Kinnosuke Kashao



Kinnosuke Kashao is the only son and the seventh in line of the Kashao school of martial arts, which specializes in not spending a single yen and passing on all their bills to others. Due to this lifestyle Kinnosuke lives in a cardboard box in the park.

Kinnosuke has a very interesting name. "Kin" is "a small quantity of gold" or "10,000 yen" which refers to his want of money, while "suke" means "assistance". When read Kashao essentially means "King of Borrowing" which points to his talent for getting other people to pay for him. But the kanji used to write the name mean "King of Flaming Chariot". "Flaming Chariot" is actually a Japanese idiom which means "having difficulty making ends meet" or "one's estate suffers". So Kinnosuke's name is actually quite complex.

April
April is Kinnosuke's loyal puppet butler. Kinnosuke takes April on his hand everywhere he goes. April acts like a old butler concerned about his young master. While April would seem to be just a puppet, he sometimes does things without his masters approval such as borrowing money to phone the hospital for Kinnosuke. This could either mean Kinnosuke has a split personality or that April is actually alive!

Nabiki once imitated April's voice.