Hatate Himekaidou

Main Profile

	Name:	姫海棠　はたて （ひめかいどう　はたて） Hatate Himekaidou
	Species:	Tengu
	Abilities:	Spirit photography
	Age:	Unknown
	Occupation:	Reporter
	Location:	Youkai Mountain
	Description:	A tengu with brown eyes, and long brown hair in pigtails with purple ribbons. She wears a white 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 red geta sandals with reddish-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.
	Relationships:	Aya Shameimaru (Rival, colleague) Lord Tenma (Chief)
	Appearances:	Double Spoiler (Playable Character, Level Spoiler Boss)
	Titles:	See Character Titles

A modern tengu reporter who makes a newspaper called "Kakashi Nenpo". Unlike Aya, she never goes outside for her newspaper research. Instead, she uses her ability called "spirit photography". After reading Aya's Bunbunmaru Newspaper, she decided to observe Aya's way of gathering for her articles.

Fun Facts

• The kanji for "Himekaidou" mean "princess", "sea/beach" and "crabapple tree" respectively. The last two kanji together can mean many different types of crab apple trees.
• 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.
• Her spirit camera looks like some sort of cell phone. Since she is "putting in" keywords it makes sense in a way.
• Her camera is made by one of the kappa's, as you can see in Hatate's comments for scene 4-1.

Official Profiles

Double Spoiler - omake.txt

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 Spirit Photographer Himekaidou Hatate Race: Crow Tengu Ability: Ability of spirit photography. Hatate is a reporter that never goes outside for her newspaper research. She takes pictures using spirit photography and uses them for her articles. Hatate's spirit photography 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, Kakako Nenpo, (Kakako Spirit News) has never been that popular. This is only natural, for the articles she wrote were things people had heard of already. Spirit photography lacks speed and freshness. 　 Then Hatate read Aya's Bunbunmaru News. 　 "These articles are ridiculous, so 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 with her articles; Aya was the cause of the events themselves.