UNFINISHED SHITTY APPLICATION
Set in a Latin-American world that's analogous to Brazil, Michiko to Hatchin is about. Well. Michiko and Hatchin. Hana Morenos is an orphan who knows nothing about her real parents and even less about familial love--her foster parents treat her like a welfare check at best and the family's personal workhorse at worse, and her siblings verbally and physically abuse her. Basically, her life blows, until the day when a strange woman crashes through her motherfucking window on a motorbike, lands on the breakfast table, and takes her away forever. The woman is Michiko Malandro, a self-proclaimed "sexy diva" who knows Hana's presumed-dead father, Hiroshi Morenos, from way back when. In the biblical sense. And she just escaped from the prison which she was thrown into, basically, because she was looking for Hiroshi. Michiko doesn't believe that Hiroshi is dead, and she wants to find him. And that's how Michiko and Hana, now nicknamed Hatchin, set off on an awesome Thelma and Louise style journey down the highways of pseudo-Brazil. Where does Atsuko Jackson come into play? She's the reason Michiko was in prison in the first place.
Atsuko and Michiko grew up in the same orphanage, and Atsuko was basically Michiko's puppydoggish follower from birth. They grew up together, they played games together, and they got in trouble together. And the trouble was Michiko's idea 99% of the time. As Atsuko got older and their pranks got more illegal, she grew to resent Michiko's control over her more and more, and eventually she was able to break away, becoming a police officer. When Hiroshi mysteriously disappeared and Michiko started making trouble, Atsuko was the one to arrest her and send her to Diamandra, the supposedly inescapable prison. Which she later escaped from. Atsuko was promoted to sergeant for her troubles, and abused her position accordingly. While Michiko was in prison, Atsuko occasionally tormented her, interrogating her personally, taunting her, and using her helplessness to smack her around. However, once Hiroshi's "death" was reported and Michiko was depressed, Atsuko also gave her a baby picture of Hatchin, knowing that it would give her hope again.
Once Michiko breaks out of Diamandra, Atsuko takes it upon herself to personally make sure she drags her back; after their first confrontation, however, Michiko manages to get her at gunpoint and escape. Angry and humiliated, Atsuko decides to work with Satoshi Batista, Hiroshi's old friend and partner and a crazy motherfucker in all respects. Satoshi is the head of the crime syndicate Monstro Preto, and he hates Michiko. After he captures her, Atsuko works out a deal where she'll buy Michiko off of him and they all go home happy. Except that it doesn't work out that way; instead, Atsuko's subordinate Ricardo double-crosses her and decides that it's much better to arrest Satoshi and Michiko without any pay-off. Unsurprisingly, this ends up in a motherfucking shoot-out. Michiko, who's had the shit beaten out of her and looks the part, escapes from the house where Satoshi was holding her, and she makes a run for it in a field--where Atsuko happens to be looking for her, with a crossbow. For the first time in eight episodes, the two women are face to face. Michiko calls Atsuko her friend, and asks her to let her go.
And Atsuko lets her go.
After this disaster, Atsuko and Ricardo are demoted to a post in a Ilha Azul, a rural town near a famous ruined city, where she starts to go stir-crazy. While she's on the job, she comes to pick up a captured would-be thief, only to find that she's a rebellious teenage girl who reminds her a lot of Michiko. Atsuko starts to get close to the girl, Vanessa, and they have a bunch of hijinks which aren't really important, culiminating in a daring search for a mythical golden vase underneath the ruins. Where the two of them find nothing and nearly die from carbon monoxide poisoning. But it does inspire Vanessa to go to the big city and find her aspiring musician boyfriend--which only reminds Atsuko of Michiko more. Realizing that finding Michiko is more important to her than maintaining her good name, she forces Ricardo to come along with her and search for Michiko in the "city of tomatoes", where a man calling himself Rock Morena (who looks exactly like Hiroshi Morenos hurrrrrr) is making a name for himself. Unfortunately, Michiko and Hatchin are able to escape from her once again, with the help of one of Hiroshi's old lovers; at the end of the day, she's just screaming "MICHIKOOOOOO" down an elevator shaft and shooting at them in her sassy jumpsuit. It is kind of pathetic!
Afterwards, she continues to follow Michiko and Hatchin. In the latest episode, she has an encounter with Hatchin during Carnaval and helps her hide from police officers, then ditches Ricardo with thanks for his help. Although she's loath to drag him into her search any longer, and has begun to consider his wife and family, Atsuko is still a woman on a mission. An obsessive, crazy, lesbionic mission. Unfortunately for her, he comes along anyway!
