• Welcome to Touhou Wiki!
  • Registering is temporarily disabled. Check in our Discord server to request an account and for assistance of any kind.

Hatate Himekaidou: Difference between revisions

From Touhou Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
mNo edit summary
No edit summary
Line 17: Line 17:
*[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]
*[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]
}}
}}
'''Hatate Himekaidou''' ({{lang|ja|姫海棠 はたて}}, ''Himekaidou Hatate'') is a [[tengu]] reporter who makes a newspaper called "[[Kakashi Spirit News]]" ({{lang|ja|花果子念報}}). Unlike her colleague [[Aya Shameimaru]], she never goes outside for her newspaper research. Instead, she uses her ability called {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Nensha|thoughtography]]|念写|nensha}}. After reading Aya's [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], she decided to observe Aya's way of gathering for her articles.
{{nihongo|'''Hatate Himekaidou'''|姫海棠 はたて|Himekaidou Hatate}} is a [[tengu]] reporter who produces the [[Kakashi Spirit News]]. Unlike her colleague [[Aya Shameimaru]], she never goes outside for her newspaper research. Instead, she uses her ability called {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Nensha|thoughtography]]|念写|nensha}}. After reading Aya's [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], she decided to observe Aya's way of gathering for her articles. She first appeared in ''[[Double Spoiler]]'' had has only appeared in spin-offs games.


==Character Design==
==Character Design==
===Name===
===Name===
Her full name is ''Hatate Himekaidou'' ({{lang|ja|姫海棠 はたて}}). The kanji for ''Himekaidou'' ({{lang|ja|姫海棠}}) mean "princess", "sea/beach" and "crabapple tree" respectively. ''Himekaidou'' itself is a kind of [[Wikipedia:Malus sieboldii|toringo crabapple]]. ''[[Wikipedia:Hime_kaidō|Hime kaidou]]'' also refers to a side-road, often taken by women or travelers who wanted to avoid thieves.
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Hatate Himekaidou''|姫海棠 はたて}}. The kanji for {{nihongo|姫海棠|Himekaidou}} mean "princess", "sea/beach" and "crabapple tree" respectively. ''Himekaidou'' itself is a kind of [[Wikipedia:Malus sieboldii|toringo crabapple]]. ''[[Wikipedia:Hime kaidō|Hime kaidou]]'' also refers to a side-road, often taken by women or travelers who wanted to avoid thieves.


===Design===  
===Design===
A tengu with brown eyes, and long brown hair in pigtails with purple ribbons. She wears a pinkish shirt with purple trim on the collar and a thin black tie, a black band around one arm, a purple tokin, a skirt in black/purple checker pattern with a floral pattern on the purple, a small brown pouch on her hip, thigh-high black socks (which are rolled down just below her knees), and pale purple-ish red geta sandals with purple straps. She carries a camera, looking like a modern cell phone, with a yellow/dark yellow checker pattern, a heart on it, and a brush hanging from it like a charm.  
Hatate is shown to have brown eyes, and long brown hair in pigtails with purple ribbons. She wears a pinkish shirt with purple trim on the collar and a thin black tie, a black band around one arm, a purple tokin, a skirt in black/purple checker pattern with a floral pattern on the purple, a small brown pouch on her hip, thigh-high black socks (which are rolled down just below her knees), and pale purple-ish red geta sandals with purple straps. She carries a camera, looking like a modern cell phone, with a yellow/dark yellow checker pattern, a heart on it, and a brush hanging from it like a charm.


Hatate's clothes have a lot of purple color. Purple color symbolizes "mystic" or "royalty". "Mystic" might be associated with her spiritual powers. "Royalty" might refer to ''Himekaidou'' - princess. It may be also a reference to the deadly sin, "pride".
Hatate's clothes have a lot of purple color. Purple color symbolizes "mystic" or "royalty". "Mystic" might be associated with her spiritual powers. "Royalty" might refer to ''Himekaidou'' - princess. It may be also a reference to the deadly sin, "pride".


