Mikoto Mikoshiba

Mikoto Mikoshiba, also known as Mikorin, is one of the main characters from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun series.
== Charactah Account ==
One of Nozaki's assistants, mainly responsible for drawing effects and details in the backgrounds and also the person Nozaki used as model for the heroine of his manga. Mikoshiba acts like a playboy but in reality is a shy guy, and is often spouting flirty lines around only to immediately get embarrassed for having said them.
He 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, Mikoto 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 Nozaki's heroine character, Mamiko. While some characters figure this out and constantly make references to it, Mikoto seems to be completely oblivious.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
* Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Specials
=== Manga ===
* Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
== Trivia ==
* Mikoshiba 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.
* Mikoshiba lives with his father, mother and a black cat named Noa.
* In assisting Umetarou Nozaki, Mikoshiba is in charge of drawing flowers, accents, small objects, effects and sketching.
* Mikoshiba'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.
* Mikoshiba 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.
* Mikoshiba's clothing choices consist of skulls and chains (as accessories), punk and flirtatious clothes. He occasionally wears pink based on a Manet Fashion Magazine.
* Mikoshiba is good in Biology and English class, but doesn't do as well in Government class. His elective subject is Music.
* In a deleted twitter post, Nobuhiko Okamoto mentioned that Mikoshiba uses horse oil shampoo to wash his hair. In addition to that, Mikorin usually showers for fifteen minutes.
* Due to being an only child, Mikoshiba tries to play the part of an older brother.
* With Mikoshiba's classmates, he is known as a 'stud that's popular with his girls' while him being embarrassed is just him being open-hearted.
* Mikoshiba 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 Masayuki Hori is doing the backgrounds.
* Mikoshiba likes to eat hamburgers and dislikes bell peppers and bitter things.
* Mikoshiba likes gentle, modest and innocent girls, but most of them are too intimidated by him.
* According to the official fanbook, Mikoshiba ranked 1st in the character popularity poll.
* Mikorin pierced his ears when entering high school because of the characters he liked (to mimic them) and due to fashion magazines.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mikoto Mikoshiba at Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Wiki
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Category:Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun