Since it appears Akihabara Channel is no more, and since Evospace appears to have been the only person who’d bothered to translate and summarize the 428 plot, I figured it would be worth mirroring a section of the game's summary, including the Type-Moon scenario from 428 that Canaan’s anime was based upon. It provides a little clarity on the events surrounding Siam’s earlier death, and also explains Canaan’s involvement in Maria’s rescue during the Shibuya incident.
As usual, be warned of massive spoilers;
428: Fūsasareta Shibuya de: Type Moon scenario.
“We find out the kidnappers are ultimately after the drug that Oosawa invented, the anti-virus for the UA Virus. If a person is infected by this virus, he or she will bleed all over the body and die 100 percent if the symptoms develop. On top of that, it will infect through the air from a person who’s deeply developed. Since a certain country is secretly using it as a biochemical weapon, there’s a tremendous black market price on the anti-virus.
But why did they ask for money instead? It’s because Hitomi actually has the anti-virus in her body. Because Hitomi was somehow infected by the virus, Oosawa secretly experimented the anti-virus, which was heavily monitored by his company, on her. But why didn’t they kidnap Hitomi first? Because Maria, who’s tomboy’ish compared to her twin sister but looks exactly alike, sacrificed herself to save Hitomi.
Without knowing that, Hitomi and Achi wanders about Shibuya escaping from the criminals and the man who’s trying to shoot her. When they were in a tight situation, they are saved by a mysterious foreign girl. She said her name is Canaan and she was a friend of Maria that she met when Maria visited the Middle East.
Meanwhile, Tama finally finishes her job and purchases the pendant that she wanted. She didn’t have any memory about herself since this morning, but she somehow knew that she needed the pendant at the recycle shop. (Which the store manager actually found on the street and was selling it for 40,000yen) At that time, the player finds out that Tama was Maria who escaped from the kidnappers. (I actually figured it out back when Tama was fighting cockroaches in the storage room XD )
On the other hand, Kanou Shinya gets a new partner on the way. A CIA agent called Jack. Jack looked down at him at first, but they start getting along after learning that they are both passionately doing their job out of their own belief. However, a shocking incident breaks apart Shinya’s belief. The senior cop that he admired, Tateno Kyozou, was actually the man who was trying to shoot Hitomi and interfered with his team in several occasions.
Tateno finally captures Maria, and calls Shinya to bring Hitomi to him. When Shinya confronts Tateno by himself, he asks him why he’s doing this, but he doesn’t answer and tells him that he was always a poor cop instead. Shinya was about to shoot Tateno, and Tateno was about to shoot Maria, but someone knocks Tateno unconscious and saves Maria. It was Canaan.
Maria runs off to look for Hitomi, but Shinya talks to Canaan trying to organize what’s going on. Either way, they conclude that they should secure Maria first and runs after her. It was actually Canaan who gave Maria the pendant, but it was lost when she was kidnapped. The pendant had a transmitter inside and they easily locate her, at the store of Endou Achi’s father.
At the same time, Achi, Hitomi, and Jack all assembled at the monitor room of the store. Achi’s father was actually an old friend of Tateno, and he was helping him with the web camera planted throughout the city of Shibuya. His reason for doing this was for Achi’s sister with a heart disease. They needed to transplant a heart to her very quickly or she would die. But her blood type was rare, and Hitomi was the only one who had that. Tateno was responsible for her mother’s death in one of his mission, and felt guilty all his life. He thought this was the only way he could have made up for his sin, but he realized his mistake.
But the real culprit was the guy who told him about Hitomi’s blood type to Achi’s father. And the name of this international criminal was called Alfard. No one knows his/her gender, age, nor appearance, but he/she was always behind serious cases around the globe. His/Her plan was perfectly set up, but made loose ends so noone could trace it down. The reason he/she used an amateur like Achi’s father and kidnappers consisting of an ordinary criminal group in Shibuya are some example. But of course, Alfard’s ultimate goal was Hitomi, who has the anti-virus sample within her.
