#miko otomo

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enchanted armor!Miko

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changeling!Miko

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Miko Otomo, ladies n gentlemen! well....Katanagirl, technically, but i like to call her by her...name. damn it’s messed-up how the show never got ‘round to explaining how different she actually is/was from the real Miko, isn’t it? ..ANYWAY

this too was prompted by the wonderful @witchofinterest , how else could it be!!

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Television Board 30 Days Challenge!

Day 1: A show that should not have been cancelled 

Heroes Reborn

Even though I was not very into it at first, I adored it slowly episode after episode. The plot was unravelled steadily, until it reached its peak and it ended the story that it started, leaving a critical cliffhanger for a 2nd season. Unfortunately we are not going to see it.

Find the challenge here.

1/30 Days of Television

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Best Bystander Boy, Yu Ishigami

I don’t follow too many romantic comedy series, but I love Aka Akasaka’s Kaguya-sama: Love is War. The antics of Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane never cease to make me laugh and cry. While I love almost the whole cast of the series, there’s one character I like a lot and it’s someone who’s kind of a rarity in romantic comedy anime/manga series.

Yup, it’s the lovable emotional/otaku boy, Yu Ishigami. He’s become one of the most beloved Kaguya-sama characters (not only because he’s a 2nd major male character in a rom-com) due to his disdain for anything that’s "normal” to most people, his keen observation skills, and a desire to help anyone in trouble. The latter part is what I’ll focus on because the storyline behind that desire is what gained him many fans (including myself).

Ishigami is the treasurer of the Shuchin Academy high school Student Council. He prefers to stay at home playing video games all day and night. Ishigami has shown signs of depression and only goes to school because Miyuki convinces him to. Ishigami also has a knack of observing things (mostly people’s insecurities) to the point where he’s unaware that he’s crossed the line as he tends to make others angry with his observations. This is a recurring joke throughout the series for Ishigami.

However, his observation skills make him a great analyst of people. Ishigami just happens to feel inferior since he takes his observations a bit far. He wasn’t always like this. Back in junior high, Ishigami was a young man trying to come into his own. He wanted to help people and was willing to do what it takes to do so. His life changes when he meets a girl named Kyoko Otomo and her boyfriend, Ko Ogino. Ishigami felt Kyoko was a good person after she interacted with him a few times. One day, Ishigami finds out Ogino is talking to another girl behind Kyoko’s back after overhearing a phone conversation. Ogino tries to bribe Ishigami by offering Kyoko, but the latter takes matters into his own hands and beats up Ogino in order to force an apology to Kyoko. 

Instead of an apology, Ishigami gets framed as Kyoko’s stalker. Kyoko, who witnesses the beat-up, becomes disgusted at him. The whole school then criticizes Ishigami to the point where he got suspended for a month. Ishigami becomes depressed, fails all his courses and chastises himself for having a childish view of justice. He barely passed junior high without help from the leader of the school’s disciplinary committee, Miko Iino. School officials would try to get Ishigami to come back to school only if he wrote an apology to Ogino. Ishigami couldn’t bring himself to apologize since Ogino was the one who was the bad guy. It took Miyuki to come into the picture and tell Ishigami that it wasn’t his fault and more importantly, he should feel proud in trying to protect someone he cared about.

Over the course of Kaguya-sama, Ishigami starts to become a more optimistic character after joining a extracurricular club, the cheerleading club. While taking part in the school’s sports festival, he sees Kyoko in the audience only to freeze. Kyoko yells at Ishigami for ending her relationship with Ogino. The past comes back to him in full detail. Miyuki helps him snap out of it and Ishigami tells Kyoko the words Miyuki told him to say to the person who was truly at fault, “Go to hell, jerk!”

