 This article is about a minor character in Mashin Sentai Kiramager.
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Mizuki Kakihara (柿原 瑞希 Kakihara Mizuki) is a minor character in Mashin Sentai Kiramager. She is a classmate and later girlfriend of Juru Atsuta who first appears in Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO. Mizuki would later return as one of the two main protagonists of the post-series special Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna.
Biography[]
Kiramager: Episode Zero[]
Mizuki is a student at Hikarigamine High School. She is shown to be interested in Juru's drawing, but gets angry and walks out of the classroom after seeing his seemingly unflattering drawing of her. 
TV STORY-Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO
Kiramager[]
Mizuki ends up in supplementary class along with Juru and two of her friends. When the teacher leaves the students to do their task, Mizuki starts acting like her true self again in front of her friends and Juru. Mizuki sees Juru drawing and asks him if he is drawing another weird picture of her. Juru tells her that the picture of Mizuki he drew earlier wasn't weird, rather it was his image of her. She then tells Juru to finish her task for him along with his. But he receives an emergency call through his Kiramei Changer and goes to help his team. Juru leaving in the middle of his task like that makes Mizuki think if Juru also has a hidden side to him and prompts her to personally witness his potential private face.
However, when she follows Juru, she ends up in the middle of the fight between the Kiramagers and the Glue Jamen. And despite Juru's fear of his identity getting exposed, he saves Mizuki as KirameiRed. Mizuki thanks the Kiramagers for saving her, but she and Juru (as KirameiRed) get stuck together because of the Jamenshi's glue in his hand.
Then she is brought to CARAT to find out a way to get them unstuck. Unfortunately, they learn that the only way to get them unstuck is to defeat the Jamenshi. But this doesn't concern her much. She is instead amazed upon learning the core 5 Kiramagers' (except for KirameiRed's) real identities, and by the fact that they are famous figures based on their talents alone. Then she asks KirameiRed to reveal his identity, wondering if he is also someone popular. The others try to prevent the revelation of Juru's identity. However, Takamichi's arrival and questioning of the situation results in Juru being exposed, much to her shock. Then she shows her true face in front of everyone at CARAT and starts being rude to everyone who questions this sudden change of her character. Then she remembers about her task and rushes back to school while still being stuck to Juru.
When Mizuki and Juru arrive at school, she tells him to disguise himself and pretend to be his younger brother to avoid being questioned. But their plan fails as Juru is exposed immediately. Mizuki tells her friends that she is just rewarding Juru as thanks for his earlier drawing of hers, after they question the situation. Even that fails when her friends find the apparently hideous drawing made by Juru. Juru tries to explain why he made the drawing like that but Mizuki thinks that he intended to mock her hidden face. The teacher comes back in the meantime and Mizuki accidentally yells at him, revealing her hidden face to the teacher as well. Juru then receives a call from Muryou and goes to help the other Kiramagers.
Juru arrives to fight off the Glue Jamen and asks Mizuki to fight with him. But she is upset about her true self being revealed in front of the teacher, and Juru says that he thinks her true side isn't all bad. He also said that Mizuki's cunnings allowed her to get things done, and he considers her hidden side to be cool and interesting. This is the way Juru sees Mizuki and he explains that he made the earlier drawing to depict the good side of her hidden face. Mizuki realizes that being a hero is the other side of Juru that she and his other classmates didn't know of. She then says that Juru is the one who said she was appealing just the way she is. She also says that she wants to change herself. Then Mizuki comes up with a plan and helps the Kiramagers defeat Glue Jamen. After the Jamenshi is defeated, she is sad when she realizes that she and Juru will be unstuck soon. So she pretends to be stuck to Juru until the Glue Shellga is defeated so that she can hold his hand and accompany him a little longer.
