List of characters in Osomatsu-kun

This is a listing of notable minor or one-shot characters that appear in the franchise of Osomatsu-kun. Characters only present in specific versions are sorted and noted where relevant, and some existing in multiple adaptations may entirely differ through each.

## Characters in Weekly Shonen Sunday and other Shogakukan serializations (1962-1969)

Some of these characters are one-shots while others seen more than once in the manga, though they may be cast in a variety of roles.

### Crooks and Strange Guys

They may be bad or just plain unusual, but there are certain many of these strange types of guys about in stories.

#### The Akis

(ザ・アキス *Za Akisu*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Burglars Startled by Sextuplets!" (あきすびっくり　六つ子がでたよ)

A pair of twin robbers who are our very first bad guys spotted in the series. Their name is a pun on *akisu*, "thief", an all too apt moniker. They attempt to rob the home in the back of the Mimatsuya liquor store, but are foiled by their fright over the sextuplets living there.

#### Apple-Headed Twin Doctors

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "An Animal Experiment Using the Sextuplets" (六つ子をつかって動物実験)

A pair of unnamed doctors who appear to be one man at first, but their ruse is discovered by the sextuplets by the end. The elder of the two is a kind, happy-faced doctor who is strange but gentle on the boys, while the younger is a violent, angry doctor.

The latter of the two is captured and sent away by his brother and the sextuplets by the end of the story. As suggested by this placeholder name on this page, both of their bald heads are shaped much like apples.

#### Bandage-Nosed Man

* **Chapter appearance:** "A Scammer Comes to Town!" (インチキ野郎町へくる!), others

A small, nameless enemy character who often has an X-shaped bandage placed where his nose should be (if the X simply isn't his nose in some depictions). He is bald and has a curly unibrow and/or mustache, and sometimes wears a hat as well.

His lack of notable name is paid reference to in the introduction for the *$-chan and Chibita* tankobon, where Akatsuka puts the caption "I don't know his name!" (なまえわからない) next to him, when each cast member is named for the readers.

#### The Bearded Baby and Henchman

(ひげづらベビ *Higezura Bebi)*

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Bearded Baby Gang Plan" (ひげづらベビーギャング作戦)

A mob boss that shows up early in the manga, who plans to take over the empty lot that Osomatsu and his brothers play in. Although he acts very tough, he dresses like a baby and his weakness is revealed that he is able to be sung to sleep like one. He is pushed about in a stroller and assisted by a young man that resembles a chubbier, freckled version of the brothers.

#### Beggar Robot Inventor

* **Chapter appearance:** "Setting Up a Beggar Robot" (こじきろぼっともうけてちょ)

A shabby middle-aged man with whiskers who makes money with his special robot, who will gently pat and stroke people when given yen coins, but will beat them up when fed rocks.

This man is replaced by Dekapan in the 1966 anime adaptation.

#### Ben Casey

(ベン・ケーチ *Ben Kechi*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "I Want a Handsome Face" (いかした顔になりたいよ)

The foreign plastic surgery doctor of town, who reworks Choromatsu's face to look more handsome and unique. The other sextuplets decide to get their faces altered as well, but Dr. Casey's assistant winds up being the one to do so (while he's out seeing a movie). After all except Osomatsu have their faces changed and ruined, they vow revenge on the assistant.

Dr. Casey manages to restore the boys' faces to normal, but finds that his own nose was altered by his assistant and chases him down wanting him to change it back.

His name references the protagonist of the 1961-1966 ABC drama ***Ben Casey***, which was later broadcast in Japan starting on May 4, 1962. This chapter was released on October 14th, while -kun was still in its first year of serialization, so the influence from the show is obvious and unquestionable. However, this Dr. Casey appears much older than the character played by Vince Edwards.

#### The Cat Man

(ネコ男 *Neko-o*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Harsh Cat Man" (ニャンともきびしいネコ男)

A man with very feline features, who decides to shear off the fur of actual cats in order to make clothing. His plans are eventually turned around by Chibita, who gives the clothing to cats.

#### "The Cat-Cursed Man"

(猫祟おじさん *Neko tatari ojisan*)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Curse of a Cat is Horrible"(ネコのたたりはおそろしい)

An unnamed, shabby man who harms cats in his daily routine, believing that they'll bring bad luck due to the fact he was born in "the year of the rat". Chibita vows to get revenge and protect the cats, and he and Osomatsu steal away the man's baby and trick him into thinking his baby turned into a cat because of his bad deeds.

Osomatsu and Chibita fool the man further into thinking he must protect 101 cats in order for his baby to lose the curse, and succeed in getting him to reform so that they can be reunited.

#### Clothing Store Owner

* **Chapter appearance**: "Snatch the Runaway Thief" (ひったくりをひったくれ)

A small man with an Ichiro-esque head and hairstyle, but whose eyes are concealed by his bangs. He dresses in a sharp business suit and has a small mustache.

He and Dayon attempt to put together a picture of the culprit's face, but have difficulty. He comes up with the idea for Osomatsu to dress in drag in an attempt to attract the thief.

Initially, this man is seen in a slightly rougher prototype form in "The Sextuplets Get Adopted", with a foolish son that resembles a prototypical Ichiro. His last appearance associated with -kun has him visible in a spread in "There's No Wonderful Business Like That of a Gag!".

#### Counterfeit Money Man

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Mark of Hatabō" (ハタ坊をマークしろ)

A wise old man who would seem to be able to give the poor Hatabō all the money he wants, though it turns out to all be fake. He also appears in an earlier prototype form in "The Sextuplets Get Adopted".

#### Crook

* **Chapter appearance**: "Hatabō, Take Courage" (ハタ坊勇気をだす)

A getaway driver who runs over Hatabō and a boy that had been bullying him, but threatens Hatabō into not telling what happened. Hatabō's father (Dekapan in this story) manages to trick him into drinking "courage water" (just plain water) in order to confront the man, but the man captures him and threatens to crush him with a rock.

The crook witnesses Hatabō's lack of fear in the face of impending death and decides to save him at the last minute, then feels inspired to confess and turn himself in as a criminal.

The 1988 anime adaptation cuts this character, instead giving his role over to Iyami. Dekapan's role is also changed to be that of God, instead of Hatabō's father.

#### The Evil Watermelon

(スイカ魔 *Suika Ma*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Evil Watermelon's Armor" (スイカ魔の通り魔)

A man who was bullied in his youth and denied the ability to eat watermelon by the other older mean kids, which caused him to become vengeful and attack people in the form of a watermelon-masked bandit.

#### Frog Man

(カエルさん *Kaeru-san*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "I'll Go with my Frog Best Friend, Pyokon" (カエルの親友ピョコンとでたよ)

As evident by the name, he is an old man with a wide, frog-like face who is fond of the amphibians. He gets the sextuplets to round up such creatures for him.

#### Gaki 564

(賀木五六四 *Gaki Go Roku Shi*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Gaki 564's Election Campaign" (賀木五六四の選挙運動)

A strange man who scams the sextuplets into having all the food they could want as part of his election campaign, which leads them to tell other kids about the cheap food.

However, this results in all the children having stomach trouble and proceeding to angrily chase down the sextuplets.

#### The Gang with the Education-Minded Mother

(ギャングどもの教育ママ)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Gang with the Education-Minded Mother"

A wicked trio who aren't the best at what they do, mainly due to being weak to the wills of their boss' mother.

Though the boss is unnamed, his shy and scarred subordinate goes by **Tetsu the Killer** (ぶっころしの鉄 *Bukkoroshi no Tetsu*) while the other is usually christened "**Batten-chan**" (バッテンちゃん*)* by fans due to the large, X-shaped scar running across his face.

Characters that look slightly similar to Tetsu and "Batten-chan" may sometimes appear in other gangster roles throughout the series.

#### Ganmo of the Hyottoko Group

(ひょっとこ組のガンモ)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Biggest Fight on Paper" (紙上最大のなぐりこみ)

A hyottoko mask-themed yakuza member who becomes the champion of Osomatsu, Choromatsu, and Karamatsu in their argument, and buys them oden and pancakes (to the jealousy of the other three brothers).

His group of criminals eventually face off against the group that Joe of Charel comes from, and all wind up arrested.

#### "The German-style Iyami"

(おドイツのイヤミ *Odoitsu no Iyami*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita's Promise, Iyami's Promise" (チビ太の誓い　イヤミの誓い)

A random passerby who Iyami feels looks exactly the same as him, but in fact has several clear differences in his face and body. Nonetheless, this unusual Iyami does mirror the one we know with having a special catchphrase and pose: "Hieeeh!".

Instead of having claim to come from France, this Iyami prides himself in his style patterned after that of Germany. In his brief appearance, he becomes quickly known for playing pranks and causing trouble to whoever he meets; replacing Hatabō's flag with a fish or throwing a snowball into Dayōn's mouth. Due to these acts, he declares himself as being "The best Iyami", to our Iyami's displeasure.

Iyami manages to get this other Iyami framed for causing a ramen seller to spill his food, to try to keep his promise to Chibita in staying out of trouble (although he realizes he had indeed been a bad guy in making this decision, and that nothing quite changed at all).

It may be possible that this man could have provided a loose inspiration for the story about Iyami's brother in the third run.

#### The Gyahaha Man

(ギャハハおじさん *Gyahaha oji-san*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Sextuplets vs. the Great Gang of JApan" (六つ子対大ニッポンギャング), others

A strange staring man that appears in some of the later, monthly
stories in the first run. Design variants of him also appear in a few early second run stories.

He is shown inserted into different scenes, simply staring at the readers, only to appear at the end of the story in a punchline with him laughing "Gyahaha!". This gag fades off though, and he may often only pop up in a single staring cameo.

#### Hagechi Zenikata

(ゼニ形ハゲ次 *Zenikata Hagechi*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The TeruTeru Catch Directory" (テルテル捕物帳)

A traveling private detective who took up this role after he couldn't get any audience for his theater company. He is accompanied by his sidekick **Yakeppachi** (ヤケッパチ) and the two attempt to stay at the Matsuno home but wind up in trouble.

#### Henchman

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Beat-Up Car Full of Crisis" (ポンコツカー危機いっぱい)

Dayon's henchman in the story, who takes part in helping him hold the rest of the cast hostage.

#### Iyami's "Puppet"

* **Chapter appearance**: "Me Doll is a Nasty Doll" (ミーの人形はいやみな人形)

A small man Iyami uses as a ventriloquist puppet in one of his scam attempts, but the ruse is uncovered when the sextuplets manage to beat him up.

#### Joe of Charel

(シャレルのジョー)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Biggest Fight on Paper" (紙上最大のなぐりこみ)

A crook that Ichimatsu, Todomatsu, and Jyushimatsu choose as
heir champion in their argument against the other trio in the chapter, and who buys them chocolate and then sweet potatoes.

A prototypical Iyami is first seen here as part of Joe's gang, along with another cameo of Ichiro.

#### Umbrella Yarinosuke, Black Pepper Karaemon, Kusarigama Pantaro, Big Belly Button Tsukimaru, Cruel-Faced Samurai, Windmill Kennosuke

(カラカサヤリの助 *Karakasa Yarinosuke*, コショウからえもん *Koshou Karaemon*, クサリガマパン太郎 *Kusarigama Pantaro*, おデベソつき丸 *Odebeso Tsukimaru*, 日土井顔兵衛 *Hidoi Kaobe*, 風車剣之介 *Kazaguruma Kennosuke*)

**CV:** Shigeru Chiba (Yarinosuke), Tetsuo Mizutori (Karaemon), Shozo Iizuka (Samurai) (all 1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Morning Game of Dekapan Castle" (デカパン城の午前試合)
* **Anime appearance** (1988): "The Tomboy Princess of Dekapan Castle"

Other tournament fighters that compete for the offer to marry Princess Totoko.

* Yarinosuke fights with a paper umbrella
* Karaemon's iron mace contains black pepper
* Pantaro uses a kusarigama, as evident of his name
* Tsukimaru fights with a staff, the end of which is shaped like an outward-protruding bellybutton
* Cruel-Faced Samurai (translation of the Japanese *Hidoi Kaobe*) is a harsh, ugly man with brute strength and a large wooden club.
* Kennosuke fights with a windmill on his head.

