A list of characters appearing in Seton Academy: Join the Pack!. BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS!
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The Cooking Club
Jin Mazama
Species: Human
Voiced by: Haruki Ishiya
One of the few remaining humans. Does not like animals, and wants nothing to do with them.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Both on the receiving and giving end of this trope. On the receiving end, Jin is greatly disgusted when any of the animal students show attraction to him.
- The giving end is both an inversion AND a subversion. When Jin thinks Anne is trying to confess her love to him, he gently lets her down and tells her he's only interested in Hitomi. Anne, who was actually trying to lure him into the Extinct Club's trap, is completely disgusted that Jin thought that was what she wanted.
- Covert Pervert: Despite his fondness for Hitomi, Jin isn't above fantasizing about her and Anne fighting over the right to be his girlfriend in a way that involves stripping each other's clothes off and making out.
- Crazy-Prepared: He's often shown carrying things in order to get animals away from him, such as anti-bear spray, bones, and lemons.
- Did Not Get the Girl: The final chapter strongly implies that Hitomi hooks up with Yena the hyena instead of Jin.
- Entitled to Have You: Jin's infatuation with Hitomi has shades of this. The manga attempts to justify it by depicting humans as on the verge of extinction and as the only human female, it's only natural that she become his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Jin's fantasies are colored by his intense dislike of animals, and, as such, involve him treating the animal students in ways that Hitomi would obviously never approve of yet still fawning all over him with slavish devotion.
- Even the Guys Want Him: So far he's attracted the affections of an aye-aye, a giraffe, and a sea otter, all of whom are males. Jin obviously doesn't reciprocate their feelings.
- Fantastic Racism: He hates all animals, no matter what they are.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Got hot and bothered over an imagined scenario of Anne and Hitomi fighting over him in a vaguely erotic way.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his self-proclaimed hatred of animals, he's actually extremely knowledgeable about their behaviors, diets, biology, and everything in between, and can often identify a species on sight. If anything, he's typically more knowledgeable about a given species' traits than even the actual members of said species themselves.
- I Choose to Stay: Its revealed in Chapter 102.5 that Jin initially only went to Seton Academy for one day just see how horrible it really was, with no plans of attending the school itself. But said plans changed after meeting a kind cat-girl (Hitomi in disguise) who showed him around the school and hoped to see him again.
- After both he and Hitomi transfer to a humans only school, he gives the impression of finding it harder to fit in than you might expect. The pair transfer back not long after.
- It's All About Me: Jin initially saw the Cooking Club as a means to have alone time with Hitomi and as such isn't above trying to sabotage prospective new membership by imposing requirements meant to be impassible. He also was overjoyed when Miki initially ordered for the club to disband all non-human members.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- He lives and breathes this trope. He might hate being surrounded by animals all the time, never failing to remind everyone about it, but he ends up helping them either way.
- Ferryl was very insecure about her enormous stature, until Jin mentioned that her size was likely a result of how much care she took to make sure Ranka was warm during the winter even at her own expense, and Barbari was overjoyed when Jin nonchalantly corrected his claim that the Barbary lions had been driven extinct.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His attempts to sabotage new membership of animal members usually backfire right in his face.
- Pet the Dog: While it may be very hard to notice, Jin is much nicer to Miyubi than any of the other animal girls, as shown by, for example, him willingly carrying her to the club room everyday and rarely calling her a "shitty animal." In her first appearance alone he keeps her from drowning in the bath, bathes her, waits patiently while she makes him tea, and lets her join the club without objection after she explains herself.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He has eyes for Hitomi and only Hitomi, despite being surrounded on all sides by very attractive girls. Subverted as it becomes increasingly clear that even if he doesn't realize it, he's developing pretty strong affections for Ranka.
- Supreme Chef: Although he's super hesitant at actually cooking, on the occasions that he does make a dish, his cooking always manages to impress everyone regardless of their species' typical diet.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: A rather downplayed example. Ranka is more than likely the only female in the academy to find zero faults with Jin. The other cooking club members do like him, with a few being love interests, but also know that he can be an asshole and react accordingly. Most of the new characters that come across him often label him as one (to his face, no less), but do appreciate his knowledge for animals and know that he does have a good side to him, if only because of Ranka's word.
- Tsundere: Claims to despise every animal, and yet is also the leading expert on everything animal-related and frequently, without prompting, applies that knowledge to helping his classmates. Mei Mei, Yukari, and even Miyubi call him "Jindere".
- Unwanted Harem: He only has eyes for Hitomi, though his actions inadvertently led to several other girls developing feelings for him, such as Ranka, Mei Mei, or Chii. He either regards them as nuisances or merely friends. He also doesn't appreciate attention from the handful of male students who have crushes on him, either.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He actually wanted to be with animals as a kid. However multiple failed attempts to approach a young Ranka, followed by him getting beaten up by some bears only to have Ranka make things worse by licking his wounds, has completely soured Jin's view of animals.
Ranka Okami
Species: Hokkaido wolf
Voiced by: Hina Kino
A very excitable Wolf who is determined to form a multi-species pack.
- All Animals Are Dogs: While she's a wolf, Jin treats her like an unruly dog, and she acts very dog-like in turn.
- The Alleged Boss: Hitomi was the one who created the Cooking Club in the first place. Ranka just assumed control and everyone just went along with it.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While Ranka is usually cheerful and playful as a puppy, if you mess with her pack she can be downright vicious, as Pan Saruhara found out the hard way after attempting to tase her.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: In the first episode, she angrily chases Hitomi away from Jin every time she sees them together. She drops this after accepting Hitomi into her pack as well, and doesn't take issue with the other girls.
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: When Pan Saruhara tries to taser her to win the Field Day competition, having cheated her way to victory at almost every other event, Ranka bites the taser in half, snaps her fangs right in front of Pan's face, and threatens to do the same to the chimpanzee-girl if she messes with her pack again.
