Voila ce que j´ai trouvé en me balladant sur le net, un malade mental a fait une dissert énorme sur Killer 7, son histoire, ses personnages, y explique les symbolique... C´est harchi complet, après mieux vaut pas le lire si vous ne l´avez pas terminer, ou bien que vous préferiez réfléchir par vous même ( et si vous êtes alllergique à l´anglais ^^ )

Bonne lecture:

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/file/killer7_plot.txt

Tu pourrais nous le traduire ? lol

J4VEUX UN TRADUCTION!!! ( t´as 10 minutes

merci vanadiel ca a l´air pas mal.^^(j´aurai de quoi lire ds l´avion demain)

Lol, faut pas rêver, déjà je pige pas tout, mais je verrai, je ferai peut-être un résumé ( plus tard) si je trouve le temps.

un ptit up pour le lien qui est interressant.

"Killer 7 will contain five storylines that span through four
different worlds in two time periods, the present day and the
year 2005."

killer 7 contient 5 histoires qui se deroulent dans 4 mondes differents et a deux epoques differentes
le jour present et l´année 2005

c´est zarbi ce truc

les 4 mondes differents cités sont : le monde politique le monde "b-d" le monde spirituel et le monde individuel (pas compri le dernier)

A few notes on Emir´s names:

"Emir" is a name derived from an French word, "?mir," which in
turn is derived from the Arabic word, "´amara," which means
"to command." As a name, "Emir" means "a prince, a chieftain,
or a governor." It can apply to the leader of a holy Muslim
pilgrimage; in general, it connotes a leader of people who are
traveling or working toward an ultimate destination or goal.

"Park" is a cognate, between German and English. It can mean a
literal park; as well, it can connote a garden.
"Reiner" is a German adjective, generally meaning "purity;
clarity; simplicity; chastity."

Taken all together, the name "Emir Parkreiner" can mean
"Leader to the Holy Gardens."

During Emir Parkreiner´s second cycle of life, he was a star
football player, had a great girlfriend in college, and--in
general--turned out to be the All-American Ideal.
Yet, despite his attainment of the All-American Ideal,
"something deep within needed awakening." That "something," I
think, was the buried memory of his earlier incarnation--AS A CHILD OF KUN-LAN. Here we have one of the layers of irony: the
soul of Japan, reincarnated into the body of the All-American
Ideal, wrestling with a painful emergence of identity. Kun
Lan´s coyness strongly suggests that he is accountable not
only for Emir´s awakening--but what awakening within him.

The full moon is a symbol of transformation. It throbs full
screen while each mission loads. As well, when Garcian sees
Emir standing, dazed, atop the Union Hotel, the full moon is
in the background. I take the persistence of the full moon as
a symbol that the Harman Assassins--and Harman himself--were
killed during a full moon. If, as I think, Emir has killed
Harman and crew just before killing Holbert, then Harman and
the Assassins were killed a full three days befor the
recording of Holbert´s cassette tapes.

If you look at a lunar calendar, for the month of November in
the year 1996, you´ll see that the date described as the time
of Holbert´s first recording falls three days after the full
moon. Holbert says that he begins recording on "the fourth
Thursday in November." This also places Emir´s assassination
of Harman and his Assassins very close to the Presidential
election, which Holbert describes as being a few days from the
time of his first recording.

c´est impressionant ce ke le gars va chercher!!!
les moindres details ne lui echappent pas

J´ai fait une ptite traduction des choses essentielles. CETTE SYNTHESE N´EST PAS EXAUSTIVE. Mais c´est déjà ça

- Harman Smith est en fait 3 entitées existant sur 3 plans : Harman Smith "le divin", Harman Smith "le maître" et Harman Smith la personne.

H.S "personnage" est le fils spirituel de H.S "divin", qui l´a trahi pour Kun Lan. H.S "maître" est la manifestation de H.S "divin" pour controler Garcian, afin qu´il ne retombe pas du "coté obscur" => qu´il redevienne Emir.

