Mikuru Asahina

Description

The SOS brigade's clumsy time traveler who is meant to fill in Haruhi's MOE stereotype

Long Description

"That's classified." ―Mikuru Asahina when Kyon asks her classified information Mikuru Asahina (朝比奈 みくる Asahina Mikuru) is a main character in the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise (original light novel series, TV anime, and manga). She is the fourth member to join the SOS Brigade, and the only person other than Kyon to join against her will. She is a shy and cute "moe" girl, often harassed by Haruhi Suzumiya. She is secretly a time traveler from the future who came back in time to observe Haruhi. She is best friends with Tsuruya and shows a great talent for brewing tea. Mikuru often has trouble talking to Kyon because many of the things he asks about are "classified" (禁則事項, kinsoku jikō). Mikuru is the mascot for the SOS Brigade, mainly as a way to attract attention. Because she is so popular, Haruhi uses her as eye candy. She starred in The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00. Asahina has waist-length reddish brown hair that has bangs hanging on the left side with chest-length hair strands resting on either side of her shoulders and red-brown eyes. Despite her being mostly petite, she has a large bust which Haruhi sometimes gropes. However, later on in the series, this action appears less frequently as Asahina becomes closer to Haruhi. She is 5' 0" tall. She weighs somewhere around 73 lbs. Asahina is a time traveler who comes from an unknown point in the future. Apparently, Asahina's future is such that things like boats do not exist, and instead of the Internet, knowledge is stored within people's heads (as well as the TPDD, in a sense). Her zodiac sign is Libra (♎). Her birthday is on October 21. Year of birth is unknown, due to her being a time traveler from future times. Currently unknown if she would tell anyone. Asahina is not as important as a character in the anime, but has a great deal of significance (mainly character development) in the later novels such as The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya, The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya, and even has a sole chapter.

Biography

Biography Before embarking on the mission to solve the case that Haruhi has created a time-quake three years prior to the series' beginning, preventing time travel beyond that point, Asahina underwent mental preparation and hypnosis so that if she reveals anything unnecessary, information regarding time travel will be blocked off from her mind. Thus, whenever she is asked to give information about the future and/or time travel, she is often forced to reply that it is "classified information" (禁則事項, kinsoku jikō). Asahina resides in Kyon's time as a second-year in high school, thus an upperclassman to the first years Kyon, Haruhi, Yuki, and Itsuki, and yet Haruhi ignores this fact and kidnaps Asahina to be in the SOS Brigade as the fourth member because of her boy attraction. She says that in every interesting story, there is always an alluring, "moe"-looking character present. From then on, Asahina becomes a symbol of cosplay/mascot to Haruhi's whim. Before being forced to join the SOS Brigade, she was a member of the calligraphy club. Asahina often is forced to take Kyon back in time to perform certain actions, such as taking him to meet the younger Haruhi or helping him save himself from getting killed. However, because of the intervention of a self from a further future, she is often put to sleep and wakes up confused as to what she has accomplished and whether her presence was meaningful or not. Often, Asahina gets to witness historical events that contribute to time travel being possible, but because she cannot take an action to instigate it (Kyon is usually the instigator), it leads to a sense of hopelessness and uselessness in her.

Biography Part 2

In The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya, Asahina is asked by her future self to have Kyon do certain actions that contribute to the invention of time travel by traveling eight days into the past and assisting Kyon in doing so. One task involved inspiring the Bespectacled Boy to think about time travel theories. She is also kidnapped by Fujiwara and Kyouko Tachibana as a bargaining chip with the future authorities, therefore standing in for her past self as otherwise her past self would be kidnapped instead, right in front of Haruhi. Eventually, she is rescued by Kyon, Arakawa, and Sonou Mori.

Powers

Powers Asahina owns a device called a TPDD also known as "Temporal Plane Destruction Device" (according to the older Mikuru Asahina in The Disappearance film) that acts like a time machine which brings the user and anyone he or she wished to bring, into the past or future. The TPDD cannot bring someone into the past beyond year -3 however. Asahina's TPDD was taken by the Older Asahina in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody. However, Asahina recovers this device by some later point and was seen using her time travel abilities in The Intrigues. Asahina's watch has additional time-keeping properties. Asahina does not carry any weapons, as this is considered dangerous.

Relationships

Haruhi Suzumiya Although Asahina is subjected to several types of abuse by Haruhi, Asahina still has a large amount of respect for her, especially when she finds that Haruhi created the fundamental time plane theory in The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya. As the series goes on, Asahina appears to grow closer to Haruhi, as if she considers Haruhi a good friend. In Endless Eight, at the end of the repeating days, Asahina is sleeping peacefully, curled up next to a sleeping Haruhi's side, the two leaning against each other's shoulders. In The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Part) and The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya (Final Part), Haruhi appears to take situations much more seriously in regards to the SOS Brigade, showing she is seemingly growing to care for them as friends in turn. Kyon Asahina's relationship with Kyon is generally ambiguous, although she has on several occasions acted as if she were attracted to him, such as asking him to call her by her personal name, or giving him a water bottle she had already drank from (in Japanese culture, this is like giving someone an "indirect kiss"). Her older self advises him not to get too close to her, implying that doing so might result in a love affair with her, which is forbidden because time travelers are not allowed to date people in the past. Although Kyon has offered to protect or look after Asahina on several occasions, she has generally declined, often more concerned with her mission. She only turns to him when she is specifically ordered to by her superiors, such as in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody and The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina.

Relationships Part 2

Yuki Nagato Asahina is intimidated by Yuki because of her stony, alien demeanor. In particular, Yuki often stares at her for no apparent reason at all; Asahina believes this to be because Yuki wants to be like her, independent in her actions. Nagato said this was a logical but inaccurate inference. When Kyon "stood up" Nagato in The Intrigues, Asahina called him out on this. By The Disappearance, Asahina along with Kyon appears to consider Yuki as a "friend" of the whole team, which would include Asahina herself. Itsuki Koizumi Asahina's time traveling faction and Itsuki's 'Agency' disagree on several counts, so Asahina rarely speaks with him; however, she does occasionally speak up when she voices an opinion about whether she agrees or disagrees with him. Itsuki believes that Asahina acts the way she does to get Kyon distracted from Haruhi Suzumiya. Itsuki and Asahina also have different opinions on how much Haruhi can control. In certain situations, such as when she lost the ability to travel through time in Endless Eight, Asahina will turn to Koizumi for help.

Note

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