- Do You Want to Copulate?: When Ranka goes into heat, she propositions Jin and tackles him onto his bed. Jin brusquely shuts her down, breaking her heart by sneering that he hates not only her but all animals. Afterward, he reaffirms that he hates Ranka in front of the rest of the cooking club... but remains explicitly silent when Hitomi reminds Ranka that humans often lie, and ergo he doesn't actually hate her.
- Genki Girl: Ranka is always running on all cylinders. You'd be really hard-pressed to find a scene where she's not overly-excited or energetically running all over the place.
- Lethal Chef: She made precisely one meal, that's so disturbing to the eyes that it had to be censored. When Jin was fed one small spoonful of it he nearly died. One good thing came out of it, though: it made Yukari remember what she was looking for.
- Mating Season Mayhem: When Ranka goes into heat she causes no shortage of trouble for Jin, asking him to mate with her while he's begrudgingly looking after her. Instead he breaks her heart by sneering that he hates her, though Hitomi assures Ranka that he wasn't being truthful.
- Noble Wolf: While Jin may dislike her pushiness when it comes to being the boss, she's an earnest and friendly girl who wants to have a great pack.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: When Pan Saruhara attacks her with a taser, Ranka chomps down on the weapon hard enough to destroy it and then threatens to eat Pan if she messes with her friends again.
- Odd Friendship: With Miyubi the sloth. While Ranka is always full of energy, Miyubi is physically-placid to the point where doing anything and everything can kill her.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Has pale pink hair, and she's a friendly and adorable girl that wants to have a great pack.
- Self-Serving Memory: Ranka mentioned that she was rescued as a child by a human boy who bravely stood up for her and beat up the bears. Little does she know that Jin was that little boy from her past and her "flashback" was far from the truth: despite Jin's attempt to protect her, the bears beat him senseless and Ranka's act of licking his wounds further added salt to the injury.
- Student Council President: After a series of trials, she officially becomes the new student council president in Chapter 127.
- Take Over the World: Played for Laughs. Her ultimate goal in life is to become friends with everyone and add them all to her pack, thus becoming the boss of the whole world.
- Token Mini-Moe: She's the shortest member of the Cooking Club, only coming up to Jin's waist and being a head shorter than even Yukari.
Hitomi Hino
Species: Human
Voiced by: Yume Miyamoto
Object of Jin's affection and only other human at the school. Initiates the cooking club.
- Ambiguously Bi: Her overly-friendly personality makes her relationship with both Yena and Anne raise a few eyebrows. With Yena, Hitomi seems to be the only character who fully accepts his "manhood", even calling him the "manliest of men" at one point. With Anne, Hitomi lets herself be groped by her throughout a whole night (though it's likely she doesn't know how to respond in such a situation.) The same reason can explain her not necessarily resisting when a female Bonobo tries to have sex with her. Yet, it's all but stated in the manga that Hitomi reciprocates Jin's feelings, and tries to get closer to him than her statements in earlier chapters imply by doing things such as making extra food for him during lunchtime. It also doesn't help that she had a dream where she showed herself in a revealing "Second-Year outfit" to Jin and Jin alone, and was more panicked than she usually is when Bonobo urged Jin to have sex with her. However, it becomes less ambiguous with her becoming more attracted to Yena in the final after-chapter of the manga, and it's unknown if she still likes Jin romantically or not.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Many students, and even some of her clubmates agree that Hitomi's large breasts are two of her most attractive features.
- Covert Pervert: She frequently covers her face if something raunchy happens... while peeking through her fingers. When Mei Mei yanks on the waistband of Yena's pants to see if it's true that he has a pseudo-penis and all the other girls crowd around to take a look, to Jin's dismay even Hitomi leans over to take a peek.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Like Jin, she attracts the attention of animals of the same sex as her. When Yukari suggests she try emulating Yena, the result leaves everyone in the cooking club sporting a nosebleed.
- Maybe Ever After: In the final after-chapter of the series, Hitomi blushes (with there being a *thump* heart effect to boot) at Yena after the latter saves her. With both King asking how the two can really be "easygoing" when compared to how he and Shiho are handling their relationship, and the fact the chapter randomly clarifies that female hyenas' "penises" can become erect with both Yena and Hitomi then blushing from the fact, the chapter hints that Hitomi and Yena may become a couple in the future.
- Morality Chain: Acts as one for Jin. Should his hatred toward animals start getting out of hand she'll rein him back in.
- Nice Girl: The sweetest character by far. The only time she ever shows anything close to anger is when Jin takes his hatred of animals too far.
- Signature Headgear: She has a hair decoration that looks like the gender symbol for female and is rarely seen without it.
Yukari Komori
Species: Koala
Voiced by: Misaki Kuno
A Koala who joins the Cooking Club in a quest to find out what she ate aside from eucalyptus leaves. Ends up developing a rather... odd taste in food.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Yukari joins the cast on a quest to figure out a food she remembered eating when she was small that wasn't the eucalyptus leaves her family otherwise always eats, and inquiring about it didn't yield any answers (in hindsight, for obvious reasons). She discovers that mother koalas feed their own poop to their babies to help develop antibodies, but after the initial shock wears off poop becomes Yukari's Trademark Favorite Food, much to everyone else's disgust.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Forms one with Tsurugiya-sensei the stegosaurus due to their mutual love of eating poop.
- Nice Girl: Love of poop aside, she's a very friendly person.
- Nonstandard Character Design: While 99% of the female characters are portrayed as mostly human but with animal ears and/or tails, she's one of the few whose face resembles the animal she's based on, and she lacks the animal ears (which for a koala would be huge), having her hair done up in the right shape instead.
- One-Note Cook: She's the first animal member to bring legit cooking skills with her... as long as it has eucalyptus. Justified, since she's a koala and eucalyptus is practically the only thing real koalas eat.
- Punny Name: Yukari's given name is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of "Eucalyptus".
- Saying Too Much: She's usually liable to doing this, like when she over-divulges about Yena's personal matters.
- Screaming Warrior: While she's usually rather calm, if she's startled or angered — like when Mei Mei ate all of the panda dumplings — she will perform a show of threat by hefting the nearest heavy object over her head and screeching at the top of her lungs.
