Mimete () [Mimi Hanyuu ()]

History: The past of the young woman known as Mimete remains shrouded in mystery. Aside from the fact that her real name appears to have been Mimi Hanyuu, no details have ever been revealed about her private life, neither who she really is nor where she really comes from, not even how she came to be associated with the evil organization known as the Death Busters or what her motives were for joining them in their sinister quest to purge the Earth of all life by summoning Master Pharaoh 90 and triggering the apocalyptic cataclysm known as the Silence. A member of a quintet of young female scientists and sorceresses collectively known as the Witches 5, the cruel, vindictive, and highly emotional Mimete was initially shown her way around the laboratory and taught how to perform her job by the group's senior member Eudial. While known to have conducted scientific research of an unspecified nature during her tenure, she apparently chose to focus her attention on magic instead of science, eventually becoming an accomplished sorceress in her own right. 
                 While it remains uncertain exactly how long Mimete served under the employ of the Death Busters before being summoned to active duty, she apparently grew increasingly weary of Eudial's poor track record against the Sailor Soldiers and her impatience to be promoted to an active position in the evil organization eventually drove her to secretly plot her fellow witch's downfall while maintaining a cute and innocent demeanor and pretending to support her - to a moderate degree - in front of their compatriots in a perfect demonstration of her inherantly deceptive and two-faced nature. After having received a phone call from Professor Tomoe to discuss some unspecified matter - though it is believed to have concerned the possibility of her replacing Eudial - the ambitious Mimete's attitude towards her now rival took a more sinister turn as she began to play cruel pranks on her fellow witch, such as sprinkling tacks into the latter's slippers and emptying a jar of laboratory snails into her locker, even going so far as to discuss the possibility of her promotion with the other members of the Witches 5 with the full knowledge that Eudial was secretly listening in on their conversation. Her campaign reached its deadly climax when she sabotaged the brakes on Eudial's white hatchback, causing the latter to crash through the guardrail of an elevated roadway during her attempted flight from the Marine Cathedral following yet another one of her disasterous encounters with the Sailor Soldiers and plunge off a cliff to a watery death far below, thereby ensuring that she would become the Death Busters' new active field agent by default. Shortly thereafter, she went to inform Professor Tomoe of the appearance of the Holy Grail - though he was apparently already aware of this occurance - and suggested that one of their number, namely his daughter Hotaru, might be able to make use of its power for their benefit.  
                 Despite the extreme and immoral measures Mimete had taken in order to secure her newfound position, she demonstrated remarkably little interest in the Death Busters' agenda, preferring instead to spend much of her time pursuing her hobbies as a professional otaku (obsessed fan) and okake (idol chaser)...even during Professor Tomoe's briefing for the Witches 5 on inherant strategy and proper use of the very Daimons she herself would be making use of in order to acquire Heart Crystals from human beings for later conversion into the energy required to feed and awaken the Messiah of Silence. After being caught in the act of reading magazines and suffering through a mild scolding for her actions, she quickly assured Professor Tomoe that she had already found a target with an extraordinarily pure heart, and - perhaps seeing a perfect way for her to combine the business and pleasure aspects of her life, as it were - decided to go after a young actor named Yousaku Eda, whom she admired. 
                 Upon her arrival on the set of his latest movie "Gunman At Red Fuji" that was being filmed in Juuban Park, Mimete decided to try and present Yousaku Eda with her homemade cake before stealing his Heart Crystal - as to do so immediately would have resulted in his eventual death and deprived her of that opportunity - but was mistreated and had her hard work literally crushed underfoot by some radical and temperamental fans of his. In spite of her misfortune, the incident had apparently caught the attention of Yousaku, whose kindness towards her and gallent gesture in tasting her cake in spite of its unfortunate condition erroneously convinced Mimete that he had fallen in love with her at first site. A short time later, after watching the filming of one of the movie's scenes and while attempting to get his autograph, the witch discovered much to her shock he had a romantic interest, namely his female costar Lily. Enraged, Mimete immediately released the Daimon Western to steal Yousaku Eda's pure heart, which she eventually did in spite of the arrival of the Inner Soldiers, though not before helping her to enact some small measure of revenge against the overzealous admirers of his that had been responsible for tormenting her earlier. Prevented from departing the scene with her prize by Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, Mimete instructed Western to take Chibi Usa - whom she had spotted hiding in some nearby bushes with her newfound friend Hotaru Tomoe - hostage in order to secure their escape, but her plan was foiled due to the timely intervention of Sailor Pluto her Daimon destroyed by Super Sailor Moon's "Spiral Moon Heart Ache". Suddenly outnumbered by her adversaries, Mimete burst into frustrated tears and fled the scene in humiliation. Unfortunately for her, she fared no better on her next outing - during which she went after one Ukon Katakuriafter attending an autograph session for his new book "Drop Drop" - and actually nearly ended up strangling the Daimon made for the occasion, U Henshuu, to death after the monster ran out of weapons to fight the Sailor Soldiers with. 
                 When Professor Tomoe next encountered Mimete to see how her schedule was progressing, she told him of her latest target, idol singer Ginta Araki, though the several photos and publications of him she accidentally dropped in the process led him to voice his long unspoken suspicion about her mixing her hobby up with her work and that such a combination would make it difficult for her to be a successful member of the Death Busters. Teary-eyed, she told him that she was honestly just trying to do her job and that she believed that acquiring the pure hearts of famous individuals would provide valuable information on establishing their Messiah of Silence, though her sincerity in the matter was highly suspect. Regardless of her true motives, her demeanor brightened upon seeing the renewed confidence he displayed in her in light of her explanation and went ahead with her plan. 