- La lutte entre Kun Lan et H.S "divin" est faite de cycles suivant l´Histoire. Garcian/Emir n´étant qu´un cycle, commençant avec l´apogée de l´empire d´Hiro Hito pour finir avec la disparition du parti des Nations-Unies

- Ce parti, (NDT : comme je m´en doutais un peu), n´est PAS le parti de l´ONU. United Nations est un parti politique, japonais, opposés aux libéraux, reprenant l´idéologie japonaise de l´Empire d´Hiro Hito.

- Le fameux "Yakumo", objet des convoitises est en fait un idéal de domination politique, héritage du régime d´Hiro Hito. Celui qui en prend connaissance peut, théoriquement, dominer l´ensemble des nations.
United Nations, héritage du Yakumo, vise donc ce but : la domination du monde par le Japon.

J´y comprend rien

Ah ouais j´ai lu ce truc le mois dernier. c´est utile de comprendre l´anglais dedans ya même la traduction anglaise de Hand-in Killer7(C un genre de livre explicaif pour le jeux avec des descriptions détaillées sur les persos et d´autres trucs dans ce genre la) Et apparament Con a 14 ans.

bah en faite on controle qu´un simple cycle infinit garcian ayant reussi a guerir de sa schyzophrenie,c la scene de la salle interdite quand il dit "un autre?" ca vt dire ke garcian é gueri et kil fo un autre tueur maintenant

bah oui con ce n´est qu´un enfant enfin un ado deja dans la parti alter ego il é tout heureux de voir les handsome mens

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si quelqu´un a un autre lien...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/game/562551.html

Voila. Tu clique sur le lien intitulé plot analysis.

The conflicts between Kun Lan and H. H. involve human
political, personal, and spiritual affairs. These three levels
of existence are the media through which they war. Everything
that occurs on these levels of existence (and narrative) are
related to their actions. Importantly, these two figures are
not absolute dieties: they can "recruit" individuals, nations,
and spirits into their leagues--and the power that the
formerly subordinate entities gain from their recruitment
places them on a tier higher than most mortals.

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B: THE POLITICAL LEVEL (GOVERNMENTS) [#IIB]

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In order to understand the political narrative of Killer7, we
must first look at the enigmatic "Yakumo." Hints are given on
what it is, in the game, but it´s never really made clear what
its contents are.

GameFAQs message board user Yoshiko Ohier has offered the
following information on the Yakumo:

"Acoording to the CAPCOM official web site in Japanese, Yakumo
is a text which was created by 7 Japanese
founders(politicians) in the past. The Yakumo (text) is said
to have a power to change the world. And, Ulmeida (Cloudman)
got somehow a part of the text and thanks to that, he could
develop his company to one of the biggest corporation in the
world. Here, I´ll give you translations of two names:

"Yakumo = (Ya)eight (kumo)clouds

"KumoOtoko (title in Japanese) = (Kumo)Cloud (Otoko)man

"Ulmeida has gotten one Kumo (Cloud). Maybe that´s why the
title was named ´Cloudman´. Well, this is what I think...".

Given the close relationship that the Yakumo, in Killer7,
shares with Japanese nationalism, it is pleasant to note that
the first recorded piece of Japanese poetry begins with the
very words "Ya kumo."

I would like to quote Patrick Smith´s book "Japan: a
Reinterpretation" regarding this matter:

"The importance not only of belonging but of being hidden
within can be judged from the first lines of poetry Japan ever
produced:

"Eight clouds arise.
The eightfold fence of Izumo
Makes an eightfold fence
For the spouses to retire within.
Oh! that eightfold fence.

"These lines are about the whole of Japan. There were eight
clouds and eight fences because in the old chronicles Japan
consisted of eight islands."

During his brief scene, in SUNSET, Toru Fukushima described
the Yakumo as a policy that was created by the Union-Seven.
However, he expressed his revulsion with Japan as being too
weak of a nation to handle the power of the Yakumo. The
contents of the Yakumo are implied to be able to propel a
nation toward total domination of the world--or, at least,
primary control.