I think we can all relate to Ishigami’s past. We sometimes see bad acts of faith happening to people we care about. We try to intervene because it’s the “right thing to do.” And sometimes, maybe more often than not, justice isn’t on our side. We end up becoming the bad guy because we didn’t reason with the perpetrator. We end up physically hurt. We get told to help others, but we never get told how to help in a way that benefits everyone. To be fair, large groups of people combined with power and politics have a bit too much say in things.

Bystanders are willing to help those being harassed. Sometimes, they can’t due to pluralistic ignorance. Pluralistic ignorance is a psychological gap where one’s view of public opinion conflicts with one’s personal beliefs. It leads to people underestimating how different or similar people really think. The best example  I can give is college drinking. When you see almost everyone on campus doing it, you think it’s fine even though you have doubts. But in reality, there are people on campus like you that have the same doubts. They don’t express them because they're worried of being the only ones who think differently.

There’s much talk about the bystander effect, which ties into pluralistic ignorance to a huge degree. I feel that Ishigami smashes through that. It is hard though. Like Ishigami, there’s a good chance of going through severe repercussions. 

Miyuki told Ishigami that while his actions were extreme, he did frighten enough Ogino to the point of hiding. Ogino’s subsequent breakup with Kyoko did anger the latter, but she never knew that Ogino was someone who messed around with other girls to gain popularity and that Kaguya (who tries to help Ishigami change) forced him out using her school connections. Ishigami never wanted Kyoko to experience trauma, so he took her anger as long as she was safe and happy. He even allowed rumors about him to circulate to preserve that peace to this day. Hence, justice did prevail.

I do feel that we're secretly like Ishigami. It’s just that we get vague advice on how to help people the right way. Sometimes, we get so desperate like Ishigami did and pay the price. When Ishigami starts to panic after seeing Kyoko again, Miyuki is there to bring him back to the present. Ishigami then thinks that if someone like Miyuki understood him, it’s more than enough. It helps that Ishigami’s current support system (i.e. the Student Council) is one that reassures him to commit to self-progress and growth. Most importantly, one that is safe and teaches him safe ways to handle things despite all the gags that happen in the series.

I think it comes down to a classic shonen trope - training. It’s not just for battles, but for real-life tense situations. Ishigami’s past brings light to the perils of young women being manipulated by men who think of them only as objects. Being reactive isn’t enough. It takes proactive measures to help prevent terrible situations from happening. Like one notable bystander intervention program states, we have to shift community norms that support bad behavior along with reacting in appropriate fashion.

Ishigami’s a nerd who, despite his own insecurities and social awkwardness, does help people in need - which becomes an attractive quality. He’s currently involved in a possible love triangle that’s about to become a huge serious arc. Regardless of how this arc will end, despite your messiness, if you show how kind you are to others, good things can happen.

When Miyuki tells Ishigami he wasn’t crazy in casting doubt on a suspicious person, it reminds me how the real craziness is in not listening and believing those not involved in group dynamics that have honest and thoughtful doubts about what’s happening around them. Let’s give the bystander that wants to do something someone they can stand by at their side for love’s sake.

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Miko Otomo || 24 || Adoptive Muscle Memory || Rogue

Open - Taken

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Personality Traits:

Intelligent

Shy

Empathetic

Brave

Persistent

Summary:

Is bilingual in Japanese and English though her English can be stilted at times. 

Miko is naturally shy, however, she is able to act firmly when pushed into a corner or sees something she views as unfair.

Her favorite color is hot pink.

She has no idea about the deal her father made with the government.

Has been working with Micah to help get other Evos to safety.

FC:

Kiki Sukezane

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Full Background:

Miko was a shy, capable girl long before her mother passed away, preferring reading, exploring, and other activities involving mostly herself. The grief that came was consuming, but thankfully she had an overwhelmingly supportive father to help. She had never shown much interest in video games before, but after hanging out in her father’s office and helping him with odd little details of his designs, it became something they did together. This lasted steadily for several years until it came time to focus all of her time into school.

Unfortunately, her studies were put on hold when Specials were revealed. Miko always knew that how her father worked with computers was a little strange but not until abilities were revealed did he explain everything.

