Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy

tv show

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77 total episodes

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3 seasons

First Aired January 09, 2002

Overview

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.

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Electrolix

Season 3 - Episode 15 - 0h 24m

Air Date

January 11, 2006

Overview

Just as Ricardo is about to slam Kid Muscle right into the Electrolix, he pulls back and throws Kid Muscle over his head, to safety. As the match continues Ricardo is constantly pulling punches, not making any cheap moves, and making sure that the Kid doesn't hit the Electrolix (the big electric X). Ricardo's two dMP teammates, however, are getting angry, and so pull a towel out from under the Kid's feet, causing him to run into Ricardo and send Ricardo into the Electrolix. As Ricardo stands up, he hears his old master in the audience, telling him to stop hiding from who he really is. Ricardo is torn between his two selves, the Muscle League self and dMP self, and insists he is an upstanding member of the Muscle League, fighting the good fight. The match continues, and Ricardo's outfit is beginning to crack as the Kid applies the pressure, and Ricardo finally cracks under the pressure when he hears three of his fellow wrestlers that trained under his master saying that when Ricardo was