#anokoro

No prob! Yeah the Garuru and Kururu thing is actually a very popular dynamic in the Japanese fandom, but all I could really find besides the one blurry picture from Keroro Land that circulates often is a Yahoo answer about it and the scant details from the cards. I don’t know if Garuru actually mentored Kururu outside the Keron Star Contest itself—from what I can gather he was a corporal at the time who was tasked with being the “watchman” for the competition by basically being Kururu’s right-hand man/guard since Kururu was a kid major (at the time he was probably a few years older than Tamama’s present age if I had to guess since he’s still old enough to have met Keroro and the others as kids). But fanon was super into it and there’s a lot of headcanons/fanart about Garuru training or even babysitting Kururu. I’ve also heard the claim that Kururu fixed the competition results so Keroro would win and I can’t actually find a source in Japanese for that (maybe the second code card?) but that’s definitely interesting if true. Kururu basically created the Keroro Platoon if that’s the case :P

Actually it’s really funny you ask because I have! And I completely neglected talking about it here oops

A short while ago someone in a Keroro discord server I’m in sent some scans of the cards so I translated whatever they had. I know there’s a ton more so if you can point me in the direction of more clean scans that’d be great. These are all character profile cards of the orikero submitted to Keroro Land that were incorporated into the “Competition for the Keron Star” story. The progression of the story is basically told in pieces through these collectible cards so you’re really supposed to have all or at least most of them, so the more the merrier. The letters in the white boxes are supposed to spell out some kind of secret code on a Kururu card (I did see a picture of that card but don’t think it was HQ) but of course you’d need all of them to make any sense of it.