Suoh Mihono

**Suoh Mihono** (周防 みほの, *Suō Mihono*; "*Mihono Suoh*") is the CEO of Suoh Steelworks and a member of the Kengan Association. Her company was saved from bankruptcy by successfully betting on Tokita Ohma.

## Appearance

Mihono is a young woman with straight medium-length hair, worried eyes with dark rings around them, a moderately-sized bosom and a generally despairing expression on her face. During the first day of the tournament, Mihono wore a rose flower-hemmed dress.

## Personality

Mihono is a completely average young woman, who is no good at gambling and has a seemingly frazzled demeanour, most likely due to her being shoved into the cut-throat position as a CEO of a large company without much warning.

## History

A year ago, Mihono was just a completely normal university student until her father, the previous CEO of Suoh Steelworks, suddenly died. In accordance to his will, she was appointed the new CEO. However, soon after her inauguration, the world was struck the biggest global financial crisis of the century, with Suoh Steelworks taking the brunt of the recession and the company receiving a sharp downturn which continued to fall even after the financial crisis settled down.

Upon hearing about the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, she sent a fighter in, in an attempt to get her company back on its feet, but her fighter was effortlessly defeated by Rihito.

## Plot

### *Kengan Ashura*

Due to her company being in a very bad place and in billions of debt, an extremely desperate Mihono (who had lost all her bets on the previous three fights) was forced to bet all of her remaining money on Tokita Ohma in his fight against Inaba Ryo.

With Ohma victorious, Mihono greeted Yamashita Kazuo afterwards and bowed to him, gratefully thanking him for saving her company. She then thanked Ohma too by slipping him her room number and seductively telling him he could visit any time. From that point onwards, Mihono continued betting: while the Meguro-Muteba match didn't go as she predicted, she predicted the following four matches afterwards correctly, earning Mihono an ¥18million profit.

Before the semi-final fights she, and many other Kengan Association members, were informed by Atami Hisashi and Yanagi Makoto about the changes that could potentially occur depending on who won the tournament.

### *Kengan Omega*

Suoh Mihono was briefly seen conversing with Kurayoshi Rino before the beginning of a Kengan match between Imai Cosmo and Johnny Waters.

## Etymology

* **Suoh** means "circumference, lap, surroundings, circuit, vicinity" (周) (**su**) and "prevention, ward off, defend, protect, resist" (防) (**oh**).
* **Mihono** is written in hiragana (みほの), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (美星乃, 実穂乃 or 充芳野), it could possibly mean:
	+ 美星乃 - "beautiful" (美) (**mi**), "star" (星) (**ho**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 実穂乃 - "fruit, good result, truth" (実) (**mi**), "grain" (穂) (**ho**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 充芳野 - "allot, fill" (充) (**mi**), "fragrant, virtuous, beautiful" (芳) (**ho**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).

## Notes & Trivia

* Mihono is not very good at company management.
* After winning her bet on the Ohma-Inaba fight, Suoh Mihono since found out she had a talent for gambling. By the second round, she had easily racked up a ¥90million profit.
* She was omitted from the anime adaptation.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Suoh Mihono's profile
2. ↑ Chapter 62
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 57
4. ↑ Chapter 26
5. ↑ Chapter 62
6. ↑ Chapter 62
7. ↑ Chapter 98
8. ↑ Extra: Six - "Where Are They Now?" section