Mikako Kurokawa

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## Mikako Kurokawa

* Splash Art
* Halfbody Sprite

## Characteristics

### Family

* Hanzo Kisaragi (Adoptive Father)
* Yamato Kisaragi (Adoptive Brother)
* Kokoro Mitsume (Biological Mother)
* Sojiro Kurokawa (Biological Father)

## Status

### Fates

* Commits suicide
* Corpse executed by Monokuma

## Fangan Info

### Origin

Danganronpa Another~ Another Despair Academy~

### Artists

LINUJ

 —Mikako's Introduction

**Mikako Kurokawa** (쿠로카와 미카코 *Kurokawa Mikako*) is a main character featured in **Danganronpa Another- Another Despair Academy-**, made by **LINUJ**. She is the **Super High School Level Exorcist** (초고교급 퇴마사 *lit. Super High School Level Exorcist*).

## **Gallery**

📷For more images of Mikako, see Mikako Kurokawa/Image Gallery
📷For sprites of Mikako, see Mikako Kurokawa/Sprite Gallery
## Appearance

Mikako is one of the tallest members of her class. She has unkempt blackish-gray hair which is kept up in a ponytail by a purple scrunchie. By the sides of her face are two medium-length sidebangs. She has an extremely pale complexion and dark grey eyes with bags underneath them from a lack of sleep. Mikako is believed to be sick by the rest of her classmates due to her paleness and frequent headaches. Her height and weight are congenital and may have been influenced by her early childhood. Mikako often appears to have a 'shadow' casting over the top of her face. When let down her hair reaches waist-length. Her beads were later destroyed when Mikako died.

Mikako's outfit consists of a large calf-length brown cloak, which has extremely large sleeves that almost completely hide her hands. Underneath this cloak Mikako wears a plain dress shirt, a gray tie, a golden cross necklace, and a purple beaded necklace which was gifted to her by Hanzo when she first displayed interest in the supernatural. Mikako also wears a red plaid skirt, a pair of high white socks, and a pair of brown shoes. As noted in her character profile, Mikako sometimes pulls up the hood of her cloak. Her dress shirt has short sleeves and two chest pockets.

During early childhood Mikako had notably shorter hair, and wore a yellow dress with white sleeve cuffs and a red ribbon.

Mikako's party outfit consists of a long flowing blue dress with a belt that wraps around her waist, a pair of transparent white sleeves, and a pair of white gloves. During this time, Mikako's hair was styled into a bun. While she still wore her cross necklace, she didn't wear her beads.

If she lived long enough to continue running the Kisaragi Foundation, Mikako would've let her hair down. She would have worn a dress shirt covered by a vest, a coat, and a pair of pants. It is unknown what role she would have had within the organization.

## **Name Etymology**

Mikako's forename is written using the Kanji 美 (mi), which means 'beautiful' or 'beauty', 香 (ka), which means 'incense', and 子 (ko), which means 'child' or 'young'. Her surname is written using the Kanji 黒 (Kuro), which means 'black', and 川 (kawa), which means river.

## History

### Background

Mikako is the daughter of Kokoro Kurokawa and Sojiro Kurokawa. During her childhood Mikako was subject to numerous experiments by Kokoro, who sought to find the 'primitive emotions'. A research chip was implanted in Mikako's brain when she was young, used to aid Kokoro's experiments. These experiments went on for years until Sojiro, feeling a growing sense of guilt, took Mikako and fled with her to the mountains. Sojiro died on the mountains by unknown means while Mikako fell into a stream, where she would later be found and rescued by Hanzo Kisaragi who would take her in. During this time Kokoro made no effort in finding either of them, deeming Mikako a 'failed experiment'.

During the next years of her childhood Mikako lived inside the Kisaragi Manor with Hanzo and her adoptive brother: Yamato Kisaragi, who when he was younger would pick on and squabble with Mikako. Later in life, Mikako developed an interest in exorcism, later being scouted by Kibōgamine Gakuen as the Super High School Level Exorcist. Mikako and Yamato both attended Kibōgamine Gakuen together, the latter being scouted as the Super High School Level Inventor.

