Milo Nekoyanagi

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* Anime

**Milo Nekoyanagi** (猫柳 ミロ) is one of the two protagonists in the *Sabikui Bisco* series.

## Appearance

A beautiful boy doctor who runs a clinic in Imihama.

Nicknamed "Panda-sensei" because of the black bruise that surrounds his left eye. He has a natural medical genius and continues to develop medicines by formulating illegal mushrooms to save his sister, Pawoo, who was affected by rust

## Personality

A male who likes to help people, especially his sister.

## Background

Milo is helping every Imihama citizen he can. Wanting to find a cure for his sister's rusting, he tries to synthesize medicine from anything, including forbidden mushrooms. When Bisco Akaboshi, a mushroom terrorist gets into Imihama, he finds Milo and asks him to synthesize a mushroom for him to help him heal his friend Jabi. As Bisco is being chased by Imihama's Watch and Kurokawa's elite forces, Bisco takes them underground and leaves them while he goes distracting the enemy. While helping Jabi, Jabi tells him that mushrooms are not causing rust, but consuming it, however its a slow process. He then tells him about Rust Eater, a legendary mushroom that can consume all rust from a person or object.

When Bisco returns, Milo is surprised to see that Bisco had defeated his sister Pawoo. Jabi explains he can't proceed with Bisco and suggest he takes Milo to synthesize medicine for him. Hearing that, Milo wishes to go with Bisco, who initially refuses, but eventually agrees after seeing Milo is ready to risk everything to help his sister. Milo then says goodbye to his sister and leaves some of the mushroom medicine. Bisco and Milo then escape Imihama, while Jabi distracts the Imihama's Watch.

As they go on their journey, Milo can't understand why they are heading the wrong direction. However, they soon find Actagawa, a steelcrab that Bisco rides and then head towards the Ashio Bonecoal Mountain mines. Milo attempts to ride Actagawa, but Actagawa keeps throwing him off, however, Actagawa eventually earns Milo's trust to let him apply some medicine on him. At night, they stop at Nikka War Memorial, where they find Tirol who is choking. Milo realizes she has a balloon worm in her stomach and pulls it out. She can't understand why she saved them, but Milo explains he can't just watch people die in front of him. They buy some food from her and go to sleep. Milo goes out to talk to Actagawa, but then see the War Memorial is an actually giant coal-eating mantis shrimp, who starts chasing them. As they run, Bisco instructs Milo on where to attack with Actagawa and doing so, they manage to stop the shrimp. Bisco then kills it by shooting it with an arrow and growing mushrooms. However, the mines entrance gets destroyed and they head to another path.

The group heads out towards Calvero Shellsand Sea, where they meet armed children, who think that Bisco and Milo work for Imihama. Having no choice, Bisco reveals he is wanted criminal and they can get money for turning him in. Bisco and Milo are then taken to the children's town, and while they imprison Bisco, Milo is left to Plum. Milo notices the town consists only of children and they are all armed. Plum explains that they are attacked by flying blowfish each year and many die. Milo then notices something on Plum's arm and she explains its Rusting according to Imihama's soldiers and everyone in town has it. Since the medication is expensive, the adults left to earn money. Looking at it, Milo explains its not rusting, but shellskin. Milo then heals everyone in town and as the children want to thank him, he asks for Bisco to be released, but Nuts explains they need the money from his reward to get new weapons. Suddenly flying blowfish attack, however, Bisco comes and easily defeats them. Plum wishes for Milo to remain, but Milo states she is more needed than him and that one day she will meet someone even more amazing than him.

Bisco and Milo reach Shimobuki, where they find Tirol frozen. After saving her and explaining they are heading towards Shirakaba Line, she decides to join them and show them the way. They meet some traders and Tirol manages to get them a good deal, including a book as a bonus. They reach the subway and find a train, but it requires old coins to work. Tirol explains she used to be a mechanic and looks into a way to bypass the fare. When she is done, Milo and Tirol check the book they got, but find drawings of animals. Bisco explains its a Mushroom Keeper book and that it should contain various mushroom information and from which animal they come. Milo confirms that and finds a page about Rust Eater, which is found from Pipe Snake. As they prepare to leave with the train, Tirol decides to stay and they thank her for her help. On the train, they got attacked by large group of oilsquids and with team efforts, they manage to defeat it. They reach Weeping Child Ravine, where Bisco explains that 15 years ago the Mushroom Keepers collected a Rust Eater. Suddenly, they see a giant Pipe Snake eating a giant bird and Bisco decides to capture it, but Pawoo shows up. While they argue with Bisco, the Pipe Snake shows up and captures Pawoo. Milo jumps with Actagawa on the snake and frees Pawoo, but ends up in danger himself. Bisco and Pawoo then help him, but he and Bisco still get eaten by the snake, however, they manage to kill it from the inside using mushrooms.