When I first played Killer7, my impulse was to regard the
phrase "U. N. Party" as indicative of the United Nations´
presence in the fictional universe. However, the U. N. Party
is not the United Nations. Travis´ speech is most useful in
determining the role and identity of the U. N. Party.

Travis says: "Japan is controlled by the United Nations Party.
If the UN Party goes down, Japan´s minority party will take
control. In other words, the Liberal Party would take the
reigns. There´s some nasty shit cooking in this restaurant.
And it ain´t momma´s fried chicken."

During his brief scene at the start of SUNSET PART TWO,
Kurahashi says that all of the U. N. Party´s efforts will be
destroyed, and that they have been in motion for "65 years"
since Japan´s American occupation at the end of World War II.
Most historical resources seem to agree that Japan´s struggle
after World War II involved two major ideological forces: the
liberal, individualistic ideas that wanted to depart from
Japan´s culturally historical means of thinking and acting--
and the conservative, collectivistic ideas that wanted to
return the government to the control of an oligarchic shadow-
government and the pursuit of Shinto and Bushido ideals.

If we judge the political quality of the U. N. Party by their
apparent means of self-government (Kurahashi and Akiba reveal
that they dealt with succession by killing their elders) and
their contrast to the Liberal Party, we may conclude that the
Yakumo--as a governmental policy developed by the Union-Seven-
-is enmeshed in those conservative Japanese ideals.

Another historical departure might be useful, now. Japanese
foreign policy was established early in the second millenium
of the Christian calendar as "Hakko Ichiu." The ideology holds
that the Japanese emperor is not merely the sovereign
authority over the Japanese people, but over all people of all
races. The self-righteousness of their cultural self-
perception was manipulated easily during the Second World War
by Japanese Emperor Hirohiko (also a high Shinto priest who
very much believed in his own deity) into justification for
all types of nationalistic aggression. Translated, the foreign
policy aims to bring "all the eight corners of the world under
the roof of Japan."

The U. N. Party comes from this cultural tradition. The
Yakumo--a policy of "eight clouds," implying the literary
association with the first Japanese poetic expression of
nationalistic identity--seems to be a renovated form of "Hakko
Ichiu."

Further, this policy may have been developed strictly for
Japanese execution, but (as Fukushima admits) Japan is too
weak to implement it on her own.

Now, let´s look a little at the supposed history of the U. N.
Party. Fukushima appears to be the party´s leader. After all,
his political clout is the reason he is the Killer7´s target
in SUNSET. Fukushima explains that he became frustrated with
Japanese politics, because of its inability to become anything
more than play-acting upon a stage. Yet, he explains, he got a
call one day from someone asking if he would like to be "an
architect."

Two questions stem from this root: first, who called
Fukushima; second, what sort of architecture?

I´ll answer them in reverse order. The architecture is
Japanese; it is deliberate, I think, that Fukushima´s estate
is so Japanese you can taste the Pocky. It is the only
location that is idiosyncratically Japanese in the whole game-
-even moreso than Battleship Island. The cultural history
implied by Fukushima´s restaurant´s architecture, along with
his description of his work as that of "an architect,"
suggests that the more abstract and political "architecture"
he designed was an extension of Japanese, Shinto-based
imperialism.

As for his caller--I think he was (who else) Kun Lan. Akiba
and Kurahashi seem to recognize Kun Lan easily enough, when he
appears to them and Matsuoka. Most probably, Kun Lan is the
head of the U. N. Party; by extension, it would make sense
that Kun Lan would have recruited Fukushima to create a
governmental structure--the U. N. Party--through which the
Yakumo could be realized in the field of world politics.

So--what are the eight clouds?

I´m unsure, exactly. It might be good, though, to consider who
possessed the Yakumo at what times. Fukushima was supposed to
have had the Yakumo, but Julie Kisagi appears not to have
found it on him--even going to far as to demand it of H. H.!
At the KAKU Building (where the second half of SUNSET occurs),
DePaul´s ghost says that Matsuoka has the Yakumo.