Due to the restructuring of the events in the chapter for the
animated adaptation, some fighters such as Pantaro and Kennosuke are cut from the tournament (as Osomatsu does not have to fight Kennosuke to advance to fighting Chibita, who no longer takes part in the matches).

The anime does add a scene with two additional fighters, however; a "Sarutanosuke" (a monkey-faced man) and a boy that looks like Momotaro, who is defeated by the former.

#### Katai

(片井)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Dawn of the Tenth Year"

An old acquaintance of the Matsuno parents. A notable characteristic is his square-shaped eyeballs. His speech is rather plain, and he will use honorifics for those he is close to.

He is a heavy alcoholic and will rage hard when drunk, but will be troubled and not remember anything that happened when he drank. He notably mistakes the sextuplets for being dodecaplets in part of the story, due to his alcoholism giving him double vision.

Katai is also shown among the random characters depicted in a spread in "There's No Wonderful Business Like That of a Gag!".

#### Kechida-san

(毛知田さん)

**CV:** ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "Let's Learn from the Greatest Miser in History" (史上最大のケチを学ぼう)
* **Anime appearance (1966)**: "Let's Learn from the Greatest Miser in History" (史上最大のケチを学ぼう)

A stingy old neighbor that the boys are ordered to visit, in order to learn a lesson on conserving their money wisely. He only wears boxers and lets his yard be overrun with weeds, so that he can always have some form of food to eat without wasting yen.

His windows are always broken, causing him to always be cold, and his walls and tatami mats are similarly shabby. His pride and joy is the large safe that he stores his money in.

The anime adaptation removes the ultimate punchline where the boys and Iyami see Kechida burning his piles of money, in order to gain warmth.

#### Kettle Master

* **Chapter appearance**: "Alachibi and the Magic Kettle" (アラチビと魔法のやかん)

A shady, unnamed bearded man wearing a turban as part of his scam about a "magic kettle" (which he has Chibita hide in as his genie). This man is replaced with Iyami in the 1966 adaptation.

#### Kinko's Father

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Cutie Living Next Door" (となりのかわい子ちゃん)
* **Anime appearance**: "The Cutie Who Moved Nearby" (ひっこしてきたカワイコちゃん, adaptation of the above)

A man with a face much like his own dog, Pes. He hates being
mistaken for a dog by the boys, and especially hates noisy and rude children who won't let him get peace.

He speaks in a monosyllabic way and makes dog noises for much of his screentime, but finally gets angry enough to speak coherently and orders his daughter to pack her things to prepare to move away to a neighborhood with nicer children.

#### Knockout Tsuyoi

(ノックアウト強井)

**CV**: Kazuo Kumakura (King Punch, 1965 sonosheet), ? (Strong King Punch, 1966)

* **Chapter appearance**: "We'll Do Anything in 6 Rounds" (なんでもやるよ６回戦)

A tough boxer that the sextuplets have to go up against, as they attempt to fill in for Totoko's brother.

In the 1965 sonosheet, he is renamed **King Punch**, and the 1966 anime adaptation follows in a similar direction by calling him **Strong King Punch**.

#### The Kowai Gang

(コワイ会 *Kowai-kai*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Don't Be Afraid to do Good Things without Clashing" (ガタガタいわずによいことしやがれ)

A group of gangsters that attempt to split apart and do good deeds. However, their old habits are too hard to break, and after they continue to fail, they turn themselves in to the police by recommendation of the citizens they'd upset.

Two of the henchmen bear slight resemblances to underlings in the Smog Gang, their leader has a similar manner of dress, and Chibita is also affiliated with them.

#### Loud-Voiced Thief

* **Chapter appearance**: "Huge Voice" (でっかい大声)

A thief that can overpower other people with his large, but brief shouts. In the end, the only one who can match his strength is an old lady that's hard of hearing, who is able to withstand his powerful voice.

#### Mamoru Shimekiri

(乄切守)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Manga-ka's House is Severe" (まんが家はきびしいなあ)

A Dayon-esque man (appearing before the actual character would show up) who is a local manga-ka, behind on deadlines, as evident by his surname meaning "deadline". Iyami, Chibita, and the sextuplets learn how to be his manga assistants while visiting his home.

#### Moguramaru (otherwise known as "Doro-chan" or just a nameless mole man)

(モグラ丸)

**CV**: ? (1966), ? (1988)

* **Chapter apparance**: "Youth Trailing a Mole!" (若者よもぐらにつづけ！), others

A small, mole-like man seen in a variety of roles. In at least two appearances, he is shown to love cross-dressing as an attempt to disguise himself from the police. The "Moguramaru" name is said in The Garden Guard Sextuplets", though other times he may be unnamed.

He also pops up in some form in each anime adaptation, more commonly in the 1966 anime than 1988. Because of how differently he is used in each story, his voice actor in the 1966 version isn't very consistent and he may sometimes even be interpreted with a nose by some animators.

#### The President of Nabezoko Productions

(鍋底社長 *Nabezoko-shacho*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Low-Grade Production at the Height of Popularity" (人気絶頂鍋底プロダクション)

An entertainment professional who has many types of talent in his company, regardless of how popular or unpopular they may be. He employs Ganmo, who impresses the sextuplets and gets them wanting to be part of Nabe Pro. But in the end, he and Ganmo are defeated by Chibita's popularity and left to be beggars with Iyami.

#### Ochida of the Handrail & Kinji of Slim-key

(テスリのオチ太, スリムキのキン次)

* **Chapter appearance**: "I Will Show You How To Thoroughly" (みごとにスッてみせまする)

Two members of a criminal gang lead by Chibita. Ochida is a short, stout man with buckteeth and a X-bandaged nose, while Kinji is tall, slim, and bearing a scar on his face.

#### Oden Seller

**CV**: Takuzo Kamiyama (1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita's Revenge" (チビ太の復讐)

A man proud of his oden, enough to keep track of every piece he makes. He is startled to discover that some of it was stolen and eaten while he was in the bathroom, and Iyami pins the blame on Chibita.

In the manga, the seller has a large three-toothed overbite like Iyami and has a harsher appearance. The 1988 anime softens his teeth and design somewhat, along with referring to him by the pejorative "okama" in the script and having him enjoy putting on makeup. He also has a habit of naming his oden.

#### Oden Seller#2

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita the Fake Cop" (チビ太のニセ警官)

A similar but different oden selling character, who has a rounder three-toothed overbite, and lacks a nose. He is tricked by Chibita into giving him a lot of oden but getting no money in return.

#### Dr. Ojison

(オジソン博士 *Ojison-hakase*)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Camera of the Heart" (ココロのカメラ)

An inventor who created a camera that can read what people are truly thinking and feeling. He became depressed and pessimistic after photographing many citizens throughout town, discovering they were all rotten in their nature (although when he tried to take a photo of Hatabō, he couldn't find anything meaningful).

This leads to him deciding to take up a life of crime to fit in, as he becomes a robber.

#### "Old Soldier Man"

* **Chapter appearance:** "I Want a Handsome Face" (いかした顔になりたいよ), others

An angry old man with two large buckteeth. His design is also notable for his pig-like nose, furrowed unibrow, and entirely bald head. He is often cast as a bothered neighbor, or as a military-minded sort of man who's very strict and commanding.

His most notable use in -kun comes as Totoko's military captain grandfather, who trains the sextuplets to round up the troublesome cats that are pests to the fish shop. Otherwise, he is also seen as a captain in "The Iyami Platoon Strikes", and as a random man in the neighborhood in many other instances.

He also makes a cameo in the -kun spread in "There's No Wonderful Business Like That of a Gag!", before vanishing entirely from anything associated with the series. He or variants of his design do continue to pop up outside of -kun, however, and he was most notably reused as The Monk Assputin in *The Genius Bakabon's Old Man*.

#### "Pepen"

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearances**: "Pepen Counterattack Strategy", "Mito Komon Iyami", "Pepepenpen New Business on May 5th", "Parody Version of Treasure Island"

A cat-like man who plays a shamisen and uses a gang of cats to steal for him. He has an unusual verbal tic of "pe pe pen" or "pepen" that he uses while singing or speaking.

He shows up a few sporadic times during the series, but ultimately does not carry on to further runs.

#### Pig-Nosed Scientist

* **Chapter appearance:** "Butamatsu-kun"

As his name suggests, he's an unusual scientist with a pig's nose. Osomatsu is lured by him drawing arrows to follow him to his mansion, where the man traps him and injects him with a strange medicine.

This formula keeps causing Osomatsu to transform from a boy to pig, back and forth, and getting him into terrible situations. The scientist is found and beaten up by the sextuplets later on, and Osomatsu seems to be cured.

However, the scientist and his starving pigs proceed to crash the Matsuno family's dinner and eat up all their food.

#### Pointy-Toothed Doctor

* **Chapter appearance:** "A Safe, A Watermelon, and a Frog" (金庫とスイカとカエルさん)

A doctor that looks like a prototypical Dayon-type. He examines
Osomatsu after the head injury that winds up temporarily wiping his
memories.

#### President and Assistant

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "Sextuplets Surprised to Be a Dozen" (びっくり六つ子が一ダース)

A duo of unnamed men that arrive, interested in buying the scientist's sextuplet dolls. The president is a child's toy-loving man who arrives in an oversized toy tank, and then rides in a toy truck. His assistant sports a party blower in his mouth.

The two are driven away in disgust after finding the "dolls" to be too violent and not docile as they thought they'd be. The 1988 adaptation of the story replaces these two with Dekapan and Hatabō.

#### Sextuplet Doll Scientist

* **Chapter appearance**: "Sextuplets Surprised to Be a Dozen" (びっくり六つ子が一ダース)

An unusual scientist that creates life-size, realistic replicas of the sextuplets. He attempts to use the actual sextuplets as demonstration material for a pair of interested buyers, but their attitude turns them off.

The sextuplet dolls wind up being activated and make a mess of the Matsuno home, but are given back to the man, who attempts to use the dolls in a scam to beg for money the next day (having them pose as his children).

This character is replaced by Iyami in the 1966 animated adaptation, as well as in 1988. The scene with the dolls being activated does not make it into the first anime, although the ending punchline is still the same. In the 1988 version, the dolls are replaced by one track-minded clones that Iyami makes.

#### "Shitami-kun"

(下見くん)

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Student Hat with a Key" (かぎのかかった学生帽)
* **Anime appearance (1966)**: "The Suspicious Transfer Student" (あやしい転校生, adaptation of the above)

A strange, small buck-toothed boy with facial features similar to that of Hatabō. However, he is found to be highly unusual in that his school hat seems padlocked and unable to be removed, as well as him carrying around adult items like pachinko balls and cigars.

In the end, "Shitami-kun" is revealed to be the father of the actual student Hanao Shitami, and he appears bald and middle-aged without his hat on. It is also shown that in contrast to this tiny father, the real Shitami is enormous, which is why his father attempted to conceal him in the first place.

#### The Smog Family

(スモッグ一家)

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Simple Smog Family" (せいぞろいスモッグ一家)

A gang lead by the "Smog Boss", a man whose head is constantly shrouded in the smog created by his own smoking pipe. They challenge the sextuplets to a group fight after the boys had bullied and humiliated Chibita at the bathhouse, and had done similar pranking to two of the henchmen. In the end of the manga chapter, the boss gives up his life of crime to become a famous handsome actor, but this punchline is removed in the anime.

Some similar designs are re-used for the Kowai Gang, down to Chibita being a member and the leader wearing the same fashion as the Smog Boss.

The Boss is seen next in "There's No Wonderful Business Like That of a Gag!", and a much similar "Boss of the Smog Family" also appears in the *Nyarome's Fun Classroom* cosmology book, but the punchline of his true face is much different.

A statue of the original boss later appears as an easter egg in *Osomatsu-san*, as well as its movie.

#### Stitch-Faced Yakuza Duo

**CV** (1988): Shigeru Chiba (Yakuza A, 1988 ep.3), Takuzo Kamiyama (Yazuka B, 1988 ep.3)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Dr. Dekapan and Mr. Hyde" (デカパン博士とハイド氏)

As this descriptive name suggests, they are two yakuza men
characterized by the large stitched-up scars that wrap around their entire faces. In their appearance, Iyami sends them to attack Dekapan, but they come back vowing to do good after Dekapan fixed their sicknesses.