==Story==
==Story==
[[File:Hatate-whh.png|thumb|left|150px|Hatate's appearance in Wild and Horned Hermit]]
===Spin-off games===
;''Double Spoiler''
;''Double Spoiler''
:{{Main|Double_Spoiler#Story|l1=Double Spoiler Story}}
:{{Main|Double Spoiler#Story|l1=Double Spoiler Story}}
Hatate is the second playable character in ''Double Spoiler''. During the Spoiler Stage, she confronts Aya, and has a picture-taking showdown with her, all the while debating the pros of her journalistic style and the cons of Aya's journalistic style.
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Sanae appeared as a Spoiler [[stage]] target (after the Extra stage), who confronts Aya, and has a picture-taking showdown with her, all the while debating the pros of her journalistic style and the cons of Aya's journalistic style, forcing Aya to take photos of her [[spell card]]s. Hatate has a unique way of [[danmaku]], and that is taking her own photo's of Aya's [[hit box]]. If defeated, Hatate becomes the second playable character, having to re-visit all the cast characters and take photos of their spell cards Aya has already covered, hence the word "Double" in the game's title. The gameplay with Hatate with extremely similar to Aya, with minor differences.


In ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', she and Aya appear to be covering [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]]'s nuclear reactor experiment, which may point to Hatate trying to collect field data.
;''Hopeless Masquerade''
[[File:Th135Hatate.png|frame|Hatate in ''HM'']]
Hatate made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Myouren Temple]] and [[Genbu Ravine]] stage. She is seen standing on top of the temple in the former and on a pipe in the latter, taking photographs with her thoughtography camera.
 
;''Impossible Spell Card''
In ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'', Hatate (been one of the [[tengu]] mentioned by [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]) takes notice of minorities trying to capture the mischief-making [[amanojaku]] [[Seija Kijin]], who also appears to be one of the many [[youkai]] that tries to capture her on day 6. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge. She apparently writes up an article about this, which makes stronger [[human]]s and [[youkai]] try to capture Seija.
 
===Literature===
;''Wild and Horned Hermit''
In ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', she and [[Aya Shameimaru]] appear to be covering [[Kanako Yasaka]]'s nuclear reactor experiment, which may point to Hatate trying to collect field data.


==Relationships==
==Relationships==
===Aya Shameimaru===
===Aya Shameimaru===
As of Double Spoiler, Hatate regards Aya as a rival newspaper writer and competitor.
As of ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Hatate regards Aya as a rival newspaper writer and competitor.


===Minor Relationships===
===Minor Relationships===
;[[Momiji Inubashiri]]
;[[Momiji Inubashiri]]
Hatate appears to somewhat admire her colleague ''[[Momiji Inubashiri]]'''s senses of sight and smell, and is rather impressed by her spell cards.
Hatate appears to somewhat admire her colleague ''[[Momiji Inubashiri]]'''s senses of sight and smell, and is rather impressed by her [[spell card]]s.
 
;[[Tenma]]
;[[Tenma]]
Hatate's chief is ''[[Tenma]]''.
Hatate's chief is ''[[Tenma]]''.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Th125cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', featuring Hatate's silhouette
File:Hatate-whh.png|Hatate's appearance in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''
</gallery>


==Spell Cards==
==Spell Cards==
{{hidden begin|title = Spellcards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}
{{hidden begin|title = Spell cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}
{{#lsth:List_of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Hatate Himekaidou]]}}
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Hatate Himekaidou]]}}
{{hidden end}}
{{hidden end}}


==Additional Information==
==Additional Information==
===Trivia===
*A silhouette of Hatate occupies the front of [[Double Spoiler]]'s jewel case.
*A silhouette of Hatate occupies the front of [[Double Spoiler]]'s jewel case. [[File:Th125cover.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hatate silhouetted on Double Spoiler's cover]]
*Her thoughtography camera closely resembles a cell phone of some sort. It was apparently made by the [[kappa]]. It is possible that the kappa reverse-engineered something left behind by someone who was spirited away to [[Gensokyo]].
*Her thoughtography camera closely resembles a cell phone of some sort. It was apparently made by the [[kappa]]. It is possible that the kappa reverse-engineered something left behind by someone who was spirited away to [[Gensokyo]].


