Kinnikuman

キン肉マン Manga

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Format MANGA
Status Releasing
Start date May 15, 1979
Average score 71/100
Popularity 2438
Favorites 113
Genres Action
Comedy
Sports

Tags

Wrestling 94%
Centers around the sport of wrestling.
Martial Arts 85%
Centers around the use of traditional hand-to-hand combat.
Shounen 79%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
Super Power 73%
Prominently features characters with special abilities that allow them to do what would normally be physically or logically impossible.
Aliens 70%
Prominently features extraterrestrial lifeforms.
Primarily Male Cast 70%
Main cast is mostly composed of male characters.
Meta 60%
Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
Surreal Comedy 60%
Prominently features comedic moments that defy casual reasoning, resulting in illogical events.
Parody 60%
Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
Slapstick 60%
Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
Primarily Adult Cast 60%
Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
Superhero 60%
Prominently features super-powered humans who aim to serve the greater good.
Gods 50%
Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
Kaiju 50%
Prominently features giant monsters.
Travel 40%
Centers around character(s) moving between places a significant distance apart.
Space 40%
Partly or completely set in outer space.
Disability 20%
A work that features one or more characters with a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with, or limits the person's ability to engage in certain tasks or actions.

Sinopse

Kinnikuman (a.k.a. Kinniku Suguru) is a cowardly, clumsy, moronic, gyuudon-devouring excuse for a superhero (or Choujin)... who just happens to be the prince of an alien planet. But despite his pathetic appearance, he is very honorable and can become quite powerful when he needs to be. With his sidekick Meat-kun and fellow Choujins Terryman and Ramenman there to help him, Suguru quests to become the greatest Choujin on the planet. Whether with a combination of tremendous heart and stamina (The Burning Inner Strength) or the "Power of Friendship", Kinnikuman frequently defeats villians 10 times more powerful than him and often causes his enemies to have a change of heart and join him. Though he seems destined to be an idiot forever, slowly but surely Kinnikuman becomes worthy of the title "Hero".

Notes:
- Between volumes 36 and 37 publication there's 22 years gap. From volume 38 onwards starts restarted in 2011 version.
- Kinnikuman won the 30th Shogakukan Manga Award for best children's manga in 1984.