Yuko Magaki
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Template:FF4MajorGhostAn artist and patient in Rogetsu Hall. His room is filled with portraits he has painted. Several of the paintings seem to show subjects suffering from Blooming. The most obvious picture is the one Yuko has painted on his floor, which is of Sakuya Haibara. In the Gallery, there is another similar picture of Sakuya, and another of a group of five Kanade.
Fatal Frame IV
Yuko, like many of the other patients found in Rogetsu Hall, was suffering from the effects of Moonlight Syndrome. Before his admission, he had apparently made many large financial contributions to the hospital. In hospital reports, it was recorded that he was rather irritable, but a quiet, private person. He disliked others touching his paintings, nor did he like to be disturbed when he was in the middle of painting. In fact, most of the time during his stay he would be in his room silently painting.
Tsubaki Tono, the third floor nurse, started to observe Yuko mumbling to himself. He would get very loud and speak incoherently, only one or two of his words making sense before becoming silent again. From then on, his condition only worsened. His problematic behavior increased. He would start grinning obsessively during his unintelligible mutterings before crying out in a loud voice.
One such incident occurred during 'lights out' when Yuko began screaming. The nurse who went to investigate was grabbed by the artist as he yelled more incoherent nonsense and the words "eradication" and "destruction".

As his status worsened he claimed to have had a "vision" of a woman in red with a blurred face bringing disaster to the island. This made a clear impression on Yuko's artwork which took on a dramatic sinister tone. His pictures were of the fourth floor patient - Sakuya Haibara.
On the Day Without Suffering, Yuko along with Choshiro Kirishima, was witness to Sakuya's escape from the basement where she had been imprisoned. He appears to have had a "vision" of the events that occurred after her escape, and this is where he drew inspiration from for the painting on the floor of his room.
Paintings by Yuko
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Unknown subject from easel in Room 309
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Two figures by a row of torii gates
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Two figures standing in a wilderness
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Two figures, possibly overlooking the Day Without Suffering
Misc. Info
- Yuko's room is #309 - 色取月 (Irodorizuki "multicoloured moon")
- One of his attacks involves him throwing paint, which temporarily covers part of the viewfinder.
- He is only fought once in the game.
- The name "Yuko Magaki" appears to be a pseudonym. His real name is unknown.
- According to an unused file, Yuko designed the decorative key fobs for Rogetsu Hall.
See Also
- For other hostile ghosts, see Hostile Ghosts.
- For more information on Getsuyuu Syndrome, see Moonlight Syndrome.