Kenya Boy, The internationally forgotten Kamishibai prototype behind a series of Emonogatari graphic novels, a radio drama, a live action film, a live action tv series, a companion manga and an anime film.
The Ultimate Square Enix Edition is defined as a light novel saga with fourteen volumes; with each one containing five individual mini stories. The first volumes explain how Joe landed in Kenya as a child with his father Shotaro, who left him behind with manager family friend Daisuke, his workaholic wife Molly and their student daughter Jasmine. The other volumes focus on him surviving in the country (plus parts of Tanzania and Uganda) with unlikely friends Zega and Kate, and then had his family friends go to America to escape their would be imprisonment by the Japanese military, shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbour came along. The main story transitions into its own sequel with an amnesiac Joe fighting off extremists of all kinds in India nonetheless.
The prequel explains Shotaro and his partner mating each other, resulting in Joe being born and a few years later, him leaving India to work in Kenya.
The sequel focuses on grownup Joe being stranded again, but in Uganda, while trying to find out where his parents are. He in turn meets Kate again after a few years. After that, Joe and his own wife (who technically isn’t Kate) become feral newlyweds living in the jungle with an adoptive daughter and son.
Unlike the first one, it is much darker and edgier, because it’s filled to the brim with nonhuman animal violence.
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