Mikado Ryuugamine

**Mikado Ryuugamine** is the main male protagonist of the light novel series, *Durarara*, and the *Wonderland* series.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Mikado's physical appearance is one that doesn't really stand out from a crowd. He has short black hair, grayish-blue eyes, a rather soft expression and a small demeanor. Aside from a Raira uniform, his casual attire usually consists of a green and white jacket and jeans.

### Personality

Initially, Mikado is portrayed as a polite, soft spoken boy, whom at times can be quite childish and naive. This is likely a result of his small town upbringing; as he moves to Ikebukuro he was amazed and overwhelmed by the sheer size and energy of the city, and thus he felt small and insignificant. He was bored of the average life he had previously led, and moved to Tokyo in search of adventure and revels in all the supernatural events that transpire around him despite the obvious danger. This desire for the unknown also causes Mikado to show utter disgust towards people he finds either boring (Hiroshi) or hypocritical (Namie).

Despite his timid personality, he is shown to have a fairly strong will, and he does have moments where he openly expresses his opinion such as when he tells Anri she should be proud of trying to surpass Mika Harima. Mikado also has a strong moral center and actively speaks out against those who commit crimes or hurt others, even if it, more often than not, proves fruitless.

Mikado also has a much darker side to his personality which is hinted at more strongly in the manga and light novels. Because of his strong desire to evolve, Mikado detests how "normal" he looks in comparison to his friends who all seem to have some kind of special ability or profession. This frustration reaches it's peak during the events of the Akane and Blue Squares Arcs, which causes Mikado to develop a much more cold-hearted demeanor. He believes that in order to protect his friends and continue to grow, he must seize power by force using any means necessary.

While in this mindset, Mikado is much more ruthless and manipulative than he appears to be and is very capable at using intimidation to reach his goals. While it may initially seem like Mikado has split personalities, it is theorized by Aoba that the colder version of Mikado is his real personality while his timid side is the fake one.

It has been debated by many fans that Mikado is either a yandere or a yangire due to common belief that he is fueled to protect and or in love with Anri or Masaomi. But it also has been highly favored by fans to be a mix of both in the form of Yandeguire/ Yandegire. Therefore being guided by both personalities to achieve their own separate goals, which also means upfront that Mikado suffers from split personality disorder.

## Backstory

Mikado grew up in the small town of Saitama and led a very uneventful life. Most of Mikado's time was spent online chatting with others and listening to exciting stories from the big city that he would hear from his childhood friend, Masaomi Kida. At some point during this time, Mikado and a few online friends decided to create a fake online group called the Dollars as an elaborate prank to play on others. They passed out passwords to the site and made all kinds of outrageous claims about the gang's activities. Initially, the joke went as planned and people started joining the group despite it being a little more than a forum. However, the group continued to grow exponentially, even after they stopped giving the password. Furthermore, many people were using the Dollars as a scapegoat to commit crimes. Almost all the founders left the group as they feared it could be traced back to them while Mikado stayed to see what the outcome would be.

Mikado initially tried to convince others on the forums to put a stop to the criminal activities but was mocked as a result. However, his ideas resonated with others and soon, many Dollars members were actively correcting the mistakes made by other members and even participated in community service activities. Because of this, Mikado continued to act as an admin of sorts for the site, occasionally making announcement but rarely giving orders as he believed the Dollars to be a group without restrictions as the original proposal said.

At the behest of Masaomi, Mikado eventually decided to move to Ikebukuro and attend Raira Academy as a way to break the monotony of his life in the country. He also wished to see what the Dollars behaved like in the city as most of it's members were in Ikebukuro.

## Storyline History

### Waking Up in Wonderland

Mikado is the first one to notice Chiharu Hashimoto after she spends months wandering the city after her death and resurrection. Later, she comes to him and tells him what happened to her and warns him about what's going to happen.

### Distorted Wonderland

Mikado is studying with Masaomi, Anri, Noriko, and Chiharu at Noriko's apartment. Afterwards, they head to Russia Sushi for dinner. When two junior high boys break the doll sitting in the restaurant, Mikado's head filled with random, seemingly "fake" memories filled his head. When the attack was over, Chiharu told him to ignore it and that the memories were fake. Still, he couldn't get over something not being right with that wave of mental attack. Since then, Mikado didn't exactly know what to believe.

### Wonderland Carnival

Mikado and his friends meet Ringo. She seemed to eager to get close to them. Mikado and Masaomi don't really latch onto her like the girls do. After her death, the boys don't remember anything about Ringo.

### Happy Wonderland

Mikado is seen talking to somebody on his phone throughout the whole season. In the meantime, Mikado gets a strange e-mail from an unknown sender with the message, "April is the cruellest month, breeding". When he tried to e-mail the sender back asking who they were and why they sent the message, but it bounced back with a failure to deliver message. Turns out, Masaomi, Anri, Noriko, and Chiharu got the same message. After a quick search, Mikado came across T.S. Eliot's poem, *The Waste Land*.

Later at school, Junko tells Mikado about a book that he had on hold at the library. Confused, he and Masaomi go to the library and fetch said book. Turns out it was titled *Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot*. As the boys look through the table of contents, Masaomi spots the poem, *The Waste Land*. When the boys turn to the page, a small folded up piece of paper fell out. Inside was written, "Angel Tadpole Heaven". Mikado notices that it's in his handwriting. However, he starts having strange visions, hearing low moans, and smelling bleach before passing out.

Junko in the meantime starts to toy with Mikado and his friends. She asks Mikado about Chou Mori Institution, but then brushes it off saying that he is a good boy and "why would he end up in a place like that?" Later on at home, Mikado receives a box from an unknown sender filled with unmarked audio tapes and memory sticks. Through said items in the box, he learns that Noriko tried to kill herself and sometimes tried to starve herself to the point he and their friends could see bones through her skin. Turns out, his friends also got boxes from an unknown sender filled with unmarked audio tapes and memory sticks.

During the Halloween special, Mikado listens to an audio tape with a voice from a patient in Chou Mori Institution. However, he doesn't have all of his tapes and memory sticks just like his friends don't have all of theirs because they were all mixed up in the five boxes. Earlier, he was seen talking to Masaomi about Noriko falling into despair again. Back in present day, Mikado and his friends meet up in the streets.

Later on, Mikado starts watching video files with this doctor and his orderly/soon-to-be protegee performing experiments on a faceless patient named "Chirin". The videos creep him out, but he feels compelled to keep watching the Chirin videos as to get some answers as to why he keeps having vision about Chou Mori. As the phone calls from the stranger go on, Mikado begins to have flashbacks from Chirin's point of view. He feels the needles going into his left eye, tongue, and arms.

Five days before Christmas, Mikado and his friends head down to Russia Sushi for dinner. Masaomi talks about inviting Saki out to spend Christmas with them. Simon walks over to their table, lights a small tray of Mnemosyne, and leaves the room. Under the influence of the odorless incense, Mikado remembers more of Chirin's memories and some of the patients of Chou Mori including a woman filled with an optimistic glow that gave Chirin a pleasing sense of comfort.

In the early morning hours of Christmas, Masaomi calls Mikado saying that he had something that his friend needed to see. When Masaomi comes over with his memory disk, they watch videos about the beginning of Project Tadpole. Despite it making him sick, Mikado insists on watching them to find out who Chirin is. At that point, Yuka tracks him down and reveals the truth: Mikado *is* Chirin. At first, Mikado denies it as he begins breaking down. When she sprays Mnemosyne in his face, he begins to remember being taken to Chou Mori and meeting Kitano for the first time. After realizing the truth, Mikado fully breaks down and Yuka tells him that Project Tadpole is just starting up again and she will be back for him.

### Deep Blue Wonderland

Once Mikado calms down, Masaomi asks him all that he remembers before being committed Chou Mori. He can't remember too much, but he remembers seeing so much blood everywhere. He didn't know where he was or what happened. Mikado then remembers the police arresting him and asking him questions at the station. He breaks down again, but Masaomi tries to calm him down again.

During the Christmas party, Mikado isn't holding up too well due to the extra dose of Mnemosyne. He ends up running into the bathroom and locking himself inside. Thanks to the running faucet, he remembers an orderly with crimson nails washing down his naked body with a cold wet cloth in a darkened room. She seemed to like staying on his genitals as washed him, talking about the naughty things she wanted to do to him. Above them, there was some writing that he couldn't make out. He could hear the moans of other different patients, but he couldn't see their faces. Unlike the rest of Chou Mori, this room smelt like blood, vomit, feces, and urine. Mikado gets so sick remembering all of this that he dry heaves in the toilet and yells at Masaomi to leave him alone.

