Fatal Frame/Rei ~zero~: Based on a True Story

"I wonder how long it's been since my brother and I started to see things other people can't see."

* Note * The names in the brackets ( ) are how their original names are pronounced in Japanese.

On a dark September night in 1986, a young college student named Miku Hinasaki (Hinasaki Miku) arrived at the Himuro Mansion to look for her missing brother, Mafuyu Hinasaki (Hinasaki Mafuyu), who went into the mansion himself two weeks ago. Mafuyu went to the mansion to find his friend and mentor, a mystery novelist named Junsei Takamine (Takamine Junsei) , who went there previously to research a book with his editor, Koji Ogata (Ogata Koji) , and a friend versed in the paranormal, Tomoe Hirasaka (Hirasaka Tomoe). Armed with only a flashlight, Miku enters Himuro Mansion, which has a long history of bloodshed, curses, and horrific rituals. She later finds the mysterious camera that Mafuyu had brought with him which their mother had passed down to them that can kill ghosts when pictures of them are taken. During her time in the mansion she sees various apparitions of her missing brother, Mafuyu and also of a young girl on many occasions and an angry female spirit, Kirie, who on many occasions tries to kill Miku.


Character Profile:

Name: Miku Hinasaki
Age: 17 in FF1, 19 in FF3
Family: Masato Hinasaki(father), Miyuki Hinasaki (mother), & Mafuyu (brother).
Occupation: Student/Assistant Photographer
Pet: Ruri
Miku Hinasaki is the youngest of two children from Masato & Miyuki Hinasaki. She wears a comb in her hair that belonged to her grandmother Mikoto. Miku is no stranger to tragedy, as her father mysteriously goes missing on assignment, and she unwillingly is the one to discover her mother's hanging corpse in the back of their garden. After the death of their mother, Miku's older brother, Mafuyu, takes care of her. Miku has the unqiue gift of a sixth sense, so she can see things that other people usually cannot see. However, this 'gift' makes her rather shy, and she finds the only person she can really open up to is her brother.

One fateful day (September 24th, 1986), Mafuyu sets out to search for his mentor Junsei Takamine, who disappeared during a recent assignment involving a new book he was planning to write. After 9 days (or 2 weeks, there's a bit of a discrepency in US/JP versions), Miku goes after her brother, into the Himuro Mansion.

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Her struggles to get her brother back are in vein, as he decides to stay with the shrine maiden Kirie. Miku escapes the underground shrine under the mansion before the cavern collapses. As she walks into the night, she sees the lights of all the formally trapped spirits float up into the sky. After that day, her sixth sense ability seems to have vanished.

Miku is taken in by Yuu Aso, who worked and was friends with her brother Mafuyu. Miku gets a black & white cat (apparently a 'gift' from her deceased parents) whom she names Ruri. Yuu eventually introduces Miku to his fiance Rei Kurosawa, and Miku works as an assistant photographer under Rei. The three live together under the same roof for a while, Miku has her own room where she keeps a photograph of her and Mafuyu on her desk. While Yuu knows that Miku lost her brother, she has never spoken to Rei about it. Miku tries to put the events of those nights behind her, always wearing a smile on her face. Things go well for the trio, until tragedy strikes, and Yuu is killed in a car accident. After Yuu's death, Rei closes herself off from the outside world, so Miku, understanding what it's like to lose someone, takes over the cooking, chores, and runs errands.

About a month (or two) after Yuu's death (2 years since Miku's last adventure), Miku & Rei go on an assignment to take photographs of a supposedly haunted mansion. The trip seems uneventful, until Rei begins having trouble sleeping, and Miku begins to have new nightmares about the Himuro Mansion.

Name: Mafuyu Hinasaki
Age: 21
Family: Masato Hinasaki (father), Miyuki Hinasaki (mother), & Miku (sister).
Occupation: Journalist/Aspiring Novelist
Mafuyu Hinasaki is the oldest of two children from Masato & Miyuki Hinasaki. After the disappearence (presumed death) of his father and mother's suicide, he took care of raising his younger sister Miku. Like Miku, Mafuyu inherited a sixth sense and was able to see things that normal people couldn't. Like his sister, he wasn't vocal about his unique ability to friends or coworkers.

