Mitsubashi

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**Mitsubashi** (三橋みつはし, *Mitsubashi*) is the apparent manager of Nyo-Nyon.

In reality, Mitsubashi is **Nyo-Nyon** (によによん, *Niyo-Niyon*) herself, a famous songwriter whose song "Emotionz" is the fastest song to reach one hundred million plays. She pretended to be her own manager and employed a decoy to protect her identity and privacy.

## Physical description

Mitsubashi has chin-length straight dark hair and light eyes. A single light streak runs through her hair.

## Personality

While Mitsubashi loves composing, she does not like the pressure and the weight of everyone's expectations that came with her popularity. She would rather compose on her own, without the interference of anyone.

## Biography

### Early life

Using a voice synthesizer, Mitsubashi released multiple songs as Nyo-Nyon that became very popular and brought her prominence. As her music videos also used animation, her appearance and voice were a mystery. However, her agency eventually pushed her to reveal her face. Mitsubashi told them that she would rather retire. Her agency then hired a singer to act as her face; Mitsubashi herself would pretend to be Nyo-Nyon's manager.

### Genius Composer Kidnapping Case

At a concert in Tokyo, Mitsubashi receives a greeting card and a guitar from Hummingbird, the talent kidnapper. A venue worker, Higuchi, gets his friend and police officer Totomaru Isshiki to help. Ron Kamonohashi who has accompanied Toto to the concert also helps. They conclude that someone must have sneaked in the card and guitar the day before the concert.

The day of the announced kidnapping, both the Metropolitan Police Department and the Yamanashi Prefectural Police—who have also received a card—surround Mitsubashi's mansion and try to keep "Nyo-Nyon" safe. Upon her request, Toto and Ron are there as well.

Mitsubashi joins Namazu, Sannou, Toto, and Ron inside the mansion to keep "Nyo-Nyon" safe. After establishing that she should stay locked inside the composition room on the top of the mansion's clocktower, Mitsubashi and the others stay alert in the living room. They wait there for any hour when the fire alarm is set off and the speakers state that there is a fire in the living room. As they are in the living room and know that there is no fire there, they run upstairs to "Nyo-Nyon." By the time they arrive, she is already gone. Due to her fear of heights, Mitsubashi is the last to arrive in the composition room. She panicks when she sees that the singer is gone. While Namazu goes to the officers outside, Mitsubashi shows Toto, Ron, and Sannou around the lower floor to find anything of interest.

In the storage room, Mitsubashi notices that the curtains have vanished. Then, Totomaru brings her "Nyo-Nyon's" laptop and asks her if she can see anything unusual in the song she was composing before she kidnapped. Mitsubashi tells him that her knowledge of music is limited, but notes that the "level" of the song is too low. Sannou and Ron notice her word choice as it gives away that she is, in fact, knowledgeable about music.

Later, Sannou accuses Mitsubashi to be Hummingbird and says that he will have to bring her to the Yamanashi Police's headquarters for interrogation. Toto objects and says that Hummingbird is someone else. Mitsubashi is, after all, the true Nyo-Nyon. She admits that she is the famous songwriter and that "Nyo-Nyon" is only a singer her agency hired.

When Sannou, Toto, and Ron drive to the foot of the hill, Mitsubashi accompanies them. Ron tells Sannou about "Toto's" deductions and reveals that Sannou is Hummingbird. He confesses that he is kidnapping artistic geniuses for his broken daughter and informs them that the singer is sleeping in the trunk of the car. While Toto and Ron get off the car and look, Hummingbird escapes.

Two months later, Mitsubashi founds her own agency and puts out hit after hit. She even breaks her own record as one of her new songs reaches one hundred million plays even faster than "Emotionz" did. It is unknown whether Mitsubashi reached out to Hummingbird and his daughter on her own.

## Etymology

* The surname "Mitsubashi" means "three" (三, *mitsu*) and "bridge" (橋, *hashi*/*bashi*).

## Trivia

* Mitsubashi makes delicious black tea.

* She is afraid of heights.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, pages 5-7
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, page 6
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, page 7
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 11-13
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 14-18
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, pages 2-4
7. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, pages 7-18
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, page 6
9. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 33, pages 2-4
10. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 33, pages 6-8
11. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 33, pages 13-19
12. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, pages 3-7
13. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, pages 9-18
14. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, page 20
15. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, page 5
16. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, page 9