Kayu Michikusa

Kayu Michikusa is a human from the Kiss Players portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

This one can pass a thumb scan with her eyeball.

Kayu Michikusa (三千草 粥 Michikusa Kayu) is a Kiss Player for the Earth Defense Command. She is partnered with the Ne-02 Autorooper and is a former member of Ne Squad under Commander Hitoshizuku Amaō. She speaks with a distinctive quaver and has short, spiky black hair and scary eyes. She appears to be obsessed with socks.

Kayu is most likely deceased. Poor girl.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Kiss Players

Sock it to me
A little respect

In the battle for Optimus Prime's body, Kayu was the only Kiss Player in the vicinity who was not incapacitated by Marissa Faireborn's clothes-slicing knife skills. Fused with her Autorooper partner, she was able to stun the resistance commando briefly with a Kremzeek bullet in the back.

When Marissa cut open Prime's trailer to reveal his corpse, however, Kayu's Autorooper went wild. Ejecting the naked, goop-covered and extremely surprised Kiss Player, it rushed to the fallen Autobot commander and initiated a Parasitech fusion. What became of the Autorooper when Prime's half-fused body was reformatted immediately thereafter is unknown, though it probably became part of the new body and was replaced on the team by a different unit.

Kayu acted kindly toward the newly recruited Atari Hitotonari, but appeared either unwilling or unable to interfere with Ringo's acts of cruel whimsy. This led Atari to shun her new friend, and when she finally worked up the courage to speak to Kayu again, she was informed that the girl had been transferred to a different squad. Atari later learned that Kayu had endured the same treatment from Ringo that Atari was now receiving.

Soon thereafter, an alarm in E.D.C. headquarters signaled an attack by a crazed Autorooper—Kayu's own Ne-02 unit, which appeared to be fused with the missing Kiss Player. Atari tried to call out to her friend, but Ringo and her Autorooper shot down the rogue mechanoid.

Kayu's exact fate is unknown, although Shaoshao Li's previous experience indicates that the E.D.C. does not have a very pleasant retirement plan.

Legends comic

Kayu was one of the many women brought to the Legends World by Tigatron using the ultra-drill in an attempt to get women who liked him better than Springer. It did not work out, as all of the women brought over eventually swooned over Springer. LG19 Springer

Kre-O online comic

Kayu and Ringo fled from the battle between Superion and the three Decepticon combiners, Bruticus, Devastator, and Predaking. Kre-O Micro-Changers Combiners comic

Notes

• In Sino-Japanese spelling, Kayu's given name is the kanji for porridge, also known as "juk" in Korean and Cantonese.