Sergeant Keroro (Sgt Frog Abridged)

Keroro
Keroro as seen in Episode 7
Character info
Title	Sergeant
Gender	Male
Race	Keronian
Faction	Keroro Platoon
Voice Actor	Mugiwara Yoshi
First Appearance	Episode 1
Status	Lead character

Sergeant Keroro is the star and namesake of Sgt Frog Abridged and the Keroro Platoon. While he is supposed to be leading the invasion of Earth, he has made no decent effort to do so. He's the biggest jerk of the cast, and is of a dubious morality.

Bio

Keroro is in-charge of leading his platoon's invasion of Earth, but he tends to be very lazy. The rare cases where he has an invasion plan, it tends to be stupid at best (radio show, interviews, socks with sandpaper at the tip). He has shown he can be dedicated to his job, be it rallying everyone to develop an invasion plan or complete a cartoon to earn back lost money, but his extreme laziness simply gets in the way of accomplishing anything. In fact, Episode 5 revealed that Keroro might actually be afraid of being useful whatsoever. This, combined with him being generally insulting and snarky with his colleagues, makes accomplishing his mission an unlikely event.

Keroro is in a romantic relationship with Private Tamama, often calling Tamama "Hun". Despite this, he is still of a dubious sexuality; while he has outright claimed to be gay, he has made no effort to hide his attraction to Aki on at least two accounts. Also when it was revealed in Episode 10 that Tamama was actually a girl, Keroro seemed to go through "straight panic", the reverse of "gay panic". He gets over this in Episode 11 and decides he's comfortable being bisexual while at the same time seen openly cheating on Tamama.

Not much is known so far of Keroro's background and upbringing. It is known that he is the Keronian equivalent of a Hispanic, often breaking into strings of Spanish dialogue and even Hispanic stereotypes. Episodes 4 and 7 showed Keroro as a child growing up with Giroro and Zeroro, where he didn't act much different from his adult self; he may have been of an even looser morality, often playing games with the two like "Zeroro Dies". Unlike the Keroro Gunsou Keroro, who was inspired by his father to enter the military, SFA Keroro decided to become a soldier following an unexplained incident involving a toilet balloon.

In stark contrast to Keroro Gunsou Keroro, SFA Keroro likes Gundams but does not enjoy building them; he may even prefer Transformers. Keroro was also never forced into being the Hinata family's house maid; he may have simply decided to clean their house on his own, and he may even enjoy it.

Relationships

Despite being a huge jerk, Keroro is on friendly terms with most of the characters, though few of them actually respect him. He grew up with Giroro and Dororo and played with them all the time as kids, usually to Dororo's chagrin. He still treats the former like a good friend, rarely slinging insults at him and even considering some of his plans; he treats the latter like an emotional chew toy, and openly admitted in Episode 4 that he does not care about Dororo.

His relationship with Tamama is that of lovers, with Keroro being shown to put up with Tamama's quirks for the sake of their love. However, Episode 9 presented the idea that Keroro may also have a need for dominance: his nickname for Tamama, "Hun", is played as being a symbol of the submissive in their relationship, and Keroro passes the nickname to Mois when Tamama develops a fixation with dominance and begins calling Keroro "Hun". BigTUnit1 has also put forward the theory that Keroro may simply need a "Hun" to look up to him, since he knows that no one else in his platoon respects him. Compounding this instability was Keroro's realization that he is bisexual in Episode 11, after which he begins openly sexualizing several characters and cheating on Tamama with Pururu.

A monologue in Episode 5 revealed that Keroro cares about Fuyuki and Mois, not wanting to let them down should he do anything. Keroro has sit and talked with Fuyuki on occasion, and even joked with Fuyuki in Episode 8. His relationship with Mois is closer to familial, though he did deceive (and possibly endanger) her several times when she was growing up in order to endear himself to her (taking her to a junkyard pretending it was a dollar store, setting a forest on fire that he was calling a post-office, crashing through a roof while taking her to school, celebrating her birthday by playing in traffic).

The Episode 5 monologue did reveal that he does not care about Natsumi and may have a vitriolic attitude towards her, though he can easily have a conversation with her and has even asked her for help. His only known relationship with Aki is of a lustful nature, and he may have a similar relationship with Pururu, though the latter may also share Keroro's sexual drive. He does not seem to acknowledge Kululu or any of his antics, but he may simply not care what Kululu does. He has not personally interacted with Momoka, but as of Episode 12 he does think of Momoka when asked if he knows anyone who gets ignored a lot.

Episode 1 and Episode 10 revealed that Keroro is not respected, or even liked, by his superiors in the Keron Army. By Episode 15, neither do his platoon.

Notable Quotes

"I'm gay. The end." - Episode 2

Keroro: "Where are you?"
Tamama: "I'm locked inside a car."
Keroro: "Don't worry, I'll come over and- what?"
Tamama: "I'm locked inside a car!"
Keroro: "...Hun?"
Tamama: "Yeah?"
Keroro: "Think about what you said for a moment."
Tamama: "I said I'm locked inside a- OH! I see what's wrong!"
Keroro: "Good!"
Tamama: *Clunk* "Okay, now I'm locked. Come get me, Sarge!" *Click*
Keroro: "*Sigh* ...He's worth it...He's worth it..." - Episode 5

Trivia

• Yoshi claims to have not intended to be Keroro when he first began planning for SFA, partially due to him not even having a microphone until December 2009, though Thorn remembers Yoshi wanting Keroro since the first time they talked.