Mohm Kabuto is a character from Super Dimension Century Orguss and is a major character in The Knights of the Multiverse, introduced in Season 1. She is Nyoka Kabuto's younger sister, created by Koji Kabuto and Sayaka Yumi based off of Nyoka's blueprints to give their adoptive daughter a companion. When she went along with her sister and cousin Emily to help set up the Glomar for the Crystal Knights, the little Droid found herself bonding with several of the ship's denizens and soon desired to do more for her new friends, including helping them on the battlefield, leading her to become the main pilot of the Orguss.
In Season 3, she had the honor of taking over the controls of her father's Mazinger Z in the Knights' battles with the Guild of the Multiverse.
Personality[]
Mohm has a behavior very fitting a child the age she's designed to look like; she's sweet, kind, and optimistic about the world around her that loves to have fun. She's a very caring individual with a big heart, as she can quite compassionate and is very supportive towards the important people in her life, especially her family. She's always striving to be as helpful & friendly towards everyone around her as much as possible and is always eager to try and make friends with the Knights' new recruits. She can also be extremely courageous, following her father's example and wanting to protect the innocent and fighting back against the forces of evil; heck, she might even be more into being a hero than her big sister is. She's also a lot enthusiastic about meeting new people and seeing new places than she often is as well. Her love for others is so strong that she'll often stand against incredibly powerful opponents without hesitation all just for their sakes. She's also a bit of tinkerer, a trait she picked up from her mulitiple trips to the New P/S Labs, often spending time alone constructing new gadgets & gizmos to make her more useful to the team and to help some of her other teammates. Her skills have even gotten to the point where she can perform diagnostics and repair work on the Orguss all by herself.
However, while she's as intelligent and fiercely dedicated to helping people as the rest of her family, Mohm does have one weakness they don't have; and that's something of an inferiority complex. With parents that pilot powerful Mecha that have saved the Earth so many times and an older sister with so much power, she feels that she's the runt of her family's litter, and maybe even being a burden to them all. These feelings have only gotten worse when her sister started to diswade her away from things she thought was too much for her; granted, Nyoka didn't say it to put her down or anything, but they only ended up worsening her feelings of inadequacy. She constantly doubts herself and doesn't think she has any real talents other than cleaning work and maybe piloting. Thankfully, she becomes more confident and braver as time goes on, through both growing her own skills and connecting more to others on the team, including Nyoka after she realized the hand she played in her sister's complex, resulting in her gaining a large boost in self-confidence, becoming a pretty effective hand against the team's enemies and lending an extra hand to the people the team tries to help out. She even feels a bit of her father's pride in piloting a Mecha with how effectively she's become at piloting the Orguss; not to mention how fun flying is in of itself.
History[]
Pre-Series[]
A little more than a year before the events of the main series, noticing that their daughter was growing quite lonely at home alone, Koji and Sayaka decided to literally make Nyoka a companion using a simplified version of her blueprints, mainly in making her a little "smaller" - about the size of a child 7 to 8 years old - and excluding any of Nyoka's weapons systems. And thus, Mohm was born. When the heads of the New P/S Labs brought her home to meet her big sister, they realized quite quickly that there was a beautiful bond between them, and the sisters have remained close ever since, spending as much time playing with each other as they did being homeschooled. She did prove to be a bit of a handful at times, but newly-born Droids were well-known to be rather excitable about everything around them upon their first activation, which was very much the case with Mohm when she first came online. But she thankfully grew out of this phase thanks to her sister's tutelage.
Over the years, the two's parents would bring them to work with them several times. Mohm in particular grew a fascination with the mechanical work done on both Mecha and computer systems. She also took a slight interest in the operating systems for the Mecha. On a few special occasions, Koji would actually let her take his Pilder out for a few "drives", and even old Z itself a couple times... which often resulted in a lot of property damage and harsh scoldings from both Sayaka and Nyoka.
When the Knights were given the Glomar, Mohm volunteered to go along with her sister to get the "mobile home" ready for them. There, she mostly found herself doing the more menial jobs like cleaning and laundry. But this would give her some time to connect with some of the other team members, like Usagi, Roscarl, and even getting to know her cousin Emily a little better.
