Aiura Mikoto

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Aiura Mikoto
Anime Manga
Character Name
Full Name	Aiura Mikoto
Kanji	相卜 命
Furigana	あいうら みこと
Aliases	Miko-chan Big-Boobs (by Reita) Miss Abnormal (by Kusuo)
Personal Info
Epithet	Sooth Sayer
Age	16-17
Birthday	September 7
Sign	♍ (Virgo)
Blood type	B
Gender	Female
Height	166 cm (5'5" or 5 ft. 5 in.)
Weight	Unknown
Affiliation	PK Academy
Occupation	Student
Education
School	PK Academy
Year/Course	Year 3 Class 1 (Currently) Year 2 Class 3 (Formerly)
Media
Manga Debut	Chapter 162
Anime Debut	Season 2 Episode 8
English Voice	Faye Mata
Japanese Voice	Eri Kitamura

Mikoto Aiura (Japanese: 相あい卜うら 命みこと, Hepburn: Aiura Mikoto) is a gyaru soothsayer who believes Kusuo is her soulmate. As Mikoto's fortunes are canonically always correct unless Kusuo changes the timeline, this must have been true at one point, if not necessarily true at the end of the series. She and Reita tackle problems Kusuo cannot solve on his own. Mikoto is one of the few non-family members who knows about Kusuo's powers, along with Reita and Touma.

Appearance

Mikoto is a fan of gyaru fashion. She has long chartreuse hair, decorated nails, accessories, and brown skin. While real-life gyaru fans often artificially tan their skin, it is not clear whether Aiura does so, as she never mentions tanning, and is never depicted with the usual pale skin around the eyes left by cosmetic tanning. She is consistently depicted with significantly darker skin than the rest of the main cast.

She violates the PK Academy dress code and doesn't wear a collar flap, ribbon, or socks, exposing her cleavage. Her olive green eyes are accompanied by hot pink star and moon face stickers. She also wears accessories such as bracelets, three piercings on each ear, and a red Virgo sign hair clip.

Personality

Mikoto is open about her psychic powers and wants to use them to help people, which she believes sets her apart from Kusuo. She openly uses her powers to help those who ask, unlike Kusuo, who is more discreet and deliberate in his actions. This causes her to experience a life-threatening event, having a firearm pointed at her head when she continues to openly use her powers despite Kusuo’s warning. Kusuo rescues her from the gang and prevents her other clients from fully believing in her powers. While she offers her soothsaying services to other students for free, Mikoto charges adults money, sometimes even charging more than what was originally agreed upon.

Mikoto quickly befriends Chiyo and Chisato, giving them affectionate nicknames. Due to her impressive aura and beauty, Mikoto expresses great admiration for Kokomi, briefly attempting to imitate her by dressing in a more traditionally feminine way.

Mikoto shows little interest in schoolwork and often sleeps during class, admitting that she is "pretty dumb", due to placing 165 of the 181 students in her grade.

History

To find her soulmate, Mikoto transferred to P.K. Academy. She arrived at the same class as Kusuo and greeted her classmates. Due to her appearance and personality, the male students perceived her as the opposite of a sweet, modest girl and were disappointed, but soon become excited when they see her chest size. She noticed this, and joked about her classmates’ virginity, flirtatiously noting it wasn’t necessarily bad. Kusuo is surprised to confirm that she was correct in her assessment. She then introduced herself, implying that she had "done it" with many people, which Chiyo interrupted. The girls discovered a common interest in fortune-telling, though Chiyo visits clairvoyants instead of being one herself.

On the next day, Aren, who was absent the day before, arrived and met Mikoto, who latched onto his arm, and referred to herself as a masochist for her attraction to strong men, while explaining her aura sight.

Normally, finding her soulmate would be easy for Aiura, due to her ability to see auras. However, Kusuo's presence cancels out her aura sight, forcing her to rely on random, improvised rituals to achieve her goal. Although unsuccessful, she uses the process of elimination to check each male student with the initials “S.K.” and “K.S.” through random rituals, such as ripping their hair out then sprinkling it on their heads and shoving pencil shavings into their mouths. Despite the rumors that Mikoto is doing strange things to candidates, Sawakita eagerly meets her on the rooftop after school, because one student allegedly got to put his face into her cleavage.