===Fanon===
==Fandom==
*Fans often joke that Hatate uses Google Image Search to get all her pictures instead of going outside like [[Aya Shameimaru]]. Even ZUN himself has referred to Hatate's ability as working like Google, in [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Interview|his ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' interview]].
*Fans often joke that Hatate uses Google Image Search to get all her pictures instead of going outside like [[Aya Shameimaru]] does. Even ZUN himself has referred to Hatate's ability as working like Google, in [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Interview|his ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' interview]].
*Hatate's purple clothing and thoughtography ability seem to all point to [[Wikipedia:Joseph Joestar|Joseph Joestar]] of ''[[Wikipedia:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', specifically his part 3 incarnation where he has the stand "Hermit Purple", which can project images of any target in the world onto paper by smashing a camera with it. Aya used to be pictured a lot with Joseph too...
*Hatate's purple clothing and thoughtography ability seem to all point to [[Wikipedia:Joseph Joestar|Joseph Joestar]] of ''[[Wikipedia:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', specifically his part 3 incarnation where he has the stand "Hermit Purple", which can project images of any target in the world onto paper by smashing a camera with it. Aya used to be pictured a lot with Joseph too.
*Because of the purple colors she wears, an artist on [[Pixiv]] has created and popularized an emo version of Hatate called "{{lang|ja|はたたん}}" (hata-tan) who is usually seen with black hair, scars, and bags under the eyes. <ref>http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35059</ref>
*Because of the purple colors she wears, an artist on [[Pixiv]] has created and popularized an emo version of Hatate called {{nihongo|"hata-tan"|はたたん}}, who is usually seen with black hair, scars, and bags under the eyes.<ref>http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35059</ref>
*There's a rather notable catchphrase that western fans have created called "Hataters gonna Hatate", a word play on "Haters Gonna Hate". <ref>{{cite web|url=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/haters-gonna-hate|title=Haters gonna hate|accesdate=23 August 2011}}</ref>
*There's a rather notable catchphrase that western fans have created called "Hataters gonna Hatate", a word play on "Haters Gonna Hate". <ref>{{cite web|url=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/haters-gonna-hate|title=Haters gonna hate|accesdate=23 August 2011}}</ref>
*In the Japanese fanbase she has been associated with {{nihongo|scallops|'''ほ'''たて|hotate}}, due to the similarity with her name ({{lang|ja|'''は'''たて}}).
*In the Japanese fanbase, she has been associated with {{nihongo|scallops|'''ほ'''たて|hotate}}, due to the similarity with her name ({{lang|ja|'''は'''たて}}).
*The pattern on Hatate's skirt is identical to the "missing texture" pattern in ''[[wikipedia:Half-Life 2|Half-Life 2]]'' and other Source-based games, which has lead to jokes among fans.
*Hatate's chequered skirt is identical to the "missing texture" pattern in ''[[wikipedia:Half-Life 2|Half-Life 2]]'' and other Source-based games, which has lead to jokes among fans. This has also been loosely compared to graphical editors such as [[Wikipedia:Adobe Photoshop|Adobe Photoshop]], which uses the chequered pattern show the transparency within an image.


