“ | I can't allow you to tell another living soul about what I did to you... ...so I'm afraid I'm going to have to fix it so you can't ever say another word again... *pant* *pant* *wheeze* *wheeze* *wheeze* You like that? You like that?! YOU LIKE THAT?!?! Damn you ! Damn you ! Damn you ! If I ever see you in my dreams again, I'll be back. I'll kill you as many times as it takes. | ” |
—Takamine Yanagihori, Corpse Party (PC) (CHAPTER 5) |
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Takamine Yanagihori (柳堀 隆峰 Yanagihori Takamine ) (1917 - 1975) is a minor character introduced in Corpse Party (PC) and the principal of Heavenly Host Elementary School.
He is the father of school teacher Yoshikazu Yanagihori. He's the overarching antagonist who's responsible for Sachiko Shinozaki and Yoshie Shinoazki's deaths which begins the curse and the events of the Heavenly Host saga in the Corpse Party series.
Design[]
Takamine is a middle-aged man of below average height and above average weight. He has slicked-back black hair and a black mustache. He wears round-lens glasses with a golden frame, a white shirt, a black tie, and a bole-colored suit. In Corpse Party (PC), his suit is purple, and his tie is gold with white dots and has grey hair and a grey mustache. As a spirit, his skin is gray, his clothes are ripped, and the frames of his glasses seem to have been broken.
In the live action movie, Takamine's bald and doesn't have a mustache. His glasses aren't round-lens.
Personality[]
As a principal of Heavenly Host Elementary, Takamine seemed to be quite popular among the townsfolk in Tenjin for his charismatic personality, his work ethic, and his firm but fair school policies. Due to his dedication, Heavenly Host became a cornerstone of life within the humble town of Tenjin. He was respected by the teachers, students, and the townsfolk.
Spoiler Warning!: Spoilers for Corpse Party (PC), Corpse Party (PSP, iOS) , Corpse Party (3DS) and Corpse Party (Switch, PS4) follow
Not with standing all of the above, there's more to Takamine than how he appears on the surface. He committed a dehumanizing and violating rape attempts to one of his own colleagues and close friends with unexplored motives. He killed her by inadvertently tripping her down the steps after she sidestepped his attempt and ran off, only to garrote her daughter to death for witnessing the display. In the end, Takamine gets his retribution after the Shinozaki curse forces him to reiterate his death for all eternity as punishment for his heinous crimes against Yoshie and Sachiko.
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Plot[]
Corpse Party[]
Spoiler Warning!: Spoilers for Corpse Party (PC), Corpse Party (PSP, iOS) , Corpse Party (3DS) and Corpse Party (Switch, PS4) follow
CHAPTER 5[]
Takamine is responsible for the deaths of Yoshie Shinozaki and Sachiko Shinozaki. After his attempt to rape Yoshie, he accidentally pushes her down the stairs while in a rage, killing her. Sachiko witnesses the scene, and to keep her quiet about it, he strangles her to death. He told the authorities that Yoshie had simply slipped, and he hid Sachiko's body in the basement of the school.
After the killings, Sachiko began getting into his mind, driving him mad. His delusions made him believe that she may still be able to tell someone about what he did. To stop her from doing so, he cut out her tongue. This, however, did not help, and his mental state grew progressively worse.
He ended his life by jumping from the roof of the school before it was demolished and is now forced to repeat that action for the rest of time.
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Etymology[]
- The name Takamine means "noble, prosperous" (隆) (taka) and "peak, ridge" (峰) (mine).
- Takamine's surname Yanagihori means "willow" (柳) (yanagi) and "moat, ditch, canal" (堀) (hori).
Trivia[]
- Takamine's name has been erroneously spelled as Takamine Yanagihore in a note in CHAPTER 4 of the English version of Corpse Party (PSP, iOS).
- There is another principal in Corpseparty; Musume, but he is not Takamine.
- Takamine is the heaviest character in the entire series, at 92.0 kg/202 lbs.
- Takamine, Masato Fukuroi, and Mikio Tsubota share the same voice actor in the PSP version of Corpse Party.
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