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KenIchi the Mightiest Disciple (OAV)

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Alternative title:
KenIchi The Mightiest Disciple: The Attack of Darkness
Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi (Japanese)
Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi: Yami no Shūgeki (Japanese)
史上最強の弟子ケンイチ (Japanese)
史上最強の弟子ケンイチ 闇の襲撃 (Japanese)
Plot Summary: Soon after Kenichi's defeat of Ragnarok, the Ryozanpaku masters find out about an aliance between some of their enemies. Now the entire Ryuzanpaku dojo, both it's masters and students, find themselves targets of powerful martial artists. To Kenichi's dismay, this also means his training also becomes a lot harsher. Spurred on by Kenichi's growing strength, the former Ragnarok members also begin to seek to improve their fighting styles.
User Ratings: 154 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:10, dub:1, others:1
1 Persian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 32 votes (sub:31, others:1
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 42 votes (sub:39, dub:3)
 Good: 39 votes (sub:33, dub:1, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 21 votes (sub:18, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 312 users, rank: #2966 (of 9728)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.630 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.4413, rank: #1438 (of 9860)
Weighted mean: 7.569 (Very good−), rank: #1472 (of 9860) (seen all: 7.59 / seen some: 8.66 / won't finish: 4.13)
Bayesian estimate: 7.561 (Very good−), rank: #1194 (of 7401)
Running time: Half Hour per episode
Number of episodes: 11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage:
2012-03-14 to 2014-05-16
2014-04-09 to 2014-06-18 (TV premiere)
Release dates: We have 8
Opening Theme:
"Higher Ground" by Tomokazu Seki [TV broadcast version]
"Wish" by Iori Nomizu (eps 4-11)
#1: "Wish" by Iori Nomizu (eps 4-5) 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Glory Days" by Iori Nomizu (eps 1-3)
#2: "BREATHLESS" by Iori Nomizu (eps 4-11, TV broadcast version eps 1-11)
#2: "Breathless" by Iori Nomizu (eps 4-5) 
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    KenIchi the Mightiest Disciple - The Attack of Darkness (Blu-ray) 2024-05-28 (from $31.89)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori
Script: Eizō Kobayashi
Episode Director:
Harume Kosaka (eps 4-5)
Hiroshi Ishiodori (eps 5, 10-11)
Masahisa Koyata (ep 9)
Mitsutoshi Satō (ep 8)
Shizutaka Sugahara (eps 1-3)
Takafumi Fujii (eps 6-7)
Music: Keiji Inai
Original creator: Shun Matsuena
Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi
Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai
Animation Director:
Hideyuki Motohashi (eps 1-7, 9-11)
Masakazu Kawazoe (ep 8)
Sound Director: Akiyoshi Tanaka
Cgi Director: Kazunori Yahata
Director of Photography: Yorinobu Oda
Animation producer: Tatsuyo Kobayashi
Assistant Director: Shizutaka Sugahara
Color design: Yūko Fukuda
Editing: Yasutaka Ikeda
Music producer: Masakazu Satō
Planning: Masaki Nawata
Sound Effects: Masahiro Shōji
Theme Song Arrangement:
Masahiro ("Wish", "BREATHLESS")
Takaaki Anzai ("Glory Days")
Yōgo Kōno ("Higher Ground")
Theme Song Composition:
Masahiro ("Wish", "BREATHLESS")
Shihori ("Glory Days")
Shota ("Higher Ground")
Theme Song Lyrics:
Shihori ("Glory Days")
Shōko Fujibayashi ("Wish", "BREATHLESS", "Higher Ground")
Theme Song Performance:
Iori Nomizu
Tomokazu Seki
Rie Kugimiya as Miu Furinji
Tomokazu Seki as Kenichi Shirahama

Hiroya Ishimaru as Apachai Hopachai
Issei Futamata as Kensei Ma
Jūrōta Kosugi as Akisame Koetsuji
Mamiko Noto as Shigure Kosaka
Unshō Ishizuka as Shio Sakaki

