Germanic Authors

Germanic Authors 

Erich Rackwitz 

The Siberian Adventure (Abenteuer Siberien) 

The Mystery of Vineta (Das Geheimnis Um Vineta) 

Baruuba’s Adventures: Villains

The Villains of Baruuba’s Adventures 

Anti villains 

Amanyire (アマニイレ) - A well meaning Tooro guide who lived next door to the safari lodge where Mitzi’s absent dead parents lived when she was a child raised by Barney in NY suburbia. The Houstons were bludgeoned by fellow prisoners and then his pet dog was forcibly kidnapped by them. Even before that, he was in a serial trauma conga line until he’s been deemed ‘too traumatised for a regular punishment’ because he now has PTSD and other mental health issues, which means that, on his return, he unfortunately drowns (but with dignity) later in ‘Barumba in the Mysterious Devil’s Cave’. 

Zoreka (ゾレカ) 

Natukunda (ナトゥクンダ) 

Mashaija (マシャイジャ)

The Krampuses (クランプス) 

The Krampuses are recurring devil may care men who currently loot out some fashion and toys. The members of the Krampus club are mostly moderately sympathetic villains, excluding Orly Drake who does care for his wife and children, and Henry Watson who had left by then since he was a marital rape victim until his death. 

Orly Drake (オルリー・ドレイク) 

Even though he’s quite a complicit bloody whiplash until his trial, Orly Drake, a British man who safely keeps his ethnic Romanichal identity private, does care for his children, which means he decides to repent after a prison year by becoming an atoner.  

Henry Watson (ヘンリー・ワトソン) - Henry was about twenty five when his first child was born. It’s likely that he’d been in a traumatic lawsuit induced grand theft wedding before that. His wife, Mitzi’s school principal, was such a piece of trash that she’d abandon him and off herself. Being in serious traumatic pain for the most part, he didn’t show as much outright antipathy towards Barumba as other villains, making him likely one of the most sympathetic of them all. He was temporarily in prison because his wife picked him up and forcibly conceived a boy with him just after their grand theft wedding. Do mention that his parents are the PTSD ridden soldier-househusband Gilbert ‘Bignose’ Watson and a raging terrorist who died at 66, which meant he’s destined to be doomed. 

Casper Kline (キャスパー・クライン) - A hoodlum who looked after his brother Timothy alongside Linus Aso, before he took a non-criminal job after a big fine. 

More typical villains

Linus Aso (麻生ライナス) - A hoodlum whose more heinous boss mistreats him so badly that he’d rather work with Horace. Although still a shit-bag, he does think the Japanese military is filled with so much corruption that it deserves to get axed. Even fellow hoodlums agree with him. 

Horace Agnew (ホレス・アグニュー) - Horace is from New York. Although a hoodlum dirtbag, he does have redeemable qualities. He had a hard midlife crisis while seeing his wife melting to death with his eyes, leading him to become a rather unscrupulous treasure hunter in the process. Also, his daughter Riley reminds him that he still has to live with those memories for the rest of his life. 

The Devil Cavers (悪魔の洞窟探検家) 

They are likely the main antagonists and villains in some of the Barumba books set before Baruuba Journeys through America. They are a relatively horrid organisation, consisting of generally terroristic racists who often like to cow over other people from different ethnicities. They ran a partly downtrodden market turned sadistic stadium until Barumba’s Treasure Pursuit, when a marauding horde of Tooro peasants took back what’s theirs.

Christof Hardiker (クリストフ・ハーディカー) - Even though he happened to be the thickly bearded boss of the devil cavers in grey, he strongly disliked his job. He was said to be a tortured but somewhat sympathetic man. 

Jill ‘Skull Smasher’ Dick (ジル・ディック) - Jill was a mad scientist school principal in her own right, marrying off poor Henry Watson when he was about twenty one, shortly before Barumba to the Rescue. Then she conceived a boy in prison by forcibly assaulting him and conquering his privates in a horrific way. Both offed each other 3 months after said boy’s birth.

Absolute Monsters

People for Consequence Free Liberty (結果のない自由を求める人々) - As its tempting name suggests, it’s a cultish organisation which contains its own bastardised and twisted version of anything, really. The PCFL’s founding ruler was both a trafficker and a dude who’d screw over anything into smithereens for a long time. He was murdered by the protagonist as a result of how disastrous he was to society. Even a majority of the Devil Cavers were shocked by the founder’s own life. 

