Michiru Mayumura is one of Daigo Shigeno's rivals introduced in Daigo's Little League Arc in MAJOR 2nd. She and Wataru Mayumura are the youngest born-twins of Ken Mayumura and Shizuka Mayumura.
Character[]
She is a big fan of Goro Shigeno, calling him her favorite pitcher. It was because of this that she was eager to meet Daigo, in hopes of meeting Goro himself. She was willing to entertain Daigo by throwing pitches for him to practice on in return for a signed baseball. She admires Goro to the point where she managed to copy his signature overthrow pitch.
Michiru, like the other girls in the series, dislikes the unfair treatment given towards females in baseball, but at the same time subconsciously believes in it. During the Fuurin-Obi game, she nearly has a breakdown after the Fuurin girls continuously get hits off of her pitches, saying that it was one thing if the boys did, but another thing that the girls were easily making contact with the ball.
After playing against Fuurin, she is fond of the team as rivals and when approached about the idea of joining a "combined team" with them, is happy about the idea. Joining the Combined Team gave her a chance to finally play alongside Daigo, along with interacting with Toshiya, who was Goro's catcher.
History[]
First introduced as a pitcher-catcher duo with her brother, Michiru quickly learns that Daigo is the son of Goro Shigeno, the pitcher she admires most. She then meets Daigo at the batting center and acts extremely friendly towards him, much to the chagrin of her brother and Mutsuko Sakura. Having persuaded Daigo to take her to his house, she is fascinated by Goro's trophy case. When her brother and Mutsuko arrive, her brother reveals her ruse, but Daigo admits he suspected something was off. Instead, he proposes that in exchange for pitching to him, she would get a signed baseball from Goro, to which she enthusiastically agrees to.
Michiru reappears as a pitcher for the Oobi Middle School team, joined by three of her friends who were disgruntled with how she was treated in the Senior League for being a girl. During the game against Fuurin, she nearly has a breakdown as the Fuurin players were able to hit her pitches, but was helped out of it by Uozumi. Later, she results to revealing her overthrow pitching when she sees that Goro himself is watching the game. Although Uozumi disapproved of it, believing that was their secret weapon for the good teams in the championship, Michiru argued that they were facing a good team right then.
In the time after the Fuurin game, Michiru blew out her left shoulder and was recuperating. Due to this, her three friends ended up returning to the Senior League, having joined the rubber ball league so she was not alone. Toshiya Sato later approaches her to have her join the Combined Team, and she becomes excited when she finds out he has become the Fuurin coach. She is approached by Daigo at school for the same reason. Although she is enthusiastic about the idea, Fuurin principal Tetsufumi Egashira is initially opposed to it and lowers Michiru's hopes until Toshiya and her father get Egashira to allow it. She later begins to show up to practice at Fuurin Academy.
After learning that her friend Kotaro Uozumi wanted to join the Combined Team, she asked Daigo if as captain, he would let him join, but understood if he would deny it since it meant that he would be taking Daigo's position. To her joy, Daigo gives his approval of letting Uozumi on.
During the first practice game against her father's alma mater Kaido Academy, she is placed in right field.
Trivia[]
In the anime, she appears sooner in Episode 8