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Kaitei Shūjin

Kaitei Shūjin (海底囚人, lit. “Undersea Prisoner”), colloquially known as Deep-Sea Prisoner (DSP),1) Funamusea,2) Mogeko (藻毛子),3) or Okegom, is an independent Japanese creator who started her career on April 21, 2006 and has an oddly large following outside of Japan.

She is mostly known for her art, characters, and RPG Maker games that touches on controversial subjects.4) On the other hand, she obviously wouldn't be the most mentally sound person, which is compounded by the fact that her family is in massive debt.5)

List of works

I've kinda lost interest with this subject.
This is all just a very sad parasitic relationship, amongst other things, so don't expect any further updates, aside from minor tweaks.

gantt %%{init: {'theme':'dark'}}%% title Kaitei Shujin's Major Works dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD axisFormat %Y todayMarker off section Meta info First website established : milestone, 2006-04-21, 0d Original characters appear: milestone, 2011-07-16, 0d Move to funamusea.com : milestone, 2015-01-08, 0d Indefinite game development hiatus: milestone, 2024-11-02, 0d section RPG Maker 2000
and Flash Mogeko Castle (original) : milestone, 2012-04-01, 0d The Gray Garden (original): milestone, 2012-12-27, 0d Wadanohara (original) : milestone, 2013-12-12, 0d The Garden Gray : milestone, 2014-04-01, 0d Ice Scream (original) : milestone, 2014-07-01, 0d Wadanohara (reboot) : milestone, 2020-02-01, 0d section Newer engines Mogeko Castle (remake) : milestone, 2014-03-05, 0d Ice Scream (remake) : milestone, 2020-06-27, 0d section Publications Wadanohara (manga) : milestone, 2015-12-26, 0d Wadanohara (omnibus) : milestone, 2016-11-26, 0d

Released games

Mogeko Castle

Mogeko Castle6) is a subtle horror adventure game that initially released on April 1, 2012 as an RPG Maker 2000 game, then redone in RPG Maker VX Ace on March 5, 2014. The story follows Yonaka Kurai, a high school girl who dozes off on a train and ends up at Mogeko Castle, inhabited by the titular Mogeko, a Morala-like species that parody the maturity and libido of your typical anonymous user at first glance.

While her initial goal was to return home, the castle actually serves as a subconscious representation of the seven stages of grief,7)8) dealing with her brother's emerging familicide intentions. This means that when she escapes on the final floor, Yonaka is actually waking up in reality to deal with him.9) From here, she either dies, locks herself up and goes insane, or gets closure and truly leaves.10)

The Gray Garden

I'm probably not finishing this one.

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea (大海原(おおうなばら)大海原(わだのはら), Ōunabara to Wadanohara) is a cute, dark horror game that released on December 12, 2013 as an RPG Maker 2000 game, then it had a bonus update on February 1, 2020. The story follows Wadanohara, a sea witch that returns to the Sea Kingdom as it faces an attack by the Tosatsu Kingdom, so she's initially tasked with repairing the Sea Kingdom's barrier.

However, their efforts are for naught as the barrier shatters, then it's revealed that this was all a ruse by the Sea of Death's ambassador. After unlocking a traumatic memory, she wakes up at the Sea of Death, then heads back to the Sea Kingdom to find Sal with an injured Samekichi. In the true ending,11) Wadanohara gets stabbed and Samekichi goes on a long quest to return everything to normal.

The Garden Gray

The Garden Gray (園庭色灰, Entei Irohai) is a brief genderbend parody of The Gray Garden that released on April 1, 2014 as an RPG Maker 2000 game. It's mostly a silly story where Etihw and Kcalb have a minor scuffle because Etihw ate the chocolate cake that Wodahs had made for Kcalb, which causes her to storm out of the castle. As one would expect from this story, Etihw would eventually apologize to Kcalb.

Ice Scream

Ice Scream: Watching the Iceberg Isle (アイス・スクリーム) is an interactive game that released in July 2014, before it was partially redone in RPG Maker MV on June 27, 2020. As the name suggests, it mostly focuses on Iceberg Isle with the protagonist being Shirogane, a timid humanoid arctic wolf, but only the first round was recreated, opposed to the original which had three rounds.

Other projects

  • Obsolete Dream (廃れ夢, Sutare Yume) - A digital manga following Kurotsuno, a demon girl living within the Land of Roots (Ne-no-Kuni), previously translated as the Pitch Black World.
  • Poison Bugs (ポイゾン・バグズ) - A video series that follows Tsumuri, a humanoid earwig. It only has one episode, so there's really not much to infer here.
  • The Sun's Curse (太陽の呪縛, Taiyou no Jubaku) - A storybook, originally a Flash animation, which tells the tale of Siralos, the Land of Sun, and his two servants, giving Ivlis a backstory.
  • Seaside Dispatches (砂濱通信, Sunahama Tsūshin) - A manga that vaguely follows Ivlis and Satanick, except it appears that each volume is standalone.
  • Dying Tomorrow (あしたしぬした, Ashita Shinu Shita) - A short mini-comic series with three humans named Tsubaki Utareduyoi, Toru Azemiti, and Alice Kisaragi.

