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Koko ココ Koko
Koko
Age	10+
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Burgundy
Hometown	Forest of Okoya
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Chrom and Phossa Molybdenum (parents)
Anime debut	Secrets of the Jungle
English voice actor	Kimlinh Tran
Japanese voice actor	Moka Kamishiraishi Wakana Minami (infant)

Koko (Japanese: ココ Koko) is a major character who appeared in Secrets of the Jungle. Raised by Pokémon, he is a human boy who believes he too is a Pokémon.

In the anime

Koko as a baby

Koko was born Al Molybdenum (Japanese: アル・モリブデン Al Molybden), the only child of scientists Chrom and Phossa Molybdenum, the late leaders of the Biotope Company. When they learned of the Great Tree's location in the Forest of Okoya and that the many Zarude living in the forest worshipped it, they decided to protect it from their subordinate Dr. Zed, who wanted to destroy it in order to gain access to the secrets of the Healing Springs. Infuriated by this revelation, Dr. Zed chased the family down as they tried to escape in their car. He soon ran them off the road and into a riverbank. Stealing the data, Dr. Zed left the family to die in the ensuing explosion, but Al survived as he had drifted away from the car down the river.

Al was eventually found by a single Zarude living deep within the jungle. This Zarude attempted to return Al to his parents, however an attempt to leave him in Milyfa Town led to Al nearly walking in front of a car. Zarude decided to investigate a nearby lab and upon seeing its wrecked state and a photo of Al with his parents realized that the baby was now an orphan. Zarude decided to raise Al as a son and renamed him Koko. Knowing that this was against the rules of its troop, Zarude decided to leave the other Zarude behind so it could raise Koko safely, as they objected to a human being brought to their sacred tree. This Zarude, who took to wearing a torn piece of pink clothing, would become known as "Dada" to Koko.

Over the next ten years, Zarude raised Koko in the depths of the jungle, and the two developed a strong bond. As he had no memory of his human life, Koko believed he was also a Pokémon and was frustrated by the fact that he was seemingly unable to use moves. Zarude didn't want to tell Koko the truth of his origins. However, Koko began to question about his origins. When Zarude hesitated to give Koko the answer he asked for, Koko stormed off to discover his true origins. However, Koko fell into a river where he was saved by Ash Ketchum. Following his recovery, Koko found himself in the human world where he noticed that Ash and his fellow humans were identical to himself. Koko soon realized that he was one of them. Koko befriended Ash and the latter subsequently taught the former what it means to be human.

After Koko introduced his father to Ash, Zarude confronted Koko for speaking the human language and bringing a fellow human. However, Koko said that Zarude was ignoring the fact that he is also a human and called Dada out on this. Guilty, Zarude confessed to Koko that the latter wasn't a Zarude nor the begat of the former. Zarude took Koko, Ash, Pikachu, and their friend Skwovet to the abandoned lab where he explained Koko's past and showed them the picture of Koko's real parents.

Character

Koko has a parent-child relationship with Zarude, calling it Dada (Japanese: とうちゃん Daddy).

Pokémon

Befriended

This is a list of Pokémon Koko has befriended in the anime.

		Dada
		Main article: Dada Zarude, whom Koko calls "Dada", found Koko as a baby and raised him.
Debut	Secrets of the Jungle
Voice actors
Japanese	Nakamura Kankurō
English	Edward Bosco

		Skwovet
		Skwovet is a Pokémon that Koko befriended. None of Skwovet's moves are known.
Debut	Secrets of the Jungle
Voice actors
Japanese	Kei Shindō

Moves used

Using Jungle Healing	Move First Used In Jungle Healing Secrets of the Jungle
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Voice actors

In the manga

Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle—Another Beginning

Koko appeared in Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle—Another Beginning, which is set three years before the movie.

In the TCG

Koko appears in one promotional card. It is one of three Pokémon cards that isn't actually a Pokémon, the others being Buried Fossil and M Sachiko-EX.

Koko Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Koko					S-P Promotional cards		106/S-P

Trivia

• Koko is notably the first human in the anime to be depicted using a Pokémon move, as he uses Jungle Healing to help Dada recover from his injuries.
  • While Psychics can be argued to be using Pokémon moves–like Psychic, Telekinesis, Kinesis, Hypnosis etc.— Koko is the first human to do so explicitly.

Names

Al Molybden

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