When we speak to Ulmeyda´s ghost in Curtis Blackburn´s home,
during the second part of ENCOUNTER, he says that he gave
Clemence (the boy who was featured at the end of CLOUDMAN) the
Yakumo. Clearly, Ulmeyda possessed some measure of the
Yakumo´s wisdom. The postal clerk describes Ulmeyda as "an
asshole" who seemed to have gotten lucky, and who seemed to
have risen out of nothing to his current status. Ulmeyda is
regarded by the townspeople as a mysterious local who rose to
prominence through his corporation "First Life," yet we learn
from Ulmeyda that the company doesn´t exist: they simply run
commercials.

Ulmeyda´s success, it seems, is owed to the governing ideals
and methods described in the Yakumo.

"But wait!" you may say. "Travis said that the Yakumo had the
power to let the United States dominate the world! If Ulmeyda
had the Yakumo, why didn´t the do just that?!"
I answer: because he was a postal clerk. He´s neither the
United States nor the U. N. Party. Even Garcian says of
Ulmeyda (when Master Harman asks if Ulmeyda is a
revolutionary), "No sir, no one of that calibre." Despite the
admittedly sadistic whims he displayed--such as destroying an
entire stadium during a concert and subjecting his heir to
"driving yourself to death"--he clearly possessed some
humanitarian impulses. Even though his decision to inject
himself with lethal diseases was a self-oriented action, to
make himself feel alive by courting death, his decision to
make his blood available for others to immunize them against
those diseases is humanitarian, surely.

I think that the Ulmeyda episode illustrates the manner in
which the Yakumo serves as an extension of the Shinto-based
policy of "Hakko Ichiu." In Andrei Ulmeyda, we see the
convergence of political leadership (he runs the town that has
his name) and religious leadership (he has a cult). However,
Ulmeyda´s simplicity as a man and a leader only allows him to
create a facade of government. (Notice how that giant
corporate cathedral fell down, as mere plywood, and revealed a
desert in which Ulmeyda tested the limits of both his and his
acolytes´ bodies.) Understanding this makes the intervention
of the U. S. military at the end of the CLOUDMAN chapter more
sensible: they seem to have neutralized Ulmeyda to retrieve
the Yakumo, which the United States has been trying to get for
a year.

I initially thought that "Yakumo" referred to a political
party; however, it does not. It refers to the cabinet policy
of the United Nations Party within Japanese government. The
irony of the party´s name becomes more apparent, when we
recognize that the Yakumo is a revised version of "Hakko
Ichiu": a surface interpretation of the name "United Nations"
would lead a person to think that Japan had renounced its
attitude of racial entitlement to global rulership, and wish
to become united with other nations; however, since the nature
of their cabinet policy is nothing more than a revision of the
same ideology that led to the belief of racial entitlement,
they are claiming (oppositely) that they want to unite all
nations--UNDER JAPANESE RULE.

The curious thing about the Yakumo, to a Western (and
specifically American) mind, is its implied blending of
spiritual and governmental activity. On the one hand, it is a
governmental party´s policy, and therefore it is governmental,
practical, executable; on the other hand, it seems to be
communicated only after harsh spiritual experiences, such as
Matsuoka´s "enlightenment" by Kun Lan in the introductory
sequence of SUNSET PART TWO. In understanding this, it will be
important to remember the cultural tradition out of which the
"Hakko Ichiu" policy and, in turn, the Yakumo are derived.

Shinto religion held that the Japanese Emperor was supreme
over all, as a governmental authority as well as a spiritual
authority. Nationalism and government were inextricable from
spiritual identity. In his biography "Hirohito and the Making
of Modern Japan," author Herbert P. Bix writes of "Hakko
Ichiu" (also called "the Imperial Way"): "The ´imperial way´
was a motivating political theology sprung from the idea of
the emperor as the literally living embodiment of Japan past
and present, a paradigm of moral excellence all should follow.
The term denoted a kind of ideological warfare but also, on
the other hand, an action plan. It was designed to make Japan
free of all externally derived isms, such as Western
democracy, liberalism, individualism, and communism. Free to
be itself only, the nation would regain self-esteem and be
able to wage a ´holy´ war of ideas against Western political
doctrines." For an incredible span of world history, Japan
violently resisted involvement with Western culture. At one
point, early after Western culture´s introduction to Japan,
the Japanese took all Japanese and non-Japanese Christians,
physically crucified them, and displayed the crucified
practitioners of Western culture on the islands´ coasts--so
that all Western ships passing by would know what sort of
welcome to expect.

