Young Cricket and Master Mantis

Young Cricket (ヤングクリケット) and Master Mantis (マスターマンティス) are two major characters from the WarioWare Series. They are martial artists and WarioWare, Inc. employees who like meat dumplings. Master Mantis is an elderly teacher of martial arts, while Young Cricket is his devoted student. When they are first introduced, they appear to be rather serious characters, shown training in difficult conditions, but it is later shown that they "fit in" with the rest of Wario's friends.

In Rhythm Heaven
Young Cricket's first appearance in the Rhythm Heaven Series is in Kung Fu Ball in Rhythm Heaven Fever as one of the kappa's students. In the game, he must kick and punch a ball back to Cicada without dropping it. Notably, his hair is more of a gray color rather than black with white streaks in this appearance. His Character Trailer for WarioWare Gold features Young Cricket training alongside Cicada under Master Mantis, with the kappa and ball from Kung Fu Ball making an appearance. This trailer confirms the character in Rhythm Heaven Fever is indeed Young Cricket himself.

Young Cricket and Master Mantis appear in Rhythm Heaven Megamix in the Challenge Train course Wario...Where?, with their designs from Game & Wario. Master Mantis is featured (initially without his mustache) as the playable character in Munchy Monk, replacing the titular character, where he eats dumplings to grow his mustache. Young Cricket can be seen in the background riding on a cloud, similar to the Monkey from Animal Acrobat in Final Remix.

Appearances

 * Game Wii PE-3.gif Kung Fu Ball
 * Game 3DS ntrShugyo L.png Munchy Monk (Wario...Where?)

Trivia

 * Young Cricket and Master Mantis's Character Trailer for WarioWare Gold has one shot where Young Cricket stands on a tall rock, with Karate Joe visible to the side.