Ayakashi no Miyako (Unearthly Kyoto) On a moonlit night, a boyfriend and a girlfriend (Ryooko) speak about meeting at the Shijoo Station tomorrow. They are briefly disturbed by a noise, but continue their conversation. Ryooko insists that she doesn’t need her boyfriend to walk her home because she lives close by. So, he leaves and she watches him walk away. As soon as he is out of sight, a strange creature wrapped in robes attacks her and bounds quickly away. Ryooko is left standing in he road, fading out into darkness. Here we are introduced to another woman, buying cloth in a shop. The keeper of the shop excuses himself and leaves her to brows for a while. She turns around as a shadow passes over her and the window cracks. She is next seen passed out (dead) on the floor, cloth all around her. Some narrators (unseen speakers) (probably ambulance attendants of police men) speak about this being the 5th death of a woman left with no blood in her body. Short scene: A strange young girl and a tall, black robed figure (holding an umbrella over the girl because it is raining) watching the people staring into the shop. They quickly walk away. We are now introduced to the character, Spiritualist (psychic, witch, medium…whatever!!) Himiko. She complains of the head; she has just arrived in the city. She discovers she doesn’t have any money for a cab, so she walks away. In a narrative style, she explains why she is in the old capital of Kyoto. She is visiting on a consultation with the parents of a young princess, who had pricked her finger on the thorn of a rose and had fallen into a coma-like state which nothing could raise her out of. A priest who looked at her briefly before had said that it may be possession. Himiko diagnoses the possession as being a “fox spirit”. She proceeds to chant a “spell” to release the little girl from the spirit as the little girl’s parents look on. Himiko is unsuccessful at waking the girl and foregoes her fee. The mother tells Himiko about the vampiric killings that are going around in the city. Himiko is interested and has a small hope of getting her pay after all, for some reason… She leaves the house to find a young man, ready to climb the wall of the garden of the house with a knife in his hand. He said to Himiko when she enquires as to what he is doing, “I’m going to kill the vampire!” Himiko takes him and talks to him. She discovers that the boy’s name is Miyahito and his girlfriend, Ryooko was the first victim of the vampire. He had gone back to get her soon after leaving her to go home. But when he got there it was too late…she fell, dead, into his arms. He had seen the vampire go into the little girl’s house and is intent on killing it. Himiko is now walking, probably to a hotel or rented apartment or something, in the night. She talks to herself about the vampiric killings and the connections between them: 5, all female, of different ages and walks of life. Suddenly, the robed figure that had attacked Ryooko quickly appears and all the lights around the street break and go out. Himiko slowly turns around and the strange creature moves to attack her. The mysterious black robed figure appears and attacks the creature attacking Himiko. Himiko falls to her knees and looks up to see a strange young girl perched atop a tall archway. The young girl speaks about the irony of the appearance of Himiko’s attacker. She waves a hand in Himiko’s direction, deciding that Himiko should not get further involved and sends Himiko to sleep. Himiko opens her eyes to the sweet, child-like laughter of the young girl, seeing her to have vanished. The next day, Himiko is walking around town and stops to buy a gold cross and chain at a stall. Her inner monologue wonders who (or what) the young girl was, deciding that she could not be human. She then goes on to discuss with herself what motive the little possessed girl, by the name of Aiko, would have in killing those 5 women, if Miyahito’s accusations were true and Aiko was after all a vampire. She wonders to herself if vampires actual exist. She notices Miyahito walking along the road as if in a trance. He is walking towards the young girl with the child-link laughter and her black robed companion. The little girl holds out her hand as if offering it to Miyahito. She floats over to him, curls up around his standing figure and bites him on the neck. Himiko curses the little girl and throws her cross necklace at her. The girl catches it with ease and jumps down from around Miyahito’s neck, crumbling the necklace with distaste. Himiko can’t understand how a vampire can exist in daylight. The dark robed figure clasps Himiko’s mouth shut and transports her into their land. The little girl magically forms a ball in her hands and by some mental power calls Miyahito to her. It all goes dark and in the next scene, Miyahito is lying on the ground with the young girls ball beside him. The young vampire girl’s laughter echoing around him. Himiko’s eyes open to the strange new realm. The young vampire’s laughter startling her into awareness. She sees the young girl and calls her a vampire. The young girl agrees to the name. Himiko accuses her of praying on Miyahito, and the little vampire replies, “but…it’s what he desired.” Calling him to her with a flick of her slender