Looking at the snake, they find Rust Eater mushrooms, but tasting them Bisco states they don't have the effect. He wishes to continue searching, but Milo attempts to stop him as he is too beat up and bleeding. Bisco pushes him down, and having Bisco's blood on his arm, Milo ends up touching the Rust Eater, causing it to glow. Milo then figures out that Mushroom Keepers have special blood that activates the Rust Eater and they prepare medicine with it. Kurokawa then attacks them and takes the snake, while shooting Bisco with a Rust Bullet. The next day, Pawoo decides to bring the medicine to Jabi, but doesn't take her in order for Kurokawa to not question her how she go healed and torture her for the secret.

Milo and Bisco stay until Bisco is healed. Milo captures a pig and wants to cook it for Bisco, but he heads out following Actagawa. While he cooks the pig, he sees a broadcast by Kurokawa aimed at Milo and Bisco, where he shows him a video. Bisco returns, but finds Milo acting strange and figures he put sleepshroom poison in the food. Figuring its related to Pawoo, he decides to help, but Milo wants to stop him as he knows Bisco is in bad shape, have blurry vision and overall is more sick than Jabi and Pawoo. Bisco still refuses to stop and they end up in a fight, where Milo manages to drug him and put him to sleep, stating that he will risk his body and soul to save Bisco.

Milo comes to Shimabuki Base alone. He recalls the broadcast, where Kurokawa tortures Pawoo and wants to know the secret of the Rust Eater or he will kill Pawoo. Kurokawa tells Milo to tell him the secret first and Milo states you need to mix the mushroom with other ingredients, but as he does, it causes white spores fly and that blocks the field vision of everyone and puts Kurokawa's pawns to sleep. Milo then inflicts several cuts on Kurokawa, revealing its weapon is coated in poison and he will treat him only if he tells him where Pawoo and Jabi are. Using a hidden bow on his prosthetic left arm, Kurokawa shoots Milo with a puppetshroom, a mushroom that lets him control people using a chip in his head. Kurokawa reveals he is a former Mushroom Keeper and doesn't care about the Rust Eater effects, but wishes to monopolize it and gain money and control over the government. Milo still refuses to reveal the secret, and Kurokawa decides to kill him, but Bisco then comes and stops Kurokawa. Kurokawa reveals that he is the one who spread the superstition that the Mushroom Keepers spread rust and that he sold out them to earn money and live good. He attempts to shoot Bisco, but Bisco blows his prosthetic arm. Kurokawa then controls Milo to make him shoot Rust arrows at Bisco. In order to save Bisco, Milo reveals the secret is Mushroom Keepers blood, but Kurokawa explains that he can't let them live as they will hunt him down. He forces Milo to shoot Bisco, but Bisco manages to catch the arrow and throws it back at Kurokawa, injuring his eye. Jabi then comes and uses a mushroom to knock out Kurokawa. As Bisco and the rest escape the base, Kurokawa sends his pawns to chase them. Jabi stays to fight them, while Milo and Bisco escape, but ends up being captured. Kurokawa's pawns catch up to Milo and Bisco and shoot multiple Rust arrows at Milo's back, but Actagawa comes and defeats them. Barely consciousness and heavily injured, Milo tells Bisco to live.

Milo awakens to see his wounds have been treated by Bisco, who then wants to give him medicine for the Rust. Milo tells him to inject himself first, but Bisco lies to him, stating he already did. After wondering about Jabi and Pawoo, Milo suggests that Bisco takes Pawoo on a date, but nervously Bisco tries to refuse. As Milo is about to fall asleep, he asks Bisco if he will be there when he wakes up and Bisco confirms, stating they are partners and will forever be together.

