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Hata no Kokoro
Hata no Kokoro hata no kokoɽo Kokoro Hata More Alternative Spellings | |
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 Hata no Kokoro in Antinomy of Common Flowers The Expressive Poker FaceMore Character Titles | |
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Manipulating emotions |
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Approximately 1300 years[2], recently sentient |
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"Since I had to memorize emotions logically, I got good at reading the emotions of others."— Hata no Kokoro
(Antinomy of Common Flowers Stage 3)
Hata no Kokoro (秦 こころ) is the main antagonist of Hopeless Masquerade and a menreiki youkai. She relies on her masks to show her emotions to others, as her actual face is emotionless and can be likened to a poker face.
General Information
Kokoro first appeared as the Final Boss of Hopeless Masquerade, later appearing in Urban Legend in Limbo as a playable character.
Personality
Kokoro naturally has a quiet, child-like personality but also a love of the stage, and relies on her masks to properly communicate her emotions. These emotions can be said to be stored inside the masks, as when she lost the Mask of Hope, her behavior became erratic. Before that, though, she was very quiet and hardly let any emotion show. After the events of Hopeless Masquerade, she manages to stabilize her personality by developing a sense of self.
Abilities
- Manipulating emotions
Each of the masks which make up Kokoro embodies powerful emotion, and will impress that emotion on the holder and those around them. When all 66 masks are together, their effects complement each other and are under Kokoro's full control. If an individual mask is separated from the group, it retains its properties, but Kokoro will lose the ability to feel that emotion completely. Losing her Mask of Hope caused Kokoro to become unstable and leech hope from her surroundings, until she was able to compensate by developing emotions separate from her masks'.
Possessions
Kokoro has a total of 66 masks, each depicting an individual emotion. During the events of Hopeless Masquerade, she is unable to express emotions without using these masks. Typically, she just uses the masks that represent joy, anger, pathos, and humor. These masks were created by Toyosatomimi no Miko, who later creates a replacement Mask of Hope modeled on her own face. The masks Kokoro uses at some point in Hopeless Masquerade and their most likely corresponding emotions:
- Young woman (Ko-omote, lit. "small face"): Joy
- Hannya: Anger
- Old woman (Uba): Pathos, melancholy
- God of happiness (Fuku no kami): Humor, laughter
- Hyottoko: Cheerful
- Monkey: Confusion, awkwardness
- Thunder and lightning (Raiden): Surprise
- Fox: Determination, seriousness
- Lion Dancer: The specifics are unknown, most likely some form of joy
In addition to this, Kokoro has a Naginata, which she uses a weapon.
Kokoro's original Mask of Hope is described by Koishi, who possesses it, as resembling a Jizo statue.[3]
Kokoro briefly uses a number of substitute Masks of Hope as part of her attempts to stabilise her emotions, including festival masks (which are not very effective), and a mask specially crafted by Miko herself (which is too effective, and would cause her to stop existing as a youkai).
Backstory
Hata no Kokoro is a menreiki, a type of tsukumogami, born from 66 masks used by Hata no Kawakatsu in the sixth century. The masks themselves all became tsukumogami, and eventually coalesced into the youkai Kokoro, and appeared in Gensokyo at some point.
Before the events of Hopeless Masquerade, she somehow lost her Mask of Hope. This caused the entire Human Village to start losing hope, and sparked the events that occur in the game. At first, she tried to balance the rest of the emotions of her masks, but losing just the one ended up driving her berserk.
Character Design
Origin
Hata no Kawakatsu is known as the father of Sarugaku theatre (a precursor to Noh), and is the centre of a legend which would connect him to Mononobe no Futo, Toyosatomimi no Miko, Myouren Temple, and perhaps even Moriya Shrine.
