Mimi Ōshiro

A beautiful, self-obsessed entrepreneur, producer, and artist who made the animation industry as lucrative as it is today. While she is famous for developing movies centered around fairy tales, Mimi is most visible at her corporation’s amusement park sector - Mimiland.

She claims it’s paradise for the young dreamer.

• From childhood, Mimi was involved in the beauty industry. She was in child pageants ever since she was 5, and once she outgrew them, she became a teenage model. Much of her skills in presentation and makeup come from this stage in her life, as well as the idealized image of a woman.
  • Her trophies, crowns, and sashes are still in her room - a reminder of how far she’s come.
• Amusement parks always interested Mimi, which is why she built one for her company as soon as she could. Her main goal was to create one dedicated entirely to fairy tales, particularly the ones featured in her films. Currently, it has the largest cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the country.
  • The ‘mascot’ of the park is… herself, alongside her Specter. Though her films are either original or based off of classical stories, her brand is covered top to bottom with Mimi.
  • Among the hundreds of employees maintaining the park, there are only two entertainers - a clown and a jester. This is a relatively new position, as the park largely keeps people busy with attractions and the company’s creations.
• Ruthless and manipulative, Mimi was quite the ‘mean girl’ during her teenage years. She saw everyone around her as competition and only had sights on what could benefit her. It doesn’t help that her career, filled with just as much cruelty, fueled her paranoia that people would only take advantage of her.
• The first film she ever made was called Miyuki - the story of a princess whose beauty was envied by her wicked stepmother. The film has since been overshadowed by her more recent works, though they all feature a similar fairy tale formula.
  • Miyuki was based off of the first story she was told as a child, or at the very least the earliest one she could remember.
• Names are a sensitive subject for Mimi, who prefers to go by anything but her full first name. Her main moniker is based off of her name during her child pageantry years - ‘Princess Mimi’.
  • She went by her American name (Marianne) for her modeling career. She claims that it was a strategic move, as people seemed to like it better than her Japanese name.
• Art was an interest for her ever since she was young. Whenever she wasn’t being dolled up for an event, she was attending art classes. This would evolve into filmmaking, and though it was initially only a hobby - writing, animating, and directing films - she was able to establish herself in the entertainment industry as an adult.
  • She was only able to do with the support of her mother, who always encouraged Mimi to express herself artistically. She was the one who introduced her to the field of animation, where good triumphed over evil and stories always ended happily.