Mitch Shepar

Mitch Shepar; known as Michimori Ikuta (育田　道徳) in the Japanese version, is an idealistic and friendly teacher. He has seven children of his own and sees his students as if they were his own kids. He often tells stories instead of teaching by the books, claiming that he doesn't want to raise kids who can only study. His seiyū is Kenji Hamada and his English voice actor is David Rasner.

Game History
Mitch talks with Geo's mom, Hope about Geo returning to school. The Principal tells him he will lose his job as a teacher for not using the Study Wave (an EM wave that stimulates brain activity). Mitch "Shepar" breaks down due to stress and meets Libra who tells him that he must abandon his ideals in order to succeed. Together with the FM-ian, his personality shifts to extremely strict, and he puts his class into a trance of non-stop studying using the Study Wave. After being defeated by Mega Man and seeing his students concern for his well being, Shepar realizes that he was wrong and drives Libra from his heart.

Libra reappears in MegaMan Star Force 3 as a Noise form that MegaMan will be able to change into. Mitch also returns (as usual), the teacher of the series, whose role can somewhat be compared to that of Ms. Mari's role from the Battle Network series.

Anime History
"Mitch Shepard" lectures at Echo Ridge Laboratory. When Libra (an FM-ian who often weighs decisions in an "A or B" scenario before taking action) becomes injured in a battle against MegaMan, he takes control of Shepar's body to hide while he recovers. Once Libra is able to take the form of W Shepar, he hosts a game show under the name Mr. Lovely that Sonia is invited to participate in. He ends up being deleted by Gemini Spark in order to refill the Andromeda Key. A recurring habit that Libra Scales had was to give others or himself a choice of A or B in a situation, though the choices were always the same (A being annihilation and B being destruction Cooper and his officers, and making both the choices for himself and A and B "run" when fighting MegaMan when used the Star Force).

Trivia
If the HumorWrd ability is equipped to Omega-Xis and you press the L button, you may get a call from Mr. Shepar where he says the flasks around his neck contain coffee and milk because it's convenient to be able to drink coffee whenever he want. He also says he uses Blend #107, which is a reference to the character Godot from the game Phoenix Wright 3.