On the day of his awakening, Mikado started suffering from dizzy spells, flashbacks to his time in Chou Mori, and pain in his left eye. It gets worse as the day goes on. Around seven in the evening, Izaya sends him a text telling him to cover up his right eye and look around. Against his better judgement, Mikado complied. To his horror, he saw everyone's inner demons perched on their shoulders. Kitano calls him and congratulates him on his awakening. He also tells him that he needed to work on his powers before his body rotted from the inside and he would die.

Later on, Mikado senses that he and Masaomi are being followed. The boys try to run, but Satoshi Aida catches up to them. After a short exchange, the younger boy pulled out a knife, threatening to kill Mikado to get his life back. However, Masaomi fought him and took away the knife. Satoshi refused to stay down and ran after Mikado with broken glass in his hand. Masaomi stabbed him. Mikado tried to contain Satoshi's bleeding after the younger boy pulled out the knife. Satoshi's final words leave the older tadpole shaken along with his death.

Aoba turns to Mikado when the Blue Squares are starting to commit suicide. The younger boy shows him the Yatsufusa video and Mikado can't bring himself to finish it. Junko appears and pulls him away from Aoba to talk with him. She warns Mikado that he shouldn't be hanging around Aoba because he was beneath him and that he won't have long to live. The nurse then asks him how his powers are developing. Mikado covers up his right eye and asks about her mother. Junko quickly pushes him out the infirmary because of it.

It is revealed, that Mikado saw Masaomi's inner demons while he was asleep. This demon was surrounding Saki and her impending death. It hurt Mikado inside to see such a worry. Later, Aoba comes over to his apartment and they investigate Deathvine and try to find out who was posting the Blue Square suicide videos. When they get on the site, they are in for a rude shock: a new video with the Nitari twins. Mikado finds that the poster's name is Lady Death and her account is set to private. He also had no idea that Lady Death had also joined the Dollars chatroom.

In "Tadpoles", Mikado ends up as a test subject again in Tadpole's first new experiment. For seventy-two, each of the tadpoles lose one sense. Mikado loses his tadpole instincts and can't sense others like him and visa versa. He still had his powers, however. He goes outside to be alone. The boy has decided not to tell Masaomi about his powers or what's going on. His thoughts are interrupted when he meets Emily Akimoto for the first time. She's in the same situation he is only she is blind for the experiment. After talking to her for a little bit, he decides that she could be an ally to him in Tandeki's games.

As he and his friends talk to Emily in his apartment, Mikado makes a decision on how to deal with the rest of the experiment and buys an eye patch. Mikado weighs his options with his plan. On the one hand he would be able to see who was a tadpole or not, but he would have to see Anri, Noriko, and Chiharu's inner demons as well. With this in mind, Mikado puts on the eye patch over his right eye and walks home. It turns out to be hell with a sea of inner demons around. Still, he won't take the eye patch off. As he walks him, his left eye starts to hurt and leak out a black inky substance. By the time he gets home, Mikado takes off the eye patch. Vision in his left eye is blurry and he has a headache because he overdid. In this moment of rest, he remembers being back in Chou Mori with Etsuko pulling an IV in his arm. For twelve hours, the drugs flowed into his body, leaving him with the side effects of shortness of breath. Back in present day, Mikado notices two girls standing across the street, staring at him. He runs over to them and notices that they are tadpoles. They introduce themselves as Kohaku Kimio and Nami Shono. They end up at his apartment with Emily and everyone else. Masaomi jokes about being surrounded by so many cute girls. Mikado is worried about telling his friend the whole truth. Instead, he says that they will save Saki from dying. Realizing that he is freaking Masaomi, he makes him promise that he won't freak out if he told him the whole truth after saving Saki.

When he hears that Aoba was attacked and ended up in the hospital, Mikado goes to visit him. Prior to that, Junko tells him that it would be pointless after he demands answers from her. The boy doesn't listen and goes to visit Aoba anyway. But when he gets there, the younger boy doesn't remember him at all.

Back at his apartment, Kohaku and Mikado share a short exchange about their returning memories and their powers. Then, he gets another call from Kitano. Mikado demands an explanation for Aoba not knowing him anymore and the deaths of the Blue Squares. Kitano simply tells him that they were just filthy animals that needed to be slaughtered and that he shouldn't be associated with them because he is a higher breed now. He adds that Mikado needs to be more concerned about himself and his "brothers and sisters". Before Mikado could ask anymore questions, Kitano says that it's none of his concern and hangs up on him.

Mikado tries to contact Aoba over the phone, but the younger boy hung up on him, telling him to never talk to him again because it was creepy. The tadpole boy wonders if he should tell Masaomi about his powers. Satoshi appears in his head to taunt him about how Mikado will end up alone and hated like him. Masaomi asks him who he was talking to. When the tadpole tells him it was Satoshi, his best friend reminds him that the younger tadpole is dead. Mikado breaks down and shows Masaomi his power. He breaks down and tells him everything. When he is finished, he collapses onto the floor and pulls himself into the fetal position. Masaomi picks him up and holds him into his arms, vowing to stay by him and get him back to normal.

As the month goes on, Masaomi starts to suspect that Mikado might be the victim of gaslighting. He begins to question his friend about how he ended up in Chou Mori. Mikado thinks that Masaomi is believing that he's making up things about him ending up in that mental hospital as he starts to remember more about his time there. Masaomi calms him down and tells him that he believes him and that he might have been a victim of gaslighting.

In the season finale, the tadpoles' senses get stronger and Mikado, Emily, Nami, and Kohaku catch guys from Nebula spying on them. When Shinra, Shingen, Tetsu, Emilia, and Akiko join their small group, Shinra has to tell the tadpoles what is going on. When the doctor says the effects of the experiment can't be reserved, Mikado remembers Satoshi's words.

### Wonderland Chaos

Mikado is starting to have more nightmares ever since the third gate opened. Masaomi assures him that he is not going to leave his side no matter what. The founder of the Dollars senses that things are going to get worse and asks Masaomi what he would do if he was turned into a monster. His friend said that he would try to change him back even if it couldn't be done. Mikado then warns him that things will be getting worse. His friend doesn't understand his warning. Frustrated, Mikado pretends to go to back to sleep to get Masaomi to stop talking.

In "Impulse", Mikado awoke to what he believed to be Masaomi talking out loud. When his friend denies this, the tadpole learns from seeing Satoshi in his head again that he can hear thoughts now. Mikado struggles not to talk to Satoshi out loud and becomes shocked when he learns that he now has Satoshi's abilities. Later when Mikado and Masaomi head off to school, the former notices that he can't hear thoughts when he's with a group of people. Suddenly, he starts breathing heavily and pulling out his phone to start a war with a text. Masaomi catches him in time and takes his phone away. The other boy melts down. He's about to speak when the phone rings. Both boys listen in and here that Kitano has put the tadpoles through another experiment. Now for the next three days, Mikado and the others will have no impulse control at random moments for different periods of time. Later, Shingen tells all of the tadpoles about their new ability they inherited from Satoshi. Because there are fifty-two remaining tadpoles, they all only have a small amount at the time being. Masaomi vows to protect Mikado, but the tadpole has his doubts.

In "Satoru" Tetsu calls their group to the library and tells them that he doesn't Nebula. He decides to take matters into his own hands to find the other tadpoles. It is Mikado's idea to try and e-mail the others. In "Paranoia", Masaomi resorts to taking away Mikado's cell phone and hiding his mouse and keyboard. He does it to keep him from acting on his impulses. When they leave the convenient store, Mikado hears a high-pitched whistle and disappears into a portal that takes him into the past where he witnesses a young Genjo Eto terrorizing a girl named Sumiko. He is pulled back to present day and Masaomi asks what happens to him. The boys look up about Sumiko and learn that she was raped and murdered and her case went cold. The next day, Mikado and Masaomi went out to Eto's place to see him for themselves. Mikado wears his eye patch to find Sumiko's killer. They go there and he finds his inner demon. Eto yells at them and says that Sumiko got what she deserved when he raped and killed her. Masaomi gets angry, but Mikado wants to leave. So, the boys walk away. As they leave, they run into the blackmailer heading towards Eto's apartment. Mikado tells him to stop and that Eto is a loose cannon. Then, a paranoid Eto comes out with a gun and fires. Mikado jumps in Masaomi's path just as the first bullet travels towards him. But then, he finds that everything is frozen. It is then he meets Midori Amano and she lets him grab the bullet. After clearing up that mess with Eto and the blackmailer, Midori, Mikado, and Masaomi head back to Shinra and Celty's apartment. There, they learn that Celty can neutralize the tadpoles' powers just by being near them.

