{"id":1108,"date":"2014-01-29T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=1108"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:46:17","slug":"ken-aka-captain-ken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=1108","title":{"rendered":"Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"also-known\">Also known as \u30b1\u30f3 (Ken)<\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/star-ken.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6986 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/star-ken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/star-ken.png 150w, https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/star-ken-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/star-ken-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Status: Primary Star\u00a0(\u2605\u2605\u2605)<\/h3>\n<p>A stalwart space cowboy-hero, Ken is a boy with a mysterious past.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Ken, also known as\u00a0the \u201cSavior of the Martians\u201d, is a mysterious human hero boy who, along with his powerful robot horse, Arrow, intervenes to help combat the growing violence between human settlers and the indigenous martian population. \u00a0Appearing and vanishing mysteriously, the boy has a strange connection to the pretty young woman named Kenn Minakami.<\/p>\n<p>Ken is the titular hero of the &#8220;Sci-Fi meets the Old West&#8221; shonen action adventure, <a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/osamu-tezuka-manga\/manga-a-h\/captain-ken-manga\/\"><em>Captain Ken<\/em> (1960-61)<\/a>. \u00a0Although he hasn&#8217;t appeared outside his own series, he is the main protagonist in an adventure manga that explores the struggle of two different sentient species attempting to coexist; similar to <em>Nextworld<\/em> (1951), <a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=849\"><em>Zero Men<\/em> (1959-60)<\/a>, and the human\/robot relations issues in <a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=138\"><em>Astro Boy<\/em> (1952-68)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Hello, My Name (in English) is\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Coming Soon!<\/p>\n<h3>Distinguishing Features<\/h3>\n<p>Coming Soon!<\/p>\n<h3>Manga Appearances<\/h3>\n<p>If you spot an appearance not already listed, please let us know in the comments section below!<\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h4>1960<\/h4>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=220\">Captain Ken<\/a><\/em> as &#8220;Captain Ken&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>1970<\/h4>\n<p><em>Gachaboi\u2019s Biography<\/em> as &#8220;Captain Ken&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>1976<\/h4>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=174\">Black Jack<\/a><\/em> (&#8220;Stop Drawing!&#8221;) as &#8220;Junichi Inotani&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>\u00a01977<\/h4>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=174\">Black Jack<\/a><\/em> (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=4988\">The Wall<\/a>&#8220;) as &#8220;Ken&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stalwart space cowboy-hero, Ken is a boy with a mysterious past.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Ken, also known as the \u201cSavior of the Martians\u201d, is a mysterious human hero boy who, along with his powerful robot horse, Arrow, intervenes to help combat the growing violence between human settlers and the indigenous martian population.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6986,"parent":6273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[133,137,222],"class_list":["post-1108","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-system","tag-prime-star","tag-boy-heroes","tag-cowboys","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6vZWu-hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions\/8272"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}