In the legend, as told in Zeami's Fūshikaden, Kawakatsu was found in a jar as a baby on a river near Oomiwa Shrine during the reign of Emperor Kinmei. He grew up to be a genius, so the court made him a minister and given the surname Hata. When the country was in turmoil, Prince Shoutoku ordered Kawakatsu to perform 66 plays following Shinto and Buddhist traditions, and had 66 masks made for this purpose. These plays became the first Kagura, from which Sarugaku was later derived.
After passing down the secret of his plays, Kawakatsu rode a boat and drifted out to the sea to uphold the tradition that non-human deities and Buddhas mustn't leave physical remains. He next came ashore in monstrous form, and haunted the surrounding area until he was enshrined by the local people as Great Rage Daimyoujin (大荒大明神 Taikou Daimyoujin), who was later regarded as an avatar of Bishamonten.
Name
Her full name is Hata no Kokoro, with Hata as the surname and Kokoro as the given name. Hata (the Japanese reading of Chinese surname Qin 秦) clan was an eminent Chinese immigrant clan mentioned in Nihon Shoki. It's also the surname of the masks' original user — Hata no Kawakatsu, who's said to be the reincarnation of First Emperor of Qin Dynasty in Zeami's Fuushika-den.
Her given name is written entirely in hiragana and means 'Heart' (心 kokoro) in Japanese. 心 is also in the Japanese title of the game about her: Hopeless Masquerade (心綺楼 shinkirou).
Design
Kokoro has waist-length pale pink hair, and blank eyes of the same colour. She wears a blue plaid blouse, adorned with buttons of various shapes (from top: red star, yellow circle, green triangle, and purple X). Her salmon-coloured skirt is pumpkin-shaped, and lined with holes in the shape of alternating smiling and frowning faces (both are the same pattern, flipped vertically). She always wears one of her 66 masks over some of her face.
Appearances
Games
The story starts with Kokoro losing her mask of hope, causing the emotions embodied in her remaining masks to go berserk and begin draining the hope from the Human Village. This in turn leads the humans to latch onto religious leaders as sources of hope, as part of the "duelling fad".
Reimu Hakurei and the others participate in the religious popularity contest and are eventually guided by Mamizou Futatsuiwa to the Human Village at night, where Kokoro searches in vain for her lost mask. Most of the characters who try to stop her come up with their own solutions to her hopelessness, including Byakuren Hijiri teaching her Buddhism to control her own emotions and Toyosatomimi no Miko making her a replacement mask of hope, but none of them completely work.
Mamizou notices the contradictory actions Kokoro is taking and offers her own advice, which is to stop relying on the masks and discover her own, true emotions through meeting (and fighting) a variety of people. In the process of doing so she discovers her own anger at the religious leaders who are taking advantage of the situation, and Reimu, Byakuren, and Miko team up to stop her. Byakuren and Miko both claim that their solutions solved the problem, and Kokoro is invited to the Hakurei Shrine to perform Kagura as an offering to the gods.
The story begins with Kokoro imitating the Kuchisake-onna and asking various people if she was pretty, with those people trying to repel her by saying the word pomade, but it doesn't work with Kokoro saying that she is the "new and improved Kuchisake-onna" and attacks them. Nitori, one of the people she encounters, reminds her that she is a mask youkai and it's later revealed that one of Kokoro's masks was cracked.
Kokoro opts to get Miko to fix the mask, only for Mononobe no Futo to tell her that she was away at the shrine doing some important business. Futo then notices the occult balls that Kokoro possessed. She then wonders why Kokoro would be possessing occult balls as Miko was supposed to have collected them all. Futo then decides she'll take the balls from Kokoro and give them to Miko. After being defeated, Kokoro asks Futo is she was pretty before continuing her quest to find Miko. When Kokoro finally encounters her, Miko tells her that she was busy and cannot fix her mask at the moment. Miko notices the occult balls Kokoro had as well, and tries to defeat Kokoro for them, but fails. Kokoro then heads back to the human village to practice her Kuchisake-onna routine, and after finding out that the Kuchisake-onna attacks her victims regardless of whether they say she's pretty or not, decides to skip the question and attack right away. Afterwards, Sumireko Usami comes up to her and after Kokoro notices her foreign weapons and abilities, she feels the emotion of surprise for the first time in a while.
