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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

From Wimp To Warrior. Sort of.

TV series
2006–2007
1 season
TV Tokyo
Action & Adventure
Animation
Comedy

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Yeah, Kenichi’s a total wimp. He’s always getting picked on and doesn’t have a lot of friends to stick up for him. The guy needs motivation if he hopes to graduate in one piece. Well, Miu’s the perfect motivation. She’s hot, she accepts him, and she just so happens to live at a dojo with six martial arts masters. You could say fate has led Kenichi to their door, or you could say he was just following the hottie. Either way, he’s about to get whipped into serious shape. If he can survive some hard-core training, he might survive another day at school. He might even score with Miu. Yeah, you could call Kenichi a wimp. But let’s go with underdog instead.

About the show

Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Japanese: 史上最強の弟子ケンイチ, Hepburn: Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Ken'ichi; lit. 'Kenichi: History's Strongest Disciple') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Syun Matsuena. Matsuena first published a manga titled Tatakae! Ryōzanpaku Shijō Saikyō no Deshi, which ran in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Super from October 1999 to February 2002. Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is a remake of the series, and was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2002 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 61 tankōbon volumes.

The series follows Kenichi Shirahama, a bullied high school student whose life is completely transformed after he meets Miu Fūrinji, a talented martial artist. Miu introduces Kenichi to Ryōzanpaku, a legendary dojo where he learns various martial arts styles from the dojo's six eccentric masters. Through their intense training, Kenichi grows stronger and is forced to battle the delinquent gang Ragnarok and the shadow organization Yami.

A 50-episode anime television series adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment aired on TV Tokyo from October 2006 to September 2007. Brain's Base produced an 11-episode original video animation (OVA) series, titled Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple – The Attack of Darkness, released between March 2012 and May 2014. The anime television series was licensed in North America by Funimation in 2008; the rights to the series expired in 2018 and it was re-licensed by Discotek Media in 2020.

The Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple manga has had over 12 million copies in circulation. A manga sequel, Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi 2: Tatsujin-hen, started on the Sunday Webry digital platform in March 2026.

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