Niku means Meat, Kinniku means Muscle. Back before the manga was about wrestling and was an Ultraman parody where Kinnikuman fought Kaiju, he ate Garlic to power himself up, because Garlic is Ninniku in Japanese. Japan loves some good word play and puns.
They'd didn't translate all of them but here were the other epithets of the Large Numbers: Strong the Budo: Perfect Warrior Dalmatiman: Perfect Fang Turboman: Perfect Finish Crushman: Perfect Hand Marlinman: Perfect Spear Peek-A-Boo: Perfect Fright And Max Radial: Perfect Shredder
Fun fact: The imagery of the end credits are all based on the cover volumes of the OG manga run since Perfect Origin Arc is and onwards arcs is technically a sequel series. The covers are from volume 1 to 36. As it transitions, you can see the pages of the manga as it switches to the next cover art. I found that pretty neat and nostalgia for long-time Kinnikuman fans and to show the new fans how many adventures Kinnikuman endured up until point. It's like how Dragon Ball does it in so many of their outros.
A little note is that while characters have outright power levels, this is generally something that only provides an advantage in an outright strength vs strength contest. Technique always wins and it's happened where a super strong fighter got his butt handed to him by a weaker opponent who just had better skills. On that Note, Kinnikuman is unique as his bloodline has a special trait known as the "Burning Inner Strength". For brief moments, Kinnikuman can actually add his opponents power level on top of his own, being able to dramatically overpower opponents who are normally much stronger than him in order to deliver a finishing blow. On top of THAT, Suguru Kinnikuman trained with Prince Kamehame. Kamehame taught Kinnikuman 48 "sure kill" techniques and eventually, 52 "perfect holds". The Kinniku Buster is one of the 48 techniques. Finally, Kinnikuman's supreme technique is the Muscle Spark. The Kinniku family had a mural of 3 legendary techniques; Muscle Inferno, Muscle Revenger, and Muscle Spark, but it was lost as to how to perform them, only vague positions of two fighters. Though the Throne ARC, Kinnikuman started having premonitions and visions of the techniques and eventually he mastered one of them, the Muscle Spark The first time he was able to use it in combination with his Burning Inner Strength was against Kinnikuman Super Phoenix. This allowed him to win the Throne ARC and become the 58th king. Also, Kinnikuman knows his friends extremely well. If he is watching Terryman fight and it looks like Terryman is gonna die, but Kinnikuman says "Nah bro, he's gonna win.", trust in Kinnikuman.
Perfect shredder is his alias. His name is Max Radial. And he is pretty cool. Also the ED of the anime kinda gives you a glimps of all the characters of the original show and is pretty fire
Power levels. Another thing this series did before dragonball. Even a device that detects them and blows up when the readings are off the charts. Coincidence i think not. But the stitch is they gave it lore and had a proto hunter x hunter way of countering bigger power levels via mathematical formulation whereas dragonballs approach was x has bigger power levels than y but y is hiding his true power therefor power levels are stupid. But they both did so with their ultimate attack being focused on their right hand....coincidence? So its easy to see why the latter was more digestible to a wider audience especially for western audiences not familiar with battle shonen. Plus it's toriyamas art we're talking about even with minimal use of shading
8:12 The three shadowy figures in this scene are returning characters from earlier in the story who also appeared in episode 0. From left to right in this shot they are Ashuraman, Akuma Shogun, and Sunshine. These three have a lot of lore but I'll try and simplify things. Around 1,000,000 BCE, Akuma Shogun originally was an immortal, godlike Chojin named Goldman who valued strength above all else. He lived on Earth alongside his brother, another immortal and godlike chojin named Silverman who was a pacifist who valued justice. Despite being on good terms for thousands of years, the brothers' opposing ideologies lead to them eventually coming to blows in a legendary duel, which ended with the evenly matched brothers decapitating each other simultaneously. Their severed heads became the Golden Mask and Silver Mask, artifacts which contained their souls and possessed numerous supernatural properties. Satan contacted Goldman's soul and brainwashed him into becoming an evil nihilist, turning him into Akuma Shogun. Now an intangible soul controlling a demonic suit of armor, Akuma Shogun became Satan's right hand man and the leader of the Devil Chojin. In the 1980s Akuma Shogun invaded the Earth alongside his Devil Chojin subordinates, and they nearly won using unfair Satanic spells, but Silverman's soul from within the Silver Mask intervened and set up a tournament between Satan's forces and Idol Chojin with the lives of every Justice Chojin on Earth hanging in the balance. Watching the Justice Chojin's struggle made Akuma Shogun remember the heroic parts of his personality that Satan had suppressed, and after being defeated, Akuma Shogun was separated from Satan's influence completely and became the Golden Mask once again. With the loss of Goldman and the defeat of most of his subordinates, Satan had to put his ambitions of destroying the concepts of friendship and justice on hiatus since he himself can't directly interact with the physical world. A pair of demons hailing from the Demonic World, Ashuraman and Sunshine were two members of Akuma Shogun and Satan's direct subordinates, the 6 Devil Knights. Ashuraman is the six-armed prince of the demon world while his tag team partner Sunshine is a shapeshifting being made of sand. They survived their matches during Akuma Shogun's invasion and continued to act on their own to antagonize the Justice Chojin long after that event, even while Satan was nowhere to be seen. Ironically, as they worked together to destroy the Justice Chojin's friendship, they realized they themselves were very close friends with each other. When a common enemy appeared, they would end up becoming unlikely allies of the Idol Chojin, and Ashuraman appeared in episode 1 when he signed the three factions peace agreement on behalf of the Devil Chojin.