- Stronger Than They Look: Has a gripping strength of over a ton, according to an urban legend about koalas. She even beat a gorilla in an arm-wrestling match.
Miyubi Shisho
Species: Three-toed Sloth
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara
A Sloth who naturally doesn't get around very fast. Dies a lot.
- Death as Comedy: She dies on a regular basis from things as mundane as lifting a "heavy" object or just having some wind blow onto her. No, we don't mean something like a storm. We mean a gentle breeze.
- Determinator:
- Apparently she's been trying to find one sport she can do for quite some time, to the extent that her room is filled with so much sporting equipment that it looks like all the Williams sisters live there.
- She's quite fiery at training herself to compete in the athletic festival, even though she also died more than a few dozen times doing so. Even a burning fever couldn't slow her down, though she predictably dies after completing her segment.
- Go Out with a Smile: Miyubi "dying" with a smile on her face becomes a running gag.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has light blonde hair and is the nicest of the cast.
- Hidden Depths: Despite her physical difficulties, Miyubi is actually a genius when it comes to scientific subjects. She was also revealed to have been a former pro at "Magic: The Donkeying", but retired because the cards were too heavy for her to lift.
- Informed Species: You'd probably assume she's a human if you weren't told she's a sloth.
- Living Hat: While technically it's a moss growth, after being trimmed a bit by Jin it basically acts as a cute little makeshift cap.
- Morality Pet: The animal-hating Jin is kind to Miyubi and took the time to tend her despite being a slowpoke.
- Nice Girl: Miyubi is hands down the nicest girl for miles. She's always smiling and happy, and ready to give her best despite her physical handicap. She's unfailingly friendly and supportive towards everyone, even the resident Jerkass Jin, and she seems to be one of a small handful of people that he doesn't loathe with a passion.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Not only lacking animal ears or other animal features, but the only character with a hat.
- Perpetual Smiler: She is normally seen with a smile on her face, which is based on the fact three-toed sloths look like they're always smiling.
- The Quiet One: Because of her slowness and tendency to die, she doesn't speak much unless she really has to.
- Say My Name: As part of a Running Gag, every time Miyubi dies, Ranka will always be there to dramatically shout her name.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: When she's first introduced her hair is disheveled, overgrown, and almost completely covered in moss. It's so bad that Jin mistook her for a corpse at first glance. A quick bath (without any soap) and cleanup from Jin makes her look much cuter.
- Sluggish Sloths: Any sort of exertion will cause her to die. Don't worry, she'll be fine. Unlike most examples, however, her sluggishness is explained by her slow metabolism and poikilothermy (true to real-life sloths).
- They Killed Kenny Again: She dies (or nearly dies) almost every time she does an activity. Miyubi's introductory episode sees her die four times. It reaches a point where nobody's even worried anymore when it happens and she regularly visits friends in the afterlife.
Kurumi Nekomai
Species: Cat
Voiced by: Sora Tokui
A Cat and sort-of member of the club, coming and going like cats are wont to do.
- Aloof Ally: She's considered a ghost member of the cooking club and only joins in their activities occasionally.
- Cats Are Mean: She's actually a Tsundere, but hides her fondness for the club beneath a facade of indifference.
- Cat Girl: Gee, ya think?.
- Compelling Voice: Her purring can hypnotize people and briefly bend them to her will. Jin is the only one who's remotely resistant to this effect.
- Demoted to Extra: She was prominent in early chapters (and the promotional material for the anime), but slowly faded into the background. Currently she only makes sporadic appearances in bonus chapters or cameos. The character introduction section in the trade paperbacks hang a lampshade on this, saying that she rarely makes appearances despite her popularity. Makes sense, given that cats come and go as they please, when they please.
- For the Lulz: Once terrorised the naked mole rats for shits and giggles. Bear in mind she's Kaiju-sized compared to them.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: She comes and goes as she pleases, typically without anyone noticing, owing to her aloof personality.
- The Tell: When she denies wanting to join the Cooking Club, Jin tells her he knows she's lying and enjoyed spending time with them because her tail has been upright the entire time, indicating she was happy. Truth in Television as cats often hold their tails straight up when they're happy or curious.
- Tsundere: She's a typical cat - aloof one moment and affectionate the next. She denies wanting anything to do with the Cooking Club but always hangs around them anyway.
- Verbal Tic: She pronounces her "N" sounds as "nya", which is the Japanese equivelent of meowing.
Mei Mei
Species: Giant Panda
Voiced by: Yuu Serizawa
A Giant Panda from China who joins the club for oddly masochistic reasons.
- A-Cup Angst: In episode 9, she becomes unnerved by her friends' "assets," finding kinship with Ranka.
- Cool Shades: Has a pair that represents the circles around the eyes of regular pandas.
- First Kiss: When she initially joins the Cooking club, she ends up licking Jin instead of letting Ranka lick her to initiate her into the club/pack.
- Food as Bribe: Inverted example. She develops a liking to the Cooking Club after she eats all of the panda treats before anyone else could even take a bite. She then demands Jin make more for her, but he flat out refuses. She later bribes several of the other members with gifts to win them over and suggest to Jin that they make more. While he sees through her bribes, he relents on the condition that Mei Mei helps them.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Though upset at first with Jin's harsh treatment of her, she finds herself enjoying being tormented by him when he refuses to do anything she asks, or insults her. This becomes a motivation for her to join the Cooking Club.
- Irony: For a Giant Panda, she's actually one of the shorter members of the club. Barely taller than Yukari, and is skinny as a rail (And flat as a board) on top of that.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: She acts like this at first, having spent her life being pampered and loved unconditionally.
- New Transfer Student: In a manner more similar to a transfer from another zoo, she's a new student at Seton academy.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: Her jersey ends above the midriff like a Chinese vest, instead of hanging below the waistline like everyone else, though it could just be a holdover from where she transferred from.
- School Idol: She's treated as one, getting lots of attention when she first transfers to the school. Later she offers to have all 1.3 billion of her followers online join the Cooking club.
- Spoiled Brat: Initially; this is because she grew up having every whim catered to and always fawned over for being a panda. Some time with Jin helps her grow out of it.