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
Season 3[]
Skills & Equipment[]
- Photon Power Core
Like most robots made on Earth Prime, Mohm is powered by a rechargeable Photon Power Core. She's able to connect almost any other type of Photon-powered piece of technology directly into it to give said piece of equipment a boost in power. When she runs out of energy though, she will enter a sleep-like state of dormancy, but its easily rechargeable.
- Maintenance Skills
After studying the various kinds of robots and electronic equipment at the New P/S Lab under the tutelage of her parents, Mohm has become very proficient in engineering and mechanics, and can easily repair nearly any mechanical device with relative skill and ease. Heck, most of the time when Orguss is in need of maintenance, she'll end up just doing all the repair work herself. She also has a wide knowledge of robotics; thusly, she often takes it upon herself to perform repair work on her teammates even in the middle of a battle.
- Homecare "Skills"
Since she and Nyoka spent most of their formative years at home, Mohm has gotten so good at taking care of a home you'd think she was created to be a maid bot. This includes general cleaning like vacuuming & sweeping, doing laundry, and cooking. Her cooking skills especially earned her a reputation for cooking up the best food out of the group, with her basically turning into the team's signature chef & making all of their meals.
- Hyper-Sensitive Hearing
Mohm inherited her big sister's hyper-sensitive hearing, allowing her to hear sounds very far away or little sounds that others might not be able to hear, as well as being able to amplify it by 1000 times.
- Enhanced Strength
Despite her small stature, Mohm is very strong. Despite only being given half of her sister's horsepower - only clocking into 50,000 horsepower - she's still able to perform some amazing feats of strength, such as able to lift most heavy objects, such as Mecha-Sized cannons, with relative ease.
- "Gadgets"
Mohm has several "gadgets" stored in her chest access panel, including a power cord that she can connect to almost any electrical device to either power it up with her Photon Power core or get a readout of its systems, a "heart monitor" that checks she pulls out to check her energy level, and a second scanner she uses to analyze human allies.
- Input Plug
- Mohm has a plug located close to her core that she can connect a special power cord to. She can use this either to recharge her power core or connect to an outside electronic system and gain access to it.
- Helmet
Around the last quarter of the first season, Mohm's parents gifted her with her very own pilot suit to use when piloting Orguss. The helmet that came with it has a tracking/targeting system similar to that of her big sister's, including a radar that tracks an enemy's location and gives a reading of their power levels. When inside of Orguss, Mohm is also able connect the helmet to the Orguss's main targeting computer to lock onto mulitlpe targets for its missiles. It also has a communication system that allows her to connect to any of her colleagues' Electronic brains & communiate with them, similarly to the comms system she made for Usagi.
- Photon Beam Rifle
Using the blueprints for the Orguss's main Beam Gun and various spare parts she gathered from around the Glomar & the remains of various Renegade Droids, Mohm constructed herself a Photon Beam rifle so she could help her friends fight even while she was out of her Mecha. She programmed it with several functions:
- Vulcan Mode Shoots laser blasts at high speed which, while sometimes only scratching most stronger Battle-type Droids, is capable of doing some pretty decent damage to others, especially mass-produced units.
- Discharge Mode Shoots a fire-extinguishing beam.
- Caulking Mode Shoots a special gelatinous, gluey, freezing blast that's able to entrap a target and even stall weapons.
- Magnum Mode Fires more powerful bursts of energy
- Photon Charge Shot
- By connecting the Beam Rifle to her Photon Core and then holding the trigger for a few moments to let the energy charge, Mohm is able to fire a much more powerful blast of Photon Energy. It's usually released in the form of a large orange burst or as a straight beam of light and will punch through its target. However, this does run the risk of draining a large portion of her energy, especially when she first performed this technique and it drained more than half of her power.
The Battle Tector was a set of armor that Mohm created in another attempt to help her sister & friends out more on the battlefield, that she wears over her shoulders, wrists, and ankles to both protect herself from energy attacks & bladed weapons and enhance her strength ten-fold.
Combo Attacks[]
- Double Photon Buster
Combo attack w/ Nyoka: The Kabuto sisters fire a combined blast of the younger sister's Photon Charge Shot and the elder's Photon Cannon.
- Cosmic Moon Crash
Group combination attack: When facing an enemy that's too strong, Mohm and her friends will combine their powers into a ball of pure, combined energy, with Mohm supplying a blast from her Beam Rifle. It can be formed with only four others, but for the truly powerful foes, all of them will partake in creating the ball, making it even bigger than it usually is.
