Mikado Sanzenin (AST)

## History

Mikado is introduced dragging Azusa out of the animal shelter with the nurse. When she stopped struggling upon spotting Ukyo he immediately started hitting on the nurse who just as quickly shut him down. Immersed in a crowd of women, Mikado Sanzenin was considering his present tally, when he noticed Akane teaching Shampoo how to skate. By coincidence he also noticed Kaneda and used him as a distraction to get Akane out of the way by pushing him into her. Both he and Akane were sent to the ice while Shampoo was sent sliding backwards. Mikado was there to rescue her.

However, before he could do much, Azusa showed up and confronted Shampoo over their previous encounter. Kasumi interposed himself between the two, giving Mikado the opportunity to snatch up Shampoo once again. However, once more Azusa cut in. This gave Shampoo the opportunity to knock Mikado out and confront Azusa, but she was quickly interrupted with the unexpected arrival of Ukyo who attacked Azusa first.

Azusa, panicked by Ukyo's particularly forceful assault, hid behind a recovered Mikado, prompting a negotiation between the parties. Mikado proposed a formal paired skating duel. In her rush to get to Azusa, Ukyo agreed, inadvertently selecting Kasumi as her partner, believing Ranma was still behind her at the time. Shampoo, meanwhile, had stormed off.

Mikado is already in the Dressing Room putting the finishing touches on his make-up when Kasumi entered. Being the showman he is Mikado enjoys psyching out his opposition, as not only did it help in his eventual victory, it tended to add to the excitement of the matches. Mikado tells Kasumi that at some point in today's match he'll steal Ukyo's lips. When he was met with laughter at the notion he bet Kasumi that if he could he would get to kiss Shampoo.

Seeing that he had hit his mark when Kasumi refused he offered to avoid ladies for a week. Kasumi only agreed if he stopped his playboy ways all together. Confident in his skill Mikado agreed. Azusa and Mikado make a flawless entrance, much to the delight of their respective fans, only for Ukyo to punch Kasumi in the groin and rush them. Mikado slid to a halt in order and watched as Ukyo attempted engage Azusa. Seeing how frustrated she was at Azusa's superior skating skills Mikado decided to take a more delicate approach. Skating up to Ukyo he offered her a free shot at Azusa outside of the ink if she kissed him. When she refused he attempted to do so by force and ended up being receiving a hard rabbit punch for underestimating her.

Seeing that approach wouldn’t work he joined Azusa in attacking Ukyo. The two worked together too slowly wear her down. She was rescued by Kasumi before Mikado could go in for the kill. Realizing that fighting the two by herself was pointless Ukyo agreed to work with Kasumi. She went after Azusa while Kasumi dealt with Mikado.

The results were the same as it was with Ukyo and Azusa with Mikado literally skating rings around him. This prompted Shampoo to go to ring side and shout a command to jump at an opportune moment. This worked, but quickly put Shampoo into Mikado's sights who would steal a kiss from her. This infuriated Kasumi, causing him to knock out Mikado front tooth.

A furious Mikado attacked Kasumi in a blind rage while using a whimpering Azusa as little more then a weapon. Ukyo seeing Kaneda's predicament went in to rescue him allowing Mikado and Azusa to use the Couple Cleaver. Azusa couldn’t handle the spin and ended up loosing her grip on Kanada. Kasumi chooses to save Ukyo and so flips her under himself, so he takes the hit to the wall instead of Ukyo. Before Mikado could finish Kasumi off Mousse's appeared, distracting Mikado long enough to Kasumi the chance to heal himself. After incapacitating Mousse Mikado moved on to Kaneda who concentrated up to the last second on mending his wounds. In the end Kasumi proved victorious knocking Mikado out as he attacked him with the Dance of Death.

Later as he and Azusa were practicing at the local skating rink they started getting heckled by Rippa and Kitsui Buyou. He would have let it slide but girlfriend was there as well and some of the comments started to get rather embarrassing. Eventually he couldn’t take it any more and challenged them to an ice skating duel. The terms being that if he and Azusa won they would publicly apologize and never return to that arena, and if they lost they would go on a double date. At the time he thought the two were a couple.

Needless to say Rippa and Kitsui as masters of Martial Arts Dance utterly outclassed the two, but despite this Mikado was content to fulfill his end of the agreement for their victory. It was here that he learned that the two were brother and sister and that they were both gay, meaning that the date would involve him and two men. Sickened at the thought of going on a date with another man Mikado spent a week hounding Rippa in a desperate attempt to convince him to let him out of the agreement.

During one such instance he accidentally bumped into Kuno who was on a date with Shampoo as a result of her being enchanted by Lemon. Angry at the fact, that Mikado had ignored him, and seeing how upset Shampoo was upon recognizing him. Kuno challenged Mikado in attempt to impress her. Mikado irritated at once again being denied, agreed seeing it as a way to relieve some tension.

Kuno was quickly defeated, and afterwards he noticed Shampoo. He asked her why she wasn’t with Kasumi's male side, but Shampoo refused to elaborate. Since his defeat, being forced to live up to his end of the agreement made for the match has given Mikado some wider perspective. So he used this as an opportunity to apologize for his earlier behavior to her during the skating match, much to her surprise and skepticism. Mikado would depart, apologizing as well for the state of her date.

The next day, Mikado went to the San Cheng Haung only to be intercepted by Ranma, who he didn’t remember. He explained to Ranma and Makoto who had been attracted by there commotion that he wanted to ask Kasumi for assistance, which they reluctantly agreed to go get her. Still, only familiar with Kasumi's male side, Kasumi chose to meet him as such with Shampoo after assuring them that he had changed his ways he explained that after losing to Rippa in a ice dance battle, he was was honorably required to date the boy.

Fearing that his reputation would be lost dating another man, he wished for Kasumi to challenge Rippa and have him drop the date. Kasumi, however, still recovering, had no choice but to refuse, but Shampoo would unexpectedly vow to do so in Kasumi's place, and quickly head off to deliver the challenge. Remembering her date with Kuno Mikado asked Ranma and Makoto if she and Kasumi were still together after the later left to persue the former. Ranma told him that it was complicated before leaving himself.

The match ended in a draw. Rippa called Mikado who had been watching it out of sight after everyone had left and feeling generous decided to let him off the hook.

## Personality

Mikado is a handsome, charismatic, yet lecherous sixteen year old boy and a master of Martial Arts Figure Skating. Mikado is without a doubt the brains of the pair. He is a cool, calm, collected and intellectual, he lacks the ditzy, bubbly nature of his partner and can focus on the fight. If he has one weakness, it is the fact he is a playboy unparalleled. He lives to charm women and seduce them into allowing him to give them a kiss, moving on to new targets once he succeeded.

Since his defeat by Kasumi Tendo the conditions imposed by her victory over him has force Mikado to adjust his life a fair bit. Initially it was quite displeasing, but he has adapted and has even found himself a full time girlfriend. However while he has learned to curb his lecherous ways he still lets his arrogance get of him sometimes, which is why it was Rippa and not Kasumi who truly humbled him.