When Michiko and Hatchin try to hide on a train, unfortunately, Atsuko and Satoshi Batista (who is now completely bereft of henchmen, though still a powerful-ass motherfucker) are also on their way there--Atsuko because she suspects they're going to be there, and Satoshi because someone slipped him a poison roofie and he's just kind of stumbled his way there. To make a long story short, Satoshi kidnaps Hatchin and Atsuko and Michiko have another goddamn standoff. This one is different, however--Atsuko herself makes it obvious when she says "Michiko, I'm at my limit." It's happened one time too many for her. Unfortunately, Michiko is also uncompromising, since, you know, her daughter figure has just been carried off by a psycho killer. Atsuko needs to stop letting Michiko run away, and Michiko needs to save Hatchin. What results is popularly known as a bitchfight!
No, okay, I'm just kidding. Atsuko steps on Michiko's hand in high heels, pulls her gun, and makes to punch the living daylights out of her in a final act that'll pretty much piss on their friendship's corpse--and her hand never makes contact. She still can't do it. Vowing that from now on, if she ever sees her agan, it'll be as though they'd never met, Atsuko walks away, giving Michiko one last chance but effectively ending their friendship. Sad, sad music in Portuguese plays, she starts crying, her makeup streams all the way down to like, her chin, and in the end, she collapses on her hands and knees in the dust, still sobbing. I am not even exaggerating right now.
Michiko and Hatchin eventually are reunited, but not before A.) Satoshi has gotten filled with more lead than a motherfuckin' quail and B.) Hatchin has seen a man, perfectly matching Hiroshi's description, headed for a train station. That's right--he's running away again. Just as they're riding off to find his ass, however, cop cars zoom in and block off all the roads! After a brief chase, they're still stuck, and it looks like the two will finally be separated for good when a cop car rolls up and Atsuko's gigantic afro slowly slides out of it. She's as good as her word, and doesn't show any recognition of Michiko whatsoever. Despite this, Michiko insists on talking to her, and the two of them make one last deal--this time, it's mutually beneficial. Michiko, as it turns out, has already given up any dreams of forming a happy family with Hiroshi, and it's implied that she does in fact know what a tremendous dickhead he is, but she wants Hatchin to spend time with the father she never knew. In exchange for letting her and Hatchin go one last time, Michiko gets Hatchin and Hiroshi an airplane ticket to somewhere far away, and she voluntarily turns herself in to Atsuko. The last we see of her is when Hatchin and Hiroshi are watching the news that night; she's walking Michiko away, her reputation as an officer restored and her EXTREMELY ELUSIVE QUARRY willingly in handcuffs at her side. Basically, it's good to be Atsuko.
Atsuko and Michiko grew up in the same orphanage, and Atsuko was basically Michiko's puppydoggish follower from birth. They grew up together, they played games together, and they got in trouble together. And the trouble was Michiko's idea 99% of the time. As Atsuko got older and their pranks got more illegal, she grew to resent Michiko's control over her more and more, and eventually she was able to break away, becoming a police officer. When Hiroshi mysteriously disappeared and Michiko started making trouble, Atsuko was the one to arrest her and send her to Diamandra, the supposedly inescapable prison. Which she later escaped from. Atsuko was promoted to sergeant for her troubles, and abused her position accordingly. While Michiko was in prison, Atsuko occasionally tormented her, interrogating her personally, taunting her, and using her helplessness to smack her around. However, once Hiroshi's "death" was reported and Michiko was depressed, Atsuko also gave her a baby picture of Hatchin, knowing that it would give her hope again.
Once Michiko breaks out of Diamandra, Atsuko takes it upon herself to personally make sure she drags her back; after their first confrontation, however, Michiko manages to get her at gunpoint and escape. Angry and humiliated, Atsuko decides to work with Satoshi Batista, Hiroshi's old friend and partner and a crazy motherfucker in all respects. Satoshi is the head of the crime syndicate Monstro Preto, and he hates Michiko. After he captures her, Atsuko works out a deal where she'll buy Michiko off of him and they all go home happy. Except that it doesn't work out that way; instead, Atsuko's subordinate Ricardo double-crosses her and decides that it's much better to arrest Satoshi and Michiko without any pay-off. Unsurprisingly, this ends up in a motherfucking shoot-out. Michiko, who's had the shit beaten out of her and looks the part, escapes from the house where Satoshi was holding her, and she makes a run for it in a field--where Atsuko happens to be looking for her, with a crossbow. For the first time in eight episodes, the two women are face to face. Michiko calls Atsuko her friend, and asks her to let her go.