At this moment, Maria falls unconscious. Their enemy injected the UA virus in her while she was kidnapped. The team finally receives a message from Alfard through the monitors in the room. Alfard wants Hitomi to come to the Shibuya station crossroad, just like this morning, in exchange for one of the password of the research laboratory which contains the injectible version of Anti-virus to save her. (Oosawa’s assistant was actually on Alfard’s side, so they have one of the two password required for the lab, but he was double crossed and murdered in the exploding van)
So the team splits up. Tateno who joined up drives Canaan and Maria to the research lab to meet up with Oosawa. Achi and his old group mates, Shinya, and Hitomi goes to Shibuya station to see Alfard. Meanwhile Jack had a hunch and decides to act by himself.
When Hitomi and the others were waiting at the crossroad near the station, a foreigner with a suitcase walks up to her. It was Hitomi’s college professor who was actually Alfard. When Shinya, Achi, and his friends surround him, he takes out a case of sealed test tubes and tosses it in the air. (And from this momement, the most difficult part of the game begins where every wrong move you make blows up the Shibuya)
The right choices you needed to make was to have Shinya run after Alfard, and have Achi and his friend catch the test tubes in midair. And on top of that, Jack had to call Tateno after figuring out something. The foreigner girl who was with them wasn’t Canaan… but the real Alfard. She was decieving them all along. Even to Maria, she told her that she was Canaan’s friend who came to help her. (The reason the 428 anime itself is a spoiler; Because in that, Canaan is the blond girl. Alfard is the dark haired girl who rather looks like this girl)
Alfard wanted to go inside the lab so she can securely blow up the rest of the anti-virus and kill Oosawa. So now Tateno had to keep Alfard busy without entering the lab, until Jack joined him. Meanwhile Shinya and Achi did everything they could to stop the bomb inside the fake Alfard’s suitcase.
Finally, the epilogue takes place when Maria awakens after getting the anti-virus injected by her father. After realizing what’s going on, she walks outside to see Alfard, even though her body felt weak. Maria asks Alfard what happened to Canaan, but Alfard just grins at her. Alfard finally gives up and tosses her gun on the ground. Maria picks up the gun and tries to shoot Alfard crying, ” You killed Canaan, didn’t you?!” but she misses. Instead, Alfard takes out another gun and tries to shoot Maria but Oosawa gets hit in place of his daughter.
After disarming Alfard again, Jack’s superior, Gordon, takes her to custody. While Oosawa is dying in the ambulance, Gordon tosses the key to her handcuffs in their car. Alfard was annoyed that she was only able to accomplish half of her goal. Kill Oosawa and get a sample of Hitomi’s blood. When Gordon was suprised when she had such time, she told him it was when she saved Hitomi from the van explosion. Their car headed for the airport…
NORMAL ENDING
Now in order to view the good ending, you had to make the right choices for everyone’s route; Not to try to kill Alfard from hatred. When you do that, Maria wouldn’t try to kill Alfard, and Oosawa wouldn’t die. Alfard would still escape with Gordon, but Maria receives a call from the real Canaan who just arrived at the airport. Then finally, Alfard encounters her at the airport….
THE TRUE END
The Canaan story takes place 4 years ago in the Middle East. It was even before Canaan met Maria, and she worked with another guy called Shamu. Canaan was the only survivor in her village that was killed by the UA virus. She was found by Shamu, an experienced mercenary who was fighting for over 30 years of his life, and he just decided to raise her. Maybe he felt responsible for indirectly killing her family and villagers, while Canaan wanted to become strong to not die like her family and to survive in this cruel world.
Shamu taught her the very basic of how to fight with a gun. Attack from outside the enemy range, and never fight with multiple enemies at once. Maybe he was a good teacher, and she survived the past 4 years with him. (And this Shamu voiced by Ootsuka Akio feels like someone that would appear in a Metal Gear Solid game XD )
Their mission this time was to steal an enemy weapon hidden inside the train they were on. While Canaan was munching on her favorite snack, a solid sugar stick (She says the one made in Japan tastes the best), a new member joins the group at the midway point station. She called herself Sadaka (meaning charisty/frienship in Islamic) She was an old friend of Shamu, and that kind of made Canaan feel jealous.
