Due to her father's line of work, Mikiko has moved a lot in her childhood, which resulted in her growing up learning many languages and living in places such as Hong Kong and Brussels.

With her contribution of King Thrushbeard her work is published alongside famous German comic artists such as Anike Hage (Gothic Sports), Anna Hollmann, Inga Steinmetz, Nina Werner and Reyhan Yildirim.

In the same year she was hired as a colorist for Rombies, a comic written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Skye Ogden, for Gestalt Publishing.

Starting in February 2013, she hosted an online livestream show called J-MAG, which airs biweekly on MyVideo, a German video portal similar to YouTube.

In the same year she began working for Adobe on social media as a promoter and regularly appears on stage at comic shows such as MCM London and Leipzig book fair.