| Kenichi Nakamura | |
|---|---|
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| Played by | Matt McCooey |
| Appearances | Invizimals |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Unknown |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Species | Human |
| Affiliation | The Alliance (Owner) |
Kenichi Nakamura is a PSP programmer, time traveller, and inventor from Tokyo, Japan. He is one of the main characters (along with Professor Bob Dawson and Jazmin Nayar). Kenichi is one of the few who have discovered Invizimals, and one of even fewer who can directly communicate with them and understand them. Kenichi is also the trainer of the Kabuto-Robo, which he used to guard his apartment. Kenichi is also the founder of the original Alliance, an Invizimal group that was dedicated to fostering the best Invizimal hunters in the world to protect others and Invizimals from harm done by nefarious Invizimal users. Kenichi would later construct the shadow gate, a device that allows for transportation not just between the Invizimal world and the human world, but also time travel. His main Invizimal of choice is an Icelion.
Invizimals[]
Kenichi has discovered Invizimals, invisible creatures that are invisible to the naked eye that can only be seen through cameras on Traps to those with a strong enough aura.
While researching the Invizimals, Kenichi is sent on a business trip to Mumbai, India. However, shortly after he lands, he is kidnapped and subsequently interrogated by Axel Kaminsky to little results. After being let go, Kenichi's boss arranges for Kenichi, the player, and Jazmin to reside at Campbell's castle in England in order to remain safe and continue their research in a protected environment.
While conducting experiments in his makeshift lab at Campbell's castle, Kenichi discovered that Invizimals are a source of light energy, and could potentially be used as a power source. In an attempt to prove his findings, however, Kenichi overloaded the circuits powering Campbell castle, causing a blackout in the night. During the insulant chaos, Kaminsky arrived at Campbell Castle and attempted to kidnap both Kenichi and Jazmin. Jazmin escaped but was injured, while Kenichi was captured again for a second time. Kenichi was transported to the Viper's Nest, Kaminsky's lair.
The player tentatively agreed to pay Kaminsky's ransom in exchange for the safety of Kenichi. As the player attempted to free Kenichi however, Kaminsky challenged the player to Invizimal combat, which Kaminsky promptly lost. Now freed from his restraints, Kenichi and the player were blocked from leaving the Viper's Nest by Campbell, who revealed his true intentions. After losing to the player in Invizimal combat, Campbell and Kenichi entered a physical struggle in which Kenichi's PSP began to emit an enormous amount of light, which Campbell disappeared into. With the conflict resolved, Kenichi was finally safe once more.
Invizimals: Shadow Zone[]
In Shadow Zone, Kenichi and his friends continue their Invizimal research, intending to explore the world to find more Invizimals. While discussing with his friends, Kenichi pondered if Campbell was still alive, something that the others quickly dismissed. After losing to the player in a friendly tournament, Kenichi is tasked with exploring parts of Africa, beginning in Kenya.
Tasked with climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the locals will not allow Kenichi to climb the mountain, but allow the player to explore Kilimanjaro instead once providing several local Invizimals and besting Leenan in an Invizimal tournament, pleasing Leenan.
While exploring Kenya, Kenichi contacts the player and Professor Dawson to discuss an Invizimal he found that was overly aggressive and had a dark aura to it. The Invizimal subsequently attacked Professor Dawson and gave him a minor finger injury. Kenichi and the player agree to allow the player to face the Invizimal in combat. While fighting, the Invizimal attempted to steal one of the player's vectors, something that deeply surprised Kenichi. The Invizimal began to interfere with Kenichi's PSP system shortly thereafter.
After finding the Dark Rattleraptor, Kenichi heads north to Egypt to explore the local pyramids and find more Invizimals. He contacts Professor Dawson, who at this point is deeply corrupted by the presence of another dark Invizimal. Dawson cryptically warns Kenichi about the power of the dark Invizimals. After this call, Kenichi suspects that traces of Campbell's work are remaining in Egypt, recalling Campbell's fascination with the legend of Ra. After gaining access to one of the pyramids, he discovers Campbell's secret base, where he was secretly working on Dark Invizimals, confirming Kenichi's suspicions. Kenichi contacts Professor Alex, who deciphers an encrypted message in Campbell's lair, where Campbell planned on bringing about an invasion of Dark Invizimals upon the world by spawning a portal, through which the Dark Invizimals could enter the real world, tentatively planned to be performed at the Stonehenge. While in Campbell's lair, the player and Kenichi are attacked by a Dark Hilltopper, which the player defeats and subsequently destroys.