On August 20th, Junsei Takamine, his editor Koji Ogata, and Junsei's psychic assistant Tomoe Hirasaka traveled to the Himuro Mansion for research on Takamine's latest novel. After no word from the group for a month, Mafuyu went in search of Takamine and the others. With him, he took his mother's camera. It's unsure if Mafuyu actually knew the camera would come in handy or knew its unique properties.

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When Mafuyu entered the mansion, he began to retrace the steps of Takamine & the others, while taking notes. The first ghost he encountered was the Bound Man. At one point Mafuyu tried to escape the mansion and was captured by the cursed rope shrine maiden Kirie Himuro. Kirie was under the impression that Mafuyu was her long lost lover, who had been killed since Mafuyu bore a stricking resemblence to the young man.

Mafuyu is eventually rescued by his younger sister Miku, however Mafuyu makes the choice to stay with Kirie, so she isn't lonely and to make sure she doesn't fail at her duty again. As Miku escapes the Himuro Mansion, Mafuyu and Kirie are buried in the underground caverns.

Name: Miyuki Hinasaki
Age: Unknown
Family: Masato (husband), Miku (daughter), & Mafuyu (son).
Occupation: Housewife
Miyuki Hinasaki is the mother of Mafuyu & Miku Hinasaki, and the wife of Masato Hinasaki. She is also the daughter of Mikoto Munakata and an unknown man. Miyuki was born with a sixth sense ability to see things normal people could not. This special gift was passed on to her two children.

Not much is known about Miyuki's life. (We don't even know her maiden name.) Miyuki is the only known child of Mikoto Munakata. She apparently was a student under Masato Hinasaki, and she eventually married him and had his two children. There is hints that this marriage may have been arranged by the Hinasaki family. Miyuki would also assist Masato with his work using her mother's antique camera. (Camera Obscura) Sometime after Masato went missing on an archeological dig, Miyuki found her mother's old camera, and began using it to take pictures of ghosts. Miyuki was normally nervous, which might have caused the adverse effects of the camera to have an even stronger influence over her. Miyuki eventually succumbed to overuse of the camera, and committed suicide by hanging herself. She is arguebly one of only two or three characters whose death is considered a direct result of overexposure to the Camera Obscura. Not surprisingly, her grandmother, Yae Munakata, who she bears a striking resemblance to, also committed suicide by hanging herself due to grief and overuse of the Camera Obscura.

Miyuki is one of the few victims to have died from adverse effects of overusing the Camera Obscura.


Name: Mikoto Munakata
Age: Speculated between 7-10 years old
Family: Yae Kurosawa/Munakata (mother), Ryozo Munakata (father), Miyuki Hinasaki (daughter) & Mr. Hinasaki (guardian).
Occupation: Daughter / Demon Tag Player
Mikoto is the only daughter of Ryozo & Yae Munakata. When her and her parents moved into the Himuro Mansion, things seemed fine for a while. Mikoto made many friends in the nearby area, who would visit and all of the children would play games in the mansion. Then one day Mikoto brought her father a strange camera that was given to her by a strange girl in a white kimono. Her father didn't believe her, and figured she must have found it somewhere in the mansion.

Her mother Yae took the camera, and began taking pictures of Mikoto and the other children playing, but what she captured on film frightened her. Along with Mikoto and her friends, the images the camera took showed frightening images that weren't there, including one picture of Mikoto with a young girl in a white kimono.

Then fate fell upon Mikoto and her friends, as one day (June 24th, year unknown), while playing Demon Tag, the four children vanished. Mikoto reappears in the woods, lead away from the mansion by the mysterious little girl in the white kimono. This also saved her from the fate of her friends, who were ultimately snatched up and killed by the Long Armed ghost in the mansion. She is left with no memory of what happened to her or her friends, and arrives to learn her father and mother are dead. Mr. Hinasaki, a friend of Ryozo Munakata, offers to take care of Mikoto.


