Kinnikuman/Characters

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Note: Use this page for characters first appearing in Kinnikuman. If it involves something these characters did in Kinnikuman Nisei, please put it here rather than creating an entry on that page.

Seigi Choujin/Idol Choujin/Justice Choujin

Kinnikuman AKA Prince (later King) Kinniku Suguru (King Muscle in US)

"I won't even need the push from my farts!"

Voiced by: Akira Kamiya (original series), Toshio Furukawa (Nisei), Eric Stuart (dub)

"Why does this always happen to me? Dammit!"

  • Charlie Brown From Outta Town: Channelman
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When not fighting, he's an idiot who farts around all day (literally!) and can't even tie his shoes. In the ring, Kinnikumanis a master tactician, a Determinator, and a nearly-unstoppable powerhouse.
  • Dented Iron: Becomes this in the sequel. All of those years of performing those explosive moves did not fare well for his body in the intervening years, whether he wants to admit it or not.

Bibinba: "Look at you now! All those battles left you with bad knees, herniated discs, not to mention poor eyesight and hemorrhoids! King Muscle? More like King Gristle!"

  • Determinator: His Burning Inner Strength essentially requires him to be one.
  • Distaff Counterpart: Has one in the form of Kinnikuman Lady. As mentioned on the main page, it could be considered a subversion, as Lady Kin is much nicer than Kinnikuman and unlike Kin she's not a total idiot; just spacey at some times.
  • Expressive Mask: So much so that it was years before it was revealed he was even wearing a mask.
  • Facial Markings: Technically it's on his mask, but the kanji 肉 (niku), meaning "meat" (and part of kinniku, meaning "muscle"), is on his forehead.
  • Fartillery: Not only would he use farts as a weapon, he would also use them to fly.
    • Bring My Brown Pants: His bowels would break down so frequently that at one point Meat was considering bringing extra underwear for him.
  • Finishing Move: Kinniku Beam (during the monster-hunting days), Kinniku Buster, Kinniku Driver, and the Muscle Spark.
  • Five Moves of Doom: The FuuRinKaZan, four moves chained together.
  • Gonk: Played with, as originally his bald, ugly mask passed as his real face, and his body was nowhere as fit. Then we start to get hints that his true face could be way different than his mask and the final volume reveals that Kin's real face is very gentle and very handsome.
  • Henpecked Husband: In the sequel.
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Human Aliens: So much so that Suguru didn't believe he was an alien.
  • Idiot Hero: Back when Goku didn't exist in media, Kinnikuman was the biggest example.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Moeru Champion Kinnikuman" (Burning Champion Kinnikuman)
  • Japanese Pronouns: Ore, but he occasionally uses boku.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Normally a bumbling coward, when he finally decides to fight he gives it his all.
  • Lovable Coward: Initially. Probably the first thing that would click to someone about him was how willing he was to run away from any villain that looked threatening.
  • Meaningful Name: "Kinniku" means "muscle."
  • Parental Abandonment: Was confused for a pig when his family was visiting Earth and was thrown out with the trash.
  • Power-Up Food: Garlic in the early days allowed him to grow to kaiju size, gave him super strength, and enabled his fart attacks, among other things.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: In fact, he hates his royal duties.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": In Japanese the name Kinniku is written as キン肉 rather than the two kanji that make the word "muscle" (筋肉).
  • Underwear of Power: Usually only wore trunks and boots in and out of the ring.
  • Weak but Skilled: In Nisei he shows that he can still pull off submission moves at his age. He even pulled off the Choujin Kousatsu Kei against Mantarou.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Kin just can't stand milk.
    • Justified in that milk can reduce the effect of herbs and spices (specifically the burning sensation). Since Suguru was powered by garlic in those days, the milk canceled the garlic out.

Alexandria Meat

"Supporting the Justice Choujin...that's my life!"

Voiced by: Minori Matsushima(original series), Konami Yoshida(Nisei), Mike Pollock(Ultimate Muscle dub)

King Kinniku Mayumi (Grandpa in US)

Terryman

"Come to think of it, I've heard of this..."

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (original series, Nisei), Ted Lewis (dub)

Robin Mask

Voiced by: Daisuke Gouri(original series, Nisei), Dan Green (Ultimate Muscle dub)

Ramenman

"Fool! 10,000 years of Chinese history no lose to 300 years of Gyudon history!"

