Mikazuki Kuroda

*The name or term **Gomora** refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Gomora.*

 **Nickname(s)** | Gomotan

**Gomora** (Japanese: ゴモラ, *Gomora*), real name **Mikazuki Kuroda** (Japanese: 黒田ミカヅキ, *Kuroda Mikazuki*), is a character from the *Kaiju Girls* anime series.

She prefers others to call her ***Gomotan***, the "-tan" suffix being a more affectionate form of "-chan".

## Biography

### Background

Born in Osaka, Mikazuki is one of the participants of *Big Kaiju Battle*.

She inherited the soul of Gomora.

### Personality

Mikazuki is very talkative person, and she loves joking around with others (especially Aki). While she is usually easygoing, she seem to be more selective when it comes to food.

She also has a mischievous side as well, as revealed in the second novel series.

She would occasionally talk in Kansai dialect.

### Abilities

In addition to having standard kaiju girl abilities like enhanced strength, shell-composite armors and high damage resistant, Mikazuki has the ability to performs the Super Oscillatory Wave attack, as shown in *Great Kaiju Fight!*.

## Plot

### The Beginning Stories

   Mikazuki was the replacement for Pestar, Seabozu's opponent in a match of *Great Kaiju Fight!*. She felt bad for interjecting in Seabozu's first match, though things managed to be sorted after finding out Seabozu thought it was an honor to have Gomora as her opponent.

The opponent of her first match in Great Kaiju Fight was revealed to be Benio, who was then the champion. She lost that fight.

### Kaiju Girls

Gomora first seen on TV participating in *Big Kaiju Battle* against Benio. Later, she meets with the capsule trio and helps train them.

### Kaiju Girls Black

    Mikazuki appears in the intro scene, an in-universe promotion to a GIRLS event.

When Black Stars sneak into the headquarters of GIRLS, Gomora & Re Bemstar are the first that Commander Black ends up stumbling across. They meet in the kitchen, where Gomora tries to get a snack, though Black quickly runs out of the room. Gomora was among the crowd of GIRLS that confronts Black Stars while the tried to escape the building, which they did thanks to Alien Pegassa.

When Black Stars unwitting unleash a drunk Gatanothor, Gomora and Re Bemstar were among those that responded, though their efforts were in vain against the much more powerful evil goddess. After Gatanothor was reverted back from her kaiju girl form, Gomora and the other members of GIRLS chased after Black Stars for their wrongdoings.

## Trivia

* Mikazuki and Benio's character song is titled *Kaiju: put your hands up!* and it's sung by their voice actresses Ayaka Suwa and Hiromi Igarashi respectively.
* In *The Beginning Stories*, Mikazuki refers herself as **Boku** (Japanese: ボク, *Boku*), but in her anime appearance, she refers herself as **Watashi** (Japanese: 私, *Watashi*), possible done to avoid similarity with Aki, who also refers herself as 'Boku'.
* Naming origin:
	+ Her family name, **Kuroda** (Japanese: 黒田, *Kuroda*), comes from the historical daimyo Kuroda Nagamasa, whose *Kabuto* helmet was one of the inspirations in creating the original Gomora's design, specifically the kaiju's crescent-shaped horn on the head.
	+ Her given name, **Mikazuki** (Japanese: ミカヅキ, *Mikazuki*), which can be also written as '**三日月**' in kanji, taken from the crescent-shaped horn of Gomora.

 Human
 Black Stars
 Kaiju Girl
 Human