Tamama

Tamama
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First appearance	Keroro Gunso Volume 1 Encounter 3: Me, Myself and Momoka Keroro Gunso Episode 2–A Keroro File 005
Voiced by	Etsuko Kozakura (Japanese) Brina Palencia (Funimation) Alice Beaver (Animax) Pilar Ferrero (Spain) Celina Lam (Hong Kong)
Profile
Aliases	Wakaba-1
Age	19 (Human age) 3000 (Actual age)
Gender	Female
Species / Type	Keronian
Occupation	Keron Army soldier (Private Second Class)

Tamama (タママ, Tamama) is the private second class (二等兵, nitouhei)^[RANKS] of the Keroro Platoon in the series Keroro Gunso.

Character

Tamama crazy

Tamama is ranked Private Second Class in the Keron Army's Keroro Platoon (ケロロ小隊　Keroro Shoutai）. She is the newest member of the planetary invasion troop and also the youngest. Her name stems from the Japanese word otamajakushi (オタマジャクシ), meaning tadpole. While her age is unknown, Etsuko Kozakura has stated that she voiced Tamama as someone who is 19 years old. She is a very faithful subordinate to Keroro, and has strong feelings towards her. It is heavily hinted in the anime that these feelings are romantic. After losing a match with Taruru, Taruru starts calling Tamama senpai instead of Master. Then after defeat in episode 103, Taruru starts to call her Master again.

Appearance

Inverted wakaba mark

Tamama's body color is of a very dark blue in the anime and black in the manga. The symbol on her hat is the green-and-yellow wikipedia:Shoshinsha mark, which is used in Japan to designate a new driver, reflecting Tamama's young age, which is also apparent in her tadpole tail. The color of her hair, when seen, is red. In Kero 0: Depart! Assembly of Everyone!!, she originally wears a red tie with a wakaba symbol before he receives her symbol.

Personality

Tamama is possessed with a tendency to have mood swings that border on a split personality, like his partner Momoka Nishizawa. While usually gentle and cheerful, Tamama can become a vengeful, raving maniac at the drop of a hat. This change is usually accompanied by the sound of a balloon popping.

Tamama looked like a woman, giving him some more adorability.

Tamama is also prone to fits of jealousy, usually towards anyone who gets near Keroro (especially Angol Mois, who he frequently refers to as "that woman").

Speech mannerisms

Tamama mostly ends her sentences with desū (ですぅ), a "cute" variant of desu (です), which is generally dropped when her other personality comes up.

Childhood

Having no powers at the time, Tamama was a commoner who witnessed the original Armpit Platoon's encounter with the Black Stars.

Before arriving on Pekopon, she first met Keroro in Keron in Kero 0: Depart! Assembly of Everyone!!. This was the first time she met Keroro. She quickly grew to idolize him and gained her powerful feelings towards him lasted throughout the years.

In the manga, volume 11, Tamama mentions Karara and Chiroro act like her brothers, maybe hinting that Tamama is the oldest of her siblings. Tamama is the youngest in the platoon; the 2nd youngest is Kururu.

Abilities

Tamama uses chi-like attacks in his fighting style. Her standard energy attack is the Tamama Impact (in the Funimation dub, this move was changed to Tamama Crazy Breath or Tamama Smash, then later to Tamama Impact), where she spits a beam of energy out of her mouth. There are also more powerful versions such as Hyper Tamama Impact, Neo Tamama Impact (used only in the manga), and Multiple Tamama Impact (first used in the first movie and later in episode 149). Another of her attacks is the Jealousy Ball, a parody of the Genki-dama from Dragon Ball Z, where Tamama channels the ambient jealousy and hate of those around him. In one episode, Tamama befriended a young boy who played soccer, and developed a special kick based on the Jealousy ball, the Jealousy Shot. In one episode of the anime, he combined the Tamama Impact and the Jealousy Ball in a fight against Paul Moriyama, resulting in a red energy beam that carried the punch of a Jealousy Ball. Tamama has many other abilities, such as Double Beam, Aichi Fist, Okayama Punch, etc. In his "super" form, Tamama is given the ability to fly, the Tamama Impact is far more powerful, and she gains the ability to discharge a huge burst of energy strong enough to overpower Taruru's Taruru Genocide GX. In the manga, Tamama can also open up portals in superspace which she uses to jump from location to location instantly but only in places he knows. Tamama can also use her farts for attacks by either drinking a ton of cola or sucking up a lot of air or inflating her stomach. So far, this attack has been seen in episode 177, Warrior Kero: Debut and episode 228. It is shown that she is really strong. In episode 123b, she does pull ups easily while holding a rock almost as big as herself with her legs.

Dragon Tamama Tamama was the first to be turned into a dragon by Shion. As a dragon, Tamama resembles a Chinese dragon without the hind legs, her hat becomes two bushes of hair on the sides of her mouth. Her main attack is the Tamama Impact.

Likes

Tamama likes junk food and sweets (especially candy, cake, soft drinks, and potato chips) and physical training (she has her own private training room in the Nishizawa Mansion). In the anime, Tamama is diagnosed by Pururu with high blood sugar because of her love of sweets.

Tamama's Bad Habit.

Dislikes

Tamama's least favorite sound is nails on a chalkboard. She also dislikes Angol Mois and often calls her "that woman" (あの女, ano onna) as she considers her a rival for Keroro's attention. Despite this, Mois seems blissfully unaware of Tamama's hatred towards her. According to episode 123 (where the Kawaru alien shows a person's biggest fear), Tamama's biggest fear (although he does not show much fear towards it) is seeing her lovely self. Along with the other members of the Keroro Platoon, Tamama is afraid of the Butt Firecracker (ケツ爆竹).

