Still waiting on scans on the main series which was forgotten about a few months ago now.
Kinnikuman
Evan Watson
Parker Gutierrez
Also the sequel is being translated again recently. More you read the sequel the more you just have a bitter taste in your mouth though, like it isn't the same feeling at all, this isn't how Kinnikuman should feel. Justice chojin hold Olympic games to refine their skills so they can be better heroes for the general public, and so the best chojin can be crowned, and it results in like 90% of them being killed because they're all just mass killing each other without any qualms during the Olympics. That doesn't feel like how Justice chojin should act. They preach about how they're for justice in the sequel while constantly showing the exact opposite.
Its like if you read the sequel and you're a fan of Kinnikuman, you just feel disgust kinda. Its like the author was in a lot darker place with how the heroes constantly act.
Ryder Garcia
In the original when Robin Mask got very brutal at the end of the first Chojin Olympics, almost killed Kinnikuman, the crowd was so shocked that even he realized he went too far and wasn't a hero. Heroes don't kill in friendly competitions like that, they only kill bad guys.
Also the sequel constantly harps on "Kevin you gotta torture and kill Mantaro to reclaim the title of greatest chojin which was wrongfully stolen from Robin mask by the wicked and evil Kinniku family, KILL him, KILL him, rip his mask off, your father was cheated in the past, your father was ripped off by the Kinniku family", and its Warsman saying this.
Robin Mask wasn't cheated, he was an arrogant twat, it took him losing three times before his arrogance finally faded and he finally gained the humility of a hero. One of the best things the sequel did was Robin acknowleding he was a twat in the past, he was nothing but shameful after losing to Kinnikuman, until he joined the justice chojin to help save Meat-kun. Its only after being humbled that he finally gained the heart of a justice chojin for real.
Carson Davis
The Choushin are a bunch of jobbers. I hope it's gotten better since then. The Perfect Origin Arc is still the best.
Jack Ross
Fuck this looks vaguely familiar what the fuck is it
Joshua Jones
Based Kinnikuchad. I haven't followed the series in the last 10 years. Some day I'll catch up.
Jacob Cook
I remember watching like 10 episodes of this years ago and it was mostly a gag series about a shitty hero that used his farts to fly and dumb looking monsters
It seems a lot changed
Jacob Wood
Yeah I read Nisei right after Kinnikuman and it felt weird with how some characters acted
I enjoyed the Perfect origin arc a lot, Blackhole was crazy, all the old badguys / side jobbers coming back to get screen time is really fun
Austin Jones
And im over here using google lense on my porn phone and struggling
So fuck herculesfactory for not translating, they did easily the best work and double fuck machineguns for being quitters and cry babies
Nolan Diaz
>ten years
Then you missed the entire continuation series, which picked up right where the original series ended. Like a good version of Dragonball Super.
It actually fixes a lot of the lore issues from the old series in a natural way.
Carson Cooper
Couple guys never got their redemption
Like Specialman, the guy who literally never had a real fight. Even Canadaman finally got his moment.
Jaxon Cruz
>and it was mostly a gag series about a shitty hero that used his farts to fly and dumb looking monsters
People that watched the Americanized cartoon, a lot was changed in the dub. People that watched "Ultimate Muscle" have a very very vague idea what this series actually is.
Kinnikuman was always one of the hardest shounen stories in a way. Characters die left and right, very bloody battles, and they come back to life constantly as long as it seems cool at the time, death is a literal revolving door. Some characters have died like four or five times easily. Its a wrestling show where anything can happen as long as its cool.
Liam Ross
Perfect Origin were a perfect villain group, each one of them seemed entirely competent, each one of them was classic, you believed that their abilities really were perfect, they were ready for anything, and the heroes only beat each of them through friendship power or some sort of last second power up.
Painman felt like one of the stronger ones ironically who died first because he got fucked over. Just like Crowman, those were some of the cooler ones who died because they were too willing to see what modern day chojin could achieve.
Sebastian Edwards
This. Machinegus are so fucking inconsistent, and Planetman is a fucking schizo who let himself be bullied by anons.
Josiah Robinson
I want to get into kinnikuman but I've really struggled to get through the beginning, is it worth it to try and push through or if i don't enjoy the beginning is it not worth it?
Henry Ramirez
You can skip to the choujin olympics honestly
Ryder Cook
Its funny how Nisei and 2011 are such perfect examples of how not to do a sequel and how to do a sequel respectively. Its like if Yudetamago came up with Nisei as a big hypothetical of "this is what we would do if we were hacks, now here's the actual sequel that rules," except someone didn't get the memo and was publishing Nisei the whole time
Jeremiah Scott
Gets good by about ch100, and each arc beyond that gets better and better.
But you should still read an arc or two before that point.
Eli Harris
I don't know which translator always insists that akuma shogun should always be translated as "general devil"(which makes him sound like a devil you can find just anywhere), but it's honestly stupid
William Lewis
Low point was in the time travel arc the author said kinnikumqn cheated on all of his matches all along. He was so jaded when he wrote the sequel series.
Justin Reed
Is the new one good?