Hinase Haruka

Hinase Haruka is the voice actress of Alice Margatroid and Daiyousei in Cookie☆ OG, and one of the most prominent VAs from the original voice drama since its beginning. This article is mainly concerned with the real-life Hinase Haruka and her role as Alice. For her Daiyousei role, treated by most as a separate character today, see DIYUSI.

In the early days of Cookie☆, the community often referred to the Hinase appearing in MADs simply as "ALC", in recognition of her better voice-acting skill compared to the voices for other characters. However, as more and more Alice voices appeared in the newly incorporated voice dramas, "Hinase" or "HNSALC" became more commonly used to distinguish her from her successors.

In the Voice Drama

Alice Margatroid is one of the main heroines of the drama who is always thinking about Marisa. She visited the Hakurei Shrine alongside Marisa and served everyone brownies.  When Marisa departed to make the cookie to be her forgotten Valentine's day gift, Alice stayed at the Hakurei Shrine. Later by the time Marisa came to the human village, however, she was already in the human village to join Marisa and her fellows. Alice worked with Marisa and her friends for a while afterwards to fight Yuuka, but returned to Shrine before the cookies were finished. Marisa then brought the broken cookies to Alice, and a grateful Alice helped Marisa to mend the broken cookies together.

Netas related to her voice drama performance include:

Freaking huge tea bowl (クソデカ湯呑み):

In one of the scenes, Alice is holding a tea bowl that due to the artwork's perspective appeared unusually large. This leads to her sometimes being given a huge tea bowl that looks like a drum. People often mistaken the name for the tea bowl held by Puha Reimu, due to which sometimes Reu is also portrayed holding a huge tea bowl.

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  Freaking huge tea bowl

Vertically long Alice (たてながアリス)

In the confectionery store scene drawn by Shiren, the art style has Alice look like she is stretched vertically. It is also known as "Brain Erection Alice (脳勃起アリス)". Niconico comments often react to the style with this name in vertical text. The stretching is said to be due to a mistake in setting the artwork's size ratio.

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  Vertically-long Alice

Osotogari(大外刈り):

In a scene at the beginning of the voice drama, Alice and Marisa said “Kya!” as they hugged each other. Their gestures made it seem like Marisa was going to use this judo throw on Alice. It became a commonly used materials in Cookie☆ otoMADs. The sound is actually made by Marisa and Hinase together, but is basically treated as Alice's sound only. NicoNico comments spam “Osotogari” in spaced red text in response to the appearance of this sound in MADs. The Martial ALC (see below) sometimes uses this judo skill, although Marisa was originally the one that looked like using it.

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  Osotogari.BB

Real Life Activities

Hinase was one of the better skilled voice actresses of the cast. Especially in contrast to the bouyomi of Udzuki and Reu, her performance was largely praised by the watchers. During the Cookie☆ Controversy, Hinako received attention as one of the main voice actresses alleging Hazuna Rio of sexual harassments. Her mother is Chibou, who is very active online as a left-wing political advocate and received developments as an independent Cookie☆ character.

Hinase came under the spotlight already by the beginning of the Cookie☆ Controversy, and especially became the centre of attention when it was discovered that she had been a victim of Hazuna Rio’s sexual harassment. After the controversy, people interpreted from her implicating tweets that she may be pregnant with Hazuna’s child or may have become a “handjob girl(sex worker)”, and discussed these speculations frequently. She denied all of them.

Meanwhile, the “~damon(～だもん)” that ended many of her tweets grew popular and became a part of her quotes. She is also called “Jaga-sama” on the thread for having claimed to have masturbated with Jagariko. Early on, she was seen as a goddess character for being able to calmly treat the Inmufags who approached her. However, as the above mentioned posts were discovered and she was suspected of working in night clubs, she also started to be seen as a promiscuous person and thereby a two-faced goddess. Especially after she restored her activity, the promiscuous grew stronger.

Hinase had also been a skilled artist with popular works on Pixiv and even commercial commissions. She had been good friends with fellow artist Makota even before they voiced for Cookie☆OG together. Hinase was offered to contribute to the voice drama’s artworks but chose not to because she was busy at the time.  

From one leaked photo, Hinako seems to one of the more attractive Cookie☆ VAs alongside Kanna. This, combined with her being a skilled voice actress, artist, and good at handling the Cookie☆ fans, gives the impression that Hinase is a perfect person. However, she noted that her academic grades were not good. There were rumours that Hinase got married, but she later debunked this claim herself.

Hinase was still involved in the Cookie☆ community as late as in 2020, ten years after the release of the original voice drama, commenting under the Hinase Alice that she drew herself. Unfortunately, however, she soon deleted her Pixiv and Tumblr account on January 26, 2020.

Fictional Portrayals

   Hinase is one of the main characters from Cookie☆ OG, alongside Udzuki, Reu, and Yamin. Together they made frequent appearances in MADs. Especially, she appears in a group with Reu and Udzuki, the three of whom together is sometimes known as the three idiots.

