Hero
Kensaku Imano (今野ケンサク+健作): After his adoption by an ApeWoman and an Apeman, he is raised by them. As a result, he is very strong for his age and is quite a tough teen who sometimes pounds his chest to look bigger than the beasts who frighten him. His true place of solace is in the Mitumba rainforest, whom he calls his adoptive homeland. The tale would also reveal that his birth parents also live in the jungle, but as reclusive feral people who escaped a negligent prison. His alias is Kuman (クーマン) when he is with his adoptive tribe, although its source word means ‘germs’ in Indonesian.
Ken’s Friends
Patrice (パトリス): A reluctant convert to Catholicism, he is one of his entrepreneur parents’ surviving older children. He has a brother named Bruno.
Bruno (ブルーノ): Bruno, a fosterling of Voula.
Tatsuo Kamachi (鎌池辰夫): Masao and Seira’s father.
Masao Kamachi (鎌池正夫): Seira’s older brother.
Seira Kamachi (蒲池セイラ): Ken’s first friend in years. He first met her when she was hiking.
Kei Yoshikawa (吉川恵): Kei Yoshikawa was a prostitute.
Aki Yamamuro (山室亜紀):
People from Seira’s School
Shingo (慎吾):
Kana Konno (紺野華菜): Seira’s Friend who also begins life as a plane crash survivor.
The Makimura Family
Yui Makimura (牧村優衣): Along with her intrepid explorer father, Yui had to survive in war crime ridden areas, such as those taken over (albeit temporarily, though still horribly) by the Imperial Japanese military! She is three years younger than Ken, being born on the 13th of October 1931.
Shotaro Makimura (牧村章太郎): Shotaro is Yui Makimura’s rather unkempt explorer father. After his brothel master left him behind, he and his daughter travelled through Okinawa, present day Taiwan, central Vietnam, Aceh in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and ultimately modern day Congo Kinshasa.
The Kosugi Family
Eisaku Kosugi (小杉栄作): Designated monkey Eisaku had to leave the workplace corruption himself, even though he couldn’t join the infamous military of the time due to being traumatised by another war.
Izumi Kosugi (小杉泉): Eisaku’s daughter.
Jin Kosugi (小杉仁): Jin is a scientist, who likely is the middle one of about three surviving brothers.
Bion Suzuka (鈴鹿美音): Jin’s fellow scientist wife and his closest confidante. Along with him, she was kidnapped by a lion.
Yukiyoshi Kosugi (小杉幸義): Bion and Jin’s hapless older child and son.
Kazuyo Kosugi (小杉和代): Yukiyoshi’s younger sister, Jin and Bion’s second child and daughter.
Futaro Kosugi (小杉風太郎): Shingo is likely Eisaku’s and Jin’s younger brother.
The Recurring Characters
James Simonson (ジェームス・サイモンソン): James is a well meant mad scientist, aiding Dr. Kosugi and his wife in immigrating to Brazil from Japan.
Sue Simonson (スー・サイモンソン): A long haired blonde from Bronx in New York, the US. She is pen friends with both Seira and Ken.
Lou Renier: A Walloon spy from Belgium, who had sex with Kei out of the fact that she was herself taunted and assaulted by members of the Japanese military. He had to see her die from war related wounds, even after birthing a daughter in secret.
Elle Renier: Lou and Mika’s daughter, who would live to embark on an adventure with her widowed father to find the treasure surrounding an abandoned town.
Ken Imano’s Found Family: The individuals are from the fabled Zalazugu (ザラズグ) tribe of hominids.
Kinji (キンジ): Kinji is one of the ape men who raised Ken. He is both Akisu’s son and a strongman amongst his peers due to his mad climbing skills.
Kalaga (カラガ):
Ombe (オンベ):
Zongo (ゾンゴ): Ken’s workaholic, highly estranged adoptive father. As a well meant but overprotective apeman, he saw his rival Mukina being kidnapped in turn by a mad scientist.
Yue (ユエ): Ken’s adoptive mother and Zongo’s mate.
Kenkunga (ケンクンガ):
The Named Animals
Vincent (ヴィンセント): Vincent, a dead young gorilla, was Pamela’s younger cousin and her aunt’s son with a silverback.
Mina (ミナ): Pamela’s mother and the mate of a silverback.
Pamela (パメラ): Pamela is a Grauer’s gorilla who originally belonged to a troop which still eludes humans. She lost her younger cousin to infanticide by Akari’s more unscrupulous friends.
Fuwa (不破): Fuwa is an African bush elephant, who happens to be one of the fellow animals who raised Ken to become an animal.
Lilia (リリア): Lilia is a southeastern chimpanzee who happens to be Becky’s aunt.
Becky (ベッキー): The troublesome Becky is a young southeastern chimpanzee who would have left her maiden troop once she reached sexual maturity, if not for her capture by shipmates. Becky lives next door to the treehouse where the apeman couple raise Ken.
Shizo (四三): Shizo is a black leopard whom Ken rescued from being snared at.
Fellas who Hunt for Money
Akio Kuromitsu (黒蜜昭男): Jin’s rather corrupt and negligent boss, who once enjoyed hunting too many endangered animals and has had a knack for trading things made out of them. However, he is mocked by locals from warring groups and, over a decade later, killed by his own mad scientist wife. Nonetheless, despite being a complete disgrace, he didn’t have many choices in life either.
Dr. Garre (ガレ博士): One of the anti villains is Dr. Garre, who used to be an idealist but worked under a villainous troupe.
Sakae Makimura (牧村栄): She saw her estranged husband Akio abandoning Bion and Jin at their holiday house near Lake Tanganyika. She went mad from revelation but became a well intended mad scientist instead, freeing many of the needy wild animals from being caged for too long. Unfortunately, since the DRC is such a corrupt country, she becomes a half-nude contact killer for hire instead.
Sae Kuromitsu (黒蜜紗江): Akio’s biker daughter.
Other Antagonists
Zakena (ザケナ):
Zunde (ズンディ):
Mika Utsumi (内海ミカ): Being considerably rowdier than Shinnosuke Kon, she preferred a certain Lou Renier over him, even though the Japanese military still taunted her so often that she fled. Even by then, she ironically earned a bittersweet ending by distancing from it and then dying in another warzone.
Shinnosuke Kon (紺慎之介): Former colleague of Mika Utsumi.
Ken’s Birth Family
Satoshi Imano (今野サトシ+さとし):
Momiji Imano (今野モミジ):
Waka Imano (今野ワカ):
Kikue Imano (今野キクエ): She is the middle daughter in a family.
Aiko Imano (今野アイコ):
The Main Villains
Kaginga (カギンガ):
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