Relationships[]
Nyoka[]
Mohm loves her big sister Nyoka very much, idolizing her greatly and lovingly tagging along with her missions. While she is a little jealous of all her sister's amazing powers, she does think they're really cool, and still loves her just the same and is very loyal to her. Heck, while she can feel somewhat burnt out and depressed over how "overprotective" her big sister can get at times, she does understand that she only acts that way because she worries about her (as sisters should, of course).
Their bond only grew stronger after Nyoka accepted her decision to become a mech pilot and promised that she'd be more supportive of her choices... well, within reason, of course. From that moment forward, Nyoka looked out for Mohm and Mohm looked out for her big sister in turn (well, the best she can, of course), even willing to put her own life on the line to protect her.
Lilulu[]
Mohm had a very strained relationship with her "older sister" at first. Somewhat understandable since the first time they met, it was when Lilulu was still in her "hating Nyoka" phase, and she ran into her during the two's first fight. It took a good amount of time and effort (and saving her from the old "bad guy" wanting a shot at taking down their old man), they were able to come to terms with one another, and Mohm finally acknowledged her as her older sister. However, they would still get into arguments over the topic of whether Lilulu should come home or not, with Mohm at one point being so fed up with it, saying that if she really thought their Mom and Dad didn't care about her, maybe she just wasn't worthy of their love.
Koji & Sayaka[]
Mohm loves her creators very much, and like her sisters was inspired by their heroic pasts to become a hero just like them.
Emily[]
Mohm thinks that her older cousin is really cool and is very proud to be fighting at her side.
Roscarl[]
Roscarl is Mohm's best friend, with her being the first person outside of her family that Mohm formed a bond with, both connecting over wanting to do more for their friends - their big sisters especially - and always trying to find new ways to make themselves useful.
Cynthia[]
While not as close to her as Roscarl, Mohm still considers Cynthia one of her closest friends and always tries her best to help her, whether it be including her in cooking projects, giving her some backup when she tries to run off on her own or helping her work on her aim to better defend herself.
Usagi Tsukino[]
Mohm is good friends with Usagi, both in how much the soon-to-be Future Moon princess has helped her big sister gain more confidence in herself and in the hand she played in helping her master Orguss & get stronger. She also doesn't mind the praise she gets from the Guardian-trainee on her cooking abilities (even if she does have to pull her meals away from her sometimes just so everyone else can have a bite).
Ayako[]
Mohm originally had a very negative view of Ayako at first for how she attacked her sister and friends seemingly without remorse. However, the two soon became friends quite quickly when Ayako realized that her mother and the people she worked with were evil and wanted to help stop them. They especially bonded over how much they loved their older sisters, and Mohm was one of the many that offered her comfort when she was grieving over their deaths.
Agnes[]
Like the rest of the team, Mohm finds Agnes's fire powers amazing - especially with how her systems use technology similar to her father's Breast Fire system - and was very open to her joining the team.
Lorelai Heinrich[]
Like her sister and the others, Mohm gravitated towards Lorelai quite quickly thanks to her friendly persona, as well as sympathy for her situation given how much she loved her father.
Meryl[]
Atros[]
Drum[]
Lime[]
Mohm considers Lime a good friend and was happy to welcome her to the team. At one point though, she was rather furious with her for storming into the Glomar's kitchen and nearly destroying it, but she managed to get over it rather quickly.
Kamille Bidan[]
L.O.S.R.[]
Axis Zeon[]
Secret Society[]
Guild of the Multiverse[]
Gallery[]
Notes[]
Mohm's main purpose on the team, especially with her being paired up with Roscarl, is to mainly act as the "tagalong kids" of the team, though obviously all three are meant to be a lot more useful to the team than most other characters that fit into that archetype. She in particular has been made into somewhat of a Gadgeteer Genius, building little gadgets and weapons for herself to use and sometimes for the rest of the Knights - a trait stemming mainly from all the repair work she did on Orguss and other machines throughout her home series, and given to her as a way to give her a distinct identity in the group apart from just being another Mecha pilot or Nyoka's little sister.
- In the same vein, Mohm piloting her series' titular Mech is based off of her piloting a machine couple times pretty decently near the tail-end of the series, and to give her sort of a twist on being the "big guy" of Usagi's group. This part of her character takes a few cues from Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster's story (maybe even following how she started the series in a relatively small Mech and ending with a powerful Super Robot).
