List of Bokurano characters
This article depicts the characters from anime/manga series Bokurano.
Pilots
Kokopelli
- Kokoperi (ココペリ)
- Chapters: 1-3
- Pilot Order: First (Manga & Anime)
- Voiced by: Hiroki Touchi
Kokopelli was the man who involved the children with Zearth and was also the first pilot of the series. When the children first encountered him he was hiding in a cave by the bay where the children were exploring. He seemed surprised to find them, but persuaded the children into becoming pilots of Zearth by telling them he was looking for volunteers for a new game. Later when the first battle takes place he appears before the children within Zearth's cockpit wearing a jet-black jumpsuit and sitting in a futuristic chair. From there he teaches the children how to pilot Zearth as he destroys the first robot, Arachne. During the battle he explains that he is a human but not from Earth and that he has no concern for the lives of the humans who are killed in the crossfire. There are supposedly two casualties, an SDF pilot and Kokopelli himself. After the battle he tells the children that it is now their responsibility to protect the Earth, and as they are teleported out of the cockpit Komo hears him whisper; "I'm sorry."
Kokopelli does not make an appearance in "Bokurano Alternative" as the task to assemble the pilots in the light novel is assigned to another person.
Takashi Waku
- Waku Takashi (和久 隆)
- AKA: Waku (ワク)
- Grade: 7th
- Height:155cm
- Blood Type: B
- Chapters: 4-5
- Pilot Order: Second (Manga & Anime)
- Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi
Waku was an energetic and confident young boy who acted like a stereotypical shōnen main character. He was previously a talented soccer player and is considered popular. He wanted to become a professional player and his friends thought he had the talent for it. However, he found out that his salary-man father was a soccer player just like him in his youth and even played at the national level. The fact that someone just like him didn't make it shook Waku's resolve and he stopped playing soccer. If he had not quit the team he wouldn't have been at the summer class and become a pilot. He was chosen to become the first pilot of the children. After the battle with Bayonet, they celebrated on Zearth's shoulder. When Ushiro patted Waku on the back he fell off the side into the ocean. They thought that Ushiro accidentally pushed him but he actually died a moment before when his time as a pilot ended. His chair was a simple plastic folding chair. In the manga the number of casualties is unspecified, but in the anime there are 2,343 casualties.
Masaru Kodaka
- Kodaka Masaru (小高 勝)
- AKA: Kodama (コダマ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 145cm
- Blood Type: O
- Chapters: 6-7
- Pilot Order: Third (Manga & Anime)
- Voiced by: Souichiro Hoshi
Kodama was the boy chosen to pilot Zearth during the third battle with the robot, Cancer. He was a relatively quiet boy who liked to keep to himself. His father was a wary individual who ran a civilian contracting company. Kodama's two gifted older brothers hate their father and try to go towards a different path, however Kodama looked up to him and his status as a "chosen" man. He even wore Kokopelli's glasses to seem smarter like his father. Being raised by his father seems to have warped Kodama's sense of ethics and morality to the point where he enjoys to take shots at stray cats with a pellet gun. During his time as a pilot he made no attempt to avoid casualties and marveled at the death being caused because of him. This sense of wonder was cut short when he was sent crashing down on top of his beloved father's car killing his father instantly. For a moment he was left totally stunned but he managed to shake himself out of it in time to kill Cancer using knowledge gained by having an understanding of construction. He died unceremoniously a moment later. Kodama's death alerted the other pilots to their fate. His chair was a plush office chair. There were 50,000 casualties during his battle, many due to his own malice.
Daiichi Yamura
- Yumura Daiichi (矢村 大一)
- AKA: Daichi (ダイチ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 160cm
- Blood Type: O
- Chapters: 8-9
- Pilot Order: Fourth (Manga) / Sixth (Anime)
- Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita
Daiichi was a hard working and responsible boy despite his gruff "no-nonsense" exterior. He dedicatedly took care of his three younger siblings because their mother had died much earlier, and their father abandoned them for unknown reasons three years ago. Their uncle on their father's side made up for his brothers disappearance by renting a home for the four siblings to live in, and paying for all expenses. Daiichi earned his keep by working as a mail and newspaper boy, and for his uncles landscaping business on his days off. He chose to live separately from his uncle with his siblings so that his father would have a place to return to if he ever decided to. When he and the other main characters first got involved with Zearth, he was the first to express any doubts and the first to try to leave the "game" before the group learned the truth of their involvement. During the fourth battle, Daiichi refused to move until the citizens had sufficient time to escape (A practice later adopted by all future pilots). When the battle began, Daiichi's will to protect his family gave him the strength to subdue Drum long enough to carry it to the bay where no one else could get hurt. His last request to the group was for Ushiro to stop abusing Kana and take care of her, and for Dung Beetle to discreetly dispose of his body so that his family would not mourn him. His story ends with his siblings going to the amusement park Daiichi had protected from Drum with the tickets he had obtained for them. His chair was not actually a chair, but a mere floating cushion. There were 4,384 casualties during his battle all caused by the enemy.