Mikoto originally used her abilities to follow Kusuo and admitted that she wanted to bump into him and fall into suggestive positions when caught. However, when she realizes that Kusuo did not appreciate this tactic, she switched gears. Just like Kokomi, Mikoto successfully invited Kusuo to a restaurant with sweets, which he couldn’t resist because of his love for coffee jelly. While Kusuo claims reluctance to spend time with Mikoto, he never leaves after she joins him at a café, and even agrees to go to a dessert date together.

To locate Chisato's missing father, Mikoto slapped pencil shavings onto the back of Reita's shirt and correctly declares that her father was in Puerto Rico. Pursued by loan sharks, Kiyoi afterwards returned to Japan, and Mikoto insisted that Kusuo helped the Mera family, preventing Kiyoi's suicide and reuniting him with his family.

After accidentally turning Shun and Riki to stone, Kusuo called Reita and Mikoto to his house. However, she misunderstood his invitation and undressed on Kusuo’s bed. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Mikoto puts her clothes back in with incredible speed and jokes about expecting something from Kusuo in exchange for her help. While Reita actually demands a favor from Kusuo and insists Mikoto ask for one too, Mikoto says she really doesn't mind helping Kusuo, no favors needed.

At her seemingly suspicious part-time job, Mikoto exploits her abilities to gain money by locating items, soulmates, and animals, and providing relationship insights. She recalled her argument with Kusuo, admitting that she would have listened if he acted dominant and possessive toward her. Her life is then endangered by a gang who wants to misuse her powers, and Kusuo rolled the group of men into a ball to protect her. After this scare, she agrees to be more cautious about using her powers and is never shown selling her talents again Despite scolding Mikoto, Kusuo still preserves her good work in preventing the suicide of a client who was at risk of putting his company ¥1B in debt and allowing another client with their soulmate in Zimbabwe.

Mikoto's abilities are instrumental in helping Kusuo save all of Japan from the volcanic explosion, as she can direct his clones to the best locations for stemming the lava flow.

After defending her from other judgmental shoppers at the mall, Mikoto gains the favor of Kusuo's grandmother, Kumi, and gets along with her well enough to go clubbing together.

Etymology

• Aiura means "phase, aspect, countenance, mutually, fellow" (相) (ai) and "divination/divining, forecast, prophecy, augury, prediction, telling a fortune/fortune-telling, predicting, choosing, settling, fixing" (卜) (ura).
• Mikoto means "life, command, destiny, decree, lord, words of a ruler, prince" (命).

Trivia

• Mikoto's name is likely a pun on “Ai Uramikoto”「愛・恨み言」which means something along the lines of “love complaints” or “love resent”.
  • Additionally, the Kanji in her name is derivative from different kinds of fortunetelling terminology.
• Mikoto's hairpin is based on the Virgo symbol, her Zodiac sign.
• Due to Reita ending up in Class 2, Mikoto is the third PK Academy transfer student to end up in Class 3, following Aren and Metori.
• Mikoto's guardian spirit is a large, chubby rich lady.
• Mikoto is a self-proclaimed masochist. Just like Kokomi was flustered by Kusuo being selfish and then yanking her into a photo booth, Mikoto enjoys the thought of Kusuo being assertive toward her and admits she would be aroused if the person she likes insulted her.
• In the omake for Chapter 176, Mikoto reacts to Kusuo's new height of 44m, saying "Oh... ♡ Oh my, Kusuo... You've gotten so big... ♡".
• Mikoto has an incorrect idea of what a “lucky feel” is, fantasizing about her and Kusuo bumping each other and falling into wildly suggestive positions.
• While Mikoto holds great admiration for Kokomi, Kokomi believes Mikoto is inferior to her in terms of appearance, intelligence, and personality, only outclassing her in chest size.
• Mikoto's Japanese voice actor, Eri Kitamura, previously voiced the gyaru Ranko Honjō in the anime adaptation of Hajimete no Gal.
• Mikoto sings along with Kokomi and Kusuo in the closing song “Duet Shite Kudasai.”