Name: Kirie Himuro
Age: 17?
Family: Lord Himuro (relation unknown), Blinded (relation unknown), & Kirie's Lover (lover)
Occupation: Rope Shrine Maiden
Kirie is the main 'villianess' of Fatal Frame I. She is the last rope shrine maiden of the Himuro Mansion Strangling Ritual before the Calamity occurred and the Malice was released.

Demon Tag Ritual
Kirie was chosen as the next Rope Shrine Maiden around the age of 7 during the Demon Tag Ritual. She, along with all the other 7 year old girls of the Himuro family were put in a room. Then, a horrifying Oni appeared (A shrine maiden who had been subjected to the Blinding Ritual). The Blinded shrine maiden went around catching children as she went. Since Kirie was the last girl to be caught, it was deamed she had the holy powers necessary to evade the 'oni' for so long.

Immediately following the ritual, Kirie was put into seclusion from everyone else for the next 10 years. She lived alone at the Himuro Mansion, with hardly any guests and the attending priests for company.

Near the end of her seclusion period, there was a visitor staying at the mansion, the curiousity got the better of her as did the visitor, and soon they met one another unexpectedly in the gardens. Kirie slowly began to fall in love with the stranger, who taught her the names of everything in the garden, and the simple joys of life. During this time, Kirie had a strange dream about a samurai who spoke of a Holy Mirror. He told Kirie that breaking the mirror was the only way to stop the ritual and for her to be with the man she loved.

Suddenly, the young man stopped visiting. Kirie was told by the head priest that the young man had gone back to his villiage. The truth was, that Lord Himuro ordered the man to be disposed of, out of fear that he was becoming too close to Kirie and might cause Kirie not to fulfill her task as the Rope Shrine Maiden. Kirie eventually learned the truth, since she was saw her lover appear to her in a dream. His tragic death made her feel guilty and Kirie was upset that she had gotten the poor man involved in all this.

The Strangling Ritual
At the day of the ritual (December 13th, 1837) Kirie writes in her diary that the mansion is bustling with life, as all of the Himuro family members have come for the ritual (as well as to pick the next blinded & rope shrine maidens). Kirie purifies herself in the Moon Well and is escorted by Lord Himuro and the other priests to the strangling room. Kirie is tied down by her hands, neck, and feet, and each of the priests turn the gears connected to the corresponding rope, strangling kirie to death. The blood soaked ropes are then taken and bound in front of the hellgate.

Due to her doubts, guilt, and wish to live, Kirie's ropes don't work, and the Hell Gate swings open releasing the Malice and shattering the Holy Mirror which begins to spread through the entire mansion.

As the Malice possess' Kirie's spirit, her spirit splits into two forms, her adult form possessed by the malice, and her younger child form, untainted. It is this younger form which tries to find a way to free the mansion of its curse and fulfill her duty.

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

"Didn't we promise each other… that we would always be together?"


Twin sisters Mio Amakura (Amakura Mio) and Mayu Amakura (Amakura Mayu) are visiting a childhood play spot when Mayu, who walks with a perpetual limp after a childhood accident, follows a mysterious crimson butterfly deep into the woods. Mio, concerned for her twin, follows Mayu, and the two girls are led to a lost village. While curiously empty, the village appears to have been cursed by some past event. The curse appears to be related to a failed ritual of human sacrifice involving twins, where one twin is forced to kill the other in a sacrifice.

As the Amakura twins investigate, they discover the Camera Obscura and are set upon by ghosts. Separated from her sister, Mio becomes determined to save Mayu and escape before they meet the same cursed fate as the village's former residents. Unfortunately, Mayu, the more spiritually aware of the twins, becomes possessed by the vengeful spirit of the last murdered shrine maiden, Sae, who tried and failed to escape with her twin sister and now seeks to complete the horrifying ritual through Mayu and Mio.

Character Profile:

Name: Mio Amakura
Age: 15
Family: Shizu Amakura (mother), Misao Asou (father), Kei Amakura (uncle), & Mayu Amakura (twin sister)
Occupation: Twin Sister
Mio Amakura is the main heroine of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly and the niece of Kei Amakura, one of the side characters from Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. She's an identical twin to her sister Mayu, and was born second. While her spiritual power isn't as strong as Mayu's, she still has some spiritual power. Through her father, Misao Asou, she and her sister are directly descended from Dr. Kunihiko Asou.