Daiichi is one of the characters who does not take part in the pilot group in "Bokurano Alternative".
Mako Nakarai
- Nakarai Mako (半井 摩子)
- AKA Nakama (ナカマ):
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: A
- Chapters: 10-12
- Pilot Order: Fifth (Manga) / Seventh (Anime)
- Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi
Nakama was a girl who focused all or her energy on living honestly and being an active benefit to the community. Despite this, the well known fact that her mother is a prostitute, and her humorless over-responsible attitude left her no friends. Regardless, she looked up to her mother, and hoped to be able to stand proudly like she does. Nakama would even go so far as to give her mother the money she would make doing needlework. It was her mother's idea that she go to the nature school so that she would finally make some friends. Ever since the first battle she had secretly been making uniforms for herself and the other pilots but when she found out that she would be the fifth pilot she was hard pressed for time and money to complete them. She felt the quickest way to attain the necessary money was to prostitute herself and managed to convince her mother's pimp to arrange a John for her. Much to her surprise, the man she met was an old acquaintance of her mothers who drove her home after buying her dinner. Her mother, having found out about the plan gave Nakama her needlework money that she had been saving so that she wouldn't have to resort to such drastic measures. When the fifth battle began, Enigma allowed the populace time to evacuate which coincidentally gave Nakama the time she needed to finish the uniforms. Before returning to the cockpit she found out that one of the girls who bullied her was missing and used Zearth's powers to locate her teleport her out of harms way after finally standing up to her. After defeating Enigma with relative ease, she stated that if she is reincarnated she wishes to return as a person just like her mother. Her story-arc ends with the girls who bullied her finally helping clean the classroom. Her chair was a plastic chair like what would be found in a school. There was only one casualty during her battle: herself.
Isao Kako
- Kako Isao (加古 功)
- AKA: Kako (カコ):
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: B
- Chapters: 13-16
- Pilot Order: Sixth(Manga)/Fourth(Anime)
- Voiced by: Yoshinori Fujita
Kako was a spoiled and self-centered coward with a severe inferiority complex. He acted as an errand boy for a group of bullies to avoid being the subject of their abuse, and his parents would let him get away with just about anything, much to his older sister's chagrin. Kako’s only "friend" was Kirie who also went to his school. Kako would constantly boss Kirie around since it made him feel less like a loser especially since Kirie would take this abuse without complaint. Kako in fact made Kirie accompany him to the nature school for this very reason. It was here that Kako developed a strong crush on Chizu. When he first entered the game Kako was excited, hoping that his piloting Zearth would make him famous, but upon learning the price of piloting, he suffered a mental breakdown and hid in his room. His mental state was made even worse when Dung Beetle visited him and told him that the other pilots were leaving him out of the loop and that he had so little time left. This pushed Kako overboard, and he went over to Chizu's house with every intention of raping her, but she stopped him at knifepoint. Moments later he and the other pilots were retrieved by the JSDF. While being held there, Kako experienced graphic nightmares involving him beating up on the bullies who would use him and raping the female one, or beating his sister and Chizu while they mocked him. When the battle against Fig began, Kako hoped that the interference of the Self-Defense Force would mean he wouldn’t need to pilot and die. This hope was dashed when the futility of the JSDF's attempts were made apparent. Kako then panicked and started running from the battle with no intention of stopping. The group was at a loss trying to find a way to get Kako to fight, but it was Kirie who finally spoke up and made a comment implying Kako's cowardice. This comment drove Kako into a rage and he began to mercilessly beat Kirie. Chizu stepped forward and stopped this display by stabbing her knife into Kako's throat and slitting his jugular. His death was unceremonious; it is the first death where no tears were shed. His chair was a plastic chair with a metal frame.
In the anime series, Kako did not even pilot Zearth. After he was visited by Dung Beetle, he tried to make a move on Chizu by inviting her to visit an aquarium together, but she refused. When he was selected as the following pilot, he panicked and disappeared. Chizu found him in the aquarium and tried to cheer him up, but when he tried to force his way on her, she pushed him and he fell from a stair, rendered unconscious. Chizu fled away from the aquarium leaving him behind, when it was destroyed by a missile fired during the battle between the military and the enemy robot, and Kako, just after recovering his senses, was killed by the debris. The children discovered what happened when his lifeless body was teleported to Zearth's cockpit with them, and Chizu claimed the responsability for his death, before being selected to replace him.