In Antinomy of Common Flowers, Kokoro lends Nitori Kawashiro her power over emotions to aid in the reverse engineering of Perfect Posession.
Kokoro's Dream World self appears in Tenshi Hinanawi's scenario, very angry at the celestial's personality.
Literature
Sometime during the ending of her Hopeless Masquerade route, Kokoro performs Noh at the Hakurei Shrine in an attempt to stabilise her emotions, hiding her identity as a youkai. While popular at first, audiences are unable to understand her "play", which turns out to be based on illustrations from an old tengu parody. Noticing this, Mamizou approaches Kokoro and helps write Shinkirou, a modernised comedy based on the events of the religious war.
Relationships
While she was still alive, Miko created the 66 masks which Kokoro was born from. Miko later makes Kokoro a new mask of hope to replace her lost one. However, Kokoro discarded this mask, as its stabilising effect was so powerful that it would eventually cause her to turn back into a set of inanimate objects. Her feelings towards Miko over this are unknown.
Mamizou keeps an eye on Kokoro during the events of Hopeless Masquerade and gives her some advice to help her develop her emotions. Afterwards she helps write Shinkirou for Kokoro to perform.
Kokoro considers Koishi her arch-enemy, for finding her old Mask of Hope and refusing to return it.
Gallery
Covers
Cover of Hopeless Masquerade, featuring Kokoro's silhouette.
Cover of Hopeless Masquerade OST, featuring Kokoro
Artworks
Kokoro artwork from Hopeless Masquerade
Kokoro artwork from Urban Legend in Limbo
Sprites
Kokoro's different color palettes from Antinomy of Common Flowers, Urban Legend in Limbo, and Hopeless Masquerade, the last two were added in Antinomy of Common Flowers v1.10
Illustrations
Skills
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Usage | ||
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| 吼怒の妖狐面 | Roaring Youkai Fox Mask | Buddhism-aligned | HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable 6C 6C | ||
| 怒声の大蜘蛛面 | Shouting Giant Spider Mask | Buddhism-aligned | HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable 4C 4C | ||
| 憂嘆の長壁面 | Sighing Osakabe Mask | Shinto-aligned Not named in ULiL or AoCF |
HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable Charged B attack Charged B attack | ||
| 憂心の鬼婆面 | Melancholic Ogress Mask | Shinto-aligned | HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable 5C 5C | ||
| 歓喜の獅子面 | Delighted Lion Mask | Taoism-aligned | HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable 2C 2C | ||
| 狂喜の火男面 | Enraptured Hyottoko Mask | Taoism-aligned | HM ULiL AoCF |
Equippable 8C 8C | ||
| こころのルーレット | Kokoro Roulette | No alignment | HM | Equippable | ||
| 美的カウンター | Aesthetic Counter | Aided by Occult Ball | ULiL AoCF |
A+B with Occult Ball A+B with Occult gauge | ||
Spell Cards
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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| 怒面「怒れる忌狼の面」 怒符「怒れる忌狼の面」 |
Angry Mask "Mask of an Angry Hated Wolf" Anger Sign "Mask of an Angry Hated Wolf" |
HM HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Story Use Use | |||
| 憑依「喜怒哀楽ポゼッション」 | Possession "Four Humors Possession" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
| 憂面「杞人地を憂う」 | Melancholy Mask "The Man of Qi Worries about the Earth" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
| 「仮面喪心舞 暗黒能楽」 | "Dance of the Empty-Hearted Masks: Noh of Darkness" | HM | Use-LW | |||
| 憂符「憂き世は憂しの小車」 | Melancholy Sign "The Melancholic World is a Melancholic Cart" | HM | Story | |||
| 喜符「昂揚の神楽獅子」 | Joy Sign "Invigorated Kagurajishi[4] | HM | Story | |||
| 「モンキーポゼッション」 | "Monkey Possession" | HM | Story | |||
| ＊これでもアタシ、キレイよね？＊ | *I'm Still Pretty Like This, Right?[5]* | ULiL AoCF |
Use-LW Use-LW | |||
| ＊口裂けの感情＊ | *Slit-Mouthed[5] Emotion* | ULiL | Story | |||
| 水面符「ミズバクマスカレード」 | Water Mask Sign "Water Bomb Masquerade" | Co-owner with Nitori | AoCF | Story | ||
| 面風符「喜怒哀楽風水術」 | Mask Wind Sign "Four Humours' Feng Shui Art" | Co-owner with Futo | AoCF | Story | ||
| 面符「喜怒哀楽発狂マスカレード」 | Mask Sign "Four Humours' Maddening Masquerade" | Used by Kokoro's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
Additional Information
- A silhouette of Kokoro occupies the front of Hopeless Masquerade's jewel case.
