Ganbare Genki
| Do Your Best Genki | |
 First volume cover | |
| がんばれ元気 (Ganbare Genki) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports, comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yū Koyama |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 1976 – 1981 |
| Volumes | 28 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Rintaro |
| Written by | Shunichi Yukimuro |
| Music by | Koichi Morita |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | July 16, 1980 – April 1, 1981 |
| Episodes | 35 |
Do Your Best Genki (がんばれ元気, Ganbare Genki) is a Japanese sports manga by Yū Koyama about Genki Horiguchi, a boy who is raised by a single father, and who wants to be a boxer like him. It was adapted as an anime television series by Toei Animation. The manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Genki Horiguchi (堀口 元気, Horiguchi Genki) – Toshiko Fujita
- Hideki Horiguchi (堀口 秀樹, Horiguchi Hideki) – Makio Inoue
- Kenji Seki (関 拳児, Seki Kenji) – Katsuji Mori
- Yuko Ashikawa (芦川 悠子, Ashikawa Yūko) – Kazuko Sugiyama
- Eiji Mishima (三島 栄司, Eiji Mishima) – Shūichi Ikeda
- Katsuzo Yamatani (山谷 勝三, Yamatani Katsuzō) – Hiroshi Masuoka
- Tomoko Ishida (石田 ともこ, Ishida Tomoko) – Keiko Han
- Eikichi Nagano (永野 英吉, Nagano Eikichi) a.k.a. Coach Nagano – Hiroshi Ōtake
- Takashi Kazan – Tōru Furuya
- Kisaburo Tanuma (田沼 樹三郎, Tanuma Kisaburō) – Ichirō Nagai
- Aiko Tanuma (田沼 愛子, Tanuma Aiko) – Shima Sakai
References
[edit]- ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
External links
[edit]- Official Toei site (in Japanese)
- Ganbare Genki (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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