In "Yoemon", Mikado goes down to Ikebukuro Station on another impulse. He and Masaomi argue about his eyepatch before he senses another tadpole near by. Mikado spots a girl standing near the tracks with tears in her eyes. He pleads in vain at her not to jump and tries to get her to come with his group so they can help her. He is disgusted with the group gathering with their cell phones out and their inner demons yelling at the girl to jump. Mikado yells at them to shut up, but they laugh at him. The girl refuses and jumps in front of the train. Mikado is pulled away in shock, covered in her blood.

The next day, many girls around Raira Academy start to become attracted to Mikado. It starts to creep him out as they all keep flirting with him and asking him to eat lunch with him. Junko comments on how popular he's gotten with the ladies. To make matters worse, Kitano calls and says that he's "made every girl in Ikebukuro fall madly in love with him". Mikado is left sinking to the floor, looking pale. Later, someone tries to call out to him while he's sleeping.

After Azusa's death, he gains the power to raise a person's desire. This becomes apparent when Masaomi kisses him after touching. Freaked out, Mikado runs and locks himself in the bathroom. It reminds him when he kissed Anri for the first time out of impulse. It took Masaomi to pry him off after the tadpole boy practically tried to suck her face off. Emily pushes Mikado to tell the other tadpoles about Azusa and her death. Tetsu lectures him, but Taichi tells him to lay off. Later, Mikado's intelligence increases and he can see the futures because of the new experiments. The latter comes when he is looking for a book where he hid notes to end Tandeki's game. When he touches a book, the boy sees a vision of Ikebukuro in flames and the Woman in Red laughing. Mikado ends up in the hospital because the seizure-like episode that came with it. While there, Uzuki and other souls try to warn him about the fourth gate opening. He and Masaomi later get separated when Masaomi gets a cry for help from someone pretending to be Saki. Kitano has him kidnapped in a way to distract him and the other tadpoles from the fourth gate opening. He holds Mikado hostage for ten hours and talks to him about his first meeting with the Woman in Red, his plans for the tadpoles, and other thoughts in his head. After the fourth gate is opened, Mikado is freed. But when he goes outside, he suffers from sensory overload and passes out.

Mikado later on makes contact with Megumi Fukao. In "Mikado", he finds that his power has spread to both of his eyes. He can now see inner demons with both eyes. As his powers start to evolve, Mikado's body starts to feel like it's on fire. After another flashback in Chou Mori, he breaks down and runs out of his apartment after Masaomi asks him what's wrong. The whole time, Satoshi taunts Mikado and mocks him. The living tadpole yells at him at one point, causing Kyohei Kadota to see him. Mikado comes across a group of little kids asking him to hand them their soccer ball. But when he kicks it back to him, he kicks it too far thanks to the Kratos drug. Mikado freaks out and runs off. Later in the day, Masaomi finds him and tries to comfort him. The tadpole boy laments about how he can't take this anymore and that he's worried. Mikado asks if it is possible to survive all of this.

In "Exposed", Mikado panics when rumors about the tadpoles come out. It is revealed that he hasn't been sleeping well because of his nightmares getting worse. He laments on how he wanted an extraordinary life, but not like this. Masaomi swears up and down that he will keep protecting him no matter what. Mikado asks him when did he get so brave. Masaomi says he doesn't know and tells him to stay off of the internet for a while, much to his best friend's displeasure. Later, Hecate Mayfair shows up in his room and talks with him. Mikado at first doesn't know who she is until she pushes him to remember. Hecate pulls out a red journal and clams that she knows everything about him. She says that he and the other tadpoles will be the gods of the new world. Mikado asks her what she means, but she disappears, leaving him with a bad feeling. He only calms down when Masaomi returns with dinner.

In "Riku", Mikado and Sota Iseya briefly talk while the latter is bored in class. They wonder what's going to happen to them next now that everyone knows about the tadpoles. Sota proposes that they might have to kill to survive. Mikado isn't too on board with the idea, but Sota tells him they don't have a choice. The boys decide to meet up in the library.

In the season finale, Mikado stays behind at school for after school activities. He convinces Masaomi to go home without him after kissing him on the cheek. As Mikado is leaving school he is chased by a possessed office lady with a cleaver. He ends up cornered in an alley. The boy contemplates climbing up the wall when Anri rescues him by stabbing the woman with Saika, exercising the demon out of her. She confesses her feelings to him and says that she has to protect him. Mikado wonders if he is making her say that or if she's saying that on her own. But then, the woman wakes up and blushes around him. She says that she doesn't remember what happened and asks if she hurt him. Mikado says he's fine and figures out what happened.

### Caged Wonderland

It was revealed that Anri brought Mikado home after the office lady incident. Masaomi is shocked to see her, but lets her stay around to help take care of their friend. Mikado starts to feel the effects of the fifth gate being opened. He sees another vision of Ikebukuro in ruin. The Woman in Red comes up behind and says, "Don't be afraid. I just want to show you my world" with him in her clutches. Mikado breaks down into the smile of a man slowly going insane. In reality, Mikado tells Anri and Masaomi that everyone in Ikebukuro will die.

In "Kyoei", Mikado and the other tadpoles are made to participate in a mock sports day to test the results of the drug Kratos after the last experiment. In "4:44 a.m.", Uzuki comes by his apartment at 4:44 a.m. and warns him not to let the demons in. She tells to ignore them and decides to stay in his apartment until sunrise. Mikado panics, but the wolf demon promises that she won't do anything to him. Later on, he has more nightmares about his time at Chou Mori.

In "Hospital", Mikado suspects that Chiharu is being poisoned by Tandeki. It is revealed that he has been keeping his problems from Chiharu and Noriko. In fact, he lies to Noriko when he's talking about his theory out loud. Later on, Mikado is lured away from his friends into an elevator by a shadow figure. The elevator takes him up to the hidden fourth floor. He meets Joe Brooker after seeing two ghosts. She talks about how she knows about him and the other tadpoles. She says there are demons watching them wanting them to be gods and are interested in them. Mikado notices the red rings around the irises of her eyes when she clings onto him. He finally breaks away from her. Joe warns him that there are demons that will want to kill the tadpoles. Mikado runs to the elevator and makes it back to his friends. He tells Masaomi that he and the tadpoles are in trouble.

In "Rite of Spring", Mikado, Masaomi, Anri, and Noriko are eating in Russia Sushi when Mikado senses Chiharu in trouble. He runs out of the restaurant with Masaomi chasing after him. Hours later, the boys still haven't found her. Figuring that the Dollars who be too late to help her, Mikado calls up Madoka Kurosawa to help. By the time the boys find Chiharu, he notices that her sense has changed and asks what have they done to her. Chiharu begs for them to kill her, but they refuse saying that they will help her no matter what. Mikado and Masaomi carry Chiharu back to her apartment.

He later meets up with Madoka and he tells her about Chiharu's condition. They are then surrounded by thugs possessed by demons. Things look grim when another tadpole named Yukio Miwa comes to their rescue. When they get away, Yukio asks Mikado and Madoka if they had seen a woman with red hair. The two tadpoles say no. After the sixth Gate to the Apocalypse is opened, Mikado feels a sharp pain in his head, sending Masaomi and Anri a panic. When the headache passes, Nami talks him telepathically. He tells his friends that city is in danger. Later, Mikado and Masaomi have to tell Tatsuya Hashimoto the truth about Chiharu. He comes back with a box of paperwork. They all go through the paperwork and learn of some previous staff members of Chou Mori that have turned up dead or missing. The boys make the connections that the murders were to cover up something. Mikado asks for copies of the files. Later when he and Masaomi are heading home, they see a crime of a slain drunken man. Mikado notices a girl dressed in black holding a stick over the dead man's mouth. Only, he's the only one who can see her. The detective on the scene shoos the boys away.

