Miki Kuroda (黒田美樹 Kuroda Miki?) simply better known as Miko (巫女 Miko?), was a supporting character in the anime series of Devilman Crybaby. Miko is part of the running track team along with Akira Fudo and Miki Makimura of Kamigaku High School. She later becomes a Devilman and would fight alongside Akira.
Appearance
Miko was of average height for a teenager and had a very slender build, including a large bust. She had long auburn hair that she usually kept loose and occasionally had tied in a ponytail.
After her transformation into a Devilman, Miko’s physique grows more athletic, muscular and sharper, with a more tomboysh appearence. Her hair gained a dark auburn color now pulled back in a braided ponytail style, and her eyebrows look thick and assertive, which reflects her personality. Her skin tone also becomes a darker shade.
Her Devil form has spider-like features. Her skin tone darkens and her eyes split into four. Her plaited hair spikes up and large mandibles form around her mouth. Her chest twists around to her back and extend into spikes. She has four long and twisted legs with spikes protruding from them and a large thorax at the back.
Personality
At the beginning of the series, Miko had a kindhearted personality and showed respect and kindness to her childhood friends, Akira and Miki. But deep down, she had a deep jealousy of Miki due to her being better than her in track and outshining her. Anyone who used her given name would confuse or mistake her for Miki Makimura, so she was given the nickname "Miko" to differentiate, which she quietly viewed as insulting. She also had a unquenched sexual thirst and found herself attracted to both Akira's new body and photographer Koji Nagasaki, who crudely seduced her during a photoshoot, touching herself and making noises people outside could hear. She passionately watered the flowers outside her home daily, which brought her to the attention of Kukun, who she interpreted as trying to use her to get in contact with Miki Makimura at first. She also seems to have a strained relationship with her grandmother, as soon after she is called by her real name Miki, which Kukun hears. In their second exchange, Miko once again gives him the cold shoulder, but then Kukun begins a heartfelt rap about their insecurities and she begins crying, with the two quickly becoming close friends soon after. They move to another location where Miko talks personally to Kukun about her never being better than Miki and always being "Miko" to everyone. Kukun comforts her, complimenting her good traits and saying she is a cute, hardworking person. The two come to the Sabbath party after Miko heard that she can become a faster runner if she attends. Kukun asks her to dance and she accepts, implying she has developed feelings for him, but this is short-lived as Aleda attacks the two, killing Kukun. Miko lives through this and becomes a Devilman, similar to Akira Fudo's development. After Kukun's death, she kept his distinctive glasses to mourn him and occasionally wears them.
After becoming a Devilman, Miko became arrogant, brash, and tomboyish, blinded by her desire to beat Miki no matter what. Her motivation would reawaken even more as a runner and she found herself taking joy in exerting her newfound power and showing off to other girls. She also became negligent and even stopped watering her flowers, to the point where they would dry up and wither away. The influence of her transformation as well as the subsequent mass chaos unleashed by demons being made public by Ryo eventually became so extreme that she was forced to callously kill an old man who threatened and raped her at gunpoint while continuing to have sex with his corpse after crushing his head with her bare hands. The death of her grandmother during this time period also had little visible effect on her demeanor.
However, after reacquainting herself with both Moyuru Koda and Akira Fudo, she would begin to act more like her old former self, helping to treat Akira when he was injured, repairing her relationship with Miki, and helping her escape the house into the river they used to run in. She was shot multiple times by a minivan and told Miki to run away. Miko begged for Miki's life to be spared until her very last moments, questioning the humans' perspective on good, justice and humanity before shooting herself with one of their weapons to persuade them.
Abilities
Before becoming a Devilman, Miko was placed in third in the Track and Field Club, and everyday after school or on weekends, she would practice her running everyday.
After becoming a Devilman, just like Akira and Koda, Miko's body was enhanced, giving her superhuman abilities, such speed, agility, endurance, and strength. In her Devilman form, she can jump and use her sharp claws for combat.
History
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Trivia
- Miko's nickname comes from the manga character named Mikiko Kawamoto, who made a cameo role at the end of the 'Devilman Crybaby' series. However her actual name, Miki Kuroda, originally belongs to a character from the Go Nagai manga Susanoo.
- Her personality, sexuality and overall character seems to be strongly indicative of Aoi Kurosaki from the Devilman Lady manga series, who likely served as a basic for her.
- Before her transformation, Miko was usually seen watering Snapdragons, which symbolizes both graciousness and deception/concealment, referring to how she doesn't seem to mind always being second to Miki from the perspective of others, but deep down she is actually resentful of never being able to surpass her. The withering of these flowers can be interpreted as the loss of her initial virtue due to her jealousy and Devilman transformation as well as her confession about her envy when she and Miki reconcile.
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