Mihoshi Kuramitsu
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| Mihoshi Kuramitsu | |
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| Gender: | Female |
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| Seiyū: | Yuko Mizutani Hyo-sei (Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club) |
| Voice actress: | Ellen Gerstell (a.k.a. Jean Schwartz, 1st) Rebecca Forstadt (a.k.a. Reba West, Becky Olkowski, 2nd) |
| Height: | 5' 6" |
| Hair color: | Blond |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Bloodtype: | O |
Mihoshi Kuramitsu (九羅密 美星 Kuramitsu Mihoshi?) is a Galaxy Police detective in the fictional Tenchi Muyo! anime and manga series.
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[edit] OVA
In the OVA, Mihoshi is a Seniwan and a member of the Kuramitsu family, whose power is second only to the Jurai Royal Family.
Mihoshi is known as one of the finest officers in the Galaxy Police, but her career soon hit a major roadblock after an incident hinted at in the 4th episode of the 1st OVA, and the 4th episode of the 3rd one. Now she suffers from frequent difficulties to focus on a single thought track and, due to her clumsiness, she causes a lot of collateral damage during her assignments, leading her to be demoted. The desk of the Section 7 commander is covered with misconduct reports and bills from all the damages she causes. As a result, she was assigned to a special area of the galaxy, the Sol system, which was Juraian territory, in the vain hope that she wouldn't cause any more trouble.
However, when Kagato closed in on this area, Mihoshi's immediate superior, Captain Nobeyama, assigned her to monitor the area and report if Kagato came near. However, Mihoshi misinterpreted those orders and took it upon herself to capture him, which panicked Nobeyama. But when she got near Earth, her shuttle was pulled into an energy vortex caused by a monster Ryoko had created to attack Ayeka. Mihoshi almost ended up getting sucked into the black hole the opening created if Tenchi Masaki had not caught her. As a result, Mihoshi stayed with the Masakis. Like all the other girls living at the Masaki home, she eventually develops an attraction toward Tenchi.
When Kagato attacked, it was Mihoshi that had released Washu from her crystal prison onboard Soja's reversed universe when Kagato's serpent guards attacked her; Mihoshi had used her control cube to try to stop them and the energies it created freed Washu. (The cube's apparent function is similar to that of a Rubik's cube, and finding the correct combination to produce a desired effect is often problematic for Mihoshi.)
Mihoshi somehow constantly enters Washu's subspace lab and breaks things, (much to Washu's consternation, as she STILL can't figure out how Mihoshi can somehow accidentally switch dimensions and bypass all of her lab's security systems), sleeps often, eats like a pig (mostly on junk food, but she exercises often), and is the luckiest officer in the Galaxy Police (though she is also quite competent), though her luck sometimes spells misfortune for others. Washu has great respect for her vast casuality-bending attributes, and Mihoshi has been repeatedly referred to as the only member of the household who can defeat her.
Mihoshi is actually the great-great-granddaughter of Washu, through her son Mikumo, although this is only stated outside the series itself, and her grandfather Minami Kuramitsu is the Grand Marshall of the Galaxy Police. Mihoshi's mother Mitoto also works for the Galaxy Police, as a cleaning lady. She also has a younger brother, Misao, who had married Mashisu Makibi. Whether her kinship with and ability to constantly circumvent one of the 11-dimensional Chousin goddesses is a sign that she's yet another of the series' transcendental anomalies is unconfirmed at this point. However, it is noteworthy that her mother Mitoto also shares Mihoshi's ability to get through any security, seemingly through the same accidental luck.
Although she tends to overeat and sleep a lot, Mihoshi is very serious about her job in the G.P, and seems better at regular household work than Ryoko or Ayeka. She has been known to write very extensive reports... cluttered with details, so it can sometimes take her superior a while to figure them out. In fact, because her report on the Kagato incident included information on the Jurai royal trees, her report is now TOP SECRET with Jurai Intelligence (Funaho Jurai once confessed to Washu that it took Jurai Intelligence three days to summarize the report). A duplicate report, omitting sensitive information, was submitted in its place.
Mihoshi's name refers to the planet "Venus", but in the Western sense as "Pretty Star", not the Chinese sense of "metal star".
In OAV 3 (episodes 14-20), she seems to have taken on a few of the characteristics from the other series; she becomes much more incompetent, and appears to understand nothing (though this may simply be a result of her, and much of the regular cast, having less screen time than in the other OVA episodes). She is a former parnter of Noike Jurai, who seems quite adept at handling her.
[edit] Tenchi Universe
In the Tenchi Universe series, Mihoshi was partnered with Kiyone Makibi, and together, they were known as "Miho-Kiyo" (a portmanteau of Mihoshi and Kiyone; it was coined by Washu in episode 6). She was in pursuit of the notorious space pirate, Ryoko, until they both crash-land onto Earth.
Unlike her OAV counterpart, who still was dedicated and competent despite her ditziness, Mihoshi is the comic relief and a "dumb blonde" whose constant bumbling and blunders would often get the group into trouble (especially for Kiyone and Washu). One of her classic blunders was when a single hair from her scalp was able to transfer her personality into Mecha Washu.
[edit] Tenchi in Tokyo
In Tenchi in Tokyo, Mihoshi was again partnered with Kiyone. In a flashback story, the Miho-Kiyo duo worked with the Juraian forces (led by Ayeka) to capture Ryoko and Washu to reclaim the Jurai Light Stone (which they stole). Eventually, they were forced to crash-land on Earth after Washu detected great energy emitting from the planet.
She is more or less the same as her TU counterpart, but she has some of the OAV qualities (e.g., her luck).
[edit] Pretty Sammy & Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club
In the Pretty Sammy OAV, Mihoshi Mizutani (水谷 美星 Mizutani Mihoshi?) (as she is known in both series; she was given the last name of her Japanese seiyu, Yuko Mizutani) works at Chihiro Kawai's (Sasami and Tenchi's mother) CD Vision music store with Kiyone Yuri. She is enrolled in college.
In Magical Project S (Pretty Sammy TV), as well as in Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club, Mihoshi is Sasami and Misao's teacher. In the Pretty Sammy TV series, she would challenge Kiyone's class in various school activities. It was also implied that she and Kiyone Amayuri have known each other since junior high, whom Mihoshi has always treated her as her best friend.
In all three of these adaptions, Mihoshi is still her usual airhead self.
| Tenchi Muyo! characters | |
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| Main Characters | |
| Tenchi | Ryoko | Ayeka | Sasami | Mihoshi | Washu | Kiyone | Ryo-Ohki | Noike | |
| The Chousin | |
| Washu | Tsunami | Tokimi | |
| Villains | |
| Kagato | Dr. Clay | Z | Yugi | Kain | Yuzuha | Haruna | Seiryo | Tarant | Yakage | Shima Brothers | Yume | Mikamo & Yataka | Garyu | Dark Washu | |
| Masaki Family | |
| Katsuhito | Nobuyuki | Achika | Tennyo | Airi | Rea | |
| Guardians & Royalty of Jurai | |
| Azaka & Kamidake | Azusa | Funaho | Misaki | Seto | |
| Galaxy Police | |
| Seina | Minami | Misao | Sabato | |
| Pretty Sammy | |
| Sasami Kawai | Pixy Misa | Ramia | Rumiya | Chief Pretty Sammy characters | Chief Magical Project S characters | |
| Others | |
| Nagi | Sakuya | Mayuka | Zero | Minagi | Hiwa | Asahi | Kazuma | Tama | Chief GXP characters | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki | Tenchi Universe | Tenchi in Tokyo | Tenchi Muyo! GXP | Pretty Sammy | Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club |
