Hatate Himekaidou
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Hatate Himekaidou is a news reporter and crow tengu from the Touhou franchise. She acts as the end boss for Double Spoiler and becomes a playable character after having been defeated.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Much like her fellow Tengu and competitor Aya Shameimaru, Hatate produces her own newspaper, the Kakashi Spirit News. Much unlike Aya, however, Hatate never does any actual "field research" for her articles, but rather uses "thoughtography" - which essentially means she looks up interesting images on her cell-phone/camera and then writes articles based around them. Given that most of said images already were published as part of pieces from other outlets, Hatate's news usually are out-of-date, and the Kakashi Spirit News is considered unpopular even when compared to Aya's notoriously sensationalist Bunbunmaru newspaper.
Hatate eventually starts doing field research of her own after Aya defeats her during the events of Double Spoiler.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Hate appeared in 8chanmania XXII. She cheated fellow journalist Tintin out of the match via the old chair trick and would go on to pin down both Baiken and Alice Fateburn XVI, but then was forced into submission by John Doe.
Her second known appearance was during 8chanmania XXIV. She trade to get a big scoop by reporting on Hammerman, but the later merely went full hammertime on her.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Hatate's "camera" has a striking resemblance to a clamshell-style flip phone. Right in the nostalgia.