Milo gets healed from the Rust and as Bisco is gone, he heads to Kurakawa, where he manages to come in time and shoots an arrow, ripping Kurakawa's artificial arm and saving Bisco from being shot. Bisco then pushes Kurakawa down a boiling Rust, where Kurakawa dies. As Bisco starts to burn too, Milo states he promised that they would be together and Bisco tells him that his soul will find him and if he always smiles like Bisco, he will always be by his side when he smiles. Bisco then asks Milo to kill him, so that he doesn't die from the Rust and Milo accepts, promising that one day their souls would find each other.

Pawoo enters the facility to look for Bisco, but finds only Milo. Outside, Milo tells Jabi that Bisco is dead and is in his heart now. As the government clears the place, Pawoo suggests they recover Bisco's body and burn it at the Mushroom Keepers village, but Milo explains they don't cremate people and Bisco wanted his body to be left to the elements. They witness the Tetsujin reviving and destroying tanks. As it leaves, Milo being the only one injected with the Rust Eater, decides to go after it, while Jabi and Pawoo remain to unbury Actagawa who got covered in Rust.

Milo manages to catch up to the Tetsujin and injects himself with a substance, imitating Bisco's body and calling the Tetsujin, Kurokawa, stating that he may got a new big body, but he will keep sending him to hell. The Tetsujin then attacks him, but Milo manages to dodge and starts shooting arrows at him, growing mushrooms and causing him pain. Traders decide to help, but as their attack barely had any effect, the Tetsujin prepares to destroy them, however, Jabi, Pawoo and Actagawa come in time to save them. Jabi and Milo then combine efforts and start shooting and growing mushrooms on the Tetsujin. However, the Tetsujin launches a large attack and causes all of them to fall from a cliff. They survive the fall, but Jabi gets a leg injury and Milo treats it. After that, he leaves Jabi to the traders and follows the Tetsujin. He manages to catch up to him at Calvaro Shellsand Sea, where he saves Nuts and fights the Tetsujin. Pawoo joins him with Imihama Watch, but they get defeated with the group barely surviving thanks to Actagawa. Milo then takes another red injection, which Jabi recognizes as Bishamon mushroom poison and tells him his body won't last long, but Milo wonders if he would have stopped Bisco from doing it. Milo then continues to follow the Tetsujin and catches up in front of Imihama, where he starts fighting him again. Eventually, he gets on its back and starts stabbing it, only to find Bisco's goggles inside the stab wounds. The Tetsujin then grabs him and throws him at the Imihama wall. From the stab wound, Bisco comes out fully healed and joins Milo, stating he heard him from the next world and came back.

Bisco fights the Tetsujin, but each of his arrows create Rust Eaters and manage to split the Tetsujin. He wonders what is going on with him and feels power welling up inside of him. Milo guesses that he is half-human, half-Rust Eater and its due to being drenched in the pipe snake's poison, which cause mushroom spores to enter his body and mix with his blood. They see the Tetsujin bulging up and Tirol reveals it will self-destruct if they attack it, repeating the incident from the past, and that they need to kill the pilot to prevent that. Pawoo states she can break his helm without causing shockwaves, but wants some word of thanks from Bisco, who ends up promising he will give her anything if she returns alive. Pawoo then kisses him, stating she will be taking him, causing Milo to tell him, that they are perfect for each other. As Pawoo split the Tetsujin's helm and reveal Kurokawa behind it. Bisco and Milo fight it, but just as Bisco was about to shoot his arrow, Kurokawa throws his arm and covers Bisco's eyes with blood. Helping him aim, Milo states he will be his eyes and to believe. Bisco then shoots an arrow and kills Kurokawa and the Tetsujin, growing large amount of Rust Eater. Later, due to the effects of the Rust Eater, Bisco is immortal and forever young. Not wanting that, he and Milo embark on a new journey to find a way to cure Bisco.from his immortality

## Etymology

* **Milo** is a hot chocolate mix produced by Nestle. The drink is named after the ancient Greek athlete, Milo of Croton.
	+ The etymology of the name is otherwise unknown, but may be related to the Slavic *milu* meaning "gracious" or Latin *miles* meaning "soldier".
* Milo's surname **Nekoyanagi** means "cat" (猫) (**neko**) and "willow" (柳) (**yanagi**).
	+ The kanji of Milo's surname when put together is called "rosegold pussy willow" a type of tree species native to japan.

## Gallery

1. ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/miles, Behind the Name Entry: Miles