Ken Tanaka

Ken Tanaka 【田中ケン】is the main character of Poopy and Ken. He is a white cat notable for his conjoined ears. He is the older brother of Poopy Tanaka. While he is an alcoholic, he is ironically the most level headed character of the series. He can do some dumb stuff, but he’s pretty smart in actuality. He has a short temper though, and often takes it out on Poopy. His catchphrase, “自殺する！” [kill yourself] demonstrates his anger most clearly. He constantly tells Poopy to kill himself when agitated with his antics.

### Criminal Record

Ken tries his best to be a good person but he makes mistakes sometimes!!

* Enforced Suicide: Ken often throws around harmful phrases like “kill yourself.” He said this to poopy all the time and it made poopy kill himself.
* Underage Drinking: Ken has a crippling alcohol addiction but in Strip 20: プーピのお祝い it is mentioned that poopy is only ten years old. Ken must be eleven then.
* Indecent Exposure: Ken commits indecent exposure everyday because he is a cat and doesn’t wear clothes.

### Health

Ken has better health than poopy, but still poor health. His physical health is fine other than the side affects from his severe alcoholism, but his mental health is poor. He has depersonalization-derealization disorder, imposter syndrome, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar depression. The most notable of which being his bipolarity.

#### Alcoholism

Ken has a detrimental alcohol addiction, drinking it everyday and as often as if it’s water. He doesn’t show any signs of being in pain due to this, but being an eleven year old who drinks like twice the legal limit on the daily he has to be dying inside.

#### Mental health

Ken’s mental health is very poor, with him exhibiting extreme mood swings, dangerous behavior, lack of empathy, depression, identity struggles, and self-hatred.

## Appearance

Ken is a white kitty with a kawaii face. His eyes are always sparkling. He looks very soft and probably smells good.

### Talents

#### Multilingualism

Ken is very talented in language, knowing Japanese, English, German, Sign Language, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Malay, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Navajo, Mandarin, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Hawaiian, Catalan, A little bit of Portuguese, Swedish, Vietnamese, and Arabic. He is fluent in all of them, but is most comfortable with Japanese.

#### Video games

Ken is shown to be very good at Mario Kart Wii, beating the legendary 121 kn at rainbow road. He is also very good at kitten cannon, scoring an impressive 38,453 points. He once scored 969,143,420 while playing Guitar Hero. He loves to play Tomodachi Life and gets married to Randall Boggs in it. He plays the Toro Inoue games, but is unsettled at how similar Toro looks to himself. He is amazing at first-person shooters, almost concerningly so. He can do all of the Papa cool math games flawlessly. He one-shots Perfectheart in OMORI, as well as somehow beat Omori himself in the final battle how did he even do that that’s not possible

#### Music

Ken can play the guitar very well. His favourite artist is TV Girl, stated multiple times in the strips and first revealed in Strip 32: テレビGIRL.

## Personality

Ken has a very wide range of personalities. He can be very sweet and caring at times, but can almost instantly switch to violent and angry. He can get wreckless and harmful when he is mad, threatening to hurt others or telling them to hurt themselves. He can also end up breaking things or hurting others in his rage. When he calms down, he usually feels sorry and guilty. He often takes his anger out on poopy, who is too stupid to care.

#### Catchphrase

Ken’s catchphrase and main joke of the comic is “自殺する,” or “Kill yourself.” He most often says it to poopy when angered, but says it to anyone.

## Relationships

Ken seems to be very social, having at least some sort of relationship with everyone in the comic.