Fandom
Official Profiles
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彼女はコロコロと感情を変える。 その性格とは裏腹に本体は無表情だった。それが自我を保てない理由だという。 そう、学ぶ手段といったらアレしかない！ |
Around and around, she changes emotions. In contrast to that personality, her actual face is emotionless. This is said to be the reason why she cannot maintain her self identity. |
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○表情豊かなポーカーフェイス 秦 こころ（はたのこころ） 種族：面霊気 猿楽の祖 秦河勝（はたのかわかつ）が使っていたお面が時を経て お面の数は六十六。 それぞれに全て感情が割り当てられているが、流石に多いので普段は
本来の彼女はそれぞれの感情がバランスを取り合い安定しているが、 実は、安定していると殆ど感情を表に出さない。何事にも興味を示さず、 |
The Expressive Poker Face Hata no Kokoro Species: Menreiki A youkai created, after a long time had passed, from the masks used She has a total of sixty-six masks. Each and every mask has an emotion assigned to it, but since there are quite too many,
Originally, she stabilized herself by having each emotion hold their balance with each other, In fact, when she's stabilized, she hardly lets any emotions show. She shows interest in nothing, |
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戦慄せよ！悪夢の能面女
秦こころ オカルト名 「口裂け女」 必殺技を使うたびに感情モードが切り替わり オカルトアタックの「美的カウンター」は、１ラウンド |
Shiver! The Noh Mask Woman of Nightmares
Hata no Kokoro Occult Name "Kuchisake-Onna" As she uses her finishing move, she switches modes; she’s an emotionally unstable character whose projectile performance and such go through dramatic changes. Her Occult Attack, "Aesthetic Counter", is an all-purpose body-blow technique that grants 1 counter to the opponent when they’ve been attacked at least once per round. Once successful, it changes to a shooting attack that fires aura blades. |
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能面で感情的な面霊気
秦こころ 「大変です あらゆる感情を操る面霊気 感情を操る彼女の力は思わぬところで異変と繋がっていた 自身の感情を変化させることでスタイルが変化する |
Expressionless and Emotional Menreiki
Hata no Kokoro "This isn't good! A menreiki who can manipulate any emotion. Her power to control emotions was linked to the incident in an unexpected way. A technical character who can change her fighting style by changing her emotions. |
Official Sources
- 2013/05/26 Hopeless Masquerade - Final boss and playable character
- 2013/08/26 ~ 2013/09/26 Forbidden Scrollery chapters 10-11
See Also
References
- ↑ According to the in-game script, this is how it is represented. The "の" is actually a part of the furigana that make up the "秦" kanji.
- ↑ She is the mask set that was used by Hata no Kawakatsu who is believed to have lived approximately during the sixth century.
- ↑ From Koishi's Scenario, Stage 7
- ↑ A type of religious lion dance
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A reference to a modern youkai called the kuchiske-onna.
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