She is one of the student of Tootsuki Culinary Academy whom is also a former rival to Yukihira Soma. As the sole successor of the meat culinary expert of the Mito family for abundance knowledge about the meat culinary (especially beef and donburi), Ikumi is responsible to hold the pride of her family's name and like any other students in Tootsuki Culinary Academy, Ikumi is extremely prejudice upon the society classes and use high class ingredient to make a high standard dish. It is said that Ikumi's rigid family rules and regulations had made her cooking skill more elegant and grace like playing piano. Using all graces of cooking by using the high grade materials as well as expensive, Ikumi can almost made the dish as elegant as it look to impressed her clients.