Initial run May 28, 1979 – May 4, 1987 Continued run November 28, 2011 – present
Volumes
84 (List of volumes)
Further information
Manga
Tatakae!! Ramenman
Written by
Yudetamago
Published by
Shueisha
Magazine
Fresh Jump
Demographic
Shōnen
Original run
1982 – 1988
Volumes
12
Anime television series
Directed by
Yasuo Yamayoshi
Takenori Kawada
Tetsuo Imazawa
Written by
Haruya Yamazaki
Kenji Terada
Music by
Shinsuke Kazato[note 1]
Studio
Toei Animation
Original network
Nippon TV
Original run
April 3, 1983 – October 1, 1986
Episodes
137 (285 segments) (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Tatakae!! Ramenman
Directed by
Masayuki Akehi
Produced by
Masahisa Saeki
Music by
Keiichi Oku
Studio
Toei Animation
Original network
Nippon TV
Original run
January 10, 1988 – September 11, 1988
Episodes
35
Anime film
Tatakae!! Ramenman
Directed by
Masayuki Akehi
Music by
Keiichi Oku
Studio
Toei Animation
Released
July 9, 1988
Runtime
25 minutes
Anime television series
Kinnikuman: Kinniku-sei Ōi Sōdatsu-hen
Directed by
Takeshi Shirato
Atsutoshi Umezawa
Music by
Akihiko Yoshida
Studio
Toei Animation
Original network
Nippon TV
Original run
October 6, 1991 – September 27, 1992
Episodes
46 (List of episodes)
Manga
Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy
(JP: Kinnikuman II Sei)
Written by
Yudetamago
Published by
Shueisha
English publisher
NA:Viz Media
Magazine
Weekly Playboy
Demographic
Seinen
Original run
April 1998 – April 2004
Volumes
29
Manga
Kinnikuman II Sei: All Chōjin Dai-Shingeki
Written by
Yudetamago
Published by
Shueisha
Magazine
V Jump
Demographic
Shōnen
Original run
May 21, 2001 – March 20, 2007
Volumes
4
Anime television series
Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy
(JP: Kinnikuman II Sei)
Directed by
Toshiaki Komura
Studio
Toei Animation
Licensed by
NA:Discotek Media
Original network
TV Tokyo
English network
AUS:Cartoon Network
CA:YTV
UK:
Toonami
Kix
US:FoxBox
Original run
January 9, 2002 – December 25, 2002
Episodes
51 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy
(JP: Kinnikuman II Sei: Ultimate Muscle)
Directed by
Toshiaki Komura
Studio
Toei Animation
Licensed by
NA:Discotek Media
Original network
TV Tokyo
English network
AUS:Cartoon Network
CA:YTV
UK:
Toonami
Kix
US:FoxBox
Original run
April 7, 2004 – March 29, 2006
Episodes
26 (List of episodes)
Manga
Kinnikuman II Sei: Kyūkyoku no Chōjin Tag-hen
Written by
Yudetamago
Published by
Shueisha
Magazine
Weekly Playboy
Demographic
Seinen
Original run
2004 – 2011
Volumes
28
Manga
Kinnikuman Lady
Written by
Masashi Ogawa
Published by
Shueisha
Magazine
Ultra Jump Egg (formerly)
Ultra Jump
Demographic
Seinen
Original run
June 2008 – June 19, 2013
Volumes
3
Anime television series
Kinnikuman Kanpeki Chо̄jin Shiso-hen
Directed by
Akira Sato
Written by
Makoto Fukami
Music by
Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio
Production I.G
Original network
CBC, TBS (Agaru Anime)
Original run
July 2024 – scheduled
Related media
List of Kinnikuman films
Kinnikuman (キン肉マン, lit. transl. "Muscle Man"[3]) is a Japanese manga series created by the duo Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada, known as Yudetamago. It follows Suguru Kinniku, a superhero who must win a wrestling tournament to retain the title of prince of Planet Kinniku. Nakai and Takashi planned the series when they were attending high school originally as a parody to Ultraman.
The manga was originally published in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1979 to 1987, and was first adapted by Toei Animation into a 137-episode anime series broadcast on Nippon Television from 1983 to 1986. It restarted publication in 2011 in Shueisha's web magazine Shū Play News, and has spawned spin-off manga and anime series, video games, anime films, and several Kinnikuman-related merchandise.
There is also a sequel, the Kinnikuman: The 2nd Generation (キン肉マンII世, Kinnikuman II Sei, known as Ultimate Muscle outside Japan) manga that was serialized in Weekly Playboy between 1998 and 2004. It was published in North America by Viz Media under the title of Ultimate Muscle. It was also adapted into three different television series, all of which were broadcast on TV Tokyo in Japan and released in North America by 4Kids Entertainment.
Kinnikuman is one of the best-selling manga series in Japan, selling over 77 million copies by 2021. As popular as was the anime series and its merchandise, such as Kinkeshi, a line of action figures released as M.U.S.C.L.E. in North America. It received the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga[note 2] in 1984.
A new anime television series adaptation produced by Production I.G, based on the 2011 revival manga and celebrating the 40th anniversary of the original anime television series, is set to premiere in July 2024 on CBC and TBS' programming block Agaru Anime [ja].
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