#Hikaru Hana

[easternmind]

Yesterday I tweeted about the long and difficult process of my communication with Kikuko Iwano, the artist behind the cult Macintosh CD-ROM Hikaru Hana (Shining Flower). We've been exchanging emails for the better part of a year but I was not able to make any meaningful progress. I was mostly looking for whatever information and artwork she could provide about the two other interactive projects she was involved with, Phibos: Suisei o Otte, released in 1995 by Mizuki (later renamed Spike); and Lakis ~Minato-machi Musou Kidan~, which I knew had been completed but never published.

In response, the great @mara-ganger pointed out to me that Phibos had been uploaded to Internet Archive earlier this year. Considering I've waited years to play the game, I wasted no time setting up a Macintosh emulation program. I edited out some of the more repetitive parts of my playing session as the game requires going up and down the forest paths until random encounters result in the acquisition of a special item.

A boy named Yoni is looking for his grandfather who went missing. He travels to a mysterious forest named Gurioza where he encounters a fallen star. Finding his grandfather and helping the star back to the firmament appear to be the interactive storybook's ultimate goals. There is a variety of interesting details I've noticed in only a few minutes: for starters, there is a reference to Shining Flower in a framed picture in the wall of a café. There is also an uncanny event in which Yoni meets a Kitsune-like entity who shifts into his shape. The sequence is in beautiful black and white and characters are designed to simulate an eerie motion blur effect (15m45s).

To round it all out, here are some fine pen and brush artwork which Kikuko Iwano produced for the project when she was in her twenties.

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[ 🦖 Kamen Rider Revice Morning Cat Tweet Pt. 1]

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宇多田ヒカル - 何色でもない花 Hikaru Utada - A Flower of No Color

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hehehhhehehheee

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Utada Hikaru - Naniirodemonai Hana (CDTV Live! Live! 2024.02.26)

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Kamen Rider Revice (2021) ↳ Episode 34: “The Demon Is Calling the Demon”

bonus!

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It's been ten weeks since I started to take an interest in Precure.

I made some gifs by feeling

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I finished revice TTTT here’s a doodle dump of george + weekend kids

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Born to be a Flower (Ep 3)

When you get emotional being able to relate to the teddy bear. 🐻

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twewy revice

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Cover art of Hikaru Utada’s upcoming single ‘Naniirodemonai Hana’ (A Flower of No Color), out on 12 February!

A special campaign has started. Pre-add/pre-save/pre-order the upcoming single on Apple Music/Spotify/iTunes. 300 randomly selected people will win a special sticker, and every applicant will receive an exclusive digital wallpaper. The campaign on iTunes starts from 7 Feb.

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Hana: Yeah, I'm gay! <3 Genta: Oh, Hikaru's gay too, you guys should hook up! :) Hikaru: huh. Hana: That's not how that works lmao Tamaki: WHAT. Sakura: He's still new to this, I'm sorry. Hana: It's okay!

inspired by FrtingGlitter's viral tiktok audio. posted on tiktok here.

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