It is possible that Sony LIV, the Indian tv on demand division of the huge Sony Group, has to collaborate with fellow Sony Group subsidiary Aniplex, Bulgaria’s Sofia Film and Uganda’s Wakaliwood studios 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 a teenaged girl, her parents and baby brother Shotaro had to hop through ships (and planes!) by questionable means. It was before they arrive into what would become DR Congo, 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. Shotaro’s parents were bludgeoned to death and his sister sadly left him behind after years of breastfeeding and interacting. As a result, he was found by a bunch of baboons who later raised him for a short while.
The first stage is when he was raised by wild animals after being abandoned unintentionally by his beloved sister.
The second stage begins when he made friends with a badass fisherman. Later on, they also befriended a pale, dark wavy haired tomboy, whose much older brother and sister in law unintentionally abandoned her (and her six surviving fellow siblings, as it turns out) as a toddler, and whose overworked parents died at the hands of a fatcat before that.
Wolf Boy is also similar, but with a half-Japanese half-Indian boy named Shiva being orphaned in a really classist incident involving his senile parents’ death by the society elite’s most murderous members. Then there were treasure looters 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.
