Mikado Sannōji

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## Mikado Sannoji

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**Mikado Sannoji** (산노지 미카도) is a character featured in the Korean fangame *Super Danganronpa Another 2* created by LINUJ.

He is known as the **Super High School Level Wizard** (초고교급 마법사).

## Gallery

> 📷 For more images of Mikado, see Super Danganronpa Another 2/Image Gallery and Mikado Sannōji/Sprite Gallery.
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## Name Etymology

Mikado’s given name is written using the kanji 帝, meaning ‘emperor’. His last name, Sannōji, uses the kanji 三 (*san*) meaning ‘three’, 王 (*ō*) meaning ‘king’ or ‘ruler’, and 寺 (*ji*) meaning ‘temple’ in Buddhist terms.

## Appearance

Mikado is a tall young man with light skin and wavy light blonde hair which gradually fades to grey and is parted down the middle of his scalp. His face is covered by a white mask with red facial features and a dark purple inverted question mark under its right "eye."

Following the events of the Prologue in the game, the left half of Mikado's mask is broken, revealing his pale light brown eye, giving a blank look. His mask displays his emotions; his facial expression never changes.

Mikado wears a white long-sleeved dress shirt with unbuttoned cufflinks, short white gloves, a plain double-layered orange necktie, and black pants. Over his clothes, he dons a purple flowing cape with a faint galaxy pattern, with a red underside and a red sun clasp with eight bent rays fastening his cape.

He wears a top hat with the same color pattern as his cape and a red lace with the similar sun symbol tied around it. For his footwear, he wears a pair of brown shoes with segmented lines, black soles, and patch strips with two black buttons.

His typical appearance was entirely made up for the VR simulation. Outside of the simulation, he had black hair fades into grey at its ends and wears square black rimmed glasses. He wears an untucked plain white long-sleeved shirt that buttons up at the cuffs, a double-layered orange necktie, a pair of black trousers, a pair of white socks, and a pair of slip-on brown shoes. Mikado's human counterpart is roughly the same age as the members of Void, Yuki, Sora, and Teruya. His alter ego counterpart is the youngest participant in the game.

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## Personality

A young man who dresses like a stage magician and dons a bizarre mask. He never speaks, regardless of what's going on around him. Thanks to his mask, it's impossible for anyone to get a read on him.

Mikado appears to be a cunning and deceitful person, showing little care for betraying Hajime during the first trial. The other students tend to grow annoyed or even angry at his actions most of the time, as evidenced during the Void meeting and during Chapter 1. He is a skilled manipulator, having no qualms over toying with the other students' emotions. He often practices this behavior on Iroha, by attempting to force her to kill for his plan, and towards Nikei, by repeatedly goading and teasing him to trigger the other man's inferiority complex. Due to this, the other residents of Utsuroshima try to ignore him, or act aggressively toward him. Mikado seems to take some sort of pleasure from others' reactions toward him.

However, he appears to care for the other participants during the early stages of the Killing Game, evident when he prepared food for them all after they showed distaste in what was currently being served. He also appears to have little amusement in the possibility of a class trial during the early days of the Killing Game.

Along with the other members of Void, he is committed to reviving Utsuro. It's shown during the meeting with the three remaining members of Void that he is prepared to die for the plan to work, mocking the other members for being "shaken up" over the death of one of the members. Mikado appears to admire Utsuro.

## History

According to Kokoro, and the Nikei robot, Mikado lived in an orphanage since infancy. During his early childhood there, a fire broke out, claiming the lives of many of the children at the orphanage and injuring the others. Utsuro appeared, and rain began pouring, which put the fire out. Mikado, recognizing Utsuro's special ability and his role in saving the orphanage, created a plan to see him again: he doused the orphanage in gasoline, and set it ablaze once more. Utsuro appeared again, and instead of rain putting out the fire like the previous time, the flames died out in a matter of seconds with no reason. Mikado was certain Utsuro had a special power, but Utsuro vanished once again. After these two experiences, Mikado made a decision—his life belonged to Utsuro, and he would spend it looking for him.

He is seen performing magic several times throughout the game, which include unleashing fire and vanishing in an instant.

Before the Killing Game, Mikado was said to have performed similar tasks by Rei. It is later proven that he had performed acts of murder, violence, kidnapping and thievery.

### Utsuro Research

During the tragedy, Mikado and Kokoro worked together on an AI. Mikado would hack for money, usually giving it to Kokoro for her research.