The 1988 series re-uses the two men at various other points for bit stock criminals and background characters, and their voice actors tend to change in their other speaking roles.

#### Thief and Henchman

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Human Teleportation Machine" (人間送りマシン)

A burglar and smaller subordinate that discover the teleportation machine and use it to find a place to rob, winding up in the sextuplets' home. The two are defeated by the sextuplets as well as the inventor of the machine, and teleported right into a jail cell.

#### Time Travel Scientist

* **Chapter appearance:** "Osomatsu-kun Goes to the Stone Age" (おそ松くん　石器時代へいく)

A man that sends the sextuplets back in time in a special barrel he made, when they're bored and looking for something fun to do.

#### The Tongue Man

* **Chapter appearance:** "A Million Yen Laughter and Tongue Sticking Out" (ビローンとわらって百万円)

A small bald businessman that goes around sticking his tongue out and making funny faces, to disrupt peoples' photography. Capturing a picture of him is said to be worth a million yen, but it's hard to get a good photo of him without him making one of those faces.

This story is adapted into the 1988 anime as well, but this man's role is instead given to Iyami.

#### Tougou

(東郷)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Terrifying Lodger" (恐怖の下宿人)

A lodger who comes to stay with the Matsunos and seems to be a hospitable, nice man. But in actuality, he is a terrible criminal who threatens Osomatsu to stay silent about his robberies, and wields a large knife.

#### Yagi

(八木さん)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Teacher Who Studied Too Much" (勉強しすぎた大先生)

A tutor hired by the sextuplets' father. He is a ronin (dropout) of university, and only gives the sextuplets reasons to fear the adult world, which causes them to become lazier and unmotivated like him.

However, some anger is struck back into him when Chibita decides to hit him over the head with a mallet.

### Associates and Family Members

#### Boss' Son

* **Chapter appearance**: "Papa's Monthly Salary is 400,000 Yen" (パパの月給40万円)

A trigger-happy young man who comes along with the sextuplets to go on a hunting trip, but causes trouble. The 1966 anime replaces him with Chibita, though this very character would also pop up in a re-use in an *Otasuke-kun* story.

#### Chibita's Family

*See also Family Members of Chibita for more information.*

Chibita's parents are not consistent through chapters, and he may be without them most of the time. He initially has an older brother that exists in the early period of the series and appears in two chapters, but this character was phased out in favor of Chibita being portrayed as more proactive.

#### Chief of the Assault Team

(突撃おしうり部隊長)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Chief of the Assault Team" (突撃おしうり部隊長)

A wartime friend of Matsuzo, who was the captain of his platoon in WW2.

#### Chigiri Hanao

(花尾ちぎり, *Hanao Chigiri*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Sextuplets are Date Pinch-Hitters" (六つ子は　みあいのピンチヒッター)

A young woman who has a nervous habit of putting napkins up to her mouth and ripping them with her teeth. She winds up being the woman that Matsuzo's co-worker Mushiri has to date, and the sextuplets wind up seeing her behavior when they attempt to stand-in for the man.

In the end, she and Mushiri prove to be a perfect couple with their behavioral tics.

#### Dayōn Brothers

* **Chapter appearance**: "Sextuplets vs. the Great Gang of Japan" (六つ子対大ニッポンギャング)

In this story's setting, Dayōn is just one of three identical brothers that were all separated after fighting in WW2, but who reunite during the plot. One Dayōn is a pilot, another is a captain of a ship, and the last is a truck driver.

#### Dayōn's Wife

* **Chapter appearance**: "Take Me to the Golden Fountain" (金のおフロにはいってちょ)

Dayōn's wife, who helps him run the bathhouse in the story.

#### Fiancee

* **Chapter appearance**: "Matchmaking with Iyami" (イヤミのお見合い)

An unnamed classy woman that Iyami invites to the Matsuno home, pretending that it's his own so that he can pose as a wealthy man. However, the ruse gets exposed by the sextuplets, though the fiancee still is open to the idea as her father turns out to be a beggar.

But in the end, things are not as what they could seem, and the marriage doesn't go through due to Iyami's terrible personality showing itself for his would've-been wife's father and the "Beggar Boss" departing with his daughter in a limosine.

In early drafts of the 1988 series' 54th episode, this woman would have been replaced with an equivalent character named **Shinobu**. However, in the end, the **Kaori Shiratori** character from episode 49 was re-used in a new setting.

#### Fighting Yowai

(ファイティング弱井)

* **Chapter appearances:** "We'll Do Anything in 6 Rounds" (なんでもやるよ６回戦,, mentioned and on poster), "It's a Problem Whether You're a Child or an Adult" (おとなか 子どもか それが問題だ)

Totoko's older brother, an amateur boxer. His stage name was inspired after that of Masahiko "Fighting" Harada, who was a popular figure at the time his chapter was released.

Although there was interest expressed by a reader in seeing more of "Totoko and her brother", this young man did not show up in plots after his second appearance and Totoko's family in general became phased out or dependent on the setting of a story.

#### Ganmo of the Tofu Shop

(トウフ屋のガンモ *Tofu-ya no Ganmo*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Deceiving Totoko-chan!" (トト子ちゃんをだまそ!)

A young man that runs a nearby tofu store, that Osomatsu briefly ropes into helping him. This is just one of many such young tofu-affiliated men with the "Ganmo" name in Akatsuka works, and much different from another Ganmo we'll eventually see pop up in this title.

#### Good Morning Pharmaceutical Boss

(オハヨウ製薬)

**CV**: Keiko Yamamoto (1966)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Good Morning Medicine and Good Night Medicine" (オハヨウ製薬とオヤスミ製薬)

A rich woman who is Matsuyo's boss at this company. Ichimatsu, Karamatsu, and Choromatsu side with their mother and her, and attempt to promote the "Good Morning" medicine that will instantly wake people up when they ingest it.

Her design, or variants of it, later appears with other characters that are usually snobbish rich women. This "Rich Lady" type also winds up being a prototype to Non-chan in The Genius Bakabon.

#### Good Night Pharmaceutical Boss

(オヤスミ製薬)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Good Morning Medicine and Good Night Medicine" (オハヨウ製薬とオヤスミ製薬)

Matsuzo's boss. Osomatsu, Jyushimatsu, and Todomatsu attempt to promote his "Good Night" medicine that will force people to sleep. He is a bald cleft-headed man with a single hair, thick glasses, and a mustache.

He is replaced by Iyami in the 1966 anime adaptation.

#### Hatabō's Family

*See also Family Members of Hatabō*

Hatabō's own family can also vary by setting, although appearances of a family are much more sporadic. He can generally be said to have parents and a sister, and sometimes an older brother existing as well.

#### Iyami's Family

*See also Family Members of Iyami*

Iyami at rare points can be shown to have a spouse in the first run, who often looks rather similar to him with a bobbed haircut and a three-toothed overbite. He is also shown once with an identical daughter in such a fashion, and his own mother in certain settings has the same face and teeth.

#### Iyami's Teacher

* **Chapter appearance**: "Me Boyhood Era, zansu" (ミーの少年時代ザンス)

A teacher seen in a flashback in Iyami's memoirs. He is a hippo-faced man who believes A-kun's lie about not bullying B-kun at first, as well as Iyami taking the blame for the name-calling.

Iyami then learns to trick and manipulate this man and the other people at his school.

#### Dr. Kurohige

* **Chapter appearance**: "Iyami Alone in the Wind" (イヤミはひとり風のなか)

A doctor that Iyami takes Okiku to, but who states that the only one who can do anything for her is the foreign Dutch doctor Castella. Nonetheless, when Iyami manages to come up with the stolen money for him, he takes Okiku away on a horse so that they can travel to Castella before he leaves Japan.

His role and name are handed over to Dayon in the 1990 OVA instead, and -san gives his role to Dekapan (while Dr. Castella is changed to an American doctor, Kershaw).

#### Landlord

* **Chapter appearance**: "Osomatsu's Family is Targeted" (ねらわれたおそ松一家)

The original owner of the house takes part in a targeted attack on the family with Chibita, arranging for garbage to be dumped in their yard and for cats and a gang to attack them.

But in the end, the Matsuno family proves to be a strong force, attacking and shaving the cats as well as the landlord's head, and getting Chibita arrested.

#### Matsuzo's Friend (and Son)

* **Chapter appearance**: "I'm Going to Have a Sleepless Child" (ねむれない子のおもりをします)

A man who brings his easily-frustrated son to the Matsuno home
 in hopes of getting him some rest, as the child can't sleep in their own home when construction is going on. The son becomes vicious when disturbed, but also has a sleep-walking habit.

In the end, the son manages to sleep-walk to his father, and can now only sleep when there's noise around (thus requiring there to be constant loud sounds around him).

The 1988 anime adaptation replaces these two with Dekapan and his anime-only son Taro.

#### Old Baseball Men (Ryunosuke, Kuma-san, Magojiro, Gan-san)

(竜之助, クマさん, 孫次郎, ガンさん)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Let's Face Off Against the Weak and Old" (相手はヨボヨボだるんでいこう)

A group of elderly men that are convinced they still have strong baseball skills, that want the sextuplets to play off against them.

#### Old Man of the Country

* **Chapter appearance**: "Hustle in the Country" (いなかでハッスル)

A family friend of the Matsunos who lives out in the countryside. He runs a farm with his wife and two sons, but has forbidden Osomatsu to come to their house due to the boy having fed his pigs laxatives as a diet medicine in a prank. This leads to Osomatsu first attempting to disguise himself as an Indian prince, and then later beating up Karamatsu and leaving him to be mistaken for him and taking blame for the further trouble he'd caused on the visit.

#### Rich Kansai Couple

* **Chapter appearance**: "A 50,000 Yen Allowance" (こづかい毎日五万円)

Distant relatives of the Matsunos that show up wanting to adopt a child one day.

They bear some similarities to the Game Jewelry couple that are parents of Chibita in one story, as well as Matsuyo's boss for the "Good Morning Medicine" (though the Rich Lady character and variations of her appear a bit around this time in Akatsuka's manga).

#### Sugita Mushiri

(虫利杉太, *Mushiri Sugita*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Sextuplets are Date Pinch-Hitters" (六つ子は　みあいのピンチヒッター)

Matsuzo's co-worker at his company. He is a younger man that's had 999 unsuccessful dates, due to his nervous habit of ripping up whatever objects are around him.

#### School Doctor#1

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Physical Examination Reveals a Monster" (身体検査のばけものである)

This doctor is shown to be in charge of all the students' physical examinations, notably causing a chubbier student to be made fun of when he has to take his shirt off. He can be identified by his long beard and pig-like nose.

#### School Doctor#2

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Student Hat with a Key" (かぎのかかった学生帽)

A doctor with a wide, large mouth. Chibita takes the new student to him in hopes of removing his locked hat.

#### Teacher #1

* **Chapter appearances**: "The Master of Right and Left" (みぎや　ひだりの　だんなさま), "Deceiving

Totoko-chan!" (トト子ちゃんをだまそ!), "The Physical Examination Reveals a
Monster" (身体検査のばけものである), "Chibita the Billionaire" (チビ太は億万長者)
An unnamed, squat man with a sparse mustache and spiky black hair. He initially appears as just Choromatsu's teacher, but is later
used again as a general teacher for the boys, most notably in the physical exam chapter where in the punchline he becomes horrified by the results of the exam they'd written up for Iga.

#### Teacher#2

* **Chapter appearance**: "One Pleasant Vote for Chibita!" (チビ太に清き一票を!)

An average woman with dot eyes and bobbed hair, who tries to keep the class in line for their class president voting process. She is seen with the students at the end, bidding goodbye to Chibita.

#### Teacher #3

* **Chapter appearances**: "A Student Hat with a Key" (かぎのかかった学生帽), "Be a Substitute Teacher for the Sextuplets" (六つ子をキビシクあそばせろ)

A rougher-looking man with large teeth, a sparse mustache, and glasses. He is the teacher of the 6th grade class in the first chapter, and introduces the students to "Shitami-kun". Osomatsu, Totoko, and Chibita are shown to be part of his homeroom.