Voiced by: Eiji Kanie[1], Masaharu Satou[2], Banjo Ginga[3](original series), Kenichi Ono Nisei, Marc Thompsondub

"Noodles are people, people are noodles!"

Canadianman (Manitoban in US)

Specialman

Brocken Jr.

"My father was a dirty fighter and got what he deserved, but I still cannot forgive you!"

Voiced by: Tetsuo Mizutori(original series), Kawazu Yasuhiko(Nisei), Wayne Grayson (dub)

  • Adaptation Dye Job: His green uniform was turned black for the anime. Also, his skin was made white (or really pale).
  • The Alcoholic: In the intervening time between Nisei and the original series, he becomes this.
  • Avenging the Villain: His main reason of entering the 21st Choujin Olympics was to avenge his father's death at the hands of Ramenman.
  • Badass Abnormal: See Charles Atlas Superpower.
  • Banned in France: The fact that Brocken Jr. was a good Nazi kept the show from airing in France.
    • 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.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: A really weird subversion. In the Throne Arc it was revealed that the Brocken family are born as humans and then are subjected to extremely harsh training. Once they make it through the training alive, they are given a skull insignia that gives them the power to become Choujin.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Yes, he wears a Nazi uniform, but just look at the way the guy acts throughout the series and just try to say that he displays Nazi-like behavior.
  • Finishing Move: Berurin no Akai Ame/The Red Rain of Berlin (renamed The Red Rain Of Pain in US)
    • Burokken no Kikan/Brocken's Repatriation - Like the Red Rain of Berlin, only now Brocken has a blade appear in his leg. Developed as a result of the Timey-Wimey Ball.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: It's the same name as his finishing move.
  • Informed Ability: An early chapter had listed him as an up and coming power in the Choujin world. The thing is that he never had much wins (or battles) to prove this claim.
  • Kill It with Fire: In the sequel, he states that his Finishing Move is incomplete and that Jade's version of the move (which is to also have your hand be engulfed in flames as well as having a blade protrude from your hand) is the true version.
  • Memento MacGuffin: The skull insignia on his cap is a reminder for the harsh training he endured as a youth.
  • The Obi-Wan: To Jade
  • Putting on the Reich
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Brocken or Blocken? Japanese media has used both when spelling his name in English.
  • Those Wacky Nazis: Completely subverted. Brocken Jr. dresses like a Nazi, but doesn't hold any of their beliefs.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: In the latest story arc he lost his hand in a fight in the past. Now in the present he has a hook for a hand, which in turn rewrote how he trained Jade.
  • Training from Hell: Has used the exact expression when referring to how he trained Jade.
  • Weak but Skilled

Warsman

"Ko~Ho~..."

Voiced by: Ryoichi Tanaka [5] and Hideyuki Hori [6] (original series), Hideyuki Tanaka (Nisei), Maddie Blaustein (dub)

Geronimo (Beetlebomb in US)

"Urara~!"

Voiced by: Kaneto Shiozawa (original series), Ohba Mahito (Nisei), Eric Stuart (dub)

Wolfman (Rikishiman in the anime; Sosumi in US)

"DOSUKOI!"

Voiced by: Masashi Hirose, Daisuke Gouri (episodes 98 & 100), Yasuhiko Kawazu (Scramble for the Throne), Yuki Sato(Nisei), Dan Green (dub)

  • Death Is Cheap: Has died three times throughout the series.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: He originally despised Kin before he was beaten by him in their match in the 21st Choujin Olympics.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Pulled one to bring Kinnikuman back to life in the Golden Mask arc.
  • Hypocritical Humor/Irony: In his big introduction before the 21st Choujin Olympics, he said that he's the real "Muscleman" and that Kinnikuman should change his name to Flabbyman. Seeing as Wolfman is a sumo-wrestling Choujin, you can guess why this trope is listed.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes have no pupils...for some reason. In the anime they're also yellow.
  • Shout-Out: The name Wolfman references sumo wrestler Mitsugu "Wolf" Chiyonofuji.
  • Worf Effect: Forget Canadianman, he got hit with this trope the hardest.