Emperor Hirohito is described by Bix as having believed in his
own deity: "In a wooden building in the southeast corner of
the palace compound, he regularly performed complicated
rituals that clearly implied his faith in his mystical descent
from the gods, and the sacred nature of the Japanese state and
homeland." Hirohito continued to serve Japan, as emperor,
after their defeat and occupation during the Second World War.
Under his emperorship, then, the United Nations Party
developed and grew--the Yakumo was developed for execution by
what seemed to be a democratic nation, rather than a
theocracy--and Fukushima created the stable political
organization for the Yakumo to become active through.

Most American players--and I include myself in the category of
"most"--will see the theme of usurpation of American
democracy, during their first play-through of Killer7.
Understood against the cultural and historical tension of
post-World War II Japan, Killer7 is also the story of the
usurpation of Japanese democracy.

So, now that the Yakumo is understood, what can be said about
the political narrative of Killer7?

On July 3rd, 1998, the world trashed all of its nuclear
missiles and set up an island in the South Pacific for the
disposal of radioactive waste. Not all missiles were
destroyed, though: ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles)
remained.

I would like to quote the narration during the opening
animated film of SUNSET PART ONE: "The international society,
under the motto of ´Protecting the world from international
terrorism, ideology terrorism, and cyber-terrorism,´ stopped
all air transportation and closed every network station in the
short span of two years, to reduce the likelihood of
terrorism. The world had changed.

"In the year 2002, a network of intercontinental expressways,
bridging the Atlantic Ocean, opened, connecting the two major
sides of the world. In the following year of 2003, the
construction of a mass scale distribution system began, and
the man-made landmass large as a city was built over an ocean.
The use and research of nuclear energy was banned, and all
radioactive waste and materials were disposed of at an energy
disposal facility in the Gibsoft Islands, a remote set of
islands off the coast of the Indian Ocean."

So--all this has happened. Soon afterward, though, a terrorist
group called "the Smiles" began attacking government meetings
and figures. Their modus operandi seemed to be to suicide-bomb
their targets. They were a hard group to catch, and--developed
to catch them--an underground society of assassins served to
kill targets who threatened the stability of the new-found
global peace. Among these, the group known as "the Killer7"
were supremely skilled.

Presumably, since the early 1980´s, Coburn Elementary had been
taken over by the U. N. Party of Japan. There, they raised
children in the cultural image of the Yakumo. They taught that
the President of the United States was always decided upon by
"the Chairman of the Education Ministry." (This may be taken
as a misnomer for "the Secretary of Education," since the
American form of democratic government does not describe
itself in terms of "ministries.") In other words, they taught
that democracy did not exist--and they replaced the
ideological education of children under democracy with the
education of children under the Yakumo.

According to Hulbert´s tapes, the children who graduated from
Coburn were prepared for post-graduation careers in government
service. In exchange for their service, Hulbert explains, they
were "promised their life." Those who did not comply with the
expectations of the United Nations Party and the Yakumo were
killed, although it is also highly probably that they were
deported and sold as orphans on the black market--or, they
were killed and their organs were sold on the black market.
Other students were recruited to serve as assassins, in the
interest of defending and supporting the Yakumo.

In 2010, a terrorist group called "the Heaven Smiles" began
attacking the United States. Their organization was unknown,
as was their leader. They were most troublesome, as
terrorists, because of their relative invisibility. Only one
counter-terrorist group (the Killer7) could see and kill
Heaven Smiles. In all, there seemed to be three "types" of
Heaven Smiles: first, people who looked human and wore strange
smiles; second, Heaven Smiles borne from eggs out of egg-
machines; third, Heaven Smiles cobbled together out of organs
harvested by black market organ sellers, like Pedro and Curtis
Blackburn.

