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(Manaka Nemu)
Manaka NemuruisCLOCKUPgame produced by "euphoria" and its derivative works.andUmineko When They Cry'sBeatrice
"Manaka" means "center," and "Nemu" is homophonous with "sleep."
Introduction
A second-year student at Rokkeikan Academy and Keisuke's classmate. She is a beautiful girl of mixed heritage who always maintains a composed and haughty attitude. She entices the protagonist to release his sexual fetishes and shows a ruthless side to others. Throughout the main story, she toys with Keisuke using a fickle and meaningful attitude.
story
The protagonist Keisuke, waking up in a daze, finds himself in a white room with his childhood friend Kano Hazuki, class representative Ando Miyako, junior Makiha Rika, English teacher Aoi Natsuki, classmate Shiraya Rinne, and classmate Manaka Nemu. To escape this white space, Keisuke is forced to follow the system's instructions and play an unlocking game.
Character Profiles
It seems to beThe hidden GM of the Paradise Unlocking Game, who has been enticing Keisuke to reveal his dark and tyrannical nature. From the beginning, she demands that Keisuke use Kano Hazuki as the "unlocking" target, but if Keisuke does not comply, she will demand that he remain faithful to his chosen target until the end.
Her true purpose is to make the originally cheerful and sunny Keisuke bear hatred and be covered in wounds after unleashing his bestial nature of humiliating women...?
Her relationship with others can hardly be called harmonious, and she seems to have a tendency to target Keisuke's childhood friend,?Hokari Kanae.
There seems to be someone namedBeatrice's alternate-universe counterpart.
An outstanding actress, she always manages to turn the tables in the Paradise Unlocking Game just when Keisuke thinks he has conquered her. Her sadistic behavior in the Academy Arc leaves a bitter taste in players' mouths, yet she remains the first choice for "unlocking" for most players. However, some gentleness and kindness seem to leak through in subtle moments. (Perhaps another parallel world) First, an example: Ando Miyako is someone who does not exist outside the unlocking game, so this unlocking game must be able to produce "cognitive impairment." Then, from the perspective of the OVA: using this point, for most of the time within the unlocking game, others' mistaken perception of Manaka Nemuru is Hokari Kanae, while for most of the time, others' mistaken perception of Hokari Kanae is Manaka Nemuru. However, when the perception switches or is restored remains unknown. *: This conclusion is based on the suspicious points and words spoken by Manaka Nemuru in the final scene of the Shiraya Rinne: Reincarnation Chapter in the OVA, where she puts on a white lab coat.
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Her true identity is the core of the Paradise Project—the next-generation biological core of Sleeping Beauty, capable of weaving beautiful dreams beyond the reach of ordinary people for others who enter this virtual world. In her childhood, while with the person in charge of Sleeping Beauty,who was also a spy,—Kanae's mother, she got separated and met Takatou Keisuke. Thus, led by the young Keisuke, Nemuru saw the sky for the first time, tasted candy for the first time, and had her first pet—a kitten, planting seeds of attachment and unconditional trust for Keisuke in her heart. However, after a brief period of happiness, both were captured by the organization. Shortly after she personally erased Keisuke's memories,believesKeisuke disappeared. For Nemuru to voluntarily become the core, she had to be utterly desperate about the outside real world. Therefore, she witnessed countless cruelties and betrayals of humanity from a young age. However, forKeisuke TakatouNemuru, who harbored feelings of love, she still believed there was light in the world, and thus could not abandon the real world due to despair, refusing to comply even under the organization's control. Later, as a transfer student, she reunited with Keisuke at Rokukeikan Academy. In theHokari Kanakilling game orchestrated single-handedly, Keisuke, in order to save Nemuru,After being stabbed to the brink of death by Hokari Kanae,, Nemu had no choice but to submit to Hokari Kanae. To drive Nemu to complete despair, the final boss Hokari Kanae chose a guaranteed-win plan—letting Nemu control the unlocking game, forbidding her from telling Keisuke the truth. If Keisuke killed Nemu in the game, Keisuke would be spared and given medical treatment; if Keisuke did not kill her, Keisuke himself would die. Being killed by her beloved Keisuke would bring her despair, but if Keisuke died, she would suffer even more. Ultimately, Nemu chose to protect Keisuke at all costs, so she initiated this dark unlocking game just to make Keisuke hate her and kill her. Therefore, even though Nemu's true personality is gentle, shy, and understanding, to save the Keisuke she deeply loves, she did not hesitate to play the role of a villainess. She repeatedly provoked Keisuke and other women, urged Keisuke to choose the same unlocking target, made him sink into a vortex of lust, and pretended to be the culprit behind the killing game and the transformation of the academy into a hell of carnal desire. However, even under these malicious disguises, Nemu would still hum the "Star Song" Keisuke taught her when she was alone, reminiscing about their precious memories; or, under the guise of malicious teasing and temptation,using her mouthto feed Keisuke her favorite candy.