Chizuru Honda
- Honda Chizuru (本田 千鶴)
- AKA: Chizu (チズ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: AB
- Chapters: 17-20
- Pilot Order: Seventh(Manga)/Fifth(Anime)
- Voiced by: Ao Takahashi
After killing Kako Isao, she completed his battle. Chizu was in love with her teacher, but was being deceived. He lured her into a date and then blackmailed her to being gang-raped by his friends. For this reason she began to carry a knife with her at all times. During the combat she revealed she was pregnant and used Zearth's power to kill all of the men who assaulted her except the teacher, because her older sister, who was in love with him too, stopped her. After her death, the rest of children figured that Chizu's baby (who died with her) was also listed in the contract, which means that one of them, besides Kana Ushiro, was not bound to it. Her chair was black and fancy, carefully designed, shapely, and looked very old.
Just like Kako's story, Chizu's scenario had a lot of changes in the anime version. She was seduced by her teacher just like in the manga, but instead of being blackmailed by him, he sold some pictures of them having sex which ended appearing on the internet, and despite having their faces digitally altered, They were identified by her classmates, which led to him being punished by the school's principal. He begged for Chizu's forgiveness, and just after she accepted his apologies, she discovered he was also dating her older sister. After Kako's death, she was chosen to assume his place. Just like in the manga, Chizu tried to kill her teacher using Zearth, and was stopped by her sister, but the rest of the children just discovered about her pregnancy and the fact that one of them is not bound to the contract after her death, when Moji witnessed two slits blackening out from Zearth's face, representing her and her baby.
Kunihiko Moji
- Moji Kunihiko (門司 邦彦)
- AKA: Moji (モジ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: AB
- Chapters: 21-24
- Pilot Order: Eighth (Manga/Anime)
- Voiced by: Kouki Miyata
A boy whose great intuition helped some of the previous pilots to defeat their enemies. He had two childhood friends: a girl named Tsubasa, and a boy named Nagi, who had a heart disease. Upon checking, Moji found out that his heart was a perfect match for him. After his victory, Moji has Dung Beetle transport him to a hospital where Nagi could receive his heart. His chair was a plastic chair with a back that curved around into a semicircle.
Moji is not one of the regukar characters featured in "Bokurano Alternative", but curiously, his childhood friend Tsukasa replaces him as one of the selected children, leaving questions if he will ever make an appearance in the light novel.
Maki Ano
- Ano Maki (阿野 万記)
- AKA: Maki (マキ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 145cm
- Blood Type: O
- Chapters: 25-28
- Pilot Order: Ninth (Manga/Anime)
- Voiced by: Kumiko Higa
The adopted daughter of an anime otaku, she was expecting a baby brother. Her battle begins the night after her mother enters labour. During the battle, she discovers that the robots that they have been fighting are in fact piloted by humans of Alternate Universes, and that the battles are the method for choosing which ones survive, and which ones don't. With every victory, 10 billion people from another universe die. As she finishes her battle, she uses Zearth's powers to see the birth of her baby brother. In the manga her chair is a baby cot, but is changed to a rocking chair in the anime version. Later is revealed that Maki's family was not informed of her fate, and continue to look for her hoping that she may be alive.
Maki is one of the characters who does not take part in the pilot group in "Bokurano Alternative".
Yosuke Kirie
- Kirie Yōsuke (切江 洋介)
- AKA: Kirie (キリエ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 140cm
- Blood Type: A
- Chapters: 29-32
- Pilot Order: Tenth (Manga/Anime)
- Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma
Fat and weak-willed, he was often bullied. His depressed hikkikomori cousin made him wonder about the worth of his life, and that of others. Yet, after Honda's battle, he stabbed, non-fatally, the teacher who had used her, with her knife that she had given him. He discussed his views about the lack of importance of individual human lives with Captain Tanaka, as well as about sacrifices. He wondered if he could bring himself the courage to fight and kill another human, even knowing that the entire world's fate depend on it, and asks Tanaka to kill him and replace him if he fails to it. Before his battle starts, he shows himself to the opponent robot, and their pilot, a girl, does likewise, and shows him the many cuts and slits along her arm. After this moment Kirie finally finds his resolve to fight. They then return to the inside of their robots and begin to battle. His battle has not been detailed (the next chapter skips ahead) but he obviously won the battle. His chair was a fancy stool.
