People, Places & Things

People, Places and Things!

Here are some important places, things or people on Radiant Heart MUSH, that your character may know about, or heard of. This list is always being added to, and if you have something to add, merely add them in! Please keep in mind the formatting of this wiki page however. This is by no means an exhaustive list of every place, but is most of them.

People

Groups and Organizations

• Taisha: A small religious sect from Shikoku Island who are attempting to increase their presence on the mainland, along with their worship of the Divine Tree ("Shinju-sama").

Celebrities and Important People:

• Trinity: A popular idol group composed of three members, Miyuki, Reika and Nana. Known for their impeccable choreography. (Source: Fresh! Pretty Cure.)

• Sailor V: A enigmatic hero of Tokyo who is known for stopping criminals and being a vigilante. Her popularity has spawned countless merchandise and video games on the subject. She makes the local news constantly. The V is short for Venus. (Source: Sailor Moon)

• Utau Hoshina: An idol singer whose contract is owned by the Easter Corporation. Popular with girls in the Elementary Grades and Early Middle School Grades. (Source: Shugo Chara!)

• Professor Souichi Tomoe: A CEO and Head Scientist of Obsidian Incorporated. Kind of notoriously known for a lab accident that blew up his old laboratory. (Source: Sailor Moon)

• DARTS!: A three member, color coded (red, blue & green) boy-band, carefully groomed by Easter to appeal to the ‘correct target demographic’ -- rather popular among the elementary and middle school girls in particular. (Source: Shugo Chara!)

• Nobuko Saeki: A very popular TV Fortune Teller and mystic. She writes columns for the Housewives' Knowledge magazine and is known for being more spot-on with her predictions than most. (Source: Shugo Chara!)

• Kinzo Kagari: A famous theater actor that also stars in some TV shows. He's generally known for his handsome looks and debonair air and tends to star in period pieces more often than not, though handles the role of the 'modern villain' in media well-- playing characters 'people love to hate'. He's in Tokyo for small spats at a time, is more often than not, out of the country on tour or filming. (Source: Guardian Princess Runealy.)

• Jennifer Houston: A world-renowned singer who recently arrived in Japan for her concerts with her work partner Richard. She is in love with him, although she is uncertain about taking that final step (he reciprocates her feelings). She gets attacked once due to having her green jewel be mistaken for the green pearl. (Source: Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch)

• Shin Hayazaki: A well-known mangaka who specializes in writing cute and fluffy feel-good manga for children and young girls, with some series like 'Secret Agent Sailor V: Code V' having a more mixed audience. He has a relatively long, 14-year long career in the manga industry, and began 'Nono & Friends', his very first series, when he was only 18. Recently, he had some health problems and started writing darker storylines and a more mature series called 'Galatea In Hell', to extremely mixed reactions from his usual readers. (Source: Sailor Moon)

• Michiru Kaiou: An internationally renowed violion virtuoso. She has been playing concerts all around Japan since she was 7. She's been on TV both in Japan and in America. In early 2023, her parents died when their plane was lost over the Phillipine Sea, making her the heiress to their estate and to her father's shipping business, Kaiou International. The story was all over the Tokyo news for months.

Teachers and Radiant Heart Academy Faculty/Staff

[School Faculty List]

• Kyouka Inai: Radiant Heart Academy's guidance counselor.

• Setsuna Meiou: Radiant Heart Academy's school nurse.