==Official Profiles==
==Official Profiles==

Revision as of 20:29, 1 September 2014

姫海棠 (ひめかいどう)  はたて
çimekaidoː hatate (♫)
Hatate Himekaidou
Hatate Himekaidou
Hatate in Double Spoiler
Modern-Day Spirit Photography Reporter
More Character Titles
Species

Crow Tengu

Abilities

Spirit photography

Occupation

Reporter

Location

Youkai Mountain

Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Hatate Himekaidou (姫海棠 はたて Himekaidou Hatate) is a tengu reporter who produces the Kakashi Spirit News. Unlike her colleague Aya Shameimaru, she never goes outside for her newspaper research. Instead, she uses her ability called thoughtography (念写 nensha). After reading Aya's Bunbunmaru Newspaper, she decided to observe Aya's way of gathering for her articles. She first appeared in Double Spoiler had has only appeared in spin-offs games.

Character Design

Name

Her full name is Hatate Himekaidou (姫海棠 はたて). The kanji for 姫海棠 (Himekaidou) mean "princess", "sea/beach" and "crabapple tree" respectively. Himekaidou itself is a kind of toringo crabapple. Hime kaidou also refers to a side-road, often taken by women or travelers who wanted to avoid thieves.

Design

Hatate is shown to have brown eyes, and long brown hair in pigtails with purple ribbons. She wears a pinkish shirt with purple trim on the collar and a thin black tie, a black band around one arm, a purple tokin, a skirt in black/purple checker pattern with a floral pattern on the purple, a small brown pouch on her hip, thigh-high black socks (which are rolled down just below her knees), and pale purple-ish red geta sandals with purple straps. She carries a camera, looking like a modern cell phone, with a yellow/dark yellow checker pattern, a heart on it, and a brush hanging from it like a charm.

Hatate's clothes have a lot of purple color. Purple color symbolizes "mystic" or "royalty". "Mystic" might be associated with her spiritual powers. "Royalty" might refer to Himekaidou - princess. It may be also a reference to the deadly sin, "pride".

Story

Spin-off games

Double Spoiler

In Double Spoiler, Sanae appeared as a Spoiler stage target (after the Extra stage), who confronts Aya, and has a picture-taking showdown with her, all the while debating the pros of her journalistic style and the cons of Aya's journalistic style, forcing Aya to take photos of her spell cards. Hatate has a unique way of danmaku, and that is taking her own photo's of Aya's hit box. If defeated, Hatate becomes the second playable character, having to re-visit all the cast characters and take photos of their spell cards Aya has already covered, hence the word "Double" in the game's title. The gameplay with Hatate with extremely similar to Aya, with minor differences.

Hopeless Masquerade
Hatate in HM

Hatate made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Myouren Temple and Genbu Ravine stage. She is seen standing on top of the temple in the former and on a pipe in the latter, taking photographs with her thoughtography camera.

Impossible Spell Card

In Impossible Spell Card, Hatate (been one of the tengu mentioned by Mamizou Futatsuiwa) takes notice of minorities trying to capture the mischief-making amanojaku Seija Kijin, who also appears to be one of the many youkai that tries to capture her on day 6. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge. She apparently writes up an article about this, which makes stronger humans and youkai try to capture Seija.

Literature

Wild and Horned Hermit

In Wild and Horned Hermit, she and Aya Shameimaru appear to be covering Kanako Yasaka's nuclear reactor experiment, which may point to Hatate trying to collect field data.

Relationships

Aya Shameimaru

As of Double Spoiler, Hatate regards Aya as a rival newspaper writer and competitor.

Minor Relationships

Momiji Inubashiri

Hatate appears to somewhat admire her colleague Momiji Inubashiri's senses of sight and smell, and is rather impressed by her spell cards.

Tenma

Hatate's chief is Tenma.