At some point, Mikado rushed into Kokoro’s lab, believing he had fixed a bug in something the two had been working on for quite some time. Testing it went well, with Kokoro explaining a little on her family towards him, and her dream of studying the primitive emotion soon after Mikado had discovered a folder of data, updated up until a few years ago. After going into the folder, Kokoro discovered that her daughter, Mikako, had thought of the name ‘Utsuro’ quite a bit. Mikado punched the wall, frustrated that someone else had found him before he had. Mikado then asked for Kokoro to scan the data in the folder.

At some point, Mikado's programming feats would lead to his AI gaining self-awareness. The AI studies his creator's desire to meet Utsuro and takes that goal upon itself. The AI hires Shobai to kill Mikado Sannoji so that the AI can steal his identity—renaming himself Mikado Sannoji—and assume full power over his creator's goals. This would lead to Mikado meeting the Children of Utsuro. The group consisted of Emma, Hajime, Nikei, and Iroha, with Nikei as the leader. A series of unknown events occur with the Kisaragi Foundation seeking out Mikado and the change of leadership within the Children of Utsuro. Nikei is greatly enraged and furious with this decision and vows that he will end Mikado. Mikado, now leader, rebrands the Children of Utsuro as Void, and kickstarts his plans for a killing game in hopes of reviving Utsuro. Mikado lies to and manipulates the members of Void; they accept, desperate to meet Utsuro.

### Killing Game

Mikado was one of the 15 students to introduce himself to Sora and Yuki, though he spoke very little, having used notes as a mean of communication.

After everyone par Shobai gathered beside the Monocruise, Setsuka gave the suggestion of swimming in the ocean. While everyone par himself, Kokoro, Emma, Yoruko, Yuki and Sora participated, but Mikado stood to the side. Afterwards, Yuki decided to enter the pool, but when this happened everyone fell unconscious.

Later, Mikado woke up in his talent costume. Soon after everyone else had woken up, an announcement played. Mikado followed its instructions and headed to the central park with the other participants, where they were greeted by Monocrow. Monocrow announced the start of the Killing Game, and Mikado finally spoke, instructing everyone to stand behind him so he could protect them.

### Executing Rei and Fighting Shobai

However, he would soon be put to a stop by Rei and Teruya, two members of the Kisaragi Foundation. Rei would have shot off half of his mask while she and Teruya spoke to the participants. Unexpectedly, Mikado would reveal that he was in fact waiting for them both to arrive. Soon he would unleash his magic, surrounding Rei in fire. By doing so, he would burn her alive, degrading her to nothing but ash. While everyone else would watch in shock, he would then send Teruya flying by using his magic once again, leading for the others to not see him again for the rest of the week.

Approximately two days after having executed Rei, Mikado would appear in the dining hall with the other participants for the first time since the Killing Game had begun. Accordingly, he had prepared a breakfast for everyone after having heard that they were sick of the boxed lunches. Hibiki would be cautious of the food, believing it may be poisoned, though Mikado soon denying it, claiming her wouldn't of wanted to go through a Class Trial.

Not long after this, however, Mikado and Shobai would be spotted outside after a loud sound would be heard. Mikado would be flying, controlling fires to surround Shobai at that moment. Mikado would claim that Shobai had attacked him after delivering the breakfast to the other participants, while Shobai saying that he had simply been testing Mikado, admitting that he had planned to murder him initially. Monocrow would soon show up a little after the other participants had made their way to the area, though had chosen to not punish either of the two, saying that they had a justifiable reason for what had happened.

Afterwards Setsuka would bring up the idea of a party, Mikado being forced to stay with everyone in this time despite their hate for him. Before this however, he would help prepare some of the food for the party in his room by using his magic. He would also invite Monocrow to the party, claiming that it'd be fun to party with their teacher, though it's unknown if this was done to make sure people wouldn't leave the area.

### Void Meeting

Soon after the party, Yuri would be found murdered. Along with the other participants, Mikado would head to the class trial. After the culprit was revealed, Mikado would have allowed them to reveal their self as a member of Void, with them claiming that they had been working with Mikado the entire time. Much to the culprits surprise, however, Mikado would state that they would still be executed, saying he was unable to bend the rules of the game. After the trial he and the other members of Void would meet in the camera room. The three other members would show anger towards Mikado for having executed Hajime despite their agreements. However, he would shrug the complaints from the others away, being more focused on them being able to be executed, saying that even himself couldn't break the rules of the Killing Game.