Akio Ōtsuka as Isshinsai Ogata
Ami Koshimizu as Tsukasa
Aya Hisakawa as Chihiro Takashima
Banjō Ginga as Li Tenmon
Chado Horii as
Student (eps 10-11)
Subordinate (eps 6-7)
Daisuke Namikawa as Shou Kanou
Fukumi Matsumoto as Villager (ep 5)
Haruna Ikezawa as Sham (ep 10)
Hidemitsu Shimizu as Subordinate (ep 3)
Hikaru Midorikawa as Kurando Yakabe
Hisao Egawa as Jisei Ro
Hitomi Harada as Clerk (ep 1)
Houko Kuwashima as Rachel Stanley
Iori Nomizu as Li Raichi
Isamu Yūsen as Yakuza (ep 8)
Junichi Sugawara as Elder (ep 5)
Junko Minagawa as Shiratori
Katsuhisa Hōki as Yasunaga
Katsumi Toriumi as Matsui
Kazuki Yao as Ikki Takeda
Kazuya Ichijō as Owner (ep 9)
Kengo Mizoguchi as Subordinate (ep 5)
Kenji Kitamura as
Dojo Master (ep 6)
Richard III (ep 9)
Kenji Nomura as Gusco (ep 5)
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Inspector Honmaki
Kōji Takeda as Ethan Stanley
Kōtarō Matsumaru as Villager (ep 5)
Makiko Ōmoto as Yuka Izumi
Mamiko Noto as Tochumaru
Masaharu Satō as Gauche Wynne
Masashi Hirose as James Shiba
Masashi Sugawara as Boris Ivanov
Mika Kanai as Renka Ma
Minami Takayama as Kisara Nanjo/Valkyrie
Mitsuaki Kanuka as Devil Eater Man (ep 9)
Mitsuaki Madono as Siegfried
Natsumi Hioka as Villager (ep 5)
Nozomi Nakazato as Female Staff (ep 9)
Ryō Horikawa as Natsu Tanimoto/Hermit
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Radin Tidat Jihan
Shinpachi Tsuji as
Silcardo Jenazad (eps 10-11)
Zanshin Taisha-Ryū Master (ep 1)
Shinya Hamazoe as Male Fighter (ep 9)
Taishi Murata as Subordinate (eps 6-7)
Takahiro Miyake as Yakuza (ep 8)
Takumi Yamazaki as Haruo Niijima
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Commentator (ep 9)
Tōko Aoyama as Kyoko Ono
Tomo Muranaka as Valkyrie (ep 8)
Tomoe Sakuragawa as Honoka Shirahama
Tomokazu Yajima as Subordinate (eps 4-5)
Tōru Ohkawa as Kozo Ukita
Toshihiko Nakanishi as Subordinate (ep 3)
Toshinobu Iida as Alexander Gaidar
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Christopher Eclair
Wataru Yokojima as Akira Hongo
Yayoi Sugaya as Valkyrie (ep 8)
Yōhei Osa as Subordinate (eps 6-7)
Yutaka Furukawa as Subordinate (ep 5)
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Hayato Furinji
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
Translation: Mateus Santos
ADR Script: Hayden Daviau
ADR Prep: Beth Featherstone
ADR Script Supervisor: Alejandro Saab
Assistant ADR Director:
Alejandro Saab
Paloma Ortiz
Ry McKeand
Associate producer: Caleb McPhee
Blu-Ray Authoring: David Miranda
Blu-Ray Compression: Justin Sevakis
Casting Director: Marissa Lenti
Engineering Assistant:
Logan Laidlaw
Maggie Mescall
Language Consultant:
Dom Daviau
Lauren Conn
Lead ADR Engineer: Paloma Ortiz
Menu Design: Robin Sevakis
Mixing & Mastering Engineer: Lindsay Roberts
Packaging Design: Gary Swarer
Post-Production Director: Marissa Lenti
Production Assistant: Alejandro Saab
Production Coordination: Marissa Lenti
Quality Control:
Jeremy Graves
Marc Levy
Special Thanks To: Monica Rial
Subtitle Editing: Jeremy Graves
Subtitle Manager: Logan Rebholz
Supervising Producer: Justin Sevakis
Talent Coordination: Sarah Poulsen
Video Editing: Jonathan Paist
Carrie Savage as Miu Furinji
Jessie James Grelle as Kenichi Shirahama

Christopher R. Sabat as Shio Sakaki
Daniel J. Edwards as Kensei Ma
Kent Williams as Akisame Koetsuji
R Bruce Elliott as Hayato Furinji
Sonny Strait as Apachai Hopachai
Trina Nishimura as Shigure Kosaka

Aaron Parnell as Kurokawa
Alejandro Saab as Diego Carlo
Apphia Yu as Raichi Li
Benji Buckley as Richard III (ep 9)
Bindy Coda as Sham (ep 10)
Brendan Blaber as Mr. Skeleton
Brennan Williams as Devil Eater Man (ep 9)
Brent Mukai as Tenmon Li
Brittney Karbowski as Kaede Tanimoto
Caitlin Glass as
Chisato Ayazaki
Kyoko Ono
Cherami Leigh as Honoka Shirahama
Chris Burnett as Mizunuma
Chris Cason as
Siegfried
Tochumaru
Colleen Clinkenbeard as Kisara Nanjo
Courtland Johnson as Kurando Yakabe
Dawn M. Bennett as Raden (Young)
Edwyn Tiong as Akira Hongo
Eric Cherry as Kamioka
Erin Lundquist as Rachel Stanley
Ernesto Jason Liebrecht as Natsu Tanimoto
Greg Dulcie as Fukujiro Yasunaga
Hayden Daviau as Tsukasa
J. Michael Tatum as Ikki Takeda
Jacob Hopkins as Sho Kano
Jamie Marchi as Yoko Igarashi
Jason Douglas as Ogata Isshinsai
Jesse Inocalla as Raden Tidat Jihan
Jim Foronda as Gusco (ep 5)
Joel McDonald as Shiratori
Kamran Nikhad as Silkwat Jenazad (eps 10-11)
Kieran Regan as Christopher Eclair
Kristin Sutton as Makoto Himeno
Leah Clark as
Ami Fujiyama
Chihiro Takashima
Luci Christian as Shizuha Furinji
Mark Lee as Jisei Ro
Matthew David Rudd as Borris Ivanov
Maxadrian Burton as Alexander Gaidar
Mike McFarland as Kozo Ukita
Paul St. Peter as James Shiba
Richard C. Barcenas as Ethan Stanley
Sara Ragsdale as Yuka Izumi
Stephanie Young as Kaname Kugatachi
Todd Haberkorn as Harou Niijima
Tom Laflin as Drummer Azumaya
Valentine Stokes as Wynne Gauche
William T. Sopp as Karateka

English companies
ADR Production: Sound Cadence Studios
Licensed by: Discotek Media

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