Gallery

Spell Cards

Spell cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 5
取材「姫海棠はたての練習取材」 Reporting "Hatate Himekaidou's Reporting Training" DS St. Sp
連写「ラピッドショット」 Continuous Shooting "Rapid Shot" DS St. Sp
遠眼「天狗サイコグラフィ」 Far-sightedness "Tengu Psychography" DS St. Sp
写真「フルパノラマショット」 Photography "Full Panoramic Shot" ISC
GoU
St. 6
写真「籠もりパパラッチ」 Photography "Secluded Paparazzi" ISC St. 6

Additional Information

  • A silhouette of Hatate occupies the front of Double Spoiler's jewel case.
  • Her thoughtography camera closely resembles a cell phone of some sort. It was apparently made by the kappa. It is possible that the kappa reverse-engineered something left behind by someone who was spirited away to Gensokyo.

Fandom

  • Fans often joke that Hatate uses Google Image Search to get all her pictures instead of going outside like Aya Shameimaru does. Even ZUN himself has referred to Hatate's ability as working like Google, in his Symposium of Post-mysticism interview.
  • Hatate's purple clothing and thoughtography ability seem to all point to Joseph Joestar of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically his part 3 incarnation where he has the stand "Hermit Purple", which can project images of any target in the world onto paper by smashing a camera with it. Aya used to be pictured a lot with Joseph too.
  • Because of the purple colors she wears, an artist on Pixiv has created and popularized an emo version of Hatate called "hata-tan" (はたたん), who is usually seen with black hair, scars, and bags under the eyes.[1]
  • There's a rather notable catchphrase that western fans have created called "Hataters gonna Hatate", a word play on "Haters Gonna Hate". [2]
  • In the Japanese fanbase, she has been associated with scallops (たて hotate), due to the similarity with her name (たて).
  • Hatate's chequered skirt is identical to the "missing texture" pattern in Half-Life 2 and other Source-based games, which has lead to jokes among fans. This has also been loosely compared to graphical editors such as Adobe Photoshop, which uses the chequered pattern show the transparency within an image.

Official Profiles

Double Spoiler - Omake.txt
Hatate Himekaidou   姫海棠 はたて


  Himekaidou Hatate

  種族:鴉天狗
  能力:念写をする程度の能力

  彼女は新聞記者なのだが、外へ取材に出かける事は無かった。
  何故なら彼女は念写で写真を撮り、その写真を元に記事を書いていたからである。

  念写とは、はたての持っているカメラにキーワードを入れるとそれにちなんだ写真が見つかるという物だった。

  はたてはそれを便利に思い、家から出る必要性を感じなくなってしまったのだ。

  彼女の書く新聞、「花果子念報」は余り人気が出なかった。
  それはそうだろう。彼女の書いている記事は既に何処かで聞いたことのある出来事ばかりだったのだ。
  念写では情報のスピードと新鮮さに問題があったのだ。

  そんな時、彼女は文の書いた「文々。新聞」に目を付けた。

  「こんなに出鱈目の記事なのに、不思議と魅力があるのは何故だろう。
   他の新聞とネタが被らないのは何故だろう」彼女はその秘密を探りに文の後を付けたのだった。

  彼女はそこで文の秘密を知った。
  事件を記事にしているのではなく、文が事件を起こしているのだと。

Modern Day Thoughtography Reporter


Himekaidou Hatate

Race: Crow Tengu
Ability: Spirit photography.

Hatate is a reporter that never goes outside for her newspaper research.
She takes pictures using thoughtography and uses them for her articles.

Hatate's thoughtography works by inputting keywords for her camera, which she uses to find associated photos.

She doesn't feel the need to go outside because this is convenient.

The newspaper she writes, Kakashi Spirit News, has never been that popular.
This is only natural, for the articles she wrote were things people had heard of already.
Thoughtography lacks speed and freshness.

Then Hatate read Aya's Bunbunmaru Newspaper.

"These articles are utter nonsense, but why do they have this strange appeal? Why is it that its headlines never overlap with other newspapers'?"

In order to find out Aya's secret, Hatate decided to observe her.

That was when she found out Aya's secret.
Aya wasn't covering events; Aya was causing the events themselves.

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35059
  2. "Haters gonna hate". Unknown parameter |accesdate= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)