Kentaro Randa
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- Kentaro Randa: “I don't know what to do.”
- Emiko Randa: “Yes, you do.”
- Kentaro: “But that woman said–”
- Emiko: “When have you ever done what you've been told?”
- ― Kentaro and his mother Emiko ("Axis Mundi")
Kentaro Randa is a protagonist character in the 2023 Monsterverse television series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
An aspiring artist in Tokyo, Kentaro's life was upended by the unexpected appearance of Cate Randa, his previously unknown half-sister. As the two sought to uncover the secrets of their father's double life, they discovered his involvement with the monster-hunting organization known as Monarch. These revelations went on to introduce Kentaro to a world of monsters as they embarked on a journey for more answers.
History
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV 2023–2026) [episodes 1–13]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The son of Emiko and Hiroshi Randa, Kentaro was an aspiring artist in Tokyo. In 2014, Kentaro prepared his speech for his art debut with his sponsor Kimi, who scolded him for hesitating during a question on what inspired his art despite having months to prepare. Kentaro responded that art came from a place that was hard to process and to him it was just intuitive. Kimi stated that while she respected his process, her buyers would be more interested in who they were buying from rather over the art itself and told him to come up with an answer in the two hours before the show started. As Kimi left, Emiko approached her son and complimented him over a promotional poster's praise of his art along and affirmed that she and his father were proud of him when he showed doubt in his work. After Emiko confirmed that Hiroshi would attend the show, Kentaro excused himself and went outside to photograph the poster.
As he did, he accidentally snapped a photo of May Olowe-Hewitt as she walked by. He took the opportunity to flirt with her, and they ended up at a bar together, where he detailed more about his art career and that his first big show was set for that very night and wanted to build suspense by appearing late. Noting the pretentiousness of the show's name and Kentaro describing an act he was putting on as an artist, May questioned the authenticity of their impromptu date, but Kentaro assured her it wasn't an act and brought her to his studio. She was more impressed with his art there and questioned that art wasn't in the gallery, though he detailed that he abided by his sponsor Kimi's wishes as she was taking a chance on him. May encouraged him to get to his show, but after she declined his invitation to join him, they chose to spend the night together instead. May later asked why Kentaro didn't want to go to his gallery opening, to which he deflected and probed her for more details about herself, though she remained vague. Nevertheless, they exchanged numbers before Kentaro departed. Though he sold some of his pieces at the show, Kimi dropped Kentaro nevertheless. He also saw Hiroshi at the show, though it was the last time Kentaro saw his father before he disappeared. "Parallels and Interiors"
Sometime later, Kentaro and May broke up. In 2015, Emiko and Kentaro happened upon a woman trespassing in their home. The woman attempted to defuse the situation by telling them that Hiroshi was her father, identifying herself as Cate Randa. The family sat down with Cate to discuss the situation, but Kentaro was skepitcal of her claim and asked her to provide proof. Cate showed them pictures of her with her mother, Caroline, and Hiroshi, informing them that Caroline had been married to Hiroshi for 30 years. Emiko asked Cate whether she knew what happened to Hiroshi, but Cate became upset, apologized for the intrusion, returned the apartment's keys, and left. Just then, citizens of the city received an evacuation alert, with Kentaro and Emiko regrouping with Cate outside before leading her to a subway shelter, assuring her that it was likely just a drill. Emiko asked Cate if Hiroshi was with her during G-Day, but Cate told her that he wasn't. Cate then experienced a flashback to her encounter with Godzilla on G-Day, though Emiko managed to stop her panicking and calmed her down. After being given the all clear to leave, Emiko invited Cate to come back to their apartment for tea. Cate refused as she didn't want to spend more time with the woman her father was cheating with, but relented when Kentaro pushed that she hadn't gotten any answers from her brief trip. Kentaro took Cate to Hiroshi's office where he allegedly programmed software for satellites. Kentaro had hoped to show her the good in their father, but it only reminded Cate of how Hiroshi was obsessed with his work. Feeling her way along a map on the wall, Cate found a safe behind it and unlocked it by combining her and Kentaro's birthdays with both of their mothers'. The safe contained a bag belonging to Bill Randa which contained several data storage tapes. She noticed the logo on the side of the bag, and remembered how she had spotted men wearing it during G-Day. She asked Kentaro for help reading them, offering to get out of his life forever.