Jungle Heroes Lines

Tezuka Productions Fiction House Theatre 

Tida Wanorn: Characters

Nena and her family 

Nena - A girl born from the brief (though legit), sad marriage of her wrongfully convicted father and his boss’s barely middle aged daughter, Nena lived with the Sumatran jungle animals after she and her dad tried to escape the destruction of her mum’s family alive. Fostered and befriended by both a herd of Sumatran Elephants and a family of Sumatran Orangutans (brother, sister, mum and dad), Nena has an adventurous life in the Sumatran rainforest. 

Willem - Willem is a rather unlucky guy.

The recurring characters 

Rudi Lubis - Rudi is the only female one of Nena’s numerous neighbours to have a major role; she is a cunning pain in the butt and she knows it. 

Mia Lim - Trinity’s bubbly daughter and Nena’s friendly rival. 

Sondang Hutabarat - One of Rudi’s friends. 

Hamza Iskander - Natalia’s workaholic and often estranged Lebanese Maronite ex husband. 

Maya Iskander - Hamza’s rather abrasive and obnoxious much younger sister. 

Ken Sihala - Rudi’s butt monkey ex-boyfriend and Maya’s older brother. 

Trini Ching - Medan based estranged childhood friend of Tony Damanik.

Damon Lim - Trini’s often hurt Chinese Indonesian husband.

Ahmad Yusuf - Trinity’s childhood best friend. 

Daniel Lim - Trinity and Damon’s trickster son. 

Tony Damanik - One of Daniel’s friends.

Lia Yusuf - Ahmad’s estranged mother. 

Sheila Lubis - Nena’s dad’s childhood pen pal, a Mandailing from the south of North Sumatra, whose brother is Asma’s husband and Rudi’s father.

Asma - Asma is Rudi’s meaner and filthier mother. 

Harun Lubis - Sheila’s older brother, Jaya’s husband and Rudi’s father. 

Helena Sihala - Nena’s childhood friend from the village. 

Pandapotan ‘Pana’ Hartono - Sonny and Sangkot’s son.

Sonny Hartono - A friend of Harun from Medan, Sonny has a rather screwed up family consisting of himself, his brothers Shen and Ron, and their dysfunctional parents, both of whom died overworking at a factory while Shen was at college. 

Yanthi - One of Asma’s old friends. 

Monang Hutapea - estranged son and the older brother of Sangkot. 

Hotna Hutapea - Monang and Sangkot’s estranged father. 

Cindua - One of Sangkot’s old friends. 

Sangkot Hutapea - After her boyfriend Sonny Hartono got unceremoniously dumped out by his corrupt former superior Kamal Rahman, whose relationship with his low level bandit older brother Shen Hartono remains close but estranged, he couldn’t be seen much again until recently. As a result, Sangkot reluctantly becomes a struggling grassroots democratic organisation’s leader. 

The Main Villains 

Shen Hartono - College dropout turned moody and arrogant gangster-soldier Shen Hartono long worked for his corrupt advisor Kamal Rahman. Being antagonistic and sly, he’d have been very estranged from Sonny before the latter had even graduated high school. Their own highly dysfunctional mum preferred their little brother, who turns out to be a high ranking paramilitary mobster. 

Ron Hartono - Ron is probably the youngest and most deeply screwed up of the Hartono brothers. Whereas Shen is still somewhat redeemable and Sonny being quite an enduring explorer, Ron is quite apathetic and has high ranking gangster friends who are just differently brought up from him. He also is his Acehnese boss’s amoral favourite and his growing adherence to the Acehnese Islamic code is partly a result of it. He often doesn’t care about anyone other than himself for the most part, but what he does show is a seldom seen (albeit reasonable) fear of being abused to death by radical fundies forever. 

Natalia Ginting - Natalia is a sly and cunning Batak Karo cubicle manager working at the office of a macho company looking for husbands. Thankfully, despite being such a sly fox until the final episodes, she just wants to have good friends and would steadily marry the somewhat redeemable Shen Hartono, and helping their rather imperfect love is that their daughter can be a much better person than both of them. 

Kamal Raman - A Hadrami, Kamal Raman is the scheming boss of the company where Natalia worked on. Thankfully, he ain’t a fundamentalist Muslim unlike the greater scope villains of the whole story, the traffickers who tour the island in order to prey on both young women and men alike.

