The Ningen (1992 Ship Analysis)

The Ningen (1992 Ship Analysis) is the third episode in The Ningen (1990-1992) series. Inspired by the Japanese creepypasta, it is about the events that occurred when the aerial Ningen from the previous episode attacked the Soviet ship, Professor Zubov. Because of this, it picks up where the second video in the series, The Ningen (1991 Deep Sea Video), left off.

## Synopsis

The video starts off with yet another variant of the Japanese Office for Human Studies logo. Audio of Hugo Funatsu talking about the ship Professor Zubov is shown accompanying a series of images of the ship and Hugo sitting on the ground naked in different poses. He explains that when he could see, he could find nothing strange about the image of Professor Zubov covered with the Russian word for 'help' written all over it when it returned from the Southern Ocean. He found it sad, but not strange. He removed his eyes to avoid the truth, but in the blindness, he realised it was not written by any crew member, as they could never have reached. It wasn't spray paint, as it doesn't become a dull brown. Furthermore, it doesn't say 'help' as a verb. Instead, it says 'help' as a noun, like 'assistance' or 'aid'. It was a lure for them that mocked them, or perhaps the Ningens see their treatment of them as assistance, taking them beyond their current state in evolution. Perhaps they consider themselves as our saviours.

The scene changes to an animation of a silhouette of Professor Zubov. Out of the corner, the spinal aerial Ningen, labelled Icarus II, implying that it's the aquatic Ningen from the previous episode, appears, heading towards the ship. Once it reaches the ship, the silhouette of the Ningen disappears, and the Professor Zubov is labelled as Icarus III. The camera zooms into the silhouette of Icarus III, and the words 'human factory' appear in both English and Japanese. It then shows camera footage of inside Professor Zubov, which now has moving, fleshy parts.

It then shows footage of Hugo reading his father, Keizo Funatsu's, journal. The entry claims that nothing of importance happened, and that everything was okay. The wording is unlike that of Keizo's, and is very strange. The entry ends with "I am ready to have a son."

It then shows a series of illustrations found inside Professor Zubov. The illustrations show of a mysterious red rectangle, which something comes out of. Tentacle-like appendages start coming out of the object as it takes on a human form. The appendages turn into human limbs and the humanoid grows a neck, a head, ears, a mouth, a nose, a right eye, a left eye and liveness in them one at a time. A human head grows out of the new human's abdomen and climbs out. The two new humans look at each other and hold hands.

The definition of 'ПОМОЩЬ' is shown, it being Russian for 'aid' or 'help', accompanied with a children's song about helping others, and the video ends.

## Description

Third videotape from the Japanese Office for Human Studies.

(Tags: ПОМОЩЬ)

## Trivia

* Like the previous episode, during the scenes where text is on screen, the Japanese spelling doesn't add up to the English words.
	+ The Japanese label for the Professor Zubov during the animation translates to 'bait'.
	+ The label for Icarus II translates to 'predator'.
	+ The label for Icarus III translates to 'factory', as confirmed by the English and Japanese text when the camera zooms into the silhouette.
	+ The Japanese text for 'illustrations found in Professor Zubov' translates to 'illustrations found in Soviet ship' (this is a minor inclusion).
* The way Keizo's journal was written implies that it wasn't him who wrote it.
* This isn't the final version of this page. Images will be added soon.