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*Ken doesn't bathe daily and claims to only take a bath once a week or a month. He even stated once in Drama CD that he rather being punished by Mukuro than being forced to take one.
 
*Ken doesn't bathe daily and claims to only take a bath once a week or a month. He even stated once in Drama CD that he rather being punished by Mukuro than being forced to take one.
 
*His favorite snack is peppermint-flavored gum.
 
*His favorite snack is peppermint-flavored gum.
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*His favorite animal is bird, because he thinks it looks delicious.
 
*He and Chikusa apparently know where Tsuna lives by tracking Chrome's scent as they went to pick up Chrome when Tsuna brought her over to his house to dry and change her clothes since Lambo caused a bucket of water meant for Ken to spill over her.
 
*He and Chikusa apparently know where Tsuna lives by tracking Chrome's scent as they went to pick up Chrome when Tsuna brought her over to his house to dry and change her clothes since Lambo caused a bucket of water meant for Ken to spill over her.
 
*Despite having his own bed at Kokuyo Land, Ken prefers to sleep on the floor because he thinks that the bed is too soft for him to stay still.
 
*Despite having his own bed at Kokuyo Land, Ken prefers to sleep on the floor because he thinks that the bed is too soft for him to stay still.

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Character Outline

Ken Being Tested On

Ken being experimented on

Ken Joshima is a confident and trusted member of Mukuro Rokudo's Kokuyo Gang and childhood subordinate of Mukuro along with Chikusa.

History

He was born into Estraneo Famiglia along with Chikusa and Mukuro, being experimented on as "guinea pigs". However, he and Chikusa were later saved by Mukuro, who annihilated entire Estraneo Famiglia members and Ken and Chikusa became his subordinates since then.

Appearance

He has a large scar crossing from cheek to cheek, which crawls over the bridge of his nose. Ken seems to utilize his Channels by inputing sets of animal teeth cartridges over his own which modify his physiology to reflect that of the animal he is using. When doing this, the face of the animal will appear on his cheek. He is almost always seen wearing a green Kokuyo Middle uniform and often seen holding chips and sweets. In his casual clothes, he's wearing grayish blue hooded jacket with yellow shirt beneath and brown pants.

Personality

He likes to tease and is an active person, as well as being very eccentric which makes him often argue with Chikusa. At certain times when he talks, he sometimes sticks his tongue out. He is very blunt when talking that he doesn't realize the consequence that will befall on him, which most of it cause him being punished by Mukuro. It is shown that he demonstrates great loyalty towards Mukuro and will listen to all his orders even if it's costing his own life. He can also become shy, which is shown only towards Chrome whom he constantly cares for, but is too stubborn to admit and instead expressing it by act harshly to her in front of others. Though, whenever she's in danger, he'll openly show his worries for her such as during the Sky Match when she was nearly killed.

Plot Overview

Kokuyo Arc

List Countdown

Ken is the first of Mukuro's gang seen targeting an unnamed character. Later, he tracks down Ryohei, who asks him to join his Boxing club. Ken accepts the proposition on the one condition that Ryohei beats him in a fight. It is implied that Ken defeated Ryohei because he is later seen in a hospital. It is at that time that Ken pulled 5 of Ryohei's teeth. (In the anime, he gave him a watch that read 5 o'clock.), showing him to be the fifth strongest Nami-Middle student.

Kokuyo Land Invasion

Ken Surprise Attack

Ken attacks Gokudera

At Kokuyo Land, Ken throws dead dogs at Tsuna's group, presumably to move them closer to the Botanical Dome. When Takeshifalls through the roof, he jumps in after him. He is amazed at how ditzy Yamamoto is in thinking that the dogs were actually puppets. Ken begins their battle by charging Takeshi, and when his opponent evades, he uses his momentum to leap into the air, put in the Monkey Channel, and then do a spinning wall-jump back towards Takeshi, who brings his bat out to defend. Ken uses the jaws of his Channel to destroy the bat with little fanfare. His opponent is visibly angered, but first asks him how he managed to change his appearance. Ken equates putting a new disc into a video game console to him putting teeth into his mouth to change his Channel. He demonstrates by switching the Monkey Channel for the Kong Channel, and heaving Takeshi into the glass walls of their arena. Off-screen, he switches to the Wolf Channel and reveals that because of the dead dogs' blood of Takeshi, he can smell him, while he can't be seen. And Ken proceeds to launch a flurry of quick attacks, which Takeshi dodges, trying to protect his arm. Reborn kicks Tsuna down into the arena, and Ken changes targets to the much weaker person. However, Takeshi throws a rock to get him to refocus on him. Ken charges and sinks the teeth of the Cheetah Channel deep into Takeshi's arm. However, he fell for the trap, and with a swift sword-butt to the temple, was knocked out by Takeshi. He taunts Tsuna's group after Takeshi and Tsuna are helped out of the hole, revealing that he managed to instantaneously switch to the Opossum Channel to effectively play dead. Bianchi proceeds to drop a large rock on his head (manga only). Ken reappears when Hayato is winning against Chikusa. He takes advantage of the fact that Hayato was suffering from Shamal's Trident Mosquitoes' countereffect, and digs the claws of an unknown Channel deep into Hayato's chest, which was the debilitating blow that won them their fight. As he watches his and Chikusa's opponent stumble and fall down a flight of stairs, they dawdle and give him time to release Hibari. He is defeated off-screen and tossed out of the window.