He next appears as Osomatsu's teacher again, complaining of his student's poor performance.

#### Teacher#4

* **Chapter appearance**: "Steal the Answer Sheet" (答案用紙をぬすめ)

A teacher with wild messy hair, a checkered suit, and large glasses. A few of the sextuplets and Chibita duck out of his class to search for Chibita's book-bag, as he accidentally got his mixed up with the principal's.

#### Teacher#5

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Cowardly Student and a Scary Teacher" (よわむし生徒とこわ～い先生)

A man resembling Dayon, but lacking his large teeth and bearing a thick, heavy mustache. This teacher is forced to shear off the mustache in hopes of calming the scared new student Tsuyoshi.

In the end, after trouble is caused for the teacher in dealing with Tsuyoshi and his father, he transfers to another school but finds that Tsuyoshi has enrolled there too (after leaving the previous school due to finding it too scary). Chibita is shown to be part of the class roster at the first school, while all six of the Matsunos are in the class at the new school.

#### Teacher #6:

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Feudal System Came to Tokyo" (封建制度が東京へでてきた)

He is shown about to teach the boys' class, but it is interrupted by Chibita and his guards.

#### Other Teachers of the Boys

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Master of Right and Left" (みぎや　ひだりの　だんなさま)

These teachers are shown to be in charge of classes that Osomatsu, Ichimatsu, and Todomatsu are part of the roster for.

Osomatsu's teacher resembles Kunio Nagatani, Todomatsu's is a buck-toothed bald man, and Ichimatsu's teacher has a large nose and bandaged cheek.

#### Other Teachers #2

* **Chapter appearance**: ""Be a Substitute Teacher for the Sextuplets" (六つ子をキビシクあそばせろ)

These other five teachers appear alongside Osomatsu's in this chapter, to announce how poorly their students are doing.

* Ichimatsu's teacher is a small bald man with whiskers and a curly unibrow
* Choromatsu's teacher is a sly-looking man in a striped suit and pineapple leaf-like ahoge
* Karamatsu's teacher is a large, brutish-looking woman
* Todomatsu's teacher is a small, slim man with a mustache
* Jyushimatsu's teacher is a small bald man with dot eyes.

#### Professor Togarashi

(トガラシ教授)

* **Chapter appearances**: "Professor Togarashi's Genius Education" (トガラシ教授の天才教育), "Mr. Iyami" mini margin comic, as well as a magazine page preceding the original release of "Chibita's Revenge"

A strict teacher of the boys. However, Togarashi himself is
shown to be silly when not around his students and living a double life.

He is one of the bit parts that serve as a prototype in design to Dayōn, from the shape of his face and certain features to his very hairstyle. However, he has a different mustache (and in the case of the last instance, a full unibrow).

#### The Yowai Family

(弱井家の母, 弱井家の父 *Yowai kazoku no haha*, *Yowai kazoku no chichi*)

*Main article: The Yowai Family*

**CV (father)**: Eken Mine (1988, episode 18),Masashi Hirose (1988, episode 19)

**CV (mother)**: Yo Inoue (1988, episode 19), Kumiko Takizawa ("Greetings from the Watermelon Planet!" movie)

* **Chapter appearances**: "Tonkachibi Talent" (トンカチビタレント, mother), "It's a Problem Whether You're a Child or an Adult" (おとなか 子どもか それが問題だ, both parents), "I Won't Lose to the Sextuplets!" (六つ子なんかにまけないぞ, mother), "Welcome to Chibita's Fish Shop" (こんちわチビ太のさかな屋さん, father), "Chibita the Safe-Cracker" (チビ太の金庫やぶり, father)

Totoko's parents are seen in the early portion of the manga, although other settings get used for the needs of the story over the years and they become obsolete. Her father is the owner of the fish store, and her mother is an ordinary housewife.

By the time of "Chibita the Safe-Cracker", Totoko's dad is the only family member still seen to be used and his design is altered in the Shonen King remake.

The "Yowai" surname is not used in the 1988 anime adaptation, where the family often doesn't exist. When parents for Totoko are shown, they are significantly redesigned from the manga and are depicted as a rich couple living in a mansion. However, the father from "Safe-Cracker" does appear in the adaptation of that story.

#### Umeda President

(社長の梅田 *Shacho no Umeda*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Let's Visit Trouble Instead of Papa" (パパのかわりにめんどうみよう)

Matsuzo's boss in another story. He has some design motifs that are similar to the boss in the "Good Night Medicine" story, but lacks the single hair and glasses. He is shown to have an infant son.

Similar but slightly different Matsuzo bosses later appear in "Osomatsu Inc." (おそ松株式会社) and "The Best Severe Discipline in Japan" (きびしいしつけは日本一よ).

#### Umeko

(梅子さん *Umeko-san*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Wreck of a Class Meeting" (まいった　まいったクラス会)

A classmate of Matsuyo from her school days. Although she and Matsuyo manage to meet for the first time in 20 years, a disturbance by the sextuplets causes the dress that Matsuyo had borrowed from her those
 years ago to be torn and ruined.

#### Yamada

(山田)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Nonsensical Town Sports Festival"(むちゃくちゃ町内運動会)

A man slightly resembling an early Chibita, but with whiskers. The sextuplets and other children compete against him in a tug-of-war game.

### Other Kids

#### A-kun and B-kun

(A君, B君)

**Appear in (manga)**: "Me Boyhood Era, zansu" (ミーの少年時代ザンス)

Two young boys that exist in Iyami's school flashbacks. A-kun has
 a pig-like nose and buckteeth, while B-kun looks more like a gorilla.

Iyami initially takes the blame for A-kun bullying B-kun and
calling him "Saru" (monkey), but later tricks A-kun into saying the word and revealing that he had done it.

#### Atsui and Sabui (alt: Samui)

(暑井, 寒井)

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance**: "One Pleasant Vote for Chibita!" (チビ太に清き一票を)
* **Anime appearance**: Keke, I'm the Class President! (クラス委員はケケおれだい!, adaptation of the above)

Two friends and schoolmates of Osomatsu. Their names are puns on the words for "hot" and "cold", but are also double meanings as Atsui can mean "heavy" and Sabui/Samui can mean "stupid"/"dull".

#### Big Boy

**Appears in**: "A Samurai's Thousand Tribulations" (旅のしばいは侍千びき)

A tall, large unnamed child that Chibita sees enjoying oden. He has him pose as a fake Osomatsu, while he himself poses as Choromatsu, but their ruse is uncovered and the larger boy kicks Chibita away in anger.

The boy noticeably has a large round nose like the chapter 1 sextuplets and has an identical hairstyle to them, but has dot eyes and buckteeth as well.

#### Boroshichi

(ボロ七)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Osomatsu is the Prince and the Pauper?" (おそ松のこじき王子？)

A young garbage-collecting boy that Osomatsu attempts to trade
places with. He is rather foolish and enjoys cleaning up messes, and is known to not be able to read very well.

His father happens to be Gomi-ojisan from Akatsuka's earlier series *Tunnel Team*.

#### "Boss" and his Henchman

* **Chapter appearance:** "Being a Father is a Pitiful Thing" (かわいそうなのはとうちゃんでござい)

Two boys that Osomatsu gets into an argument with on the beach. The "Boss" is an older, larger boy, while his bucktoothed sidekick wears a straw hat to conceal the fact he only has a flower growing from his bald head.

#### Bully

* **Chapter appearance**: "Hatabō, Take Courage" (ハタ坊勇気をだす)

A bigger boy that pushes around Hatabō and that forces him to take the blame for his graffiti. However, after he and Hatabō are menaced by a criminal, Hatabō is forced to stay quiet by the older man about what happened while the bully is inconsolable about the incident.

#### Hayato

(ハヤト)

* **Chapter appearance**: "It's Time to Go Out" (おつぎの時間でござあます)

A young boy who can't play because his mother forces him to study with several tutors during the summer. The sextuplets decide to take over his classes for him, but cause trouble.

He is modeled after the then-prime minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda. This is also reflected in his statement that he wants to grow up to become a prime minister.

#### Hanao Shitami

(下見花夫 *Shitami Hanao*)

* **Chapter appearance:** "A Student Hat with a Key" (かぎのかかった学生帽)
* **Anime appearance**: "The Suspicious Transfer Student" (あやしい転校生, adaptation of the above)

An abnormally large but shy-looking boy who is a new student in the 6th grade. His father attempts to impersonate him and go in his place so his son won't scare the other children, but in the end the real Shitami son is introduced to the class.

His surname means "Preview"/"Look forward to", and his first name basically means "Flower boy". Though he has one line to introduce himself at the end of the chapter, he does not speak in the 1966 adaptation and instead left as a silent and unnerving sight for the rest of the classroom.

#### Iga

(伊賀)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Physical Examination Reveals a Monster" (身体検査のばけものである)

A rival student that the sextuplets see has feelings for Totoko, so they set out to ruin his physical exams. They also find that his coat is seemingly what makes him come off so formidable.

#### Jiro

(二郎)

* **Chapter appearance:** "If Public Housing is Right" (公団住宅あたっていれば)

A young, Ichiro-esque boy who gets his big brother to beat up Iyami and Chibita.

#### Kamikaze-kun

(神風君)

**CV**: ?

* **Chapter appearance:** "Industrial Spying for 10 Yen" (10円もらって産業スパイだ)

The son of the local Pontoic car dealer, who gets Osomatsu and the others to spy on the competitors selling Asedac cars. However, the other five sextuplets are lured by the Asedac men and convinced to support their car dealership.

In the anime adaptation, Kamikaze-kun and his father sell Asedac cars
 instead, as their rivals are changed to be Iyami and Chibita of the "Iyami Car" dealership.

It's notable that in the chapter, both Kamikaze and Osomatsu have their "-kun" honorific spelled with kanji instead of katakana. Kamikaze and his father's designs are re-used later on in the series as a random father and son, and also seemed to form the basis for the rich father and son in *Extraordinary Ataro*.

#### Ki-bō

(キー坊)

* **Chapter appearances:** "Let's Memorize the Art of Ninja and Defeat the Sextuplets" (忍法おぼえて六つ子に勝とう), "The Mysterious X is a Good Person" (怪傑Xはよい人です)

A neighborhood child, shown to be a friend of Chibita in his
second appearance. He resembles Hatabō with his facial features, but has a bald head, constantly-running nose, and flopping sleeves.

In his first usage, the sextuplets take advantage of this boy's loud cry of "KIIIII" (showing his name basis) to defeat Chibita in their fight, knocking him down from the telephone pole he'd climbed up.

#### Ki-chan

(キーちゃん)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Where Did the New Years' Card Go?" (どこへいくのか年賀状)

A young boy visited by Ichimatsu and Jyushimatsu when they have to go deliver the New Years' cards that Chibita was supposed to. He has a record player that plays messages for him.

His role is cut and given to Hatabō in the 1966 anime adaptation.

#### Kinko Inuyama

**CV**: Mari Kitagawa (1966)

(犬山キン子 *Inuyama Kinko*)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Cutie Living Next Door" (となりのかわい子ちゃん)
* **Anime appearance**: "The Cutie Who Moved Nearby" (ひっこしてきたカワイコちゃん, adaptation of the above)

A new girl who moves next door to the sextuplets, and that they all instantly gain crushes on. They each attempt to visit her under the guise of Osomatsu, but trouble occurs when her dad keeps getting mistaken for her dog by the boys and too much noise occurs. This results in her dad deciding to instantly move them to another neighborhood.

Her design is infamously and inconsistently re-interpreted in the 1966 show, with the animators unable to decide upon her hair style, or the look of her dress and hair accessory.

While her first name can be homophonous to a type of golden-gutted sea cucumber, her surname means "Dog mountain" and reflects her father and her pet very well.

The 1988 show replaces this character with the equivalent Kumiko, though *Osomatsu-san* does source Kinko Inuyama's name (but not her family setting) and the idea of her being a next-door neighbor for its own guest character in season 2.

#### Mimiko

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Story of a Baby and Tramps" (ルンペンと赤ちゃん物語)

A toddler that is a lost in a park, who Iyami and Chibita attempt to take care of and defend from bad guys. Though they grow attached to her, they must wind up letting her go back to her family.

