Wilderness Characters
Volume List
Note that the below romanization of the names are unconfirmed in many cases. These are just my best guesses. Others are based on romaji spellings given in the manga, such as for Broughton and Rosenman.
Takashi Seruma (芹間 喬):
A Japanese college student studying in Minnesota. Coerced into supporting a bank robbery that goes wrong, he's initially codenamed by Broughton as "Mutley", but keeps asking to be called the Japanese equivalent "Ken Ken". He was selected for the robbery team for his computer skills in breaking past security to get into the vault. Is believed to have taken an MO disk from one of the other robbers that Broughton wants back, and is now a target of Broughton Junior's hitmen.
Ena Tairagi (たいらぎ 恵那):
19. A Japanese runaway who witnessed a hit by a dirty L.A. cop and may have caught it on her video recorder. To put distance between her and Rosenman, she runs to Mexico. Note that her last name uses a non-standard kanji that's not in my word processor.
Toshio Horita (堀田 俊生):
A down-and-out alcoholic private detective. Went into a tailspin after finding that his partner had been working for Joel Goldsmith, and ended up having to kill him. Goldsmith then issued a command that Horita never return to the U.S. Horita gets hired to track down the runaway girl Ena Tairagi.
Enora Copeland (エノラ･コープランド):
DEA investigator. She's actually one of the few surviving hostages from the bank robbery, and takes on the task of capturing Ken Ken, and getting revenge on Ena for "killing" her partner. She's also still romantically attracted towards Toshio.
Graham Revel (グレアム･レヴェル):
DEA investigator and Enora's boss. Seems to be caught between Enora and a corrupt superior. Graham is the one that approaches Horita to hire him to find Ena.
Alan and Jim (pictured):
Copeland's assistants. Alan gets shot in the shoulder during a fight in Stillwater, Minn. Jim is killed by Rosenman during the fight in Alvarez's town in Mexico.
Leonard Rosenman (レナード･ローゼンマン):
The dirty LAPD cop. Works for Broughton. Is incredibly self-assured and self-obsessed, going into deep rages if people interrupt when he's talking to himself. But as a hired gun he's actually inept and has remained alive only through sheer luck. He kills Jim then manages to convince Enora that Tariagi did it. Was caught on video by Ena making a hit, and when he tries to capture her at a cafe, ends up killing his own partner, Doyle, before Ena shoots him in the leg and escapes.
Broughton Senior (ブロウトン･シニア) (never shown) and Donald:
Senior is an LA gang boss. He's after the disk that he thinks Seruma picks up during the bank robbery. In fact, this is his primary goal for most of the series. His son is Donald (pictured), who's tasked with tracking down "Ken Ken" and getting the disk back. Senior's primary hobby is coming up with codenames for his subordinates derived from U.S. cartoons (Mutley, Huey, Dewey and Louie, etc.)
Heckel and Jeckel:
Two assassins selected by Broughton Senior to track down Seruma and bring back the MO disk. Expressionless, they rarely talk, and their true names are unknown. Ruthless, they eliminate everything except the specific targets they're after. It's never really specific which is which; the guy takes a bullet to the forehead in the mansion shootout in volume 3.
Joel Goldsmith (ジョエル･ゴールドスミス):
Rival LA gang leader in a war against Broughton.
Harold Foltemeyer (ハロルド フォルターメイヤー):
Porno producer based in an old mansion in the Mexican desert. Ena worked there as a film technician but not as an actress. Foltemeyer's staff of actresses are great at posing with prop guns, but not very useful in a fight. (May be based on the German director, Harold Faltermeyer.)
Alfonso Alverez:
Head of the Alvarez family of drug dealers and killers. Is a big poser and exaggerates a lot. Claims his family is 240 members large (closer to 31 if you count newborns and those that married into it). Gets into a standoff with Enora, and after she leaves the room, collapses in a big puddle of sweat. Doesn't seem to be aware of what the four brothers hired by Goldsmith are doing. The name may be based on film director Alfonso Alvarez.
D:
One of Alphonso Alverez's 24 family members. No one knows what D's real name is, so the letter can stand for anything - death, destroy, deceive... His father calls him Diego. D is tasked to lead Enora into Mexico after Ena and Seruma. He's a young kid, and a master a anything with a trigger. The one thing he won't allow is for someone to blasphemy Christ's name.
The Four Brothers:
Paco, Poncho, etc. Last name is never given. Four Mexican killers hired by Goldsmith to get Seruma. Each one specializes in a preferred weapon: pistols, shotgun, grenade launcher (Paco) and submachine gun. Absolutely merciless. They used to live at the mansion where Foltemeyer is based now, selling drugs. Two of the brothers (including Paco) get killed in the mansion shoot-out in volume 3.
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