Kinta Sakata

**Kinta Sakata** (坂田金太, *Sakata Kinta*?) is one of the main characters of the manga series *Dandadan*.

He is a student and one of Momo and Okarun's main allies whenever the two are faced with the paranormal.

## Appearance

Kinta is a young man with a rotund build, short-trimmed middle-parting dark hair and wears glasses. For attire, he wears his school's gakuran outfit.

## Synopsis

### Kaiju Arc

At school, Kinta approaches Okarun to ask him about his secret to attract girls given how he is associated with Momo and Aira, only for the latter to answer that he is not attractive to them. Kinta then notices Momo coming in to see Okarun and becomes surprised to hear her talking to him about how she found his kintama, which makes him come under the impression that the secret to becoming attractive is to speak inappropriately. As Momo ends up getting into an argument with the class representative concerning Okarun, Kinta watches from sidelines and cuts in to state a dirty joke to get the girls attention, which ends up annoying Momo.

Later, Kinta secretly follows Okarun and Momo to an apartment complex in hopes to further understand how he can be popular with girls through inappropriate language. However, Kinta is spotted by the two after they hear his foot coming into contact with a paint can and tries to play off him shadowing them as a coincidence that they took the same route home. Kinta then finds himself levitating off the ground and sent flying towards Momo. This causes Kinta to think that he will lock lips with her in the process, only to end up face planting to the ground after Okarun moves her out of the way. After a floating gold ball suddenly appears, Kinta is ordered by Momo to watch her and Okarun's bags as they chase after it, which he loyally complies to do. Shortly after, Kinta is targeted by the golden ball and is drop down the apartment complex. Luckily, he is saved on time by Momo and decides to perform a rush attack towards the golden ball, only to end up going right pass it. However, Kinta relays his theory that their enemy is using retro-reflective projection and that they will be able to see them from three sides. Going off of this, Momo manages to detect the invisible target by swinging herself around the balcony and restrains it with her powers, giving Okarun the opportunity to attack it with an All-Out charge attack that sends the target crashing out of the building. Kinta is then thanked by Momo for his help and becomes flattered, which leads to him going into a rant about how invisibility works. The three then look to see that the invisible enemy is a kaiju but wonder where the golden ball is at. While desperately trying to ask Okarun how to best use inappropriate language, Kinta, Momo and Okarun look to see the kaiju glaring at them after it suddenly enlarges.

The three then run away from the gigantic kaiju as it chases after them in Empty Space, leading to them running into Aira and Jiji who become shocked to see the monster heading their way. After tripping and becoming exhausted, Kinta is left helpless as the kaiju prepares to step on top of him. However, he is saved by Okarun after he transforms to move him out of the way and is carried by Jiji as Momo, Okarun and Aira battle the kaiju. As Kinta panics with confusion as to what was happening, Jiji ask that he not sweat on him to prevent the Evil Eye from awakening. Taking this as an insult, Kinta comes under the assumption that Jiji is pompous and proceeds to spray his sweat on him, resulting in the Evil Eye awakening. Kinta then wonders what has come over Jiji after noticing his change in appearance and starts to chase after him after he heads over to the Ayase residence, having made him that it was time for him and Okarun to fight after stating that he and the others were meeting up at the place.

At the house, Kinta continues to distress over the situation with the kaiju coming after him but turns his attention to Okarun as he explains his plan to use the nanoskin the Ayase house is made of to weaponize it against the kaiju. After Okarun tries to give a brief demonstration by reforming the inside of the help, Kinta provides his assistance by using his sci-fi imagination to reform the house into something big as requested. Due Momo's imagination ending up taking over the transformation process however, the house becomes reformed into a mecha Buddha statue, which displeases Kinta since it was not what he had in mind but quickly becomes satisfied since he is inside a giant robot. Kinta then proceeds to name the mecha and becomes ready to face the kaiju. However, both him, Momo, Okarun, Aira and the Evil Eye as pilots run into the problem of trying to figure out how to control the mecha and end up becoming the kaiju's punching bag by the time it reaches them. As the kaiju prepares to stomp on the mecha Buddha, Kinta manages to get the robot to move to catch the monster's foot on time and attack. While explaining how he had dreamed of piloting a mecha, Kinta has the damaged done by the kaiju repaired and reforms it into his liking as he gets ready to battle the kaiju.

