Yoko Tsuno Yoko Tsuno is an electronics engineer, raised in Japan but now living in Belgium. She is quite compassionate and has a knack for making friends. Yoko is also a skilled
scuba diver, holds a
black belt in
aikido, and can pilot jets,
gliders and helicopters. This wide range of competences, together with her near-flawless behaviour, makes Yoko fall into the classic category of a competent woman. The flaw she does admit to having is the typically Japanese trait of valuing personal honour highly, which leads her at times to be trusting to the point of blindness. Yoko Tsuno's first name was inspired by Japanese actress
Yoko Tani.
Vic Video Vic Video (, but sometimes also referred to as Max): He has a strong personality, and is a close friend of Yoko (whom he seems to be in love with, though this is only hinted at). Before meeting Yoko, he directed live TV shows. He is often the voice of reason and prudence moderating Yoko's impulsiveness. Vic appears in all albums except
Aventures électroniques, ''L'Or du Rhin
and La Pagode des brumes''.
Pol Pitron Pol Pitron (, ) is the
comic relief of the trio. His name comes from French "pitre", literally "clown". Before meeting Yoko, he worked as a camera operator under direction of Vic. Pol is often lazy and grumpy, as well as a real
gourmet. He is also playful and thus quite fond of children, and during a time travel adventure to 16th century
Bruges, he gains a fiancée named Mieke, which brings his childish side down by some degrees (''L'Astrologue de Bruges
).Pol appears in all albums except La Pagode des brumes
, although he appears in only two stories of Aventures électroniques''. Where almost all other characters in the comics are drawn realistically anatomically speaking, in the early albums, Pol's nose and eyes are cartoonishly large and round.
Khany Khany is a member of the extraterrestrial race of
Vineans, who left their planet when it faced destruction by its twin suns and erected secret subterranean colonies on various habitable planets, including Earth. As of the end of
La Forge de Vulcain and the fall of Karpan's leadership, she is also their undeclared leader who directs the return of the Vineans from Earth to Vinea. She is also undertaking expeditions to find lost Vinean colonies. Like Vic, she is quite careful in her actions. Khany appears in ''Le Trio de l'étrange
, La Forge de Vulcain
, Les Trois soleils de Vinéa
, Les Titans
, La Lumière d'Ixo
, Les Archanges de Vinéa
, Les Exilés de Kifa
, La Porte des âmes
, La Servante de Lucifer
and Le Secret de Khâny''.
Poky Khany's younger sister, and originally her twin sister, who was revived from
suspended animation much later than Khany after their arrival on Earth and has thus remained a child. She is quite attached to Yoko and has become close friends with Morning Dew. She appears, nearly always at her sister's side, in ''Le Trio de l'étrange
, La Forge de Vulcain
, Les Trois Soleils de Vinéa
, Les Titans
, La Lumière d'Ixo
, Les Archanges de Vinéa
, Les Exilés de Kifa
, La Porte des âmes
, La Servante de Lucifer
and Le Secret de Khâny''.
Rosée du Matin Rosée du Matin (
Morning Dew; Dutch:
Roosje; German:
Morgentau) is Yoko's adopted Chinese daughter, as of
Le Dragon de Hong Kong. The child of two biologists who experimented with the artificial enlargement of animals, she was orphaned when her parents perished in a storm. She had been raised by her grandfather, but due to his deteriorating health, he entrusted guardianship to Yoko. She has so far also participated in Yoko's time travel exploits and her trips into outer space. Rosée appears in all albums from
Le Dragon de Hong Kong onwards. She was inspired by Leloup's daughter, adopted from
Korea.
Ingrid Hallberg A German
organist who becomes one of Yoko's closest friends after Yoko helped solve the mystery of her father's murder in ''L'Orgue du Diable''. While she has never met them, Ingrid also knows about Yoko's connection to the Vineans (
Le Temple des immortels). She has since appeared in
La Frontière de la vie,
Le Feu de Wotan, ''L'Or du Rhin
and Le Temple des immortels''.
Monya Monya is a fourteen-year-old
time traveler from 3872, whom Yoko meets during the events described in
La Spirale du temps. After changing history during this adventure, Monya is unable to return to her native time. She is adopted by Yoko's cousin and the two girls become fast friends. With the help of Monya's time machine, the
translateur, Yoko and her friends undertake several time-travelling adventures.
Emilia A spirited fourteen-year-old girl of Scottish-Russian descent, who appears in the series as of
Le Septième Code. While she is not a skilled violin player as her mother was (and wanted her daughter to be), she demonstrates a natural aptitude for piloting. In
La Servante de Lucifer, she is also revealed to have some latent
telepathic talent.
Myna and Angela Two female Vinean nursery androids. While Myna is an older construct from before the Vinean exodus (
Les Exilés de Kifa), Angela was built as a gift for Morning Dew based on a children's book Morning Dew had left behind during a previous visit on Vinea (
La Servante de Lucifer).
Akina A benevolent
artificial intelligence which was once the controlling element in a spacecraft owned by Gobol, the antagonist of
Les Exilés de Kifa. When Yoko uses the ship to escape Kifa, the AI accepts her as her new master after Yoko christens her with the first name (of an old school rival) that comes into her mind. A copy of Akina accompanies Yoko in subsequent stories, stored in a hand computer.
Bonnie A young
half-African girl from Kenya who was sired by Emilia's great-granduncle in the early 20th century and taken in by his brother (Sir Archibald, Emilia's great-grandfather) and sister-in-law. Not feeling at home in Europe because of her mixed-race heritage and the resulting social prejudice, she accompanied Yoko and Emilia, who had journeyed into the past, back to the 21st century, where she has taken up permanent residence (''Le Maléfice de l'améthyste''). ==Synopsis==