There are not one, but two sets of characters created to teach you how to play the Donkey Kong Card Game. The starter set’s manual mainly consists of a little story of the three characters on top playing through a game, teaching you the basics in the process. They’re your typical card game anime squirts; from left to right Takashi the generic protagonist, Kenji the generic rival, and Toshiyuki the generic Cool Guy hotdogger (yes he has playing cards tucked into the band of his weird goggles…ok so he’s slightly less generic maybe).

On the other hand, the official website has a series of pages where Takeshi the generic young boy and Hikaru the generic young girl are taught the fundamentals of this children’s card game by Sensei, the generic old man. Note that Takeshi is different from the previous Takashi.

None of these characters are a part of the Donkey Kong Universe.

Get the whole picture by downloading the Donkey Kong Card Game archive here.