While Masaomi is away, Anri is the one taking care of Mikado. Saika doesn't try to cut him because she doesn't see him as a human anymore. He's starting to cry in his sleep from his nightmares and having panic attacks. He has another argument with Satoshi. Mikado starts to have the nightmare of being in a crowd of faceless people that don't pay attention when he tries to call out them. They walk around covering their ears as he screams in pain. Then on one night, Mikado screams in his sleep. He ends up hitting Anri in the face when she tries to wake him up. After he sees if she is okay, Mikado kisses her on the lips and they end up having sex. He pleads in his mind for her to make him stop. He hopes that Anri would slap him or push him off. Mikado sees Anri's inner demon on her right shoulder and tells that she is not a parasite and she should be loved. During sex, Mikado sees Yayoi trying to molest and Niki lying underneath with lust in her eyes. Afterwards, he is filled with regret and guilt. When Masaomi comes back, Mikado and Anri are awkward around each other. When Anri goes out to the store. Mikado tells Masaomi what happened. His friend seems impressed, but the tadpole is worried that she will become pregnant. Masaomi has to comfort him again. Later, Cheri comes by to warn Mikado of the demons coming to kill him. He's already aware. Then, Mika Harima calls him saying that Seiji has gone missing. She adds that he isn't answering his phone. Mikado awakes up and tells Masaomi and Anri. The trio go out to look for Seiji. Chiharu asks to come along. Mikado doesn't think that this is a good idea, but lets her come along because she is bored. Mika finds the location where Seiji is. Mikado texts the Dollars to come to the building on the way there. Michiko, Shinra, and Shingen are preforming an exorcism on Seiji on the roof of Sunshine 60. An amanojaku tries to murder Mikado after the other demon is driven out. Kadota pushes him out of the way and gets stabbed in the arm. When Mikado notices the look on Chiharu's face, he pleads with her in his not to give and lick up the blood off of the ground.

### The Month of No Gods

Mikado's secret is out to the group. He starts to panic. Aside from that, Mikado starts to remember all of the lovers that he has slept with. Plus, he has lost the need to sleep. Cheri appears in his room and tells him that he is being watched by demons and that he could use more work in bed. She is happy that he took Anri's virginity, but wants to improve his skills. Cheri tells him to turn on his computer.

### Devil's Wonderland

Mikado panics when his secret comes out after Seiji asks what the amanojaku meant after calling him a tadpole. Masaomi is caught between protecting Mikado and dealing with Chiharu. It took Celty to defuse the situation. Mikado and his friends all took Chiharu home. He and Masaomi took her back to her apartment. They had to explain the situation to Tatsuya when he answered the door. Later, Mikado realizes that he doesn't need to sleep anymore. He and Naomi Aizawa talk where she shares her worries with him. She tells Mikado that something really bad is coming for Ikebukuro. The next night, he starts to remember all of the lovers that he has slept with. It doesn't help when Cheri appears in his room. She does tell him that he is being watched by demons but she also adds that he could use more work in bed. Cheri tells Mikado to turn on his computer and she brings up a porn website. She instructs him to watch some videos to get the basic idea on how to have sex properly. She did show him some vanilla videos however. Mikado is left wondering what is happening.

Mikado checks in on Chiharu and tries to comfort her but it doesn't work because they both know the truth of the situation. Later, he is seen walking aorund the city with earbuds in his ears to protect himself from the demons on the loose. He runs into Fuyuko and remembers his past nights with her, making him embarrassed. She insists on walking with him. Turns out after the night he slept with Anri, Mikado took her to the clinic for the morning-after pill. Back in present day, he and Fuyuko meet up with Anri and the kitten insists that she walked with them. She then asks Anri what she is to him. Mikado mentally pleads with Anri that she doesn't have to do this. He is thrown for a loop when Anri calls him her boyfriend.

Later, Mikado find himself in a parlor in Purgatory with Rin and Naho. They plead with him no to join Yamato's group because they don't want any more blood on his hands. Mikado didn't understand who or what they were talking about. Rin flirts with him but Naho tells her that he couldn't stay long. Afterward, he walks home. Mikado encounters a ghost named Chiho. They talk for a bit and he breaks her loop. Later, Mikado encounters two possessed humans who want to kill him. He manages to escape and runs into the White Witch. When the thugs catch up to him, they touched the witch. They saw how they would day and ran off. Mikado asks what would happen to him and touches the with. The only thing that he says is, "I understand."

Mikado and Masaomi check on Chiharu. She has lost the ability to speak and is more animal-like. Later, Emi stops by and visits Mikado. She asks about Chiharu and tells him that he has plenty of people that will obey his every will. Emi pleads tells him to use them as he pleases. Mikado tells her to protect Anri.

Tatsuya then calls Mikado tells him that Chiharu has gone missing. He and Masaomi go out and hunt for her after she appears in the news attacking a man outside of the neighborhood. He realizes they need a better plan to deal with their angel friend after they catch her. The boys track Chiharu down at the Sunshine 60 building. They find her eating a body. Mikado is the one to talk her down and stun her. After securing Chiharu, the boys leave. They don't know what to do with her. For a night, Mikado traps Chiharu until he and Masaomi can figure out what to do next. They decide to go to Shinra for help. By sunrise, he is startled to see a red-crowned crane sitting on his bed. Mikado runs outside to see Masaomi coming back with food. The tadpole tries to explain what is going on. They go up and see a girl in place of the crane. She introduces herself as Nagisa and warns that the final gate has been found. That sparks a memory in the boys' heads. Mikado asks where her master is. She says still at home. He decides to go to him after they deal with Chiharu. At Shinra and Celty's apartment, Shingen says that he has been expecting them. There, Mikado learns that angels and tadpole are made with the same experiments but angels wildly branched off on their own in the process. He shocked to see Chiharu on a leash. Later, Mikado, Nagisa, and Masaomi meet Ryosuke at his apartment to learn the truth about what's going on.

Mikado's appetite changes dues to the next experiment. He isn't really hungry anymore. He starts to realize what he needs to do to stop the cycle of the game. In the season finale, Mikado gets the message that the finale gate is at Raira Academy. He tells Masaomi and they agree to meet up there.

### Black Swan Wonderland

Mikado is at home when he gets a knock on his door. Rumi mumbles something about needing a phone and an abusive boyfriend. But it's a trap to get him to open the door. Rumi, Yuka, and Yayoi all subdue him and inject him with the Ugajin drug for the next experiment. Mikado ends up paralyzed, unable to move without his pants on. He can still see and hear everything. Yayoi kept trying to molest him in his state. The only saving grace is Yuka telling her to get off of him. Mikado is just trapped there until the experiment is over.

He encounters Yokubo, the deity of lust. She is drawn to him and challenges him to a duel. Cheri has Doctor Victor fashion a phallic-looking staff for the battle. Naturally, he's embarrassed to be seen with such a weapon. Cheri shows him how to stash it away until he needs it. Mikado ends up in a strange subway station for his duel. Yokubo lays out the rules and lets him ask questions before his duel. They fight and comes across sexualized. Mikado seems to have the upper hand. He planned to choke her out to get her to lose consciousness so that he could escape. But Yokubo bites him on the wrist to let time run out. Mikado is not happy about this. She says that she wants to fight him again. Then Yokubo vanished and he goes home.

Later, the bite on his wrist looks like it's become infected. Mikado goes to see Shinra about it. The doctor touches him and his desires ended becoming increased. The infection on Mikado's wrist gets worse. He's starts to see more demons are the city. It's Dahlia who comes into his room and takes a look at his wrist. She lets him know what's going on. He's been infected with Yokubo's poison. Dahlia lets him know there is one way to slow the spread and kisses him.

Pretty soon, Mikado meets Charlotte. She kisses him on the lips. He asks how bad it is. Charlotte tells him that his condition is really bad. The girls will be taking shifts to "feed" him. On her advice, he goes out to the 7-11 to buy condoms. Mikado has Naomi make him some real money out of plastic yen bills. The clerk playfully asks if he is on a hot date. He says no and becomes embarrassed. Mikado makes his purchase and hurries out of the store.

Meanwhile, Mikado is struggling to keep Anri from getting too close to him. But he still needs her to contain the poison because she is a consenting partner. He feels guilty about it because of his predicament. When he calls her over, he asks if she can sleep with him. Anri is shocked by this but agrees.

Things take a turn during the Halloween special. It starts with a text to play a game. Someone is threatening to kill one of his friends. Only Mikado doesn't know who it is. He goes through his call list to see who's still alive. Anri and Masaomi were okay. Mikado could account for everyone except for Emily. He can't reach her. So he heads out to look for her. The tadpole tries to call Nami to help him. He gets a text telling that he's cheating. Meanwhile in the middle of the city, he starts to experience sensory overload. Mikado ends up in a night club where he finds Kururi and Chiyomi at the bar. He asks why they are there and asks Kururi if Izaya even knows where she is. Mikado drags them out of the club and calls them a cab. Chiyomi says that she's lost her wallet. So the tadpole has to teleport back inside to go get it. Mikado gets in the passenger side of the cab. He is upset because he's losing time. It doesn't help that Chiyomi gets sick as asks the driver to stop the cab. While she's outside throwing up, Mikado gets a phone call from Emily. She says that's on the Tokyo Hands Building about to jump. The tadpole leaves Kururi and Chiyomi in the care of the cab drivers. He makes it to the building in time to see Emily jumping to her death.

