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Mirai's bright blue eyes sit behind the rectangular frames of her high-tech glasses, which double as a scouter used for measuring Ceruleans' power levels. Her long, bright mint green hair is tied together with a faded pink bow. Atop her head sits Mirai's signature white sun hat, adorned with two feather accessories — one blue, and one red.

As a Park Guide, she is effective and competent, maintaining her cool during the many battles between Friends and [[Ceruleans]] during the original Kemono Friends mobile game. She provides detailed information on Friends and enemies alike, and even under pressure she puts the safety of Japari Park and its denizens above all else.

Mirai accompanies the [[Towa|protagonist]] and their party through the game's adventure, providing all kinds of support to the player. She drives the Japari Bus, provides exposition and explanation of various Friends and in-game concepts, and gives detailed analyses of hostile Ceruleans using her high-tech glasses. Mirai was the one responsible for bringing the protagonist themselves to Japari Park, apparently at the request of Park's own founder, who believed them to have a special gift.

Mirai's voice is absent for the next several episodes until the protagonists reach the hot springs of the Snowy Mountains Area, which prompts Lucky to play back a sudden lengthy recording. Unlike the two that came prior, this message concerns more urgent matters, as Mirai records her observations on the behavior of Ceruleans, particularly their penchant for stealing [[Glossary#Sandstar|Sandstar]]. The Park Guide posits that they may be eating it and fears that, if a Friend is eaten by a Cerulean, she will be robbed of the forms and powers granted to her by Sandstar's properties. Mirai expresses her desire to protect them from danger and get to the bottom of this no matter what. At the end of her recording, another voice can be heard, asking Mirai if the hot spring she was making the recording from is the ocean. This question is strikingly similar to Serval, who had mistaken a gyser for the ocean earlier that day. Mirai denies this, and the recording ends, although this scene reveals her name to the protagonists.

She appears extensively throughout Kaban and Serval's stay at Lodge Campo, and is mistaken for a "ghost" as Lucky-san begins to project holograms showing her likeness for the first time. This misunderstanding becomes a mystery that the pair needs to unravel, with the help of the other residents of the lodge. Additionally, multiple recordings play as they traverse the building. Early in the episode, Mirai first introduces the lodge (which, notably, is just called "the lodge" rather than the name given to it by [[Campo Flicker/Anime|Campo Flicker]]) and expresses that, while it can't be used by guests due to the Cerulean outbreak, she and the rest of the staff are trying to deal with the problem so that the building, as well as the rest of the park, can be reopened soon. She remarks that the "Stop" button on Lucky-san's recording hardware was malfunctioning due to being exposed to rain, before signing off.

The following recording of Mirai's appears to have been made by accident, and Lucky-san plays it suddenly, scaring Kaban in the middle of the night as she investigates the mysterious monster haunting the lodge. It features a conversation between Mirai and the unidentified voice heard at the hot spring as the two discuss a potential evacuation of Japari Park. Mirai is decidedly unwilling to go that far, but the other voice assures her that, if she and her friends (probably the rest of the staff) evacuate, the Friends will be just fine. When Mirai realizes that Lucky-san had begun recording on its own, she remarks that she'll need to waterproof it later. The other voice apparently notices the robot and asks what it's used for, and Mirai explains that someday, it will be used as a Park Guide. An additional recording is played later into the investigation, with Mirai taking notes on the Sandstar, as a way to make the most the malfunctioning recorder. She notes that Friends are the product of Sandstar coming into contact with living things or their remains, while Ceruleans are the result of Sandstar contacting inorganic matter. Furthermore, Mirai notes, other research has hypothesized that additional types of Sandstar may exist. She ends her memo with that, and Kaban and Serval continue their investigation.

The following morning, the protagonists meet face to face with the faint hologram of Mirai at last. It scares them, and they flee at first, but upon gathering with the other residents of the lodge Kaban is able to deduce that she has been triggering the appearance of the "ghost", and becomes determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. She returns to the scene of the "crime" to confront the hologram, and Lucky-san responds by adjusting the focus so that her appearance can be viewed more clearly. A final recording plays, this time featuring a fully animated image of Mirai herself, where the Park Guide reports on the sad state of Japari Park. She describes a mighty Cerulean possessing regenerative properties that she and her companions have been unable to defeat, and regretfully informs her audience that if they're unable to finish it off within the next week, she'll be forced to evacuate the island. Suddenly, as Mirai is lamenting that she might need to leave Japari Park so soon, a Serval Friend appears in the recording, informs her that Caracal had spotted the big Cerulean by the mountain and encourages her to come and join the fight. This Serval is revealed to have been the unidentified voice present in previous memos. Mirai responds hopefully, claiming that if they can just defeat that Cerulean, the whole conflict will be resolved. Prior to ending the recording, the two describe how they'll defeat it with a "Pa-KAAAN!", a nod to Mirai's catchphrase from the original mobile game.

When Kaban and Serval enter the restricted area outside of the [[Sandstar Mountain]], they find themselves caught up in the Cerulean Hunters' battle against the mighty black Cerulean. Although they are unfit to participate in the direct combat, they follow Lucky-san up the mountain path and investigate the situation on their own, reasoning that the large Cerulean on the mountain mentioned in the previous recording might be related to the one being targetted by the hunters. Reaching the peak, another message from Mirai plays. Like the previous, it features a full hologram to accompany her voice. Speaking with a grave tone, Mirai informs the viewers that their hypothesis that the black Cerulean possesses a property which allows it to absorb Sandstar from the mountain has been proven correct. As a result, she explains, the filter needed to be re-affixed using the "Four Gods" to give them the best fighting chance to eliminate it. Mirai also mentions that all of the Friends on the island were safely evacuated, shedding a positive, if bittersweet light on the fate of the Japari Park at the time the message was recorded. Elaborating further on the black Cerulean's properties, she explains that it continues to regenerate itself regardless of how much it is attacked, its movements follow the sun and it appears to dislike the ocean. Seeing that Caracal and Serval are ready to evacuate the area, she signs off, but only after delivering a final message: that the Four Gods are buried in the same place as the "valuable thing" she mentioned before. This information would prove invaluable in Kaban and Serval's gambit to defeat the black Cerulean.