Miko Kubota is one of the two protagonists from Glitch Techs.
She is voiced by Monica Ray.
Biography[]
Miko is a 16-year-old Japanese-American girl who has a job working for Hinobi's technology store and is secretly working as a Glitch Tech.
She is athletic, able to kick her legs high above her head. She is constantly running, and extremely hyper. Miko loves her job and has fun doing it. She is usually seen with High Five, working closely with him as partners on missions to defeat glitches. When not on a mission, she works with him as a receptionist at the Hinobi store in Bailley, and hangs out with him outside of work.
When Miko was around six years old, about 10 years ago, her family had just moved into Bailley, and Miko, being the new kid, had trouble making friends. Miko was once given a pity invite to a birthday party at Joystick Junior's for Aileen Staropolis' eighth birthday. In the birthday room, Miko was brought on the stage with Aileen carrying her birthday cake, while the Cakey Von Smasher animatronic showed up programmed to threaten to smash the cake. When the Ralphie Bear animatronic showed up with a creepy smile and flashing eyes in front of Miko, Miko panicked and karate kicked it, decapitating the animatronic. The head landed in Aileen's cake ruining it, thus making her cry and all the other kids scream and back away from Miko. Miko tried to apologize and explain she was just scared and didn't mean to ruin everything, but no one seemed to listened. Ever since that incident, Miko was never invited to another birthday party again because the other kids were too afraid to go near her.
Later on, Miko started to have better luck making friends and gaining popularity in town. At Joystick Junior's, where she would often spend time alone, Miko tried out a new game called "Sock Em' Rockers". After a while, she ended up being the first one to beat the high score up to one million, which got everyone's attention. Miko was finally praised for what she's good at, and all the gamer kids at Joystick Junior's began to love her for her amazing gamer skills and dance moves, making her one of the most popular gamers in town. There, Miko declared her own gamer tag "Me_K.O."
At the end of the episode Tutorial Mode, after Inspector Barbara finished inspecting Bailley's Hinobi store, she communicates with an unknown person from Hinobi Research & Data. In this communication, she says that Miko, their "subject", and her friend Five have been showing great potential and that they can one day become assets to the Hinobi company. Also, Miko could really be the only one to help Hinobi R&D locate the mysterious glitch known as "Bolypius".
Personality[]
Miko Kubota has always had a knack playing video games, and usually beats them expertly. Due to her tomboyish behavior, she stands out from her family. Due to these differences, she often feels misunderstood in her family.
Since Miko has a bad habit of rushing, reacting quickly without thinking first, she can be reckless at times. This could get her into bad situations, on one occasion losing her gauntlet to Ally, and accidentally destroying the tutorial system. Miko also tends to overreact and get into panic attacks whenever she feels like she’s in trouble.
However, Miko also has many good qualities, such as her brilliant creativity, and gung-ho attitude, allowing her to face problems with a smile. She is enthusiastic with every aspect of the job, combining her athleticism with her gamer knowledge and instincts. She is the kind of girl who sticks with her teammates, doing her best for them.
Unlike Five who's the one who takes time to think of different plans and strategies, Miko on the other hand is a faster learner through experience and adaptation, and doesn't like being slowed down by things such as tutorials, preferring to learn through action. However, as the series progresses, she starts to learn strategy from Five, and takes more time to think things through than in the earlier episodes.
Relationships[]
High Five[]
As her partner, she likes to spend time with him working as a Glitch Techs , in the Hinobi store, and sometimes outside of work hours playing video games or doing something else fun. She trusts him, counting on him often in the field, and in return, gives him tips on games she's beaten before. In return, Five often acts as her voice of reason, keeping her from giving up, or being too gung-ho to act rationally, even if it may take time for her to understand.
Mayumi Kubota[]
She is Miko's mother. Miko dislikes how her mom is strict with her with doing something more "proactive" and doesn't show support for her love for video games. Despite this, they both love each other, becoming closer after Miko is given her job at Hinobi.
Hugh Kubota[]
Nica Kubota[]
Miko's older sister. Nica is embarrassed to be seen with her due to being hyper, very tomboyish, and crazy at times in contrast of her public image. When they were younger, they were much closer, Nica having taught Miko how to play video games. They now have a back and forth relationship as sisters, but they both care for each other, even if both have contrasting personalities.
Lexi Kubota[]
Miko's younger sister. Lexi considers her sister not accomplishing any real achievements since video games are not considered one in her book. Lexi knows about the Glitch Techs, and will not betray her sister, because of "sibling code," but both of them care for each other despite their differences. However, they grow closer since Lexi convinced Miko to train her to be a better fighter.
Phil Altiere[]
He is the Hinobi boss at Bailley and he seem to care about her, even though his face expression does not often show it. Miko knows that and respects him as her boss. However, she and Five get into antics that bug him sometimes.
