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Michiko (Arasaka) Sanderson is a character only known as the blue-haired lady we meet in the Devil ending. But Michiko is anything but that simple.
While her role in 2077 is a small cameo, Michiko’s role in the CyberpunkRED tabletop is AWESOME. She’s arguably one of the Arasaka family’s most fascinating characters, and its SUCH a shame we didn’t get to really work with her in 2077. She’s wicked smart, vibrant, capable, and operates at least two steps ahead of her enemy. Like, I’d bet she’s the mastermind of SOME plot that we just don’t know about yet. Even if Saburo wouldn’t like her based on her American mother, I feel like she’d at least garner some respect for her immense competence and cunning. Even if its not neccesarily in Arasaka’s favour.
So, here, we take a look at Cyberpunk’s Corporate rebel princess CEO, Adam-Smasher-Ex, Danger Gal/Girl owner and operative, criminologist, and potential relic heist organizer, Michiko Arasaka Sanderson. And GEEZ, there’s so much chaos…. I LOVE IT!
Thank you for watching, and please let me know your thoughts on Michiko, this video, and cyberpunk below. ALSO please, tabletop players, if i got anything wrong let me know, and if there’s anything I missed, please share! I found her so interesting. Michiko makes me want to play tabletop games lmao.
**** OH AND! I’m so sorry, my brain blipped and I keep referring to “Danger Gal” as “Danger Girl”. I swear, I thought I saw art that said ‘girl’. But then when i was editing, it was all “gal”. And now I’m just like oh boy i need to drink less coffee. Please excuse this hiccup! SORRYYYYY LOL
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*NOTE! Sorry for calling it “Danger Girl”, I swear I thought I read it was called that, but then I saw in editing it was “Danger Gal” lol PLS FORGIVE THIS ERROR MY BRAIN FARTED!
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How high were you when you recorded it? 🌿
Still good though, but wishe we could see your face more.
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i wish Michiko and Morgan Blackhand are together after the bombing and Morgan was the one who took the second bomb and keeping it like Joker card, but its just a teory an S.B.S. teory!
Could defo see Michiko through NUSA contacts be aware of NetWatches intentions and the heist. If she had actually been in contact with Yorinobu, they could've better coordinated to make sure Arasaka was put in the dirt for good. But I could see her being VERY distruusting of Yorinobu with his ganger past
You’ve been cooking with all these cyberpunk videos thank u so much recently finished my first play through of liberty city and was itching for more cyberpunk content lol!
I really wish geography wasn't an issue and I could invite you to my TTRPG Cyberpunk game. I think you'd love how much I tie existing lore into the very much new stories about the player characters. For example, they don't know yet that they're currently working for Michiko.
I really hope there’s a Claire video in the works
I hope Michiko has a larger part in the Orion sequel.
I like how a good portion of the video was just talking about how crazy it was that she dated adam smasher and trying to udnerstand what got them togheter, I really got a good chuckle out of that. Aside from that: Yeah most probably the body of Johnny is actually buried somewhere nice and cozy, and also the nuke is like…. 99% sure in the possesion of Michiko, I dont believe anyone else could have gotten a lead on where the real nuke was dumped, unless Mike pulls out an ass twister with a random scuba diver finding it and giving it off to one or the other faction, but that: A. Is fucking boring and B. Its pretty unlikely realistically speaking, both factors I am hoping Mike hates as a writer. Michiko having the nuke AND the codes, definetely could have played a huge role in the fact she got back onto father's good side and on the board of directors, this is a bit far fetched since there is no real evidence to this but if you think about it, what could mend such deep wounds?
Your daughter fucking up your corporation across the entire country of a rival state and corpo, working alongside them with no regards towards family ties? I am betting getting your ass saved from another huge media wave telling everyone "Hey actually, Arasaka was ready to blow up their tower AND the entirety of the city alongside it if something happened that they didnt like!" And boy did she use that to her advantage
I am betting all of my sand coins that she played both sides for fools, Militech and NUSA left her alone to do what she wanted with no strings attached, whilst not getting bad PR because she didnt tell the media they were the one that blew it up, Arasaka let her back in because she didnt make a fuss about it to the media telling everyone they were ready to nuke the city alongside the tower, how convinient, isnt it?
An element of the Smasher-Michiko relationship most people don't consider is to recall that Michiko at the time was a double agent for the NUSA. In intelligence circles, seduction is considered a prime method of recruiting or at least neutralizing the loyalty of a potential asset. Michiko already had the loyalty of Arasaka's best solo in the form of her bodyguard. Gaining the loyalty of the number two solo just increases her security as two of the men most likely to be ordered to kill her if her true loyalty was revealed would at least hesitate. Also, given the motor mouth Adam is just think of all the Arasaka dirty laundry he knows that Michiko could gain in their pillow talk.
Smasher???
I hardly know 'er.
Michiko's presence in the "Black Dog" appears to be working with Angel, which is a clone of and agent of AI Alt Cunningham makes me think those two powerful women have an alliance of sorts.
i love how much cyberpunk2077's narrative lies to you. keep rocking with these!
Johnny's body could be in the oil field. According to the information we get in-game, Adam sought for and retrieved Johnny's body. My take on it is that at some point after the "Black Dog" story, Adam tracked down Samantha and extracted the information of what happened from her. He has Johnny's old car and gun, objects Samantha canonically owned and wouldn't voluntarily part with. Then he took that info and went to New Mexico. By this point Angel and Johnny 2.0 (a canonical clone of Johnny Angel makes) had left by then but they left behind Johnny's body and the Soulkiller chip Spider Murphy used on the dying Johnny back in 2023. That damaged chip was given to Arasaka whom created the engram we encounter in the game. This is one of the reasons the in-game memories of Johnny are so wrong. They've been reconstructed by Arasaka technicians who likely were kids at best when the events happened.
You know I have always wondered if Johnny Silverhand was actually a real person or just an AI that was given a specific fabricated memory. A weapon of sorts that was meant to be released into a system for whatever reason but instead, it's now in our head. Part of me really REALLY hopes that they explore that avenue and it's real. While also knowing that it's most likely not and it's just an open plot hook to some other weird thing.
Great video Lydi, I love the logo!!
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I am really, REALLY hoping that Michiko is used extensively in the next game. I could easily see her as someone who is playing parallel angles throughout the experience.
On the Adam Smasher bit Lydi, if you're not familiar with Harley Quinn, she was the Joker's Psychiatrist in the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. It's not uncommon.
I would also suggest you look into a phenomenon called Hybristophilia. I won't explain it. I will let you go down that rabbit hole yourself.
I'm so happy you're diving into Red's lore! That's where I started getting into Cyberpunk!
Just getting over bronchitis, this was an awesome present ^_^
5:05 you went on full savage mode with this one
In my game, Danger Gal is one of the recurring enemies. The skillset they use to chase down Arasaka is startlingly similar to the sort of skillset useful for union busting. So I run them like the Pinkertons. They do shady stuff, but with a hell of a lot of PR. And just enough feel good jobs to make people think they're heroes.
If she doesn't have the bomb, she definitely knows who does. There can be a whole game just on the Arasaka corp. At the least, all of this should have been woven into the corpo path.
Sadly our Rounds of CP 2020 are not set in NC at all or even the NUSA or something our master runs a very own brew would love to have some of the characters in our games that are basically canon to the universe
"Adam smashes her." 😂😂😂
You're giving me a lot of ideas for running a Cyberpunk Red game with these lore bits. Thanks!