When Masaomi comes to Mikado's apartment, the tadpole breaks down and tells him everything. His friend is there to comfort him. Mikado calls himself a shinigami for watching three over siblings die. Masaomi won't leave him. The next morning, Mikado meets Hikira for the first time. He awakes to shouting at him. When he opens his eyes, a chibi samurai girl stands on the sheets. She greets him. Mikado freaks out and covers her with a sheet. The chibi yells from underneath, leading him to uncover her. She shouts about how rude it was for him to do that. Mikado quickly apologizes. Masaomi wakes up asking what's going on. His friend can't see the small familiar. Later, Junko tackles Mikado to the ground in the nurse's office for a blood sample for Kitano and Etsuko to run tests. He tries to resist but she overpowers him.

In "Puzzles", Mikado finds Noriko standing alone in the playground. He notices the cuts on her arms and legs. The tadpole boy asks if she's cutting herself again and if she's okay. Noriko doesn't answer him. Instead, she starts telling him horror riddles. Mikado doesn't understand what she is talking about at first. But he has no choice but to answer her if he wants to get her home. The whole time, he's trying to figure out what was wrong with Noriko. Getting her home isn't easy either. Noriko keeps acting strange like randomly sitting on the ground and running off. Mikado even goes as far as to letting her eat at Russia Sushi. Mikado carries her on his back to make sure that he gets her home. They finally make it back to Noriko's apartment. Just before she goes up the stairs, Noriko tells him a strange little story about how a couple lost their baby. At first, Mikado doesn't know where this is going. When Noriko turns to him with tears in her eyes, he asks if it's really her.

Sometime later, Mikado manages to get Noriko into her apartment. He tells Masaomi that something is wrong. Mikado tells his friend that he will be staying with Noriko until she wakes up. He later means Michiko Hiroi and Makoto. Michiko tells him about the apocalypse game. In the season finale, Mikado gets a strange text message from an unknown number. When he looked out the window, he sees a figure in dark purple robes standing outside. Mikado gets dressed and hurries down the stairs. He tries to talk to them but he gets no answer. When the tadpole asks if something is wrong, the stranger says yes. He asks what is wrong. A bright light flashed and he ended up spirited away to an empty plane. He comes across a decaying deer. When the deer speaks, it sounds like Anri. The creature explained that she takes on the voice of the person dearest to him. She introduces herself as a god of time and death. The deer pleads with Mikado for help. Her world is just as much as danger his was. The Woman in Red already destroyed her home and she is forced to wander. Mikado asks if they had met before. She says yes. Suddenly, the deer turned into a masked woman with blonde hair. The deer god tried to hand him back the heart of Gabriel. She said that he told her to keep it safe until they met again. Mikado refuses to take it back and asks her to hold onto it a little bit longer. The god agrees and wishes him luck. She returns Mikado back to his world.

Mikado ends up falling out of the sky and landing in the West Gate Park Fountain. When he sat up, he found a woman with a group of school children staring at him. She asks if he's okay. Mikado says that he is and asks her not to touch him. He climbs out of the fountain and walked home.

### Wonderland Monologues

Mikado makes it back home. Hikira greets him but he doesn't respond. He flops down onto his futon and gets lost in his thoughts. Mikado decides to try and stop this game before things get worse. He starts to replay Emily's death in his head but he stops himself. Mikado names his familiar "Hikira".

### Edge of Wonderland

Mikado is pulled into another experiment where his has a chalky taste in his throat that he can't get rid of. He and Masaomi listen to Kitano's latest recorded message over the phone. He doesn't want to at first, but Masaomi said that he would listen with him. Mikado is left unhappy when the message is over. Later, he goes with Masaomi when he hears that the Yellow Scarves are dead. Yatabe tells them how the Yellow Scarves died. Back at his apartment, Mikado telekinetically makes his phone send an email out to the Dollars to help find who killed the Yellow Scarves. It turns out, using his powers make the taste in his throat even worse.

Mikado meets Yamato and Chie when they go for another round of testing. He gets along with Chie, but vows to stay away from Yamato. They are about to wrap up when there is a knock on the door. The tadpoles comes down and see Alesky Gorecki and his wife Lilith. Mikado freezes when he sees Lilith's face. He remembers all the times that they had rough sex. Chie asks him if he's okay. Mikado said no. Later, he and Lilith have a talk. She asks him what type of mask he wears. He answers that he's trying to hide all of his stress and anger. Lilith comments that he is hiding so much more. The whole time her presence makes him nervous. He asks her what she wants and she seduces him. He doesn't know how to stop her. Afterwards, he started to remember his nights with her and is ashamed. Mikado vows to himself that he wasn't going to do this again. Then, Lilith wakes up next to him. She cuddles up next to him and says she missed this. Mikado says that can't keep doing this. Lilith doesn't believe him and says that he will be back. He got dressed and left his room.

In "Senso", the Dollars chatroom get a strange audio file. When everyone tried to listen, it made loud, screeching noises before it cut off. When everyone tried to play it again, the file was corrupted. Mikado calls up Shingo to help decode the file. He is able to get two words, "Ishikawa Noriko". Mikado invites Noriko over to listen. The message gets through to her, causing her to break down in tears. Mikado calls to her as he tries to get her back to reality.

Mikado and the tadpoles start to feel the effects of the latest experiment. Masaomi notices the broken blood vessels in his friend's eyes. His condition gets worse due to a mutation in the tadpoles' blood from the latest experiment. When Masaomi is put into a seventy-two hour hold in a mental institution, Mikado goes out to get him as his illness gets worse. That didn't stop him as blood started running down his chin. The boy managed to get a taxi. He insisted that the driver take him to the mental institution instead of the hospital. Mikado is able to make it near the garden before collapsing in front of a barrier. A hand drags him inside. Kitano, Aya Otomo, Yuuko, Kaori, and Etsuko Asato hold Mikado hostage and use him to get Masaomi to become a player in the game. The tadpole only gets to see his friend floating in the air in a daze before time is rewound back.

In this timeline, Mikado gets better with the other tadpoles. Everything seems to be fine on the surface. That is until Masaomi doesn't remember who Saki is anymore. He dreams of living the life of a brilliant scientist in America. He sees his work, marriage, and the birth of his daughter. The vision ends with the man dying in an accident at work. These dreams felt so real. It is then he realizes that he and the other tadpoles have the ability to see the final moments of a person's life before they died in their dreams. They don't know how long it will last.

In the season finale, Mikado is there to witness Masaomi remember all but Saki. He sneezes a couple times as a bad feeling comes over him. People ask if he's okay. He says no as he starts to remember more. Michiko asks if he's starting to remember more. Mikado asks her what he needs to do. She tells him to tell her what all he remembers.

### Tadpole Diaries II

Yukio picks Mikado to be the leader of the third generation of the tadpoles. The boy takes it without saying a word. Mikado realizes that he has so much on his plate. Shingo sent him the pictures of abandoned places. Mikado starts to remember more things just by looking at them. He doesn't know what the pictures mean just yet. The address is of course dead. Suddenly, his phone rang. It's Yukio asking him to meet up with a librarian named Hanako Kuroki. Mikado recognizes the name and starts to remember that he slept with her in the past. He isn't too easy about this, but agrees to try and find her.

### Tokyo Sound

Yukio sends Mikado out on a mission to find Hanako. His search takes him to Aoyama. At first, Mikado has no luck. Soon, Yokubo's poison started to flare up. He found Hanako at the train station. His first thought when he saw her was that her bright red wig reminded him of cotton candy. She looked up and noticed him. Hanako instantly recognizes him. At first, Mikado isn't sure if she really does know who he is or if she's got him mixed up with someone else. She insists that he come home with her.

He wakes up in her bed in the morning. The pieces slowly come back together in his head. He notices that the marks on his body are gone. Hanako wakes up. The two of them talk for a moment. Mikado asks what their relationship would be now. Hanako doesn't see them as anything. She shares that she doesn't know what to do with herself. The whole time, Mikado tries to tune out the sounds around him. He curses how he has sharpen hearing now. Mikado insists that Hanako call her ex and talk to him. He also insists that he talk to Yukio as well. She reluctantly agrees and climbs out of bed. Mikado makes it back home. On the way there, he calls up Anri.

