Splatoon (manga)

Splatoon is a manga series that is available with the CoroCoro Comic (コロコロコミック) Special Magazines, made by Hinodeya Sankichi.

Summary
The manga stars Goggles-Kun and his three friends: Headphones-Chan, Glasses-Kun, and Knit Cap (Bobble)-Chan. This kid-friendly manga uses the Splatoon Rules and world and the action on the arena, developing on Turf Wars.

Plot
There are plots in the manga series. It mainly focuses on the male Inklings.

Fanmade Issue
The Blue Team face the yellow team in this ink-crazy extravaganza! -Released in June's CoroCoro Special Magazine in 2015

Issue 1
The 4 main squids -Goggles-Kun, Headphones-Chan, Knit Cap-Chan and Glasses-Kun- get in a troublesome turf war after Goggles plays a prank on a leader of an S+ squad. -Released in December's CoroCoro Special Magazine in 2015

Issue 2
In the issue, the Blue Team learn that they will battle the Orange Team Army with S+ ranked Inklings. When the battle begins and the Orange Team takes the lead with ease, Blue Team discovers an unexpected weakness that Orange has to work to their advantage. -Released in April's CoroCoro Special Magazine in 2016
 * (Curry was first seen in this issue!)

Issue 3
Taking a break from battling against S+ ranked squids, Goggles gets his clothes damaged in the middle of a turf war and has to go shopping for new gear, but looks like someone is watching him from afar…Aloha! -Released in June's CoroCoro Special Magazine in 2016
 * (Another food item, pickled plums, were seen in this issue)

Main
These characters had appeared in all or many of the issues in Splatoon's manga.

Protagonists

 * Goggles-Kun, a male Inkling who's trait is clueless and is always ready to battle (a lot).
 * Headphones-Chan, the sister of the group and is a bit short-tempered.
 * Glasses-Kun, the expert of the team and warns Goggles.
 * Knit Cap-Chan, the cutey and what seems to be the most popular character in the manga.

Secondaries

 * Rider
 * Squid Sisters
 * Callie
 * Marie
 * Judd
 * Other Inklings

Antagonists

 * S4 (So far)
 * Army, A.K.A. Taichou, Parka
 * Aloha
 * Unnamed bandana member
 * Unnamed gas mask member, possibly the one from the fan-made issue of Splatoon.

Minor/With one appearence
These characters appear in some of the issues or only appear in one issue

Major

 * Green Team, who first appeared in issue 3 and will most likely appear again.

One appearence

 * Octarians, since they only appear in the fanmade one-shot.
 * Rider's team of Inklings from Issue 1, although they appeared in a 2016 new years banner on Hinodeya's Twitter.

Rating
Since the manga is published in the CoroCoro special magazines, the manga is kid-friendly. However, there are some brief nudity in the comic (Goggles is naked sometimes, save for his goggles). However, the manga is easy to read, even if the reader dosen't know jp Japanese. The manga itself has a good dose of Comedy and a nice representation of the Splatoon world and action.

Splatoon gags and memes
The Splatoon manga follows a lot of internet culture like gags and memes.

Ink-rings
"The strongest inkrings?! you mean they're gonna eat us?"

- Early Goggles-Kun, fan made issue

When an unnamed inkling said that the yellow team will be the victors, an early Glasses said that their team have the strongest inklings. Early-Goggles mistakes Inklings for a squid dish, calamari, saying "The strongest inkrings?! you mean they're gonna eat us?"

Rolling is my Specialty
"ROLLING IS MY SPECIALTY"

- Early Knit Cap-Chan, fan made issue

Early-Knit Cap proceeds to roll on her friends, saying "Rolling is my Specialty!!"
 * This is the most popular manga quote in the series so far.

Naked Goggles Gag
There is a running gag in this manga where Goggles ends up naked.

Trivia

 * The fan-made issue of the Splatoon manga was published in June's CoroCoro Special issue in 2015. In this issue, the main protagonists made their first appearance as unnamed characters.
 * The first official issue was published in December 2015's CoroCoro Special issue.
 * Furthermore, Rider and The Squid Sisters made their first appearance in this issue.

Japansese name (characters)
Callie, Marie, and Judd's names aren't seen in this content. For their Japanese names, search their names.