When Mio & Mayu were little (around 3-5 years of age) they lived and played in the Minakami area. It was there that their father, Misao Asou, mysteriously disappeared. Soon after the disappearance of their father, their mother Shizu Amakura, moved the family away from the area. She simply told the girls their father had died, although it is more than likely that Shizu had a very good idea of what Misao's true fate had become.

Many years later (1988), Mio's mother fell ill and had to be hospitalized. Both of the girls fell under the care of their uncle, Shizu's younger brother, Kei Amakura. Around the same time, the girls hear that their childhood playground is about to become buried underwater as a result of a dam being built in the Minakami area. So the twins decide to visit the area one more time.

This is where the game starts


Name: Mayu Amakura
Age: 15
Family: Shizu Amakura (mother), Misao Asou (father), Kei Amakura (uncle), & Mio Amakura (twin sister)
Occupation: Twin Sister
Mayu is the older twin sister of Mio. She has a very strong sixth sense. Do to her injury, Mayu can't walk very fast, and always walks with a limp. When Mio & Mayu were littled Mio playfully ran away from Mayu in the forest. Mayu, trying to keep up, slid and fell, resulting in a permanent limp to her right leg. Mayu's worst fear is being left behind by her sister. When her and Mio are visiting their secret place in the forest, she spots a crimson butterfly and chases after it.


Name: Misao Amakura (Asou) *not in the game*
Age: Unknown
Family: Shizu (wife), Mio Amakura (daughter), Mayu Amakura (daughter), Kei Amakura (brother in-law) Dr. Kunihiko Asou (unknown relation), & Yuu Asou (unknown relation)
Occupation: Unknown
Misao Asou is the father of Mio & Mayu Amakura. We hardly know much about him. He is a direct descendent of Dr. Kunihiko Asou, but we're not exactly sure how. This also makes him related in some way to Yuu Asou, however how the two characters are related has not been revealed.

We do know that when Misao Asou married Shizu Amakura, he took her last name. The reason for this is unknown, but there is fan speculation it was to escape the last name of Asou, since Asou family members seem to suffer untimely deaths in the Fatal Frame Series.

When Mio & Mayu were very young, Misao Asou became lost in the nearby woods of the Minakami area. He is specifically noted to have 'found' the Lost Village. His ultimate fate is unknown, however his wife Shizu told her daughters that their father had died. It is more likely that Shizu knew what the fate of her husband was, since she soon after moved out of the area.


Name: Shizu Amakura *not in the game*
Age: 46
Family: Misao Aso(u)/Amakura (husband), Mio Amakura (daughter), Mayu Amakura(daughter), and Kei Amakura (brother)
Occupation: Unknown
Shizu Amakura is the mother of Mio & Mayu Amakura (the heroines of Fatal Frame II). Her younger life remains a bit of a mystery. Her only known family is her younger brother Kei Amakura.

One day, Misao didn't return from the forest. Eventually Shizu came to the realization that Misao had been spirited away, so she told her daughters that their father had died and doesn't speak of the matter further. To make matters worse, while playing in the forest, Mayu severly injured her leg, which left the girl crippled for the rest of her life. It was these reasons that made Shizu decide to move away from the area.

Several years later, Shizu had to be hospitalized (exactly why isunknown). Due to this, Shizu left both Mio & Mayu in the care of her younger brother Kei. She is presumeably still in the hospital getting treatment.


Name: Yae Kurosawa/Munakata
Age: 15 in FFII, possibly 45 in FFI?
Family: Ryokan Kurosawa (father), Sae Kurosawa (twin sister), Ryozo Munakata (husband) and Mikoto Munakata (daughter)
Occupation: Twin Shrine Maiden
Childhood:
Yae's story begins in Minakami village (All God's Village) where she grew up as a child with her twin sister Sae. Yae was the second born twin, but according to the laws of the village, she was considered the 'elder' twin. Being twins in this particular village, it's possible they didn't have many friends except each other. (Save for the Tachibana twins Itsuki & Mutsuki.) Both sets of twins were at least close on a friendship level, since notes the siblings left seem to suggest as such.

