sacrifice. Miu is freed and brought back by Yuuri, who accompanies her down the mountain to the Kurosawa antique shop where Yuuri and her friend reside.
Not long after, Miu takes advantage of the fact Yuuri is sleeping, she takes her camera, determined to resume the search for her mother. On the way out, Ren Hojo tries to stop her, to which Miu is surprisingly defiant and tells him he can try and stop her. Miu tells herself if Yuuri can fend off ghosts, so can she! She somehow is able to find her mother in a box and bring her all the way down to the antique shop, just as Yuuri had did for her. While all the women are asleep in the shop, Ren attempts to stay vigil and fend off the ghosts who attack them. But we later learn the ghosts aren't after the girls, they're actually after Ren for numerous reasons relating to the Yuukon ritual.
Personality notations:
What makes Fatal Frame protags tricky is that we often see them fleeing in terror or just overcome in terror period when they are in the games. As the series goes on, we see more and more of the characters' personalities. In my opinion, the characters are more flushed out in the fourth and fifth games. Miu included, to some degree. What struck me the most about Miu is her matter-of-fact delivery to Ren Hojo, taking the camera obscura and telling him she was going to find her mother, whether they had a say in it or not, and he can try and stop her. She leaves him stunned, leaving him there with no choice but to watch over Rui and Yuuri, because he's already overwhelmed with them and his past resurfacing.
She goes to the mountain with nothing but the clothes on her back, against numerous wishes of adults and peers alike. She clearly is alone and isolated and feels abandoned. Even in the end of the game, she calls her mother a liar when she returns to the spiritual world. Above all, when we see the beginning of the game, Miu has it in her head that her mother is alive, when the game is pretty much saying otherwise. How can a woman be left alive in a box for over ten years and still live? We do not know, other than I am pretty sure Miku ended up spirited away like her brother and countless others. Let's be blunt here: the Hinasaki/Kurosawa/Mukanata family is not known for their good luck. It's implied owning any spiritual items like the camera obscura is sealing your fate and making you magnet for ghosts!
Not only that, like Yuuri, her ability of psychometry leaves her unable to connect with others. Miu seems to struggle making basic social connections, because she can see what they're thinking, feel what they're feeling, and constantly picking up on the spirit world. Multiply that with the fact that Miu is practically a child born of a spirit, she's already having it rough. Her adoptive family seems to ridicule for being obsessed with the notion of her mother being up on the mountain and her dreams of becoming an actress. As much as I hate to say it, but Miu's actions to find her mother are very selfish, she leaves others worrying for her and seems to be a little bit of denial that the odds of her mother being alive are pretty low.
Not only that, but Miu seems incredibly naive, the poor thing. Her disillusionment with her family as well as those in the Kurosawa antique shop further this. But even then, Miu may seem selfish and naive in her obsession of finding her mother, she does genuinely care for those around her. She successfully stops Yuuri from following Osse Kurosawa's spirit (the black bride) into the river, clinging to her and telling her not to go. She does what she can to help, even if there's an awkwardness to Miu finding social connections.
When Yuuri uses her psychometry to see into Miu's past, watching her model and her adoptive mother's ridicule, Miu wakes and coldly snaps at her, telling her she will never forgive her. With that and telling Ren he cannot stop her, Miu is surprisingly assertive, firm, and bold when she's able to be, and she's pretty good about stunning those around her. She comes off as meek and whimsical, but when she puts her foot down, she really does put her foot down. She doesn't have to raise her voice, it is her firmness that speaks volumes in her.
Unfortunately, with her upbringing, there could be a lingering sense of shame attached to that. Thankfully, Miu doesn't seem to blame her mother for her situation, she assumes that her mother vanished and that appears to be what her adoptive mother told her. It's not until the later half of the games where Miku has to leave, Miu calls her a liar and bursts into tears. She does gain some resolution to that, but Miu will always feel like she never had anyone to care for her. Naturally, we can assume Miu is very, very independent. She seems to be the defiant type, but not in the atypical teenager way of defiance. She does what she wants, because she doesn't seem to rely on others. Because she never had that luxury growing up.
Miu is a lot like her mother, strong-willed, and dedicated. But she seems to put her well-being on the line when she goes up to the mountain, clearly well over her head in a heap load of ghosts and even being lost. Remarkably, even when she's been stuffed into a box, tossed in what was going to be a watery grave, Miu rebounds pretty well. She doesn't seem to be too shaken by the ordeal, she picks herself back up, and not-so-subtly sneaks out later on back up the mountain with something that's not her. It would be funny to me if it wasn't so sad.
Miu wants to be loved and cared for by a mother and father. She does what she possibly can to find that by going back to the mountain numerous times until she's forcefully given a resolution by her mother's spirit going back to the spirit world. This makes me see Miu is still a child, she's still growing up, and she's still learning how things work. While she's a child and a teenager, she is very mature for her age, she doesn't pout. Much! She displays her emotions like any other person, she doesn't shove them aside. When everything is said and done, and they have to get off the mountain, the world is Miu's oyster. But even then, with that set in front of her, Miu still has to struggle with going into adulthood as well as struggling with her paradoxical existence of lingering between the world of the living and dead. She'll still find it hard to connect with others, because she's far too empathetic, she will still pick up on their feelings. She'll be an outcast both revered and respected as well as feared to some degree.