BITT[]
It is the robot helper of the Glitch Techs and Hinobi, it obeys her and both of them have a good relationship as friends. She finds his design cute, and his abilities exciting. When she and Five first activate BITT, she hugs him and exclaims, "I want one for Christmas!"
Mitch Williams[]
He can be considered her enemy at times, because he tried to mind wipe both her and High Five, and because he frequently tries to humiliate both of them due to being low levels on the team.
Haneesh Jyoshi[]
He does not mind her being on the team, so both of them have a good relationship as co-workers.
Zahra Rashid[]
She does not mind her being on the team, so both of them have a good relationship as co-workers.
Emma Deveraux[]
The Hinobi scientist relationship with her has yet to be fully determined.
Bergy[]
He has a good relationship with her, working together with High Five on missions, and both of them are good friends.
Nix[]
He doesn't mind her being on the team so both are in good terms, especially after she and Five saved him.
Casino[]
He was against her when he was possessed by a glitch, but after he was turned back to normal, he became friends with her and reconciled with his childhood friend, High Five.
Ridley[]
Miko considers Ridley to be her friend. They were shown to be friendly, even "Glitch Sisters" towards each other in the episode "The Glitch Modder", under the presumption that Miko was also a Modder. Their relationship was very up-and-down after she reveals she is a Glitch Tech. However, Miko still seems to think she is a good kid. Ridley also holds at least some amount of friendship for her, as she goes back to help save them after releasing a bunch of Glitches in "The New Recruit".
Appearance[]
Miko is a female of medium height, she has long, straight blue violet hair with magenta sheen, trimmed in a hime cut with blunt bangs, and has fairly light skin blush on its cheeks and large, round hips. When she is wearing her employee uniform, her hair is put up into a bun. She keeps one long lock of hair out when she wears the bun.
Clothing[]
Miko has multiple main outfits, such as her normal clothes, shown in the right top corner. She has an employee outfit. She also uses her Glitch Tech uniform to fight and capture glitches.
Her normal clothing includes a black tank top covered with a yellow cat t-shirt, purple leggings, a blue hoodie wrapped around her waist, red and white socks, grey boots, and an orange wristband.
Miko's employee outfit consists of a blue polo shirt with a white H embedded onto it, white pants, and shoes.
Her Glitch Tech uniform consists of a white suit, a black chest plate with a white H embedded onto it, black sleeves and knee padding, a Glitch Tech glove, clear classes, and white & pink sneakers.
Powers, Abilities, and Equipment[]
Electronics repair: Since she is part of Glitch Techs’ tech support, Miko is shown to be able to repair machinery such as a whack a mole (bunny in this case) arcade machine in "Collection Quest", and even tested a customer's handheld Hinobi console to check if it didn’t break after she accidentally dropped it in "Going, Going, Gauntlet!".
Mind wipe immunity: As seen in "Age of Hinobi" and "The Glitch Modder", for reasons currently unknown, her mind can't be erased with the mind wipe blast of Glitch Tech gauntlets.
Glove: Like all Glitch Techs, Miko comes with an augmented glove with weaponry designed to contain and capture glitches. It has the following abilities:
- Cat bubble: The beam shoots at the target and captures it midair in a pink and blue bubble full of cats that also plays electronic music.
- Mind Wipe
- Energy Blasts
- Weapon and Shield Formation
- Hammer: a translucent magenta hammer, is her most recurrent weapon.
- Portals
- Overclock: This greatly augments the speed of the functions of the glove, giving superspeed to the user, but after thirty-second useage, the glove overheats and stops working for a short period of time, this can be avoided if the overclock is stopped before the time runs out.
Upgrades:
- Pet: She can store her glitch pet Ally or summon it to help her. She can select a skin for her to give other abilities.
- Speed boost: She can augment her speed for a short period of time.
- Modded knight (temporary): A skin of a knight created by Ridley and modified to be compatible with her modded Glitches, allowing Miko & Five to capture them.
- She can generate a sword (or two of them) in "The Real Glitch Techs".
- Duplication Mod: Created by Ridley, it is a energy blast that can make a glitch split in 2 copies exact to the original one.
