Mikan Tsumiki

Mikan Tsumiki, also known as Ultimate Nurse, is a character from the Danganronpa series.
== Charactah Account ==
A talented nurse who can treat any injury. Painfully shy and clumsy, Mikan can hardly hold a conversation without bursting into tears and apologizing. She is the culprit of Chapter 3, having been infected by the Despair Disease, which caused her to regain some of her lost memories (as a part of Ultimate Despair) and completely lose her mind. She goes on to murder Ibuki and Hiyoko, and is executed by Monokuma after being found guilty, shot into space on a giant arm injected with rocket fuel.
Mikan is an extremely meek, paranoid and fragile individual who suffers from hazardously low self-esteem as a result of severe abuse and bullying. This has resulted in many behavioral symptoms such as being easily intimidated, breaking down and crying with little provocation, profusely apologizing and nervously stuttering while speaking. She constantly worries about annoying, boring or offending others, going so far as asking Hajime Hinata if it would be alright for her to remember his name when introducing herself. This delicate persona makes her a natural target for Hiyoko Saionji's instinctively predatory and cruel personality. However, as the Ultimate Nurse, Mikan tends to act much more confident while doing her job, and she is decently knowledgeable and intelligent.
Her medical knowledge proves to be useful in murders, as she provides autopsy reports, including information on the corpse's state, details on injuries, cause of death, and time of death. Furthermore, she sometimes gives (often unwanted) health advice to others concerning things like eating and sleeping, and may occasionally start to describe things like bodily functions in way too much detail in her wish to give the other students' information on the subject at hand. Unlike most students, Mikan has even mentioned that she likes being on Jabberwock Island, because her classmates acknowledge her and her talent makes her useful.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Future Arc
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc
* Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World
=== Manga ===
* Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair
* Super Danganronpa 2: Chiaki Nanami's Goodbye Despair Quest
* Super Danganronpa 2: Dangan Island Heart Everlasting Summer, Here Ronpa
* Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy - 4 Frames KINGS
=== Video Games ===
* Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
* Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
* Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
* Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
* Danganronpa: Unlimited Battle
* Divine Gate
* Houkai Gakuen 2
* Identity V
* Sengoku Asuka ZERO
== Trivia ==
* Her first name means “mandarin”, as in the type of orange, while her last name means "sin tree".
** Her last name could reference how she killed out of the despair Junko had planted inside her.
** It is also somewhat possible that her last name is meant to reflect her similarity to the biblical Eve, who has committed a sin (the "original") related to a tree (the Tree of Knowledge) due to an innate "human" desire to try and do what is forbidden. Similarly, Mikan has committed double murder due to a desire - her presumably romantic attraction to Junko and wish to please her. She is also similar to Eve through the concept of "not being forgiven" for her actions.
* While her title in the official English translation is Ultimate Nurse, Mikan's original title is Super High School Level Health Committee Member. The "health committee" or “health and hygiene committee” (since hoken means both “health preservation” and “hygiene”), is a common student committee in Japanese high schools with the duty of preparing and administering first aid during school events, monitoring the school's state of sanitation and promoting health-preserving behavior.
** One of Mikan's Free-Time Events implies that she is qualified to administer vaccines (like a nurse and unlike a health committee member) - meaning that her circumstances as a health committee member are special.
* Mikan's Birthday, May 12, coincides with International Nurses' Day.
* Mikan's death poster in the trial room is crossed out with a nurse's cross, in reference to her Ultimate talent.
* There is a strong possibility that Mikan suffers from dependent personality disorder, as she fits nearly all of the symptoms.
** However, there is a chance Mikan also has social anxiety disorder, because of stuttering in speech, nervousness in social interaction, fear of bothering, boring, or offending others, and she is easily upset.
* Mikan is implied to be able to develop feelings for multiple genders.
** After the Class Trial in Chapter 3 of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Mikan confesses that she committed murder for the sake of a gender ambiguous person she called "my beloved", who is implied at the time and later revealed to be Junko Enoshima: "What I did... was for the sake of my beloved. If only they were still alive... They'd be so happy. My beloved... was the only one... That's right, the only one who... never hated me. They forgave my existence. They forgave me and accepted me. They gave me value. They loved me. I loved them with all my heart and they returned it in full. [...] And it was also my beloved who created the me that everyone can't forgive. But my beloved still forgives me and still accepts me... "
** During the course of Mikan's Free Time Events, it's heavily implied she develops feelings for Hajime due to his friendship towards her. In her last Event, she states she believes in Hajime's kindness with the reasoning "Because you...are the person who has forgiven me.", which is the reason she gave for her feelings towards Junko.
* Mikan makes a cameo appearance in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls on a poster in the hospital in Chapter 1.
* Mikan's Japanese voice actress, Ai Kayano, also voiced Kotomi Ikuta.
* In Island Mode, she mentions that she enjoys horror movies because of all the blood and helpless people.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mikan Tsumiki at Danganronpa Wiki
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