Oumagadoki Zoo and sometimes shortened to Oumazoo is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2010, and has been collected into five tankōbon volume as of August 2011. 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
Shiina - 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.
Hana Aoi - 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
Uwabami - 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.
Oogami - He is a dhole. Although not as powerful as Shiina or Shishido, he is cunning in battle.
Shishido - 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.
Gorilla Kong - He is a gorilla, as his name states. Even when transformed, his appearance doesn't change. His technique is the Gorilla Claw.
Igarashi - He is a spotted seal. He tends to get kidnapped easily and is a gentleman.
Chita - He is a cheetah. He is overweight, but with help from Hana, starts to exercise again.
Kasai - He is an Indian rhinoceros. He has a one-sided crush on Uwabami.
Isana - 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. He is feared by the aquarium animals for his ruthless treatment, working them to near death and killing those that refuse to work.
Techniques: Click: Due to his cursed whale form, Isana is able to generate ultrasound, which can paralyze animals.
Animals
Sakamata - He is an orca and No. 2 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium.
Kaizou - He is a walrus and No. 3 of the Ushimitsudoki Aquarium.
Mukanai Hanauwa - The sponsor president of the Ushimi Construction Works and the father of Mukio.
Ikumi Hasuda - Hana's classmate. She always calls her a useless woman and finds it annoying whenever Hana keeps trying.
Miura - Ikumi's boyfriend.
Noriko Kuchinashi - One of Hana's classmates and friends.
Sofue -
Fujio Mizoguchi - The gym teacher of the school Hana goes to.
Manga
Oumagadoki Zoo is written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. The series was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 12, 2010 to April 18, 2011. Shueisha has compiled its individual chapters into five tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on November 4, 2010 and the last on August 4, 2011.
