Appears in Mermaid's Dream: The Ash Princess. While mourning the loss of his daughter, a priest takes pity on him and brings Natsume back to life. Her father recalls the Hagon Ritual and performs it on several children, moved by the sorrow of their parents and his belief that life is the most important thing. During this time, he and Natsume travel the country as sideshow performers, tricking people into purchasing ordinary fish by claiming it is mermaid flesh.
natsumes father
Characters
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Mana
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Yuta
Main
500 year old immortal. He ate the flesh of a mermaid out of curiosity when he and his fellow fishermen had captured one, but out of all the fishermen who ate a piece, only Yuta had survived. His comrades had either been poisoned or turned into soul-less m...
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Big Eyes
Supporting
He is once a mortal, but becoming an immortal overtook him. While he was walking down to the beach, he found a mermaid corpse lying on shore. He heard about the legend so he ate the mermaid flesh. But unfortunately, the flesh turned him into a monster. He...
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Isago
Supporting
The wife of the Sakagami Island headman. Isago told her husband of the immortality of the mermaids flesh and encouraged him to find one. Isago is pregnant from her former husband who was murdered by the Sakagami pirates three years earlier. In order to gi...
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Kannagi Towa
Supporting
She suffered from a deadly illness when she was a young girl. Her twin sister Sawa fed Towa the blood of a mermaid. The blood made her better, but unfortunately, she developed a deformed arm, similar of a Lost Souls and her hair turned pure white. She did...
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Kiryu Shingo
Supporting
Appears in Mermaids Gaze. Akikos younger brother. Shingo had violent tendencies and blamed his sister for all that went wrong in his life. After both of them eat mermaids flesh in an attempted double suicide, it is only Akiko that "dies", and Shingo sets ...
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Kiryu Akiko
Supporting
Appears in Mermaids Gaze. Shingos older sister. Akiko blamed herself for her brothers violent behavior and intended to perish alongside him in a double suicide through ingesting "poison" (mermaids flesh), but was the only one who ended up dying. A "doll" ...
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Kogure Nae
Supporting
She met Yuta years before World War II. When she learned about Yuta's curse of immortality, she tells him a secret about mermaid's ashes. She spread the ashes all around the field of red flowers, causing to bloom all year long, never to wilt or die by sea...
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Masato
Supporting
A young boy who has been immortal for 800 years. He has a face of an angel, but the soul of the devil. Masato would give mermaid flesh to a woman and have her pose as his mother until she was deemed useless. Despite his childlike appearance, eight hundred...