Mikado doesn't sleep much anymore and just wanders around at night. One rainy night, he is wandering down an alley. The tadpole boy encounters Nanako. Just being in her presence makes him nervous. He asks what she is up to. Mikado doesn't believe her when she acts all innocent. Nanako ends up taking him back to her room. Mikado looks around her room and notes that she never sleeps in her bed. It is then he realizes that Anri doesn't know where he is right now. He thinks to call her, but realizes that cell phones are useless in Purgatory. Nanako takes him by the wrist and orders him to undress. Mikado tries to talk her out of it, but to no avail. He takes off his jacket and shirt. Nanako examines his body and notes the faint spots on his torso. He asks what she is going to do with him. Nanako pushes him down onto the bed and kisses him on the lips. He kisses her back. That alone feeds him for a while.

Later, he hangs out with Fuyuko on the roof of a building. She tells him a creepy story as they look at the sky. At the end, Mikado is a bit stoic about the tale. Fuyuko asked if he wanted to try and call the number in the story. The tadpole boy declines. She offers to have breakfast with him in the morning and he accepts.

Mikado visits Miiko in her room. He tries not to look as she changes clothes. He is amazed by how her room looks and that she wears Western clothes when off the clock. After she gets dressed, Miiko offers Mikado some tea, but he declines. She asks about his friends and pleads with him to talk to Masaomi. Mikado admits that his best friend doesn't remember Saki Mikajima. Miiko warns him about the Woman in the Red. She even says that they around going to have pull out the big guns.

Throughout the story, Mikado meets up with all of his girls. They either try to sleep with him or feed him. Sometimes, he ends up in an onsen with the girls. They ask him how Masaomi and Anri are doing. As he sleeps with some of them, Mikado starts to remember more things about them. He spends a day with Momoki. He remembers Jessie and Lisette. The memories are motive enough to try and stop the game. Mikado then knows what he needs to do. He finally calls Anri. He comes home and they talk. They try to do so and end up sleeping together.

### Dark Alice in a Dark Wonderland

Mikado wakes up in a hotel room. To his dismay, he put together what happened. When he looks next to him, he realizes that he is not alone. Lilith waks up next to him and tries to cuddle up to him. The tadpole pushs her away Mikado says again that this has got to stop but she doesn't believe him. Lilith asks him about how Anri is in bed. He fantasizes about choking her at one point. Lilith snapped him out of it. Mikado jumps out of bed and gets dressed. Lilith said that she saw what he thinks and found it hot.

Mikado makes his way back home. There, he encounters Akari. On first sight, she is instantly attracted to him and wants to have sex with him on the spot. However, the witch is able to snap herself out of it. Akari says that he now has a sweet and musky smell to his body. It is there he learns that the tadpoles' pheromones have increased. No one can come within six feet of them without becoming aroused. This isn't good if a normal encounters the tadpoles. It is there that Akari decides to create pheromone blockers to help the tadpoles cope. That isn't his only problem, however.

Yokubo has developed an interest in him and decides to torture him psycologically. She comes into his dreams and seduces him. The deity of lust then seduces him in real life. Mikado notices black pumpkins in the city. Hecate runs into him on the street. It is revealed that it was her and her sisters who put them up. She warns him about what's coming next. Hecate says that it is too late to change his fate with Anri. She says, "You can fight fate all you want, but hell is empty and all the devils are here!" He fantasizes about choking her out too.

Later on Halloween, Mikado comes by Anri's apartment. He says that he is going to kill her but she still lets him inside. It's uncomfortable at first. But Anri doesn't send him away. He ends up seducing her and having sex with her. Mikado tries to get his pheromone blocker but Anri stops him. He doesn't have a condom but they still have sex. Mikado is a mix of emotions afterward. He won't let Anri touch him afterward.

One by one, his friends come to his apartment. First, Anri comes by and tells him that she is pregnant. Mikado breaks down crying apologizing in fear. Noriko comes to him when Artemis leads her to his place after her break down. Chiharu comes to Mikado's apartment after she is able to speak again. Finally, Masaomi comes to the apartment after his drama. Later when they are walking back to Mikado's place, Masaomi and Noriko can sense the Widow coming again.

Mikado and his friends are staying in Michiko's apartment.

### Wonderland Bites

Setsuko enjoys Mikado out for an evening at the art gallery of Juzo Oze. They tour the gallery, looking at all of the unsettling artwork. He begins to wonder who Oze is. At the end of the tour, Setsuko asks him what he thinks. Mikado doesn't know what to think about Oze's art and decides to look him up later. Mikado laters sleeps with Akari and Anri within hours of each other. He's dominate with Akari and let Anri take control in bad. Later. Mikado finds Ren and with Masaomi in his apartment. He gets angry when he notices that something is wrong with his best friend. Turns out, Ren was the one who lightly drugged Masaomi. He said that he wanted a threesome with him and Mikado. At first, Mikado turned him down. However, Ren wasn't going to let up so easily. He asks what Masaomi thinks about Mikado. The boy is smithen and kisses Mikado on the lips. The tadpole doesn't know how to handle this. Nevertheless, he ends up surroudning and ends up having sex with Masaomi along with Ren. When it's over, Ren promises to make Mikado into a dom. The tadpole doesn't reply.

Lilith later drags Mikado out to a yokai party. She breaks into his apartment and wakes him up. She rushes him to get dressed and come with her. Several female yokai hit on him. They are drawn to his scent. One yokai, a jorōgumo, tries to eat him. Lilith rescues him by giving the jorōgumo another victim to eat. He later asks the Russian ghost why he's here. He isn't happy to learn that he's just an accessory to be shown off by everyone here. However, Mikado ends up staying through the whole party. He goes home by the morning. In an alternate future in Thailand, Mikado tells a young man named Shuhei about an incident involving Izaya. There was a girl named Yukimura who wanted to show him something in a couple of days. He makes it to the park a couple of days later. Mikado asks her what she wants to show him. Yukimura pulls out a knife and starts stabbing herself in the neck. Her plan was to kill Izaya. Panicked, Mikado pushed her down and drowned her in the fountain. His connections got rid of the body.

### Dark Side of Wonderland

Mikado is dragged into another experiment with the tadpoles. He can now no longer age past twenty-five. Masaomi stayed by him while he was in pain.

### Bamboo House

Mikado asks Masaomi where he had been and notices his best friend crying at the latter returns from the Bamboo House.

### Mad World

Mikado is seen traveling around with his son, Akira, and a woman named Jessie Goodwin. He's more jaded and chain smokes. He tries to keep Jessie from getting close to him. Mikado saves her from being raped behind a sex club when she was sixteen. He commanded the thugs to leave her alone, go back inside the club, and forget everything. Mikado won't tell her how he did it. He ends up taking Jessie with him out of Kabukicho before it succumbs to the plague. Six years later, she still follows him around. Mikado will sometimes hear her thoughts, much to her annoyance.

In "Ume", Mikado slipped away to Purgatory for a night with Niki. He encounters Cheri and Miiko along the way. Niki puts on a short black wig and glasses to look like Anri for him to sleep with her. The whole time, Mikado's mind becomes blurred between Niki and Anri. When he says that he loves her, he doesn't know who he's saying it too. Later, the pair took a bath before Mikado got dressed to leave. He remembered how Cheri used him to deflower Niki for her job. He's glad that he met Niki, but isn't happy about the how. The man returns to Jessie and Akira in the Living World. When Jessie asks why he smells like soap and baby powder, Mikado gently pushes her off and tells her not to ask so many questions.

In "Sakura", Cheri calls Mikado back to Purgatory to help "train" a new kitten named Korihime. He reluctantly agrees and goes. He meets up with Miiko again and spots Momoki in the hallway. The tadpole man says hi to the other girls before he makes his way to Korihime. She comes across as cold, but he gives her a kiss. Mikado spends most of the night talking to her and getting to know her. At one point he hits a sensitive nerve and kisses her again. In the middle of the session he begins to remember Anri before she died. He had proposed to her before Akira was born. She finally said yes before she died. Back in present day, Mikado kisses Korihime again and says that he has to see her again. He leaves for the night and goes back to the living world, leaving the girls stunned that he's not frozen. When he returns, Mikado lays down next to his son in bed.