### The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy

Mikako was one of sixteen students scouted by Hope's Peak Academy under its 79th class. Quickly admitted by the school to complete a secret project, everything was in vain when the student council was massacred by this same project. Although the schools administration tried their best to cover up the incident, rumours inevitably spread between the schools students. After personally researching and confirming their claims Yamato Kisaragi, the Super High School Level Inventor, searched for the incidents true masterminds after seeing one of them in footage from a hidden camera. placed on the body of the last surviving council member.

After the death of their father, Yamato was flown out to attend his funeral with the intention to further investigate the Super High School Level Despair. Not wanting to alert Mikako about this, he asked her to stay behind. Although she was upset by this, she complied with his wishes.

Throughout his investigations, Yamato soon learned about a more sinister plan taking place. To protect his friends Yamato came up with his own plan to protect the 79th class. When the 'parade' began to take place, Yamato inflicted his plan and drove his classmates to an isolated island belonging to the Kisaragi Foundation. Unbeknown to all of them at that time, two members of the Ultimate Despair were already among them.

Shortly after escaping to the island Monokuma's attacked the building, killing numerous of the organizations staff and attacking the students. Mikako and Yamato were taken hostage by Utsuro and Akane, as they both knew too much about the situation. Trying to plead to them both, Mikako tried to convince them it wasn't too late to believe in hope. However, her attempts were unsuccessful, and she was knocked unconscious by them. After this her memories of her time at Hope's Peak Academy were erased, and the laboratory was remodelled to look like the school building.

### The 79th Class Killing Game

    Mikako was one of fifteen students scouted by Hope's Peak Academy under its 79th class. After entering the Hope's Peak school building, Mikako and her classmates fall unconscious, and each wake up alone in different locations. After regrouping together in the main hall, an anonymous announcement lead them to the Gymnasium, where they meet a robotic bear, Monokuma, the school's self-proclaimed headmaster. Monokuma soon reveals the true nature of the school, announcing the start of a mutual killing game, where the only way they could leave were to murder another person. Enraged by this, Tsurugi Kinjo attempts to apprehend Monokuma, but is pushed back by a machine gun, leaving him startled and in silence. After this incident the class splits up until the next morning.

During the middle of the week, bored from the lack of any death yet, Monokuma joins one of the class's morning meetings. There he reveals the class's first motive, clueing them in to explore the CV Room. Cautious due to the headmaster's previous actions, the class convince Yuki Maeda, the Super High School Lucky Student, to check out the area. In the room Yuki finds a box with numerous DVD's, all with a participants name on it. The rest of the class meet up with Yuki after he lets out a panicked scream, causing everyone to check the contents of their DVD, revealing someone close to them in grave danger. Distrust falls among the group after this, causing them to split up from each other. Unbeknown to them at the time, one of them was already plotting their crime.

That next morning meeting, the class realize Rei Mekaru and Kiyoka Maki, the Ultimate Professor and the Ultimate Sniper respectively, had gone missing. After splitting up to search for them, the body discovery sounds and led everyone to the female bathrooms where they found Kiyoka's hung-up body. During the investigation Mikako discovered a strange occurrence with the rope, noting that it couldn't have been tied inside the bathroom. During the subsequent class trial, Mitsuhiro is found guilty by his classmates and is brutally executed by Monokuma. His execution was witnessed by the rest of his classmates, leaving them silent from the sight of the footage.

### Second Motive and Comforting Kizuna

During the second week of the killing game, Monokuma summoned the class to the gymnasium, where he gave each participant a note with another persons secret on it. Previously removed from the group, Kizuna Tomori had closed herself off from the rest of her classmates, and was later found crying alone by Akane Taira. In the next morning meeting, this fact is brought up. Consequently, the class decide to confront Kizuna together, to convince her to rejoin the group. Although she is initially reluctant to do so, Akane tearfully confided in her and was able to convince her to do so.