Mukuro Face-off

Ken reappears along with Chikusa, Bianchi, and Hayato under the possession of Mukuro Rokudo. He is pushed to the limit by Mukuro and was last seen being dragged off by the Vendice.

Varia Arc

Ken & Chikusa

Ken and Chikusa during the Mist Battle

Mist Ring Battle

Ken and Chikusa appear when Tsuna was told to buy drinks after he questioned who the Mist Guardian is. When he reached the shop, however, Tsuna immediately fainted when Ken surprised him from behind. After a short conversation with Reborn, he and Chikusa left as he saying that Tsuna's Mist Guardian is too good for him. He later appear again in the gym where Mist Ring Battle took place, escorting Chrome. After Mukuro defeated Mammon, he changed back to Chrome who was exhausted and fell asleep. Ken and Chikusa left without her, stating that he isn't Mukuro and has no intention to give her his concern when Tsuna questioned them.

Cloud Ring Battle

He and Chikusa watched Hibari's fight under Mukuro's order. During Gola Mosca's rampage, they saved Chrome from the mines that buried within the ground that she accidently stepped on. This left them unguarded and trapped between Gola Mosca and rifle pointed at them. Fortunately, Tsuna arrived in time, protecting the three of them from both attacks.

Sky Match

He and Chikusa secretly followed Chrome to the last match, but was found out by the Cervello and was told to stay and watch outside the battlefield along with Reborn, Collonelo, Basil, and Shamal until the match ends.

Future Arc

Battle with Glo Xinia

Ken, along with Chikusa, makes a cameo appearance during Chrome's battle with Glo Xinia in a flashback. He was talking about their secret hiding hole and put gum in it, after which Chikusa commented that gum was not food. Ken, along with Mukuro and Chikusa, makes another appearance during Chrome's battle with Glo Xinia. All three of them appear as Real Illusions made from Chrome, with the help of her Vongola Mist Ring.

Inheritance Succession Arc

Ken Sniffing The Onigiri

Kyoko, Haru, and Bianchi giving rice balls to Chrome, but is interrupted by Ken

He appears with Chikusa when Kyoko, Haru, I-Pin, and Bianchi came to Kokuyo Land, asking where Chrome is. He replied, saying that she'd been missing since the day before yesterday (when Tsuna and the others came back from the Future). He also said that she ran off without saying anything, and that he will give her the rice balls when she comes back. While he was eating some snacks, Chrome comes back in tears, confusing both Ken and Chikusa. He tried to cheer her up by offering some snacks, to no avail. He and Chikusa commented that Chrome wasn't acting like herself. The next day, he and Chikusa met Tsuna and the others on their way to Kokuyo Land. He immediately blames Tsuna and the others about Chrome's condition. After he and Chikusa explains the situation to Tsuna's group, he decides to go and buy some snacks, stating that he's hungry. But, Chikusa immediately realized that he was going to buy some chocolate for Chrome, which Ken hotly denied, saying that he was going to buy them for himself. He returns after buying many snacks in hopes of making Chrome happy, but is shocked to find out the whole Kokuyo land building has disappeared. When Kokuyo Land appears again after Daemon's defeat, he immediately yells at Tsuna to give an explanation, but changes his mind when Chrome apologizes and realized that she came back to normal which makes him happy but hides it immediately by saying that if she cried again she will have it for good, to which Chrome happily replied yes.

