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REVIEW: Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc Season 2 Anime Series Review




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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 12:25 pm Reply with quote
I can’t get into this anime. There needs to be a dub.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 11:41 pm Reply with quote
I thought it was cool how the Seigi Chojin got the spotlight in this arc (barring Buffalo Man and Springman's fight) and their repeated attempts to avoid the Perfect Chojin killing each other (to dubious success).

Also kind of surreal how Kinnikuman, the protagonist, basically sat out this season on the bench even if he did own being a motivational force for several fights.

I'm surprised they haven't announced the next season considering how much of a non-ending that was.
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EmeraldSaucer



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:27 am Reply with quote
Still enjoying this because of the strength of the source material, but it's kinda sad how much a step down most episodes this season were animation-wise compared to the last season. And my biggest fear came true, where they couldn't find a good stopping point and so the season just kind of ends on a cliffhanger that may work when looking at the arc thematically but isn't very exciting
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:16 am Reply with quote
Way better booking than WWE’s Wrestlemania build this year, so please make more. And a dub? Please?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:00 am Reply with quote
Beatdigga wrote:
Way better booking than WWE’s Wrestlemania build this year, so please make more. And a dub? Please?



unfortunately anything west orienated end in disaster. remember the god awful dub version of eyeshield 21!?

that, and combined with the dub version of kinnikuman that showed decades ago aka ultimate muscle will more or less guarantee that the latter series will NEVER get an eng dub version. or at the very least a respectable one!
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MushroomMan674



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:11 am Reply with quote
jr240483 wrote:
that, and combined with the dub version of kinnikuman that showed decades ago aka ultimate muscle will more or less guarantee that the latter series will NEVER get an eng dub version. or at the very least a respectable one!


Not sure what an ill-fated dub of an alternate-universe anime from 20+ years ago has to do with Kinnikuman POA not getting a dub now.
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Lord Geo



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:56 am Reply with quote
MushroomMan674 wrote:
Not sure what an ill-fated dub of an alternate-universe anime from 20+ years ago has to do with Kinnikuman POA not getting a dub now.


The Ultimate Muscle anime dub wasn't "ill-fated" in any way, and I have no idea where this idea that gets repeated came from. After all, it was so successful that 4Kids literally hired Toei to make an additional 26 episodes so that the Chojin Olympics could be adapted.

Now, the Ultimate Muscle manga release by Viz was ill-fated.
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