The next day, Kizuna's dead body is found in the switchium, with multiple stab wounds and blood pooling around her. Mikako doesn't find anything during the investigation.

In the class trial, the truth behind the case is soon discovered. That night Kizuna had met with Akane, and tried to convince her to become her accomplice in her plan to murder Yuki, who she'd found out knew who the mastermind was. Akane, however, refused. At that moment, Kizuna lunged towards Akane with a knife, and during the struggle, the tides had turned to Akane's favour. Panicked by what she'd just done, Akane left the scene covered in blood. At this moment Ayame Hatano, a close friend to Akane, witnessed her running away and went to check the scene. There she discovered a still alive Kizuna, bleeding out alone. Ayame, in the attempt to save her friend from certain death, removed the knife from Kizuna's torso and stabbed her again in the throat. Presuming she was dead, she left the scene and set-up the murder case with what tools Kizuna had on her.

### Kiyoka's Phone and Comforting Akane

The morning after Ayame's execution, the class met together for one of their morning meetings. There, Monokuma revealed the existence of a traitor, planted in the game from the very beginning. Already suspicious due to what was revealed the previous day, Yuki is removed from the main group. Later that week, Kinji Uehara discovered a phone belonging to the deceased Kiyoka. Though Kakeru Yamaguchi tried to connect it to a signal, he and Rei fail to do so, leading them to discard it as useless.

With the killing game coming to a standstill after Ayame's execution, Monokuma summoned the class to the gymnasium. There he took everyone to a soundproof room, where a video of what they desired most played. After claiming that whoever killed would receive what their video promised, the group split up.

### The Third Case

Later that day, Yuki and Mikako were drawn to the dormitories after hearing a loud scream. At the scene they discovered Akane covered in blood, after she slit her wrists with a pair of scissors due to the guilt she felt over Ayame's death. Unable to calm her down, Teruya Ōtori, Haruhiko Kobashikawa, and Satsuki Iranami were at a loss of what to do, while Yuki tried his best to retrain Akane. Knowing neither of these approaches would help her friend, Mikako gripped Akane's shoulders and reminded her of Ayame's final words. Just after doing this, Mikako fell unconscious as a result of head pains she had been feeling throughout the day. During the next morning meeting the attending class members realize Rei, Tsurugi, Kinji, Kakeru, and Kanata Inori had yet to appear and began to search for them. Soon after they split up they discovered Kinji with blood covering his head. After claiming he was struck by an unrecognizable killer, everyone continued to search for the four others. Mikako left to search the science lab where she heard screams and running water from inside. The recently rescued Rei breaks the labs window. After she peered into the room, she warned everyone to step aside. At this moment the body discovery announcement goes off, as they find Kanata's electrified corpse.

Shortly after the body discovery announcement sounded, another one went off. Confused by this, Rei immediately realized what it must've meant and went to explore the downstairs area. Mikako follows and discovers Kakeru's corpse on the library floor. During the investigation for both murders, Mikako investigated the first floor.

In the class trial for Kakeru's and Kanata's murder, the class correctly vote Kinji as their killer. Kinji explained his motive to the rest of the group and was exposed as the traitor among the class, blackmailed into murder by Monokuma. With the fates of over a hundred children Kinji was watching over in danger, Kinji initially acted to murder Kanata but was interrupted when Kakeru entered the art room, leading to his unavoidable death. Soon after he revealed this Monokuma began to play a video for the class, panning in to a pile of decomposed corpses of the children Kinji murdered for. Silenced by this, he is soon dragged away to his execution where he is crushed by a giant cross. Monokuma began to experience malfunctions after Kinji's execution, eventually shutting down. While the group had time they rushed over to a hidden staircase they had found earlier that week, where they believed they would find an escape route Monokuma was hiding. When they finally reached the bottom of the staircase however, they were faced with Monokuma in a jail-like area. With their hopes of the escape crushed, the class split up for the rest of the day.

