Get to know the colorful and crazy cast of the Nicktoon Kappa Mikey!
Mikey Simon
The main character of the show. An enthusiastic but naive and egotistical 19-year-old American actor from Cleveland, Ohio, who wins a contest to fly to Japan and is hired to play the hero, Kappa Mikey, on the anime Lily Mu.
Acquired Situational Narcissism - He reinvents his image as "Bad Boy Mikey", so he won't have to face the fate of winding up in a wimpy kiddy show. He's pretty narcissistic to begin with.
Betty and Veronica - The Archie for Mitsuki's Betty and Lily's Veronica.
Big "NO!" - Has one when he misses the last copy of a video game at the last second.
Breakout Character: In-universe, he becomes the most popular character among the Japanese Audience, which is why he was made into the main character of Lilymu.
Nonstandard Character Design - Mikey is drawn in an "American" cartoon style, with four fingers and black dots for eyes. Just about everyone else follows anime art conventions. This is taken further as Mikey is unable to perform typical anime visual gags like Super-Deformed shock.
Wacky Guy - A rare case where the main protagonist is the wacky guy!
Whatever - Actually, "w'ever". First appears in The Good, The Bad, And The Mikey, where he uses it as a by-product of remodeling his image as a bad boy. It stays, and he uses it so often it becomes his Catchphrase, and the other characters start using it as well.
Cargo Ship - Gonard falls in love with a bucket of popcorn and he literally brings it to the beach to watch the sunset, shares a malt with it with two straws, and sleeps with it!invoked
The tempermental diva used to be the star of LilyMu and the biggest one in Japan, until Mikey dropped in and stole her thunder, which she totally hates him for.
Lily delivers "The Reason You Suck" Speech at Mikey as soon as the pilot episode... calling back a similar speech he received from a casting director in Cleveland! He appears to have just forgotten about it and flirted with her anyway.
Talking Animal - Though it's very probable that he's a guy in a suit, Guano's costume is VERY expressive.
The Unreveal - Despite confirmation that he is in fact wearing a costume, we never see him without it.
Later episodes give credibility to the possibility the costume isn't exactly a costume at all, or that his body underneath the outfit is exactly the same as the suit, tail and all.
Worthless Foreign Degree - Guano has a Running Gag wherein he always fears getting fired because otherwise he'd have to go back to doing such-and-such random jobs like shampoo commercials, mining, or dancing in a kickline. Granted, Guano seems to be of the same ethnicity as his friends. He did go to film school, however.
Guano: But... but you said you'd never tamper with my creative vision. Ozu: (Calmly) I didn't tamper... (angrily) I lit it on fire — and danced on the ashes!
Yuppie Couple - At least a half-dozen of these, including a pirate◊, a little old lady, a delivery guy, a biker named Beef, and a janitor. Whether or not Yoshi the cameraman◊ counts is debatable.