Then, when Yae & Sae turned 14, Itsuki & Mutsuki Tachibana attempted to partake in the Crimson Ritual. It was a failure. This failure then brought Yae and her sister into the role as the next Shrine Maidens to perform (and successfully complete) the task. However, Yae was against it. It's unknown how much of the actual ritual is 'known' to the paricipants beforehand, but since Yae's father was the ceremony master, and a former twin himself, it is possible she knew more than she should have. Yae had serious doubts about the ritual, and even voiced such concerns to her father, who tried to smooth things over with her. All Yae wanted to do was escape with her sister. While Yae & Sae were in their cleansing/purification period of their ritual, a couple of visitors came to the village. They were folklorists, wishing to study the area. Yae seemed interested in the younger boy called Ryozo, even flashing in a flirtatious look or two.

When the time of the ritual came, Itsuki helped Sae & Yae escape into the forest. Yae kept going, not looking back, while Sae tried to keep up behind her. Sae ended up slipping and falling (on purpose). Yae, who was too frightened to stop, kept running and became lost in the forest

When Yae finally made her way out of the forest, the Repentence occurred, destroying the entire village, and causing it to disappear. All that was left was the Torii gate entrance to the village. The loss had such a great effect on Yae (or possibly the Repentence itself), that she lost her memories. Ryozo finally arrived at the entrance, only to discover a crying Yae at the gate saying over and over again that she was sorry.

Some time past, and eventually Yae became Ryozo's wife and they were blessed with a daughter Mikoto. Ryozo had become a folklorist in his own right.
Adulthood:
Yae and Ryozo took their daughter Mikoto and moved into the Himuro Mansion. One reason Ryozo cited as his wife's fragile health, and the other was his research. For a while, the family lived there without incident. Until one day, Mikoto found a strange camera. She gave the camera to her father. Yae's curiousity over the camera got the best of her, and she began taking pictures all over the mansion with it. That's when she realized this wasn't an ordinary camera. Images that weren't there before began to appear in the photos, including horrific images of ghosts. Yae couldn't stop herself though, and soon she could see the ghosts without the camera's aid.

Then Mikoto and her friends disappeared. Yae was horrified, she knew that the ghosts must have been responsible for taking her daughter away, and she also blamed herself. She wrote a suicide note to her husband, and then hung herself in the backyard of the mansion. Yae never learned that Mikoto was in fact alive and actually had been saved by one of the ghosts.

Her husband Ryozo found her body, shortly before his own death.

Yae's spirit in the Himuro mansion was released with the others when her great-granddaughter Miku Hinasaki finally broke the mansion's curse


Name: Sae Kurosawa
Age: 15
Family: Ryokan Kurosawa (father), Yae Kurosawa (twin sister),
Occupation: Twin Shrine Maiden
Sae is the older twin sister of Yae and daughter of Ryokan. Sae always wanted to participate in the ritual so she would 'become one' with Yae. She agreed to runaway as long as she could be with Yae. However, she ended up changing her mind and purposely fell to get caught thinking Yae would stop and get caught too. Yae kept going, and left Sae behind. Sae went to see the imprisoned Itsuki, and discovered he had hung himself. Blaming herself for his death, she decided to go ahead with the ritual, hoping that Yae would come back in time to perform it. Yae never came back, Sae was hung, and her body was thrown into the Hellish Abyss. Sae reemerged with her Kusabi, brought the darkness & malace, and slaughted the villagers. She possesses Mayu and continually mistakes Mio for (Yae) asking Mio if she's going to leave her again. Sae's 'benevolant' form continues to weap over Itsuki's death and apologise for what has happened.


Name: Seijiro Makabe/ Kusabi
Occupation: Folklorist
The Kusabi are also people sacrificed within Fatal Frame II. Their purpose is to keep the Hellish Abyss at bay until the Crimson Ceremony can be performed. (IE inbetween the 10 years of each ceremony) The very first kusabi was also the first ceremony master, who cut himself and threw himself into the Hellish Abyss to calm it. With the exception of the first ceremony master, all Kusabi were 'outsiders' who came to the village.

