I wonder if a huge change of the world revolving around Mazinger Z and its buddies needs to be heavily expanded for a possible Cirque Du Soleil adaptation? Call it Mazinger: Cirque Du Soleil style!
The Teruyas
Koji Teruya: Named after a deceased Japanese actor, Koji Teruya is the youngest son of professor Imo Teruya and a woman of Yombe and Woyo descent from Cabinda in Angola named Monica Da Silva, hence his dark skin. In the apocalyptic present, he mostly lives alone and is possibly a perverted wild teenager (later becoming an adult), and his real first name is most likely Makiadi, which means Misery, in the Kongo Languages. Even as the story progresses, he makes some astonishingly mature decisions without even knowing about the things behind them.
Mai Teruya: Mai Teruya is Koji’s wife and a very angst headed member of the infamous Sewer Alley high school staff. Although little is known about her life before she met Koji, she attended the high school of Acorn Highway, which is more popular than that of the Sewer Alley. She first met Koji when the latter rescued her from a horde of rampaging Bigfoots.
Riki Teruya: Koji’s grandpa.
Ei Teruya: Mai and Koji's only daughter. It helps that she's the one most likely to inherit Koji's black hair.
Goku Teruya: Being Koji’s much more jackass younger brother, Goku is defined as a mixed race brunette and, in his early appearances as a mysterious scene stealer, actually had a hairstyle similar to that of Koji! He has a son named Kabuto, with a consensual wife named Lucian.
Imo Teruya: Imo Teruya is the shellshocked, widowed father of Koji and Goku, as well as being the husband of the late Monica Da Silva. Besides having a Japanese surname indicating that while some of his ancestors are Japanese, he possibly is more Croatian and Romani in terms of genetics than Japanese.
Monica: Monica was Imo’s scientist wife and the mother of their offspring.
Laura: Laura is, technically, one of Koji’s countless cousins.
The Hidden Woods
Rubina Jacobs: The Pig Man’s girlfriend and later wife, who first appeared in the story as a frequently kidnapped and bound background character, but gained more character development as the story comes to a close.
The Pig Man: A stranded and wild young guy mostly known by his nickname. According to Koi, he is more clearly a friend in need that Koji Da Silva doesn’t know much about.
The Rahals
Emi Rahal: Emi is very partly of Lebanese Maronite ancestry mostly because of her mum and dad, who raised her and Sasha in a loving environment despite the damn odds.
Greg Rahal: A gingerbread haired punk who cares for the environment, Greg is one of Mehmood Safin’s current friends, because they first met each other in an expedition to recycle debris from space.
Sasha Rahal: Emily’s Blonde Sister, Greg’s Other younger sister, and one of the Galactic Expedition’s most valuable members. She is about a year older than the infamous Koji Minami in her first appearance and has bright flaxen blonde hair. She herself is something of a broken ace too!
The Matois
Kenzo Matoi: Kenzo Matoi, an independent scientist, was the father of Liriope. Like Yu, his scar might have surely been in the forehead, albeit on the right side.
Yu Matoi: was the wife of Kenzo Matoi and the mother of three children. Like her husband, she has an interesting forehead scar, albeit on the very top.
So Matoi: So was a dude who got sick of the military when he was a part of it. Along with fellow scientist Shyam Lahiri, he was actually best friends with Leena and her husband Sukhwinder before they all fall out with the dysfunctional couple and ran away from them.
Marcie: Marcie was Yu’s wife, was of partial Japanese and predominant Croatian ancestry. She died exactly at the beginning of the story, where she was trying to fend off an Ogopogo!
Megara Matoi: Megara has simply a black Hime cut.
The School Staff
Lola Koi Bernardo: Filipina American student attending Acorn Highway high. She is the daughter of Makiling Bernardo.
Gaia Kline: Gaia Kline is one of the most vital members of the school staff since she first attended said school. She is perhaps mixed race (she has a black dad and an Eurasian Mum), has green eyes and chocolate cinnamon skin.
Jim Watts: Jim Watts was originally one of Koji and Megara’s rival classmates besides his best friend Chris. He finally met the irresistible Maya Barkley at the Sewer Alley’s infamous bootcamp after they both met Koji. His brunette sister is Casey Watts.
Amy Utsumi: Amy is one of Kelli Matoi’s Friends at the Sewer Valley High School. She is chocolate cinnamon haired and a tough cookie.
Chris O’Malley: Chris is the younger brother of Sally O’Malley and Jim’s only long term friend till they met Koji Teruya.