Kentaro took Cate to May. Though not pleased to see him, he convinced her to help, and she brought them to her apartment. May found the first tape encrypted, but quickly cracked it, revealing scores of redacted documents. Kentaro noticed a map resembling the one in Hiroshi's office; after he read the name "Monarch," Cate told them about the agents she saw in San Francisco, and how they seemed to relish documenting the destruction as people were dying. She believed that Hiroshi was working for them, but Kentaro refused to believe it. He fumed to May in Japanese that Hiroshi would still be alive if he had been in Tokyo instead of San Francisco when the Titans attacked. Speaking Japanese in front of him for the first time, Cate retorted that Hiroshi wasn't in San Francisco that day either before recalling how he only returned to the city after the attack, only to abandon her again when she needed him most. Kentaro insisted he must have done everything for a reason, but Cate declared him unforgivable. She then spotted a photo of a woman standing inside a monstrous footprint on one of May's screens: her and Kentaro's grandmother Keiko. "Aftermath"
Sometime later, a sleepless Kentaro returned to his father's office. After looking at the family photos on the desk, he trashed the room in a fury until reaching a locked file cabinet. One of the keys Cate gave him unlocked it, and he found a folder inside bearing the Monarch symbol and documents pertaining to a man named Lee Shaw and a letter pertaining to a rest home, though Kentaro did not recognize the man. Kentaro then returned home, where Emiko was looking through photo albums. Seeing how angry he wss, she shredded some of the photos as she realized she was angry too, and he joined her to vent their frustrations together. He stopped, however, upon seeing a photo of Shaw, who Emiko identified as Hiroshi's "uncle" and his only family left after Bill's passing. Kentaro questioned why Hiroshi never mentioned the man to him before receiving a text from May asking him to call her. Before he could, two individuals, Tim and Michelle Duvall, barged into the Randas' apartment, identifying themselves as Monarch agents and asking for Bill's files. Duvall told Emiko that Kentaro stole the files, but she soon concluded that Duvall was lying and cued her son to escape by giving him a picture of Shaw. Emiko distracted Tim and Duvall while Kentaro pretended to retrieve the files and snuck out, with Tim only catching on and realizing who Kentaro was when he saw a photo of Hiroshi. Furious at Kentaro's escape, Tim slammed Bill's empty bag down in front of Emiko.
Kentaro met up with May and Cate, having had their own run-ins with the Monarch agents. Cate revealed she was willing to just give Monarch the files, but Kentaro said he knew where to go next. He brought them to Shaw's retirement home. Shaw brightened upon hearing that Kentaro was Hiroshi's son, though he never knew about Hiroshi's daughter, Cate. He ushered the group outside. After telling Shaw about the files they found, they asked if he knew why Hiroshi traveled to Alaska. Shaw questioned whether Hiroshi was really dead, but before he was able to elaborate, May noticed a hidden camera inside a tree. Shaw revealed that the "retirement home" was more of a Monarch-operated prison before showing them his ankle monitor. Before they could leave, he warned them that Monarch would continue pursuing them until they finally caught up - unless they journeyed with him to learn Hiroshi's true fate. He proceeded to cut off the ankle monitor with a hand pruner and gave them a minute to decide. "Departure"
Shaw told the trio that their search for Hiroshi would begin in Alaska, the last place he was known to be alive. Though Cate wanted no part of the search and only wanted out of Monarch's crosshairs, Kentaro agreed. May questioned Shaw's dedication to locating Hiroshi, to which Shaw explained that he considered Hiroshi more son than nephew. Shaw took the wheel of Kentaro's rental car, and after brief confusion over operating a modern vehicle and striking several obstructions in their escape attempt, Shaw crashed through the main gate to freedom. The quartet later boarded a cargo ship to South Korea. Along the way, Shaw expressed his belief that Bill Randa's files contained something Hiroshi wanted to keep secret from Monarch and hoped to discover what that was before Monarch, with May disclosing that she digitized the files. He described the files as containing the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of him, Bill, and Keiko Randa before their organization became misguided, more focused on keeping secrets than hunting monsters. He confirmed that Hiroshi worked for Monarch, calling it the Randas' "family business", though Cate was upset by these revelations, describing Monarch as her family's curse and believing Monarch should have done more to prevent G-Day. May later told Kentaro she did not trust Shaw, but when he offered her the chance to leave, she angrily reminded him that coming onto Monarch's radar cost her entire life in Tokyo.