Chairman Harabote Muscle (Vance McMadd in US)

  • Facial Markings: In the original anime only, has the kanji 委 (i) on his forehead. The character is part of 委員長 (iinchou), meaning "committee chairman."
  • Fridge Brilliance: Constantly trying to belittle the protagonists because he doesn't like them and trying to find new people for Japan to recognize as their heroes? Sounds like a perfect candidate for having their name changed to be a parody of Vince McMahon.
  • Jerkass
  • Money, Dear Boy: His primary motivation for reviving the Choujin Olympics.
  • Mythology Gag: In the US manga: "I'm Vance McMadd, dammit!"
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His attempt to replace Mantarou and his friends for slacking off on superhero duty did much more harm than good considering that one of the replacements was an Evil Choujin in disguise.
  • The Rival: The entire Kinniku family, but especially Mayumi.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Again, Mayumi.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: He's always berating Suguru and Mantarou despite the fact that they've saved the world multiple times.

American Choujin World

Prince Kamehame (Prince Lou Ow in US)

Jesse/Jessie Maivia

  • Crippling Overspecialization: He can reverse any move with ease. Pulling off his own moves...not so much. In fact, it lead to his defeat when Maivia attempts to go on the offensive against Kinnikuman.
  • Expy: Of "High Chief" Peter Maivia (Grandfather of The Rock)

Doros Phlears

  • Da Chief: To the Choujin in the World Choujin Association.
  • Expy: stated to be a parody of Lord Blears on the Kinnikuman Wiki.

Skull Bozu

  • The Dragon: Technically, he works for Sheik Seijin. Actually, he's the main villain of the American Tour arc.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Even his boss is frightened at Skull's plans.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Can grow spikes all over his body, except his head.

Sheik Seijin

Devil Magician

Beauty Rhodes

  • Expy: Of "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Worf Effect: Dispite his title as World Choujin Council Champion, he gets beaten pretty quickly by Kinnikuman, and then Skull Bozu.

Edith Harrison

God von Elric

Jean/John Steamboard

  • Blind Idiot Translation/Gratuitous English: His name in Japanese is spelled ジャンヌ (Jannu). This makes no sense, since Jean or John can be spelled with ジャン (Jan). It's possible his name was supposed to be Johnny Steamboard (which better fits the Ricky Steamboat reference), in which case his name should have been spelled ジャンニ (Janni).
  • Expy: Of Ricky Steamboat
  • Heel Face Turn

Brutal Choujin

Kinkotsuman (Skullduggery in US)

  • Abusive Parent: Played depressingly straight. In Nisei, it was revealed that whenever Kinkotsuman wasn't watching the Justice Choujin fight again the villains of the arc, he was venting his frustrations at his failures on his son, Bone Cold (who was very timid at this time). Said way to vent was to put Bone Cold through harsh training.
    • Be Careful What You Wish For: The training ensured that Bone Cold became a competent fighter, but it also made him into a borderline Complete Monster, not to mention that he hated Kinkotsuman with every fibre of his being.
      • The Atoner: He feels very guilty of what he did and tries to make amends, but Bone tells him it's a little late to do that.
  • Big Bad Wannabe
  • Dem Bones: To Kinnikuman's muscles.
  • Evil Counterpart: As much as a villain as Kinnikuman was a hero.
  • Facial Markings: Has the kanji 骨 (kotsu), meaning "bone," on his forehead.
  • Finishing Move: He had none in the actual series, but in the video games he had the Shooting Lucky Strike, which was just to simply shoot the opponent with a blade, much like his son's finisher.
  • Fridge Horror: Kinkotsuman stopped appearing in the manga from the end of the Seven Devil Choujin arc. Since the theory in the Abusive Parent entry has been made canon, one must really wonder just how much training could he have put Bone Cold through. It also makes you wonder how worse than regular training could it be since the methods of regular training for all Choujin in the world of Nisei qualify for Training from Hell.
  • Jerkass Woobie: It's really hard to not feel sorry for the guy. He was probably the only person in the entire series not to get stronger, he's a laughingstock among supervillains, even with the fact that he abused his kid and with the fact that he treated Iwao like crap is cancelled out by the fact that he's filled to the brim with guilt for doing those things.
  • Mad Scientist: Has created a plethora of gadgets to use against Kinnikuman, as well as the Black Shadow robot.
  • Meaningful Name: "Kinkotsu" means "bone and sinew," or, roughly, "skin and bones," the opposite of kinniku.
  • Secretly Royalty: It's easy to forget that he's a prince just like Kinnikuman.
  • Villain Decay / Villain Forgot to Level Grind: started out fairly menacing, but as Kinnikuman and the series got more serious, he, well, didn't.