When a victim to become a kusabi was captured, they would be taken to the inner sanctum of the Kurosawa mansion & suspended by ropes. While suspended, the priests would cut into the victim's flesh with the top of their staves. (The more a Kusabi suffered, the more successful he/she would be.) The victim was then taken down (still tied up) and taken to the Hellish Abyss. The 'kusabi' would then be thrown into the abyss (while still alive) by the morners.

Failed Kusabi were Kusabi who died (most likely of shock & bloodloss) before they could be thrown into the Hellish Abyss. Their bodies were carelessly disguarded (or buried) in the corridor leading to the Hellish Abyss.

The main Kusabi of Fatal Frame II is Seijiro Makabe, our folklorist.

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

"I'll go on living... even with the pain..."


The game follows Rei Kurosawa (Kurosawa Rei), a 23 year old freelance photographer. While on a freelance assignment taking pictures of a supposedly haunted mansion, the image of her deceased fiancé appears in the photographs. Afterwards, Rei begins having strange recurring dreams. In these dreams, she finds herself at an old Japanese manor house during a heavy snowfall and observes her fiancé entering the house. Seeking to again see him, she follows his figure into the house, where the dream becomes a nightmare. Waking up gasping from a particularly frightening encounter, Rei notices a mysterious and threatening tattoo slowly appearing on parts of her body.

Accompanying Rei is Kei Amakura (Amakura Kei), a friend of her deceased fiancé and non-fiction writer and uncle to the Amakura twins, Mio and Mayu, as well as Miku Hinasaki (Hinasaki Miku), the heroine from Fatal Frame I,who is now Rei's assistant. Mio appears briefly at various points in the game and the red flying butterflies also briefly recurs from the previous episode

Character Profile

Name: Rei Kurosawa
Age: 23
Occupation: Freelance Photographer/journalist
Rei is a 23 year old freelance journalist. After the death of her boyfriend/fiance in a car accident, Rei is given a photographying assignment to take pictures of a reportedly 'haunted house'. Upon taking a photograph, the photograph revealed the image of her deceased boyfriend. As she searches through the mansion, Rei is discovering a weird snake-like tattoo appearing on her body. What is also unnerving, is that several of the spirits she sees in the house have it too.


Name: Kei Amakura
Age: 26
Family: Shizu Amakura (sister), Misao Amakura (brother-in-law), Mio Amakura(niece) & Mayu Amakura (niece).
Occupation: Journalist/Folklorist
Kei says he worked with Mafuyu under Junsei Takamine, but he has an interest in researching folklore, as evident in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. He was also good friends with Yuu Aso. While looking into the disappearance of his niece Mayu (who he suspects, like Takamine, has been 'spirited away'), Kei comes across the Camera Obscura in the Minakami village. The camera seems to have a negative impact on his niece Mio, who appears frightened and distressed by it. Kei sends the camera to his friend Yuu Aso(u) for safekeeping. Soon after the discovery of the camera, Kei's niece begins to sleep more and more, as well as complain of nightmares. As Kei researches into the cause of Mio's affliction, he realizes that Mio's symptoms are like similar to those mentioned in the 'House of Sleep' urban legends. Kei continues to write to Yuu about his findings, as well as asking for help, unknowning that his friend has died in a car accident.

As Kei researches more, he too begins to show symptoms of the curse, including having nightmares of a strange tattooed woman. He sees Mio in his dream where she speaks to herself, blaming herself for her sister Mayu's disappearance. As Kei tries to search for a cure, both in the dreamworld and out of it, he and Mio fall deeper and deeper under the curse's spell. In his dreams, Kei also meets a ghost with long hair, who keeps calling him 'Akito'. She continues to ask him why he left and didn't come back for her.

Kei then goes to visit Rei, and learns that her housemate, Miku Hinasaki, Mafuyu's younger sister, has fallen into a deep coma due to the curse. Putting their heads together, Kei tells Rei he thinks he knows of a solution to end the curse. He tells Rei that they must go to the Chamber of Thorns in the House of Sleep and impale the maiden with the sacred stakes. This should be the reason why she's walking around, and will end everything.

