About Satoru Mikami/The Great Phantom Thief Satoru
Name: Satoru Mikami Age: 37 Gender: Male (Before Death) Genderless (Identifies Self As Male after Reincarnation) Height: 175cm Hair Colour: Black Eye Colour: Blue Birthday: 20/02 (Rebirth Date)
Suit-wearing Satoru Mikami was a 37 year old Japanese Salaryman who worked as a General Contractor in Chuo, Tokyo. The name Satoru means “Enlightenment” while Mikami means “One Bestowed From Above”. Very fitting for this winsome being. Satoru was a handsome Japanese man and he had dark hair along with a pair of bushy brows and sharp blue eyes. He always often wore black clothing.
He was respected at work for being very kind, reliable and always giving up his time to help others. However his dark and uncommon sense of humour along with his sly wit often caused him to appear mean-spirited and misunderstood. He constantly made disparaging comments about himself, became lonely and gave up pursuing romance after failing to get a girlfriend three times, instead indulging and losing himself within anime, manga and video games particularly those of the "elven" variety much to his great embarrassment.
He is however shown to be brave and not afraid of defending others, sacrificing himself to save his junior coworker, Tamura.
Unfortunately there’s not much information to be found out there about Satoru but you can glean some interesting titbits from the various Tensura spin-offs though, such as Slime Diaries such as his rocky relationship with his older brother. In the manga, Rimuru looks back at his old life as Satoru and recalls the moment where his older brother told him purposefully there was no Santa when he was very young ruining Christmas for him. After reminiscing about this moment, Rimuru holds onto hope that Santa might exist in the world he is in now but after finding out that he doesn’t, he dresses up as Santa and brings Christmas to Tempest. This probably also explains why Rimuru is so youthful, outlandish and full of wonder as now he is having the fun he could never have in his old life as a Senpai at a serious company.
We were also shown during the Isekai Memories PACMAN collab, that it is implied that Satoru harbours great resentment to his older brother for being better at video games than him whenever they would go the arcade during their younger years although he is still great at them in my book. Great Sage/Raphael however ends up being the best!
Some more insight was given into Satoru Mikami during the Visions Of Coleus Sidestory/OVA when Rimuru goes undercover and transforms into a cross between his slimey self's human form and his former Salaryman self thereby creating the persona, The Great Phantom Thief Satoru. With a high ponytail atop his head he is shown to display all of the charming qualities of a Daikaito as he is gentlemanly, daring and cheeky but also dorky, kind and bashful saying that he came up with his over the top alias just because "it sounds cool".
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