Season 3 • Episode 26
LatestThe final continues with Kid Muscle still in Kevin Mask's hold. The judges give the shoot symbol (that means they think the Olap Assault is an unbeatable move). Kevin Mask twists Kid Muscle's arms so hard that they break. Kid falls to the mat, helpless. All of a sudden, Meat arrives on the scene, telling Kid to get up. Jeager, Ricardo, Barrierfreeman, and Hollywood Bowl all exhort Kid to get up, too. After some crucial wrestler-trainer talking, Kid pops his arms back into their sockets, and goes back into the fray against Kevin. Kevin, seeing this decides to toss Kid up and try to impale him on his golden spike. Kid's impact destroys the spike. Kid Muscle is now glowing a bright blue. It's speculated upon that this may be the ultimate level of Ultimate Muscle. Kevin, not wanting to deal with a fully-charged foe, begins to twist his arms, which Dik Dik recalls as the symbol that he's about to go into his finishing move...the Big Ben Bash. Kevin gets Kid in said hold, but Kid re
Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy, known in Japan as Kinnikuman II sei, is a manga and anime series made by Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada under the pen name Yudetamago. It is the sequel to the hit manga Kinnikuman that they started in 1979. The toy line of Kinnikuman was released in North America as M.U.S.C.L.E.. The name of Ultimate Muscle was chosen to connect the Americanized storyline of the M.U.S.C.L.E. toyline of the 1980s into the anime. Bandai also produced intermittently distributed toy tie-ins during the initial run of Ultimate Muscle.
Writing
Puns so bad they loop back to genius
Practical Effects
Toy line integration that's actually plot-relevant
Acting
Voice actors COMMITTING to screaming attacks
Konami Yoshida
Alexandria Meat
Masaya Onosaka
Mantaro Muscle
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Terry / Ricardo (voice)
Takumi Yamazaki
Seiuchin
Yasunori Masutani
Gazelleman
Ai Nonaka
Keiko
Fumiko Orikasa
Rinko Nikaidō
Hideyuki Tanaka
Terryman
Eiji Takemoto
Warsman
Koichi Tochika
Check Mate / Comrade Turbinski (voice)
Mahito Ohba
Announcer Yoshigai
Masaharu Sato
Harabote Muscle
Naoki Tatsuta
Kazuo Nakano
Reiko Kiuchi
Tamaki Maekawa
Ryotaro Okiayu
Kevin Mask
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The M.U.S.C.L.E. toyline's 1980s American failure somehow became this anime's entire branding strategy—capitalism's weirdest victory lap.
Yudetamago literally means 'boiled egg'—the creators' pen name referencing how they met in kindergarten. The wrestling absurdity makes total sense now.
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