After bribing the ship's captain, Shaw had Kentaro reluctantly dump Bill's files in the ocean to help them avoid any problems moving forward as they prepared to meet with a friend of Shaw's. In Pohang, Shaw so badly fumbled his interactions with security at customs that the party was led off by two armed guards. Shaw offered to bribe them, earning him a rifle to the stomach, but the same guard then locked his counterpart in their van, revealing himself to be Shaw's friend, Du-Ho. Du-Ho drove the party to an ancient plane he owned, which was to serve as their dubious chariot to Alaska.
Once their plane was in the air, Kentaro peppered Shaw with questions about Hiroshi. He shared that by the time Hiroshi joined Monarch, the job called for less field work and more number-crunching, and he last saw him almost 20 years prior. He had no knowledge of Hiroshi's two families, but added that like his mother Keiko, he always went after what he wanted and never lied to Shaw, which Cate doubted. While searching through Bill's files, May discovered a set of coordinates in Alaska while Cate recalled details of Hiroshi's ill-fated flight, giving them a destination. Upon reaching Alaska, the group encountered a storm as Shaw took the controls and directed Cate to assist. During the tense landing, Kentaro spotted a spherical building from the plane. Following their rough but successful landing, they discovered the scattered remains of Hiroshi's plane and a frozen corpse that wasn't Hiroshi. Du-Ho located an abandoned tent where Cate and Kentaro recognized their father's handwriting on a map and his signature pencil shavings, revealing his survival, though his whereabouts remained unknown. After Du-Ho discovered claw marks on the plane, he attempted to warn Shaw and the others as he moved to start their plane. The mole-like Frost Vark suddenly burst out of the ground, swiped a wing off the plane, and killed Du-Ho by freezing the plane. "Secrets and Lies"
Kentaro watched as the Frost Vark continued tearing apart the plane. As the Titan turned its attention to them, he noticed a flare gun and dove for it against Shaw's protests. He fired it at the Frost Vark, and though he missed, it distracted the Titan long enough for the group to make it to a nearby cave. May and Shaw reprimanded Kentaro for being reckless, and Kentaro attempted to defend himself, but they were all silenced by tremors made by the Frost Vark. The tremors caused the ice under May's feet to break, forcing Shaw and Cate to help her up and leaving May on the ground barely holding back her screams from the freezing water. After the Frost Vark left, Kentaro helped May to her feet and asked is she was okay, but May retorted that she was going to die of hypothermia and rhetorically asked if Kentaro was happy that they had come to Alaska. As they walked, Kentaro requested that May slowed down, but she told Kentaro that he needed to speed up until Shaw agreed with Kentaro that she needed to save her energy to fight the hypothermia. Kentaro stated that May needed to dry her legs, but Shaw told him that they didn't have the material to build a fire and that he didn't know if the Frost Vark was still in the area. May began bickering with Shaw until Cate defused the situation by asking Shaw where he was taking them, to which he stated they were heading northwest towards the coast as they were more likely to encounter people there. Kentaro then spoke up revealed the building he saw from the plane, but no one else had noticed it. Kentaro confronted May as he assumed she had seen the building and she was just lying due to being angry at him, but May denied seeing it. The group climbed a hill, but were unable to see any buildings. Cate spotted some lights in the distance, but Kentaro asserted that the building must be behind some other nearby hills and that the lights might be further away than said building. Seeing he wouldn't budge, Shaw agreed to split up and let Kentaro go on his own.