so, in the world of Kinnikuman, in every match you can have a second in your corner, pretty much like an UFC coach team to help the fighters with strategies and advice and etc, Meat was Kinnikuman's coach through his whole career and even became his son's coach in the sequel series, Ultimate muscle, so he is a analytical genius with huge IQ, but Terryman doesn't give a F** lmao and also, hey, if you haven't seen the opening and the ending, give them a reaction too, it's not spoilery in the slightest don't worry, more like an introduction to the anime for new viewers
Thanks for the reaction and long live the muscle 💪🏻 , you can do a reaction to the opening and ending they don't have real spoilers of this arc and the ending is beautiful to watch ( greetings from Argentina 😊)
The guy banging on the door is kinnikumans father who's voice is the original voice of kinnikuman from the first two anime series.
Niku means Meat, Kinniku means Muscle.
Back before the manga was about wrestling and was an Ultraman parody where Kinnikuman fought Kaiju, he ate Garlic to power himself up, because Garlic is Ninniku in Japanese. Japan loves some good word play and puns.
They'd didn't translate all of them but here were the other epithets of the Large Numbers:
Strong the Budo: Perfect Warrior
Dalmatiman: Perfect Fang
Turboman: Perfect Finish
Crushman: Perfect Hand
Marlinman: Perfect Spear
Peek-A-Boo: Perfect Fright
And Max Radial: Perfect Shredder
Fun fact: The imagery of the end credits are all based on the cover volumes of the OG manga run since Perfect Origin Arc is and onwards arcs is technically a sequel series.
The covers are from volume 1 to 36. As it transitions, you can see the pages of the manga as it switches to the next cover art. I found that pretty neat and nostalgia for long-time Kinnikuman fans and to show the new fans how many adventures Kinnikuman endured up until point. It's like how Dragon Ball does it in so many of their outros.
A little note is that while characters have outright power levels, this is generally something that only provides an advantage in an outright strength vs strength contest. Technique always wins and it's happened where a super strong fighter got his butt handed to him by a weaker opponent who just had better skills.
On that Note, Kinnikuman is unique as his bloodline has a special trait known as the "Burning Inner Strength". For brief moments, Kinnikuman can actually add his opponents power level on top of his own, being able to dramatically overpower opponents who are normally much stronger than him in order to deliver a finishing blow.
On top of THAT, Suguru Kinnikuman trained with Prince Kamehame. Kamehame taught Kinnikuman 48 "sure kill" techniques and eventually, 52 "perfect holds". The Kinniku Buster is one of the 48 techniques.
Finally, Kinnikuman's supreme technique is the Muscle Spark. The Kinniku family had a mural of 3 legendary techniques; Muscle Inferno, Muscle Revenger, and Muscle Spark, but it was lost as to how to perform them, only vague positions of two fighters. Though the Throne ARC, Kinnikuman started having premonitions and visions of the techniques and eventually he mastered one of them, the Muscle Spark The first time he was able to use it in combination with his Burning Inner Strength was against Kinnikuman Super Phoenix. This allowed him to win the Throne ARC and become the 58th king.
