#dadadadan

Mikami Ryouta

I’ll admit it, Mikami’s analysis will get a bit heavy cause it involves his issue with women and he has every right to be this way and I will go ahead and say this that this boy needs to seek therapy for this issue in some way or form because it is gonna have to go into the world and deal with women. Let’s start.

Mikami is a drop-dead gorgeous, hottie who hates women with a passion.

He is a very skilled fighter and does struggle in school with his grades and such, possible due to how he gained his extreme hatred of women. If you piss him off enough, he will react violently and be raised in a dojo so that’s where he got his skills. Like Shiro, nothing is said much about his interest and likes either, other than his main dislike/hatred: women. The author has already declared him as a gynophobe which means fear of women. 

Diagnosis Part 1

I’m going to be splitting into 2 parts for a bit. It’s already canon that Mikami is afraid of women, but none from his family (thank god). But I am going to go ahead and rip the bandaid off and say he might have some variation of PTSD (will discuss the possible development of it in background). During the Cafe Competition Arc,

Mina, Shiro, and Mikami were hired to be bodyguards for the cafe they went to in chapter 2. After they caught the culprit, the guy started to act like someone from Mikami’s past, which resulted in a violent reaction from Mikami himself and attacked the stalker.

This shows that obsessive behavior for someone else is one of Mikami’s triggers and causes him to want to fight the demons away. The other obvious trigger for him is women, especially ones who deem him attractive which causes him to verbally abuse them in order to get them away from him.

As I said before, Shiro and Mikami’s issues with women are similar BUT Mikami is a lot more severe than Shiro’s and a lot more violent. They are not one in the same, but the same variation of anxiety towards them, but the levels differ greatly. 

Canon Background (I will not provide photos in this section since this one is a good chunk of Mikami and it’ll only be longer if I do add photos to this one)

Shiro grew up with 3 older sisters and one younger sister, making him the only son in his family.

During his middle school days, not hating women, a lot of the guys were jealous of his face and the girls loved him. His best friend, Taki, fell in love at first sight of a girl from another school, Tsukishima. While Taki was asking her on a date, Mikami and her eyes met. On the day of the date, she left Taki after 10 minutes and went straight to Mikami’s house, saying how it should’ve been just them two but concluded that he was just shy, then left. Mikami was left wondering how she knew where he lived. Next day after school, Tsukishima was waiting there and ran to Mikami first, breaking Taki’s heart even more. Soon, almost every single day, Tsukishima had waited for Mikami to hang out and ignore Taki completely. Soon, Taki heard a rumor that Mikami and Tsukishima are dating and just decided to cancel with him last minute. Mikami started to dwell on the fact that Taki has been avoiding him lately and remembering the day the two became best friends. The memory trip ended by Tsukishima putting her number in Mikami’s phone, saying it’s weird that she doesn’t have his number yet despite being his girlfriend. Mikami rejects this delusion of hers and she just laughed, saying that he’s teasing her. He keeps rejecting her delusions and confesses on Taki’s behalf that the one interested in her is Taki, not him. She straight up insults Taki and says that Mikami does love her and says that Mikami used Taki to be with her, saying how he only belongs to her. He pushes her away and threatens her due to the fact that she insulted Taki. The next day, everyone already was giving him the cold shoulder and soon ran off from the school, running into Tsukishima’s friends, telling him to go to hell. He kept running then ran into Tsukishima herself. Her plan is that since she’s unable to have him, she decided that it’s best that he’s hated by everyone. She starts faking that she’s in pain, and in came Taki. Mikami tried to explain what's going on to him, but Taki won’t listen to reason so Mikami just ran away, wallowing in pain from being disowned as Taki’s friend and that some stranger ruined his life, simply because he wasn’t interested in her. 

Diagnosis Part 2

Time to dive more into this. I’m going to be continuing Mikami’s possible PTSD but this time with the now explained backstory of his. During the time we were given this story, Mikami had been kidnapped by an old friend of Tsukishima’s who believes that if she brings Mikami back, then her and Tsukishima will be able to be friends again.

I would like to point out that this friend started to look like Tsukishima, with the difference that this new person has freckles instead.

Mikami fully believed that Tsukishima appeared before him and almost had a panic attack, but was told by ‘her’ that she promised to leave him alone but then got tazed in the process by this girl.

I believed that girls with long black hair in twintails are one of his triggers, but that doesn’t seem to be the case since two of his sister’s has long black hair,

with the youngest keeping them in twintails,

so he might’ve been able to get over it thanks to his sisters. He most definitely kept his distance from everyone when he moved to his current school to get away from his hometown and kept his distance away from the other boys, even from Shiro and Mina at the start. But when Shiro stood up for him, admitting that he struggles talking to women,

Mikami must’ve started to grow a dependence on Shiro cause he kind of sees his old self in him: a middle school boy who’s somewhat shy around girls. The fact is that Mikami’s violent tendencies come from women who start to show attraction from him, he immediately starts being rude and threatens them to get away from him. He has grown to fear women because of Tsukishima. Tsukishima ruined a single life simply because he rejected her. This part shows how men aren’t the only stalkers out there who can’t take no for an answer, there are women as well who are just as bad as men. Mikami must’ve grown depressed during this time as well since he also lost his closest friend in the process, but possibly was able to recover thanks to his sisters, who all deeply cared about him, and probably grew even more care for him since what happened.

Mikami’s Relationships

It’s pretty obvious that Mikami is a major tsundere 

and cares a lot about his friends. As I already explained, he deeply cares about Shiro the most and just cares about Mina as much, but Mikami thinks that a lot of Mina’s ideas are stupid and shouldn’t be brought to life but if Shiro gives a vaild point, Mikami will agree to do it.

I kind of already explained his relationship with the others so this part is kinda pointless other than saying that he is a tsundere.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, I am in no way certified to give these diagnoses, after all, I’m just a guy on the web who enjoys over-analyzing everything (not). Dadadadan was one of those manga that I read for the chemistry between all of the characters. (another example being Naze Da Naitou aka Why Naitou pls give me volume 3 translations) My top favorite being Mina and Shiro has my least favorite but all 3 of them are still good boys and deserve the world! The series ended with another dilemma involving a woman, so it ended in classic Dadadadan fashion.

Do I believe my diagnoses are correct? No way in hell, but I do believe that some characters are coded to fit a certain role. (i.e shiro being the feminie-appearing shy one, mina being the otaku-2-D-only one, and mikami being the hot-head hot guy who hates women) But this series took those description of them and answered why they became this way, but only 2 of which we got a proper explanation for, while Mina’s is just he isn’t interested in anything else but 2-D. Thank you for reading this really long post! I ended writing much longer than I planned to! Sweet Dreams!

Part 1