As a snowstorm blew in, Kentaro began hallucinating about May, eventually collapsing in the snow. Kentaro eventually continued on as he hallucinated Hiroshi's presence and soon happened upon the spherical building, where he discovered evidence that Hiroshi had been there through pencil shavings. He also found that the building's radio was still powered and called for help. A helicopter soon rescued him before he took off to find the others, locating them as they were once more being menaced by the Frost Vark. Upon landing, Kentaro ushered the others aboard. The helicopter took off and narrowly escaped the Frost Vark as it lunged towards them while Shaw noticed a glowing hole in the Earth as they flew away. During the trip, Shaw checked May's bag, only to discover that the Frost Vark destroyed the laptop by freezing it. When the helicopter landed, the group was met by Tim, Duvall, and a group of armed guards. "Parallels and Interiors"
May, Cate, Kentaro, and Shaw were subsequently detained in separate cells at Monarch's Alaskan command post. Determining that the Randas knew nothing of Monarch, the agents opted to release the kids, allowing them to continue their search for answers while keeping a close eye on them. Tim subsequently dropped Cate, Kentaro, and May off at Nome Airport, handing them new passports and other travel essentials while apologizing for their ordeal, only to be scoffed at. Using reverse psychology, he sternly warned them to return to their old lives, as he wouldn't be able to help if they endangered themselves again. Cate wanted to search Hiroshi's office in San Francisco and correctly guessed that May had a copy of the Monarch files saved in the cloud before telling her they were in too much danger to split up now. The trio arrived at Oakland International Airport, with nearby San Francisco still lying in ruins. They were picked up in a large van by James, a work friend of Cate's mother, Caroline. He brought them to FEMA housing in Alameda Point, confirming along the way that there used to be tours of the devastation in San Francisco before the military cordoned the city off. Upon arrival, May and Kentaro attempted to go on a walk so Cate could ease Caroline into her discoveries about Hiroshi, though they found themselves face-to-face with her just before Cate blurted out Kentaro's full name; Caroline was rattled but attempted to be hospitable. She explained that she and James worked to recover clients' personal items from San Francisco. When her façade started to crack and she became increasingly uncomfortable with Kentaro's presence, Cate ushered May and Kentaro into her room so she could discuss the revelations concerning Hiroshi with her mother. May and Kentaro overheard the discussion in which Caroline voiced her worry for Cate, who was left traumatized after her encounter with Godzilla on G-Day.