Also, Kinnikuman knows his friends extremely well. If he is watching Terryman fight and it looks like Terryman is gonna die, but Kinnikuman says "Nah bro, he's gonna win.", trust in Kinnikuman.
Perfect shredder is his alias. His name is Max Radial. And he is pretty cool. Also the ED of the anime kinda gives you a glimps of all the characters of the original show and is pretty fire
Power levels. Another thing this series did before dragonball. Even a device that detects them and blows up when the readings are off the charts. Coincidence i think not. But the stitch is they gave it lore and had a proto hunter x hunter way of countering bigger power levels via mathematical formulation whereas dragonballs approach was x has bigger power levels than y but y is hiding his true power therefor power levels are stupid. But they both did so with their ultimate attack being focused on their right hand....coincidence? So its easy to see why the latter was more digestible to a wider audience especially for western audiences not familiar with battle shonen. Plus it's toriyamas art we're talking about even with minimal use of shading
8:12 The three shadowy figures in this scene are returning characters from earlier in the story who also appeared in episode 0. From left to right in this shot they are Ashuraman, Akuma Shogun, and Sunshine. These three have a lot of lore but I'll try and simplify things.
Around 1,000,000 BCE, Akuma Shogun originally was an immortal, godlike Chojin named Goldman who valued strength above all else. He lived on Earth alongside his brother, another immortal and godlike chojin named Silverman who was a pacifist who valued justice. Despite being on good terms for thousands of years, the brothers' opposing ideologies lead to them eventually coming to blows in a legendary duel, which ended with the evenly matched brothers decapitating each other simultaneously. Their severed heads became the Golden Mask and Silver Mask, artifacts which contained their souls and possessed numerous supernatural properties. Satan contacted Goldman's soul and brainwashed him into becoming an evil nihilist, turning him into Akuma Shogun. Now an intangible soul controlling a demonic suit of armor, Akuma Shogun became Satan's right hand man and the leader of the Devil Chojin. In the 1980s Akuma Shogun invaded the Earth alongside his Devil Chojin subordinates, and they nearly won using unfair Satanic spells, but Silverman's soul from within the Silver Mask intervened and set up a tournament between Satan's forces and Idol Chojin with the lives of every Justice Chojin on Earth hanging in the balance. Watching the Justice Chojin's struggle made Akuma Shogun remember the heroic parts of his personality that Satan had suppressed, and after being defeated, Akuma Shogun was separated from Satan's influence completely and became the Golden Mask once again. With the loss of Goldman and the defeat of most of his subordinates, Satan had to put his ambitions of destroying the concepts of friendship and justice on hiatus since he himself can't directly interact with the physical world.
A pair of demons hailing from the Demonic World, Ashuraman and Sunshine were two members of Akuma Shogun and Satan's direct subordinates, the 6 Devil Knights. Ashuraman is the six-armed prince of the demon world while his tag team partner Sunshine is a shapeshifting being made of sand. They survived their matches during Akuma Shogun's invasion and continued to act on their own to antagonize the Justice Chojin long after that event, even while Satan was nowhere to be seen. Ironically, as they worked together to destroy the Justice Chojin's friendship, they realized they themselves were very close friends with each other. When a common enemy appeared, they would end up becoming unlikely allies of the Idol Chojin, and Ashuraman appeared in episode 1 when he signed the three factions peace agreement on behalf of the Devil Chojin.
Thanks for this ❤️
so, in the world of Kinnikuman, in every match you can have a second in your corner, pretty much like an UFC coach team to help the fighters with strategies and advice and etc, Meat was Kinnikuman's coach through his whole career and even became his son's coach in the sequel series, Ultimate muscle, so he is a analytical genius with huge IQ, but Terryman doesn't give a F** lmao
and also, hey, if you haven't seen the opening and the ending, give them a reaction too, it's not spoilery in the slightest don't worry, more like an introduction to the anime for new viewers
Thanks for this - really helps me to understand more 😊
Thanks for the reaction and long live the muscle 💪🏻 , you can do a reaction to the opening and ending they don't have real spoilers of this arc and the ending is beautiful to watch ( greetings from Argentina 😊)
The blue guy seen in the dark room is Ashuraman who was one of the guys signing the peace treaty, representing the devil chojin
Where’s the Baki reactions
They are coming back don't worry 😊