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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Lifting the Mask (2)

Season 3 - Episode 23 - 0h 24m

Air Date

March 08, 2006

Overview

Kevin Mask is outraged that his mask has been scarred twice, and El Nino tells the Kid that it is one of the worst things he could have done. Kid Muscle doesn't listen and continues his assault on Kevin, who is simply biding his time through the punches to land a perfect attack. Meat is falling out of his hospital bed as the Kid attempts the Kinniku Driver and the Kinniku Buster, two of his family's best moves, both of which Kevin easily reverses. Kid Muscle is beginning to get tired, but Kevin shows now signs of giving in as he launches into th Mach Pulverizer, a devastating move that requires him to spin through the air like a drill. The Kid uses the Muscle Curtain, but Kevin breaks through and strikes the Kid, but is then deflected and sent flying toward Ramen Man. Lord Flash gets in the way and takes the blow, and Jacklynn McMadd says Lord Flash did it on purpose so that Kevin Mask wouldn't be disqualified for attacking another person; Lord Flash denies this and says he was just pi