Sally O’Malley: Sally is a school janitor who’d been attending the same Sewer Alley high school before her brother Chris came along during his grade hop from Harper middle school.
Rock O’Malley: Light Brown haired Rock O’Malley is the oldest of the O’Malley siblings.
The Galactic Gazers and supporting members
Tommy Marsh: Tommy the black nerd, a shy and sometimes pissed off dude, is both Lucy’s younger brother and also one of Koji’s high school friends.
Daisuke Matoi: Fraternal twin brother to Kelli and older brother to Shiro Matoi. Has messy locks of brown hair.
Renee Miucin: Part Romanian Renee is Nicholas Barkley’s girlfriend and Bruno’s haughty niece.
Nicholas ‘Nuke’ Barkley: Nicholas is Boss Barkley’s younger brother. While Boss was initially about fifteen years old in his first appearance, Nuke is about three years younger.
Casey Watts: Casey is Jim’s older sister and a friend of Romy Umon.
Sayaka Slon Hines: Sayaka Slon (Slavic word for elephant) Hines is a woman who is such a military bruiser that she is rightfully the only known choice for piloting one of the Veena sisters, somewhat after its first two destructions become known to the public. She is the daughter of Gosaku Hines, who is himself the half-Japanese, half-Black widower of a Croatian American drill sergeant.
Brad ‘Boss’ Barkley: Boss Barkley, though a regular high school bully outside, has a rather troubled home life filled with two distant workaholic parents and a rather nasty pair of screwed up maternal grandparents from the Deep South. His mum and dad are Mona Jones Barkley and Jason Barkley.
Lucy Marsh: Although her parents were luckily with her for considerably longer than Tetsuya's paternal grandparents were there with him (that is, until they died of overwork), she has suffered from a moderate amount of bullying by a large amount of ridiculously bigoted fellows at the Acorn Highway elementary school. As a result of such bigotry, she dislikes too much bullshit and does have a pretty troubled past, albeit not as sad and pitiful as Tetsuya's. Along with Tetsuya, she also has been mentally scarred, albeit less so, by their shared encounters with a notoriously criminal Bigfoot family, which includes a husband and wife team; the Bigfoot husband killed off Gary and Kenzo, while the Bigfoot wife killed the former's paternal uncle and aunt; but before that, The Bigfoot wife’s parents were responsible for the death of Tetsuya’s parents. Unlike in most other versions where she is called Jun Hono, she is shown to have a huge crush on Nuke Barkley; years later, they married and have fraternal twin children named Mickey and Halley.
Yumi Tsurugi: Yumi is Megara Matoi’s best friend. Unlike Kelli, Yumi has Raven hair. Her older sister is Jun Tsurugi.
Maya Barkley: Medium Brown haired Maya Barkley is the twin sister of Boss Barkley and older sister to Nuke Barkley.
Jessica Davis: Lucy’s Brunette haired maternal cousin and a fellow orphan. Her parents were slavish workaholics who lived as cubicle rats at Cycle Inc's HQ until they got fired, thus they lived deep in a thick temperate rainforest full of Bigfoots.
Kelli Karabatsos: Megara’s fellow Hime cut friend. A very brunette haired brat, she witnessed her workaholic grandpa, mother and father all dying at the hands of a really aggro Bigfoot along with her fellow classmates.
Shiro Matoi: Megara’s pretty goofy younger brother, bundled with filthy hair.
Jun Tsurugi: Jun is Yumi’s older sister, who was friends with Narendra and Tetsuya Kapoor. She has black hair but, like Maya Barkley and Jessica Davis, has very pale peach skin.
Trey ‘Mucha’ Melendez: A Chicano dude who originally attended the same high school as Megara Matoi.
The Kapoors
Ren Kapoor: Ren was Tetsuya’s much more insane older brother who lived in the wilderness for much of his life, as evidenced by the contrived circumstances surrounding his puberty. Along with his wife Olga Gutierrez, shortly after they gave birth to Misato’s erm, second cousin, he died of various mental health defects and a heart condition which he inherited from his maternal grandpa, Flint Hitch.