### The Party

After Kinji's execution Monokuma gathered the surviving class members to the ballroom. Although they were initially reluctant to enter, believing it would be somehow related to the next motive, Monokuma signed a memorandum which was able to convince everyone. One-by-one each participant entered the dressing rooms and changed into their party outfits. When most of the class had changed into their outfits, they noticed Satsuki still hadn't left her dressing room. Fearing for the worst, Mikako and Rei went to check on Satsuki and found her safe, but struggling to put on the dress. After helping Satsuki the trio return to the ballroom where everyone is silenced, stunned by how Satsuki looked without her clown uniform. One-by-one, each of Mikako's classmates began to pair with each other. The only two students left without a partner, she and Teruya Ōtori decide to dance together.

Soon after this everyone paired up with each other as classical musical began to play. Although they struggled to dance together due to their height differences, they managed to dance until the music eventually ended. After this, Monokuma appeared and took everyone to the dining hall, which he had recently filled with a limited supply of food and drink.

Realizing something was wrong with the situation, Rei and Tsurugi left the dining hall and investigated the entrance, finding it locked. At this moment Tsurugi rushed back to the dining hall after being informed Haruhiko and Satsuki were still there. As they returned, the rest of the class found almost all of the food eaten, causing them to become irate at Haruhiko. Later that day Monokuma summoned everyone back to the ballroom, and handed them each a dormitory key. There he revealed the killing games fourth motive, where everyone would be locked in the ballroom until a murder occurred. With their food supply limited, and their other outfits locked away in their main dorm rooms, the class angrily questioned Monokuma about the memorandum, which promised he wouldn't do anything to them during the party. Telling them as much, the class realize it was a trick from the very beginning. With no other way to escape the ballroom, everyone split up for the night.

The next morning, the class discovered the rest of the food eaten. Panicked by this, the class held an emergency meeting to find out who the culprits were. Mikako, whose room was right next to the arsenal, witnessed Satsuki and Haruhiko leaving their rooms that night, and revealed this information to everyone else.

### Effects of Starvation

With the food supply completely depleted, the class began to experience hallucinations, felt extremely weak, and lost any ability to make sound judgement. Realizing everybody would die if nobody murdered, Teruya began to host a draw for the next potential killer and victim. Angered by this, Haruhiko tried to convince the others to change their minds, but was unsuccessful. At this moment he begged Tsurugi, who had just entered the dining hall, to help him. Promising to do so, everyone was silenced when Tsurugi, driven to complete insanity by the starvation, threw a handful of guns onto the table. As he requested everyone to join him in a mass suicide, Haruhiko tried to question him but was knocked unconscious.

Refusing to hear to reason, Tsurugi tried to lunge toward Yuki, which then caused the carpet underneath him to slip from under his feet. While he was down the class apprehended Tsurugi and tied him with rope. Unable to continue their vote with the events that had just taken place, the participants decided to continue it tomorrow instead. Before returning to their dorm rooms for the night, they returned the guns to the arsenal. Unable to sleep that night, Mikako was drawn to the sounds of the arsenal door opening and closing. Although she couldn't see who had left their rooms, Mikako couldn't do anything at that moment, too physically weakened by the effects of the motive.

Immediately after discovering his body Monokuma replenished the food supply. During the class trial Satsuki confessed to be being Haruhiko's killer, but was unable to prove it. Due to Teruya's involvement in the case everyone continued to go over the evidence, but eventually, they discover Satsuki was telling the truth. After realizing this Tsurugi passed out, but the trial continued. In her final moments alive Satsuki asked everyone to believe in hope.

### Transfer Student

Shortly after Satsuki's execution, Monokuma called everyone to the gymnasium for their next motive. With no other choice but to comply they met Yamato Kisaragi, the Super High School Level Inventor, who most of the class began to question, suspecting him of being the games mastermind. Mikako remained silent upon seeing Yamato but all of a sudden bled from all across her face, causing her to pass out almost instantly afterward. As this happens her classmates rush to her aid, and help her to the infirmary where she is temporarily treated.