- Stock Foreign Name: Mei Mei is a pretty stereotypical name for a Chinese girl.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Because Jin was the first person to ever deny her anything and even insulted her, she has developed a masochistic streak that occasionally weirds out the other members.
Chii Suimori
Species: Vampire Bat
A Vampire Bat who joins the school and the club in the second year.
- Bloodsucking Bats: To her detriment. She's a vampire bat but is terrified of drinking blood.
- Cute Little Fangs: A snaggletooth that reminds us she's a vampire bat.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Can be spotted milling in the background of episode 11.
- Flight: She's a bat, so of course she can fly.
- Precocious Crush: Develops one for Jin after he helps find some food that she can enjoy eating besides blood.
- Punny Name: Her given name is a pun on the Japanese word for "blood".
- Misplaced Wildlife: Vampire bats are native to Central and South America, not Japan. The manga acknowledges this when she's first introduced.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Get this with her parents who're embarrassed she won't drink blood. So much so it's the reason they sent her to the academy and barring her from returning home until she does.
- Your Vampires Suck: Chii's thing is that she DOESN'T. She's a vampire bat who's terrified of drinking blood. Even when offered willingly, she can't bring herself to do it with Jin noting it's because she doesn't like harming people.
Other Students
Kuroe Mashima
Species: Grevy's Zebra
Voiced by: Yoshino Aoyama
Alpha Bitch of the school who quickly gets taken down a few pegs by Jin.
- Break the Haughty: She's very haughty at first, positing herself as a proud mare with two horse girl lackeys. Jin then exposes the fact that zebras are actually closer to donkeys in a rather embarrassing way (namely by picking her up and exposing her tail - and panties - to everyone), leading Kuroe to charge off in pure embarrasment. Later, she comes to accept the donkeys as her friends.
- Honorary True Companion: While she's not an official member of the Cooking Club, she and her donkey friends hang out very often with Jin and the gang.
- Kick Chick: Like a zebra, she has a pretty strong kick. It's her secret move in card games.
- Took a Level in Kindness: At first she was haughty and mean to Ranka, but after Jin exposes that zebras are more closely related to donkeys than horses, she makes a complete turn and now she sees the two donkey brothers as her friends.
- Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: In her first appearance, she firmly believed that this trope was in play, and that she was a horse with stripes, until Jin revealed her kind are actually closer to donkeys.
King Shishino
Species: Lion
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita
The big lion on campus, with a crush on an Impala.
- Act of True Love: To prove he was serious about his love for Shiho, he cut off his own mane to make his harem leave him and said he only loved her.
- Bash Brothers: He and Yena have actually fought side-by-side on a couple of occasions.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Just because he has lost his mane and gets constantly beaten up, with the right motivation he reminds us why he was the strongest lion at Seton. Even against the likes of barbary lions!
- Do You Want to Copulate?: Because lions mate all year long, he constantly proposes to Shiho (who only has an annual mating season), only to get rejected or interrupted every time.
- Face of a Thug: Much to his dismay. As he's a massive carnivore with intimidating features, he would always inadvertently scare off his love interest whenever he tries to approach her.
- Interspecies Romance: Attracted to Shiho the Impala.
- King of Beasts: Before losing his mane, he was well-regarded, and is the strongest lion at school. We'd say it's undisputed, but other male lions dispute it readily.
- Lovable Jock: Unlike most of the other carnivore students King is actually a pretty nice guy, even becoming friends with the Cooking Club.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Whenever he gets angry, usually if Shiho is threatened, his mane instantly grows back, becomes spiky and glows with royal glory, much like a Super Saiyan. When this happens, his strength increases greatly, also like a Super Saiyan.
- Punny Name: "Shishi no King" literally means "King of the Lions".
- Too Important to Walk: In his first episode, his harem carries him in a throne, though at one point, he smacked his head on a door frame.
- The Worf Effect: In the anime's last episode, he and Yena both get trashed at the same time by Man Koorimoto, the wooly mammoth.
Shiho Ihara
Species: Impala
Voiced by: Marika Kouno
An Impala. Track runner and object of King Shishino's crush.
- In a Single Bound: She can leap 25 meters, which is impressive even by impala standards, who usually average 10 meters.
- Interspecies Romance: She eventually returns King Shishino's affections.
- Kick Chick: As befitting such an impressive jumper, Shiho packs a kick to be reckoned with, mighty enough to stun even big guys like King.
Yena Madaraba
Species: Spotted Hyena
Voiced by: Minami Tsuda
A fight-happy Hyena who is having a small Identity Breakdown regarding his gender.
- Berserk Button: Saying he looks like a girl. After his Unsettling Gender-Reveal, he seems to have come to accept his womanly looks a bit more, or at least no longer reacts with violent rage.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Owing to his masculine image, Yena actively seeks out the biggest, toughest-looking guys in the school and beats them to a pulp, both to assert dominance and for fun.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Yena becomes possessive of Hitomi and takes an immediate dislike to Anne when she gets too close to her.
- Did They or Didn't They?: It's ambiguous whether Yena had sex with Bonobo and her all-female bonobo "club" upon running into them. Judging from the look on Yena's face after leaving the room, he probably did.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Yena originally had a small fanclub of female hyenas, and later a Bonobo propositions her with it being implied that Yena accepted, and it's implied that Yena and Hitomi became a couple.
- Heinous Hyena: Only if you're on the wrong end of Yena's fists. While he might be short-tempered and aggressive, Yena's far from heinous.
- Hidden Buxom: Yena's daily wear deliberately belies the fact that he's actually quite busty, as shown when he starts wearing women's clothes and when he bathes with Hitomi while learning to act more feminine.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rash and aggressive, Yena really cares about Hitomi and would do anything to protect her.
- The Lad-ette: Yena is strong, boisterous, aggressive, and refers to himself using the adult male pronoun Ore.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Averted with his first encounter with Jin and Ranka; although Yena wears guy's clothing, they correctly assumed that Yena is biologically female.