Places

• Abandoned Theme Park: Structured like a castle town, Fantasy Zone has a wall around it that funnels visitors to a lowered drawbridge and a closed portcullis gate. The now-defunct theme park made the mistake of opening a mere several kilometers away from Dream Kingdom, after the more diverse and better-planned park had already opened. Runaway expenses meant Fantasy Zone was quickly abandoned, and it has spent the last few years being neglected.
• Asakusa Shrine: a Shinto shrine located in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. Also known as Sanja-sama (Shrine of the Three gods), it is one of the most famous Shinto shrines in the city and honors the three men who founded the Sensō-ji.
• Awami Shrine: A shrine in Tokyo that has been run by the Hawasaki Family for generations. They are responsible for the shrine's upkeep and occasionally send out calls for Shrine Maidens to perform their duties at Awami Shrine. The building is divided in three spaces: a warehouse, a rite chamber and an offerings chamber.
• Beach: Yumegahama Beach is a sprawling long beach front looking out onto Tokyo Harbor, usually kept clean by busy city workers and many volunteers. The sand is a soft brown and white color and falls through fingers easily, unless it's wet down by the waves and becomes perfect for making sandcastles!
• Botanical Gardens: The Pikarigaoaka Botanical Gardens is a lovely park area based in one of the many parks in Pikarigaoaka, known for its array of rose bushes, ivy-covered trellises, and large central koi pond that it's built around.
• Clover Tower: A large TV studio that also serves as Tokyo’s Main Broadcasting Center, it’s based in Pikarigaoka where the open landscape allows for an easier, longer range broadcast signal.
• Dream Kingdom: A Theme Park in Yumegahama that sits directly on the Bay. It’s known for it’s roller coaster that skims you over the Ocean Water, as well as it’s Panda Themed Kiddy Rides.
• Fairy Drop Fashion: A two story fashion shop primarily dealing with girls and women clothing- and to a lesser degree, male formal wear. It’s owned by the Kurumi Family.
• FaM-Mart: One of the more popular japanese Konbini, which is located towards a cluster of retail shops and apartments, but also close to the freeway exits from the district to the rest of the country.
• Four Clover Mall: A large mall somewhere in the downtown area of Mitakihara, a recently renovated building that has a large angular triangle shape at one end, smoothing to a single level area at the furthest end.
• Game Crown Arcade: The place where most students in Juuban City congregate after school to spend their hard earned allowance into the crane games and arcade machines. Known for it’s many Dance Dance Revolution Machines and giant Sailor V Arcade Game sit down cabinets. Owned by the Furuhata family.
• Gullwing Coffee: A modern new coffee shop that sits near the beach. It used to be 'Seaside Diner', though it was then bought out by a young entrepreneur and turned into Gullwing Coffee!
• Hikawa Karate Dojo: A dojo located in the Pikarigaoka Ward, run by a bald man with a long unkept beard in his elder age, overseeing and training his students, even sometimes providing demonstration fights against his pupils
• Hikawa Shrine: An old, traditional japanese shrine that’s known to bring tourists as it sits just outside the Uminari City district in Juuban.
• Hotel Augusta: A hotel known for it's fancy, frontal ballroom.
• Ice Cream Parlor: An ice cream parlor with a white and black checkered floor, and simple booths, with the expected display case of ice cream flavors at the front of the shop. It is decorated by an artistically done wallpaper with an elaborate beach scene painted on it, showing a wonderful ocean view of the beach.
• Juuban Ward: The Juuban Ward is a tightly packed urban area without high rises and a few multi story apartment buildings.
• Kaoru's Donuts: A donut stand on wheels, that deals in fresh donuts. It is mobile, but can usually be found among the many beachside parking lots along the road, doing a brisk business with people that commute into the city for work, and on the way home who want a sweet treat.
• Karaoke Crown: A Karaoke Parlor in the Downtown Neon District of Mitakihara. Owned by the Furuhata family, the same family that owns the Game Crown Arcade.
• KFC - Karaage Fried Chicken: The Karaage Fried Chicken spot has retained a distinct familiarity with its past as a former KFC, while embracing a more modern, Japanese-inspired vibe. The entrance still carries the classic glass doors, but they've been updated with frosted patterns of kanji and artful chicken designs. The original KFC red-and-white color scheme has given way to a softer palette of earthy tones---muted browns, slate grays, and warm yellows, creating a cozy yet vibrant atmosphere.
• Korma Chameleon: A modest restaurant on a side street in Pikarigaoka Ward, specializing in Japanese-Indian fusion cuisine.
• Midori-Ya Cafe: A Cafe resting on the busy route into Mitakihara from Juuban City. A place many people stop on their way into work for their morning coffee and pastry.
• Mitakihara General Hospital: One of many buildings devoted to treating people. A towering skyscraper, much of its interior can be seen through tall glass windows on nearly every floor. Its walls are designed to 'catch' the sunset, such that the evening light makes the building appear somewhat golden.