#### Niyake

(二矢毛)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Returned to the New School Term from France" (おフランスがえりの新学期)

A snobbish young boy who got the chance to visit France for his summer vacation, but who is ignored by the others in favor of hearing about Chibita's Hawaii trip. After he suspects Iyami to be lying about having been to the country, he challenges his claims on it and Iyami makes him teach him the ways of France. But after it's revealed Niyake only spent a day in France to where Iyami calls him out on making up aspects of the culture, Niyake fires back that it's all that Iyami does.

After being made uncomfortable for the last time by this child, Iyami is shown to have quit his teaching job in favor of trying to be a painter.

#### Rie-chan

* **Chapter appearance**: "Ushasha, I Can't Help This Prediction"

A little girl that Iyami briefly attempts to pet in the park, only for him to get bit by her. She is notable for being a similar template to Mimiko from the "Baby and the Tramps" story. She was named after Akatsuka's daughter Rieko, and her mother is also meant to be a cameo of his first wife Tomoko.

She is renamed **Momoko** in the 1988 anime adaptation, and her character design is recycled for a child waiting outside the Yowai fish shop in Osomatsu-san.

#### Tonsuke and Tonta

(トン助,トン太)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Hustle in the Country" (いなかでハッスル)

Two young boys, possibly twins. They live out in the country and help their parents with the farm, but are pushed around by the sextuplets during their visit.

Tonta can be recognized by his full head of black hair, while Tonsuke has a shaved head. Both have noses much like the pigs they raise, and that they get from their father's looks.

The two boys and their father are last witnessed confronting a tied-up Karamatsu, believing him to be Osomatsu (who had previously been banned from the farm, only to disguise himself to travel there and make more trouble).

#### Tsuyoshi Yowai

(弱井ツヨシ)

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Cowardly Student and a Scary Teacher" (よわむし生徒とこわ～い先生)

A timid young boy who always has his father at his side due to his fear of school and other people, which is only cemented by the intimidating teacher he has to experience.

In the end, he transfers to the sextuplets' school and classroom, but finds that the teacher has taken a new job there as well. The teacher is now the one to be horrified by the sight of Tsuyoshi and father, after feeling he could finally be free of them.

The child's name provides amusing contradiction, as Tsuyoshi can mean strong/sturdiness/power (depending on kanji used), while Yowai means "weak".

#### Two Boys

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Weather Forecast Authority"

A pair of unnamed children that Osomatsu encounters in the chapter. They have a cat that they claim can predict the weather accurately, which leads to the cat being bullied and stolen by the sextuplets.

They are cut from the 1966 anime adaptation, as Chibita is substituted in their role.

#### Waka-sama

(若さま)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Let's See the Troubles of Young People Together" (みんなで若のめんどうみよう)

A rich young boy that owns a mansion, and has all that he could want, but has a rude temper. His mansion is destroyed at the end when he recklessly plays with a bomb.

#### Yotaichi

(与太市)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Everyone Hates Osomatsu" (おそ松ばかりがなぜきらわれる)

A neighborhood bully that Osomatsu encounters early in the manga. He tricks Osomatsu into giving up his brothers' snacks and then manipulates the group into finding him a persimmon, but is ultimately foiled by the combined efforts of Choromatsu and Osomatsu.

He is also referred to as "Tsuyoi-san" by Osomatsu; whether this is a nickname based off how strong he is (as the word means "strong") or his surname is left up for readers to wonder.

A similar yet different bully that may or may not have been intended to be him (as there is some artistic difference) later appears fighting Osomatsu and Choromatsu at the start of "The Great March of 101 Mice" (101ぴきネズミ大行進).

#### Younger Kids

* **Chapter appearance**: "Me is a Disinfection Shop" (ミーは消毒屋ざんす)

A quartet of smaller neighborhood children that Osomatsu tricks
into helping him catch flies, but gives them rocks instead of yen (to their anger).

### Strange Beings

#### Bacteria-chan

(バイキンちゃん *Baikin-chan*)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Goodbye, Bacteria-chan (バイキンちゃん *Baikin-chan*)

A tiny germ child that spawned from a piece of moldy food. Although she has a sweet face, her mold power is intense and whatever she touches becomes covered in it.

However, she is short-lived due to the trouble she causes and the food she spawned from is burned.

#### Dracula and Dra-chan

(ドラキュラ, ドラちゃん)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Son of Dracula" (ドラキュラの息子)

The vampire of legend and his young son who have come to Tokyo. Their bites can cause others to become vampires, but knocking out the affected teeth will cure the newly-converted.

It is also revealed that if the two are de-fanged, they will become normal humans, which winds up being their ultimate fate after the sun causes their fangs to vanish.

#### Flower Fairies

(花の精 *Hana no sei*)

**CV (good)**: Yuriko Fuchizaki (1988)

**CV (bad)**: Megumi Hayashibara (1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Life of Chibita's Flower" (チビ太の花のいのち)

A pair of fairies that appear to Chibita and Iyami, after each water their roses. Chibita's flower fairy is kind and helpful, while Iyami's fairy is rude and destructive.

The fairies will die and disappear if their flowers wilt or are uprooted. Redesigned counterparts *very* loosely inspired by these originals appear in *Osomatsu-san*, while the 1988 show's adaptation was moved to the Edo era and the roses (and thus fairies) were changed somewhat in color; the white rose became pink, while the black rose became a deep red.

#### Kappataro

(カパ太郎)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Osomatsu's Kappa Friend"

A young kappa boy that Osomatsu encounters and attempts to befriend, only for him to cause trouble at the house. The boys' attempts to catch Kappataro only end in failure, as he manages to escape.

#### Kinbo, the Iyami Germ

(イヤミ菌のキン坊 *Iyami baikin no Kinbo*)

**CV**: Shigeru Chiba (1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Bacteria Counterattack" (バイキングの逆襲)

One of many "Iyami germs" that live inside Iyami. He is said to be responsible for Iyami's nasty personality, along with the rest of his type. If another person ingests these Iyami germs, they take on his attitude. Kinbo's parents are also shown as key germs, with his father being the King.

In the anime, he is given a buddy named Tamabo, with their opening song being a parody of the advertisting jingle used for the Yanmar corporation's weather reports (with their mascots Yanbo and Marbo). There is also an innuendo hidden in there, in which one were to put the first parts of their names together (as with the Yanmar mascots), they would make the word "Kintama" ("testicles"). Akatsuka himself had used a similar sort of gag in his manga *Mom NO.1*, with two aliens named Kin and Tama introducing themselves with a parody of the Yanmar song.

#### Ponta and Father

(ポン太, お父さん)

* **Chapter appearances:** "I Now Have Seven Sons!" (わしのむすこが７人もいるーっ!!) and "The Tanuki's Revenge, Tanuki Soba" (たぬきのあだうち　たぬきそば)

A pair of tanuki that cause trouble for the Matsunos twice early on in the series. But in the 1966 anime adaptation, they are shown to be only two members of a larger tanuki family when their den is shown.

#### Pi-bo and Parents

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita's Escape from Osomatsu's Setsubun" (おそ松豆まきゃチビ太がにげる)

A young oni that Chibita befriends, helping him to get revenge on the sextuplets for bullying him. Pi-bo is shown to live with his oni parents, who are appreciative of Chibita.

#### Shinigami Salesman

(死神セールスマン)

**CV**: Kenichi Ogata (1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Shinigami Salesman" (死神セールスマン)

One of many reapers employed to take the souls of the dead after their life candles burn out. He appears when Osomatsu is sick and his candle is melting away, and convinces Iyami to help him try to kill the child in order to extend Iyami's own lifespan.

In the manga, he grows tired of his job and retires at the end of
 the story, opening up a candle store. This unnerves the sextuplets when they go to get candles and recognize him.

However, the 1988 anime adaptation has him die at the end (along with Iyami, the sextuplets, and pretty much everyone else) when Chibita accidentally lets open a window in the Shinigami's house and it blows out all the candles.

#### Shinigami #4

(死神四号 *Shinigami Shi-gou*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Shinigami Wrestler" (死神レスラー)

Another featured reaper, who befriends a suicidal wrestler named Tawashi (タワッシー) and nurses him to health.

After finding himself unable to reap the soul of this unfortunate man, he gives up his career to instead become the titular wrestler, now calling himself "Mr. Shinigami" (ミスター死神) in the ring.

#### Shinigami Co., Ltd.

(死神株式会社 *Shinigami Kabushikigaisha*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Shinigami Wrestler" (死神レスラー)

The boss and other associates that work at this company, which
 professes to be the best at "selling dead men to Heaven and Hell".

The boss puts great pressure on this underlings to find souls to harvest, although they wind up becoming supportive and amazed at #4's career path change and eagerly watch his game on TV.

### Aliens

#### #28 and Father

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Trip to Space on an Empty Stomach" (腹がへる宇宙への旅)

A small alien and his father, who live on a distant planet. They teach the hungry sextuplets, Iyami, and Chibita how to quickly generate food that they can eat, after they see the humans are unable to consume the rocks that they do.

However, these aliens are also fond of the taste of metal, and
wind up eating parts of the spaceship that the humans had arrived in.

#28 shares some slight characteristics with later extraterrestrial characters that Akatsuka would design, such as Scatan.

#### Graffiti Invaders

(らくがきインベーダ)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Appearance of the Graffiti Invaders" (らくがきインベーダー出現)

Alien lifeforms created by the graffiti that the sextuplets drew on the walls, as an alien man had given them magic crayons that would bring the drawings to life. They terrorize the town until they are washed out by the rain.

#### The Invaders

**CV**: Osamu Saka (Invada), Toru Ohira (Nanmaida), Hiroko Maruyama (Gonbeda), Yoshiko Ota (Jinbeda), Shigeru Chiba (Akanbeeda), Naoko Matsui (Babubabuda), Takuzo Kamiyama (Kalenda), Megumi Hayashibara (Shinjimattada) (all 1988)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Invaders Invade Again" (またまたインベーダー来襲)

A group of aliens that abduct Osomatsu and Choromatsu, and send two of their own (Gonbeda and Jinbeda) in disguise as them in an attempt to learn more about Earth. These two are eventually foiled by the actual sextuplets, and the aliens are driven away from Earth in fear.

#### Watermelon Aliens

(スイカ星人 *Suika Hoshihito*)

**CV**: Toshiya Ueda (King Watermelon, 1989 film)

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Watermelon Planet Appears" (スイカ星人あらわる)

A group of aliens with heads of watermelon, that come to Earth
 to invade by giving people infected watermelon that will make them become obsessed with the fruit.

It is revealed that they have attempted to populate Earth due to their own planet becoming overcrowded. They are eventually driven out of the town.

They are lead by their leader,the **Watermelon Emperor** (天皇スイカ). In the 1989 animated film adaptation, his name was changed to **King Watermelon** (スイカ大王) and the Takeshobo reprints renamed him as such for familiarity purposes.

### Robots

#### Beggar Robot

* **Chapter appearance:** "Setting Up a Beggar Robot" (こじきろぼっともうけてちょ)

A beggar inventor's robot, who will gladly accept coins and stroke others gently for such, but become violent when fed rocks or mistreated in other ways.

#### Robot Doll

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Human and Robot are Friends" (人間ロボットおたちあい)

A wind-up robotic boy created by the scientist Dr. Weird. He becomes good friends with Chibita, but becomes harsh and chaotic through the story to where he rebels against the terrible Iyami and arranges a punishment for him.

#### Robot Dad Doppelganger

* **Chapter appearance**: "Papa's Lonely Sunday" (パパのちびしい日曜日)

A robotic copy of Matsuzo created by a mad scientist, that quickly shows itself to be violent and destructive.

#### Robot Osomatsu Doppelganger

* **Chapter appearance**: "Iyami Invents a Robot" (イヤミがロボット発明すれば)

A robot created in Osomatsu's likeness by Iyami, used to frame him and his brothers for terrible acts.

#### Sextuplet Dolls

* **Chapter appearance**: "Sextuplets Surprised to be a Dozen" (びっくり六つ子が一ダース)

A pair of six incredibly life-like dolls crafted by a scientist, to the point that when activated, they're barely distinguishable (other than their blank expressions) from the usual sextuplets but highly chaotic. They are last seen being used by the scientist as his "sons" in a beggar scam.

