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Hatate Himekaidou
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| Species | Crow Tengu |
| Abilities | Spirit photography |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Location | Youkai Mountain |
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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. After reading Aya's Bunbunmaru Newspaper, she decided to observe Aya's way of gathering for her articles.
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Concept
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.
Appearance
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
- Double Spoiler
- Main article: 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 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
Refer to Newspaper section.
Minor or Unknown Meetings or Associations
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.
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
- Some fans joke around saying that Hatate uses Google to get all her pictures instead of going outside like Aya Shameimaru.
- 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]
- Soon after her conception, she has been associated with scallops with the cause being the Japanese word for them is "hotate"" , which sounds similar to her name.
Spell Cards
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- Double Spoiler - Omake.txt
Official Sources
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- ↑ http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35059
- ↑ "Haters gonna hate". http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/haters-gonna-hate.
