Kick no Oni
| Kick no Oni | |
| キックの鬼 | |
|---|---|
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshifumi Hatano |
| Produced by | Masaharu Eto |
| Written by | Ikki Kajiwara |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Network |
Tokyo Broadcasting System (Japan) Rede Record (Brazil)[1] |
| Original run | October 2, 1970[2] – March 26, 1971 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Kick no Oni (which means The demon of kickboxing), is a manga and anime series written by Ikki Kajiwara. It was based on the life of the kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura.[3]
History
Written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Kentaro Nakajiro , the manga was published in 1969 in the magazine "Shonen Gaho "[3] It got an anime version produced between the years 1970 and 1971 by Toei Animation.[1] Ikki Kajiwara is known by other martial arts manga, one of them, Ashita no Joe , illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba and published between 1968 1973 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.[4]
Plot
The series chronicled the true story of Tadashi Sawamura , a former karate fighter who after a defeat by a kickboxer, decides to learn kickboxing.[1]
Cast
- Koji Asakura as Tadashi Sawamura
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Osamu Noguchi
- Michiko Nomura as Etsuko
- Minori Matsushima as Youko
- Yuuji Nishimoto as Hideki
References
- 1 2 3 Eduardo Torelli (October 2000). "Anos 70". Revista Henshin! (São Paulo: Editora JBC) (21). ISSN 1518-3785.
- ↑ キックの鬼. Toei Animation (in Japanese). Retrieved June 7, 2015.
- 1 2 Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy (2015). The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 9781611729092.
- ↑ Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 2010. ISBN 9781441155696.
External links
- Kick no Oni (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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