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Mikoto Mikoshiba, also known by his nickname Mikorin, is a male character in the anime and manga series Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. He's a close friend of Chiyo Sakura, Yuu Kashima, Masayuki Hori, Hirotaka Wakamatsu, Yuzuki Seo, Umetarou Nozaki, and Mayu Nozaki, and is one of the assistants of the latter, whose an author of Shoujo manga. While he has no siblings that have been introduced as of yet, he sees Chiyo Sakura as his little sister, and actively tries to push her desired relationship with Nozaki forward. She's the one that coined the nickname Mikorin.
He's voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto in the Japanese version of the anime, and Scott Gibbs in the English version of the anime.
Appearance[]
Mikoto Mikoshiba is a tall teenage boy, with pale skin, short, unkempt, crimson hair, and black eyes. He's always seen wearing an orange under shirt covered by a white, thin jacket, gray pants, and brown shoes on his feet.
Personality[]
Mikoto attracts the attention of many girls, and is admired by the males as well. However in reality, he has a timid and 'tsundere' attitude. While outwardly he flirts with girls shamelessly and confidently, afterwards, he cringes and becomes embarrassed at his own actions. Despite his own incompetence in romantic situations, he is perceptive when it comes to his friends' love lives. He can accurately infer when they are in need of assistance and is always willing to help.
It is discovered that his personality is actually the inspiration for Mamiko (Umetarou Nozaki's heroine character). While some characters figure this out and constantly make references to it, Mikoto seems to be completely oblivious.
Trivia[]
- Mikorin friends and classmates usually give valentines chocolates as gifts for his birthday (Valentines Day). He doesn't like honmei chocolate. In a small comic drawn by Izumi Tsubaki, he was once given accessories and a tea set instead of chocolate.
- Honmei chocolate is the chocolate given to people you like or have romantic feelings towards.
- Mikorin lives with his father, mother and a black cat named Noa.
- In assisting Umetarou Nozaki, he is in charge of drawing flowers, accents, small objects, effects and sketching.
- Mikorin's hobby is mainly playing video games (dating simulators and RPG's). He spends his holidays playing those games. Additionally, he's good at memorizing his favorite character profiles.
- Mikorin is bad at conversing with girls. When he's surrounded by them, he uses Yuu Kashima as a shield and runs away. Overall, he's very shy but isn't shy when it comes to younger males, like Hirotaka Wakamatsu and Mayu Nozaki.
- Mikorin's clothing choices consist of skulls and chains (as accessories), punk and flirtatious clothes. He occasionally wears pink based on a Manet Fashion Magazine.
- Mikorin is good in Biology and English class but doesn't do as well in Government class. His elective subject is Music.
- On a deleted twitter post, Nobuhiko Okamoto mentioned that Mikorin uses horse oil shampoo to wash his hair. In addition to that, Mikorin usually showers for fifteen minutes.
- Due to being an only child, Mikorin tries to play the part of an older brother.
- With Mikorin's classmates, he is known as a 'stud that's popular with his girls' while him being embarrassed is just him being open-hearted.
- Mikorin is a closet moe otaku (liking female figurines, games and other 2D things) and doesn't want other people knowing he's a manga assistant. However, he sees the other assistants as kin and opens up to them fairly easily despite his shy personality. Additionally, he's the only member of Nozaki’s manga helpers who doesn’t know that Hori is doing the backgrounds.
- Mikorin likes to eat hamburgers and dislikes bell peppers and bitter things.
- Mikorin likes gentle, modest and innocent girls but most of them are too intimidated by him.
- Mikorin ranked 1st in the character popularity poll, according to the official fanbook.
- Mikorin pierced his ears when entering high school because of the characters he liked (to mimic them) and due to fashion magazines.