Iwao

  • Servile Snarker: Being Kinkotsuman's sidekick doesn't stop him from making an occasion jab at his boss.

Seven Devil Choujin

Stecase King

  • Ditto Fighter
  • Finishing Move: Thanks to being a Ditto Fighter he can use the finishing move of anyone he's taped. His own finishers are Hell's Symphony and Symphony of the Devil. He created the latter on the spot in his fight against Kinnikuman, after he realized that Kin's mask acted as a sound barrier.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Marui Kasetto Dai Henshin".
  • It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": His name is a portmanteau of stereo and cassette, so use those words as a pronunciation guide. Alternatively, one could think of his name as Stécasé.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ultimately loses his fight when he uses a tape of Kinnikuman...from three years prior, mainly, his Hero with Bad Publicity days.
  • Loud of War: His own finishers are definitely this.
  • "Wake-Up Call" Boss: He was the weakest of the Devil Choujin but he still gave Kinnikuman a run for his money.

Black Hole

  • Cosmic Abomination: The guy can create black holes.
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy: In his fight, he knew better than to go easy on Kinnikuman because he's winning, due to being an avid reader of the manga. For a non-Fourth Wall Breaking example in that same fight, he convinced Kinnikuman that he had given him an advantage by making sure that the ring was surrounded by a solar panel. In reality, it was Black Hole who had the advantage because the light from the sun would allow him to manipulate the shadows formed.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin:

"So why do have a hole in my face?
Read my name, Black Hole!"

Mr. Khamen

  • Finishing Move: "Mummy Package", probably the most disturbing finisher in the whole series.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Takes a bite out of Brocken Jr's shoulder, and later tries to suck out his innards.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Farao no Noroi" ("The Pharaoh's Curse")

The Mountain

  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's a mountain peak with arms and legs.
  • Finishing Move: "Mountain Drop", which is...just a body slam. But hey, who needs flashiness when you're literally a mountain?
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Jigoku no Sanmyaku" ("Mountains from Hell")
  • Mighty Glacier: Well, with a name like The Mountain, what did you expect?
  • It Only Works Once: Invokes this when Brocken Jr and Geronimo try to use Mongolman's spirit world door to help the Muscle Bros. fight the Devil Choujin spirits Sunshine and Ashuraman summon, similar to what happened during the Kinnikuman-Atlantis match. Mountain kicks them both out.

Atlantis

  • Finishing Move: Atlantis Driver.
  • High-Pressure Blood: His "Mount St. Helen's Eruption". It involves grabbing the opponent and drawing all the blood out of them from their wounds, in a way similar to how Mount St. Helens erupts.
  • Making a Splash: He can control water, no matter what form it's in. He's basically the original Waterbender.

Springman

Buffaloman

  • Awesomeness By Analysis: Developed a counter for the Kinniku Buster before his match with Kinnikuman.
  • Badass Spaniard: He is born from Spain and his Image Song even has Spanish motifs as well.
  • Bald of Evil / Bald of Awesome: Don't let the hair fool you...that's a wig.
  • Deal with the Devil: Literally.
  • Finishing Move: Hurricane Mixer, Choujin Cross Slam
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: One of the strangest plays on the trope ever.
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Akuma no Mougyuu" ("Devil Buffalo"). Oddly enough, this is still his Image Song after his Heel Face Turn.
  • Jerkass Woobie: His backstory was already sad enough with the fact that he was a good guy who made a Deal with the Devil just to get more power in order to win matches for a change, but when he tries to Heel Face Turn it gets even worse, because after being killed by The Devil himself for failing to kill Kinnikuman and subsequently revived, he wants to help Kinnikuman and company but he's understandably too scared to oppose Akuma Shogun and the Devil Knights. Then the Throne Arc makes it worse, because the reason why he participated was in order to make sure that the true successor got to the throne, in order to prevent Kin's family from ending up like his: A clan whose members constantly started wars with each other until there were very few survivors.
  • Unskilled but Strong: His schtick before his turn. He believed that enough power can overturn any technique.