The Wild Man of Aceh: characters

Akim and the previous generation 

Akim is the titular hero of the beginning to the story, who is a young Alas peasant man from Ketambe, which is within the Sumatran rainforest. As a child, he suffered from skin colour discrimination not just by school bullies, but also by the rest of society; thus becoming both a brutal nature hero and a sporty survivalist. He has about five surviving siblings, with Zainab and Jamaluddin amongst them. His real first name is Rashid and his marga is Cibekho.  

Zainab Cibekho - Long Lost younger sister, herself kidnapped by an unscrupulous gangster mentor of hers, becoming his unwilling dragon. 

Jamaluddin Cibekho - Jamaluddin is much younger brother. He is perhaps both the father of two girls and the most likely victim of various sexual violations enacted by a corrupt politician’s dangerously amoral wife. 

Keumala Cibekho - Keumala is Rashid’s main daughter and heroine of the story, who has a thuggish little sister named Mengkalia. 

Mengkalia Cibekho - Keumala’s short tempered little sister. 

Tiger Boy: Characters

The characters of Souji Yamakawa’s Tiger Boy 

Jun Kodama (純児玉): Jun is the son of an ageing couple living in Osaka. Said mother told him that her way more daring friends were killed off by a bevy of corrupt soldiers near Purna. When he was a six year old child in western Cambodia, Jun saw his schoolteacher being kidnapped by mysterious forces. As a result, he lived in the tropical forests of Indochina with a grumpy Indochinese tigress, who herself has only a single surviving offspring (who happens to be a male tiger, stronger than his weak older brother) after eating another due to the latter being unfit for survival. 

Saki Nagahama (長濱早輝): Jun’s inevitable future wife with black hair. 

Shotaro Imaizumi (今泉正太郎): Jun Kodama’s schoolteacher. 

Yuji Kodama (純児ユウジ): Jun’s little brother. 

Kito Mochizuki (望月季都): 

Tahsin (ターシン): 

Attar (アッタール): 

Nuha (ヌハ): 

Toma Kaneko (金子当麻): 

Samantha Wood (サマンサ・ウッド): Samantha Wood, a plain mixed British-Indian, was abandoned by her middle aged Garo mother in the forests near Rongon falls in western Meghalaya, probably because she knew that the former is the daughter not only of herself, but also of a Welsh guy who probably groped her to hell and back.  

Kana Moriyama (森山佳奈): Jun’s plucky childhood friend. Her mother is Noriko and her likely father is the White Skull, a cult escapee. Her uncle is Shotaro Moriyama and her paternal cousin is Joe Moriyama, Kenya Boy/Jungle Hunter himself. 

Jerom (ジェロム) (ಜೆರೋಮ್): A stranded strongman who often traverses through the Indian jungle and is friends with its animals due to being experienced with zoology. 

Suzette (シュゼット) (ಸುಜೆಟ್): A long lost Mangalorean Catholic friend of Matangi, who turns out to be Jerom’s estranged daughter. 

Skanda (スカンダ) (स्कंद): Jun’s pen pal from northern Bali in Indonesia. 

Shachi (シャチ) (शची) (শচি): A village temple guard’s rebellious daughter. 

Matangi (マタンギ) (मातंगी) (ಮಾತಂಗಿ) (মাতংগী): 

Noriko (法子): Noriko is a rather stubborn female recluse, whose husband was kidnapped by Hafgan’s cult and got hypnotised into becoming the White Skull, only to backfire on it. She is also Kana’s mother by the way. 

Eizo Kodama (純児栄蔵): Jun’s father from a merchant family gone nouveau riche, a Guinea Pig experimented horridly by a terroristic mad scientist, becoming a part time shapeshifting, farting werewolf as a result. 

Michiko Yamada (山田美智子): Jun’s peasant mother, kidnapped by a camaraderie of Japanese mad scientists and unwillingly experimented to become a part time glowing were-bat.

Mabon (マボン) (มาบอน):

Goera (ゴエラ): 

The recurring characters

The White Skull (ホワイトスカル) (বগা মূৰৰ খুলি): Also known as Hibiki Moriyama (森山響), he is Kana’s father, who was brainwashed by a cult (once run by Hafgan as confirmed in his memo) led by the Horned Skull. 

Modron (モドロン): Modron is Amaethon’s partner in crime. 

Amaethon (アメソン): The rather unattractive looking Amaethon is a hairy yeti like character who often is a recurring antagonist in some stories. 

Ceridwen (セリドウェン/ケリドウェン): Aka Ceridwen Danby (セリドウェン・ダンビー/ケリドウェン・ダンビー), she is Guinevere’s friend. 

Arianrhod (アリロード): Blue eyed brunette Ari is from a British Isles-Indian family with Welsh Roots.