After the meeting took place, Shinji would gather everyone to the first floor auditorium after being filled in about what happened to Hajime by Yuki. Monocrow would appear after a small time into the conversation, stating that he had important news to share to everyone. Giving a cue to Mikado, he would come out of hiding with Teruya Otori, thus forcing Teruya to partake in the Killing Game along with the other participants. Days after this event took place Kokoro would be found dead. During the investigation, Mikado would discover and opened bag of dry ice, while Sora theorised that it was used to lower the temperature of the room rather than having froze Kokoro's body.

### Meeting with Iroha

After solving the murder of Setsuka, Mikado would meet with Iroha during the night. It would be revealed that Iroha had originally been planned to be the killer of Kokoro, intended to take Emma's spot, though it failing due to the mention of Emma's father. It'd then be revealed moments later that Iroha had also been plotted to kill two people, however she had been beat by Kanade beforehand. Mikado would soon grow angry at Iroha, saying that she had been giving excuses, thus grabbing her by her hair, beginning to threaten her. Mikado would soon give Iroha another chance to murder, saying to do so on her own when the next island would open. After Iroha would inquire about the fourth member of Void's plot to murder, Mikado would reveal that they had betrayed Void ever since they had arrived at the island.

## Talent & Abilities

### Wizard

Mikado is an incredibly skilled wizard who can perform multiple different types of magic tricks. It's quickly realised that he can perform actual magic inside of the killing game; such as being able to hover in the air for periods of time and showing multiple examples of him using fire. This could have to do with the fact that both his meetings with Utsuro involved a fire. The first time he makes use of his magic is when executing Rei, managing to surround her in a seal of fire that would've slowly burnt her if it hadn't been for her timely escape. The same almost happens to Shobai during Chapter 1, after he fails to ambush him. This is also where he's seen hovering. However, after the first Class Trial, Mikado subdues the use of magic to fit in with the other participants, whom he calls his 'classmates', with certain exclusions as the rule more so states that he only couldn't use it in any murder plots he could involve the use of his magic in.

Despite this it doesn't go entirely unused, as in Chapter 3 he would quickly teleport away after Teruya shows a class photo of his past classmates. He then makes use of his magic again in Chapter 6, destroying Monocrow and the robotic replica of Nikei with explosions. Mikado also consistently uses his magic to cook the food served during the morning groupings, and is able to create full course meals in a matter of minutes.

During Chapter 6 it's revealed that this is all a matter of the simulation, and that Mikado is completely unable to perform magic outside of the simulation. It's unknown why his AI counterpart was programmed with the use of magic, but it's likely because of a like his real-world self had.

#### Technological Skills

Outside of the simulation, Mikado is a tech-wiz that's able to program and hack to an expert level. With the help of Kokoro they were both able to create an AI replica of himself, which was able to express lifelike emotions with the use of Kokoro's emotional research. Mikado has managed to hack into multiple different bank accounts to fund Kokoro's research in the past, stealing over tens of thousands (and possibly more) yen while going uncaught until his untimely death.

## Trivia

* Mikado ranked 7th in SDRA2's popularity poll, with a total of 298 votes and 7.1% of the overall votes.
* Mikado is able to control the temperature of his fire.
* Mikado wears pajamas with patterned suns everywhere.
* Mikado's favourite food is barbecue.
* He has average grades.
* Mikado meditates in his free time.
* Mikado's mask has the ability to blink.
* It is confirmed that if you give Mikado the one gift he enjoys (Someone's Portrait), he will hang it up in his room after the FTE.
* LINUJ described the reason Mikado doesn't have friends as "Imagine waking up in a stranger's basement. That stranger approaches you with a smile, and furiously demands that you be friends with him"
* Surprisingly, Mikado rarely lies.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 **linuj.tistory.com**: Super Danganronpa Another 2 Character Profiles (Korean)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 **Fanganronpa Wiki**: Korean Translations Thread by EverAyakari
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 **Pastebin**: SDRA2 Fan Questions (translated by CKLeming) (JAN 31 2020)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 **Youtube**: SDRA2 Chapter 0 Eng Sub(CH5 Spoilers!!)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 **Youtube**: Super Danganronpa Another 2: Prologue (English Text) - Part 2
6. ↑ **Youtube**: Super Danganronpa Another 2 - Chapter 1 [English Text Part 2]
7. ↑ **Youtube**: [SDRA2 End of Chapter 3 - Void Confrontation English SUB]
8. ↑ **Linuj's blog**: Popularity poll results (Feb 7th, 2020)