Future Final Battle Arc

Future Ken And Chikusa

Future Ken and Chikusa

Ken appeared alongside Chikusa and M.M. after Fran freed Mukuro from the Vendicare Prison. When they all arrived in Japan, they engaged Zakuro in combat, where Ghost came out suddenly and absorbed Zakuro's Flames. Ken also watched the fight between Tsuna and Byakuran. After Tsuna defeated Byakuran, Ken was seen with Chikusa and Mukuro calling out to Chrome that it was almost time they went back to the past.

Inheritance Ceremony Arc

Tsuna called Chrome at Kokuyo Land for a meeting with the Simon Famiglia, but Ken hung up on them. Later, he was happy when he, Chrome, and Chikusa received a package with food from an unknown sender, who was actually revealed to be Julie Katou.

The Curse of the Rainbow Arc

Decuple Bombs

Ken uses Gokudera's bombs

Ken, along with Mukuro, Chikusa, and M.M went to countryside in France called Jura in order to recruit Flan into their team. However, when Mukuro's furious that his hair being compared to pineapple and Belphegor started to attack Flan with his knifes, Flan running away. Ken tried to stop and convince Flan that they're his allies but Flan immediately mocked Ken's habit on saying "byon" with smiley face, assuming him as an idiot fairy and tell him not to touch him or else he would catch his stupidity. Later, after Mukuro was requested by Verdeto fight for him, he is seen in Namimori accompanying Mukuro on his "declaration of war" statement to Tsuna. During the second day of the Representative Battle of the Rainbow, he, along with Mukuro, Chikusa, and Flan, fought against Team Reborn and Team Yuni. However, when Colonello fired his Maximum Rifle attack, his and Chikusa's wristwatches were destroyed, thus disqualifying them from the battle. During the third day of the Representative Battle of the Rainbow, Ken and Chikusa uses the remaining two spare wristwatches, allowing them to rejoin the battle and help Mukuro to fight the Vindice with Team Reborn who had formed a temporary alliance with their team. However, he, Chikusa, Yamamoto, and Gokudera were easily knocked out by the Vindice after their true form was revealed. After the third battle was over, he and Chikusa was taken back to Kokuyo Land along with Mukuro to treat their injuries. The next day, he and the other Kokuyo Gang members along with people who Tsuna had talked to gathered at Tsuna's house to discuss plan to defeat Team Bermuda.

Relationships

Chikusa Kakimoto

Ken constantly bicker's with Chikusa and at one point, even pick's a fight with him due to their contrasting personalities, though Chikusa mostly ignores him. Ken mostly mocks him by calling him "four-eyed Kappa". Chikusa is mostly irritated due to Ken's noisiness, mocking attitude and idiocy, though he is normally patient about it. Chikusa also dislikes the fact Ken is lazy too clean himself and will always tell him to take a bath. Chikusa also often "teases" Ken of his dishonesty about caring for Chrome's well-being, usually pointing out Ken's concern for her whenever Ken tries to hide it. Despite all this, both can be considered as good partners and childhood friends, and will work together whenever Mukuro or Chrome are involved.

Mukuro Rokudo

Ken displays great loyalty and admiration towards Mukuro who had saved him and Chikusa during their childhood in Estraneo Famiglia and ever since then, becoming one of his trusted subordinates to the point he doesn't mind even if Mukuro is just using him, as shown when he desperately tried to help Mukuro after his lost at Tsuna's hands despite his injuries. Aside from this, Ken sometimes secretly does some pranks on Mukuro, such as wearing the jacket on Mukuro's closet or eating his chocolate ice cream on the fridge which were all forbidden, which usually results him being punished by Mukuro with his Six Paths of Reincarnation, especially whenever he calls him pineapple head. Mukuro treats Ken indifferently like he did to the other of his subordinates and stated that he was only a tool. However, in reality, Mukuro tolerates both Ken and Chikusa and cares for their well-being as far as striking a deal with Iemitsu for their safety. In novel Vongola 77, he even admitted that they are his friends.

Chrome Dokuro

Ken always treats Chrome harshly and mocks her, calling her stupid girl or ugly girl and tries to show to others his "obvious" dislike towards her. However, in reality, he actually cares for her. He always blushing whenever she is mentioned and worries whenever she's in danger or acting unlike herself and will try to cheer her up like bringing her some snacks. He is quite protective, getting angry at anyone he feels responsible for making her upset. In Hidden Bullet: mono.CHROME, it's strongly hinted that Ken harbour feelings for her ever since their first meeting; he always flustered whenever she's around and unable to get her out of his head, something that Chikusa noticed and commented that Ken was thinking 'the world of Chrome'. Chrome regards Ken as her first important comrade along with Chikusa and holds him dearly despite Ken's mockery, as she possibly knew that Ken actually cares for her.