In the anime, Kirie lacks the will to fight, but his opponent commits suicide in front of Zearth, ripping out and crushing its own cockpit. Despite the technical win, Kirie does not die, and in fact remains pilot for a second match, in which he quickly and mercilessly overwhelms the enemy robot. After the fight, Kirie reveals Machi's deliberate luring of the children into Kokopelli's cave, which Dung Beetle confirms. He then dies quietly amid the commotion as Kanji restrains a furious Anko, who had begun to attack Machi.
Takami Komoda
- Komoda Takami (古茂田 孝美)
- AKA: Komo (コモ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 155cm
- Blood Type: A
- Chapters: 33-37
- Pilot Order: Eleventh (Manga)/Twelfth (Anime)
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto
The only daughter of a Navy official, (changed to a politician in the anime,) it was through Komo that the army discovered the kids' involvement with Zearth. She was almost losing her battle when the enemy pilot gave up and ran away. His only daughter (who was around Komo's age) was killed by relatives of victims of previous battles occurred in their world and he could not bring himself to kill a child even to save his own planet, as he had nobody important to him left to protect. The Japanese government set up a plan to lure him up to a piano recital held by Komoda after revealing to the world some bits of information regarding Zearth and its pilot's name. In the end the enemy pilot attended the recital and was so moved by Komo's performance, that he allowed himself to be killed by her father a few minutes before the time limit ended.
Aiko Tokosumi
- Tokosumi Aiko (往住 愛子)
- AKA: Anko (アンコ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: B
- Chapters: 38-42
- Pilot Order: Twelfth (Manga)/Eleventh (Anime)
- Voiced by: Yui Makino
Anko is the daughter of a journalist who discovered her involvement with Zearth. She told her father all the truth when questioned by him, except about her ultimate fate. Anko's father and the military attempted to fabricate a story about Zearth and the children to soothe the public opinion. However, they were preempted by Karita, a boy who appeared on TV earlier falsely claiming he was a Zearth pilot and whose comments raised the public opinion's hate for Zearth, culminating in his assassination. Afterwards, Anko's father received an authorization to broadcast his daughter's battle from inside the cockpit to the whole world. Even when seeing Anko at grave danger as the acid flowing from enemy's piercing needles managed to breach the cockpit, almost killing her and Machi, her father did not stop the transmission despite objections from the others. However, after sending these images to the world, messages supporting his daughter came to the station and he used them to encourage her to fight back. She managed to turn the tide of the battle by using the same needles the enemy robot pierced at Zearth's body to knock it down, and after the match was decided, her father revealed to her that he kept his cool at that moment because he was told about her inevitable death. After sending a message to the world apologizing for the casualties occurred during Zearth's battles, Anko sealed her victory by destroying the enemy cockpit, and died in her father's arms. Thanks to Anko's declaration, the army managed to create its official version of the story, claiming that Zearth's only pilots are Komo, Anko and the deceased Karita, in spite of all three now being dead.
Anko's story is far different in the anime series. Her father is a journalist who is working with Komoda's father and Kanji's mother not only to find a way to save the children from the contract, but to reveal the truth about Zearth to the whole world, despite the government's efforts to hide it. But he is forced to resign from his position at the TV station where he works after his affair with a famous model is disclosed, just by the time she is chosen to the Tenth match. Thanks to Kanji, with whom she became very close, not only she found the strength to bear with the whole scandal, but to fight her enemy head on, and obtain a quick victory, before passing on happily at his arms.
Kanji Yoshikawa
- Yoshikawa Kanji (吉川 寛治)
- AKA: Kanji (カンジ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 160cm
- Blood Type: O
- Chapters: 43-
- Pilot Order: Thirteenth (Manga)
- Voiced by: Kenji Nojima
Jun's schoolmate and friend. Before his fight begins, he reveals to Jun that despite seeing him hurting Kana, he did not intervene because his sister asked him not to. He also reveals to him a secret that makes Jun start to change his point of view about her, and asks him to watch out for Machi. Kanji's opponent is by far one of the strangest who appeared in the manga as it first launches itself into the sky then lands in a very far away place, then starts to fire powerful shots to a cannon orbiting the Earth which redirect them at Zearth.