Kinta gains the upper hand against the kaiju using special attacks that greatly deals damage to the monster. After the kaiju resorts to using its invisibility, Kinta prepares to use the mecha's infrared scope to pinpoint its location but becomes too late as the kaiju causes the mecha to fall by breaking off its left leg. With the airbags getting in the way of him trying to eject himself from the mecha, Kinta begins to panic as the kaiju continuously damages the mecha. The attacks then cease after Momo and Aira use their powers to restrain and uncover the kaiju's presence. Kinta thanks the two for their help and tells them to leave the rest to him. However, he is angrily yelled at by the two females to not do anything since his piloting caused them to feel motion sick. The kaiju is then finished off by Momo who uses her powers to lift it into the air and slam it down on its head.

With the kaiju unable to continue fighting after it shrinks down, Kinta and the others escape out of Empty Space and return to the normal world where the mecha becomes exposed to the public. Kinta then helps Momo to have the mecha relocate to its previous location and reform it back into the Ayase house by instructing her to visualize it. After this is done, Momo and Aira run out of the room after feeling sick while Kinta becomes overjoyed with the fact that he lived out his dream of piloting a giant robot. He then meets back with Okarun and Jiji after they brought back the kaiju and learns from Okarun that he and Momo are on a mission to search for a golden ball that aliens and spirits are also after, leading to Kinta to come under the impression that the item shoulders the fate of the world. Having been informed about this, Kinta tells Okarun that he will offer his strength to help but is turned down by the latter.

Turning their attention towards the kaiju, Kinta becomes shocked to hear from Okarun that a person inside the monster's mouth and orders Jiji to investigate, much to his objection. The three then discover that the kaiju is actually a mechanical suit after Okarun found a zipper and, upon unzipping it, become shocked to see an alien girl inside who comes in to kiss Okarun after making eye contact with him. After witnessing this, Kinta reacts with disappointment that he was not the one to unzip the suit to receive the kiss and sees Momo attacking the alien girl after she to saw the scene. Kinta recommends to Momo to cease her assault on the alien girl to hear her out but is yelled at by Momo since she could tell that he only wanted the alien girl to like him.

Needing someone to translate for the alien girl, Kinta, Okarun and Jiji visit the alien Mr. Mantis Shrimp to see if he could help. Using his translator that could only pick up on a few of the alien girl's words, the three learn that her name is Bamora and that she came to Earth to seek a husband that was capable of defeating her in battle, which then leads to Kinta stepping in to try and take credit given how he was the one piloting the mecha. Despite this, Bamora continues to accept Okarun after coming in to hug him, much to Kinta's disappointment to see.

Later, Kinta joins the others for dinner at the Ayase residence where he becomes shocked to be introduced to the Turbo-Granny. During this, Kinta ends up getting yelled at by Momo and Aira for annoying them as the group converse about Bamora. Shortly after, Kinta and Jiji check on Bamora's kaiju suit and become eager to try it on after being astound by its technological features. Unknown to him and Jiji after the latter steps inside first, a signal is accidently sent to an alien that recently attacked the Serpo.

## Weapons

Kinta previously piloted a mecha Buddha construct of the Ayase house. After figuring out that the mecha could only be controlled through visualized movements, Kinta altered the first form of the mecha to have it more form fitting for battle. In this form, the V-fin is changed to sunglasses, the robe is changed into a sleeveless gi with a scarf draped over its shoulders, and circular plates are placed on its hips.