- Maybe Ever After: In the final after-chapter of the series, Hitomi blushes (with there being a *thump* heart effect to boot) at Yena after the latter saves her. With both King asking how the two can really be "easygoing" when compared to how he and Shiho are handling their relationship, and the fact the chapter randomly clarifies that female hyenas' "penises" can become erect with both Yena and Hitomi then blushing from the fact, the chapter hints that Hitomi and Yena may become a couple in the future.
- Missing Mom: Yena's mother died when he was young.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: He catches Anne's paleolithic spear's pointy end with his teeth and breaks it to bits, as might be expected from a species that can easily crush bones into splinters with their jaw strength.
- Pom-Pom Girl: Dresses in a blue cheerleader outfit and participates in a cheer alongside Shiho Ihara during Miyubi's swimming competition... only to cover himself in embarrassment and demand to know why he's doing such a feminine activity.
- Strong Family Resemblance: According to his father, his face looks like her mother's.
- Trans Tribulations: Though not explicitly referred to as transgender, Yena is biologically female but identifies as a man due to having a pseudo-penis, to the dismay of his father and brother — both of whom lament Yena's refusal to accept he's a girl. Following Jin snidely informing him that female hyenas have pseudo-penises, Yena has an Identity Breakdown and makes an effort to be more girly, but after Hitomi advises him to Be Yourself he reaffirms his identity as a man.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Rare first-person example. Yena had always believed himself to be a male hyena due to his species' weird biology. After trying (and failing) to prove his "manhood" by flashing his crotch, Yena has a crushing realization when Jin tells him that female hyenas have faux penises that make them look similar to males. After this realization, he tries to be more feminine with the help of the Cooking Club, and adopts Hitomi as a role model, but her advice was ultimately Be Yourself. The result is that Yena did just that, going back to his old habits, though unlike before, he no longer (violently) objects to being referred to as female, or by female honorifics.
Miki Hadano (and the Naked Mole Rat colony)
Species: Naked mole rat
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
Student council president and Queen of a group of Naked Mole Rats. She dislikes the concept of Interspecies Romance and encourages the students not to engage in them.
- Fantastic Racism: Not nearly as bad as Jin but she does initially believe that animals should not associate outside of their species and views the multi-species Cooking Club as a deviant organization that violates the laws of nature, at one point even demanding its disbandment. She later tempers her views after Jin points out that as Student Council President, she's already engaging in interspecies relationships and becomes more accepting of them.
- A Father to His Men: Was greatly saddened when her underlings offered to sacrifice themselves to buy her time to escape from Kurumi's "attack" and even retracted her initial order for the Cooking Club to expel all non-human members after learning Ranka had rescued her followers. It has yet to be revealed however if she's a literal "mother to her men" like real life Mole Rat queens are.
- Hive Queen: Like a real naked mole rat, she leads the rest of her colony.
- Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Her male followers are barely above the height of her ankles.
- Home Nudist: While she (reluctantly) wears clothes on the surface, in their own room she's in her underwear.
- Large and in Charge: Due to Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism, she is of the height of an average girl, and is also the queen of appropriately small-sized followers.
- Likes Older Men: Is implied to have grown a thing for Ranka's father upon meeting him.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: Despite her aversion to covering herself, her skirt is the old-school extra long type.
- Our Nudity Is Different: As per her species name, she prefers to be naked or otherwise just in her underwear, only wearing clothes when absolutely necessary. She regards wearing clothes in public as a perverted act to the point that, when she looks at clothed students, she sees them in Pixellation.
- Precocious Crush: Has one on Ranka's father because he walks around naked.
- Student Council President: Of Seton Academy, although her influence with the other students seems rather limited.
Naked Mole Rat Colony
Hadano's mole rat colony/student council minions.
- Beneath Notice: Despite the Student Council president having their back, it's impossible for anyone to take them seriously when they're all less than a foot tall.
- The Chew Toy: They've seen a lot of abuse in the course of their work, as well as in general. One has the misfortune of being right under Miyubi when she died during her Sports Festival training, leading to him borrowing that shtick.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Some of Miki's toughest-looking subordinates perform one of these when they run into Kurumi. Fortunately, Ranka saved them.
- Hidden Depths: With their ears literally to the ground, they're perfect for running covert surveillance on all students - and along the way managed to become professional filmmakers.
- I Gave My Word: Besides Miki, they also have a life debt to Ranka after she saved them from Kurumi.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Their general shtick.
- Satellite Character: To Miki Hadano, of course.
- Undying Loyalty: To Miki Hadano, not only the student council president but queen of their colony.
Ferryl Okami
Species: Hokkaido wolf
Voiced by: Asami Tano
Ranka's excessively tall older sister.
- Big Sister Instinct: You harm or bully her youngest sister, and you're in big trouble. She's also violently protective of her packmates, especially Teru Anamitsu, as a group of thuggish Extinct Group students found out when they tried to bully her.
- Blood Knight: She's a sukeban who goes around with her pack of wolves, picking fights with other strong carnivore, which she usually wins.
- Color Failure: The idea of Ranka hating her causes Ferryl to go blank and begin muttering to herself incoherently.
- Height Angst: Until told that her massive height is a sign of her love for Ranka, she states that she was very self-conscious about it, with her pack's reaction indicating that just mentioning it was a Berserk Button.
- Hopeless Suitor: Should she ever try to advance on her crush towards Teranos-sensei, considering Teranos' old school crush, Tosako, is alive and well, and he still shows signs he never stopped loving her.
- Huge Schoolgirl: Is easily the tallest female student thus far. Came as a result of constantly lending Ranka her coat during the winter, which is also why Ranka is so small for her age.
- Likes Older Men: Develops a crush on the 116-year old Teranos-sensei.
- Tough Love: While usually overprotective of her little sister, Ferryl nearly attacks Ranka when her little sister refuses to let her kiss Jin, only to be reduced to a sobbing wreck when Ranka tells her to leave her friends alone or she'll hate her forever.