Their goal was located in the train car guarded by 7 soldiers on each side. Canaan and Sadaka sneaks into this car from under, while Shamu waited at the original car as a back up. Sadaka’s profession was breaking locks, and she starts typing at the computer terminal next to the door. As she was explaining to Canaan that in today’s world, lock breaking should be done by the time you begin the mission through investigation; No one breaks a lock on the spot now a days, the computer rejects the password that Sadaka inputed. While she was in panic, Canaan picks up some codes from the computer screen and inputs it, unlocking the door.
This was part of Canaan’s ability that she was born with. The ability to pick up meaningful signals and human emotions by differences in color. She is able to sense the world in a different way than normal people. Her eyes can hearing things while her ears can look at things. Her 5 senses work in synch to get a better grasp of the world. It’s like a primitive trait that human beings lost in the path of evolution in one view, but something like a psychic sixth sense from another perspective. (Similar in concept with Ryogi Shiki in Kara no Kyoukai)
The weapon that was sealed inside the car was secured in a suitcase. It was the UA virus. When Canaan and Sadaka went out the sealed door, the alarm goes off. This leaves them no choice on the running train but to fight the soldiers. Canaan counters the 7 soldiers coming from the front while Sadaka and Shamu intercepts the ones behind from both sides.
If Shamu followed what he taught Canaan in the past, he would fall back and shoot from the back car, but he didn’t feel like that today. By zipping up his bullet proof chest, he breaks into the car in the front and takes out several soldiers immediately. Sadaka shot the last one from behind. Meanwhile, showing off her sensing ability, Canaan took out 7 soldiers in the front by herself. (Awesome part of the bonus scenario part 1)
But something wasn’t right. Shamu heard the ordinary people who escaped to the back car screaming. A guy who appeared from the back car tries to shoot him, and when Shamu countered, he was stabbed from behind by Sadaka. Sadaka told him that her mission was to erase all the witnesses and to produce more political chaos after this incident, but most importantly, to kill Shamu. They were old friends; He knew too much about her, and she thought that would be inconvinient later on. Shamu rated her that she’s a perfectionist, but because of that, she would never gain anything at the end.
Canaan jumps into the scene and knocks Sadaka’s gun off her hand. Sadaka prioritized escaping and left the car. She was going to catch a helicopter on the roof leaving the train to hit a bomb on the rail. Canaan makes a final conversation with Shamu, and they decide to do what they still can to save the survivors. Shamu will go to the broken frontal car to detach the other cars so they will eventually stop. Canaan will go after Sadaka.
While Shamu went to accomplish his last mission of his life, Canaan faced Sadaka on top of the train. Canaan couldn’t use her gun from afar because there was a danger of hitting the suitcase, while Sadaka was 100% sure she can kill Canaan if she ran towards her. When the train was deattached, Canaan made her move. Sadaka shot her 5 times, but they all missed. Canaan read Sadaka’s emotions and knew where she was aiming. Normally Sadaka wouldn’t be so emotional, but she was personally interested in the girl that Shamu raised. Canaan deflects the last bullet with her left hand revealing the snake tatoo that she just got, and knocks the suitcase out of Sadaka’s hand. In the last moment, Canaan asks Sadaka her real name. “Alfard” Canaan jumps off the train, and they both shoot at each other, but they both miss because Canaan had to protect the case while Alfard was quite emotional. (Awesome part of the bonus scenario part 2: So beautiful…)
Sadaka leaves with the helicopter without finishing her off. The scene jumps to the present time. The plane that Canaan took finally arrives at Japan. She heard about what happened through Maria. Instead of getting on the vehicle that was assigned to her, she heads inside the airport….
THE END”
