History Trivia / Kinnikuman

* AllStarCast: While the OG anime was nothing to sneeze at given how many legendary Japanese voice actors were in the cast, the 2024 ''Perfect Origin Arc'' anime is packed with some of the top voice actors in Japan including: Creator/MamoruMiyano, Creator/SumireUesaka, Creator/YukiKaji, Creator/HirokiYasumoto, Creator/DaisukeOno, Creator/HiroyukiYoshino, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/HiroshiKamiya, Creator/TomokazuSugita, Creator/TetsuyaKakihara, Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi, Creator/KishowTaniyama and of course, the legendary Creator/AkiraKamiya and Creator/ToshioFurukawa.

* AllStarCast: While the OG anime was nothing to sneeze at given how many legendary Japanese voice actors were in the cast, the 2024 ''Perfect Origin Arc'' anime is packed with some of the top voice actors in Japan including: Creator/MamoruMiyano, Creator/SumireUesaka, Creator/YukiKaji, Creator/HirokiYasumoto, Creator/DaisukeOno, Creator/HiroyukiYoshino, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/HiroshiKamiya, Creator/TomokazuSugita, Creator/TetsuyaKakihara, Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi, Creator/KishowTaniyama and of course, the legendary Creator/AkiraKamiya and Creator/ToshioFrukawa.

** The American Tour Arc was supposed to be longer, with Kinnikuman taking on various wrestlers around the world, but was changed to just America due to the arc being unpopular.

** Perfect Origin Arc anime will be full of this, as many of the principal cast of the original anime have either passed away or has long since retired. Notably, Kinnikuman himself will be voiced by Creator/MamoruMiyano, succeeding Creator/AkiraKamiya

* PredecessorCastingGag: The 2024 anime adaptation of Perfect Origin Arc sees Akira Kamiya, the original voice of Kinnikuman himself, playing not just the character's father Mayumi, but also his mentor Prince Kamehame.

*** There ARE ones who use the original sit-down version, but they're exceedingly rare due to the stress on both the victim's neck and the attacker's tailbone. Kinnikuman doesn't have this problem because, you know, he's superhuman and he's really trying to beat the other guy up.

** The US arc depicts three separate wrestling territories, namely the World Superman Council (WSC), World Supermen Federation (WSF), and World Supermen Association (WSA) battling for supremacy as the top territory in the States. This was published just as Wrestling/VinceMcMahon took control of the then-[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] and started competing with the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance and Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation. Indeed, the WSC was a New York-based territory, just as the WWF was prior to the 80s. What's surprising is at that point, the WSC is seen as controlling one-half of the country. By the end of the arc, however, their power is broken... [[FailedFutureForecast which didn't age well, to say the least.]]
*** As a bonus, a Wrestling/DustyRhodes expy is seen as the WSC's champion. Rhodes would join with the WWF from 1989-1991, but never become their champion.

** The only Latin American country that aired the dub was Chile, the same country where it was dubbed. For some unexplained reason, Toei never sold the series to other channels in the region.

* PredecessorCastingGag: The 2024 anime adaptation of Perfect Origin Arc sees Akira Kamiya, the original voice of Kinnikuman himself, playing not just the character;s father Mayumi, but also his mentor Prince Kamehame.

* UnfinishedDub: The Latin American dub only lasted 52 episode before being cancelled. Apparently, this was a decission made by Toei, which is suprising beacuse the show got good raitings on Chile, there country where it was aired. To this day, fans are still asking Toei to dub the rest of the series and the sequel series "Scramble For The Throne".

** The American Tour Arc was supposed to be longer, with Kinnikuman taking on various wrestlers around the world, but was changed to just America due to the arc being unpopular.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://kinnikuman.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Kinnikuman Wiki]].

* AmericansHateTingle: The series is absolutely massive in Japan, but is considered a cult classic at best in the West. [[ThoseWackyNazis Perhaps it has to do with Brocken Jr.?]] If anything it was a simple matter of timing. By the time of the anime boom in America Kinnikuman had ended nearly a decade earlier, plus its successor as THE shonen series, Dragon Ball Z had already caught on. Somewhat ironically, the sequel series Kinnikuman Nisei [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff did better in the West than in Japan.]]

** The US arc depicts three separate wrestling territories, namely the World Superman Council (WSC), World Supermen Federation (WSF), and World Supermen Association (WSA) battling for supremacy as the top territory in the States. This was just as Wrestling/VinceMcMahon took control of the then-[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] and started competing with the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance and Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation. Indeed, the WSC is seen as a New York territory, just as the WWF was prior to the 80s. What's surprising is at that point, the WSC is seen as controlling one-half of the country. By the end of the arc, however, their power is broken... [[FailedFutureForecast which didn't age well, to say the least.]]

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Kinniku Buster is used as a finishing move by Wrestling/SamoaJoe, although he falls back to make it more like a suplex rather than dropping straight down to avoid breaking his opponent's neck (or worse) in real life.
** There ARE ones who use the original sit-down version, but they're exceedingly rare due to the stress on both the victim's neck and the attacker's tailbone. Kinnikuman doesn't have this problem because, you know, he's superhuman and he's really trying to beat the other guy up.

* NamesTheSame:
** Marvelous is not related to [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger a certain heroic pirate.]]
** Springman [[VideoGame/{{ARMS}} is not a boxer with stretchy arms]]. Explicitly pointed out by Creator/MasahiroSakurai when he announced that Min Min from that other Spring Man's source material would be joining the roster of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', who noted that Google searches for "spring man" in Japan will pull up "[[WritingAroundTrademarks a certain character from a certain manga]]" first.

** As revealed on the back cover, the main character of the series appears alongside the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' and ''Manga/DrSlump''

* [[BannedInChina Banned In France]]: Not so much because the character Brocken Jr. [[PuttingOnTheReich dressed like a Nazi]], but because he was also a hero; a paradox too great to swallow. When the figures were brought to the US as ''M.U.S.C.L.E.'', Brockenman's and Brocken Jr.'s were removed from the lineup.

* FanNickname: Super Phoenix is known as Super Douchebag.
** The Five Fated Princes in general are often referred to as just by their epithets, such as calling Kinnikuman Super Phoenix, "Super Phoenix" or just "Phoenix", and Kinnikuman Big Body "Big Body".