Wolf Kuromori
Species: Black timber wolf
Voiced by: Junichi Yanagita
Beta of Ferryl's pack, and basically her right-hand man.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Can't bring himself to tell Ferryl his feelings for her.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Or rather a Wolf Named Wolf.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: When he met Ferryl, he accidentally tripped a young Ranka. Ferryl, ever the protective big sister, kicked his butt and put that scar on him in retaliation.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Ratel Hammer, a combo attack with Teru which involves her acting as a wrecking ball that he swings at full force, which can take down three Kodiak bears and one Arctotherium angustidens.
- Noble Wolf: He might look and act like a delinquent, but he's completely loyal to Ferryl and very respectful of Ranka.
- Number Two: Second in-command at Ferryl's pack.
Pan Saruhara
Species: Chimpanzee
A trouble-making Chimpanzee-girl.
- Ax-Crazy: Attempts to seriously hurt other students (including tasing them) over sports day.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: Has a much more animalistic appearance than other female characters, reflecting her more antagonistic nature.
- Hate Sink: She and her chimpanzee friends are a bunch of cheaters that use man-made devices to give themselves an unfair advantage over the other animals. Even Ranka doesn't want anything to do with her or the other chimps.
- Maniac Monkeys: She's a chimp and a total bitch to the other animals.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Due to being a primate, her animal ears are in the same place a human's would be. They get around this by enlarging the ears a bit more and reducing her nose.
- The Noseless: Unlike other female characters, she doesn't seem to have a visible nose.
- Oh, Crap!: When Ranka destroys her taser and corners her in the last leg of the obstacle course, Pan immediately panics and starts begging for forgiveness. Ranka snapping her teeth shut right in front of Pan's face and threatening to eat her if she pulls any more tricks leaves her passed out in a state of Color Failure from terror.
- Perpetual Smiler: She always sports a wide, shit-eating grin on her face. As chimpanzees smile to show aggression, this doubly highlights her malicious nature.
- Tombstone Teeth: To accentuate her conniving nature, her perpetual grin sports teeth like the ivory keys of a piano.
Yubiru Aishima
Species: Aye-aye
- Dark Is Not Evil: Sure he and the other Aye-Aye are nocturnal, have creepy hands and go to a dark magic club, but he's an okay guy.
- Stalker with a Crush: Towards Jin, and it freaks Jin out with the feeling he's always being watched.
- Straight Gay: Aside from having a crush on Jin, nothing about him fits with any stereotpye.
Fon Fon
Species: Red Panda
Mei Mei's manager. He serves as her caretaker before deciding whether to enroll her in Seton Academy.
- Beleaguered Assistant: He's frequently exasperated by Mei Mei's antics and those of the people she keeps as company.
- Satellite Character: For Mei Mei, having little personality beyond being her manager and aide, and he actually prefers it that way.
- Tears of Joy: Has a few moments of tearing up in happiness when Mei Mei makes an accomplishment for herself.
Teru Anamitsu
Species: Honey badger
Voiced by: Mariko Honda
A peppy Honey Badger who wants to join Ferryl's pack. Is also basically invincible.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Due to her childish personality, Teru is very easily distracted, especially when she sees honeyguides flying around.
- Determinator: Once Teru sets herself a goal, she'll tirelessly work to accomplish it, even if it's difficult, nonsensical or recommended against.
- Fartillery: Like real honey badgers, Teru can emit a noxious spray from her rear that grosses everyone out.
- Made of Iron: She is incredibly resilient, owing to the honey badger's naturally durable hide. She easily No Sells being brutally beaten by three huge male lions, and even Ferryl's Facepalm of Doom doesn't hurt her very much.
- Modesty Shorts: Wears black shorts under her skirt.
- Perpetual Smiler: She's always cheerful and smiling, even when being beaten on by animals much larger than herself.
- Sense Freak: Due to her naturally-thick hide, Teru has never experienced pain in her life, until Ferryl gave her a Facepalm of Doom that tickled her a bit. She's absolutely ecstatic at the sensation.
- The Smurfette Principle: Other than Ferryl she's the only female in the pack.
- Token Mini-Moe: One of the smallest humanoid characters introduced so far. She's much shorter and young-looking than the rest of the pack, and shorter then even Ranka.
- Unknown Rival: She wants to defeat Ranka and take her place as Ferryl's favourite. Ranka, for the most part, is just annoyed at the attention.
Tsuchio
Species: Aardwolf
A small aardwolf who admires Yena's strength and aspires to be his underling.- Abhorrent Admirer: Yena genuinely appreciates his company at first, but eventually finds him annoying, since being his pack leader means he would be effectively forfeiting his status as a "male", since hyena packs are led by an alpha female.
- Hidden Eyes: His eyes are always concealed by the dark spots on his face.
- Top-Heavy Guy: After being forced into physical training with a group of male yaks, Tsuchio came back like this. Girls find his new muscular form cool and manly, though, so he's not complaining.
Manako Kagami
Species: Tarsier
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura
A very jumpy and shy Tarsier.- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: She can rotate her head 180 degrees.
- Driven to Suicide: Like real tarsiers, Manako is extremely anxious and does not handle stress well. When under pressure she usually tries to kill herself. It's only after Miyubi talks her out of it that it stops.
- Hime Cut: Played with. Manako has the hair style down pat, but her personality is far from ladylike.
- In a Single Bound: Tarsiers can jump incredibly high.
- The Noseless: Played with. Like Pan Saruhara, she doesn't seem to have a nose when viewed from the front, and her face is usually drawn as almost completely flat, though she does have a very reduced one when viewed from the sides.
- Suicide as Comedy: Her trying to commit suicide over every little thing is played for laughs as much as Miyubi dying.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Like a real tarsier, during the day her pupils are highly shrunk, but at night they're very dilated.
Tonda
Species: Domestic Pig
- Chick Magnet: He's actually quite popular with the female pigs at school.
- Messy Pig: Not this one! Like a real pig he's actually quite a clean person.
Hatsune
Species: Mouse
- Dead Person Conversation: Talks to Miyubi in an Afterlife Antechamber, telling her she should move on. (Un)Fortunately, because of Miyubi's tendency to die, they will get to see each other more often than she expected.
