YugiTube
SimOrg
NessFor more information about the general lore of the Mikanko, you can check our VBEX article.
Ohime the Manifested MikankoFull art:
Emotions:
Top:“Reserved in showing emotions”
Bottom:“Ohime archaic smile“Shield:
“She’s not holding it, it’s floating”Colors:
Right:“Gives a feeling of ‘there are girls for the other Attributes too'”
Color range:“FIRE, EARTH -> LIGHT -> WIND, WATER”
Bottom:“Maybe there’s a DARK Mikanko too…?”Sword:
“The back side is EARTH”Crown/halo/hair accessory:
“Slightly slanted and floating”Back:
“Tail and feathers”Manju:
Ohime:
Note:“The local specialty of the village: A mikan manju from the sacred tree”Hungry:
Ohime:“So this is ‘being hungry’?”
Note:“Ohime syntax”Illustrator’s comment:
Full art:
TL note: Most of the notes are the same from the Twitter posts. We have previously translated them here.
Mikan symbol:Bottom:“Without the external circle”Clothes:
“Back -> Can be removed -> Jacket”
Left:“Doing her nails herself”
Right: *Frustrated sounds*
Bottom: “I-I-‘m d-done~!!!”Ni-Ni the Mirror Mikanko
Full art:
TL note: Most of the notes are the same from the Twitter posts. We have previously translated them here.
Self-care:Left:“When she goes outside, she’s conscious about keeping her eyebrows crisp”
Right:“She also diligently takes care of her hair after taking a bath”Hu-Li the Jewel Mikanko
Full art:
TL note: Like with Ha-Re and Ni-Ni, most of the notes have been translated before, from a Twitter post.
“Hu-Li’s usual way to connect with people”
TL note: It’s not clear if that line is about her hypnotizing people, or spinning things, or both.
“Interested in her hairstyle”With her hair down:
Young Hu-Li:
“Back then, when she had no [obligations/fetters]”Illustrator’s comment:
Full art:
TL note: We have posted about Arahime before, but it didn’t include many notes, other than the inner part of her outfit and the number of edges in her weapons.
Outfit:“The motif and the composition are that of a sunshower. White kimono + tsunokakushi, or rather, kitsumemimikakushi.”
TL note: There’s a couple of puns to unpack here. The description of the composition uses one word for “sunshower”, but the motif uses a more metaphorical expression 狐の嫁入り (kitsune no yomeiri), also meaning “sunshower”. This expression literally means “fox(es) getting married”. There are many theories to the origin of this expression, but one of them suggests that “foxes create the illusion of rain during sunny weather, causing humans to return to their homes, so that they can’t watch the foxes getting married”. The tsunokakushi is a bridal headdress, but its name literally means “horn concealer”. The author jokes that this would be more of a made-up “kitsunemimikakushi” (fox-ear concealer).
Power:“I’ll be the one that obtains Ohime’s power”
Full art:
Mitsurugi house #1:
From left to right:“Ha-Re’s papa”,“young brother”(in mother’s arms),“Ha-Re mama”,“big brother”
Papa: “Great work, Ha-Re! You are definitely going to become the rhinoceros beetle [Mikanko]!”
Mama/brother side:“More like this! Like this!!! You are a genius!!! (I’m a genius too!!)”and*camera sounds*Mitsurugi house #2:
Family:“GENIUS!”
Middle:“The type of family that praises each other”
Wooden sword:“For practice”Mitsurugi house #3:
Left:“Gonna practice a little longer…”
Right:
-Old man:“Here you go, take it”
-Ha-Re:
“Father, mother, please look at this!”Mikagami house #2:
“Ni-Ni is an only child”Mitama house:
“Hu-Li has a much older brother, but they are estranged. She does have lots of cousins.”
Thanks to an anonymous contributor in our comments for the pictures.