#### #X1 the Cleaning Robot

(X1号)

* **Chapter appearance:** "The Squeaking Household Help" (キーコキーコとおてつだい)

A robot given to the Matsuno family. The sextuplets take advantage by getting him to do their chores and bail them out of trouble.

He is replaced by Chibita playing the part of a robot in the 1966 anime adaptation of this story.

### Animals

#### Bear

* **Chapter appearance**: "A Bearish Mountain Climb" (ほんとにクマった山のぼり)

A bear that shows up during Osomatsu's attempted prank on his
father. In the end of the manga, the bear is shown to be highly
intelligent and can speak when not around humans, and gives the fake
bear suit to a friend of his to trade for more fish.

The punchline is altered in the anime, where the bear instead is shown to be a family pet in the backyard.

#### Chunkichi

* **Chapter appearance**: "Teppen Story" (てっぺん物語)

A small sparrow that Chibita witnesses falling out of his nest, causing him to embark on a drawn-out adventure to save the baby bird.

#### ESP Kitty

(エスパーニャンコ)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Get that Esper Kitty!" (エスパーニャンコをねらえ)

A cat given the ability to read the true feelings of humans, due to an experiment by Dekapan.

This character also appears in a modified form in Osomatsu-san.

#### Hanako

(ハナ子)

**CV**: Kumiko Kawamori (1966), Kumiko Takizawa (1988)

* **Chapter appearance:** "Chibita's Lover, Butako-chan" (チビ太の恋人　ブタ子ちゃん)

A pig owned by Dekapan that he dresses up as a human to avoid having to pay an animal fee in travel. She does not like being thought of or referred to as a pig.

In this story, Dekapan is set as the Matsunos' uncle living in the countryside.

#### Pes

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Cutie Living Next Door" (となりのかわい子ちゃん)

The dog owned by Kinko Inuyama, who is often mistaken for her dad by the sextuplets and Chibita. Names like "Pochi" and "Pes" were common names for dogs during the time (akin to a name like "Spot"), with the first still having use.

#### Tama

* **Chapter appearance**: "We Got a Lion" (もらったライオン)

A lion that Iyami gives up to the boys and forces them to take home as a pet. Although Tama may seem friendly, he is also very rough and strong, leading to trouble in the house.

Tama is eventually given up to Matsuzo's boss and his wife, but Iyami manages to take Tama back in turn, along with stealing the other gifts that the couple had. The last events are somewhat changed in the 1988 anime, where Tama is given to Dekapan and his wife, but winds up having to save their son from a fire. In the end, he still winds up back at the circus where he belonged (with his favorite master Chibita).

#### Taro

* **Chapter appearance**: "Our Taro is a Gentle Lion" (うちのタローはやさしいライオン)

A lion owned by a couple, who attempt to treat him as something like a son in dressing him up and treating him as they would a child. Though he is mostly docile, his true lion nature leads to him being returned to his zoo habitat in the end.

#### Thief Cat

(ドロネコ *Doroneko*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita and the Thief Cat" (チビ太とドロネコ)

A cat that plagues the townspeople by constantly stealing their food and causing trouble. Chibita attempts to feed the cat oden to get him to break his habit, but the cat continues his ways up until Chibita falls ill from malnutrition (having only fed the cat and not himself), which makes the cat feel guilty and stop.

In the 1988 anime, this cat is given the name of "Gonta".

#### Wankou

(わんこう *Wankou*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Why Does Chibita Cry So?" (チビ太なぜなくの), "Take Good Care of This Dog" (だいじにしよう　おイヌさま)

A dog once shown being owned by Dekapan under the name of "Boya" (イヌのぼうや Inu no Boya) and once under the ownership of Matsuzō's boss under the name of "Brutus" (ブルータス). When owned by Dekapan, he treats him more like an actual son than he does with Chibita (when Chibita is set as living with him). He does not like being referred to as a dog by Chibita, and likes to think of himself as human.

He wears boxers much like his owner, smokes, and is rather rude. This rudeness towards other people gets Chibita mistaken for him or blamed for not being able to control him.

This dog is shown once in the 1988 show, being walked by Dekapan in episode 38.

When owned by Matsuzō's boss, he is used to high-end living, so when the Matsuno family takes care of him he refuses to eat anything that's not rice or fish, and demands to sleep in a futon.

In the end, Brutus winds up losing a lot of weight after not being able to keep up with his usual lifestyle, reverting to being the scrawny dog that the president had originally had before the family had encountered him.

## Characters in Weekly Shonen King (1972-1973)

### Unusual Sorts

#### Deppachibi

* **Chapter appearance**: "Hello, My Name is Deppachibi"

#### The Fish-Eyed Fishmonger

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Fish-Eyed Fishmonger"

A man with a fishbowl for a head who just wants to do his business but is menaced by Iyami.

### Iyami's Lovers and Those He Desires

These are usually human women, but may indeed also include animals in some of his strangest affairs.

#### Butch

(ブーチ)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Iyami-kun" (イヤミくん)

A promiscuous, human-like pig that fell for a man who took care of her and now attempts to invade his life, upsetting his lover. She is matchmade with Iyami and the two marry, though Iyami's homeless pals (Chibita and others) opt to kill and roast her for dinner.

Her name derives from the Japanese word for pig (buta) and the "bu" (oinking) noise they make, as well as the pejorative term "bitch", which is used as a loanword in the language as slang for a promiscuous woman.

#### Hana-chan

* **Chapter appearance**:

A woman that becomes attracted to Iyami from the magic horn he plays, even abandoning her own lover, only to become disgusted by him once the instrument is damaged.

#### Haruko and Natsuko

* **Chapter appearance**:

Haruko is a young woman Iyami happens to love, who brings her friend Natsuko along to a restaurant date with the man. However, this is all for one elaborate scam on Iyami, as Haruko reveals herself to be getting married to another man and she and Natsuko leave him to pay the bill. Their waitress friend Fumiko is also revealed to have been in on the plan.

#### Hiroko

* **Chapter appearance**:

A woman that Iyami falls in love with, only for them to seemingly part when he appears to die due to being run over by a truck. Hiroko falls into despair as Iyami's ghost drives her new lover away, resulting her in committing suicide by drowning.

A happy ending for the two then appears to occur with them reuniting, only for Iyami to disappear when it's revealed he's still alive and just waking up from a coma. The ghost Hiroko is left calling out for Iyami but unable to be seen or heard, while Iyami is also upset and unable to find her.

#### Mary

(マリー)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Happiness in the South Island" (南の島でしあわせに)

A beautiful foreign woman who Iyami lusts after, but is unable to win over due to his lecherous ways and her already being spoken for with Chibita. After they get shipwrecked, Iyami attempts to use the opportunity to woo her but she falls for an octopus.

A character modeled after Mary briefly appears in the "ESP Kitty" skit of *Osomatsu-san,* where she is being flirted with by Iyami.

#### Penko

* **Chapter appearance**:

A penguin that Iyami marries and fathers a child with in Antarctica, only to abandon them both.

#### "That Cutie Next Door"

* **Chapter appearance**: "The Cutie Nearby" (となりのカワイコちゃん)

A pretty woman who lives in an apartment across from one that Iyami lives in. She is only ever referred to as "Kawaiiko" ("cutie"/"cute girl") by Iyami, who quickly falls in love with her after the two communicate via signs and a can-phone from their windows. Though she is initially resistant to his charms, she eventually falls for him as well.

After the two agree to get hitched, Iyami agrees to visit her a few days later but sheehs in horror when he finds that he could only see her from the shoulders up before; she is in fact a large, obese woman who her parents have been trying to find a husband for.

#### Wani

* **Chapter appearance**: "Crocodile Love"

A pet crocodile that falls in love with Iyami due to his care for
her, to the point where she wins out against his girlfriend Geroe and winds up being his wife.

#### Yuki

* **Chapter appearance**:

A beautiful young woman who the Police Officer with the Connected Eyes introduces Iyami to one day, causing him to break out in strange hives that read out her very name and that cause trouble for him.

## Characters in Comic BomBom and TV Magazine (1987-1990)

### Crooks

#### Ta-Bō

(ター坊)

* **Chapter appearance**: "It's a Small World" (世の中はチビシイのだ)

A character who appears to Osomatsu as a pretty schoolgirl when he decides to skip school and split from his brothers. The schoolgirl encourages him to go out on a date with her to a cafe, as "You only live once".

However, Ta-Bō turns out to be a boy using the guise of a pretty girl to lure Osomatsu into his rental girlfriend scam, and when Osomatsu is unable to pay, Ta-Bō discards his disguise and forces the lead sextuplet to join his criminal gang. Osomatsu gives up after a night of robbery, but Ta-Bō is shown watching him and his brothers walk to school.

#### Kuwata

(桑田)

* **Chapter appearance**: "It's a Small World" (世の中はチビシイのだ)

A criminal boy wearing a baseball cap. He is the henchman of Ta-Bō, and inducts Osomatsu into their crime gang after testing his abilities at catching.

He gets Osomatsu to rob a house with him, but Osomatsu becomes frightened of his sudden new gang role and runs away back home. He is last seen with his boss as both ridicule the sextuplets on their walk to school.

#### Usomatsu

(うそ松)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Find that Usomatsu!"

A runaway criminal who pays Dekapan to transform him, causing him to become a copy of the sextuplets. This causes distress for the Matsuno family when they witness seven boys at home and learn there's a runaway thief hiding among them, which gets the Police Officer with the Connected Eyes to try to weed out the fake.

### The Unusual

#### Abu-Nyan

(あぶニャン)

* **Chapter appearances**: "The Appearance of an Unnamed Cat Robot", "Can Can Can Sheee", "Just Old Folk Tales", as well as the frontispiece of "It's a Small World"

A robotic cat that appears early in the BomBom run. He was created by Dekapan, and has the abilities of hypnosis.

He also likes to carry bombs around, which he uses to attack people and blow up the town to reset some disasters, such as the hypnosis he used on the town in his last appearance. This is to reflect
the magazine's title and motif of a bomb mascot.

The character was originally slated to appear in the 1988 anime as part of the "media mix" initiative between it and the manga relaunch, but he ultimately went unused as plans had changed. He is also seen to pop up in some print media set around the manga in 1988, before disappearing and being forgotten.

## Guest characters from other works

### Those from "Akko-chan's Got a Secret!"

#### Moko

(モコ)

* **Chapter appearance:** "It's All Fine Until You Take Off His Hat"

A friend of Totoko's, briefly seen chatting with her and planning to go see a movie. She was likely used as an in-joke for Totoko and Akko's identical appearances, or possibly to indicate them being the same "actor" at the time (although Akatsuka's own recollection would suggest they were intended separate).

#### Ganmo

* **Chapter appearances:** "An Endurance Contest to Travel Abroad" (がまん大会で外国旅行), "A Low-Grade Production at the Height of Popularity" (人気絶頂鍋底プロダクション)

A young boy that looks similar to Chibita, but with hair. In his most prominent appearance, he is employed by a talent agent to make him famous, and serves as Chibita's rival. In the end, Ganmo is defeated and left as a poor beggar man along with Iyami and the president of Nabe Pro.

#### Kankichi

(カン吉)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Parody Version of Treasure Island"

Moko's younger brother, a naughty but vulnerable young boy. The first incarnation of the character (existing up to the point of the second Ribon run of *Akko-chan*) visually resembles a smaller version of the sextuplets, a point which
was toned down and removed in his later redesigns for the manga.

Although he briefly runs into the sextuplets twice in *Akko-chan*, he only appears in -kun in "Parody Version of Treasure Island" and another possible cameo in "Captain Mom" (a boy with a similar "cheek beard" and facial shape can be seen tripping and falling down a set of stairs).

### Those from "Otasuke-kun"

#### Otasuke

(おた助)

* **Chapter appearances**: "How About a Cake On This Silent Night?", "Parody Version of Treasure Island"

#### Tamao

(タマ男)

* **Chapter appearances**:

#### Ichiro

(一郎)

* **Chapter appearances:**

A young boy that often appears as one of the neighborhood children, or alongside Chibita and Hatabō. He is recognized by his bird-like mouth, and habit of wearing short shorts with a long shirt and tie.