Future ambitions

Future games

  • A Paradise Submerged in Darkness (闇に沈む楽園, Yami ni Shizumu Rakuen) - The dark sequel to The Gray Garden (normal ending) after Ivlis succeeds in overthrowing the Gray Garden.
  • Buri~ing (ぶり~んぐ) - A simulation game, featuring Ivlis and Satanick, that theoretically has abuse, gore, and sexual content. It would take place before Seaside Dispatches 1.
  • Carnival Rhythm (カーニバル・リズム, Kānibaru Rizumu) - A game that follows Sachiko Ebihara, a high school girl that somehow finds herself in a world of demons that love human meat.
  • Devil Girl Ivlin (魔王少女イヴリン, Maō Shōjo Ivurin) - A non-serious April Fools game following Ivlin, a female Ivlis, in a parody of the magical girl genre. Possibly very horny.
  • General Hashasky's Great Adventure (ハスハスキー将軍の大冒険, Hasuhasukī Shōgun no Daibōken)12)13) - A sequel to Mogeko Castle (normal ending), where Moge-kov and the Hashasky try saving General Mogekov Hashasky after he was kidnapped by Moge-ko of Mogeko Castle.
  • Oji-summer (おじ-summer) - A vague game idea that features Nagi and her uncle Idate, who are both humanoid orcas, in a summer setting. There isn't much else known.
  • The End of Wonderland (理想郷の終着点, Risōkyō no Shūchakuten)14) - A vague game idea which follows Shinow Utsuda, a ghost, in what appears to be an Alice in Wonderland parody.

Future projects

  • Decem -Anges et Demons- - A manga that would theoretically discuss more about the angels from the Land of Clouds (Kumo-no-Kuni) and demons from the Land of Roots (Ne-no-Kuni).
  • Records of the Deep Sea - A manga series that would be a collection of stories, which would make a lot of the livestream-only information and trivia canon.
  • Uyamuya (雨夜夢耶) - A vague manga idea that presumably involves Satanick in some way. Again.

Forgotten projects

In the past, Kaitei Shujin used to have a page for future project and ambitious ideas, but it was deleted in a redesign around 2017. Some of these projects, preserved below, have not been seen since then.

Directory Original title Translated title
kaiteikok 晃々海帝国
Akiraakiraumi Teikoku
The Glorious Sea Kingdom
chaos_sea 海底物語 -星導の少年-
Kaitei Monogatari -Hoshi Shirube no Shōnen-
Deep-Sea Story -The Star-Guided Boy-
kaitsu 海底通信 第一号
Kaitei Tsūshin: Dai-ichi Gō
Deep-Sea Correspondence: Volume 1
kaiteikaijou 海の底の海の上
Umi no Soko no Umi no Ue
Above the Sea, Below the Sea
(Old TL: On the Sea, Below the Sea)
reficul 魔王リフィカルと愉怪な仲魔たち
Maō Rifikaru to Yūkai na Nakama-tachi
Devil King Reficul and Funny Demon Friends
(Old TL: Reficul the Devil and Friends)

Controversies

Tumblr R-18 controversy

In the past, she had a Tumblr blog at “okegom” and “okegom2”, then she drew Sal molesting Wadanohara, which was received very poorly and resulted in a hate mob. Despite her apologies, this situation evidently overwhelmed her, so she deleted her accounts around July 201415) with no plans to return. From an archivist perspective, this would be one of the first major archiving disasters.

Anti-Korean aggression

For further details, see Mogeko on Namu Wiki.

Starting in 2014, a Korean user had noticed the Rising Sun Flag in her January 2013 calendar drawing, which was controversial due to its imperialist connotations. When asked, she kinda went overboard and started drawing more of them, enacted a Korean translation ban on August 9, 2014, then this would reach a point of no return with the flag-inspired 2015 redesign and a site-wide ban on all Korean IPs.

This petty behavior lasted until 2017, with said pattern mostly being limited to New Year celebrations. Out of nowhere, she'd address the controversy in an outburst on August 17, 2023, but this was a non-apology as she largely played the victim, denying the flag's implications, by claiming that she did not draw it with political intentions16) when her handling of the situation says otherwise.

Unfinished commissions

On February 12, 2024, she tried to pitch herself to Dokibird,17) but many of her commissioners took offense to this18) and issued a “buyer beware” notice with 12 cases of unfulfilled Live2D commissions whose costs have totaled up to ¥3,588,500 JPY,19) almost $24,000 USD at the time. It also looks bad when her Skeb has a 29% completion rate, though it has since dropped down to 17% at the time of this writing.

She initially threatened suicide,20) then revealed that her family is in massive debt, supporting a mother and younger sister, while her credit cards have been suspended.21) After this, a goal of paying off her family's debt has been added to her Ko-fi page. The reception to this revelation has been mixed, especially when you consider that she had been blowing away money on Arknights.

Lesser criticisms

It's fine for a small, independent, content creator to go on a break or slow down, but it's a bit of a problem if they haven't provided much of sustenance, yet are constantly finding ways to overwhelm themselves. Her storytelling tends to change on a whim, favoritism is evident,22) and her works have gradually become sexual with sadistic elements. In addition, she is known to go egosurfing.