Mikado goes out to get food in the rain in "Fuji". When he comes back, Jessie tries to reach out to him but turns her away. It is revealed that he introduced her to his son and his guardian, Hikira. Back in present day, Mikado says that they are all leaving Japan and heading to Thailand because there is nothing left for them. In the morning, he reveals that he is looking for a fellow tadpole named Itori Inaba and her daughter, Sakura. The chapter ends with Mikado, Jessie, and Akira boarding a boat for Thailand.

The trio make it to Thailand. Before that, Mikado takes Jessie to Okinawa to see what happened to her mother and Jun. He warned that it would be pointless, but she just had to see the truth for herself. After she learns of their deaths, Mikado, Akira, and Jessie board the boat to Thailand. He explains to her that people of Japan have stopped caring about the children and only focused on themselves. Jessie doesn't feel that it's right, but Mikado asks if she would be the one to take care of all them. Later on in Thailand, they stop to get lunch. He tells her that they are getting a hotel room and work from there. Jessie asks him why he doesn't eat again and he claims that he is fine. They get into an argument until Jessie asks to drop it.

Mikado laments about Japan going back to nature and ruin as people in Thailand treat them like the plague. Jessie still tries to get close to him, but he pushes her away. Mikado is still haunted by Tandeki and their game. He becomes determined to change the past for Akira and Jessie's futures. Mikado starts to get closer to Jessie. She comments that something is different about him, but he brushes her off. He says that she reminds him of Vorona back when Ikebukuro wasn't swallowed up by the plague. Jessie says that it's nice that they are getting closer together much to Mikado's displeasure. He laments about what he is now and that she will soon die. But later on, Mikado treats Jessie to a night out on Bangkok. They have a late dinner and shop for treats for Akira. While at dinner, he talks to a noodle cart vendor who gives him a small piece of paper. Jessie asks him what it was about, but Mikado doesn't answer. Three days later, they leave Bangkok with Akira.

The trio make it to Turkey. Mikado laments about the virus. When Jessie reached out to comfort him, he shoves away her hand. He later goes back to Purgatory and spends the night with Niki. Turns out that he tried to see Anri in Heaven, but is turned away. Rei, the main tennin, says that she doesn't want to see him. But, Mikado still vows to make things right. He later returns to the room and says that they would play it by ear to see how long they would stay in Turkey.

In "Kiku", Mikado makes another trip down to Purgatory and meets up with Ren this time. The gigolo has him to take a bath before they have sex. Mikado sometimes visits Ren because he reminds him of Masaomi. Afterwards, he leaves the gigolo while he's still asleep. When Mikado makes it back to Jessie, he says they are leaving Turkey, but he doesn't know where the next destination is.

Mikado Jessie, and Akira make it to London by "Momiji". He flat out tells Jessie that once they reach New York, they will go their separate ways and tells her not argue with him. This upsets his companion, but Mikado is firm with his words. Later on, he invites her out to the Halloween party and she agrees to go with still bitter. While on the streets, Mikado spots Hecate and meets up with her in an alley. They talk and she says that she still wants him to win. Hecate gives him a small bronze key. He asks her what it's for. She said to take it to New York and see. When Hecate leaves, Mikado rejoins Jessie and Akira. Mikado later spends the night in Limbo alone. Maria and Isako talk to him about how he's handling the Jessie and departure situation. Finally, he decides to delay departure from London by a day.

The trio get on a plane to New York. Mikado takes care of everything as usual. Jessie still isn't happy about what's coming and she's still annoyed that he hears her thoughts. Once they check into a hotel, Mikado and Jessie have one more meal together at an Italian restaurant called Little Italy in downtown Manhattan. He finally tells her a little bit about his past and laments about those he had lost. Jessie feels sorry for asking. By morning, he leaves Jessie in the hotel and pays the bill. Afterwards, Mikado and Akira go down to the storage locker in Grand Central Station. He had to calm down his son after leaving Jessie behind. Mikado makes it to locker 419 and finds a piece of folded up yellow paper with an address written on it. It leads him to Itori and Sakura at an old abandoned apartment building. Mikado and Itori talk about how Japan is dead and they have lost their friends before asking about each other's children. Itori asks if he still smokes as he lights up another cigarette. He says it calms him down after she lectures him on how bad it is for him. Mikado declares that he is going to fix this future and asks if she will help him. Itori is reluctant at first, but then agrees. She comments on how polite he still talks. Mikado says its an old habit as he and she look out on the city.

### Black Snow

Mikado is in Berlin looking for an object to stop reverse the effects of the Apocalypse Game. He left Jessie and Akira behind in London. He first arrived in Germany on the twenty-third of December. Mikado comes across an old bookstore but can't get inside because of three barriers. Against his liking, he has to turn to Zoryn for help. But the old Russian man sends him on three tasks.

For the first task, Mikado headed down to a bar to ask for "Shasha". The barmaid tells him that she will have to check. While he waits, Mikado gets a text from Lisette asking for a date. Back on the twenty-third, he met her in a dance club. Attracted to her beauty while dancing, Mikado followed her outside of the club. After a small exchange, Lisette pulled him into the cab with her. They end up making out in the ride back to his hotel. They have sex in his room. From there, she latches onto him. He tries to push her away but feels bad for doing so. So, Mikado tracks her down and apologizes. Lisette tells him to spend Christmas with her.

Lisette took Mikado back to her house. Turns out, she was part of the rebellion and they ended up in a safe house. Lisette introduces him to her roommates. They aren't impressed with him and mock him in German. Mikado shuts them down by talking back to them in German. Mikado ends up spending Christmas with Lisette. He views their relationship as a mistake. But he still goes through with it to keep his word.

At another underground illegal club, Mikado meets up with Lisette to do the first task. He tries to break things off with there, upsetting her. Mikado goes to the bar and asks about Shasha. He is led down a narrow hall to a back room. Lisette has to wait outside for him. He meets with a woman in the club. She yells at him and throws a bottle at him. Mikado ends up leaving. But not without the first of three codes needed to break the barrier. Lisette give him a message that someone handed to her on a sheet of paper, sending Mikado in a panic. The tadpole sees a string of numbers, 6287121896. He realizes that he doesn't have that much time.

The next day, Zoryn calls down the hotel bar and café to him the next task. The Russian man is chowing down on a traditional German breakfast when the tadpole finds him. Zoryn offers him some food but Mikado turns him down. The Russian man sends Mikado to a hotel with a letter. The tadpole comes up to Room 218 and knocks on the door. A man refuses to open the door at first. Mikado texts Zoryn what to do. He is told to tell him that the mistress sent him. The man opens the door after Mikado tells him such. He isn't too happy to see the tadpole and goes into a tirade. The man shoves him out the room and slams the door. Mikado looks down and sees that he got a second mark on his hand.

The next day, Zoryn goes with him to complete the final task. The car ride is quiet. Zoryn turns on the radio but Mikado turned it off. The old Russian man tries to get him to talk with no avail. They arrive at another safe house. Zoryn leads him inside and reminds him that he is doing all of the talking. At first, the final man in this quest doesn't want to help out. After some back and forth, the old German man agrees to help Mikado and gives him the final mark. Then the man kicks them out. On the drive back, Mikado tells Zoryn to let him off in the street. The tadpole gets out of the car. Zoryn wishes him luck on his mission and drives off. Mikado makes it back to the old bookstore. He breaks through the barriers with the codes on his hand. Mikado is able to find the object that he needs to fix the effects of the apocalypse game that was hiding in *Paradise Lost*. However, the snowstorm has prevented him from taking any form on transportation to get out of the country. That would mean he would have turn to Zoryn one more time. After he leaves the bookstore, Lisette calls him but there's too much static on the other line. He realizes that he is running out of time. So he goes to Zoryn one more time and the Russian man teleports him out of the country.

## Chirin and Project Tadpole

In an undisclosed time in October, Mikado ended up in an alley with his clothes covered in blood and completely in a daze. Since the police couldn't get any information about what happened out of him, he ended up being committed in Chou Mori Institution. Kitano was assigned as his therapist after being committed. In the season finale of *Happy Wonderland*, it was revealed that Mikado was a test subject in Kitano and Etsuko's Project Tadpole during the third generation. He ended up being injected with many needles with different drugs. During this time, he was given the name "Chirin".

In truth, Mikado wasn't supposed to be in the Tadpole Project. In fact, Kitano didn't have much faith in him. He just saw the boy as another one of Yodogiri's "strays". Mikado ends up as a test subject in the Tadpole Project as a last minute replacement for an intended mental patient who died in her sleep due to a brain clot. Kitano thought that the boy was going to die and even had a story about how he died in an accident ready to tell his parents. To his surprise, Mikado survived the drug, Amaterasu. From then on, Kitano developed an interest in Mikado.

