Kenny (Kouji in the Japanese original) is a character in the first two seasons of the Stitch! anime. He is the older brother of Penny.
Role in the series[]
Kenny is Penny's older brother, although they appear to hate each other for unknown reasons. However, in an episode of the first season, when Kenny gets turned into a toddler by Babyfier, Penny is shown to feel sad for her brother, even though she usually despises him. Kenny and his friends, Marvin and Ted, are also known as Penny's minions.
Despite his hostility and rivalry with Yuna and Stitch, Kenny, like his sister, has shown that he can sometimes get along with them. An example of one of these moments is when Stitch helped Kenny make Sasha fall in love with him, using his cousin Hunkahunka.
At the end of the second season, Kenny, along with everyone else, had tears of happiness in his eyes when he saw that Stitch had managed to survive the explosion of the black hole, showing that he was also incredibly affected by the idea that Stitch had died in the explosion.
Kenny is also shown to be in love with both Sasha and Yuna's cousin, Tigerlily. As evidence, at the end of one of the episodes of the second season, after Stitch gave back everything his cousins Bonnie and Clyde had stolen from the people of Izayoi Island, his diary got to Tigerlily and she read it out loud that Kenny was still in love with Sasha, but at the same time he was attracted by Tigerlily's mature beauty.
Printed media[]
Stitch! Best Friends Forever![]
In "Do Your Best to Do Good", Kenny appears with Penny, Marvin, and Ted when they find Stitch trying to learn how to do good deeds. They, being the bullies they are, decide to trick him. They tell him to take the old man's pineapples to supposedly make his job easier, and then convince Stitch that Taro's glasses are cursed and he takes them. After some time, Kenny decides to play ball, but accidentally throws it into the forest, where a yokai named Kijimunaa lives. They ask Stitch to get the ball, but when they see Kijimunaa, they run away in terror.
In "Karate Match", Kenny tried to bully Stitch and Yuna by challenging them to a karate match, but he became scared of Stitch's strength and ran away.
Trivia[]
- Lilo called Stitch "Kenny" when he was in his disguise in the original series.
- Since Kenny is Penny's older brother, he is also older than Yuna. In the booklet and character descriptions in the manga, it was mentioned that at the start of the series, Kenny is in sixth grade and Yuna is in fourth grade, making him two years older than her. At the end of the third season, in which he did not appear, he would be 15 years old, since Yuna is 13.
Gallery[]
_-_Kenny,_Ted,_and_Marvin_react_excitedly_to_Yuna%27s_misfortune.png "Stitch - Foxy Beige (Japanese version) - Kenny, Ted, and Marvin react excitedly to Yuna's misfortune.png (1.07 MB)")
_-_Merry_Christmas_group_shot.png "Stitch! - We Wishy You a Washy Christmas (Japanese version) - Merry Christmas group shot.png (1.78 MB)")