                 In her human identity of Mimi Hanyuu, Mimete went to the Minato District Cultural Center where the so-called "Heroine Audition" - a contest designed to select a girl from the general public to star alongside of Ginta Araki in his upcoming movie - was taking place, though she was disappointed to find out that the object of her affection would not be making an appearance that day. In the process, she found a new friend in, of all people, Minako Aino, the alter ego of Sailor Venus, because of their similar tastes, and their mutual pledge to give their best shot at winning left both pleasantly surprised when they managed to make it all the way through the audtion and became finalists. As an result of this unexpected turn of events, however, Mimete suddenly found herself torn between performing her her duty as a member of the Witches 5 and her dream to make her professional debut alongside of Ginta Araki as an actress, ultimately deciding to go for stardom, and, in one of the few instances of complete honesty she has ever openly displayed, seemed genuinely willing to do absolutely anything - even sacrifice her entire career with the Death Busters and rescind her evil ways - for this one chance at happiness. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be, and she narrowly missed gaining the favor of the 80% of the audience that was required in order to win the contest. Her hopes crushed, she collapsed to her knees on stage, and, perhaps sensing that the road she had chosen had no turns, knocked away Minako's concenrned hand in a fit of anger and frustration and revealed her true self as Mimete and a member of the Death Busters in front of the entire audience. Announcing her intention to steal Araki's pure heart, she unleashed the Daimon U Tahimee and rendered all those present unconscious with the power of her "Charm Buster". Following a brief battle - during which her right hand was injured after Sailor Moon used her "Moon Tiara Action" to knock Mimete's staff away and she argued over the final points of proper okake behavior with Sailor Venus - she was once more forced to flee in defeat after her incompetant Daimon was destroyed. She later apologized to Professor Tomoe for her failure, seeming genuinely remorseful, though he simply shrugged it off and said that there would always be tomorrow. 
                 Unfortunately, Mimete's tomorrows showed little improvement in her luck. Her attempts to steal the pure hearts of actor Yu Kazama, botanist Yoshiki Kurebayashi, and athlete Shun Hayase all ended in failure and the destruction of the Daimons U Tomodachi, U Baara, and U Ndoukai, though she did seem to learn something of responsibility in the middle case when she adhered to the target that had been assigned to her despite finding Mamoru Chiba to be a cuter potential victim for her tastes  :) Even so, she seemed to have quickly forgotten much of what she had learned when an impromptu and  irresponsible experiment of hers with the ovenlike device Professor Tomoe used to make Daimons resulted in the creation of U Ikasaman, a monster whose very existence created a massive warp in the local fabric of the space-time continuum and almost ended up costing the Death Busters dearly when Hotaru Tomoe - the human host for Mistress 9, the Messiah of Silence - was nearly left trapped in an otherdimensional realm along with Chibi Usa and the other Inner Soldiers 
                 Shortly after her failed attempt to acquire the Heart Crystal of D.J. Thomas Harris and the loss of the Daimon U Chouten, Mimete telephoned Professor Tomoe to inform him of her decision to go after famed physicist Sergei Ajimov - who would be giving a formal lecture at the Infinity Academy later that day - but was quite surprised when he told her that her proposed target did not figure into his plans and promised to call her back when he made his decision. Feigning understanding yet secretly suspicious of his sudden change of heart, she activated a hidden bug she had planted in his laboratory and listened in on a private conversation between Professor Tomoe and Tellu where he admitted that while he bore no real onus against Mimete herself and actually considered her to be a hard worker, he had decided to provide Tellu with an opportunity to prove herself and the possibility of increasing her rank in light of her compatriot's several unsuccessful missions. Outraged at the revelation, Mimete phoned Tellu and used a voice modifier to disguise herself as Professor Tomoe in order to trick her fellow witch into believing that her mission had been called off, with the intention of both redeeming herself and attaining a higher rank in the Death Busters hierarchy by not only successfully completing the assignment herself but killing the Sailor Soldiers as well. 
                 After electrocuting a suspicious security guard with a homemade tazer, Mimete temporarily shut off the power to the auditorium in the middle of Sergei Ajimov's lecture in order to make her grand entrance, and, upon having rendered the entire sudience unconscious with the power of her "Charm Buster", released the Daimon U Pasokon to claim her target's Heart Crystal. In spite of some excellent teamwork between her and the monster with which they managed to take out or incapacitate most of the Inner Soldiers, U Pasokon was distracted by Sailor Chibi Moon's "Pink Sugar Heart Attack" - with a little help from Tuxedo Mask - long enough for Sailor Moon to transform into Super Sailor Moon and use her "Rainbow Moon Heart Ache" to destroy the Daimon 
                 When Super Sailor Moon demanded Mimete's surrender, however, the young witch, for the first time in her recorded career, stood her ground in her determination to prove herself and be rid of her adversaries once and for all. Contemptuous of the resistance they could offer given the injuries most of them had sustained during their battle with her and U Pasokon, she activated the Witches' Electric Warp - a weapon she had borrowed from Eudial's arsenal for just this occasion - and vanished before the surprised eyes of her adversaries, only to manifest seconds later in the form of a massive television image before them, having apparently been converted into a being of pure energy by the device, her powers vastly augmented in the process. Before she was able to make use of her newly acquired abilities against the Sailor Soldiers, however, she was interrupted by none other than Tellu herself, who, unbeknownst to Mimete, had been secretly spying on her the activities of compatriot all this time in order to confirm her own suspicions about her fellow witch's attempt to play her for a fool, having chosen this moment to emerge from her hiding place in the shadows to offer some false praise and chide her for having stolen what was originally her assignment. Mimete's contempt and anger at being interrupted in her moment of triumph soon gave rise to realization and then to dawning horror when Tellu reminded her of exactly why Eudial herself had never made use of the Witches' Electric Warp: if ever someone disconnected the machine from its power source while it was in use, then anyone inside it would vanish from existence forever, never to return. 
                 Despite Mimete's desperate apologies and frantic pleas to save her own life, the vindictive Tellu, before the horrified eyes of all those present, both figuratively and literally yanked the plug on Mimete, who barely had time to cry out before the electrical oblivion of the Witches' Electric Warp shutting down claimed her as its own. 
                 The last laugh in this macabre matter of life and death, however, ultimately belonged not to Tellu, but, appropriately enough, to Eudial, who had - in an almost poetic sense - had her revenge on her murderer from beyond the grave. 

