Tenchi Muyo -- Character Profiles

A First-class Detective of the Galaxy Police. She is partnered with Kiyone. Unlike Kiyone, she has appeared in all of the Tenchi Muyo! series, including the OVAs, both TV series, and three movies. Like Kiyone, her origins and background are unknown and blur at best.

Mihoshi is the complete opposite of her partner, Kiyone. Mihoshi is your typical ditzy, air-headed blonde, and she brings new meaning to the word, incompetent. She is so air-headed her attention span is worse than a house fly. We sometimes consider her "blind" because she can not even see facts and clues that are right on the tip of her nose. How she became a First-class Detective of the Galaxy Police is anyone's guess, or maybe because her grandfather is the Grand Marshall of the Galaxy Police? Either way, the Masaki family would not be the same without her.

She made her way to Earth because her superiors gave her orders to locate the class 1 criminal, Kagato, and report back to headquarters his where abouts. Of course, Mihoshi would not be Mihoshi if she did not misunderstood her orders. Instead or in some arcane way, she thought her orders were to apprehend Kagato. And so, she journeys to Earth where Kagato is planning the kidnapping of Aeka, Sasami, Tenchi, and to attain the Tenchiken.

On her descention to Earth, her space ship was tossed in to subspace. The subspace hole reopened just above Tenchi, Aeka, Sasami, and Ryoko. The subspace hole created a vacuum and was sucking Tenchi in to the hole. While Tenchi was in the air, he accidentally rescued Mihoshi. Actually, Tenchi was being rescued by Ryoko, which she did. With Mihoshi's personal fortune and creating misfortune for others, she bumped Ryoko off Tenchi and landed in to Tenchi's arms. The subspace hole closed with Mihoshi's space ship inside, so she is left stranded on Earth. Because of her "misfortune", she joined the Masaki family.

Bar none, Mihoshi is one of my favorite characters! She is wildly funny, cares deeply for her friends (especially Tenchi), and she is similar to a lucky charm. Where ever she goes, luck is on her side. Unfortunately, where ever she goes, her luck does not transcends to others. In fact, she is more or less a jinx and a klutz to others. If it ain't broke, she'll break it. If it's broken, she'll break it some more. However, she does not mean any harm. She is playful without the intent to do harm. It is her jinx that causes destruction and mayhem. Some Mihoshi fans may even go as far as saying Mihoshi's jinx can bring the most powerful criminal to his/her knees without doing anything and just relying on her natural-born jinx.

She is in love with Tenchi because she believed Tenchi saved her from being sucked in to subspace. When Aeka and Ryoko realize this, they were not happy, but they were more forgiving towards Mihoshi's crush for Tenchi than they would each other. Also, Mihoshi does have Yosho's blessing to be with Tenchi if she so desire. Unlike Aeka and Ryoko's cutthroat competition with each other for Tenchi's love, Mihoshi gets along with both of them because of her innocent and child-like personality. She also cries very easily.

Note that Mihoshi is not human. The greatest distinction are her ears and her "fangs". She has no special powers, but like Kiyone, she has access to Galaxy Police's arsenal. She also has a control cube like Kiyone, but, unlike Kiyone, she has no idea how to use it.

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