- Stock Animal Diet: Subverted. Rather than cheese, she favors peanuts like real mice.
Bonobo
Species: Bonobo
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Bonobos have a much more peaceful society than their chimp cousins, as reflected in Bonobo's more human design compared to the more animalistic features of Pan.
- Do You Want to Copulate?: Constantly asks the students if they want to engage in some "Hoka-Hoka".
- Forceful Kiss: She does it to get her targets to lower their guard, and she has no problem with either gender.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: She proposes sex and smooches just about everyone, but she does it as a way to relieve the stress of others. Which is in fact something Bonobos do along with using sex as a form social interaction.
Teachers
Amano Karorisu
Species: Anomalocaris
Voiced by: Naoki Tatsuta
Seton Academy's principal.- Running Gag: If he shows up on-screen, he will be broken out of his aquarium and left to flop helplessly.
Gigas Terano
Species: Tyrannosaurus rex
Voiced by: Tesshō Genda
The most feared teacher at Seton Academy, and a nice guy at heart (unless you break school rules).- Big Damn Heroes: He saves Jin and co. from the bear bullies Rexie-style.
- Gentle Giant: Normally, unless the students are misbehaving, at which point threats to be made extinct ensue.
- Hidden Depths: He raises flowers at the school's gardens.
- Might Makes Right: His approach to discipline. He's a 7-tonne juggernaut who's capable of annihilating any of the modern species students, and uses that to ensure everything from class attendance to good safety practices on nature hikes.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: What his seven chapter flashback ended up as when he got his timing of the mass-extiction causing meteorite's impact wrong before he could finish a confession to a fellow student.
- Stern Teacher: He doesn't tolerate when his students laze around or break the rules, but otherwise is pretty reasonable.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Invoked. If the students are being unreasonable or breaking the rules, he will threaten extinction, even grab delinquents with his jaws, chew on them a little, and spit them out.
- Time Abyss: He was around to witness the KT extinction event
. Meaning he's over 66 million years old.
Rimu Urie
Species: Woolly spider monkey
The only female teacher at Seton Academy, and the advisor of the cooking club.- Cool Teacher: She's pretty supportive and understanding of her students.
- Cuddle Bug: Loves giving her students hugs.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Woolly spider monkeys aren't usually picky with their partners, but she stands out for only wanting to hook up with someone special. That made her even more popular back when she was a student.
- Sensei-chan: She might be the advisor of the cooking club, but she doesn't look or act that different from her students.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's so far the only female teacher at the school, and the only mammalian teacher for that matter.
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Tosako
Species: Carcharodontosaurus
Terano's old school crush, having thought by Terano to be either dead or just missing. Turns out she's both alive, and one of the teachers at Darwin Academy. She knows and gets along with the Extinct Group.- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Thanks to the Sexy Dimorphism of the series, she's the size of a human woman while Terano is, well, the size of a T. rex. Interestingly enough, Carcharodontosaurus is strongly believed to have been bigger than the T. rex.
- Older Than They Look: Other than her skunk stripe, she looks pretty good for someone who's probably the same age as Terano.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the first seen female dinosaur in the series and only the second female teacher as well.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Teranos and her never did confess their love to each other before the meteorite hit earth, and she's still not happy about that.
Seton Sea Academy
Ohba
Species: Opabinia
Kana Shiraumi
Species: Beluga whale
Voiced by: Miho Okasaki
A Beluga Whale who wishes to join the Dolphin show at Seton Sea Academy.
- Compelling Voice: Her true singing voice has the unexpected effect of awakening both sides of Ruka's brain at the same time!
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: At first anyway. She tries singing from her throat like a human, which produces a hideous noise. When Jin informs her Beluga sing from a special part in their head, it improves instantly.
- One-Woman Wail: What her true singing voice sounds like (since she can't really vocalise with that part of her head).
- Perpetual Smiler: Like an actual beluga, she always seems to be smiling, even when sad.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: While she was cute in regular clothes, after being dolled up for her performance, she's breathtaking.
Ruka Bandou
Species: Bottlenose dolphin
Voiced by: Rika Kinugawa
A Dolphin and seemingly cold-hearted captain of the Sea Academy swim show team.
- Animal Stereotypes: Subverted. She is not friendly or playful, but she is not devious either.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her efforts to keep Kana off the team are benevolent, as she doesn't want her to be embarrassed.
- Training from Hell: Because of her strong belief that Kana can exceed her, she puts her through intense session such as fighting great white sharks or getting strapped to a beaked whale that dives down 3000 meters. She even subjugate herself to this on top of training Kana, using a blowfish's tetrotoxin to suppress her pain.
- Tsundere: Her dominant personality is outwardly cold and stern, but when that hemisphere of her brain shuts down she becomes much more openly compassionate and emotional.
- Walk on Water: She can stand on water, which represents how dolphins can use their tails to do the same.
Extinct Group
Anne Anetani
Species: Neanderthal
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka
Member of Darwin Academy's Extinct Club. The last Neanderthal, who comes to Seton looking to cause dissent between humans and animals. Since she has no obvious animal traits, she is mistaken for a human at first.
- A-Cup Angst: Because only humans (and cows) develop mammary glands, she's on the flat side, and is a bit jealous of Hitomi's chest.
- All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Well, she is a Neanderthal, and as such she knows how to cook food with fire and create tools to fight off animals.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- Jin specifically points out her red hair and blue eyes as definitive traits of her being a Neanderthal. Like in modern humans, real Neanderthals are predominantly brunettes, with red hair being a relative rarity, and even in specimens with that feature, their natural hair color is speculated to be brown, before being bleached by natural exposure. Likewise, while there are Neanderthal specimens with the genes that dictate blue eye color, those are still the exceptions rather than the rule. You'd sooner find a modern redhead human with blue eyes than an actual Neanderthal with those specific features, much less an entire species.
- Contrary to what the show might have you believe, female Neanderthals do have mammary glands and breastfeed their infant children, as do all mammals. The fact that Anne still has some chest instead of being completely vertical means she herself has mammary glands in her breasts, which directly contradicts the claims put forth by the manga to explain her A-Cup Angst.