• Mitakihara Ward: Mitakihara is also known as Downtown, it’s a busy district, filled with tall skyscrapers and multi-story offices and malls. Infinity University is located in the heart of downtown. It’s known for it’s swinging nightlife in the Neon District.
• Nezu Shrine: A shrine closely associated with Japan's Imperial family, famous for its azalea garden. It is a short way from Tokyo's famous Ueno Park, and has its roots in almost 2,000 years of Japanese history.
• Nounamu Sweets: One of those older shops that had been around for so many years that it didn't originally have a name, just a sign out front declaring what it sold. Dubbed 'Nounamu Sweets' by the kids due to the lack of an actual name, that has now been embraced and welcomed, as shown by a chalkboard standee with colorful calligraphy declaring 'Nounamu Sweets'.
• Obsidian Tower: One of the tallest skyscrapers in the downtown district of Mitakihara. It's a tall, black colored building, with bright, shining windows from the third floor upwards, containing the offices of various corporations. The windows look like points of light on a black space background.
• Okujoo Ramen: A restaurant that sits on the roof of a small convenience store and takes up the majority of the rooftop space, reached by the building's elevator, the doors of which open into the restaurant's dining space.
• OSA-P Jewelers: A major jewelry store in Juuban’s Shopping Strip. Known for the monthly sale the owner runs, usually themed around a particular jewelry style.
• Penguin Park: A Large Public City Park known for its penguin themed play equipment, zoo and public library. It rests in the sprawl between Pikarigaoka and Mitakihara.
• Pikarigaoka Ward: Pikarigaoka is a suburban area, with small houses and open grassy sprawl and the occasional small shop though it is mostly residences. It’s wide open layout was the perfect spot for the Clover Tower.
• Port Warehouses: There are plenty of warehouses in the port in Yumegahama - and this particular stretch isn't exactly in good condition. Mostly used by less than savory companies without much care about where their goods are stored, these warehouses are occasionally patrolled by security guards, but mostly protected by high fences - plenty easy to get past for mahou on patrol.
• Pretty Holic: Pretty Holic is a joint partnership of several different entrepreneurs, although the face of the business are the Suzumura and Nekoyashiki families. It is mainly dedicated to and famous for beauty products, but a small part of its space is allocated to offering beautifully decorated stationery and sweets on the side.
• Public Library: A library located in Juuban Ward. Its mascot seems to be a penguin, with a large amount of decorations that are penguin-themed.
• Radiant Heart Academy: A large, sprawling, older school that looks almost like a castle out of some fantasy, surrounded by a small community that's sprung up around it, with an eight foot tall wall surrounding the large educational campus.
• Riverside Path: A walking path and athletic park along the river that connects Juuban and Pikarigaoka wards, that's enjoyed by tourists and citizens alike.
• Sensoji Temple: A Buddhist temple located in Asakusa. It is one of Tokyo's most colorful and popular temples.
• Shin Hoshi Shotengai: A typical shotengai (shopping street) in Juuban, where many locals prefer to do their shopping. Opening pre-dawn and with the eateries closing late into the night, this one runs the full length of a city street, with an enclosed glass ceiling that reveals the sky above
• Tako Café: A food truck that can be seen around the city, but typically parks itself near Pikarigaoaka, where the owner, Akane Fujita, has worked an exclusive deal to be allowed to serve food just outside Penguin Park.
• The Book Nook: A popular but quiet book store with a variety of literature, including training manuals and research, magazines, fiction and non-fiction novels, children's picture books and coloring books, and an impressive manga and tabletop gaming section. The Book Nook is located on the Juuban Plaza, across from a cafe, and surrounded by other small businesses.
• Twin Bells Toy and Card Store: A Toy Shop, Popular for it’s large selection of Trading Cards and Stuffed Animals, in Downtown Mitakihara.
• Untidy Squid: A basement club in downtown Tokyo, somewhere in Mitakihara. A nightclub sort of place that caters to the teen crowd, which means it doesn't serve alcohol until after 10pm, and it hosts performances of bands that teens are likely to want to pay money to see.
• WcDonald's: A world renown and ubiquitous fast food restaurant specializing in burgers and french fries primarily.
• Yumegahama Aquarium and Marine Center: A building set on Tokyo Harbor, built halfway into the water. It is shaped in a wide circle and sticks upwards about five stories off of the ground. It has a large outdoor area that is closed in the winter, though the Aquarium interior remains open year round.
• Yumegahama Ward: The Yumegahama City district is a mixed area of offices, shops and apartment residences. It sits on Tokyo Bay, and is the place many tourists visit when they come to Tokyo. It’s known for it’s Theme Park, and Shopping District.