Later that day, Mizuki returns Juru's favor for the drawing of her he made by drawing a picture of Juru. The picture of Juru was similarly crudely drawn, but with added sparkles. When her friend says that Juru doesn't sparkle in reality as much as in the drawing, Mizuki denies her friend's claim. Knowing his own hidden side, she says that Juru sparkles just as much in his real life. TV STORY-Episode 20: Dangerous Pair
Sometime after these events, Mizuki stands up to her friends for Juru when he falls asleep at the end of class and they tease him for being a weird kid, Juru is pleasantly surprised to see this and Mizuki's friends claim that she has changed. They also ask if something happened between her and Juru, but she denies, saying nothing has happening between them.
She later sees Juru draw a special attack and asks him about it. Juru tells her that it is the drawing he saw in his dream. She says she doesn't understand what he is saying, but realizes his passion and love for drawing. Mizuki's friends observe this interaction between her and Juru with a teasing look and Mizuki expresses her annoyance about their mockery. She also tells Juru that since she is the one who changed him, he should help her out at this time when she is the subject of her friends' teasing. She gives him a ticket to the amusement park and tells Juru to accompany her there. When Juru asks if it is going to be a date, she says that it's not (because she didn't want to be teased by her friends). She explains that she only told Juru to accompany her because her brother gave her the extra tickets he had. Juru then promises to go with her. A while later, black fog spreads in the school turning the students into Bechats. Juru runs away with Mizuki in an attempt to save themselves, but Mizuki parts with him midway saying she won't make it out of there in time. However, she makes him promise to save her because they have to go to the amusement park together. TV STORY-Episode 42: Battle Without Honor
Mizuki is seen wandering around the city along with the other human-turned-Bechats during Emperor Yodon's final invasion. But she is soon turned back to normal after the Kiramagers defeat the Emperor. TV STORY-Episode 44: My Friend, Sleep Quietly TV STORY-Episode FINAL: You Guys Shined
Three months after the Yodon Empire's defeat, Juru and Mizuki are now dating. She interrupts the Kiramagers' virtual meeting to get Juru to draw a cute picture of her. She says that Juru had promised to draw a cute picture of her this time, but he had another inspiration and ended up drawing something else entirely. So she takes him away from the virtual meeting and tells him to redraw it. But Juru has another inspiration and Mizuki ends up chasing after him. TV STORY-Episode FINAL: You Guys Shined
Yodonna[]
Mizuki became the accidental host for Yodonna and Yodonna tried to absorb her life energy to revive herself. But the two ended up bonding and Mizuki taught Yodonna about different emotions. Yodonna also saved her and her brother from the Yakuza gang Kuchinawa before returning to the afterlife. TV STORY-Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna
Personality[]
Initially, Mizuki pretends to be a cheerful and perfect student. But she also has a hidden side to her. When her teachers aren't around, she is rude and cold to others. She could be as bad as teasing others just for the sake of her amusement, like how she tried to tease Juru in Kiramager Episode Zero. She is particularly rude to people who criticize her for this hidden side of herself.
She also thinks everyone is very boring and normal, with nothing going on inside. At the beginning, she thinks that Juru is also mediocre and the same as everyone else.
All of this changes when she discovers Juru's identity as KirameiRed. Juru explains that her hidden side and cunning allow her to get her desired results. He is the first person to appreciate and admire this hidden true self of Mizuki, which makes her want to change herself. She also realizes what an extraordinary person Juru is. After that, she stops pretending and gives up her perfect student persona.
She also didn't want to admit her feelings for Juru, even when asking him out to the amusement park, claiming it to be not a date. Although that was mostly because she didn't want to be teased by her friends.
Relationships[]
- Juru Atsuta - Boyfriend
- Shosuke Kakihara - Brother
Behind the Scenes[]
Portrayal[]
- Mizuki Kakihara is portrayed by Mizuki Saiba (西葉瑞希 Saiba Mizuki), who would later go on to portray a scammer
in episode 9 of Kamen Rider Revice.
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Notes[]
- Her first name is the same as that of her actress because the production staff created her character based on that image when they met her during the audition.[1]
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