If Keisuke chose the fake childhood friend Hokari Kanae, Nemu would take various retaliatory actions against Kanae. This was not because she hated Kanae, but because she knew that Kanae, who acted like a saint in the unlocking game, would only truly lead Keisuke to his death. Thus, she could only use the bullying of Kanae to make Keisuke hate her and kill her first. However, she was stopped by Kanae when Keisuke was strangling her during the unlocking game. If Keisuke chose "unrelated persons" like Byakuya Rinne, Makiha Rika, or Aoi Natsuki, Nemu would build a happy "paradise" for them, letting Keisuke forget her and live in a sweet dream without any pain or worries... Because Keisuke refused to enter the illusory paradise, Nemu's dream world collapsed. After Keisuke expressed his desire to bring her back to reality and escape, Kanae took Nemu and betrayed the organization. 3 years later,under Kanae's orchestration,the amnesiac Nemu reunited with Keisuke and promised to relive their happy childhood memories. "Even if you have completely forgotten, as long as I still remember you."  |
Character Relationships
Keisuke Takatou
The person Manaka Nemu cares about the most. In the Paradise Unlocking Game, she always acted against Keisuke, ranging from seduction to mockery and even provocation. It seemed as if she did it just for her own amusement,?stirring up Keisuke's ♯♯ and anger, explaining that it was to "see the real Keisuke." She perfectly portrayed the image of a femme fatale. However, she would occasionally show a gentle side and played an important role in Keisuke's rescue operations.For example, being beaten by Keisuke。
However, to achieve the perfect ending, one must also conquer Hokari Kano.
Hokari Kana
Regarding Hokari Kano, in the Unlocking Game, Nemuru was very displeased with Kano, who always exuded a "Holy Mother" aura; in the Academy Arc, she even used Kano as a tool to blackmail and torture Keisuke, even turning her into a human washing machine。
Byakuya Rinne
In the Unlocking Game, she didn't seem to care much about Shiraya Rinne, who was like a serious model student, but in the Academy Arc, she became arch-enemies with Rinne's Paradise Cult.
Except for Rinne's route, after capturing Rinne, she would embed her into a concrete wallturned into a ♯♯♯, but in fact, she had no personal grudge against Rinne; it was more about using her to stimulate Keisuke's ♯♯ and the anger he felt to avoid succumbing to it.
Rinne retaliated; in Rinne's route, she had the cultists punish Nemuru under the guise of "purification"♯♯ humiliation。
Rika Makiwa
In the Unlocking Game part, she sneered at Makiwa Rika's disregard for others and mocked her various embarrassments, but she would still lend a hand at critical moments. In routes other than Rinne's, she also made Rika her little sidekick.
In Rika's route, Nemuru made the captured Rika and Kano play a "game": one of them must die, and the survivor gets to leave with Keisuke.
In the Academy Arc, she was ruthless towards Rika, who had become her sidekick,engaging in doggy play, and even using Shiraya Rinne and Rika to form a certain "circulatory organism"。
Natsuki Aoi
Nemuru's English teacher. In the Unlocking Game, Nemuru's attitude toward others was not very good, and the teacher was no exception.
In the School Arc, Natsuki, who previously faked her death, assists and protects Nemu as a mysterious figure in black. When Rinne's cult attacks the gymnasium, Natsuki appears and defeats the cult members. However, in Rinne's route, Natsuki does not appear.
In Natsuki's route, Natsuki does not appear as a mercenary. Nemu
In the Kichiku route, Keisuke tells Nemu that he wants to violate the person in black, and Nemu agreesSelling out teammates. It is at this point that the true identity of the person in black is revealed.