How would I write Animal in Japanese when it refers to the Muppet's character Animal


I am creating a present for a Japanese Taiko drummer. He is my teacher and is
celebrating his birthday tomorrow.

The present will be the [Muppet character
Animal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_\(Muppet\)) sitting at a shime
daiko, his bachi at the ready. I would like to add a kanji to those bachi to
mark them as Animal's.

A taiko drummer considers his/her bachi as an extension of themselves. They
mark their bachi (drum sticks) with a kanji representing their name. This is a
solemn act by which they put their own soul into the bachi.

I have googled for the translation and have been swamped with a lot of
alternatives and can't make out which one would be best for me to use given
the above scenario. Considering the symbolic nature of marking the bachi, I'd
rather leave them unmarked than make a mistake.

Questions:

  * which translation for animal would best fit the Muppet character Animal?
  * which kanji from that translation would you use if you could only use a single character?




I'm not sure that you're looking for a _translation_ of "animal". I think
you're looking for Animal's Japanese name. If he did have a localized name
that was in fact written in kanji, then you could use that. But that does not
appear to be the case. It appears that his Japanese name is simply his name
transliterated. On a few different sites, I saw his name written as アニマル.
[This](http://ja.disney.wikia.com/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%EF%BC%89)
Fandom wiki page has アニマル:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8izv.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8izv.png)

So if you want to brand his bachi with his **name** , then I would suggest
アニマル.




I'm not sure that you're looking for a _translation_ of "animal". I think
you're looking for Animal's Japanese name. If he did have a localized name
that was in fact written in kanji, then you could use that. But that does not
appear to be the case. It appears that his Japanese name is simply his name
transliterated. On a few different sites, I saw his name written as アニマル.
[This](http://ja.disney.wikia.com/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%EF%BC%89)
Fandom wiki page has アニマル:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8izv.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8izv.png)

So if you want to brand his bachi with his **name** , then I would suggest
アニマル.

