It is possible that Ashi Productions has to collaborate with Bulgaria’s Studio Sofia, in order to make sure that a Kenya Boy adaptation series is made. The non-Isamu of the Wilderness multimedia universe traditionally comprises of only about three stories but is full of really twisty surprises.
For his first ever Kamishibai work, Shōnen Champion, a web manga reimagining of it will only have 22 volumes, as the same will go for the web anime film series adapted quite closely from it. Both the manga and anime will share a very different, much less uncannily creepy and much more organically retro style, which in case will be Naoyuki Konno's own style. If it succeeds, a prequel and a sequel can come into play as well.
Its much better known 1940s-50s postwar variant (also known as Shōnen Champion) will consist of 48 volumes, sans the true backstory and ending, which have sixteen and thirty two volumes each. A manga can be written and drawn by Naoyuki Konno.
For his most famous work that isn't Isamu of the Wilderness, Kenya Boy, its manga reimagining will have forty two stories in fourteen volumes, which will be adapted into 14 films. When both the manga and anime become hugely successful, a prequel and sequel of it, The Land of Ashoka and Jungle Hunt, will get the green light to become a seminal Seinen pair with 2 volumes (and 14 episodes) each.
For both the Kamishibai and Emonogatari variants of his most famous animal themed work, Tiger Boy, a manga reimagining will also have about fifty two volumes. If both succeed internationally, they themselves will bear at least a twenty six volume interquel.
Two much lesser known works from competing magazines, Baboon Boy and Wolf Boy, can each have a complete series in the spotlight.
When a complete 14 volume series is made; Baboon Boy will probably be divided into at least two stages, with the eponymous second stage being the main one.
The prequel is an expanded backstory, which begins when two girls, their Francophile dad Shotaro and baby brother Chintu had to hop through ships (and planes!) by questionable means. It was before they arrive into what would become Cameroon, where they faced a crapload of classist people, ranging from corrupt politicians to antagonistic (but mainly local Bantu speaking) soldiers to (primarily European descent) cattle ranchers. Afterwards, Chintu’s dad was unwillingly imprisoned, so that his two older sisters become well meant Zorro-like bandits in turn. As a result, he was found by a bunch of gorillas and mandrills who later raised him for a while.
The second stage begins when he made friends with a badass fisherman. Later on, they also befriended a pale, wavy haired Irish tomboy, whose much older sister unintentionally abandoned her (and her surviving fellow sister, as it turns out) as a baby, and whose overworked parents died in a riot before that.
Wolf Boy is also similar, but with a boy named Shinji being stranded with his parents, before the parents are themselves kidnapped for a science experiment. Sonia is also orphaned in a riot. Then there were treasure looters and bandits kidnapping him and dumping him out into the woods, only for the boy to be raised by wolves and other animals. The rest is history.