She stopped her protests of them moving and instead set herself on embracing what a new life in America had to offer. She could adapt; as long as her father was safe and happy. After some time, she found work in customer support for a big corporation, using her bilingual skills. It wasn’t exciting work but it kept her feet on the ground and was a steadily added support for them both.

Recently, a convention was held in New York for the 10th anniversary of her father’s game, Evernow. Miko happily went with him and met numerous fans, smiling shy at the comparisons between her and Katana Girl, and at other times showing off her immense knowledge of the product she had never truly played. She had one unforgettable meeting with an avid fan named Ren, who was surprised at her presence. Starting on an awkward foot, they nonetheless talked several more times over the course of the convention and eventually exchanged numbers.

He vowed to teach her video gaming but they were both surprised later by how easily she picked up the controls. The same thing happened when she was able to cook a new dish by only seeing it on TV, and again tested new exercises in the dojo with her father after only being shown them once.

Her unusual adeptness with movements was hard to ignore and Miko quickly realized that she had an ability like all the Evos she’d heard about. At first, she wasn’t quite sure what to do with it, but once the EHRA was mandated the war started, Miko quickly started picking up combat skilled from youtube videos and movies.

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Heroes (TV), Heroes Reborn (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Peter Petrelli/Sylar, Claire Bennet & Mohinder Suresh, Noah Bennet & Angela Petrelli Characters: Mohinder Suresh, Claire Bennet, Peter Petrelli, Sylar | Gabriel Gray, Noah Bennet, Micah Sanders, Kimiko Nakamura, Miko Otomo | Katana Girl, Original Female Character(s), Original Cat Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: ill add more character and relationship tags as i progress, lots of folks are gonna show up eventually but not yet, Major Character Undeath, knowledge of neil cicierega's musical career is recommended but not required Summary:

It's been a while since the earth has been in any danger, and the remaining heroes have settled into comfortable but somber lives. Now, it looks like dark forces might be on the rise yet again. However, they aren't the only thing rising--that is to say, someone has risen from the grave, and others may soon follow. What events does the future hold? And, for that matter, are the events of the past what they seem?

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Yo check it out I'm writing yet another Heroes fic! Yeehaw!!

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Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2 – 11 – The Other Side of the Story

The Cheer Squad’s cross-dressing skit goes off without a hitch, pleasing Yuu, who feared everyone would think he was gross. He starts to finally think about enjoying life more instead of dwelling on past regrets and failures…only for the greatest regret of his life to show up to anti-cheer him.

Just as Yuu is drafted to fill in for an injured Kazeno as anchor on the club relay race, all of the past unpleasantness rushes back into the forefront of his mind. All his ears hear around him are the discouraged and annoyed voices of the crowd cursing his name and everything about him.

The mystery girl who arrives is Otomo Kyouko, who was neither a crush nor a friend in middle school. She was just a kind classmate who’d look out for him whenever she could. She was a good person. Then she started dating Ogino Kou, whom Yuu soon learns is cheating on Kyouko with other girls.

Honestly I don’t remember middle school being this sexed up, but Kou further demonstrates how pure a scum he truly is by refusing to stop cheating, then using footage of Kyouko on his phone to threaten Yuu into silence.

Not about to let a good person, even someone who’s barely an acquaintance get hurt by a bad one, Yuu’s sense of justice curdles into rage before the despicable Kou, and he punches the shit out of him in the middle of class. He aimed to ruin his face so no girl would approach it again, but Kou quietly threatens to abuse Kyouko if Yuu doesn’t stand down.

If that wasn’t enough, Kou also loudly professes that Yuu is a stalker. To both her and everyone else around, it looks like a crazed Yuu is beating up her boyfriend because he’s jealous and obsessed, and he’s too shocked by how badly things are going for him to defend himself, though I doubt it would have helped.