Apart from the Heaven Smiles, tension existed between the East
and West--specifically, Japan and America--during the 1980´s,
1990´s, and first decade of the 21st century. Japan had become
a husk of a country, politically; it had so little political
clout, its most powerful political party (the U. N. Party)
cannot even appeal to the United States to save it from
imminent destruction. Missiles were fired from an unknown
Asian source at Japan, and, after much suspense, the United
States launched missiles westward across its Californian
border to stop the missiles of unknown origin.

Why did the United States launch its missiles to defend Japan,
when it seemed the entire U. N. Party was finished? Because of
Coburn graduates, subordinate to Matsuken, who held positions
in American government.

Over the course of the next year, the Heaven Smile problem
became more unmanageable. Military research on captured Heaven
Smiles had enabled the United States military to extract a
viral serum that, when injected into a host, would turn the
individual into a Heaven Smile. Seeking to test their
concoction on a man with high viral resistance, the U. S.
military assaulted cult leader Andrei Ulmeyda and infected him
with their homebrew strain. The virus overpowered Ulmeyda, and
the resulting transformation destroyed all of the military
officers present. The Killer7 group killed the Heaven Smile
diseased Ulmeyda, who passed his spiritual legacy (and the
Yakumo) on to Clemence, his chosen heir.

Later that year, Curtis Blackburn--a former officer of the
self-defense department--raided the Immigration Headquarters.
His violence prompted the U. S. government to call (again)
upon the Killer7 group. The Killer7 group tracked Curtis to
ISZK LAND, an amusement park that served as a front for
Curtis´ black market kidnapping ring. They confronted Curtis´
adopted protoge, Ayame Blackburn, and followed the escaping
bus (filled with kidnapped young girls) to Blackburn´s
residence. After raiding Blackburn´s home, killing Ayame, and
discovering Blackburn in a secret chamber beneath his estate´s
swimming pool, Dan Smith of the Killer7 group slew Blackburn.
During the raid, it was discovered that Blackburn had traded
selling orphans on the black market for selling orphans´
organs on the black market. The organs were used for the
genetic cobbling of the experimental Heaven Smiles that the
Killer7 group had found during their otherworldly passage
through the Vinculum Gates.

With Blackburn killed, exportation of girls´ organs slowed
significantly. Since Blackburn had killed his former cohort--
Pedro--the two oldest and most professional salers of black
market organs were dead. The production of experimental Heaven
Smiles slowed.

By this point in the story (around mid-2011), the Heaven
Smiles had become regarded practically as their own species.
They were deemed racially acceptable to exterminate. The
United States military--deciding against their former policy
of harnessing the Smiles´ strength--purportedly developed the
group "the Handsome Men" in conjunction with Trevor
Pearlharbor (a clairvoyant comic book artist) to combat the
Heaven Smiles. However, they abandoned their plan and turned
on Pearlharbor when his clairvoyance departed from their
interests, resulting in the assassination of a Democratic
Party senator by the Handsome Men.

The Handsome Men became regarded as terrorist threats
themselves, and the Killer7 group was dispatched to kill
Trevor Pearlharbor--who was believed to have been the guiding
force of the team of heroes-turned-terrorists. The Killer7
invaded Trevor Pearlharbor´s home in the Dominican Lost City.
When they discovered Pearlharbor on his veranda, drawing, Dan
Smith confronted Handsome Black, who was summoned by Trevor to
stop Dan Smith. Handsome Black, however, turned on Trevor who
died confused as to why his clairvoyance had failed. Dan Smith
killed Handsome Black, and the remainder of the Handsome Men
vowed to avenge Handsome Black´s death by a formal duel in
Times Square, New York.

The Handsome Men and Killer7 group battled one-on-one in Times
Square. When the final confrontation came between Handsome
Pink and Garcian Smith, Handsome Pink transformed into her
alter ego, known only as LOVE. LOVE revealed herself as the
force responsible for the Handsome Men, and gave the Handsome
Men up to their losses at the hands of the Killer7 group.

