R. Mika

"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 Alpha series. Her true name is Mika Nanakawa (七川 美華, Nanakawa Mika), and she is a professional wrestler trained by the big, domineering, shinai-sporting, golf cart-riding, Yoko Harmegeddon.

Appearance
Mika's attire is meant to be flamboyant 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 tomboyishly beautiful girl who prides herself on going all out and wowing the crowds with her wrestling moves. She can be a little rough around the edges, but definitely has potential for the pro circuit. She idolizes Zangief and considers his way of fighting as the ideal route for herself.

Street Fighter Alpha 3
After graduation from a local junior high school, a woman by the name of Nanakawa Mika enters into her aim for a female pro wrestler as 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 promotion to make her a star - she would travel the world and fight famous street fighters in order to become the "Star of the Ring". 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 again later on.

At some point in the story, Mika meet Karin, and the two fight. Karin is so impressed with Mika’s fighting ability that she promised that the Kanzuki Zaibatsu would sponsor Mika 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.

Gameplay/Fighting style
Mika is a primarily a grappling character, whose main weapons are high-priority command throws. Unlike most grapplers in the Street Fighterseries, who are slow and heavy, Mika is fast and agile. She has a fairly high and quick jump and walks quite rapidly too. 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.

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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.
 * 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.
 * Mika's "coach-from-hell" Harmegeddon Youko writes her 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 tomboyish 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 arm and a bit of her hair can be seen the Comic-Con trailer for Street Fighter X Tekken, possibly hinting at her appearance in the game.
 * In addition, a teaser trailer also hinted at her appearence. However, it was revealed to be one of Kuma's Swap Costumes.