- Big Eater: She needs an intake of calories and protein far bigger than a modern human, as such she eats lots of meat.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She becomes possessive of Hitomi and does not take long to seethe at Yena when he gets too close to her.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: It's difficult to see, but Anne has these sorts of eyes. It becomes notable when she's next to Hitomi, who has far livelier, sparklier eyes.
- Informed Species: Neanderthals have significantly different anatomy compared to modern humans, with a reduced chin, sloping forehead, and large nose, which also started somewhat higher on the face. Generally speaking, Neanderthals have more features in common with primates than humans. Anne on the other hand, is drawn in the exact same style as Jin and Hitomi, only with a flat chest.
- What Is This Feeling?: She has difficulty coming to terms with her growing feelings towards Hitomi (Neanderthals are believed to have felt less empathy than modern humans).
Koorimoto Man
Species: Wooly Mammoth
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda
The mysterious head of the Extinct Club and last Woolly Mammoth.
- Big Shadow, Little Creature: While at first her shadow made it seem she's a huge woolly mammoth, in reality she's a very short girl.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Ranka was rather surprised that mammoths are rather small (woolly mammoths were about the same size as an Asian elephant).
- Fantastic Racism: She has a strong dislike of "modern species".
- Mighty Glacier: While she clearly lacks in agility, she can hit with the force of a concrete fridge flying at you at mach speed, which Ranka experienced first hand during their boxing match.
- The Napoleon: She's tiny and doesn't like when someone points that out.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She might be the same height as Ranka, but she's just as strong as a regular elephant.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are red, and she is certainly not someone to be trifled with.
- Samus Is a Girl: Because the silhouette takes the form of a gigantic beast, it seemed the mammoth was a male, when in fact is a girl.
- Stronger Than They Look: Who would have expected such a tiny girl to be able to crater the ground she walks on and mop the floor with both King and Yena at the same time?
- Weaksauce Weakness: Turns out mammoths are cautious about stepping on anything small (which is incidentally how the myth about elephants being afraid of mice got started). Jin stops her in her tracks by scattering a bag of glass marbles on the ground and brandishing two more of the many that King had won.
Babari Atlas
Species: Barbary lion
The (Supposedly) last Barbary Lion. Acts as the muscle for the group.
- Love Is a Weakness: When he learns King Shishino is in love with Shiho, he mocks him as a weakling and says real predators are not weighed down by modern concepts like love. King proves him wrong by finding the strength to beat him when he attacks Shiho.
- Not So Extinct: Thought Barbary lions went extinct because of humans (which is mostly true), but Jin revealed there are still some in captivity.note Bar is absolutely ecstatic to hear about this, to the point where his eyes are revealed... only for King to take that time to sock it to him.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a Barbary lion, who were much larger than regular lions.
Yangyang
Species: Baiji River dolphin
Voiced by: Satomi Arai
The final Baiji River Dolphin. The manipulator type, who also has no sense of smell.
- Furry Reminder: Interestin'ly enough, real life dolphins, actually, as evidence suggest, don't have a sense of smell, as they don't have olfactory nerves, so Yangyang wouldn't be able smell anything.
Washima Komandorski
Species: Steller's sea cow
The last of the Steller's Sea Cow. Tends to be mocked for his weight.
- I Am Big Boned: Doesn't like being called fat.
- The Unfought: He's the only one of the six who didn't confront the cooking club... due to being distracted by the festival stalls.
Ando Andrew
Species: Andrewsarchus
The last Andrewsarchus. A scary-looking but extremely weak bully.
- Adopt the Food: Finds a baby sea turtle with the intention of eating it, and ends up adopting it.
- Artistic License – Paleontology:
- His design is based on outdated depictions of Andrewsarchus as a mesonychid, which the anime identifies him as. Andrewsarchus is now believed to be a close relative of entelodonts.
- The anime identifies his species as Andrewsarchus andrewsarchus, which is not a real species of the genus. The proper name for the only known species of Andrewsarchus is A. mongoliensis.
- In general, the manga's research on his kind seems to consist of watching Walking with Beasts, particularly the purely-speculative predation on turtles.
- Of course, Ando might be a reference to this very fact: the mesonychid Andrewsarchus has been debunked, ie 'rendered extinct'. Hence his appearance.
- The Bus Came Back: After leaving the Extinct Group in the manga, he returns in the second year as the terrifying monster of the Prarie Dog Town underneath the school.
- Mugging the Monster: His kind went extinct long before the evolution of modern humans, so he's left to guess which of the many festival attendants are the humans he was looking for. In the anime, he starts by mistaking the pint-size Teru for A) a human and B) someone he could take in a fight. That doesn't even have a chance to happen as Ferryl sends him rocketing towards the horizon (though, given Teru's thick and malleable hide, it may have taken her quite some time to perceive any effort on Ando's part as an attempt to follow through on his threat to 'bite her in half'). In the manga, he mistakes Yena for a human and attacks only to get beaten up.
- Paper Tiger: He might have the biggest jaw of any known land mammal, but his bite strength is pretty weak and he gets constantly beaten by smaller animals.
- Recognition Failure: Because his kind went extinct long before humans evolved, he confuses Jin and Hitomi with other animals, and gets beaten up.
- Victory Through Intimidation: His few victories come from scaring opponents away with his fearsome appearance.
Other Characters
Ranka's father
Ranka's and Ferryl's father, who is protective of his daughters.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Ranka's dad isn't pleased with Ranka hanging out with Jin. When he finds out about Ferryl's crush on Terano-sensei, he immediately jumps to attack a freaking T-Rex.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: A parental example. Ranka and Ferryl cannot disobey his orders because of pack hierarchy.
- Naked People Are Funny: Unique from the other animals, he never wears clothes, leaving everyone begging for him to put some on.
- Not What It Looks Like: Has this protest when the cooking club sees him naked with Miki (He was helping keeping her warm during a snowstorm when the two were searching for Ranka and the others).