Notes

  • She was born on March 10th with Type A blood and lives in Kanagawa Prefecture.23)
    • Most of her early content focused on 2channel's AA subculture, favoring genocide-related threads and the “Morala Plotting the World Uniform” story. The former shouldn't be that much of a surprise, given that she was a huge fan of Happy Tree Friends at one point.
  • Prior to the “funamusea.com” move in 2015, she had three separate three FC2 websites:
    • hokannko.web.fc2.com - “Urusai” (五月蝿い). The oldest website with AA illustrations, until focus had shifted towards Yume Nikki and, for a very brief time, Happy Tree Friends.
    • uvoa.web.fc2.com - “Yokkora Secomu” (よっこらセコム) / “YOKOSEKO”. The oldest website that focused on her original characters. It didn't last long and actually closed in 2015.
    • okegom.web.fc2.com - “Kaitei Shujin” (海底囚人). The final website that most people knew. The home of her original characters, aforementioned games, and much more.
  • In the Chinese language, “Kaitei Shūjin” is read as “Hǎidǐ Qiúrén” (海底囚人), or “Haedii Chyouren”, but the Chinese-speaking community usually shortens this to “Hǎiqiú” (海囚, lit. “Sea Prisoner”).
  • On September 3, 2020, it was finally confirmed that she was a woman in her third Minecraft stream.24)
  • A couple of personal notes and thoughts on the author and their works.
    • I personally find Mogeko Castle very interesting because it's a reflection of 2channel's culture from the perspective of a high school graduate (in 2012) who grew up with 2channel.
    • At one point, I actually sent her a Skeb request asking 「もげ子クソデカおっぱい!!」 (Moge-ko with huge fucking boobs!!) around March 2021, but she actually declined the offer.
  • If you call yourself a troll, most people are into The Gray Garden instead, not Mogeko Castle.

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1)
“Kaitei Shūjin” was first translated as “Deep-Sea Prisoner” by vgperson, rather than “Seabed Prisoner” or “Undersea Prisoner”, but we're stuck with this translation and the unpleasant “DSP” abbreviation.
2)
“Funamusea” is a pun on “funamushi” (フナムシ), which is a sea roach.
3)
“Mogeko” (藻毛子, lit. “algae larvae”) is her past username. It could be misread as “zǎo máozi” in Chinese, which includes an unfortunate pejorative for a hairy foreigner that happens to be Russian.
4)
Her works contain sexual assault. Some people believe that she was a victim of such, but this is extremely difficult to extract as she has a lot of massive rants scattered about, some paywalled. It also doesn't help that most of her foreign fans are young, so they usually don't understand the weight of the situation.
6)
“Mogeko Castle” once had the katakana title, “Mogeko Kyassuru” (モゲコキャッスル), but this is no longer in use, so it's probably better to use the “MogekoCastle” tag on Pixiv anyways.
7)
It's important to understand that the stages of grief isn't necessarially linear or rigid since people deal with death in different ways, skipping steps and jumping all over the place. This misconception comes from people omitting the part where the initial five stages were meant to diagnose terminal patients on their deathbed.
8)
With this previous footnote in mind, the seven stages of grief theory proposes that the floors are actually: Denial, Confusion, Anger, Bargaining, Depression (Upwards Turn), Acceptance, and Reality.
9)
In reality, Yonaka fell asleep on the train, then got on the bus. However, Yonaka noticeably wakes up with a bloody hand, which is a question intentionally left to the audience.
10)
The true ending of Mogeko Castle may be confusing at first, but our protagonist getting closure eliminates the need for the castle, which is why her comatose body in this subconscious world is where it ends up.
11)
This ending comes after you sit through all three possible endings, so don't close out right away.
12)
“Hashasky” (ハスハスキー, Hasuhasukī) is a portmanteau of “hshs” (ハスハス, hasuhasu), a line that the Mogeko utter in Mogeko Castle that got lost in translation as you'd have to explain that “hshs” is internet slang for heavy breathing and sniffing in sexual excitement, and “suki” (スキー) which is a pun on “suki” (好き, lit. “like”) and the Slavic name suffix, “-ski” (-ски), that translators always have an issue with.
13)
I don't particularly like this translation of “Hasuhasukī” (ハスハスキー) since you're going to have people write it as “Hashasky” (ハシャスキー) instead.
14)
Personally, I would translate this as The Final Stop in Utopia, as a reference to its old /utopia/ directory.
16)
"https://t.co/H5EMIAqZV3" (August 17, 2023). Twitter.
20)
Of course, there is something to be said about threatening suicide after pitching herself to a VTuber who actually did attempt suicide before she was finally terminated from Nijisanji on February 5, 2024.
22)
Back then, she drew a lot of Kcalb and Etihw, but now, it's mostly Ilvis and Satanick.
23)
"プロフィ~ル" (2006). Urusai.
24)
"【Minecraft】funamusea playing🔰3【雑談】" [3:30] (September 3, 2020). YouTube.
kaitei_shujin.txt · Last modified: 2024-11-26 10:37:47 by namelessrumia