hand. Himiko accuses her of lying. The little vampire explains why she is not lying (in a strange, riddling way mind you…), “If a human so desires, I can give him immortality…time everlasting…But the thing that we (we referring to herself as well as her black robed friend), as well as you are chasing after is different. It is only a murderer, capable of bestowing nothing. Just a bloodthirsty…imitation…vampire.” She continues, “Yes…it is of Shinma, beings that are both god and monster.” When the little vampire states that Himiko should not be involved any further, this enrages Himiko, “You have no right to say such things! Vampire! Monster!” (actually…the word monster is a bad translation of the Japanese word that actually means Devil…but we’ll give the translators a break! ^_^) the little vampire and her dark friend depart and Himiko and Miyahito reappear together in a park. Himiko insists that she take him to a doctor, but, sitting down in a swing, he peacefully states that, “I feel terrific now…there isn’t any (any referring to grief) now.” Later, Himiko is talking to a doctor in a hospital about the unconscious girl (Aiko). The doctor explains about what really happened to Aiko and her parents, “The car rolled over with Aiko and her parents inside…There was a chance we could save Aiko if we operated…but not her parents…However, we were out of the AB blood we needed for the operation…as we had already performed a number of emergence operations that day. Perhaps the parents realized their own deaths were at hand…as they volunteered to donate their own blood to their daughter. I had no choice but to accept. Aiko’s parents died while she was still on the operating table.” Himiko interjected a question, “Does Aiko know about her parents’ blood?” the doctor continued, “Possibly. I’ve heard that, at the orphanage, she called herself a vampire.” Himiko returns to Aiko’s house, and seeing that the “parents” were there, she thought to herself, “Ghosts…? Oh hell…!” The scene cuts to the little vampire chasing the murdering Shinma. Cutting back to Himiko, she is thinking to herself, “The vampire…The victims were a grade school student, a junior high student…a college student, a businesswoman, and a housewife…women…futures closed off…that otherwise have existed!” Suddenly Aiko’s eyes open and she crawls up to Himiko, crushing her hand. The images of her parents disappear and she moves to bite Himiko’s neck. The doors fling open and Aiko is lifted into the air. The little vampire appears beside her and moves to bite Aiko’s neck. Himiko yells at her, which stops the little vampire from biting her neck. Himiko snatches Aiko away from the little vampire and holds Aiko to her. The dark robed friend of the little vampire appears and does a silent magical spell which exorcises the Shinma from the little girl. The little vampire explains what the creature was doing in Aiko’s body, “This is the form of the creature that used Aiko’s soul.” The murderer is de-robed and looks like a big, ugly worm. Himiko is startled but the vampire continues, “In return for providing illusionary parents, house, and dreams…it drained her of life.” Using magic, the dark friend helps the vampire box the creature in, and using a fire she creates in her hand, she gives the fire to the friend she calls “Larva” and instructs him to, “..return it to the Dark with its true name!” The little vampire had explained to Himiko that this particular Shinma took up residence in Aiko’s dreams. It was easy for diseased human souls to house a Shinma, and it must have been because Aiko believed that she was a vampire that the Shinma took her so easily. Larva writes on one of the walls that hold the Shinma in; using magic he writes “Raen”. The walls explode in blue flame and the vampire explains who Raen is, “More commonly known as Baku, I think. The Shinma who dwells in dreams. It uses human dreams as the source of its powers.” Raen (or Baku) wreaths in red fire and pain, burning to a black char. Himiko makes the statement in question to the vampire, “And with its true name discovered, the monster loses its power, and I right?” The vampire agrees, and with the final word, Larva opens a dark portal over the creature’s head and the charred Shinma is sucked up into it. The vampire hands the dead body of Aiko to Himiko stating that she could have saved her, turning her into a vampire…but Himiko stopped her from doing so. She explained what she did to Miyahito, “…her wanted to escape from his grief…so he should be feeling more happiness than he could wish for in this world.” A bunch of school girls stare at Miyahito, who has been sitting in the swing for ages. A girl who looks very much like the little vampire says that he is living in happiness. It ends with Himiko swearing to hunt down the little vampire girl, and that her happiness is not so trivial that it can be found in a fantasy. The little vampire’s laughter ringing out.
Authors' Note This summary was written entirely by “Vampire Princess” and may not be re-posted in any form without the authors’ permission…which she is willing to give if asked for ^_^ All dialogue and quotes are dirrectly from “Vampire Princess Miyu; The OAV” Got a problem...you know where to send it! ^_^
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