Tony

Their relationship had never been shown, but Ken had mentioned him as one of his friends during their times in Estraneo Famiglia. And, judging from his reaction along with the other children when Tony was shot dead by one of their captors, Ken seems to care for him.

Appearances in other media

He appeared in the Hidden Bullet Novel series. He appeared as a minor character in the first novel Hidden Bullet: Mukuro's Illusion, when Mukuro took over Kokuyo Land. And, also in the second novel, chapter one, Hidden Bullet: 2X-Fiamma: mono.CHROME, which tells how he and Chikusa first met Chrome: he and Chikusa went to Japan as ordered by Mukuro to find "the other me" in their dreams. Due to Ken missed Mukuro so much, he started to imaginating a pile of pineapples on the market 'talking' to him with Mukuro's signature laugh, making Chikusa commented that he had gone crazy. Ken retorted this and after some arguments, he left Chikusa and then fell asleep at Namimori Park. When he awake, he's surprised when he realized that he slept on someone's lap, who turned out to be Chrome who's still Nagi at time. When his stomach growled because of hunger, Nagi fed him an apple, which he accepted and tearfully ate as it reminded him the time when Mukuro also gave him an apple on the night they were running away from the Estraneo lab.

In the Reborn! artbook Colore; it's revealed that he often secretly wears Mukuro's jacket uniform, eats his ham from his fridge, and eats his ice cream in his freezer, which are all supposed to be forbidden. Unfortunately for him, Mukuro already knows all of this and is ready to punish him.

In the Chrome Saw It! A Happy Day at Kokuyo Land! Drama CD as a side character in Chrome's flashbacks and when he and Chikusa went to pick Chrome up form Tsuna's house. Despite Tsuna's protests about the fact that Chrome was changing, Ken kept on yelling for her to come out. When he suddenly says 'the pineapple-head inside', Mukuro switches with Chrome and uses his First Realm on Ken.

Lastly, he appears in the eight Drama CD "Namimori Radio - ON AIR!", where he's hosting one of Vongola's radio corner called "Ken Ken Paw's Corner". During the air, he constantly compares Mukuro's hair with pineapple, causing him to be nearly had his hair cut by Mukuro and nearly beaten up by him with the fourth path until Ken says it was a joke. However, in the end he is eventually punished by Mukuro when Chikusa reveals that Ken only feeds Chrome with chocolate snacks, angering Mukuro who uses his fifth path against him, and Ken's cries was heard as Mukuro cut the radio connection, ending the corner.

Weapons and Abilities

  • Channels: Ken utilizes his Channels by inputting sets of animal teeth cartridges over his own, which modify his physiology to reflect that of the animal.
  • Sun Ring: In the Final Future Battle Arc, Ken is briefly shown wearing a Sun-attribute ring while battling Zakuro.

Trivia

  • Ken doesn't bathe daily and claims to only take a bath once a week or a month. He even stated once in Drama CD that he rather being punished by Mukuro than being forced to take one.
  • His favorite snack is peppermint-flavored gum.
  • His favorite animal is bird, because he thinks it looks delicious.
  • He and Chikusa apparently know where Tsuna lives by tracking Chrome's scent as they went to pick up Chrome when Tsuna brought her over to his house to dry and change her clothes since Lambo caused a bucket of water meant for Ken to spill over her.
  • Despite having his own bed at Kokuyo Land, Ken prefers to sleep on the floor because he thinks that the bed is too soft for him to stay still.
  • In the manga, he has the Opossum Channel, but he didn't have this in anime. He also had a wild boar channel in the Drama CD which was used to track Chrome's scent when he and Chikusa were looking for her and Kangaroo Channel in Hidden Bullet Novel.
  • He has a habit of ending his sentences with "-byon."
  • Because of his fangs, he has a lisp and can't say "shut up" and "why" properly.
  • In Hidden Bullet Novel: mono-Chrome, it's revealed that he was the one who cut Chrome's hair into pineapple shape like Mukuro.
  • A running gag in the Drama CDs, he is always compared to a dog and Ken would always retort that he's not a dog just because his name literally means dog (unaware that it was his behavior that caused him to be compared like one). Ironically, in several occasions in the series, dog ears and tail appears from him as comical effect. Mukuro also once used a command "Kanna, Ken" to him, a command that usually use for dogs in Japanese.

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