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 Hiroko’s father.
Masao Kamachi (鎌池正夫): Hiroko’s older brother.
Hiroko Kamachi (蒲池ヒロコ): Ken’s first friend in years. He first met her when she was hiking.
Aki Yamamuro (山室亜紀):
People from Hiroko’s School
Kin Fubuki (吹雪金武):
Yu Fubuki (吹雪ゆう):
Shingo (慎吾):
Shizuko Mitani (三谷静子): Hiroko’s friend from the same school.
Kaori Murasame (村雨つのだ):
Kana Konno (紺野華菜): Hiroko’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 Kaijin disguised as a giant Eagle.
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 Kutsuna Family
Eizo Kutsuna (沓名栄蔵): Souji and Hanako’s father.
Souji Kutsuna (沓名惣治): the son of Michiru and Tomin’s guide Eizo.
Hanako Kutsuna (沓名) Eizo’s daughter, who was five years old when she and Eizo found out that there were more mutinies in the Congo.
The Recurring Characters
Yukihiro Hino (日野幸宏):
Michiko Hino (日野道子): Yukihiro’s daughter.
Yuki Tamura (田村祐希): Yuki is a member of Happei Komatsu’s entourage.
Rumiko (るみこ):
Kiko (キコ): A friend of Ken since childhood.
Masaharu (正治): Rumiko’s son, who also happens to be a member of Eiji’s entourage.
Kotaro Takakura (高倉光太郎):
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 Hiroko and Ken.
Bruno Renier: A Walloon spy from Belgium, who had sex with the divorced 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: Bruno and Rika’s daughter, who would live to embark on an adventure with her widowed father to find the treasure surrounding an abandoned town.
The Boss’s family
Kinsuke Komatsu (小松金助):
Happei Komatsu: Aka Hachihei Komatsu (小松八平), he is both Kyoji’s Nephew and the father of Ryuhei Komatsu.
Chiemi (ちえみ): Happei’s wisecracking wife.
Kyoji Komatsu (小松恭司): Mei’s husband and the father of Ryutaro and Uri.
Mei Onodera (小野寺芽衣):
Ryūtaro Komatsu (小松龍太郎): He is the older brother of Misa and Ryuhei Komatsu’s uncle.
Machiko (真知子): Ryūtaro Komatsu’s wife.
Misa Komatsu (小松未紗): Misa is Ryūtaro’s sister.
Ryuhei Komatsu (小松龍平): Happei Komatsu’s son.
The Tanaka Family
Tomin Tanaka (田中冬眠): The husband of Michiru.
Michiru (実千瑠): Michiru is a mad scientist in training.
Eiji Tanaka (田中英二):
Hiromi Tanaka (田中ひろみ):
Mari Tanaka (田中麻里):
Ken Onodera’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 Akari’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 older rival Akari 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 brother and her mum’s son with a silverback who got killed by poachers.
Pamela (パメラ): Pamela is a Grauer’s gorilla who originally belonged to a troop which still eludes humans. She lost her younger brother to infanticide by the unscrupulous friends of her cheating mother’s then-new boyfriend.
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 younger cousin.
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. De Garre (デ・ガレ博士): One of the Belgian anti villains is Dr. De Garre, who used to be an idealist but worked under a villainous troupe.
Kei Yoshikawa (吉川恵): Kei Yoshikawa 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):
Rika Utsumi (内海): Being a bit younger than her husband, she was a serial divorcee of a pervert. In sexual matters, she preferred a certain Bruno Renier over him, even though the Japanese military still taunted her so often that she had to divorce him by fleeing the scene. Even by then, she ironically earned a bittersweet ending by distancing from it and then dying in another warzone.
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):
Aiko Imano (今野アイコ):
The Main Villains
Kaginga (カギンガ):
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