Catherine Imamura

**Ms. Catherine Imamura** is the head of the Natural Disasters, one of the Sorrows of Death Inc., and the seventh boss in *Have a Nice Death*.

## Description

**Ms. Catherine Imamura - Head of the Natural Disasters Department**

Sixty-six million years ago, Death had a big problem on his hands. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and pliosaurs were passing by in their hundreds. Death and his young associates were struggling to maintain a balance between the resplendent life forms and the necromantic flux of the universe. However, after an interview held on the fly between two routine missions, Ms. Catherine Imamura was hired by the company. Her final test to see her temporary contract made permanent was to take charge of the so-called Crumbling Cretaceous Contract. With one snap of her watery fingers, the terrifying Imamura bombarded Earth with her solar winds, whipped the oceans into a frenzy, made meteors rain down from the sky, and ... gave Death Inc. its first break in the stock markets by raising its shares by 444,000 in one fell swoop!

Catherine belongs to the first generation of Sorrows created by Death. As such, she enjoys a substantial benefits package. In terms of pure power and ability to spread chaos and destruction, she is as good as they come. She’s what Jerry would call a “company veteran,” and, while it may seem logical for her to have fostered a rivalry with her younger colleagues, Grimes, Krank, and even the Major, it’s not necessarily *normal*. Nobody should be able to benefit from such outlandish advantages simply because they’ve been working at the company longer.

— Ms. Imamura, now that Mr. Corvusini’s retired, you are the last one standing of Death Inc.’s antediluvian Sorrows. Any thoughts on that?

— Tssk. Corbusieri always had trouble making a voice for himself. Youthfulness should be quashed. We shouldn’t hesitate to crush it entirely, if necessary. He simply didn’t care enough about the company. *I* care about the company!

— Erm ... Do you mean that he ... didn’t have such a firm grip on this as his successor, Mr. Krank?

— Mr. Prank ... He’s just yet another poptart. Probably one too many of them in this confession.

— Ahem. I wrote down 'poptart' and 'confession', but I imagine you mean *upstart* and *profession*. Don’t you?

*- Unpublished excerpt from a post-masterclass interview of Catherine Imamura, Sorrow of Natural Disasters.*

## Appearance

Catherine Imamura is a humanoid water figure with flowing water for her geisha hair. She has snow-white eyes and deep blue lips, and her skin has a dark blue hue.  She wears a Japanese kimono in cyan water with white, fluffy water foam serving as the rims around the neck and wrists. She had drops of water floating above her hand during the introduction before the battle.

## Personality

Catherine Imamura is described as an egoistic woman who likes to brag about her previous performances, from big earthquake pandemonium to perpetual flood damage, such as how she brags about her huge success in the massive Krakatoa explosion in 1883. She extols herself before the battle with Death, but her speech and spelling are muddled, and she frequently mispronounces one word for another. (For example, stating "I'll brush you like a perm" instead of "I'll crush you like a worm")

## Boss Battle Attacks

In Catherine Imamura's boss battle, she has a varying number of attacks. Ranging from homing pillars of water to quick slash assaults.

* **Crashing Tides**: Ms. Catherine rushes towards the player, then slams the ground, firing two explosions in front of her.

* **Slash**: Ms. Catherine slashes twice in front of her, preceded by a big, red exclamation mark, before proceeding to assault.

* **Water Shot**: Ms. Catherine fires three lasers from the edge of the screen at different angles.

* **Water Laser**: Ms. Catherine fires horizontal and vertical lasers at the player's position.

* **Oceanic Wall**: Ms. Catherine moves to the middle, her hand and creates a wall of water on both sides of the arena.

* **Tsunami Surge**: Ms. Catherine jumps to the edge of the screen, launching a pillar of water that moves, then homes on the player after it reaches the end.

* **Phase Two**: Around half health, she screams, initiating her second phase. In Ms. Catherine's second phase, all previous attacks came with clones to increase the difficulty of fighting her, and they now come with some new sets of attacks as well.

* **Clone Smash**: Ms. Catherine dashes to the middle, and clones smash all around her.

* **Double Crashing Tides**: Ms. Catherine now has a clone who fires on the other side of her. Her attack now produces four explosions.

* **Double Water Shot**: Ms. Catherine now also has a clone on the other side who shoots six lasers.

* **Double Slash**: Ms. Catherine can create a clone that attacks first before she does, or she can have a storm of clones that slash at random positions. Her slash range is doubled.

* **Water Laser**: Ms. Catherine fires a vertical, horizontal, and x-shot laser pattern at the player.