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As Kei drifts asleep he wanders through the mansion, collecting the sacred impaling stakes needed to complete his task, however, when he actually gets to the chamber of thorns he is met with a horrifying sight. There is the priestess Reika, whose body is lying right next to her fallen lover Kaname, but her hands and feet are already impaled with spikes! Suddenly, the spikes of the impaled priestess loosen, and the body of the priestess lurches upright. Reika instantly goes after Kei, and everything goes black.

Rei Kurosawa wakes up from her disturbing dream of Kei and rushes downstairs to where he was sleeping on the couch. Kei is no longer there, only the familiar black soot stains of where his body once lay. The final symptom of the curse that marks the end for the victim.

Alternative Ending:
In the alternative ending of Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, Kei Amakura is saved and awakens from the curse on the couch. His niece Mio also awakens from her slumber and finally gets over the disappearance (ie death) of her sister Mayu. Kei also introduces Mio to Rei and Miku.

Name: Yuu Aso(u)
Age: 24
Family: Rei Kurosawa (fiance), Dr Kunihiko Aso(u) (unknown relation), & Misao Aso(u) (unknown relation)
Occupation: Aspiring Folklorist / Editor
Yuu Aso(u) is Rei Kurosawa's fiance, who has tragically died by the beginning of Fatal Frame III due to a car accident where Rei was at the wheel. It is Yuu's death that sets in motion the events that slowly lead Rei into the House of Sleep 2 months later.

Yuu studied anthropology and folklore in college, which is where he and Rei first met. Rei makes note that Yuu had a very kind gentle disposition, like gently falling rain. Yuu Aso(u) was very good friends with both Mafuyu Hinasaki and Kei Amakura. The three seemed to share research material and information whenever possible. Mafuyu and Yuu were exceptionally close, since Mafuyu asked Yuu to promise that if anything ever happened to him, Yuu would look after his younger sister Miku.

So when Mafuyu mysteriously disappeared 2 years ago, Yuu gratiously took Miku in to live with him. He introduced Miku to his fiance Rei Kurosawa, but didn't speak of Miku's brother or past. The three lived well under the same roof, each had their own room, and Yuu's room was at the very end of the hallway. Besides books on folklore and religious studies, Yuu also collected old radios. It is one of these radios that contains one of the two stone earrings that Dr. Kunihiko Aso(u), Yuu's ancestor, used to create the very first spirit stone radio.

After Yuu's death, Rei left most of Yuu's room the same, hardly going into it. She also set up a small memorial altar on the first floor which had Yuu's picture on it.

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After solving the mystery of the House of Sleep, Rei runs into Yuu one last time, among the spirits of the dead 'crossing over'. She begs to go with him, that she can't bear to be left alone anymore. Yuu tells her he understands how she feels, but that she needs to continue living on. That as long as she's alive, he'll live on through her. As a final gesture, Yuu absorbs the snake and holly tattoo that has fully adorned Rei's body, and crosses over with the other spirits.

[in order]
Amane Kuze
A handmaiden Miku meets in her dreams who is looking for her brother. she is Kaname's sister, and is also looking for her brother (so she especially feels a kinship to Miku Hinasaki!). He hair is tied in pigtails, and she is one of the four 'pacifiers'. The Pacifiers are miko-like girls with hammers and mallets who each represent a cardinal direction and nail the tattooed maiden in place during the ceremony. Aname has two pigtails and represents South. She is a Kuze family member by birth. Due to her part in helping her brother enter into the Chamber of Thorns, Aname is killed by the other three handmaidens.

Amane is by some means the kindest of the other pacifiers. In her diary, she talked about how her mother told her she had a brother, but her mother told her not to tell anyone. She also wrote about how she was happy that she could help diminish Reika’s pain. It also seems that she cares about Reika. It is also safe to assume that both of them converse a lot. She also wants to help Reika and Kaname, who were lovers meet again although it was forbidden

Minamo Kuze
One of the four girls who is assigned to nail the tattooed shrine maiden in place. Each represents a cardinal direction and has her own room filled of dolls. Minamo has short hair with hairclips on both sides, and represents West. She was adopted as a Kuze member to serve as a handmaiden under Reika.

