The anime will premiere in July
The production team of the anime Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Hen (Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc, or literally Kinnikuman Perfect Chо̄jin/Superhuman Origin Arc) revealed on Sunday that the anime has cast Hiroshi Kamiya, Tomokazu Sugita and Shinichirō Ōta.
Kamiya plays Ashuraman, the strongest and most fearsome of the Six Demon Knights.
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Sugita plays Neptuneman, who inherits the mask from King Neptune as his apprentice
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© Yudetamago/Shueisha, Kinnikuman Production Committee
Ōta voices the announcer.
They join previously announced cast members:
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The TV anime will premiere in July. This arc is named after the 2011 manga revival arc of the same name.
Mamoru Miyano plays Kinnikuman and Akira Kamiya plays both Mayumi Kinniku and Prince Kamehame. Kamiya is the original voice of Kinnikuman in previous anime adaptations.
Akira Sato (Release the Spyce) is directing the anime at Production IG. Makoto Fukami (Psycho-Pass, 2016 Berserk) is in charge of the series script. Hirotaka Marufuji (Lupine the 3rd Part 6) is designing the characters. Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippūden) is composing the music.
The new anime series celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original television anime that premiered in April 1983.
The manga author duo known as Yudetamago continued their original Kinnikuman wrestling manga as a free web manga in 2011. The creators returned to the first Kinnikuman storyline in 1979 and continued where they left the story for the last time in 1987. The original manga has inspired various film and television anime series. Yudetamago previously published the Kinnikuman one-shot manga in Shueisha's Grand Jump magazine in 2015, then published the one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump for the first time in 11 years in June 2019. The second compilation volume 84 of the manga was published in Japan on March 29.
Toy figurines of Kinnikuman were imported to the United States under the “MUSCLE” label in the 1980s. Viz Media later released the sequel Kinnikuman Nisei-Second Generations manga by Takashi Shimada and Yoshinori Nakai in North America titled Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy, and 4Kids Entertainment aired the anime television adaptation.
Source: Press release, Mainichi Mantan Web
by Shimbun