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Michelle Dominick's Fatal Frame 2/Ju-On horror project

__ Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly/Zero: Akai Chou video synopsys: __
media type="youtube" key="KkPIQeU_2S8" height="344" width="425" (some of the commercial is in English and those parts are the most important, the rest is in Japanese), [|small bio of Fatal Frame 2]

 Written synopsys/ plot :
There are various subjects that the plot of Fatal Frame touches on. I will briefly explain all of the main plot points. The game is centered on two female characters name Mio and Mayu. (longer unofficial bio written [|here])

Rituals happen to come up a lot during the game. You vaguely hear about it when you are introduced to a character Itsuki, when he tells you to get you and your sister out of the village. The rituals take place in a hidden underground called the Hellish Abyss. Every ten years a set of twins is sacrificed to stop Malice from destoying the Lost Village. When the Malice is let loose from the Hellish Abyss, the Repentance, when the ghosts come out and haunt the town, floods the Lost Village. When there are no twins to sacrifice, the Mourners ("priests") have to sacrifice outsiders of the village. These outsider are called the Kusabi when sacrificed. When preforming the sacrificing ritual with twins, the younger twin must kill the older twin. The twin who is left is called the Ramaining and a red butterfly mark shows on their neck, signifying their role in the ritual (this only works when the ritual is done right, afterwards, they are feared and respected by he villagers). When preforming the ritual with a Kusabi, they are tortured and thrown into the Hellish Abyss alive. It was thought that if the victim survived the immence pain, the would be thrown into the Hellish abyss and it would be please even more when the victim was in extreme pain.

There were two sets of twins (before the game takes place) that went through the ritual. The first set of twins (Itsuki and Mitsuki) were boys trying to get the girls out of doing the ritual, which ended up failing. The second set of twins (Yae and Sae) had to go through with the ritual and decided to run away with Itsuki's help. Sae got caught running away and was used as the sacrifice. Yae ran away with Sae, but never got caught. Sae and the previous Kusabi were the main ghosts of the Repentance and went to kill everyone in the Lost Village. the village had dissapeared, caused by the Malice, and when Yae tried to return, she had not found the village. A folklorist named Ryozo came by (by the reqest of the now dead Itsuki) to help out the twins, but he got there too late. He ended up marrying Yae and having a daughter named Mikoto (significant in the first game).

The set of twins that the player controls are MIo and Mayu (you mainly take contol of Mio). They have come to the Lost Village through the forest that they love to play in when they were little. Mayu started toward the village first then Mio tried to follow her (encountering the ghost of Sae on her way up the path) and caught up to Mayu at the entrance of the Lost Village. The first house they go into is the Osaka house, where they find the Camera Obscura (a very effective weapon against the ghosts). They meet the previous visitors of the village at the Osaka house, Masumi Makimura and Miyako Sudo (they had gotten lost and Masumi was killed by the Kusabi, he then killed his girlfriend Miyako).

Mayu follows a set of crimson butterflies (where the game dirives it's name from) to the Kurosawa House. Mio tried to follow, only to get shut out by the doors. Mio looks around for some way to get through the doors and meet Itsuki's ghost who instructs her to get a set of keys. When Mio is able to get through the door and get inside the house, she encounters the malicious ghosts of Sae and the Kusabi. Mio outruns the Kusabi and finds her sister. They have to sepperate for a while after being reunites, much to Mayu's dimay, because Mayu get locked up by the ghosts and can't get out. Mio has to go get a key, but when she comes back, Mayu is gone.

Mio goes to find Mayu, but when she finds her, Mayu doesn't answer to her calls. Mio goes into the Kiryu House to retrive her sister, she encounter Sae yet again in the Tachibana House. She runs from the ghost, dropping her flashlight and camera, and flee to the Kiryu House. She later goes back to get her dropped items, then returning to the Tachibana House via underground passageway. Upon returning, Mio meets a ghost by the name of Chisote, who has a key that Mio need to resue her sister from another locked room. After the defeat of Chisota, Mio get the key and frees Mayu.

When Mio discovers that there is indeed a way to get out of the village, the twins head to the Kureha Shrine, where they may be able to leave. they have to get family crests of the four head family that had lived in the village; Kiryu, Kurosawa (which they have), Tachibana and Tsuchihara. By the end, you are left with a decision, go back for Mayu who was captured be ghosts to complete the ritual, or to leave with out her. (flashback of Sae and the village's victims)

ENDINGS:
media type="youtube" key="N3fuj5ychUk" height="344" width="425"normal ending media type="youtube" key="mYCZ7U3NUrE" height="344" width="425"runnaway ending media type="youtube" key="na1crOFT7Po" height="344" width="425"nightmare ending media type="youtube" key="sXYRMBvNc9U" height="344" width="425"Promise ending (Xbox exclusive; in japanese) *Note: Onee-chan means big/older sister in Japanese. 

__ Ju-On/The Grudge video synopsys: __
media type="youtube" key="Sicuc0XH-K8" height="344" width="425"(Japanese, the 2003 movie)

__ Written synopsys: __
"A volunteer home care worker, Nishina Rika, enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators, who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Izutni Toyama, a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house, but whose son was never found. But when the angry "Ju-On" spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries to kill Toyama and his daughter, Rika realizes that the horror is spreading. Worse, unless something is done about it, she feels she may become the angry spirit's next victim!" (taken from [|joblo.com])

The Ju-On curse takes place around a real Japanese belief. This belief is that ghosts will haunt the place that they were killed at if they were killed under an extreme emotion, such as rage, anger, or sadness. The ghosts usually become very hostile towards any person that enter that house, regardless of relationship.

__ comparisons/links between the series': __
====Fatal Frame 2 and Ju-On are similar because the both deal with ghosts. The ghosts are put under much presure when the were humans and killed up horrible circumstances. ====


====Fatal Frame 2 ideals with togetherness and never leaving each other. The twins being sacrificed is an example of that. Another example is of Itsuki and Mitsuki, when Itsuki killed his twin, he had already prepared to kill himself, even before he agreed to help Yae and Sae escape the Lost Village. The same could apply to Ju-On. The ghosts are eternially boud to the house together forever. They live out their life as ghosts where they had died. The theme of togetherness is predominant in each. ====


====Ju-On and Fatal Frame 2 also revolve around the idea that you could still have a life after death (being a ghost). Even though they don't have physical bodies, they can still live in the human world. They are usually not visible until they're bothered, but sometimes could be nice. (in these two particular items, that's not the case, most of the ghosts are vicious and try to harm the visitors)====