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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
From Wimp To Warrior. Sort of.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tomokazu Seki
KenIchi Shirahama (voice)
50 eps
Tomoko Kawakami
Miu Fūrinji (voice)
50 eps
Jurota Kosugi
Akisame Kōetsuji (voice)
50 eps
Unsho Ishizuka
Shio Sakaki (voice)
50 eps
Hiroshi Arikawa
Hayato Fūrinji (voice)
50 eps
Mamiko Noto
Shigure Kōsaka (voice)
50 eps
Hiroya Ishimaru
Apachai Hopachai (voice)
50 eps
Issei Futamata
Kensei Ma (voice)
50 eps
Ai Orikasa
Saori Shirahama (voice)
7 eps
Daisuke Gori
Genji Shirahama (voice)
7 eps
Akio Otsuka
Isshinsai Ogata (voice)
5 eps
Jouji Nakata
Berserker (voice)
7 eps
Mika Kanai
Renka Ma (voice)
2 eps
Houko Kuwashima
Kaede Tanimoto (voice)
4 eps
Kaoru Shimamura
Kyoko Ono (voice)
3 eps
Ken Narita
Ryuuto Asamiya (voice)
14 eps
Ryo Horikawa
Natsu Tanimoto (voice)
15 eps
Atsuko Tanaka
Freya (voice)
7 eps
Junko Minagawa
Shiratori (voice)
8 eps
Isshin Chiba
Takashi Furukawa (voice)
1 eps
Ayumi Sena
Honoka Shirahama (voice)
17 eps
Minami Takayama
Kisara Nanjou (voice)
17 eps
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Ryo Ma (voice)
1 eps
Tessyo Genda
Sougetsu Ma (voice)
1 eps
Kazuki Yao
Ikki Takeda (voice)
20 eps
Toru Okawa
Kouzou Ukita (voice)
18 eps
Mayumi Yamaguchi
Koga Taichi (voice)
9 eps
Makiko Ohmoto
Izumi Yuuka (voice)
8 eps
Takumi Yamazaki
Haruo Niijima (voice)
33 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and Character Depth.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
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.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Hideki ShiraneWriter
- Yoshiyuki SugaWriter
- Koichi TakiWriter
- Hirohiko UesakaWriter
Direction
- Hajime KamegakiDirector
- Shigeyasu YamauchiDirector
- Michita ShiraishiDirector
- Chikayo NakamuraDirector
- Futoshi HigashideDirector
- Naoki HoriuchiDirector
Cinematography
- Yorinobu OdaDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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