Shigure Kuze
One of the four girls who is assigned to nail the tattooed shrine maiden in place. Each represents a cardinal direction and has her own room filled of dolls. Shigure has short hair that is half tied up, and represents East. She was adopted as a Kuze member to serve as a handmaiden under Reika.

Hisame Kuze
One of the four girls who is assigned to nail the tattooed shrine maiden in place. Each represents a cardinal direction and has her own room filled of dolls. Hisame has long hair that reaches her back, and represents North. She was adopted as a Kuze member to serve as a handmaiden under Reika. Hisame is also the oldest and was the last chosen.

Hisame is the oldest of the four pacifiers Amane, Shigure and Minamo. She is also the most dutiful of the four(and also possibly the most brutal). It is also safe to assume that the Kuze family mistress trusts her most because there was a scene in the game when the family mistress spoke to her behind the veil and also because she was the one chosen to carry out the ‘rest of the duty’.


Name: Reika Yukishiro/Kuze (Irezumi no miko - Tattooed Shrine Maiden)
Reika is the main villian and ghost of the game. When living in her village, she cared for a boy named Kaname Otozuki. However, while he was away the village was completely destroyed (by unknown forces) killing her mother, father, and brother. After this, she was approached by Yashuu Kuze and decided to become a Tattooed Shrine Maiden to help others who had experienced pain and loss similar to hers. She completed her task, but her ritual failed when she witnessed the brutal murder of her lover, Kaname Otozuki right before her very eyes.

Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse(?)


About the game:
The game's name is Rei: Tsukihami no Kamen aka Zero: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
It will be released to the Wii console.
Tecmo is hoping for a summer 2008 release date.
The image colour of the game is yellow.
The main keywords are memory, moon, and mask.
The location appears to be an abandoned western house.
Something concerning retrieving lost memories.

So yes, Fatal Frame 4 for the Wii. There is currently no further information on IF there will be a port to the Xbox360 or PS3 consoles.

False Rumors
Mio is the protagonist of Fatal Frame 4
This rumor started with an infamous fake famitsu article. It started as an april fool's prank, but got way out of hand. (Although, if you can read Japanese, you can clearly tell the article is fake.) There has been NO announcement concerning ANY characters (returning or otherwise) in Fatal Frame 4. It can also be argued that if the first ending of FF3 is the 'canon' ending, then it would be nearly impossible for Mio to be a main character.

Other 'rumors' listed in conjunction with this rumor:
Fatal Frame 4 will be set after 2 years of The Tormented
The main character will be Mio Amakura (she'll be 17 y/o in FF4): the game will start in the High School attended by Mio at Tokyo, but the main adventure will be in a forest at the south of Kyoto
The environment will be totally free of exploration, there will be a realistic physics for the water, the objects and the fire
The graphic engine allows a lot of simultaneous special effects
Ghosts will be more hard to defeat
To defeat ghosts, Mio will use Camera Obscura, but she'll need some amulets to survive against strong ghosts
Exclusive for Playstation 3, at the E3 2006 (mid-may) the first trailer, FF4 will be sold in Japan in the August 2007
The new look of Mio will be showned at the E3 2006: these are images from Fatal Frame 2, except the image in the low-right, that is an in-game screenshot of the forest of FF4
Makoto Shibata, the producer of the game, is very fulfilled about the new home-console of Sony: "With the Playstation 3, I can finally create a game without thinking about technical limitations"
The game will also use the Eyetoy if available
The temporary title of the game is "The Legacy"

The Truth:
This is a manipulated scan from a scan previously released famitsu article reporting Fatal Frame III for the first time. A 'DEAD' giveaway is the title's name: Zero: A Latest Work (what FF3 was originally called in Japan before it was named Zero: Shisei no Koe) and the kanji by Mio says 'Rei Kurosawa' not 'Mio Amakura'.


I got these info from this sight:
http://www.cameraslens.com/ff4.php
OR
http://www.cameraslens.com/
Check em out! I didn't put all info in here. ^^