Ganbare Genki

Do Your Best Genki
First volume cover
がんばれ元気 (Ganbare Genki)
Genre	Sports, comedy
Manga
Written by	Yū Koyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1976 – 1981
Volumes	28
Anime television series
Directed by	Rintaro
Written by	Shunichi Yukimuro
Music by	Koichi Morita
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	July 16, 1980 – April 1, 1981
Episodes	35

Do Your Best Genki (がんばれ元気, Ganbare Genki) is a Japanese sports manga by Yū Koyama about Genki Horiguchi, a boy who is raised by a single father, and who wants to be a boxer like him. It was adapted as an anime television series by Toei Animation. The manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.^[1]

Cast

• Genki Horiguchi (堀口 元気, Horiguchi Genki) – Toshiko Fujita
• Hideki Horiguchi (堀口 秀樹, Horiguchi Hideki) – Makio Inoue
• Kenji Seki (関 拳児, Seki Kenji) – Katsuji Mori
• Yuko Ashikawa (芦川 悠子, Ashikawa Yūko) – Kazuko Sugiyama
• Eiji Mishima (三島 栄司, Eiji Mishima) – Shūichi Ikeda
• Katsuzo Yamatani (山谷 勝三, Yamatani Katsuzō) – Hiroshi Masuoka
• Tomoko Ishida (石田 ともこ, Ishida Tomoko) – Keiko Han
• Eikichi Nagano (永野 英吉, Nagano Eikichi) a.k.a. Coach Nagano – Hiroshi Ōtake
• Takashi Kazan – Tōru Furuya
• Kisaburo Tanuma (田沼 樹三郎, Tanuma Kisaburō) – Ichirō Nagai
• Aiko Tanuma (田沼 愛子, Tanuma Aiko) – Shima Sakai

References

1. 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-19.

External links

• Official Toei site (in Japanese)
• Ganbare Genki (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia