The title suggests the game centers on , the anchor through which the player experiences this strange world. Rinko is often portrayed as an outsider, an investigator, or perhaps a victim of curiosity, seeking answers to a specific, deeply personal enigma.
Her obsession with Yaezujima began in 1979, when she stumbled upon a damaged orihon (accordion-fold book) in a second-hand bookstore in Kagurazaka. The book, titled Yaezujima Kibun ("Extraordinary Tales of Yaezujima"), was dated 1721. Its author was a low-ranking hatamoto (bannerman) named Takeda Chōbei, who claimed to have been shipwrecked on the island for eleven days. Curious Tales of Yaezujima -Rinko Kageyama-s En...
Captain Nakamura insisted on leaving immediately. Kageyama refused. According to Hoshina's diary (published posthumously in 2005), the professor spent the sixth day photographing the pillar and collecting water samples while "talking to someone who wasn't there." When Hoshina asked who, she replied: "The faceless woman. She's not hostile. She's incomplete . She wants us to understand the calendar." The title suggests the game centers on ,