Throughout the subsequent days Mikako tried talking with Yamato on multiple occasions, but was otherwise left out of the main groups discussions, suspected of being involved with the killing game. Riddled with guilt over the deaths of the previous killers, and what he believed about them over the course of the weeks, Tsurugi stole a gun from the arsenal and prepared to shoot himself in the gymnasium. Although Akane, Yuki, Teruya, and Rei tried to stop him, they were unsuccessful. As the body discovery announcement sounded, Monokuma was angered by Yuki's will to believe his friend wasn't dead, and checked over his body one last time. As he does so he discovers Tsurugi still had a heartbeat despite his head injuries. Unwilling to have a class trial for his death, Monokuma took Tsurugi to the infirmary and performed emergency surgery on him. Just after he finished, Mikako raced over to him and the other participants, panicked about the body discovery announcement. As she is told what happened, nobody was able to say a word. Mikako left for her room soon afterward.

Before the end of the week Mikako and Yamato were knocked unconscious by Monokuma, who used sleeping gas from the fourth floors arsenal. Upon being left unconscious, Monokuma blew a hole through Yamato's chest which covered Mikako and the room with blood. After messing with the crime scene and repositioning Mikako, her classmates discover her standing over Yamato's corpse with a kitchen knife in her hand. Still in shock when Yuki and Rei enter the room, Mikako is unable to say anything and instead stared at Yamato's dead body. When she regained her composure, Mikako realized the set-up was a trap from the mastermind and did her best to investigate the school grounds.

### Mikako's Fate

Successfully framed by Monokuma, and with the class trial drastically shortened, Mikako was voted as Yamato's killer by the rest of her classmates. Although she tried to speak, she struggled to do so any more, having used most of her energy accusing Yuki as her brother's killer. As Monokuma prepared to execute her, the class tried to prolong her death, wanting to hear about her motive and the information she claimed to have. At that moment Rei approached Mikako, and the latter tried to explain what she knew. The more she spoke, however, she began to cough up blood, but continued to speak despite Monokuma's pleas for her to stop. Just as she finished her sentence, Mikako's body "fell apart" as blood poured out from all across her body. With the last of her strength she landed in Rei's arms, and cryptically revealed that the mastermind had been with the class since the start of the killing game. Before she is able to reveal their identity however, Mikako succumbed to her wounds and died in Rei's arms. Panicked by this her classmates tried to help her, but to no avail.

Despite her death, Monokuma continued with Mikako's execution, "Runaway Train ★ Ghost Rider", even with the entire class trying to stop him. Her lifeless body was tied to a go-kart which had a boom attached to it. As it began to race around the track, the countdown on the bomb lowered. Just as Mikako's go-kart was about to collide with another one, the class trial grounds and Monokuma lost all power. At that moment, Tsurugi, who'd previously shot himself in the head earlier that week, entered the trial grounds and revealed his lost memories, accusing Akane of being a member of the Ultimate Despair.

### Legacy

After her death a picture of Mikako and Yamato is found in the office. The events of the tragedy are remembered by Utsuro, who regained his memories after siding with despair. A golden statue of Mikako is later found in the Tower of Babel.

Kokoro, Mikako's mother, was forced to participate in the school trip of mutual killing.

## Personality

During the early weeks of the killing game, Mikako was a quiet person that did not talk very much, and struggled to communicate with her classmates. When she did speak, Mikako often replied with short, mumbled responses, after long periods of silence. At first, Mikako was more often than not unresponsive when people tried to make conversation with her, and almost always avoided making eye contact with them. As a result, the other participants often forgot she was around, and some of her classmates found her unfriendly. For a majority of time, noted in her free time events with Yuki, it would usually take someone else to initiate a conversation before Mikako would talk, even then for a short amount of time. As time progressed however, Mikako was able to speak more to Yuki, and in her last free time event she initiated a conversation with him, rather than vice versa.