Devil Knights

Sneagator (Shocodile in US)

  • Evil Old Folks: In Nisei. He's the one that taught MAXman everything he knew in regards to transforming.
    • That was his son, Sneagator Jr., using a book of techniques written by Sneagator.
  • Generation Xerox: Played with. His son, Sneagator Jr., looks just like his humanoid reptile form, but was weak and sickly. His grandson, MAXman (The Pumpinator), looks pretty much like a normal human and only turns into a shoe.
  • Meaningful Name: Yes, he is a sneaker-alligator hybrid. Who wears sneakers. And can transform into one.
  • Taking You with Me: Tries to do this after Kinnikuman kills him. He succeeds, but it's eventually all for naught thanks to Wolfman's Heroic Sacrifice.

Planetman

Junkman

The Ninja (Ninja Ned in US)

Sunshine

Ashuraman (Shivano in US)

  • Adaptation Dye Job: Had a standard skin tone in the anime.
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: He's the son of the demon world's royal family.
  • Evil Laugh/Signature Laugh: Ka~ ka ka ka ka!
  • Finishing Move: All variations of the Ashura Buster and the Izuna Drop.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Ashura no Jigoku" ("Ashura Hell")
  • Jerkass Woobie: He was forced to be a Complete Monster by his parents (which pretty much killed any chance of him having a friend), but when it comes down to it, he just doesn't have it in him. The Dream Choujin Tag Team arc shows just how alone he is because of his high status in the Demon World, when Sunshine acknowledged him as a friend and he proceeds to break down in tears: that's the first person to consider him as a friend in his entire life.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: It's a shame that he had to be raised by parents like his...

Akuma Shogun (Rogue Shogun in US)

Perfect Choujin

Screw Kid

  • Finishing Move: Four Point Screw Torture, Jigoku no Nejimawashi/Hell's Screwdriver is his Tag finisher with Kendaman.
  • Image Song/Leitmotif: "Kyoufu no Kaiten Drill" ("The Dreaded Spinning Drill")
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His basic style. Kendaman adds his weight for increased pain.
  • This Is a Drill: This is his entire "thing": even his Image Song revolves around this.
  • Villainous Breakdown: He gets scared shitless once he and Kendaman lose to Mongolman and Buffaloman, due to the fact that losing a match as a Perfect Choujin is equivalent to the death penalty.

Kendaman (Mace in US)

Neptuneman

Big The Budo (Big Budo in US)

Five Fated Princes

Kinnikuman Mariposa

Kinnikuman Big Body

  • Curb Stomp Battle: Super Phoenix beat him and his team in about 15 minutes.
  • Memetic Mutation: Fans joke that his Sacred Throne room is just to gallantly step into the ring (Muscle Step), due to it being the only thing he managed to do in his battle against Super Phoenix.
  • Token Good Teammate: he's the only one of the Five Fated Princes who didn't want to usurp Kinnikuman's throne.

Kinnikuman Zebra

  • Extremity Extremist: Averted. Despite specializing in boxing, he does have more attacks than punches.
  • Finishing Move: Muscle Inferno, Saint Muscle Punch
  • "Friend or Idol?" Decision: Was told that he could enter the Choujin world if he killed his childhood friend (and only friend), Zebra Kid.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Yes, he was cruel. Yes, he was selfish. But there's a reason why he's quoted on the TearJerker page.
  • Money, Dear Boy: He even paid his teammates to fight for him.
  • Start of Darkness: Stopped believing in friendship after he chose to kill Zebra Kid and started believing that money was the only thing one needed to get by.

Kinnikuman Soldier

  • Killed Offscreen: Subverted. Ataru injured him offscreen, but he died during the Super Phoenix - Soldier match