That night, Caroline payed off a guard to avoid having the inside of the truck inspected before releasing Cate, May, and Kentaro in a secluded area. Looking at the wreckage, Kentaro asked how anyone could believe G-Day was a hoax, to which Cate responded that for some people, it was easier than accepting this devastation could happen to them too. Caroline and James left them with supplies, warning them to avoid being caught and to be back by morning. Cate experienced multiple flashbacks to G-Day as she walked through the ruins of her neighborhood, narrowly escaping a military patrol. Hoping to ease Cate's distress, Kentaro had her reminisce about their father along the way, though another patrol soon spotted them and chased them into a BART station, where Cate's flashbacks started to get the better of her. While exploring underground, they reached a dead end, which caused Cate to begin panicking; May helped her control her breathing, soothing her while Kentaro located a way out and led them to the surface. They soon made it to the Transamerica Pyramid and located of Hiroshi's office. Kentaro hoped to find a safe behind a map on the wall as they did in Tokyo, but found nothing. Looking at the map itself, Cate realized the lines drawn on it were not satellite paths, but something else. Browsing Bill's files on May's tablet, she located a similar map. Drawing on the theme of projected images from his first art installation, Kentaro copied the points on Bill's map to a piece of paper, then poked holes in it and held it up against the rising sun, where the light revealed locations of interest on Hiroshi's map. Cate identified dots aligning with Alaska and San Francisco while May located another in Africa: their next destination if they are to follow the path Hiroshi took. They left with the map and returned to the van just before daybreak, with Kentaro revealing he was feeling optimistic about the future. "The Way Out"
Later, while debating their next steps, Cate, Kentaro, and May entered Caroline's house and were shocked to find Shaw, who escaped Monarch custody with help from Duvall, who was also present. Shaw expressed his belief that the Titan event Hiroshi was trying to stop would be much worse than G-Day if it was allowed to transpire and thus needed to find him. The trio reluctantly teamed up with Shaw and Duvall despite their reservations of the latter, even as Shaw vouched for her.
Shaw, Cate, May, Kentaro, and Duvall travelled to the Algerian Desert and met with sympathetic Monarch agents at an outpost. Cate expressed wariness of their involvement with the "movement" Shaw was starting within Monarch and merely wanted to find Hiroshi. Shaw gave them the option to leave, but warned that the consequences of not catching up to Hiroshi and helping him could result in millions dead; Kentaro was eager to go, at which point Cate relented. They ventured further into the desert to the point on their map. Kentaro then spotted Hiroshi in the distance with a strange device. The Randas and Shaw were overjoyed to see Hiroshi was alive and well, only for Shaw to realize that Hiroshi was trying to tell them to run moments before fleeing in his truck, driving off in the opposite direction. Just as a Monarch helicopter closed in on the group, the ground beneath the group's feet gave way as Godzilla emerged from the Earth, sending them tumbling off a hill. After recovering, the lot found themselves face-to-face with Godzilla as he opened his eyes, seeming to focus on Cate in particular. The Titan rose to his feet, causing the Monarch helicopter to crash before stomping away.
In the aftermath, Shaw reported that no one survived the helicopter crash and urged the group to leave quickly so they can determine where Godzilla was headed before Monarch, taking the map from Cate. Cate believed stopping Godzilla was impossible, but Shaw explained that he was actually trying to help the Titan. He promised them all the answers they wanted, but Cate, May, and finally Kentaro decided to part ways with them to continue looking for Hiroshi. Shaw left them supplies to last until they reached civilization. As they walked, Kentaro and Cate debated over Hiroshi's actions, with Cate optimistically believing there could be any number of reasons why he drove away. When Kentaro questioned their next steps without the map Shaw took, Cate pointed to May having backups, at which point May guiltily admitted that she made a deal with Duvall to secure her own freedom, explaining how they were able to find their location in Alameda Point. May attempted to explain herself, revealing that she had been on the run for years and had money saved to cover their travel expenses, but Cate, feeling betrayed, refused to accept it and stormed off. "Terrifying Miracles"
At the airport in Tindouf, while speaking to Cate, Kentaro expressed his frustrations that Hiroshi left them once again. Cate soon realized May had been gone for an unusually long time and went to search for her to no avail. Cate and Kentaro then witnessed the battered and shaken Tim arrive, the sole survivor of the helicopter crash, at which point he was promptly accosted by Cate, who demanded to know what happened to May. Tim did not know what she was talking about, unaware that May had disappeared before being shocked to learn that the kids saw Hiroshi in the desert before Godzilla's emergence, confirming he was alive. At Cate's mention of a machine Hiroshi had with him, Tim theorized that he was trying to prevent the next G-Day. Cate proposed an exchange: if Monarch helped them find May, they would help the organization locate Shaw. As Tim updated his superior, Natalia Verdugo, Kentaro pulled Cate aside, believing they should cut their losses and avoid any further involvement with Monarch, though he relented when she dared him to say he did not care about what happened to May.