Tetsuya Kapoor: A rather overcompetitive but pitifully broken ace, which means anyone can avoid him mostly because his heavy beefing tendencies are not fun to look at, and he's generally been ill suited to long term friendship for a couple of years, due to his actual paternal birth grandparents being dead in the hands of a Bigfoot and their ex friend Kenzo being a rather depressed dude who is basically one of the company's indentured scientist labourers. Tetsuya was a regular elementary school bully of the Matoi siblings. Luckily, he is only partially to blame for Goran and Kenzo’s deaths, but at the cost of him becoming a bit more of a woobie trying to live with his various kinds of grief. Even after losing his mentors to a savagely aggro male Bigfoot, he also witnessed his paternal uncle and aunt being killed off for real, albeit by a savagely aggro female Bigfoot, IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN with their two most consistent colleagues. He was about nineteen in his first regular appearance, though his slowly developing sexuality didn’t come fully out of the closet until somehow later, when he was twenty one telling his old rival Koji about how his mum disowned him and his dad forever as a result of both men being hugely spanked by her.
Zayn Kapoor: Dharmendra and Tetsuya’s somehow more unstable and regularly angst ridden middle brother, who currently lives on his own in a slum house and is definitely known as the most emo member of the family.
Narendra Kapoor: Tetsuya’s close but similarly dysfunctional younger brother, whom he disrespects but deeply sympathises with.
Saraswati Kapoor: Being the second youngest yet most comedic known regular member of the infamous Kapoor bunch, the infamously named Saraswati Kapoor is also the only girl in a family of 2 dead parents and four living, farting and breathing siblings.
The Galactic Solar Expedition
Jasper Kline: Gaia Kline's cheapskate younger brother, who is a buddy of Shiro.
Romi Umon: Romi Umon is the daughter of widowed scientist Orion Umon. A brave and content soul, her twin brother is Ravi Umon.
Ravi Umon: Fellow friend of the Kapoor brothers. One of the wild Koji’s sole remaining friends from his childhood years, besides Akhil Safin.
Akhil Safin: Raised by his older sister Selena Maya on a UFO called Grendizer, which is, actually, a huge robot that their Volga Tatar parents saved from impending destruction by space beasts invading their children’s birthplace of America, cyan eyed brunette Akhil Safin lived in said UFO for years until they arrived back to planet earth, only to realise that their parents have sadly passed away in the nuclear accident that shook the Washington state, USA.
Rayon Kapoor: The estranged but heroically inclined son of Leena and Sukhwinder, Rayon was adopted by a horde of wandering unknowns, who are in fact human UFO nomads, political and climate refugees embarking on an expedition that tours the solar system. He has scruffy Black Hair.
Selena Maya Safin: Akhil’s older sister, known for her role in helping certain society members to study the short lives of the insanely incomprehensible starfish aliens of their eponymous Universal Empires.
The Mentors
Orion Umon: Orion is the half Japanese father of Romi Umon, whose wife was one of the victims in a notorious incident known to Sewer Alley natives as the Great Nuclear Stink.
Ron Hines: An awesome dude, he taught Sayaka to be a woman brave and strong, while trying to search for a dozen Cold War Iron curtain treasures once thought to be missing.
Shyam Lahiri: Shyam Lahiri was the Victor Frankenstein of his time! Even when he was friends with his later enemies, Leena and Sukhwinder shortly before they betrayed him, he was generally a sucker for both robots and monsters, something that most characters of the story can and should know that. What they didn’t know is that he was the father of Minus and Plus all along.
The Human Antagonists
Sukhwinder Kapoor: Defined as the demeaning and constantly cold mannered husband of Leena Sagar, Sukhwinder had a pretty interesting sibling rivalry with his younger brother, the Kapoor Siblings’ father Vijay. He was nearly always a friendly lackey in need to his mentor, the equally somewhat sympathetic Dr Bruno Miucin.
Leena Sagar: Leena was Sukhwinder’s girlfriend and later wife. They first met each other by accident at the Acorn Highway High school when they grew up. She had (very nearly) always been a persistent antagonist who loved destroying robots, but would actually fear killing a human inside. Along with Sukhwinder, she was a long time friend of the Miucin brothers.
Bruno Miucin: Known for his pointy ears and wicked ideas, Bruno was the son of a wealthy but rather screwed up Cold War raised couple, who conceived him on a Sunday morning. Being their only child, he saw both of them preying on their two cats and got traumatised by said grisly incident as a result. A rather callous if understandable brute with some heavy noble demon tendencies, he actually was friends with Gary Matoi until he’s had enough of the latter’s healthy old antics and shooed him out.
Andre Miucin: Bruno’s even funnier younger brother, he actually was shown to be great at doing black comedy, so yeah, which may even mean he and Bruno were basically more similar than they thought of themselves as.
The Dao Brothers
Joshua Dao: Joshua is a science teacher.
Wesley Dao: Joshua Dao’s brother, Wesley has more in common with his mother than he has with his father. He possibly has brown eyes.