Kanji's role in the story is far more elaborated in the anime series. Not only he is the son of Yoshikawa Mitsue, a lead researcher with the task of unlocking the secrets behind Zearth's technology, but he also ends up emotionally involved with Anko when her family is shaken by a scandal. It was by his support that Anko managed to gain strength enough to bear with her situation and defeat her enemy, and while he sadly holds her body as she passes out, he has a vision of some mysterious people whom he believes to be the masterminds behind the whole battles they have to fight. Coemushi at one time, stated to Machi that he chose Kanji to be the pilot for the final battle, but after having a serious discussion with him, his decision may change.
Yoko Machi
- Machi Yōko (町 洋子)
- AKA: Machi (マチ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 145cm
- Blood Type: B
- Pilot Order: -
- Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei
In the anime series, Kirie deduces that she not only one bound to the contract besides Kana, but also that she knew more than she let on, as she was the one who attracted the rest of the children to the cave where they made the contract and also knew better about the rules than anybody else. Coemushi reveals that she is in fact, his little sister, sent with Kokopelli to the children's Earth with the mission to gather the rest of the pilots. Machi can also telepathically talk to Coemushi.
Machi is one of the characters who does not take part in the pilot group of "Bokurano Alternative".
Masamitsu Seki
- Seki Masamitsu (関 政光)
- Voiced by: Shinji Kawada
One of the SDF officers who befriended the children and assumed one of the empty places in Zearth's group. He joined the military thanks to his fascination with an anime entitled "Idol Defense Force Hummingbird".
In the anime series, Masamitsu threatened Dung Beetle with a gun and had his right arm cut off by him, when he teleported his whole body, except for the hand which was holding the weapon to another place. By the time he signed the contract along Misumi, it was already replaced with a mechanical prothesis, which hides some sensors planted by Kanji's mother in order to gain access to information regading Zearth's technology. In the manga version it was a minor character, Captain Shoji who accosted Dung Beetle with the gun & was injured in a similar manner.
Misumi Tanaka
- Tanaka Misumi (田中 美純)
- Voiced by: Naomi Shindoh
The other SDF officer who befriended the children and assumed one of the empty places in Zearth's group. An intelligent and perceptive woman, she is married with a 10-year old daughter.
In the anime series, Misumi's husband is already deceased and her only child is actually Jun, but for some reason, she hides the truth from him, even after Kana asks her to locate his real mother.
Other Characters
Jun Ushiro
- Ushiro Jun (宇白 順)
- AKA: Ushiro (ウシロ)
- Grade: 7th
- Height: 150cm
- Blood Type: A
- Voiced by: Junko Minagawa
A boy with a short fuse, found almost always mistreating his little sister, Kana. A later chapter reveals that Jun's mother died giving birth to Kana, which would explain his hatred toward her. In chapter 43 of the manga, Jun tells Kanji that he did not sign the contract with them, meaning that both he and Kana are not bound to it.
In the anime series, not only Jun is a pilot, but it is later revealed that he is the orphaned son of Misumi Tanaka and a deceased Yakuza heir.
Kana Ushiro
- Ushiro Kana (宇白 可奈)
- AKA: Kana (カナ)
- Grade: 4th
- Height: 130cm
- Blood Type: O
- Voiced by: Kana Asumi
Ushiro's little sister; initially the audience is led to believe that she is the only one of the children who does not sign the contract, because Ushiro, who constantly abuses her, does not want her to. When they sign the contract, they are not aware of their inevitable fate and they are told that they would be "testing a game," and Ushiro wanted to prevent her doing something that might be fun.
Coemushi
- Koemushi (コエムシ)
- Voiced by: Akira Ishida
A weird creature who calls itself "Dung Beetle" and becomes the children's tutor after Kokopelli's disappearance. It is able to communicate verbally, and is usually very sarcastic. It responds to the children's call, which includes Kana even though she didn't sign the contract. It is able to teleport the children, as well as others from the outside world to the cockpit, and vice-versa. However, it cannot teleport directly between two places, and must go through the cockpit beforehand. Between battles, it can be seen conversing with Zearth. In the anime, he is actually conversing with Yoko;it's only revealed when he states that she is his sister.
Coemushi also does not appear in "Bokurano Alternative" as the chidren's "guide" apparently is another being similar to him.
Tamotsu Sakakibara
- Voiced by: Takehiro Murozono
An anime-only character. A convicted Yakuza who recently left prison after carrying a 10 year sentence and works for Jun's grandfather. He was also friends with his father to the point of feeling himself responsible for his death in part. By Misumi's request, he assumed the task of aiding her by helping to protect the children from harm. He also knows about Jun's connection with his employers, but hides the truth from him, despite sometimes accidentally calling him "Bocchan" (little boss) as he is the grandson of his boss.