As the killing game progressed Mikako was able to open and speak more with her classmates, although her responses were still spaced out and often mumbled. Mikako cared greatly for her classmates, and tried to calm Akane after she tried to kill herself. She was also one of the main reasons they were able to escape to the island, working with her brother to help her friends. Before her memory was erased and her brain was altered with, Mikako was extremely trusting with others, and convinced Yamato to give Akane and Utsuro (at the time Yuki) a chance. Even when she was undergoing the effects of starvation, Mikako continued to watch over her friends, and expresses concern for them on numerous occasions. Like many of her classmates, Mikako was ready to sacrifice herself when it meant the others survival.

Mikako whole-heartedly believed in hope. Even when she was confronted by Akane and Utsuro, two members of the Super High School Level Despair, Mikako tried to convince them to believe in hope, although this was unsuccessful. Otherwise, Mikako struggled to express her emotions and beliefs, although this was mostly influenced by the effects on her brain. Despite this, Mikako was able to express strong gusts of emotion from time-to-time, such as when she was accused for murdering Yamato, and when she was first reunited with him. These moments are rare however.

Before the events of the killing game, Tsurugi remembered Mikako as a bright and bubbly person, who rivalled the cheerfulness of Kiyoka, Haruhiko, and even Satsuki.

## **Talent and Abilities**

### **Super High School Level Exorcist**

As the Super High School Level Exorcist, Mikako works closely with anything regarding spirits. Mikako started developing an interest in exorcisms during her childhood, and was encouraged by Hanzo to continue looking into the subject. As a result of her work during her adolescent years, she was admitted by Kibōgamine Gakuen alongside Yamato. Despite this, Mikako is noted to be one of the less talked about classmates on the school's blog, and the public know very little about her or how she came to gain her title.

As an exorcist, Mikako believes her job is to mentally stabilize the body and mind of people who believe in evil spirits. In relation to the existence of ghosts, Mikako states it relies solely on the persons belief. While they can exist, they also do not.

## Creation and Development

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*LINUJ notes that, personality-wise, little changed with Mikako's setup during the production of Danganronpa Another. Design-wise, Mikako's design remained mostly unchanged. In her initial design Mikako had more prominent dark circles underneath her eyes,

### Alternate Fates

Non-Canon*The information below is considered **non-canon**.*
In the bonus mode 'Danganronpa EX', Mikako and the other killing game participants find an escape before the first motive is revealed, allowing everyone to safely escape the building. It is possible she continued running the Kisaragi Foundation after her escape.

## Trivia

* Mikako ranked third place in the official *Danganronpa Another* *Popularity Poll*.
	+ Due to this, she appeared in the exclusive 'Suits' illustration, which featured the five most popular characters.
* Mikako is LINUJ's personal favourite from the game, both character-wise and design-wise.
* Her birthday is in reference to when she joined the Kisaragi Foundation.
* In the early weeks of the killing game, Mikako could go hours without saying anything.
* Mikako originally believed Yamato was dead during the events of the killing game. She also believed he was her childhood friend.
* Mikako frequently experiences headaches throughout the killing game. These have caused her to pass out, shake, and feel incredibly weak.
* Mikako had the chip in her brain from her childhood up until her death. Mikado Sannōji later discovered her emotional data on Kokoro's computer.
* Mikako's height and weight are congenital.
* Mikako remembers very little about her childhood before meeting the Kisaragi family.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://linuj.tistory.com/58
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ***Chapter 6***: CG of Yamato, Mikako, and Hanzo
3. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/58
4. ↑ **Mikako's Character Profile:** LINUJ's reply to a comment.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 **Mikako's Freetime Events, translated by TempAccounts:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMyCjor10M
6. ↑ **Danganronpa Another**: *EX*
7. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EB%8B%A8%EA%B0%84%EB%A1%A0%ED%8C%8C-%EC%96%B4%EB%82%98%EB%8D%94-%EC%9D%B8%EA%B8%B0%ED%88%AC%ED%91%9C-%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC-%EB%B0%9C%ED%91%9C?category=412177