Mizuki 5

Mizuki 5 (also known as Mizu5) refers to the 5th character focus event for Akiyama Mizuki in Project Sekai. Fans were kept in suspense during the leadup to the event, and fan reactions spread beyond the Project Sekai fandom.
Before the event, the producer commissioned to create the theme song for the event and the character voice actors posted about it on social media. The producer warned fans to be prepared, and that "some realities cannot be helped,"https://x.com/Sea_saltyzz/status/1844789167479214178, while Sato Hinata, the seiyuu for Mizuki, stated she was crying while recording her dialogue for the eventhttps://x.com/Sea_saltyzz/status/1844789399675879611. This fueled speculation about the intensity of the event more than a week before it began. The start date of the event was also planned to be October 11th, which is National Coming Out Day in the US. Fans were in dispute over whether or not that was intentional or a coincidence, as Project Sekai takes place in Japan and is made by a Japanese company. The release of the event banner image the day before it began, showing Mizuki's horrified expression, only increased anticipation for the event itself.
Phrases about "bells tolling" often appear in posts associated with the event. This is a reference to the lines "The bells of parting toll" in the song Netsu Ijou (Heat Abnormal), which was covered by Niigo before the event. Fans noticed similarities between the music video for the song and Mizuki's untrained card.https://www.tumblr.com/crowcorvo/764409460233027584
After the event released, people were united in their anger against the unnamed NPCs in the event, with many people decrying "Student A".
==Spread==
==Discussions==
Many fans posted their own analyses of the event story, especially in relation to the trans experience.
*still in disbelief about how mizu5 genuinely captures the subtleties of transmisogyny so accurately like nothing else i've seen before especially with the nuances with which mizuki's story is told … -catgirlzugy.
*im literally sobbing in bed trying to sleep but mizu5 literally tore my heart out -mimikyuno.
*mizu5 is actually worrying because if she disappears to empty sekai how is everyone else gonna feel. -waddlewaddledee.
==Reactions==
==Example Fanworks==
The event spawned a wide array of fanworks.
===Art===
*mizu5 made me emo by mevwik
*it was nice while it lasted by chiricat
*Run Away & Disappear by Scyfosu
*Would you like to continue? by dokidokidraws
*this path full of thorns by ochablooms
*The Dream Ending but it's Mizuki5, a redraw of Mizuki's untrained card featuring Don Quixote from Limbus Company, by koKiing 
===Fanfiction===
*Silent Pain by pinkishtea
*Stagnation by ShrtCircuitMio
===Videos===
* Bake no Hana (English Cover/Mizu5 Animatic) [ft. Mai] by Hapcyon
*If I Could Stop One’s Heart from Breaking : A Mizu5 Analysis Video. by mizu
*Mizu5 animatic (i bet on losing dogs) (spoilers!!) by Blue Star
*Nightcord at 25:00 Make a Music Video for Mizuki by Real Izumi Sena
*, animation by grentart
==External Links==
*Mizuki 5 on Know Your Meme
*Anyone else hear that ominous bell tolling on Know Your Meme 
==References==
Category:Project Sekai Colorful Stage