It was revealed today that Kinnikuman Perfect Origin-Hen (Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc / Kinnikuman Perfect Chо̄jin/Superhuman Origin Arc), an anime series that celebrates the debut of the original anime in April 1983, will premiere on July 7, 2024 with an episode 0 that will be a summary of what happened previously. By streaming it will premiere on Netflix July 8th.
Kinnikuman Perfect Origin-Hen will be shown in a new programming block “Agaru Anime”, which will be shown every Sunday at 11:30 pm with the theme of introducing anime from Nagoya to the rest of Japan and the world. This programming block began in April 2024 with the anime series As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World.
The animation is from the studio Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East), directed by Akira Satothe argument is Makoto Fukami and the character design is Hirotaka Marufuji.
Mamoru Miyano will play Kinnikuman and Akira Kamiya will lend her voice to Mayumi Kinniku and Prince Kamehame. Kamiya was the original voice of Kinnikuman in previous anime adaptations.
The duo Yudetamago made this your original wrestling manga Kinnikuman return as a free online manga in 2011. The creators returned to the first story of Kinnikuman 1979 and continued where they last left the story in 1987.
The original manga inspired several anime series and films. Yudetamago previously published a one-shot manga Kinnikuman in Shueisha’s Grand Jump magazine in 2015, and then published a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump for the first time in 11 years in June 2019. The manga’s 81st volume has just been published in Japan.