After assuring Cate and Kentaro that Monarch would help them, Tim raved about Hiroshi's brilliance as a Monarch agent, having known him well and sharing details that helped the Randa kids trust Tim. As they planned their next steps in locating May, Tim clarified that Monarch learned May was not her real name during a background check; her name was actually Corah Mateo. Cate, Kentaro, and Tim ventured to May's former residence in Tacoma. As they still didn't know why May was in hiding, Tim advised the Randas not to tell her family the truth. He instead pretended they knew May through an online manga group and decided to stop by her home while they were in town. Lyra, May's sister, was skeptical of their story, while May's mother divulged that she hadn't been home in two years. They left dissatisfied, but Tim was convinced Lyra wasn't telling them something, especially when she immediately left in her car. They tailed her into Seattle, but lost her in a parking garage until she ambushed them, brandishing a tire iron and asking if they were with "the company." Kentaro calmed her down and got her to explain that May was on the run from the company she worked for, Applied Experimental Technologies, after her sabotage of the company cost them millions. The group assured her they would find May.
Tim called in a favor to access local CCTV footage which revealed May entered AET headquarters several hours prior. At Cate's suggestion, Tim orchestrated an unauthorized test of Monarch's new warning system. Seattle citizens received alerts of an impending Titan attack on their phones, sending the city into a panic and allowing the group to infiltrate AET headquarters. By the time they found May, her former boss, Brenda Holland, intercepted the trio and explained that the company's dispute with May had been settled. May surprisingly told them to leave, though they knew May was still in trouble. As the trio exited AET, Monarch agents suddenly ushered them into a van to find a waiting Verdugo, who reprimanded Tim for using the Titan alert while he updated her on May's situation. Cate offered her help in dealing with Shaw in exchange for securing May's freedom. Monarch subsequently secured a deal with AET, which rebranded itself as Apex Cybernetics; though the details of the arrangement were not made public, May was freed and later rejoined Cate and Kentaro to see their adventure through. "Will the Real May Please Stand Up?"
To uphold their end of the deal, the Randas and May were brought to Monarch's headquarters by Tim, who steered them through Monarch's cluttered hallways. Cate wondered why there were no portraits of the other Randas on the walls, to which Tim replied that their family's legacy was complicated, detailing Bill's increasingly outlandish theories after Keiko's death in 1959. He led them to the control room, where they learned more about gamma ray bursts from outposts all around the world, which were caused by Shaw after he destroyed the rift in Alaska with his team of rogue Monarch agents; Verdugo needed to find him urgently before he caused more chaos, as he was seeking to close all known rifts to the Titans' realm. Tim, May, Cate, and Kentaro combed through various files in Tim's office, hoping to find something that would help them determine where Shaw was headed next. To his dismay, Kentaro found one revealing that Hiroshi was working on a software update for a "Geosynchronous Titan Anomaly Sensing System" on his 18th birthday. After Cate found a document on Keiko's death written by Shaw, Tim revealed that she died in Kazakhstan, which they deduced to be Shaw's next destination given how much Keiko meant to him, believing he wanted to make amends for losing her by closing the rift there. Knowing they were her best chance at talking Shaw down, Verdugo granted them a small team. They traveled to the nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, finding evidence that Shaw and his forces were there. They discovered the vortex in the heart of the plant with charges set around it, only for Shaw's forces, including Duvall, to surround them at gunpoint. Shaw appeared and agreed to speak to Cate alone. Later, Shaw started the countdown for the charges, at which point the earth began to shake. As the facility began collapsing, May, Cate, and Shaw fell into the portal in the chaos before the charges detonated. Kentaro and the others were thrown back by the explosion, with Kentaro being heavily injured and knocked out. "Birthright"
Kentaro was moved to a Tokyo hospital, where Tim and Verdugo visited him upon awakening. They confirmed that the rift had been sealed; Cate, May, and Shaw were all presumed dead. An anguished Kentaro voiced his intent to find his sister and friends, and though Tim was sympathetic, Verdugo told him his time in Monarch's world was over before the Monarch agents departed, at which point he reunited with Emiko. Kentaro returned home on crutches, though Emiko's efforts to talk about his office job only upset him, too consumed with guilt over losing Cate and May to think about moving on to the point of saying he should have joined them in the portal. Emiko encouraged him to ignore Verdugo's pronouncement and find another way to them. Kentaro next went to Hiroshi's Tokyo office to search for anything that could help. While there, Hiroshi unexpectedly arrived, though his son was less than enthused to see him given that he made no efforts to reach out to them after the incident in the desert to see if they had survived. Hiroshi explained that something went wrong in the desert and asked how they found him, with Kentaro simply telling him that they had been searching for him after having been led to believe he died. Kentaro then tearfully revealed that Cate died in their search for answers, having fallen into a rift. Hiroshi refused to believe it until finally collapsing in grief while Kentaro angrily blamed him for setting into motion the events that led to her death with his double life. "Axis Mundi"
Later, Hiroshi finally disclosed the details of his mission, telling Kentaro that he had become fixated on proving the existence of the Hollow Earth to vindicate his parents, whose integral contributions to Monarch had long been dismissed. He went to the desert to draw out a Titan in the hopes of opening a rift, although he didn't know it would specifically be Godzilla. He detailed his belief that if Monarch put more faith into Keiko and Bill's work, then G-Day and Cate's death may have been prevented; concerned for the fate of humanity, he became determined to learn how Titans and humans could coexist, finally divulging why the weight of his work had consumed him. He asked for Kentaro's help, but after being unable to explain his double life at Kentaro's urging, Kentaro opted to leave instead. On another day, Kentaro was present as Hiroshi retrieved his belongings from his Tokyo apartment, where Emiko told him that no matter what he did to her, Kentaro deserved a relationship with his father. Tim later located Kentaro at a bar, where they compared leg injuries before Tim revealed the purpose of his trip and shared that Monarch detected a gamma ray signal coming from one of the Hollow Earth portals, which Tim came to believe was from Cate, May, and Shaw. He believed that Hiroshi may be able to tell them what it meant. Kentaro brought Tim to Hiroshi's office where Tim showed Kentaro's father printouts of the signal. Hiroshi was skeptical, fearful of getting his hopes up, but Kentaro offered to help him with his research, but Kentaro offered to help him with his research if Hiroshi helped him find his sister first. After Hiroshi pointed out that Monarch wouldn't help them, Tim revealed he resigned from Monarch, but their former organization wasn't the only one with the resources they need.
In the following years, Hiroshi, Kentaro, and Tim began working with Apex Cybernetics to secure funding and resources for their work. In 2017, Hiroshi was present at Apex's facility on Skull Island when a Monarch capsule used by Shaw in Operation Hourglass returned to the surface. There, Kentaro reunited with Cate and May, sharing hugs with them before revealing they had been gone for two years. He also met a third unexpected guest: his grandmother Keiko, who had not aged due to time dilation. To her, she had only been gone for a matter of weeks rather than over half a century on the surface world. The Randa family reunion was cut short when sirens began to blare as they were ushered into the facility due to an approaching Titan: Kong, the ruler of Skull Island. "Beyond Logic"
Comics
- Monarch: The Lost Adventures (2026)
Family tree
| Hiroshi's father | Keiko Randa | Bill Randa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caroline Randa | Hiroshi Randa | Emiko Randa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cate Randa | Kentaro Randa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trivia
- According to a plaque at his art exhibition seen in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode 4, Kentaro was born in Tokyo in 1990 and graduated from Musashino Art University in 2012.
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