R. Mika

Rainbow Mika
R. Mika as she appears in Street Fighter Alpha 3
Characteristics
Height	5'5" (168 cm)
Weight	137 lbs (62 kg)
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blonde
Blood type	O
Personal
First Game	Street Fighter Alpha 3
Birthdate	May 17 [citation needed]
Birthplace	Japan
Fighting style	Pro Wrestling
Likes	Zangief and his wrestling style
Dislikes	Rude youngsters
Rival(s)	Karin (SFA3), Zangief (SFA3)
Skills	Running on sandy beaches; finger push-ups; neck bridge, Wrestling, Theatrics
Moveset	Flying Peach, Shooting Peach, Rainbow Sobat, Rainbow Suplex, Daydream Headlock, Rainbow Hip Rush, Sardine Beach Special, Heavenly Dynamite
Behind-The-Scene
Japanese voice actor(s)	Junko Takeuchi

"The superstar of the ring... That's what I wanna be!"

—R. Mika

Rainbow Mika (レインボー・ミカ, Reinboo Mika^?), often shortened to R. Mika, is a video game character from the Street Fighter series. Her true name is Mika Nanakawa (七川 美華, Nanakawa Mika), and she is a professional wrestler trained by her tag-team partner: the big, domineering, shinai-sporting, golf cart-riding Yoko Harmegeddon.

Biography

Appearance

Mika's attire is meant to be flamboyant, so as to stand out from the more experienced wrestling pools and circles. Being a Japanese blonde has its way of hiding her devotion and sincerity to her sport, as does her mask, and she possibly aims for making her arm joints less constricted due to the exposed portions of her uniform around her elbows and shoulders.

Personality

Mika is a sprightly, beautiful girl who prides herself on going all out and wowing the crowds with her wrestling moves. Her performances can be a little rough around the edges, but she definitely has the potential to enter the pro circuit. She idolizes Zangief and considers his way of fighting as the ideal route for herself. The mask she wears around her eyes can sometimes make it difficult to tell what Mika is thinking or feeling, but she is very open about about her emotions and speaks in a distinctive manner.

Story

Street Fighter Alpha 3

After graduation from a local junior high school, a woman by the name of Nanakawa Mika begins her plans to become a female wrestler as the pupil of Harmageddon Youko. By way of a several year-interval training period, Rainbow Mika was ready to make her debut as a pro wrestler. She thought of the perfect marketing gimmick to promote her name-- traveling the world and engaging in random matches with street fighters. Through this publicity journey, R. Mika meets the great Zangief and cooperates in some way with his mission to destroy the Psycho Drive, though they end up rescuing people with E. Honda as well (specially noted in AAC). Afterwards, Mika continues to train as a pro wrestler so that she can finally meet him (Zangief) again later on.

At some point in the story, Mika meets Karin, and the two fight. Karin is so impressed with Mika’s fighting ability that she promised that the Kanzuki Zaibatsu would become her sponsor if/when she becomes a first-class wrestler. Six months after the Psycho Drive was destroyed, Zangief finally met R. Mika at her home stage for a public bout. In just under 20 minutes, Zangief finally trounces Mika with a Final Atomic Buster; despite the devastating loss, she still has nothing but respect for him afterwards. Zangief remarks that she's got a high wall to climb, but she is well underway.

Karin's sponsoring R. Mika is confirmed in Street Fighter Eternal, since Mika did later on become a reputable pro wrestler.

Other appearances

UDON comics

R. Mika also appeared in UDON's Street Fighter II: Turbo comic, Street Fighter Legends: Sakura comic, Street Fighter IV comic and in Super Street Fighter: New Generations comics.

Gameplay/Fighting style

Mika is primarily a grappling character, whose main weapons are high-priority command throws. Unlike most grapplers in the Street Fighter series (and fighting games in general), who are slow and heavy, Mika is fast and agile. She has a fairly high and quick jump, and walks quite swiftly. Mika's normal attacks are diverse and useful, but aside from two command throws, her specials are none too impressive, so they must be used as a vital part of play strategy.

Like Dan, some of Mika's special attacks are rather comical. In her Flying Peach and Shooting Peach specials, she flings herself into her opponent buttocks-first, and mostly falls on it and has to rub it due to recoil. For her opening taunt and Beach Special Super Combo, she uses the top turnbuckle of a wrestling ring that appears from the side of the screen. The sudden appearance of a turnbuckle is amusingly redundant when Mika is fighting on her own stage at a beachside wrestling ring.

Stage Theme

Street Fighter Alpha 3 - R.Mika's Stage Theme

Quotes

See R. Mika/Quotes.

Trivia

• The All About Street Fighter Zero 3 guidebook states that R. Mika's hobbies are running on sandy beaches, push-ups, and wrestler's bridge. It also states that her special skill is gluttony.
• After R. Mika defeats Zangief in single player mode, she states she will tell her children about the victory one day. This may imply that R. Mika is a parent, plans to become a mother one day, or simply means that she has younger fans.
• El Fuerte is shown to be a huge fan of R. Mika in the UDON comics. In one scene, one of her matches is being shown on TV at a restaurant. T. Hawk, watching, requests that the channel be changed, since he can't stand pro wrestling. After hearing T. Hawk badmouth both pro wrestling and Mika, El Fuerte bursts from the kitchen and yells at T. Hawk. Mika's image adorns every piece of El Fuerte's cooking attire. Later on, El Fuerte befriends Sakura while they are in the backstage of a game show in Japan, after she mentions that she's a personal friend of R. Mika (something that was shown in Street Fighter Legends: Sakura), and at the end of the Street Fighter IV mini-series, Sakura brings R. Mika in person to El Fuerte's restaurant in Mexico, much to his amazement.
• R. Mika made a cameo appearance in Felicia's Capcom Fighting Evolution ending.
• On the cover of the Capcom Secret File from the arcade version of Alpha 3, Mika is teamed up with a black haired female wrestler named Yamato Nadeshiko (a phrase which actually means the Japanese concept of the "perfect" woman), who works for the same wrestling organization as Mika. She is also sometimes her tag-team partner (see image below).
  • Harmegeddon Youko also writes Mika a letter encouraging her to press on towards her wrestling career with confidence, enduring the hardships that continue to come her way just as Youko did. Youko reveals that she had a wrestling colleague who talked with the same brusque mannerisms as Mika. Her nickname is simply "Frisky".
  • Youko's first name in kanji means roughly "bright child" and is cosmetically identical to the kanji combo for "proton", read as "yoshi" instead of "youko".
• Nanakawa in kanji means "seven rivers," and her first name Mika means roughly "beautiful blossom".
• R. Mika's attire appears as a Swap Costume for Tekken character Kuma in Street Fighter X Tekken.
• R. Mika's measurements (Bust, Waist, Hip) are 38" (97 cm), 28" (72 cm), and 36" (93 cm).
• Mika is currently the only female wrestler on the Street Fighter universe.

Gallery

R. Mika in Street Fighter Alpha 3. R. Mika profile in Street Fighter Alpha 3. R. Mika in Street Fighter Alpha 3. R. Mika in UDON's Street Fighter II comic. R. Mika and Sodom in UDON's Street Fighter II comic. Yamato (left) with R. Mika. UDON artwork. R. Mika's "win" pose in Street Fighter Alpha 3. R. Mika card in SvCCFC. R. Mika card in SvCCFC DS. Ilustration for the artbook Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia.

Sprites

See also

• R. Mika's moves in Street Fighter Alpha 3