And Atsuko lets her go.
After this disaster, Atsuko and Ricardo are demoted to a post in a Ilha Azul, a rural town near a famous ruined city, where she starts to go stir-crazy. While she's on the job, she comes to pick up a captured would-be thief, only to find that she's a rebellious teenage girl who reminds her a lot of Michiko. Atsuko starts to get close to the girl, Vanessa, and they have a bunch of hijinks which aren't really important, culiminating in a daring search for a mythical golden vase underneath the ruins. Where the two of them find nothing and nearly die from carbon monoxide poisoning. But it does inspire Vanessa to go to the big city and find her aspiring musician boyfriend--which only reminds Atsuko of Michiko more. Realizing that finding Michiko is more important to her than maintaining her good name, she forces Ricardo to come along with her and search for Michiko in the "city of tomatoes", where a man calling himself Rock Morena (who looks exactly like Hiroshi Morenos hurrrrrr) is making a name for himself. Unfortunately, Michiko and Hatchin are able to escape from her once again, with the help of one of Hiroshi's old lovers; at the end of the day, she's just screaming "MICHIKOOOOOO" down an elevator shaft and shooting at them in her sassy jumpsuit. It is kind of pathetic!
Afterwards, she continues to follow Michiko and Hatchin. In the latest episode, she has an encounter with Hatchin during Carnaval and helps her hide from police officers, then ditches Ricardo with thanks for his help. Although she's loath to drag him into her search any longer, and has begun to consider his wife and family, Atsuko is still a woman on a mission. An obsessive, crazy, lesbionic mission. Unfortunately for her, he comes along anyway!
When Michiko and Hatchin try to hide on a train, unfortunately, Atsuko and Satoshi Batista (who is now completely bereft of henchmen, though still a powerful-ass motherfucker) are also on their way there--Atsuko because she suspects they're going to be there, and Satoshi because someone slipped him a poison roofie and he's just kind of stumbled his way there. To make a long story short, Satoshi kidnaps Hatchin and Atsuko and Michiko have another goddamn standoff. This one is different, however--Atsuko herself makes it obvious when she says "Michiko, I'm at my limit." It's happened one time too many for her. Unfortunately, Michiko is also uncompromising, since, you know, her daughter figure has just been carried off by a psycho killer. Atsuko needs to stop letting Michiko run away, and Michiko needs to save Hatchin. What results is popularly known as a bitchfight!
No, okay, I'm just kidding. Atsuko steps on Michiko's hand in high heels, pulls her gun, and makes to punch the living daylights out of her in a final act that'll pretty much piss on their friendship's corpse--and her hand never makes contact. She still can't do it. Vowing that from now on, if she ever sees her agan, it'll be as though they'd never met, Atsuko walks away, giving Michiko one last chance but effectively ending their friendship. Sad, sad music in Portuguese plays, she starts crying, her makeup streams all the way down to like, her chin, and in the end, she collapses on her hands and knees in the dust, still sobbing. I am not even exaggerating right now.
Michiko and Hatchin eventually are reunited, but not before A.) Satoshi has gotten filled with more lead than a motherfuckin' quail and B.) Hatchin has seen a man, perfectly matching Hiroshi's description, headed for a train station. That's right--he's running away again. Just as they're riding off to find his ass, however, cop cars zoom in and block off all the roads! After a brief chase, they're still stuck, and it looks like the two will finally be separated for good when a cop car rolls up and Atsuko's gigantic afro slowly slides out of it. She's as good as her word, and doesn't show any recognition of Michiko whatsoever. Despite this, Michiko insists on talking to her, and the two of them make one last deal--this time, it's mutually beneficial. Michiko, as it turns out, has already given up any dreams of forming a happy family with Hiroshi, and it's implied that she does in fact know what a tremendous dickhead he is, but she wants Hatchin to spend time with the father she never knew. In exchange for letting her and Hatchin go one last time, Michiko gets Hatchin and Hiroshi an airplane ticket to somewhere far away, and she voluntarily turns herself in to Atsuko. The last we see of her is when Hatchin and Hiroshi are watching the news that night; she's walking Michiko away, her reputation as an officer restored and her EXTREMELY ELUSIVE QUARRY willingly in handcuffs at her side. Basically, it's good to be Atsuko.