Speaking of her big sister, Mohm & Nyoka's connection/dynamic is inspired by how fans of both shows believe that the former's character design was based off of the latter. Aside from the obvious fact of both characters being android girls, both were designed by Haruhiko Mikimoto and both have similar hair styles & similarly colored clothing. So, like certain other characters featured in this series that have similar circumstances, this idea evolved to take her character from her home series (which really just boiled down to cleaning the main character Kei's clothes, fixing Orguss and having a crush on him) and develop it further, making her character a mix of Astro's Uran (tying into the influence Nyoka takes from the iconic robot boy hero) and Mega Man's Roll in that she's a sister unit based off of the Super Fighting Robot's design that's very proficient in cleaning & housekeeping qualities (which do tie back to her original depiction in Orguss) that has a strong desire to help their more powerful sibling and tags along on the majority of their adventures. She's mainly meant to have a sort-of middle ground between their behaviors, as while she's often outgoing and wants to be independent like Uran, she's still quite calm and friendly with all those around her like how Roll. There're even a few parallels to Suna, Mega Man's human sister from Fully Charged, with her using her intellect to create gadgets and weapons to help her sibling in battle.
- Their dynamic is also meant to work similarly to sibling dynamics like Mob and Ritsu from Mob Psycho 100, where the younger sibling obviously loves the older one very much, but there's a strong inferiority complex and even some resentment due to not having their sibling's great power. Granted though, unlike Ritsu, Mohm's resentment never brings her to the point where she's willing to fight Nyoka over it.
- Similarly, her relationship with Lilulu is loosely based off of Uran's relationship with the character Pluto - particularly how it was handled in the 2003 series, with them at first being at odds over the latter trying to kill the former's sibling before developing a kinship.
Mohm's name is often translated into English in three ways: the one seen in the series, Mome, and even Mhoohm. The spelling chosen for how she appears in this series (and possibly what the original creators of the "Orguss" anime were going for) is to act as a nod to a "mobile ohm", which is a unit used to measure the mobility of sound waves.
Shaia as a child, seen here playing with her twin sister Manisha.
Like her big sister, Mohm has been given a change in attire for this series, with the design for her dress being based off of her Orguss cast member Shaia from when she was a child with the original dress's colors added, though still maintaining the "hole" in her shirt where her service hatch opens up and her original, puffy boots. This new design was given to her mostly to give a bit more of a unique/interesting design compared to the rather simplistic dress she wore in the original series and to help better emphasize her being a normal girl (plus it does make her a bit cuter). It also removes her yellow neck brace and wrist strap again for the "normal girl" aspect and since they have some (likely intended in the source material, mind you) negative connotations (plus, it might make one question why Koji and Sayaka would design her with those if she was just meant to act like a kid). The other MU Droids that appear in this series do maintain her original dress' design, but in-universe this can be explained away by them being a mass-produced line of robots, so their more simplistic look could ease their production.
Source page for Mohm's pilot suit
Mohm's pilot suit she gains in this series is based off of the uniforms worn by the other characters in the main cast of Orguss, and is actually based off of this piece of artwork drawn by Mikimoto himself, given to her in this series to act as a sort of "battle outfit", e.i. an outfit she wears primarily during fights because it allows her to move about easier/more comfortably than her normal dress (though she obviously also to wear while piloting her mech).
In the final episodes of Orguss, Mohm was losing the last bits of her energy, resulting in her dying/deactivating permanently in the series' penultimate episode. In KotM, this plot point is abandoned, and she's given a rechargeable battery just like the other Droids in the series; though she does still drain her energy a few times in the series proper as it does act as a good way to show the lengths she'll go to for those she holds close to her mechanical heart.
- This is also the origin for her using a laser rifle (aside from giving her a better fighting chance outside Orguss), with her originally using her last bits of energy by plugging into a gun from a fallen Mecha to defend the show's main love interest character, Mimsy, from the MU Battle Robots. Of course as pointed out earlier, she doesn't need to go that far in this series, only for the more dangerous situations. Also, rather than the huge three-barreled laser blaster she used in her blaze of glory in the original Anime, its instead made into the generic blaster that the original occupants of the Glomar used.
- It's ability to have a charge shot is also just an idea to give her her own special move of sorts, and primarily based off of the Metal Heroes like Jiban's Autodelinger and the Rescue Police Trilogy's various "super guns".