For the assault, Yuu is suspended for a month and ordered to write a letter of apology to Kou, but despite writing and erasing over the paper hundreds of times, he’s unable to write a single word of anything; neither a false apology nor an indictment of Kou’s own misdeeds. In his absence at school his reputation as a creep crystallizes.

Back in the present, the relay anchors are ordered to their marks, but Yuu is so out of it he forgets what color team he’s on…until Miyuki puts his red headband on his head and offers him words of encouragement and a pat on the back. This mirrors Miyuki’s eventual visit to Yuu’s house to present the “Student Council Secret Report” he prepared with Miyuki and Chika.

While Miyuki doesn’t judge whether Yuu’s actions were right or wrong (merely that they could have been better), he cannot deny that Yuu’s ultimate objective was to protect Otomo Kyouko, and that objective was achieved when Kou broke up with her days after the beating. Turns out all those months of refusing to apologize made Kou paranoid, and he released his grip on the poor girl.

However, Kyouko never saw this report, and still has the same idea of what went down. She still believes Kou to be a good guy and blames Yuu for their breakup. She came to the festival specifically to “unload” on Yuu, but rather than continue to wallow in despair, Yuu draws strength from the knowledge someone—specifically Miyuki, Kaguya and Chika—learned his side of the story and supported him.

So before running his leg of the relay, Yuu responds to Kyouko’s heckling with the same words Miyuki wrote in thick black permanent marker way outside the gridlines of the apology letter stock…so hard that to this day the ink residue is embedded in the desk: GO TO HELL, DUMBASS.

As the race progresses, Yuu is determined to win. He believes he has to win to prove he truly “shake Kyouko off” and move on with his life. Kaguya and Miyuki and Chika cheer him on, hoping the good person they know can overcome adversity. Kobachi loudly cheers him on, while Miko, who helped get Yuu reinstated, cheers for him almost under her breath—but with no less conviction.

Yuu ends up losing by a hair. Like the lack of a forced reconciliation with Kyouko, the defeat is an excellent subversion of how these races usually go. But the fact is, he still tried his best and his cheer squad comrades appreciate that. Koyasu, the pink-haired girl, even tears up, so moved by his genuine frustration. Rather than calling him a loser and failure and weirdo like he feared, they tell him he did good.

Suddenly, as his tears give way and his field of vision clears, he can finally see the EYES of the cheer squad members, a pack of Normies with whom he thought he’d never get along and inherently distrusted due to past traumas. But there they are in all their glory. We’d never seen their eyes either because Yuu never looked at them properly. Now he does, and he’s elated to discover they’re all good people.

As Kyouko departs, she tells her former classmates she was glad to be able to give Yuu a piece of her mind, and leaves Shuchiin with fun memories despite how things turned out. As Kaguya and Ai observe, she’s blissfully ignorant, but the smile she wears as she leaves is the very thing Yuu worked and suffered to protect, and he succeeded.

That Yuu would do that for a classmate he barely knew, at the cost of so much personal turmoil and with no reward, then he must be the very best quality of person. It’s no wonder he was recruited into the StuCo. This episode of Love is War had virtually no jokes or gags, but it didn’t matter. What it offered instead was masterful character drama, further cementing its status as Anime of the Year.

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Heroes Reborn  -  NBC  -  9/24/2015 -  1/21/2016

Science Fiction (13 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet

Zachary Levi as Luke Collins

Robbie A. Kay as Tommy Clark/Nathan Bennet

Danika Yarosh as Malina Bennet

Kiki Sukezane as Miko Otomo/Katana Girl

Ryan Guzman as Carlos Gutierrez/El Vengador

Rya Kihlstedt as Erica Kravid

Gatlin Green as Emily Duval

Henry Zebrowski as Quentin Frady

Judith Shekoni as Joanne Collins

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you ever worry about how much Hachiro shipped Ren & Miko?? like,,, just slightly?