#### Gorilla the Housekeeper

* **Chapter appearance:** "I'll Use a Proposal"

#### Hippo Man

(カバ男 *Kaba Otoko*)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Chibita the Fake Cop"

A hippo-faced man that is often seen in a salaryman kind of role when he shows up in series.

He is also shown once in the 1988 series, when Iyami pranks him by spitting in his hat in episode 24. Other characters with hippo-esque faces can also show up as needed for roles.

### Those from "Leave it to Chota"

#### "Hagechibi"

* **Chapter appearances**: "Get that Esper Kitty!",

A small, bald man with a large unibrow and long mustache. He later briefly becomes the star of his own series, The Mean Professor. He is often seen as either a criminal or a random businessman wandering about.

### Those from "Nonsensical NO.1"

#### Bokeo

(ボケ男)

* **Chapter appearances**: "A Squeaking and Flying Violin" (キーコとひこうバイオリン), "Don't Tease a Frog" (カエルさんをいじめるな), "When the Sun Sets in the Wild West" (荒野に夕日がしずむとき), "Mito Komon Iyami" (イヤミの水戸黄門), "Parody Version of Treasure Island" (パロディ版だよ), "Captain Mom" (キャプテンかあちゃん)

* **CV**- ? (1966)

A dumb but strong neighborhood boy, seen at times to be an ally of Chibita or an otherwise amusing fixture in crowd scenes.

### Those from "You Love Me-kun"

#### Chiyoko

(千代子)

* **Chapter appearances**: "Snatch the Runaway Thief", "A Withering Business is Hard", "Dekapan Derby"

A teenage girl seen in at least three cameos in this series, notably being insulted by Iyami in one and left running away in tears. She also appears conversing with Totoko at the start of the Dekapan Derby.

In her own series, she is pursued by a boy named Santaro who eventually becomes her boyfriend

#### Nanako

(ナナ子)

* **Chapter appearances**: "Does Chibita No Longer Like Oden?", "Master Chibita Who Lost Money"

### Those from "The Mean Family"

#### Ijie

* **Chapter appearance**: "Captain Mom" (キャプテンかあちゃん)

#### Ijiko

(イジ子)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Captain Mom" (キャプテンかあちゃん)

A nasty young woman with a constant rude expression on her face. She delights in making trouble for others, and being cruel. Like other daughter types in the "Family" features, she has some sort of hair decoration.

Although she and her family lost their mean personalities at the end of their feature, she would appear used again that way as a star in other cameos. She also shows up as part of Matsuyo's pirate team, assisting her mother in frying other pirates like tempura.

#### Ijitaro

(イジ太郎)

* **Chapter appearance**: "Butamatsu-kun"

A young boy with a constantly-nasty expression, and two buckteeth sticking out. He is also notable for his patch of curly hair, as well as one ahoge in the back of his head.

He is seen as one of the bully children pestering the pig Osomatsu .

### Those from "The Genius Bakabon"

#### Bakabon

(バカボン)

A dim-witted but kind and fun-loving young boy. In the few times he shows up in -kun, he is at his father's side as usual.

The *Heisei Genius Bakabon* version of Bakabon does cross over with the -kun cast in the 1991 special **Bakabon: The 3000 Mile Search for Osomatsu's Curry**, where he and Papa meet up with Iyami and Chibita to search for the perfect curry.

#### Bakabon's Papa

(バカボンのパパ *Bakabon no Papa*)

A middle-aged man known for his intense wrinkles, long mustache,
and a ribbon hachimaki around his head. His wild schemes result in
intense chaos, which he justifies with his phrase "This is how things should be"/"It's all okay!" (これでいいのだ！Korede iinoda). As Iyami became
more of the lead of *-kun*, Bakabon's Papa took over his son's series as the main character.

Papa was modeled after the father of Akatsuka, but Akatsuka would later use the nickname "Bakabon's Papa" for himself and would be photographed dressed as the character at points, with drawn-on mustache
and wrinkles in marker.

Papa shows up towards the end of the Shonen Sunday run in crossovers, initially appearing as a minor cast member in some stories. He also pops up in the later two runs, in different cameos.

#### The Dog of Night

* **Chapter appearance**: "Invaders Invade Again" (またまたインベーダー来襲)

He is a dog (or sometimes a few of his type) that appears during scene-changes, and that is often shown doing handstands or providing exposition. In a rare speaking role, he warns the -kun readers that aliens are out there.

He is used at various points during the 1988 show as well, usually seen at night as a scene-changing transition or background detail. An echoing dog bark sound effect is used to herald his presence.

#### Ryunoshin

(竜之進)

A boy who constantly asks questions. He looks identical to another Bakabon character named "Camera Kid",, lacking the spinning habit and tending to stay frozen in place with not much movement besides his talking. These days, Fujio Pro insists the two characters are separate entities, but the two would appear to have been conflated as the same young man in *Gag Guerrilla*, the Nyarome learning series, and other works. He was sometimes also known as "Why?" (Doshite) or "Why Kid" in the later 1970s.

Ryunoshin is introduced as the "Yamabiko Boy" in one setting in this run of -kun, and has a habit of mimicking whatever he sees from Iyami.

#### Norauma

(ノラウマ)

A talking horse that shows up during the Shonen King run of -kun, having been killed and eaten by Iyami. But after Iyami eats the horse meat, he winds up cursed to run as uncontrollably fast as Norauma had.

He appears in a brief cameo in episode 49 of the 1988 series, wanting to go see a race with Iyami. He is also visible as an in-joke in one of the JRA racing commercials for their collaboration with *Osomatsu-san*.

#### Kaoru-chan (or other names depending on setting)

(カオルちゃん)

* **CV-** Shigeru Chiba (1988, as the officer)

A hairy, masculine yet effeminate man that is often set as
being gay and a cross-dresser, but that may also be married to a woman in certain settings.

He appears a few times in the Shonen King run of the manga, either under different names (such as only being referred to as "Yamamoto"/ 山本) or unnamed, and marries Iyami in two of the
 stories. But in others, he may be set as a rival instead. He is also infamously used in ***"The Collapse of the Sheeh! Religion"*** as a middle-aged man named Yoshio (ヨシオ) that Choromatsu makes out with and attempts to leave the group to go off with.

The 1988 series utilizes his design for the new police officer in Akatsuka, first appearing in episode 21 and introducing himself as "Katsumi Yatsugashira" (八頭 勝三) in episode 23. He is as hot-tempered and trigger-happy as the previous officer stationed there, but rather than being interrupted in the middle of ramen, he is often shown caring for a doll he has named "Kaoru-chan" (homaging his manga name).

However, the cop is indeed named "Kaoru" in some of the series' scripts and in the credits of the *Iyami Alone in the Wind* OVA, showing who he clearly is. But in the usual series credits, other Pierrot scripts, and outside materials, he is simply listed as "Police Officer" (*Omawari-san*, *Honkan-san*) and some would consider him a separate character due to the lack of on-screen acknowledgment of the Kaoru name.

The role of the character as a cop in that anime may have been inspired by certain usages in Akatsuka's manga *The Genius Bakabon's Old Man* and *Animal Wars*.

#### Unagi-Inu

(ウナギイヌ)

He is an eel-dog, as suggested by his name. He shows up a few times in the Shonen King run, once getting yelled at by Iyami for advertising a rival magazine "Manga No.1".

Although he appeared in model sheets for the 1988 series, he only shows up once in an impact frame gag. However, he does appear in the crossover special **Bakabon: The 3000 Mile Search for Osomatsu's Curry**, where he is a pet of Totoko.

### Those from "Extraordinary Ataro"

#### Ataro

He is a young Edokko-style boy working as a greengrocer. He would come to steadily be displaced in his own series by the cat Nyarome, following what happened to other Akatsuka protagonists like Osomatsu and
 Bakabon.

In the -kun series itself, his cameos are often silent or non-distinctive, other than when he shows up in outright crossover stories. He is last seen briefly in the Comic BomBom run.

#### Dekoppachi

Ataro's partner in running the vegetable store. He is stubborn and strong, and fueled by his emotions. His head is unusually tough enough to use as his best weapon. As with Ataro, he often does not have significant role unless the story is meant as a crossover.

#### Boss Kokoro

(ココロのボス *Kokoro no Boss*)

An unusual mob boss, who has the face and tail of a tanuki. He ends his sentences with the word "kokoro", and claims to have come from Italy.

He can be seen accompanied by his similar (but tail-less) henchmen A and B, although they don't always show up in outside cameos.

#### Butamatsu

A mob boss who leads over a bunch of pigs as his henchmen. He first appears when Dekoppachi and Ataro have an argument, and Dekoppachi decides to become his henchman temporarily. He then becomes an associate of the boys.

As with the other characters from this series, he pops up in some
 -kun stories towards the final stretch of the Shonen Sunday run

#### Nyarome

(ニャロメ)

A talking stray cat, considering himself to be equivalent to a man as a "Nyangen" (*ningen*/human + nyan). He loves human women and wishes to marry them, although this trait is not really seen in any of his -kun appearances.

The 1988 anime relegates him mostly to exposition or bit parts, with him either screaming the name of a place or minimally involved in the goings-on of an episode.

#### Kemunpas

(ケムンパス *Kemunpasu*)

A young caterpillar, often introducing himself and ending his
sentences with "de ansu". He is feared by Iyami, who hates caterpillars. He wishes to grow and become an adult, but cannot succeed in
developing.

Though not present much in the manga, the 1988 series uses him with the other animals from Ataro.

#### Beshi

A frog that hangs around with Kemunpas and Nyarome. He is not often seen very much in the -kun manga, but is utilized for exposition purposes in the 1988 anime.

#### Kumagoro

A carpenter who is an old friend of Ataro's father. He and his wife briefly show up in the "Looking at Me Now" crossover story to buy chili peppers.

### Those from "Let's La Gon"

#### Gon

(ゴン)

A free-spirited boy who goes at his own pace, yet has a sharp and
dry side that leads him to disregard others and make trouble for them. He is at odds with his dysfunctional father.

Although Osomatsu, Chibita, and Hatabō are re-used as his brothers briefly at the start of his series, he does not make appearances in -kun in return, except in a crowd when Iyami is being laughed at by everyone.

#### Gon's Father

(ゴンのおやじ)

A perfectionist father who doesn't believe in acting like a parent to his son, or showing any sort of affection.

He was responsible for the deaths of his previous five children
as well as their mother Chieko, and considers their deaths to be due to them "giving up" and not being strong. He is more prominent than his son
 when it comes to cameos outside his own title, but is also relegated to
 crowd treatment in -kun.

#### Irako

(イラ公)

The pet cat who usually sleeps calmly, but when woken up he becomes violent and unforgiving and attacks anyone in his presence. He is used once as the Fish-eyed Fishmonger's cat in the Shonen King run, demonstrating his nature on Iyami.

#### Beramatcha

(ベラマッチャ)

A wild bear that was brought home from the mountains, and learned to speak the human language. He is often killed, or kills others, and serves as the animal comic relief for the series.

His name was coined from Akatsuka's pronunciation of "very much", similar to how the series' title was inspired by his English phrase of "Let's la go!". He is also relegated to an unusually interesting crowd presence in the Shonen King run.

#### Maseri

(ませり)

A small bearded caterpillar with arms and hands. He pops up once in the remake of "Chibita the Safe-Cracker", when Iyami attempts to find food but finds him hanging along with it.

#### Kusotakeimushi

(クソタケイムシ)

lit: "Shitty Takei Bug". A hideous, strange caterpillar with a giant nose, whiskers, and a pair of hands. He emerged one day from Toshiki Takei's socks. He likes to eat feces, as seen when he meets Iyami, and is highly unpopular.

#### Gyujie Mizushima

* **Chapter appearance**: "Crocodile Love" (as Geroe)

An astoundingly ugly woman. Nonetheless, Iyami has her as a love interest at one point, but she and his crocodile Wani feud over their shared interest in him. She loses, and Wani gets to be Iyami's wife and mother to his big-toothed crocodile children.

