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Hatate Himekaidou

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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 makes a newspaper called "Kakashi Spirit News" (花果子念報). 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.

Character Design

Name

Her full name is Hatate Himekaidou (姫海棠 はたて). The kanji for Himekaidou (姫海棠) 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

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'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

Hatate's appearance in Wild and Horned Hermit
Double Spoiler

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 Wild and Horned Hermit, she and Aya appear to be covering Kanako'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.

Spell Cards

Spellcards
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

Trivia

  • A silhouette of Hatate occupies the front of Double Spoiler's jewel case.
    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.

Fanon

  • 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 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 "はたたん" (hata-tan) 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).
  • The pattern on Hatate's skirt is identical to the "missing texture" pattern in Half-Life 2 and other Source-based games, which has lead to jokes among fans.

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)