Things

• The Prince of High School Manga Series: A highly popular and successful series of 40 volumes that encompasses the 4 years of high school for it's protagonist Shunsuke Oda. Each book contains his role in helping out girls in his class with their relationship woes, and while being a handsome figure himself, he never seems to end up in any set pairing. At the end of each year, he ends up in a new class with new girls and new problems. The ending of the manga is hotly debated by readers, because after his high school graduation, Shunsuke seems to just vanish. He walks through a lit door. Many readers have assumed that Shunsuke was actually Okuninushi-no-Mikoto in mortal form, but the author has remained tight-lipped about it.

• Sailor V Manga Series: An episodic manga following new fictional adventures of the decidedly nonfictional hero. A new series that's only been getting serialized for the last seven months, it releases new chapters weekly online, and every seven chapters a new volume is released. Some chapters involve fictional romances, where Sailor V flirts with handsome guys and girls alike, others involve the busting up of crime rings or bank heists. The manga doesn't speculate on whether or not Sailor V has a regular life, and she always wears her signature mask and costume.

• DanDanPon AllStars Unite ⭐: DanDanPon is the catch all name for a series of music themed rhythm games in which players can select different instruments to play through an ever increasing list of songs. DanDanPon All Stars Unite ⭐ is a gacha game released for the 20th anniversary of the original game, six years ago now - a rhythm game like all the others, the special gimmick for this game is that every instrument has a humanized form, featuring everything from adorable kids to beautiful men and handsome ladies. The pity system is truly awful with even the big spenders complaining about pick up rates. The fanbase is split between those who feel the whole thing is an insult to the original series and the humanized instruments just generic waifu bait, and those who argue that the level design and complexity of the rhythms make it a genuinely good entry to the series.

• Shimmering Times: Originally a small, family-run print agency based in Tokyo founded on July 1962, on December 1991 the small agency was bought by the Takeuchi Kofu Corporation and turned into the successful enterprise it is today, becoming so popular that they were able to expand beyond Tokyo, with offices opening in other major cities. The company offers newspaper, tv and online services.

• Nono & Friends Manga Series: A fluffy and cute feel-good manga series by Shin Hayazaki about a girl and her talking animal friends. It has been compared to that other series, with the bear, and the pig, and the tiger, but Nono is much more involved in the adventures and fun skits. A recent, darker storyline, 'Vanity Project' was recently published, to very mixed reviews, but the original Nono & Friends remains popular, and even has an anime that is getting a reboot and fresh adaptation!

• Secret Agent Sailor V: Code V Manga Series: Written and illustrated by Shin Hayazaki, Sailor V is an international secret agent in this serial-format manga about a race against time to catch a group of extremists trying to set off an atomic bomb in the U.S.A. It has a lot of action and some shounen elements, but still fits solidly into the 'Action Shoujo' genre. It has received numerous awards, even after it concluded, thanks to continued spin-off materials being published.

• Galatea In Hell Manga Series: A seinen series by Shin Hayazaki about a living doll on the run from the authorities, and her attempts to become a real girl leading her to having to literally make a deal with the Devil. Though well-received by audiences into that sort of thing, it is a huge departure from Hayazaki's previous works and tone of writing.

• The Ox Across the Heavenly River Manga Series: A manga by Asuka Kawaguchi. It narrates the story of the Ox from the legend of Niulang and Zhinu, helping his master in his various adventure on the Heavenly River, as he seeks to reunite him with his lover Zhinu, cruelly torn away on the other side of the Heavenly river by the hand of the Goddess her mother. It features several chapters in which Zhinu's own feelings and actions are explored, and recently received a Collector's Edition with a Limited Edition Box and an illustration of the two lovers together for the occasion of its anime debut.

• Admiral V: Space Battleship Artemis Light Novel: A novelization of the American-made cartoon series about a lady captain of a space battleship named Artemis, very loosely based off of Sailor V. The English version of the light novel is called 'Admiral Victory' for some reason, and also the ship is 'Cupid's Arrow'. American copyright law is weird like that.

• Great Valorous Mahou: An in-universe magical girl anime and manga. It's cheaply produced but it's been going for a long time, is always on a publicly accessible channel, and is just kind of there when you want to watch 'nonspecific magical girl'.

• Tooter: An in-universe social media site. Its worldwide ubiquity allows one to get news, commentary, and silliness in limited-size toots from nearly any region, on any topic that may conceivably be of interest. Careful curation of one's follows and followers makes it a great way to keep tabs on friends.

• Woogle: An in-universe search engine. It's worldwide ubiquity means that just about anything, be it information, image, item, or directions, can be found with just one quick Woogle search.

• Clock App: An in-universe social media and video sharing website.

Terminology

• Juuban Flu: The colloquial, non-scientific term for a mysterious recurring phenomenon of people becoming weak, collapsing, passing out, and sometimes experiencing hallucinations of monsters, demons, and angels. The affected tend to recover quickly and have only vague memories of the time they were ill. While it happens most commonly in Juuban Ward, it sometimes spreads to other parts of Tokyo, and there have been occasional variants (some of which have been more serious than usual cases).