Today it was announced that Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Shiso-hen (“Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Founder Story”), the anime series that will celebrate the debut of the original anime in April 1983, will premiere in 2024.
It was also revealed that the animation is from the Production IG studio (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East), the direction is by Akira Satothe argument is Makoto Fukami and the character design is by Hirotaka Marufuji.
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.