Kaito quietly not not approving of Ando as Kimiko’s boyfriend/partner felt much more organic, especially since he’d known him for so long, too

does Hachiro really go ‘oh this guy is good at video games looks like my future son-in-law’ and if so, what the fuck! XD

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Ren Shimosawa || 23 || Human || Rogue

Open - Taken

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Personality Traits:

Quirky

Determined

Loyal

Summary:

Dating Miko Otomo

Uses his high profile gamer status to get into events or company’s to help fight the EHRA.

Is constantly underestimated as a person.

FC:

Toru Uchikado

———————————————————————————————— now the WAR is here

Full Background:

As a kid, Ren had a passion for playing video games. He beat all the other kids in his neighborhood at them and could always find a way to get past difficult levels. Ren even started up a Youtube channel about some of these games and how he got through them. He was a natural at it and when the Evernow game came out, he took up the challenge, fascinated by the graphics and what was in each level. He even went to as many conventions and game signing as his bank account would allow.

It was at one of these conventions that Ren met Miko Otomo, the daughter of the renowned Evernow game creator. The two talked several times over the course of the convention and eventually exchanged numbers. He vowed to teach her video gaming and they were both surprised later by how easily Miko picked up the controls. Ren didn’t seem bothered by it at all and even ended up encouraging Miko that maybe she was more like Katana girl than she’d thought.

After a few months, Ren decided to stop traveling and stay in New York to be closer to Miko. Occasionally, he would test out different levels of Evernow for Hachiro and if asked, things for Fortis.

When the EHRA took effect, Ren stopped taking his gaming so seriously. Although he loves it, after realizing that Miko had an ability, he wanted to do anything and everything to help protect her. Being human, he could get away with a lot more. Sometimes, he uses his high profile gamer status to get things done for the Rogues’. No on really suspects him to be in league with the Rogue’s and it has been a great help to their cause.

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Hachiro Otomo || 49 || Digital Constructs || Government

Open - Taken

——————————————————————- it WAS a brave new world

Personality Traits:

Caring

Dedicated

Light-Hearted

Loyal

Protective

Summary:

Developed his ability when in school for game design. It’s what helped him start Evernow.

Made a deal with the government to keep Miko safe.

Brought Miko from Japan to the US after they were one of the first countries to enforce a form of the EHRA.

Feels lost without his wife; like he’s doing everything wrong, but does it all to protect Miko.

FC:

Hiro Kanagawa

———————————————————————————————— now the WAR is here

Full Background:

When Hachiro was a young adult, he’d been heavily into video games. He loved all kinds and, like most, found video games fascinating. It’s what inspired him to become a video game designer when he was in his early 20s and that was how he’d met his wife. She worked in the same building as him, though in the sales and advertisement department. When he first asked her out, she’d said no, but eventually said yes to spare him any more humility. It was after their first date that she realized they had a lot more in common than she’s thought. Eventually, after almost a year of seeing one another, they got married. Soon after that, they had a baby girl, Miko.

They lived a pretty good life, especially after Hachiro finally created his own video game, Evernow. It wasn’t until around Miko’s 10th birthday that things took a turn for the worse. Miko’s mother was diagnosed with cancer and it was too far along for them to do anything about it. There was no cure and she died within a few months.

After that, Hachiro did everything he could for his daughter, especially after Claire Bennet revealed herself to the world. It didn’t take long for the Japanese government to start making all people with abilities register. They were afraid and he’d heard rumors that the government wanted to use them as weapons, though wasn’t sure if that was true. Not wanting that life for Miko, they packed their things and moved to America where people with abilities were, at the time, still free from that life. 

For a time, he worked at Fortis alongside Micah, trying to keep people out of their systems. On the side, he still ran his Evernow company. Until the EHRA took effect. He wasn’t sure what to do, especially since he’d take Miko away from Japan so she wouldn’t get caught up in this. After very serious thought, he decided to make a deal with the government in order to keep Miko safe.

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