Mikoto Mikoshiba

Mikoto Mikoshiba is one of the main characters from the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun anime and manga.

Mikoto, also known as Mikorin, is one of the heroes of the series. He is one of Umetarou Nozaki's assistants as well as Yuu Kashima's best friend and classmate.

Appearance
Mikoto has red hair and eyes. He wears red studs on both of his pierced ears. At school, he wears the standard Roman Academy uniform unbuttoned over an orange shirt.

According to his bio, when not in school, he likes to wear flashy clothes and follow fashion magazines.

Personality
He attracts the attention of many girls, and is admired by the males as well. However in reality, he has a timid and 'tsundere' attitude. While outwardly he flirts with girls shamelessly and confidently, afterwards, he cringes and becomes embarrassed at his own actions. Despite his own incompetence in romantic situations, Mikoto is perceptive when it comes to his friends' love lives. He can accurately infer when they are in need of assistance and is always willing to help.

It is discovered that his personality is actually the inspiration for Nozaki's heroine character, Mamiko. While some characters figure this out and constantly make references to it, Mikoto seems to be completely oblivious.

Abilities
Mikoto has no skill when it comes to drawing people or inanimate objects. However, he is an expert at drawing flowers, effects and embellishments to bring out the charm in characters. Besides art, Mikoto is also fluent in the language of flowers. He uses this information to pinpoint the exact flower needed to match the atmosphere of any scene in 'Let's Fall in Love'.

Trivia

 * His friends and classmates usually give valentines chocolates as gifts for his birthday (Valentines Day). He doesn't like honmei chocolate. In a small comic drawn by Izumi Tsubaki, he was once given accessories and a tea set instead of chocolate.
 * Honmei chocolate is the chocolate given to people you like or have romantic feelings towards.


 * Mikorin lives with his father, mother and a black cat named Noa.


 * In assisting Nozaki, he is in charge of drawing flowers, accents, small objects, effects and sketching.


 * Mikorin's hobby is mainly playing video games (dating simulators and RPG's). He spends his holidays playing those games. Additionally, he's good at memorizing his favorite character profiles.
 * He's bad at conversing with girls. When he's surrounded by them, he uses Kashima as a shield and runs away. Overall, he's very shy but isn't shy when it comes to younger males, like Wakamatsu and Mayu.


 * Mikorin's clothing choices consist of skulls and chains (as accessories), punk and flirtatious clothes. He occasionally wears pink based on a Manet Fashion Magazine.


 * Mikorin is good in Biology and English class but doesn't do as well in Government class. His elective subject is Music.


 * On a deleted twitter post, his voice actor, Nobuhiko Okamoto, mentioned that Mikorin uses horse oil shampoo to wash his hair. In addition to that, Mikorin usually showers for fifteen minutes.
 * Due to being an only child, he tries to play the part of an older brother.
 * With his classmates, he's known as a 'stud that's popular with his girls' while him being embarrassed is just him being open-hearted.
 * He is a closet moe otaku (liking female figurines, games and other 2D things) and doesn't want other people knowing he's a manga assistant. However, he sees the other assistants as kin and opens up to them fairly easily despite his shy personality. Additionally, he's the only member of Nozaki’s manga helpers who doesn’t know that Hori is doing the backgrounds.


 * Mikorin likes to eat hamburgers and dislikes bell peppers and bitter things.


 * Mikorin likes gentle, modest and innocent girls but most of them are too intimidated by him.


 * He ranked 1st in the character popularity poll, according to the official fanbook.


 * Mikorin pierced his ears when entering high school because of the characters he liked (to mimic them) and due to fashion magazines.