Young Cricket and Master Mantis

Young Cricket (ヤングクリケット^?, Yangu Kuriketto) and Master Mantis (マスターマンティス^?, Masutā Mantisu) are two 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 the other student 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^[1] features Young Cricket training alongside the female student 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

Kung Fu Ball
Munchy Monk (Wario...Where?)

Gallery

Young Cricket in Kung Fu Ball in Rhythm Heaven Fever
As they appear in Wario...Where? in Rhythm Heaven Megamix

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^[1].

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ヤングクリケット^[2]＆マスターマンティス^{[citation needed]}	Young Cricket & Master Mantis
English^NOA	Young Cricket and Master Mantis
English^NOE	Young Cricket and Master Mantis^[1]
French^NOA	Young Cricket^[2] & Master Mantis^{[citation needed]}
French^NOE	Young Cricket & Master Mantis^[3]
Spanish^NOA	Young Cricket^[2] & Master Mantis^{[citation needed]}
Spanish^NOE	Cricket y Mantis^[4] Young Cricket^[2]	Cricket and Mantis Young Cricket
Italian	Young Cricket e Master Mantis^[5]	Young Cricket and Master Mantis
Dutch	Young Cricket en Master Mantis^[6]	Young Cricket and Master Mantis
Portuguese	Young Cricket e Master Mantis^[7]	Young Cricket and Master Mantis
Russian	Юный Крикет и Мастер Мантис^[8] Ученик Сверчок^[2]	Young Cricket and Master Mantis Student Cricket
Chinese^SI	少年库利凯特^{[citation needed]}, 大师曼提斯^{[citation needed]} 库利凯特^{[citation needed]}, 曼提斯^{[citation needed]} Young Cricket^[2]	Young Cricket, Master Mantis Cricket, Mantis Young Cricket
Korean	영 크리켓^[2], 맨티스 사부^{[citation needed]}	Young Cricket, Master Mantis