### Other assorted guests

#### Ai-chan

* **Original work**: Bukkare\*Dan
* **Chapter appearance**: "This is the End of Love" (これが恋のおわりざんす, as Urae/ウラ江)

In *Bukkare\*Dan*, Ai is a 10-year old girl who has
managed to find herself a makeshift husband at her young age, as their way of rebellion from their feuding fathers. However, in this run of -kun, she is a woman that is into fortune-telling. Iyami becomes obsessed with modifying his body and appearance to fit her vision of a boyfriend.

Urae takes advantage of tricking him to make him do more outlandish things to himself, until he's nothing but a brainless corpse being used as a puppet (while his brain has landed in a dog and possessed it).

#### Chikako (aka: "Chika-chan")

(チカ子)

* **Original work**: Ohana-chan
* **Chapter appearances**: "A Squeaking and Flying Violin" (キーコとひこうバイオリン), "Chibita Wants a Brother" (チビ太はほしいおにいさん), "I'll Use a Proposal" (ふきかえつかってプロポーズ), "Parody Version of Treasure Island" (パロディ版だよ), "Captain Mom" (キャプテンかあちゃん), "A Big Butt Popped Out" (とびだしたドケツ), "The Art of Tears" (涙ナミダの芸術ざんす)
* **CV**- Mari Kitagawa (1966)

A mischievous young girl often seen linked with Chibita in this series. She also appears as a background character in the Shonen King run, seen alongside him and Hatabō, and in the spread of "There's No Wonderful Business Like That of a Gag!".

She originates from the series *Ohana-chan*, but is most often recognized as being from the cast in *Akko-chan's Got a Secret!* as well as having notable parts in *Otasuke-kun* and its spinoff *Otasuke and Chika-chan.*

#### Gomi oji-san

* **Original work**: Tunnel Team

* **Chapter appearance**: "Osomatsu is the Prince and the Pauper?"

Boroshichi's beggar father who collects garbage as a job.

#### Hennako

* **Original work**: Hennako-chan (1967 version)
* **Chapter appearance**: "Captain Mom"

A naughty, rude little girl who used to be kind and the perfect child, but underwent a personality change due to trauma when her mother attempted to give her up to a burglar in a robbery. Her hair dramatically lightened, and she gained freckles and a constantly nasty expression.

In the -kun manga itself, she is only relevant as one of Matsuyo's pirate girls that help invade rival ships.

#### Hikaru

* **Original work**: Giant Mama
* **Chapter appearance**: "Professor Togarashi's Genius Education"

A classmate of the boys who is given strict tutoring through Professor Togarashi's student tutors of Iyami and Chibita.

#### Jajako

(ジャジャ子)

* **Original work**: Jajako-chan
* **Chapter appearances**: "I'd Love to Be Friends With You", "Captain Mom"
* **CV**- Chie Kojiro (1988)

Hatabō's cousin from the other side of town.

#### Kaoru

* **Original work**: Kibimama-chan
* **Chapter appearance**: "Parody Version of Treasure Island"

One of the four Okawa children, who once manages to pop up at the Treasure Island amusement park.

#### Mr. Kyouyou and his Buddies

(ミスター教養 *Misuta Kyouyou*)

* **Original work**: Radical 7th Years (all three), You Love Me-kun (Kyouyou)
* **Chapter appearance**: "Butamatsu-kun"

A man with a name that can be said to be translated like "Mr.
Highbrow", or "Mr. Culture", relating to his profession as a snobbish college student.

He resembles a younger Iyami, but with shorter hair, glasses, and a sparse mustache. In his better-known role in *You Love Me-kun*, he is interested in a young lady named Chiyoko, and thusly serves as the rival for the lead character Santaro.

In -kun, he briefly is seen with his two Waseda University classmates that attempt to eat the pig Osomatsu. It can be uncertain and joked on whether or not he is truly a separate Akatsuka character or simply Iyami dressed up with a haircut, as one of his two friends resembles Chibita with hair.

#### Mika Saotome

* **Original work**: Akko-chan's Got a Secret! (3rd run, Nakayoshi)
* **Chapter appearance**: "I Love Iyami!"

A one-shot character from the Nakayoshi reboot of *Akko-chan's Got a Secret!*, who shows up twice in -kun's own 3rd run (specifically in BomBom). She is notable for being drawn in a scribbly manner to emphasize her hideous look.

In her first guest part, she (or just her design) is re-used for an ugly girl who wants to kill herself due to nobody loving her. Dekapan gives her beauty pills to make her become gorgeous, and she decides to scam the sextuplets but is beaten up when they see her true face. This leads to her pursuing Iyami and scamming him into marriage, which eventually ends in his death.

She is later seen in a dating catalog that Osomatsu and Totoko put together as part of their dating company scam towards the end of the BomBom run.

#### Mojamoja-ojichan

(モジャモジャおじちゃん)

* **Original work**: Fujio Akatsuka's Ganbarima Show
* **Chapter appearances**: "The Downtown Chibita Kid", "The Human Teleportation Machine", "Captain Mom"

"Shabby Uncle", "Shabby Old Man"

A shabby middle-aged man with a shaggy mustache and tufts of hair on his balding head. He is described as a mysterious man who was born on December 24, and that little is known about.

He is inspired by the Tramp character made famous by Charlie Chaplin, due to Akatsuka's love of Chaplin films. He also appears in the *Chibita-kun* spinoff series.

#### Teacher (Mr. Tohoku)

* **Original work**: Jinx-kun
* **Chapter appearance**: "Get that Esper Kitty!"

A bearded authority figure, originally the teacher and mentor figure of Jinx-kun in his source series.

#### "Unlucky Boy"

* **Original work**: *I am a Salaryman*
* **Chapter appearance**: "The Mysterious X is a Good Person" (怪傑Xはよい人です)

A little boy that Chibita sets up traps for in order to "save" him as his superhero guise. This child is also a re-use of the boss' son from an Akatsuka one-shot that came out around the time -kun started (and which had also featured a character that looked like a prototypical Osomatsu).

#### Weird Doctor

* **Original work:** *You're a Shinobi, Sasuke-kun*
* **Chapter appearance**: "Don't Be Afraid to Do Good Things Without Clashing", "A Human and Robot are Friends"

A shady man with hair styled into that of a jester's hat, or even horns. He is an unfortunate barber in his first appearance, but a a conman as usual in his second cameo.

## Characters exclusive to the Studio Pierrot anime (1988-1989)

### "The Baby"

(赤ちゃん *Aka-chan*)

* **CV-**

A baby sibling of Hatabō, shown briefly at the end of episode 30. Hatabō, talking them for a walk on his back, attacks the sextuplets and Dekapan for being loud and waking the baby.

They do not appear in other episodes, as his family is otherwise left unknown.

### Boys A, B, and C

* **CV-** Megumi Hayashibara, Rica Matsumoto, Mari Mashiba (?)

A trio of bratty children that show up in episode 8, that exist solely to bother a turtle and be paid by Dekapan so that they would leave it alone.

They are notable for being guest characters that were doubled by the Matsunos' actresses.

### Chibita's Future Family

* **CV (Wife)**- ?

In episode 75, taking place 40 years into the future, Chibita is
shown to have gotten married to an unknown woman and fathered four children with her. His family becomes concerned after he doesn't come back home from work, after attempting to take the de-aging pill for himself.

She is a taller, more traditionally pretty anime-styled woman and
 appears to be much younger than her husband as well. The children all take after his appearance and are all bald, except for the one daughter.

### Dekapan's Wife

(デカパン婦人)

* **CV**- Yoko Yano

A woman who first appears taking the place of the rich Kansai wife in episode 58. She is obsessed with the idea of having a baby, to the point of insisting that the grown Osomatsu be fed by a bottle and wear a diaper to bed.

She appears again briefly in episode 83, set once more as Dekapan's wife but now as the mother of his son Taro.

### Hatabō's Future Family

* **CV-** Mari Mashiba (Hatataro)

Hatabō is also shown to have a family in episode 75; an adult daughter named Hatako and her two sons Hatataro and Hatajiro.

### Kumiko

(久ミ子/クミコ)

* **CV**- Maria Kawamura

The 1988 counterpart to Kinko Inuyama. Like this series' version of Totoko, it turns out that she wants nothing more than to be popular and appreciated by all other kids around her, and is calculating and arrogant in her own ways. After she becomes annoyed that the sextuplets paid attention to another girl and that not enough boys would appreciate her in town, she orders her father to move her to another neighborhood.

Her father is also a rich boss that's a client for Matsuzo's company, and his character or at very least the design is later recycled for the father of Kaori.

Her name is derived from that of the 1980s idol singer Kumiko Goto, who also was paid reference to in dialogue in other episodes of the 1988 show.

### Kaori Shiratori

(白鳥 かおり *Shiratori Kaori*)

* **CV**- Megumi Hayashibara (episode 49), Yoko Asagami (episode 54)

A beautiful young woman who Iyami is charmed by. She appears only two times, with different settings in each instance. In the first, she has much of a harsher and sly impression when she becomes aggravated by Iyami's obnoxious romantic advances and intruding in on her space, tricking him into dumping his own coffee over his head and then turning out to have a gangster boyfriend named Yacchan that she threatens him with.

In her second appearance, she is the prospective bride for Dayōn, but Iyami winds up taking his table at the matchmaking date and fooling her into believing that he's the rich man she wanted to meet. Even after Iyami is exposed in front of her as a fraud, she is still taken by him and believes it must be destiny. However, when they attempt to get married, Iyami still owes a ton of money and is pursued by debt collectors that had been hounding him, leading to him abandoning Kaori at the altar and giving his ring to Chibita.

### Kaori's Father

(かおりの父 *Kaori no chichi*)

* **CV-** Eken Mine

The manager of the Akatsuka-dai hotel and restaurant where Iyami happens to encounter Kaori. He is pleased to learn his daughter is getting married by the end, but informs Iyami of the guests (debt-collectors) that have come for him.

His design is a re-use of that of Kumiko's father, and it could be joked that the same character "actor" was repurposed; however, this man and the other one have entirely different voice actors.

### Kumiko's Father

(クミコのパパ *Kumiko no Papa*)

* **CV-** Toru Ohira

A loose remake of Kinko's father from the manga, slightly
redesigned for the more modern times. He is the president of a company that does business with the company where Matsuzo works.

In the end, this man has to move away from the town due to his daughter deciding she wants a neighborhood that'll appreciate her more (even as he points out that she's already made them move several times).

Like the manga, this man has a face identical to his dog and gets mistaken for him by both Karamatsu and Choromatsu.

### Mr. Nagatani

* **CV-** Shigeru Chiba

Totoko's cram school teacher, seen in episode 6. He is modeled and named (in the script) after Akatsuka's assistant Kunio Nagatani, and has the characteristic large eyebrows and mouth.

He is confused by his students leaving home early, but soon sees Iyami's "ghost" and decides to go home as well.

### Soji-kun

* **CV-** Megumi Hayashibara

A small robot that was invented to help clean up trash. However, he comes with a special function where he will grow if he consumes a certain amount of garbage, to the point where he winds up growing out of control and the town's special forces have to try to stop him.

In the end, Soji-kun self-destructs, but it is revealed he simply divided up into many smaller copies of himself that become useful to the citizens for their trash disposal.

### Special Defense Force

Akatsuka-dai's defense force seen in Soji-kun's episode. They are a parody of the Ultra Garrison from the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven.

### Tamabo

* **CV-** Chika Sakamoto

Kinbo's fellow Iyami germ friend who gets up to mischief.

### Taro

(太郎)

* **CV**- Hiroko Maruyama

A young toddler that is Dekapan's son. Dekapan entrusts the Matsunos to babysit him and make sure that he sleeps well, as Taro hates noise and will violently attack anyone around him when disturbed.

Although no mother is mentioned for Taro in episode 40, he does reappear in episode 83 with both of his parents.

### Yatchan #28

(ヤッチャン2８号)

* **CV-** Nobuaki Fukuda

A strong, muscular man who is original to the adaptation as a brief gag character, designed as if he were a human version of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's ***Tetsujin 28***.

In his first appearance in episode 49, he is Kaori's boyfriend and simply referred to by her as "Yatchan" (a nickname based on how he's a yakuza man). He makes a cameo in another setting in episode 54, where he is one of the many debt-collectors that have come to take back money from Iyami.

His design also appears to have been recycled once in *Heisei Genius Bakabon*, amidst a group of criminals.