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series written and illustrated by

Kōhei Horikoshi is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series '' Ōmagadoki Dōbutsuen'', '' Barrage'' and ''My Hero Academia'', all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. Horikoshi is ...

. It was serialized in

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's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''

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'' from July 2010 to April 2011, with its chapters collected in five ''

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'' volumes. The story follows Hana Aoi, a clumsy teenage girl who works at a zoo to try to improve herself, and also because she loves animals, but she finds out that the zoo has been cursed.

Plot

Hana Aoi, a clumsy teenage girl, is known around her school by the nickname "Clumsy-Good for Nothing". One day, she sees a flyer in town about a zoo that needs workers. After she appears there, she discovers that the zoo is keeping strange things, which she realizes after seeing Shiina, the director of the infamous Oumagadoki Zoo. He has been cursed by a ghost rabbit and given the body of a rabbit. In order to get his original body back, he has to show that he does care for animals by gathering every animal from the world and making his own popular zoo.

Characters

Oumagadoki Zoo

Humans

; :The lunatic, egotistic director of the Oumagadoki Zoo. He has the body of a rabbit after getting cursed by a ghost rabbit when he was a child. Despite his incredibly childish personality, all the animals of the zoo respect him and he care for them and see each one as his friend, going ballistic when they are endangered. His techniques are Rabbit Peace, Jet Carrot, Rabbit W Peace, Rabbit Serve, Rabbit Slap, White Rabbit of Inaba, Rabbit Plunge Peace, and Rabbit Million Peace. ; :The clumsy keeper of the Oumagadoki Zoo, taking the job both in order to change herself, and to spend time with animals. She is to be very knowledgeable about the traits and behaviors of various animals, due to her vast love for them.

Animals

; :She is a snake. When transformed thanks to Shiina's smoke, she bears a resemblance to Medusa. She has a crush on Shiina. Uwabami is also a character in Horikoshi's later work, ''

My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

''. ; :He is a dhole (

red wolf The red wolf (''Canis rufus'') is a canine native to the southeastern United States. Its size is intermediate between the coyote (''Canis latrans'') and gray wolf (''Canis lupus''). The red wolf's taxonomic classification as being a separate s ...

). Although not as powerful as Shiina or Shishido, he is cunning in battle. ; :He is a lion. His technique is the Lion Heart, as inspired by Shiina's "Rabbit Peace". An extremely violent young lion, he constantly fights Shiina for the position of director of the zoo, but gets defeated easily. ; :He is a gorilla, as his name states. Even when transformed, his appearance doesn't change. His technique is the Gorilla Claw. ; :He is a spotted seal. He tends to get kidnapped easily and is a gentleman. ; :He is a cheetah. He is overweight, but with help from Hana, starts to exercise again. ; :He is an Indian rhinoceros. He has a one-sided crush on Uwabami. ; :He is a

white-tailed eagle The white-tailed eagle (''Haliaeetus albicilla'') is a very large species of sea eagle widely distributed across temperate Palearctic, Eurasia. Like all eagles, it is a member of the family Accipitridae (or accipitrids) which includes other diur ...

. ; :He is a hippopotamus. ; :He is an

American bison The American bison (''Bison bison'') is a species of bison native to North America. Sometimes colloquially referred to as American buffalo or simply buffalo (a different clade of bovine), it is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the ...

. ; :She is a raccoon. ; :He is a Galapagos tortoise. When transformed, his shell resembles a monster's face. As a tortoise, his weakness is lack of speed. ; :He is an African elephant. ; :He is a

Nile crocodile The Nile crocodile (''Crocodylus niloticus'') is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the central, eastern ...

. ; :He is an ostrich. ; :She is a snowy owl. ; :He is a

western rockhopper penguin The southern rockhopper penguin group (''Eudyptes chrysocome''), is a species of rockhopper penguin, that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian O ...

. ; :He is a giraffe. ; :He is a

Japanese giant flying squirrel The is a species of flying squirrel, one of the giant flying squirrels in the genus ''Petaurista''. Description Like other flying squirrels, it has a web of skin between its legs which it uses to glide between trees. Glides of 160 metres have ...

. ; :He is a

white-handed gibbon The lar gibbon (''Hylobates lar''), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often kept in captivity. Taxonomy There are five subspecies of ...

. ; :He is an

African porcupine The crested porcupine (''Hystrix cristata''), also known as the African crested porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae native to Italy, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Characteristics The adult crested porcupine ...

. ; :He is a

Brazilian three-banded armadillo The Brazilian three-banded armadillo (''Tolypeutes tricinctus'') is an armadillo species endemic to eastern Brazil, where it is known as (, lit. ball armadillo). It is one of only two species of armadillo that can roll into a ball (the other is ...

. ; :He is a blackbuck.

Ushimitsudoki Aquarium

Humans

; :The director of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium, an aquarium in the city of Ushimitsu, neighboring Omaga. Shares a curse similar to Shiina and can take the form of a

sperm whale The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the sperm whale famil ...

. He is feared by the aquarium animals for his ruthless treatment, working them to near death and killing those that refuse to work. He has the ability to generate ultrasound, which can paralyze animals.

Animals

; :He is an orca and No. 2 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a walrus and No. 3 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a Japanese spider crab and No. 4 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a

narwhal The narwhal, also known as a narwhale (''Monodon monoceros''), is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada and Russia. It is o ...

and No. 5 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a

great white shark The great white shark (''Carcharodon carcharias''), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. It is nota ...

and No. 6 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :She is a

tuna A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max length: ...

and No. 7 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a

common octopus The common octopus (''Octopus vulgaris'') is a mollusc belonging to the class Cephalopod A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural , ; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. The ...

and No. 8 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium. ; :He is a moray eel.

Yatsudoki Circus

Humans

; :The director of the Yatsudoki Circus. ; :The new member of the Yatsudoki Circus. ; :The animal trainer of the Yatsudoki Circus. ; :The total ruler of the Yatsudoki Circus. Like Shiina and Isana, he shares a curse and can take the form of a

brown bear The brown bear (''Ursus arctos'') is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears, while the subspecies that inhabits the Kodiak Islands of Alaska is kno ...

Animals

; :She is a

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. ; :He is a

white tiger The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the Mainland tiger. It is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, in the Sunderbans region and ...

. ; :He is a

thoroughbred The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are c ...

Other humans

; :The son of Mukanai. ; :The sponsor president of the Ushimi Construction Works and the father of Mukio. ; :Hana's classmate. She always calls her a useless woman and finds it annoying whenever Hana keeps trying. ; :Ikumi's boyfriend. ; :One of Hana's classmates and friends. ; ; :The gym teacher of the school Hana goes to.

Publication

''Oumagadoki Zoo'' is written and illustrated by

. The series was serialized in

's ''

'' from July 12, 2010, to April 18, 2011. Shueisha collected its chapters into five ''

'' volumes, published from November 4, 2010, to August 4, 2011.

Volume list

References

External links

''Oumagadoki Zoo'' official website at ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Omagadoki Dobutsuen 2010 manga Fiction about zoos Shōnen manga Shueisha manga