The player, Kenichi, and Dawson, who has since recovered from his corruption, travel to the supposed location of where the portal will open. After resolving a puzzle of mirrors to access the location of the shadow gate, Campbell appears before Kenichi, Dawson, and the player. With a Dark Invizimal in hand, Campbell corrupts Dawson once more and commands him to attack Kenichi, with the player fighting Dawson to protect Kenichi. With Dawson defeated and his Dark Flameclaw destroyed, the player defeats Campbell once more, who stalled long enough for the Dark Invizimals to begin coming through the portal. However, refusing to align with Campbell, Campbell was subsequently dragged into the Invizimal world by the leader of the Dark Invizimals, Dark Icelion. After Campbell is dealt with, the Dark Icelion stands innocently before Kenichi and subtly requests for Kenichi to enter the portal and enter the Invizimal world. Despite Dawson pleading desperately for Kenichi not to go, Kenichi regretfully tells Dawson that he needs to do this, and enters the portal, with the loss of Kenichi breaking Dawson's heart.
Invizimals: The Lost Tribes[]
Since the events of Shadow Zone, Kenichi has not been seen by the player nor his friends. Professor Alex revealed that, before Kenichi disappeared, he showed Alex evidence of the existence of a Snowcaster, an Invizimal creature that originated from Antarctica, suggesting that there were Invizimal life forms on the continent despite being largely uninhabitable to life forms. Alex believed Kenichi's claims and travelled to Antarctica to explore and attempt to find Invizimal lifeforms on the continent, but to no avail until the player arrived and found several of them, proving that Kenichi had secretly done something revolutionary to accomplish the discovery of Antarctic lifeforms.
On a rainy day, the player was given Kenichi's diary by an unknown individual, and throughout the course of the game, is tasked with restoring it. Throughout its pages, Kenichi documents his findings about the Invizimal world now that he is experiencing its world first hand. Throughout the diary, Kenichi documents the most important people in his life, the construction of the shadow gate, the true nature of Dark Invizimals, aspects of Invizimal civilization, rare Invizimals from the past and future, and numerous clues to transforming some Invizimals into Dark Invizimals.
While exploring archaeological remains in Greece, Jazmin discovered a mosaique which details that Kenichi visited Greece, confirming that he is still alive, and Jazmin comes to the conclusion that Kenichi used something to travel back and forth between the Invizimal world and the real world, and that Kenichi became capable of travelling through time.
Suspecting that Kenichi can be found, Jazmin finds Kenichi's apartment in Kyoto and starts rummaging through it, unexpectedly encountering Scott Dawson, who was doing the same. Alex reunites with the two shortly thereafter, where they find major discoveries that Kenichi had made, detailing the shadow gate and its teleportation capabilities, documentation of every Invizimal he had found up until that point, and the newfound ability for the Invizimals to battle in tag teams of two in battle. Kenichi documented that the shadow gate is powered by a plant-like Invizimal. While rummaging through Kenichi's apartment, the Invizimal guarding the vault attacked Dawson, Jazmin, and the player, with the player dispatching of the guardian. There, the trio would discover the shadow gate in Kenichi's apartment's basement.
The player would then travel through the shadow gate and encounter Kenichi once more, essentially entering The Wave, where Kenichi explained the origins of Invizimals, his eventually acquired ability to communicate directly with the Invizimals, how the shadow gate functions. Kenichi explained that he was unsure of the shadow gate's safety. That, combined with the magnitude of such a discovery, is why Kenichi hid these discoveries from even his closest friends. He explains that Campbell knew about the shadow gate, and that Campbell also discovered how to convert Invizimals into their dark forms himself, with Campbell intent on creating a Dark Invizimal army to conquer both the Invizimal world and the real world simultaneously. Kenichi helps guide the player into converting Invizimals into their dark selves in order to prepare to take on Campbell.
While meditating in a temple with Invizimals, Campbell storms the temple with an army of Dark Invizimals, ready to settle the score with Kenichi once and for all and conquer The Wave. Kenichi and Campbell argue over how the Invizimals are being utilized, with Campbell viewing the Invizimals as the means to dominance, while Kenichi contests that Campbell's influence is disrupting the peace and harmony of The Wave by weaponizing the Dark Invizimals into being evil, noting that Dark Invizimals are not inherently evil themselves, they are only evil if they are fostered by Campbell into being that way. The player, armed with the Tigersharks of both light and dark, do battle with Campbell's Dark Invizimals, and defeat Campbell once and for all.
After Campbell is defeated, Kenichi takes the Invizimal portal back to the regular world and discusses his findings with his old friends, explaining that, not only was he supposed to keep the shadow gate a secret, but that he was initially unsure that it was safe to travel between worlds, and that it was best for him not to try his luck until he was absolutely sure of the portal's effects.
About the Actor[]
Matt McCooey is an actor and director, known for Agatha Raisin (2016), Banana Skins (2014) and Billy: Thoughts of a Substitute (2011).