In November during another treatment, Mikado had his first out-of-body experience. In the empty space he meets a wolf girl named Uzuki. She toys with him while he tries to get answers from her. Finally, she helps him get back into his body. Mikado/Chirin seems to have the ability to leave his body whenever he's undergoing an experiment with Tandeki. So far, this hasn't been explained how or why.

Sometime in January, Mikado/Chirin managed to get out of his bindings from his bed and try to escape. He got as far as a hallway bathroom. When the patient looked in the mirror for the first time in months, he felt distant, but then Mikado/Chirin noticed that his left eye had turned bright green. Moments later, Yuka found him and noticed the change herself. She took him to Kitano and the therapist was overjoyed. He said that the experiment was working. Yuka and the doctor took Mikado/Chirin back to his bed and Kitano covered up the boy's right eye with an eye patch. He said that he wanted the patient to work on the left eye and didn't want it to be lazy.

In March, Mikado/Chirin was sitting in the activity room when he noticed Satoshi was getting beat up by Roc Segawa. He felt that somebody should help him. Then something inside of him made Mikado get up push Roc off of Satoshi. However, the orderly beat him up until Etsuko came out of her office and broke up the fight.

It is revealed that Mikado escaped shortly before Chou Mori closed down for good.

### Tadpole Powers

#### Primary Traits

Mikado/Chirin has the ability to see people's inner demons. He sees them when he covers up his right eye. In "Mikado" of *Wonderland Chaos*, his power spread to both of his eyes.

#### Secondary Traits

He can also sense when other tadpoles are nearby. Around the *Deep Blue Wonderland*'s season finale, Mikado's senses had become heightened. Because of Satoshi's death, he can now hears the thoughts of one person if he is nearby them. Thanks to the latest two experiments, Mikado can now communicate with the other tadpoles telepathically. Because of new developments, he can't get sick, drunk, or high anymore. Another new development now took away his need to sleep. The next new experiment caused him not need to eat. The next experiment took away his ability to feel pain. After Emily's death, Mikado now controls a small spirit familiar. He named her Hikira.

The side effects of the antidote now lets him see the final moments of a person's life before they die in his dreams. Now Mikado can talk to animals.

#### Augmentations

Mikado can now make all of the members of the opposite sex become smitten with him. His intelligence is now increased and he can see the future. It is hinted that now he has super strength thanks to the new drug. This is later to be proven true along with being more athletic. Mikado can now also move things with his mind. Lately, he's able to make his phone type messages and send them out while it floats in midair. He learned how to do that during a boring sleepless night.

## Relationships

### Noriko Ishikawa

*Main Aritcle: Noriko Ishikawa*

Noriko is another friend of Mikado's. Just like Chiharu and everyone else in their circle of friends, Mikado worries about Noriko. However, maybe they might have met somewhere else before?

### Chiharu Hashimoto

*Main Article: Chiharu Hashimoto*

Chiharu is another friend in his group. Mikado was the first one to notice her alive after she was in a period of wandering isolation. She warns him with the phrase, "Don't let the devil get me".

### Katsuhiro Kitano

*Main Article: Katsuhiro Kitano*

Kitano is Mikado's former therapist at Chou Mori Institution. The old doctor enrolled him in the Tadpole Project. In fact, Kitano calls Mikado his "proudest work". Now, he wants the boy back to restart Project Tadpole.

### Izaya Orihara

*Main Article: Izaya Orihara*

Izaya and Mikado met on the internet. However, Mikado does not know who 'Kanra' is in real life at first. Mikado met Izaya face to face on Mikado's second day in Ikebukuro. Izaya knows that Mikado is the leader of the Dollars, but promises not to sell the information to anyone, however he doesn't keep this promise exactly. Instead of selling the information, he gives it away to Kida Masaomi for free. In the manga Izaya tells Mikado that it wasn't a coincidence that he met him - he was looking for him.

Later in the novels, Mikado begins to rely on Izaya's information and advice. This is similar to how Masaomi depended on Izaya to lead the Yellow Scarves which eventually led to his downfall; Vol. 7 foreshadows that Mikado will be led down a dark path because of Izaya. However, in the same novel, Aoba reveals that both he and Izaya have grossly underestimated Mikado.

### Aoba Kuronuma

*Main Article: Aoba Kuronuma*

Initially, Mikado and Aoba got along rather well. Aoba appeared to view Mikado as a sort of mentor to him and would frequently ask him questions about Ikebukuro as well as the Dollars. This was later proven to be a front when Aoba revealed himself to be the leader of the Blue Squares. Aoba simply wanted to get closer to Mikado so that he could use him to revive the Blue Squares to their former glory. When Mikado's dark side shows itself, Aoba's condescending tone is replaced by a more fearful one. Although Mikado is acting as the leader of the Blue Squares, it becomes very clear that he isn't a mere scapegoat for the police like Ran was. Aoba acts as Mikado's second in command, and they mutually benefit from the other. During the last volume, Aoba states that he truly did want to 'swim together with Mikado-senpai' and that they'd widened the tank for the Blue Squares to swim in, considerably. Aoba's initial fear of Mikado's darker nature had been shortlived, and turned into something akin to respect. He makes sure to tell Masaomi and Anri that, when he visits Mikado in the hospital. However, after having received a warning from Akabayashi, Aoba assures Mikado's friends that he will not be dragging him back to any dangerous activities.

In Durarara!! SH, they are still shown to be on friendly terms with one another.

### Jessie Goodwin

*Main Article: Jessie Goodwin*

Mikado saved Jessie from be raped by three thugs. He took pity on her and took her with him before Kabukicho fell to the plague. Now, she follows him around because she doesn't have anything left anymore. He tries not to get close to her by pushing her away.

### Akira Ryuugamine

*Main Article: Akira Ryuugamine*

Akira is Mikado's son. Mikado tries his best to keep the little boy at his side. Akira is the only thing that he has left of Anri in this new world. He appears distant to the child, but he really does care.

### Niki

*Main Article: Niki*

Mikado comes to Niki to feel the void of loneliness. When the prostitute puts on the short black wig and glasses, she looks like Anri. Looking at Niki brings back memories of Anri and when he had a normal life.

### Cheri

*Main Article: Cheri*

Cheri calls Mikado to Purgatory many times to help "train" her new girls. She annoys him in a way, but she proves that she cares. Cheri wants to sleep with him and pimp him out with her other puppies.

### Miiko

*Main Article: Miiko*

Miiko is another woman in Purgatory who is close to Mikado. She likes to flirt with openly and try to talk to him when she can see that he's in pain.

## Trivia

* His mother's name is Hiromi (ひろみ), while his father's name is probably read as Ryūgamine Tatsuya (竜ヶ峰竜也) (there is no official romanization for his parents' names).
* His given name's kanji usually read as Teijin instead of simply Mikado.
* His hometown is in Saitama.
* He ranked 1st in Raira Academy's entrance test, tying with Anri. Anri has developed a small admiration for Mikado because of this, although it is not noticed much.
* He's born with 2982 gram weight.
* His favorite subject is IT when his least favorite subject is P.E. as he states that he's weak at sports.
* His favorite quote is "Supreme rule of life is to adapt without compromising," the words of a German Philosopher, Georg Simmel.
* He has the same name of the European version of pocky.
* A man simply known as the photographer who appears in the very first volume of *Baccano* appears to live in the apartment right next to Mikado's. The ending of the first volume takes place in present day Ikebukuro as the photographer returns from his vacation in New York.
* His password for his Dollars account is "baccano", as can be seen in the anime.
* He sang Gakuen Tengoku in the rapping CD.
* In Durarara!! SH volume 1, it is revealed that he is now dating Anri.
* His hobby according to the official DVD 1 released character profile card is: internet surfing.
* His favorite food according to the official DVD 1 released character profile card is skewer-grilled chicken in miso sauce.
* His least favorite food according to the official DVD 1 released character profile card is anything that's too hard.
* "Mikado Ryugamine" is written "竜ヶ峰帝人" in Kanji. First, his given name "Mikado" means "emperor". As his surname "Ryugamine", it means "dragon's mountains". The second character "ヶ" is rare for surnames. When it is used, it is often noble's name, so it sounds classic. And also it has 5 syllables, usually Japanese surname has 3 or 4 syllables, so it is a slightly odd. The more syllables it has, the more it sounds classic.

## Sources

* Basic Information: http://durarara.wikia.com/wiki/Mikado\_Ryuugamine