Kinnikuman Super Phoenix

  • Driven by Envy
  • Fan Nickname: Super Douchebag.
  • Finishing Move: Raging Ox and Muscle Revenger. Also Zebra's Muscle Inferno thanks to the God Of Flight giving him power.
  • Jerkass Woobie: The man may be a Jerkass, but you can't deny that you'd be as jealous of Kinnikuman as he is if you grew up completely poor and alone as he did, and you couldn't do anything to elevate your status.
  • Kick the Dog: He worked pretty hard to get his Fan Nickname. First he shows off in his match against Big Body by telling Mammothman to mess up on purpose and double KO Cannonballer so he can curbstomp Big Body himself, then he tries to kill both Kinnikuman and Kinnikuman Soldier in one go by using the collapsing ring, starts burning the pages of the Muscle Prophecy that were related to Ataru, then he Insults Ataru for running away from home after killing him, starts burning the pages of the Muscle Prophecy regarding the roles of members in Kinnikuman's team and his own team, Hannibal Lectures Kinnikuman that he doesn't deserve to be the heir to the throne or have a nice girlfriend like Bibinba because he's not smart like he is and ultimately tries to kill Kin by using the Muscle Revenger on one of the iron posts supporting the ring.
  • Noble Demon: In a rare moment of nobility, he stalls the out of ring 20-count in order for Kin to save Bibinba.
  • The Resenter
  • Villainous Breakdown: In the anime, his mother shows up ringside in the final to convince him to stop fighting because she's 100% sure that he's not the heir, said that the only reason he could use the face flash is because she bathed him in the royal baths of the Kinniku clan and finally says that she only told him about the hospital mix-up in order to cheer him up because he was so depressed about being poor. He handles it as well as you'd expect him to handle it.

Hawkman

Mr. VTR

Mixer Tate

  • Defeating the Undefeatable: He's the second person to defeat Kinnikuman, but his victory is undercut by the fact that the Five Evil Gods helped him remove Kinnikuman's Burning Inner Strength, and Mr. VTR had to alter reality to get him out of a Kinniku Driver.

King 100 Ton

Pinchman

Golemman

Leopardon

  • Curb Stomp Battle: The minute he enters the ring, Mammothman impales him with Nose Fencing.

Cannonballer

Manriki

Motorman

Bikeman

Parthenon

  • Face Heel Turn: Can force this upon other people. Any Choujin who steps into his shadow becomes more Heel than Face.

Mammothman

Satan Cross

Prismman

Omegaman

  • Gone Horribly Right: He channels Kamehame's ghost in order to defeat Kinnikuman's techniques, which Kamehame taught. However, he doesn't count on the channeling working too well...and helps Kinnikuman by teaching him his 52 submissions.

Perfect Large Numbers

Max Radial

Turboman

Crushman

Dalmatiman

Marvelous

Polarman

Jack Tea

Peek-a-Boo

Nemesis

Grim Reaper

Perfect Origin

Goldman

See: Akuma Shogun

Silverman

  • Killed Offscreen: His death (Along with Goldman's first) dates back to before the creation of Justice and Devil Choujin.

Mirageman

Abyssman

Painman

Thingman

Ganman

Justiceman

Psychoman

The Man


Others

Kazuo Nakano

Mari Nikaido

  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She never was officially Put on a Bus in the original series, but in Nisei, she said that she left Japan to study overseas because she felt overshadowed by Bibinba.
  • Composite Character: She got a lot of Bibinba's characteristics from the manga in the anime (because the latter never even appeared in the anime until the very end), as well as her own characteristics from the manga.
  • Hot Teacher: Was a kindergarten teacher.
  • Shallow Love Interest
  • Tsundere: Type B. She seems to be a patient and sweet girl, but she's got quite a fast temper when provoked.

Natsuko Shouno

Horumon Bibinba

  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Why she fell for Kinnikuman.
  • Character Development: It's interesting how time has treated Bibinba. Before the original series was completed, there was absolutely nothing that Kin could do to make her reconsider becoming his wife - she was the one girl that the Casanova Wannabe couldn't disgust. In fact, Bibinba was probably the person that respected him the most as she addressed him as "Suguru-sama".Now, in Nisei, we see that 28 years of putting up with Suguru's bad habits and constantly having to remind him that he's not the Kinnikuman that he used to be have clearly worn her out, but she still shows that she loves him, with or without muscles.
  • Chickification: Parodied.
  • Hot Amazon
  • Modest Royalty: It's easy to forget that she's the princess of the Horumon tribe.

Kinniku Ataru / Kinnikuman Soldier II

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  1. ↑ eps. 7~110 and movies 1-4, TV special
  2. ↑ eps. 120 and 125
  3. ↑ eps. 130~137 and movies 5-7
  4. ↑ Literally Fight!! Ramenman and a success in of itself
  5. ↑ eps. 47-58 and TV Special
  6. ↑ eps. 59~ and all movies
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