Relationships

Nishizawa Household

• Momoka Nishizawa - According to Momoka, she found Tamama "on the street". In the manga, Tamama went to Momoka's birthday and hostile aliens started to attack her. In exchange for Momoka saving her life, Tamama promised to be her pet. The two bonded due to common traits (mood swings that come across as split personalities and determination to win the hearts of the ones they love) and Momoka became Tamama's partner. Both sides of Momoka care about Tamama (the good side calling her "Tama-chan", while the Inner Momoka calling her "Tama-ko"), and Tamama calls both "Momo-chi" as a sign of friendship.

• Paul Moriyama - Paul also considers Tamama a member of the Nishizawa family and she is willing to serve him as well.

Other

• Keroro - Tamama's husband, who she affectionately calls "Gunso-san". Tamama often goes to extremes to try and earn his affections, but despite this, Keroro considers her a faithful subordinate and friend.

• Taruru - Previously an apprentice to Tamama, Taruru admires the Private, calling her "master". When he joined the Garuru Platoon, he began to consider her an equal.

• Angol Mois - Given Mois' closeness to Keroro and Tamama's mad crush on him, Tamama views Mois as a rival. Mois was at first oblivious to Tamama's affection for the Sergeant. The two fiercely compete, but will ally, albeit reluctantly, when working to a common goal.

• Joriri - Tamama became responsible for Joriri when she accidentally enlisted in the army.

Calling Tamama

Name	What they call Tamama	What Tamama calls them
Keroro	Tamama (-nitou (lit. second class)/-kun)	Gunsou-san
Giroro	Tamama	Giroro-gochou / Giroro-senpai / Gochou-san / Red Daruma-san
Kululu	Tama-chan / Tamama / Brat / Tamama-senpai / Bouzu (坊主, Bouzu)	Kururu-senpai / -souchou / Yellow Guy (In episode 286)
Dororo	Tamama-dono / Tamama-kun	Dororo-heichou / -senpai / -san / Dorobune-senpai / Dorodango-senpai
Fuyuki	Tamama	Fu-ki (フッキー, Fu-ki)
Natsumi	Tamama	Na-chi (ナッチー, Na-chi)
Aki	Tama-chan	Mama-san / Aki Mama-san
Akina	Tama-chan	Obaachan, Admiral
Momoka (right side)	Tama-chan	Momo-chi (モモッチ, Momo-chi), Momo-Baby
Momoka (opposite side)	Tama-kou
Koyuki	Tamama-san	Ninja girl (ninja onna)
Paul	Tamama-dono	Paul
Saburo	Tamama	Saburo-senpai
Taruru	Tamama-shishou (lit. master), Senpai	Taruru
Mois	Tama-chan / Tamama-san	Mois / That woman (あの女　ano onna) / This woman (この女　kono onna) / That woman (その女　sono onna)
Karara	Tama-nii (lit. older brother), Darling	Karara
Pururu	Tamama-nitouhei	Obachan/Pururu/Old Woman (Obaa Chan) / Pururu-senpai / Pururu-kangochou
Joriri	Senpai	Joriri

Trivia

• Tamama's Japanese voice actor also voices Dawn's Piplup from the Pokémon series. Piplup sounds similar to her jealous state when it gets angry or maniacal.
• When Tamama is ten years older, she will still have her tail (episode 234-b).
• This also indicates that in episode 108, when she turns into an adult, she is at least ten years older because her tail is gone. The white skin on her face remains for unknown reasons.
• In Volume 11, Tamama claims she has younger brothers, hinting that she is the eldest.
• In the manga, she once said to the platoon that she wanted to have a dangerous love affair with Keroro, but they did not take her seriously because they were drunk.
• Despite popular controversy, Tamama is actually bisexual, not homosexual. She loves Keroro but she also falls for an alien woman named Sayuri.
• Tamama's farts are five times smellier than an average Keronian's fart. This is stated in the second episode of the anime.
• Sometimes, Tamama is seen as a psychotic sadist. In Volume 3 Chapter 29, she is given a corpse hand as a Christmas gift.
• Tamama is the first member of the platoon that Karara falls in love with.
• Since Angol Mois loves Keroro, Tamama dislikes her. She will try anything to keep them away from each other.
• Tamama is the third newest member in the planetary invasion troop; Tororo being the second newest and Shin Keroro being the most recent.
• In Episode 320, Tamama's human form is named Shun. She has dark purple hair.
• Tamama has an attack called "Jealousy" when she gets jealous of seeing Mois getting close to her.

Gallery

Tamama as Sgt. Tamama.

Tamama cameos in Lucky Star as a keychain on Tsukasa's phone.

Tamama using a gun.

Tamama with The Boy From The Park.

Tamama eating chips.

Tamama's profile on the movie 5 website.

Tamama as Nankyouku Tamae.

Tamama in Winter clothing.

Tamama under Shion's control.

Super Tamama.

Tamama and Momoka beating up Shivava.

Tamama dressed as a cat in Wonderland.

Tamama on the Volume 11 cover.

Tamama possessed by Dokuku.

Tamama's profile on The Flash Series website.

Tamama on the cover of the Keroro Special Miracle Pack.

Movie 5 Illustration by Mine Yoshizaki.

Tamama on the K25.5 DVD cover.

Tamama watching Keroro be persecuted by Poyan in Episode 121.

Tamama watching Keroro be persecuted by Poyon in Episode 224.

Tamama on the cover of Book 25.

Chibi Tamama as drawn by Mine Yoshizaki

Tamama

Tamama on the Summon Board.

Tamama's Attack Mode on the Summon Board.

Tamama when he was younger with his friends.

Tamama dancing

Tamama and keroro toughening up.