This work became famous through anime and manga, but the original was a computer game by the doujin circle "07th Expansion". The genre is a sound novel, and the director and scriptwriter is Ryukishi07. The game, manga, and anime are all divided into a question section and an answer section, and are structured so that you cannot grasp the whole picture of the work unless you play and read both. The official title is "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" with the "na" in red, and even in the English version, "When They Cry" with the "C" in red. The cute characters give it a cruel and thrilling story, which is hard to imagine, and it is also an excellent horror work. In this article, we will explore the core of Takano Mishi, who is the key to all worlds, such as what kind of person she is and why she was researching Hinamizawa Syndrome.
Profile of Takano Miyoko
Her voice actor is Ito Miki. Her real name is Tanashi Miyoko. She is a nurse at a clinic in Hinamizawa and is a female character who can be said to be the final enemy of "Higurashi When They Cry".
She inherits the will of Takano Hifumi, her savior who saved her from a miserable situation, and pursues research on the Hinamizawa syndrome, but she gradually becomes insane because she is not recognized by the world.
Miyoko, who became Takano Hifumi's granddaughter, began to call herself "Takano Miyoko". After Hifumi's death, she called herself "Takano Sanshi" to hide the fact that she was his granddaughter.
The kanji comes from the fact that her grandfather called her "Miyo" and that Sanshi will make bigger what Hifumi has built up.
Her beloved children's lunch
Born to close parents, Miyoko was showered with love and grew up as a cheerful and bright girl.
When her father was off work, the family would go to the department store and eat children's lunches. Miyoko's favorite pastime was collecting the flags that came with the children's lunches.
When I look at Miyoko at this time, I can't understand why she ended up like that. She is such a pure and cute girl.
You can't help but sympathize with her... Takano Miyoko has a painful past.
After losing her parents in an accidental train accident, Miyoko is sent to a children's home with no relatives.
Her father tries to give her the phone number of his teacher, Takano Hifumi, on his deathbed, but Miyoko has no idea what he is saying.
This is where Miyoko's hellish life begins. The adults in the home enjoy abusing children. Who will be hit next? What terrible things will they suffer?
The children live in fear every day, because if they are even noticed, they become prey for violence. Meanwhile, one of the roommates plans an escape. The three, including Miyoko, carefully plan their escape and attempt it.
In the middle of their escape, Miyoko finds a phone booth. She realizes that the phone number her father mentioned before dying is Takano Hifumi's, and somehow manages to jog her memory and call Hifumi. The call doesn't go through...
Just when she is about to give up, Hifumi gets through. Finally, she is saved! ...But just as she thinks this, she is caught by the adults chasing her and taken back to the facility.
My lifesaver, Takano Hifumi and Hinamizawa Syndrome
Suspicious of Miyoko's phone call, Takano Hifumi tracks down her location and goes to pick her up from the facility. Miyoko was finally saved, but while living with Hifumi, she had flashbacks of the abuse she experienced,
and was unable to adjust to life there. Hifumi treats her kindly, saying, "Miyoko is now my granddaughter. You can think of me as your grandfather and depend on me."
With these words, Miyoko opened up and started a new life. It was around this time that she began calling herself Takano Miyoko.
As Hifumi was researching the Hinamizawa Syndrome, she helped him out, feeling a strong desire to help her grandfather in any way she could and to have his research recognized by the world.
Takano Hifumi had a huge presence in Miyoko's life, and her later strong determination to "save her grandfather's research" was formed during this childhood.
Takano Miyoko, who takes over the research and changes
After Hifumi's death, Miyoko took over the research on Hinamizawa syndrome, but she changed her name from Takano Miyoko to Takano Miyoko because she didn't want people to think she was doing the research for personal reasons.
With the strong support of Koizumi sensei, the research progressed by leaps and bounds, but she felt frustrated because she couldn't get active cooperation from Rika's parents, who are queen infected, and gradually began to conduct her research by any means.
Blaming it on the curse of Oyashiro-sama, they use two of them as subjects for human experiments every year, and the research becomes insane, and Professor Irie and Jiro Tomitake begin to feel fear.
At this point, you can see that he is no longer obsessed with his original goal of "for his grandfather," but with "making the research successful." There is no way that kind-hearted grandfather would want to conduct insane human experiments.
The Mysterious Woman and the "Hinamizawa End Operation"
Takano continued his out-of-control research, but with the death of Professor Koizumi, the research was terminated. Naturally, the research lab in Hinamizawa is evacuated, and Takano is at a loss as to what to do.
At that moment, a mysterious woman calling herself Nomura approaches from Tokyo. She tempts Takano to carry out "Operation Hinamizawa End" by killing Rika, the queen infected person, and carrying out a sterilization operation, in order to succeed in her research.
Nomura has no interest in research at all, and is driven by political motives, and I think Takano is vaguely aware of this. However, Takano thinks that "terminating the research = the very existence of Hinamizawa Syndrome will disappear = losing the opportunity to have her grandpa's research recognized,"
and so, knowing that it is a terrible plan, she decides to carry out "Operation Hinamizawa End". Nomura must have known that Takano had no choice.
The end of Takano, who shoulders a tragic fate
In the world outside of "Festival Music Arc", Rika is killed and the "Hinamizawa End Plan" is successful, but in "Festival Music Arc", Hanyuu declares war on Takano, and Rika decides to fight with her classmates, Oishi, Akasaka and others on her side to protect herself.
And so begins the battle between Takano and Yamainu team vs. Rika team, with the fate of Hinamizawa at stake. After being repelled by Rika and her friends in this battle, the Yamainu raise the white flag, and their leader Okonogi, impressed by Mion's strong leadership skills, urges Takano to commit suicide.
However, Takano is unable to accept reality and runs away. Enraged by Hanyuu and her friends who chase after him, Takano explodes with rage, but Rika performs a miracle and stops the bullets. Takano has given up on everything, but Tomitake Jiro approaches him gently and embraces him, saying "I forgive your crimes," before being taken to Tokyo.
A terrifying obsession! Who is Takano Sanshi, the source of this tragedy? Summary
What did you think?
Takano Misi's past is told in the "Festival Music Arc", so I think your impression of her will change greatly before and after watching it.
Before watching it, she was a beautiful, cruel, psychopathic woman (lol). She had a harsh experience in her childhood, and her feelings for Takano Hifumi, who saved her from that predicament, were so great that they could not be expressed in words, and were absolute within her.
That is why she acted in a way that would achieve her goal, and she could not turn back. Although Tomitake Jiro was always by her side at one point, he eventually left her, and in the end, his support was perhaps the only thing that saved her. Takano Mishi is the character who expresses joy, anger, sorrow and happiness more than anyone else throughout the entire series of Higurashi. Please watch the series and experience her charm for yourself.
By the way, in stories unrelated to the main story, such as "Shameful Exposure Arc," she exudes a different kind of charm as a sexy yet laid-back character.