Rhiannon (リアノン): Aka Rhiannon Madoc (リアノン・マドック), she is Nudd Madoc’s blonde pigtailed, youthful daughter. 

Blodeuwedd (ブロードゥウェッド): Blodeuwedd is a beach blonde girl from Wales. 

Nudd (ナッド): Aka Nudd Madoc (ナッド・マドック), he is Gwynn Wood’s mentor. 

The minor characters 

Olwen (オルウェン): Aka Olwen Madoc (オルウェン・マドック), she is Nudd’s estranged wife. 

Gwydion (グウィディオン): Aka Gwydion Madoc (グウィディオン・マドック), he is Nudd and Olwen’s young blonde son. In Tiger Boy, as a kid, he was highly stubborn and short tempered. In Kenya Boy, he sacrificed Pryderi to the fire and left the scene intact. 

Ushas (ウシャス/ウシャ) (उषा/उषस्) (ঊষাস/উষা/উষাস/ঊষা): Hafgan’s kennelled mate and The Horned Skull’s senile mother. In Kenya Boy, she killed Hafgan with her own fangs after realising that she was his sex slave all along. 

Gwynn Wood (グウィン・ウッド): Also known as simply Gwynn (グウィン), he was implied and then confirmed to be Samantha Wood’s father when she told Jun about his infamous exploits. Fair enough, he is also friends with the White Skull despite huge cultural differences. 

Creirwy (クレアウィ): Tylen’s little sister, who first appeared as a baby. 

Mannaydan (マンネイダン) (Manawydan): Mannaydan is a well meant escapee of the cult. 

Guinevere (ギネヴィア) (Gwenhwyfar): Aka Guinevere Ifans (ギネヴィア・エヴァンス) (Gwenhwyfar Ifans), she is Jun’s pen pal from Wales. 

The canon fodders 

Durama Imbama (デュラマインバマ): Also known as the ancestress of Hafgan and Ushas. 

Tylen (タイレン): Tylen, although a piece of inevitable fodder, was too good for this messed up world. 

Wanawanga (ワナワンガ): 

The Anti Villains  

Arawn (アラオン/アラウン) (เอราวัณ): Arawn is actually Nudd’s somewhat younger higher up. He is Gwynn’s mutual rival and a former minion of Medraut, aka The Horned Skull. He noticed that his rival gang letted the senile wild woman Ushas to kill her own cousin-enslaver Hafgan. Even worse, he himself was being terrified by the extent of the latter’s own reign of terror. 

Ratri (ラトリ) (रात्रि) (ৰাত্ৰি): The Horned Skull’s older sister, Hafgan and Ushas’ daughter. 

Govannan (ゴバンナン) (โกวานนัน): Govannan was once friends with Tylen, until he was forced to kill him in order to flee Hafgan’s reign of utter terror, along with fellow friends. He is an anti-villain who considers the Tiger Boy to be his worthy opponent.

Pryderi (プリデリ): Even though Pryderi was Hafgan’s younger brother (unlike his namesake), he was insanely perverted, so much so that he couldn’t be officially married for the rest of his life. In Kenya Boy, he was sacrificed by Gwydion to the fire after killing way too many of his fellow asshole relatives. 

Phojo (フォジョ): Nicknamed Phoju (フォジュ) by her little brother Sherja.

Nasekja (ナセクジャ):

Sherja (シェルジャ): 

The Main Villains 

Agni (アグニ) (अग्नि) (অগ্নি): Agni is another perverted youth, but with fluffy black hair and Brown Eyes (which imply that he is a Boro). He was probably about thirteen when he first met Jun. 

Vayu (ヴァーユさん) (वायु) (বায়ু): Vayu is a character who also appears in Kenya Boy. In Tiger Boy, he is a rather hairy young anti villain escaping from a mysterious cult, which is run by a dude who’s probably the White Skull’s former hero, the Horned Skull. 

Surya (スーリヤ君) (सूर्य) (সূৰ্য্য): Surya first appeared as a dark haired Anglo Indian young adult. 

Manyu (マニウ) (มายู) (मन्यु) (মন্যু): He first appeared in Tiger Boy as a perverted brute of a young adult. He was probably 21 in when he first met Jun. 

Madan (マダン) (मदन) (মদন): Madan is the traitorous temple guard who thankfully has escaped Halfgan’s reign of terror. 

Hafgan (ハフガン) (ฮาฟกัน): Hafgan was a really terrible dude whose son is the slightly sympathetic Horned Skull, aka Medraut. 