Sightings[]
| Season 1 | ||||||||||||
| Glitch Techs theme song: | Appears | |||||||||||
| 1-2. "Age of Hinobi": | Debut | 6. "Castle Crawl": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Tutorial Mode": | Appears | 7. "Alpha Leader": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "Going, Going, Gauntlet!": | Appears | 8. "Collection Quest": | Appears | |||||||||
| 5. "Smashozaurs": | Appears | 9. "Adventures in Pet Training": | Appears | |||||||||
| 10. "Karate Trainer": | Appears | |||||||||||
| Season 2 | ||||||||||||
| Glitch Techs theme song: | Appears | |||||||||||
| 1. "The Glitch Modder": | Appears | 6. "Find the Glitch": | Appears | |||||||||
| 2. "Ping": | Appears | 7. "The Real Glitch Techs": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Ralphie Bear Is Back": | Appears | 8. "Settling the Score": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "BUDS": | Appears | 9. "I'm Mitch Williams": | Appears | |||||||||
| 5. "The New Recruit": | Appears | 10. "BITT Prime": | Appears | |||||||||
Foreign voice actors[]
| Language version | Actors |
|---|---|
| Danish | Sandra Bothmann |
| Dutch | Pip Pellens |
| Finnish | Emma Louhivuori |
| French | Jennifer Fauveau |
| German | Yamuna Kemmerling |
| Greek | Elena Delakoura |
| Italian | Serena Sigismondo |
| Japanese | Tomo Muranaka |
| Norwegian | Gina Ibsen |
| Polish | Aleksandra Kowalicka |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Pamela Rodrigues |
| Portuguese (European) | Isabel Queirós |
| Romanian | Cătălina Chirțan |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Desireé González |
| Spanish (Castilian/Spain) | Clara Schwarze |
| Swedish | Linn Ehrner |
| Turkish | Damla Özüduru |
| South Korea | 김율 (Kim Yul) |
Trivia[]
- Miko is immune to the effects from Hinobi's memory wipe in the Glitch Tech gauntlet.
- For some unknown reason, it shows a "..." signal after a mind wipe shot for just a few seconds, then it shows an error signal (red icon) showing that it didn't work on her. When the memory wipe protocol was on her TV, Miko was knocked out, but she still retained her memory, unlike everyone else who lost theirs, including Five. Later on, Mitch tried to wipe her memory multiple times, raising the level, but it still wouldn't work on her.
- It is possible that Miko can’t be mind wiped because of her mind set of having ADHD. This and other mental disorders may disrupt how the mind wipe function works due to abnormalities being present which has been shown to affect other functions of the gauntlets as Ridley’s modified glitches couldn’t be harmed or captured due to the fact that they had abnormal code, it is likely that only mental disorders that affect memory and concentration interfere with the mind wipe as they directly impact the areas of the brain the gauntlets are attempting to affect, and it is also shown that some characters with possible personality disorders are affected normally such as Bergy who may have a type of anxiety disorder.
- In a Q&A stream celebrating the series' 4th anniversary, Dan Milano said there was indeed so far one reason for Miko's inability to be to reset. Because of the impact of the mind wipe beam from her TV, Miko flew behind and hit her head and back on the wall and then landed face first on the floor,[2] which may have left an irreversible dent in her brain. Beyond that, however, there is a bigger and more important reason for Miko’s mind wipe immunity, but Milano’s explanation during the stream was kept top secret in order to avoid spoilers. He did hint that Miko is not the only one whose mind can’t be reset. In fact, the manual’s statement that “everybody resets” is really false advertising.[3]
- According to Dan Milano on Twitter, the name of Miko's family dog as shown in "Age of Hinobi" was named Cloud, after the protagonist from Final Fantasy VII. Dan Milano mentioned Miko also has a cat named Aerith, another character from that game, but the model for that character has not yet been used.
- Miko's character was heavily inspired by Monica Ray, Felicia Day and Ashly Burch, who were crew members on the show. Their bubbly personalities are what inspired Miko’s character.
- Dan Milano explained on Twitter that Miko was written to show signs of ADHD, which explains her strong dislike of tutorials in "Tutorial Mode" as well as her focus struggles in "Going, Going, Gauntlet!".
- Dan also mentioned that Miko was originally written to have been held back once in school due to her difficulties in learning and focus, but she recently graduated junior high,[4] but that trait didn’t make the cut in the final version of the show. However, it's assumed Miko is actually homeschooled since in "Collection Quest" Nica once told her what it's like in public school.
- Dan Milano also believed Miko dyes her hair, thinking it was naturally black like her mother, sister Lexi, and brother Lee. He also wished he could've written a little scene about Miko and Mitch talking about hair tips, and have Miko appear to have just finished dying her hair with a towel around her neck.
- However, judging from the flashbacks in "Ralphie Bear Is Back" and "Settling the Score", it appears that even as a little kid, her hair seems to have always had a bluish color, similar to how Marge Simpson from The Simpsons always had blue hair.
Videos[]
References
| v • e — Characters — | |
| Main Characters | Miko Kubota • High Five • Mitch Williams |
|---|---|
| Supporting Characters | Zahra Rashid • Haneesh Jyoshi • Nica Kubota • Casino • BITT • Phil Altiere • Lexi Kubota • Bergy • Nix • Mayumi Kubota • Hugh Kubota • Geri Lawson • Helpie • Abuela Nieves • Papi Nieves • Emilio Nieves • Ridley • Helpie • Emma Deveraux • LuC++ • Nameless • Ray • Wes • Simi |
| Glitches | Ally • Alpha • Bolypius • Chomp Kitty • Kodama • Count Nogrog • Garbile • Karate Master • Narwhalrus • Team Enter Name • Zoid |