Height: Estimated at 5'2'' (157 cm); never accurately measured 
Weight: Estimated at 109 lbs. (49 kg); never accurately weighed 
Eyes: Orange 
Hair: Orange 

Abilities: Mimete is known to have possessed certain magical powers - allowing her, for example, to mystically cause her costume and staff to appear out of nowhere - though the full extent of these abilities remains unknown. Arguably the least intelligent and technologically inclined of the Witches 5, she did, in all fairness, display a not insignificant amount of knowledge on both the use and proper operation of computers, electronics, and mechanical devices - including camera rigs - and seemed to have a special talent for acoustics and using sound equipment, though it remains doubtful that ever she made any breakthroughs or major contributions to that particular field of comparable significance to those made by the other witches in their respective areas of expertise. She seemed to be a good cook and halfway respectable singer and actress, though. :) 
Paraphernalia: Mimete's primary weapon was a staff intertwined with a black star at one end that she employed during her "Charm Buster" attack, though whether this power was inherant to the rod itself or whether it was merely serving as a conduit to channel her own inherant mystical abilities remains unknown. Aside from a pair of binoculars, monitoring equipment, bugs, a voice modifier, a homemade tazer, and the white suitcase she used to carry her Daimons around in, she also apparently had full access to Eudial's equipment - including the computer program devised by the latter to locate pure hearted individuals from a database of potential candidates and even a device capable of converting human beings into sentient energy known as the Witches' Electric Warp - though she rarely took advantage of this fact and instead preferred relying on her vast collection of magazines, fanbooks, photographs, and manga in order to select her future victims. :) Mimete also made frequent use of a vast hall with a series of doorways that were somehow connected - presumably mystically - to various points all over the city of Tokyo, Japan irrespective of their actual distance from her physical location, thus allowing her to cover great distances almost instantaneously.

        
Mimete's Daimons (from left to right, top to bottom): Western, U Henshuu, U Tahimee, U Tomodachi, U Baara, U Ndoukai, U Ikasaman, U Chouten, U Pasokon 

Japanese Voice Actress: Mika Kanai 
North American Voice Actress: None 

This entry first appeared on: March 29, 1998 
This entry was last modified on: December 10, 2000 

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