The Horned Skull (กะโหลกมีเขา) (শিংযুক্ত মূৰৰ খুলি): Also known as Medraut (メドラウト) (เมดรัต), he is Hafgan’s son with a Feral Wizard cousin named Ushas. 

The Beasts 

Fumiko (ふみこ): A Water Leaper owned by the notorious Medraut. She is rather loyal to him and is his moral pet. 

Soria (ソリア): 

The Minor Characters

Mejakchi (メジャクチ): Also known as Mejakchikasindik (メジャクチカシンディク) which means ‘Mejakchi the silent cold’, she is the daughter of a 

Inanoran (イナノラン): 

Durochangro (デュロチャングロ): 

Kaburenche (カブレンチェ): 

Super Pulp Theatre: Instalments

Super Pulp Theatre Instalments 

The Akihito Yoshitomi Section 

Junglee Manchhe

Change No. 1: It’s not revealed to be within or near what would become a protected reserve until the very end. Although the Sita Mata forest is still in Rajasthan, it is located near Western Madhya Pradesh. 

Change No. 2: To make way for another fallible system, the Bhils were forcibly taken over by the colonial British army, along with another force which is just as fallible.

 

Junglee Manchhe: Characters

The Characters of Junglee Manchhe, created by the Paruchuri Brothers.

The hero and his family 

Navneet Vasave: Navneet grew up with a former hoodlum mentor in the semitropical forest whom they call home. He is perhaps confirmed to have parents who were basically the guilty but wrongfully over-punished (and then killed) victims of the infamous Criminal Tribes act. He also mercy killed his own much older sister when he faced the logging mafia Don, who’d have liked to assault her for eternity. He also has a trusty steed, whom he rescued from an abusive horseman friend of another Don! His weapon of choice is a bichuwa, a type of Indian dagger. 

Meera Nayak: Navneet’s wife, whom he’d marry as a result of a lengthy, tiring arrangement decided by her somewhat superstitious father. Then they slowly fell in love and have a pair of sons. 

Lohit Vasave: Navneet and Meera’s younger son. 

Khal Vasave: Meera and Navneet’s older son. 

Navneet’s family 

Mrs Roat: The loving but rather complicated mother of Navneet, his three brothers, and their dead, mentally unstable, much older sister. 

Mr Vasave: Mr Vasave, although quite a deadbeat dad, did care for his wife and five children for a while. Unfortunately, by the time they both died, Amrita was married off to a fellow dude who escaped the control of a logging cartel Don (or more accurately a domineering Goonda above other thugs) at about seventeen years old. She and her equally mentally ill husband unfortunately had to be mercy killed decades later by Navneet. 

Amrita Vasave: After she gave away the older Hari Lal for fostering, Amrita Vasave had to breastfeed Zimbo in secret for the first few years of his life.

Lala’s family 

Uma Kothari: Govind’s wife, who died homeless following a hiking crash. 

Govind Kothari: Govind was a botanist who knew the basics about the biodiversity of southern Rajasthan. Along with his wife, he died homeless following a hiking crash 

Lala Kothari: Uma and Naveet’s surviving daughter, who happens to be the hero’s childhood friend. 

 

Hari Lal and his friends 

Tara Zinta: Dilawar’s much more messed up wife, who committed suicide when Dilawar’s own mother and father in law murdered each other to death. 

Hari Lal: Hari Lal is a snarky real estate agent. The the third part likely has him turn out to be Navneet’s more hoggish second cousin, whom the latter’s own deadbeat, much older sister gave away for fostering.

Dilawar Kapoor: Hari Lal’s rival from somewhere north of Bhanswara. 

Mala Kapoor: Dilawar’s son and morality pet, whom he loves to care for. 

Karmveer Bhatt: Karmveer Bhatt is a former logging thief trying to survive after being kicked out of his abusive master’s headquarters.

Narendra Chalak: Narendra is a snotty real estate agent from what would become a part of modern Rajasthan, India. 

Rajiv Kaul: A childhood buddy of Karmveer Bhatt, Rajiv was forced to become a mere impersonator in the wishes of his own master. He wears a long loincloth made from a tiger opponent whom he killed in his time working for said master. His weapon of choice is a tiger tooth jhanbwah, a type of North Indian dagger. 

Surendra Prasad: Another friend of Kharmveer Bhatt and Rajiv Kaul. 

Durgadhas Arun: Mala and Dilawar’s other friend.