The Presidential elections passed (in 2011, for some reason),
and the Republican candidate was elected President.

In winter of that year, the Killer7 was sent to contact and
capture Kenjiro Matsuoka--the recognized leader of Japan´s U.
N. Party and the possessor of the Yakumo. Matsuoka received
information that he was targeted by the Killer7, and used his
informant´s advice to locate Hiro Sakai. Having located Sakai,
Matsuoka tortured and killed him, making his death seem like a
suicide.

After a long, self-revelatory journey between Washington State
and Pennsylvania, the Killer7 group became pared down to Emir
Parkreiner. Emir overtly joined hands with Kenjiro Matsuken to
work together and eradicate the Heaven Smiles.
Three years later, on Battleship Island, Matsuken had trapped
the final Heaven Smile. Emir arrived to dispose of the curse
for good.

Here, the path splits, and the words of Linda Vermillion (the
assassin who killed Mills) come back to mind: "See the system
with your own eyes, and then decide." Emir chooses whether he
believes in Western democratic ideals (by killing Matsuken and
destroying the remains of the Yakumo)--or if he believes in
the Japanese "imperial rule" revised in the Yakumo (by letting
Matsuken live).

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C: THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL (FOLKS) [#IIC]

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On 22 November 1942, Emir Parkreiner is born.

Among other levels of significance, Emir Parkreined is symbolic of
Japan´s national well-being. He is born at the time when the
Japanese imperialist Empire is at its strongest, historically.
In 1946, as alluded to by one of the Japanese diplomats during
the introductory sequence to SUNSET, the atomic bombs are
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the period during which
Japan is an occupied nation begins.

As a reflection of Japan, Emir naturally would be aligned with
Kun Lan--in Harman´s hemisphere. With the ultimate
establishment of Modern Japan--out of the Western remodeling
of Occupied Japan--it may be inferred that Kun Lan´s powers
weakened, correspondingly. This may account for Emir
Parkreiner´s recorded death in 1952--it corresponds with the
"death" of isolationist Japan. However, as Japan was "reborn"
into Modern Japan, Emir also was reborn.

Hulbert´s tapes indicate that Emir was "living with his
parents at the time of his death." Who else would be the
father of the Soul of Japan, but Kun Lan himself? This
implies, of course, that Emir has a mother. I assume that Emir
would have endured his "rebirth," while still in his mother´s
care.

It may seem improbable that Emir´s physical life and death
would correspond with the life and death of a
political/cultural body, but I think that the symbolism is
intended, to evince the game´s general statements about the
relationship between Japan and America.

Thus, Emir Parkreiner´s second cycle of life begins around
1952. He would be ten years old at the outset of the Civil
Rights movement; he would be twenty when the Civil Rights
movement had reached full swing. The narrative supplied by Kun
Lan, during Garcian´s first visit to the "Forbidden Room,"
applies to Emir´s second cycle of life. I will provide a
transcript of the dialogue, to keep the reference present
alongside my argument.

Kun Lan: "There once was a young man who had a promising
future. The centerback position was his to keep, and no one
could take that away from him. Any play was a fair play; no
one blew the whistle on him. Everybody loved him. Not to
mention his campus sweetheart. Oh, she was something! They
were the perfect couple. He graduated from Columbia with an
MBA. His opportunity was infinite. He could do whatever he
wanted with his life . . . but was he satisfied? No! Every
night he would cry, begging the Lord; something deep within
needed awakening. Then one day it happened....that moment,
when the subconscious rises to the surface. Well, the way it
triggered was very simple: it happened when his mother came on
to him one night. As if the spirit of Jack the Ripper had
taken over his body, he stabbed and stabbed until you couldn´t
tell who she was. You know what I think? An angel whispered
into his ear. The angel gave him the exta courage he needed,
to give her the divine retribution she deserved."

H. H.: "Sure she wasn´t . . . a Hell´s angel?"

Kun Lan: "I´m pretty sure she only had good intentions."

H. H.: ". . . you really are a villain."

Kun Lan: "I had nothing to do with it . . . but I must admit,
my memory has become a bit misty these days."