Joji

* {{quote|Oh, hello, there!|his introduction line}}
**Joji** is the main protagonist of Ready, Set, Read!, appearing in the bookends of the show. He is the only live-action character because of greenscreen technology.

## Appearance

Joji is a person of average height, with overlapping bangs. He changes between white (for the animated Joji) blue/pink/lavender shirts, blue jeans, and white sneakers. In Polite Expressions for Asking Permission, when flying a plane solo, he wears a pilot suit.

## Personality

Joji is a bubbly and enthusiastic character, who likes playing songs and games with and for his friends, with the audience included. Most of the time, he tries to resolve the problems that the animals face by reminding them of proper manners, grammar, and the like, like how in Asking Permission, he asks Marj to direct Ogot more nicely.

He has a trait of explaining things clearly to others, like how he elegantly refers information as data in episodes like Graphs and Graphs, Tables, and Pictographs. He, like the animals, has a sense of imagination and cretivity.

When him and the animals perform songs, he plays a ukulele. The songs he plays are occasionally done solo, while the animals play other miscellaneous instruments.

## Background

hHe is confirmed to have a family, just like the other characters. Mentioned earlier, has a pleasant relationship with the other characters, and has a history of donating things to typhoon victims, such as slippers in Tables. Most of the typhoon related episodes spanning from Graphs to Making Graphs, Tables, and Pictographs, deal with how many donations have been to the victims.

## Relationships

### Ogot

Ogot has a habit of quickly analyzing things and treating such as fact, like in Graphs, Tables, and Pictographs, where the large-number sets of things made him worry about stocking. Ogot has a slight fear of darkness, and got a bit timid when Joji narrated an excerpt of his story in Noting details regarding character and setting.

Ogot also does not recognize the importance of things like in Naming Words, where he forgets the use of names. Joji argues that life would be more cumbersome had names not been made, but he treats Joji's words as fact in the language. In Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions, Joji assumed he prefered certain food over others, like how he ate up all of the of Marj's (who was absent at the time) food.

### Cathy

The second youngest in the show, Cathy gets easily excited about everything, like how a rendition of 'Jack and Jill' already excites her. [[]]Whenever Cathy's tendencies of not waiting come into play, like in Sentences and Phrases, where he teaches everyone the first acts of politeness.

In fact, the motif of politeness has been reused in other lessons, but with different bookends. In episodes like Graphs, he suggests Cathy to use her drawing capabilities to make her own graphs, with some minor modifications.

### Marj

Marj has a problem in communicating sometimes, like in Asking Permission, where a rude remark caused Ogot to retaliate on her. Joji eventually resolved their problem. She finds 'A Lizard's Untold Story' in Para, the Brave and Beautiful a bit confusing, until Joji asks her to make inference based on the paragraphs.

In Noting details regarding plot, Joji easily knows what Marj did yesterday, since his inferences tell him about her personality: kind and calm, but easily distracted by playing.

### Nene

Joji acts as her translator, since she only communicate in buzzes. The adorableness of Nene is even mentioned by him, where he admires her contributions to his show.

## Trivia

* Out of all of Dungca's characters, he has the most appearances in the show, and the most in the show overall.
* He is the only main character to wear clothes, but that does not mean the animals do not all the time (for example, the Wanda scene in Finger Family Song.)
* Technically, unless you count Nene, he has the most fingers out of all the animals, tying with the other Dungca characters.
* As mentioned before, he is the only greenscreened character, since we know that he seldomly wears a blue shirt, crossing out the bluescreened option, unless they add another layer over him.
* He is the oldest main character of the show, unless you count the other Dungca characters, especially including Lolo Buloto and Dr. Keshau.
* When he is holding something, like his phone in Context Clues, his hands are animated, since he cannot physically hold it and show only a few fingers.

## References

1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiFdu7axet41wLGPcqSytd4g0UhhgYujd
List of English Characters