List of characters in Boy Bakabon

This is a listing of characters appearing in Katta Yoshi's *Boy Bakabon*, from fellow employees and children at Bakade Elementary to others that show up in the series.

## Bakade Elementary

### Staff

#### The Quiz Guy

A man who displays flags for "Right" (Maru) and "Wrong" (Batsu). He can often be seen alongside Bakazura at events.

#### Miss Hinmitsu

A beautiful and popular lady teacher among the faculty, who is in an on-and-off relationship with Nakaji.

#### Miss Hachimitsu

Hinmitsu's younger sister, who runs another class of students. In her only appearance, she is shown to tame the out-of-control Eto-kun.

### Students

#### Uguisu

A beautiful girl who is considered the "madonna" of the class. She is director of the school broadcasting department, and can be seen to control the mecha Gojida. Although she is very pretty and appears innocent, she also has a rather severe, twisted and cold side when she abducts Bakabon and Ahoya and has them converted into mech versions of themselves in a chapter.

#### Nagai

A long-headed student in Bakabon's class, who has dragged-out "long" speech.

#### Marune

A circular-headed boy with a "circle" theme as one of the three shape-themed boys in the class. As seen later in the series, although he appears innocent, he can also take on an unexpected bad and punk nature.

#### Kakugari

The son of a tofu shop owner. He is incredibly tall and square-headed, making him the "square" of the shape trio.

#### Sankaku

A triangular-headed boy, making up the "triangle" of the trio.

#### Fushigi

A mysterious, chubby little girl always gently floating about. She lives in an occult household, and has a mother into witchcraft that she is at odds with.

#### Minimatsu

A small boy with small voice, who is proud of his huge outie bellybutton. Because of his small, quiet voice, it is hard for him to make himself heard.

Though he appears to be related to the Matsuno sextuplets in some way, it is never clarified just how; it was often assumed that he may be a son of one of the brothers, and those at Dengeki BAZOOKA!! paid acknowledgement to the idea, but the series being axed will leave it forever a mystery. Other theories revolved around him being a cousin of the sextuplets, or a possible newer child and younger brother to the six. However, he is also drawn a similar way as to how Katta Yoshi drew himself in his youth, and may serve as one of many stand-ins for the author.

#### Ramen

A ramen-themed classmate whose family runs a shop for it. His eyes are patterned after fishcakes, he has nori for a nose, and he wears a ramen bowl hat atop golden hair that perfectly mimics the noodles. He is serious about the food, and can often be seen eating it to school. Later in the series, he can be seen to have Gyoza as a girlfriend.

#### Gyoza

A gyoza-themed girl in the class, who wears a hat patterned after the dumplings' shape. She is highly in love with Ramen.

A prototypical Gyoza design could be seen early on in the series, with her having long blonde hair, but this was changed by the time she made named appearances and had more of a role.

#### Kamera

A turtle-like boy who wears a shell, but also carries about a camera as further pun on his name and to take photos.

#### Abe

A little boy with a most unfortunate middle-aged face, as he is a shout-out to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and serves as a miniature version of him in class.

#### Eto

A violent, ferocious child who acts as a "straight man" to Bakabon's antics and is highly feared by others due to his brutality. However, when he calms down, he reveals himself to be a small kindergarten student with high hopes to be a teacher someday.

## Characters outside of Bakade

### Bakabon's Family

The other Akatsuka characters to naturally make the leap over. However, they are out of focus for much of the series, though one plot does revolve around a future version of Bakabon trying to prevent a future where Papa becomes too smart.

### Koi-Inu

A combination between a koi fish and a dog. He takes up a role similar to that of Unagi-Inu later in the series as a pet of Bakabon, and is considered a subspecies of the animal. His scales can make people cheer up.

### Tachiya Machiki

A rough conman who attempts to make money off of Koi-Inu, but gets arrested. His name derives from a newer Fujio Pro employee and assistant of Katta Yoshi named **Tatsuya Matsuki**.

### Tako-Ichigo

The cross between a strawberry and octopus, which serves as a stand-in for Katta Yoshi along with his own alter-ego in omake strips.

### Katta Yoshi

The author himself, portrayed as a noseless and balding middle-aged man with a "sprout" hairstyle and glasses. He wears a shirt with the "Yoshi" kanji on it, and is often seen in meta 4-koma strips dealing with him having to work on the series and interacting with his editor.

### Unkoman

Created by Katta Yoshi and Makoto Iwasaki for Comic BomBom in 1992 and 1993, this poop-themed hero can be seen to be watched by Bakabon and other children on TV.

### Butt-in-Front Man

Created by Takashi Taniguchi. This rather bizarre hero makes occasional cameos, as his own series also ran in the *Dengeki BAZOOKA!!* magazine and his author and Katta Yoshi happened to be good friends.