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Aka: Galactic Wrestling Featuring Ultimate Muscle
Developer(s): Syn Sophia / Year: 2004 / Platforms: Playstation 2, PSP / Genre: Wrestling
Play Goal: win a wrestling match of your choice / Beat Goal: N/A / 100% Goal: Unlock all wrestlers, play Mask Hunt Mode at least once, collect all toys
Kinnikuman seems to be a very forgotten face in the anime community, for its this funny looking fellow that was the original Shonen Jump idiot hero! Without Kinnikuman and his wrestling antics you wouldn't have Dragon Ball, One Piece or any of that cool stuff! The Kinnikuman series did very well at mixing some amazing comedy and high intensity wrestling action for the 80s, with a huge roster of all sorts of strange and amazing characters such as Ramenman, Buffaloman, Sunshine and Ashuraman.
Then over 20 years later the sequel to the legendary series, Kinnikuman Nisei, better known to American audiences as Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy hit the bookshelves and airwaves. In Japan it was a massive failure as an anime, but in America where the infamous 4kids Entertainment dubbed it? It was a smash hit! For once in their miserable careers their dubbing shticks of funny names, toilet humor and a hurricane's worth of bad puns actually IMPROVED the show! In fact it improved the anime so much they even PAID to give the series 26 more episodes to give it a proper finale after it ended in Japan after 51 episodes, at the end of a filler arc before the real conclusion.
So by all logic a wrestling anime of this caliber spanning two generations and over 25 years at the time HAD to have come up with one of the greatest wrestling games ever made right? Well yes, actually it came out with 3 games revolving around the sequel series, one for the GameCube, one for the PS2 and one for the PSP. The GameCube and PS2 games made it over to America and are often considered the greatest wrestling video games ever made. Personally I prefer Galactic Wrestling over the Gamecube's Legends Vs. New Generations, mainly for its roster of more obscure characters such as Neptuneman and Black Hole. Sure it lacked the story mode and Chojin creator the GameCube game had, but even so I consider it a superior expansion of an already great game, similar to how Sonic 3 and Knuckles is superior to Sonic 3.
The game itself has relatively easy to master controls and combinations so that anybody can play even if they've never handled a fighting game before. Not quite Smash Brothers Melee, but almost to that level. And just like Melee you even get to collect your own trophies in the form of the old M.U.S.C.L.E. figures from the 80s! There are at least 1000 to collect so this will keep you preoccupied for some time to come. And with that I'll leave you with Kid Muscle's signature Cow and Rice song:
With my rice I like to have some cow, cow, cow
It tastes so very good, I don't know how, how, how
It's my favorite form of chow, chow, chow
Oooooooowww, EAT NOW!
ITADAKI-MUSURU!
Kinnikuman and the games are owned by Shonen Jump, Yudetamago and Bandai.
Regulas314

I just watched some of the old kinnikuman shoe and its great!

Hell yeah! Got any episode suggestions for reveiws?

Well, unless you have a preference, friend, some episodes that were especially good were the DMP Nightmares story Arc, the Generation X story arc, the Gruesome Threesome story arc, and any and all of the Choujin Crown episodes.(BTW, I hope I haven't suggested too many! )

Love how you gush about how awesome the series is, both the original series, the crazy-enough-to-work 4Kids dub, as well as the game adaptations (going as far as mentioning people calling the game adaptations the best wrestling games ever)..

MAN! I loved that anime when I saw it on the Fox Box!

'Would you call that a move or a movement?'
AND THAT SONG!

I love Kinnikuman Its one of My favorite animes of all times.
The squeal series well not as good the first series its still good series.
The 4kids Dud Was good. This is one of 4kids better dubs next There dub of POKEMON and Yugioh

Also the game is good. Its very fun to watch
Also whats your favorite opening in kinnkiuman

So Who's your favorite character to play in the game

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I got the GameCube vision.
I watched the episodes on Youtube, and some people were commenting on how the show made fun of the censored stuff on the show. Like how Meat's dad doesn't die, but only gets his hip broken.

Yeah, it's not perfect, but still it's hillarious.

i rememebr liking ultimate muscle it was a bizare anime

Very bizarre, the perfect anime for a guy like me!

i see
although no anime is as wierd as space dandy

yeah there ius that aswell
but does bobobo have a whole ep about a fish planet NO NO IT DOSENT XDDD

Basically, Ultimate Muscle is the most underrated anime of all time?

In a manner of speaking, yes. Both Ultimate Muscle and Kinnikuman are criminally underrated.

And 4Kids, of all companies, made it better.
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That is a really weird sentence, and that's coming from someone who can tolerate 4kids' dubbing (except for One Piece and Mew Mew Power).
This sounds like a perfect anime to do Admirable Animations on.

Indeed it does, and indeed I shall! Would you believe there's a wrestler who has a literal ASS for a head!?

No, in fact he was PROMOTED in some commercials! They kept every instance of Mataro crapping and wetting his pants as well.

I wonder what happened to 4Kids over the years that made them so censor-crazy compared to what happened with Ultimate Muscle.
It may also explain why their dubs of Kirby of the Stars and the even more obscure Fighting Foodons were 4kids' best 'foots' forward.

They also made Pokemon worse when they went into overdrive come Hoenn. Hoenn is among Pokemon's best, but their dubbing sucked there. I mean come on, they flat out made rice balls, SANDWHICHES!