   On the one hand, she is depicted as a goddess-like figure just like in the voice drama, but on the other hand she also often has a horrific, disturbing personality for some reason. In BB theatres, Hinase is often portrayed as a psychopath with an unusual obsession on Udzuki. This setting especially trended after the Stone neta.

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  New Christmas style Hinase, im7094998

Battle Cookie☆

   Hinase has rich battle materials and is very popular in the Battle Cookie☆ genre. While Kanna, who is also popular in battle theatres, often plays the heroine of the stories, Hinase is more often the stories’ villain or antihero. Her fighter character is known as “Martial ALC(武闘派ALC)”.

    Her weapons could be firearms, knives, or deformed objects. In the early works, she used firearms more often. She also uses a lot of martial arts. However, what eventually became her major weapon is "the Scythe”, also known as “Yetzirah☆”. It initially appears in the video “ALC Performer of Dies Irae”, and henceforward Hinase became known as using a scythe for battle. It is based on the Margueritte-Bois de Justice, the weapon used by Ren Fujii from the visual novel Dies Irae. The original weapon is not a scythe but a guillotine, but it has been treated as a scythe in Cookie☆ due to its appearance. This version of Hinase is almost certainly accompanied by the BGM Last Boss Shrine. There is also a Crazy Psycho Lesbian War Shrine made as a self-homage and used as her BGM. She also uses "the Stone", a neta originating from a scene of BB theatre Udzuki Short of Money.mp4. Initially used only for punching, Hinase now uses the Stone for various functions and it has become more than just a blunt weapon.

In a subversion to her base character, Alice Margatroid, Hinase does not control any puppets in most of her fighting scenes. Thus, whenever Hinase fights in BB theatres, the comments will satirically react “why doesn’t she use puppets?” Meanwhile, if she does use a puppet in a scene, the comments will react in turn “why is she using a puppet?” Since then, “Alice stubbornly refuses to use puppets” also becomes the consistent joke of various Alice roles, including the other members of the ALC Gang—Taisa, Sakuranbou, and Jigen (Ichigo, the latest member of the gang, does end up using a puppet in her fight, which is the Fuwafuwa Bunny). There is a “Puppeteer ALC” material, but it is not frequently used in BB theatres.

BB Materials

Machine Gun ALC

A GB material of Hinase originating from Stalingrad Siege Seniors BB/GB Collection. Its surrealistic image of the gently smiling Hinase firing off her submachine gun(PPSh-41) and skilfully reloading it made it a very popular material. While Crazy Psycho Lesbian Hinase materials began with Stone, they grew more popular after this material. It also led to the early production of a wide range of firearm materials.

Obon Dance ALC

A material that is part of ALC to Protect You From Attack.ms-09f, which looks like she is doing the said dance. It was later made into the extra of Fanning ALC GB&Examples.mp3. In MADs, the character may start this dance under various situations. The part with the hands upwards is called the "Awa Dance ALC(阿波踊りALC)”, but it did not grow popular.

Other Netas

From Livestreams and Social Media Posts

Masked ALC

A image of Hinase originating from an MMD video made based on a livestream of her with Ikemen.

Namara

Part of Hinase's Hokkaido dialect which she used when she streamed with Ikemen. When people talk about her, they often use this word in a strong sense. The sentences may end with a (laugh).

“I’m not pregnant (laughs)”

Hinase’s reply to suspicions saying that she may be pregnant with Hazuna’s child. It's strangely impressive and is used as a reply to the Hinase stories that people on Hon-thread wrote.

Hinase’s Hinase

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A drawing of Hinase Alice with a scythe by Hinase herself (10 November 2017). It was published on her own Twitter page. It is cut out and posted on seiga and sometimes used in MAD.

“It's a big mistake, but it was a good experience, it's big enough for me to weigh it up, it's hard for me too, but it's that big”

An interesting-sounding tweet that Hinase posted on Twitter. The Hon-thread misinterpreted it as being a reference to her pregnancy. It is also popular as a glossary, and the Hinase impersonation can be seen with the ending "~mon".

Others

Jaga-sama(じゃが様)

A nickname derived from the fact that Hinase likes jagariko.

Hauau(はうあう)

The only audio material of Hinase left in the Koebu for a long time. It might be referring to Hanyu from Higurashi: When They Cry. In her livestream, Hinase noted that she had already lost her login information for the Koebu and thus could not delete it. In the same livestream, she re-produced the line.

“Take a bath (laughs)”

A quote originating from the biased opinion that Cookiefags (since they are disgusting otakus) do not take baths. It is used as a scornful response on the Hon-thread and Seiga. Since public baths in Japan are also associated with the sex industry, this line can also mean “go find a real woman and get laid”.

Multinational Hinase:

When the Hon-thread started to think Hinase as an expatriate, there came the neta that “Harpyon” is an ethnic name. From that, names of various nationalities were derived based on homophones of her quotes.

• Hinase Haruka (Japanese)
• Ha Lu-pyeong (Korean)
• Flokha Irena (Russian)
• Namala-u Kel (Indian)
• Hauhau (Papuan)
• Gomjatsu K. Yone (South American)
• Canilio Kahn (German)