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Ganbare Genki (TV)

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Alternative title:
Forza, Sugar (Italian)
Genki (French)
Genki, Champion de Boxe (French)
Genki, the Boy Champ
Go for It! Genki
فارس الفتى الشجاع (Arabic)
がんばれ元気 (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Themes: sports
Objectionable content: Mild 
Plot Summary: Genki's father was a boxer. He died for the consequences reported after a match against world champion Kenji Seki. Genki decides to follow his father's step, pushed by the will of encounter Kenji, who will be revealed to be a sensitive man, struggled by the pain of having killed Genki's father.
Ratings: 19 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (?:1, others:2
2 Arabic dubbed
)
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
2 Arabic dubbed
)
 Very good: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 Italian dubbed
1 Arabic dubbed
)
 Good: 4 votes (sub:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Decent: 3 votes (sub:2, raw:1)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 60 s, rank: #6407 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.579 (Very good−), std. dev.: 2.208, rank: #1628 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 7.538 (Very good−), rank: #1592 (of 10154) (seen all: 7.80 / seen some: 8.04 / won't finish: 0.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.513 (Very good−), rank: #1376 (of 7635)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 35
Episode titles: We have 35
Vintage:
1980-07-16 to 1981-04-01
1988-01-04 to 1988-03-03 ()
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Forza Sugar" by Rocking Horse [Italian version]
"Kaze ni nare!" by Kinya Hori
"風になれ!" by 堀欣也
Ending Theme:
"Masshiro na Ringu e" by Kinya Hori
"まっ白なリングへ" by 鈴木康夫
Official website:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Rintarō
Series Director: Rintarō
Script:
Shunichi Yukimuro (eps 1-35)
Storyboard:
Rintarō
Episode Director:
Masahiro Sasaki (7 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 25, 29, 34
)

Masayuki Ōzeki (6 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27, 31
)

Rintarō (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 18, 21
)

Yoshikatsu Kasai (7 episodes
eps 5, 8, 11, 15, 19, 24, 35
)

Original Manga: Yū Koyama
Character Design:
Takao Kōzai (eps 23-35)
Art Director:
Tadao Kubota (32 episodes
eps 1, 3-12, 14-28, 30-35
)

Yoshiyuki Shikano 
Animation Director:
Jirō Tsuno (6 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27, 33
)

Kazuo Komatsubara (7 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14-15, 20-21, 28
)

Masami Suda (5 episodes
eps 2, 8, 18, 25, 31
)

Shigetaka Kiyoyama (6 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 29, 34
)

Tsukasa Abe (eps 19, 24, 30)
Art design: Takamura Mukuo

Assistant Director:
Fumio Itō (5 episodes
eps 22, 24, 27, 30, 32
)

Hiroyuki Ikeda (eps 18, 21, 25)
Background Art:
Akemi Kato (9 episodes
eps 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 32, 35
)

Hiromi Andō (8 episodes
eps 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33
)

Hiromi Kōno (14 episodes
eps 3-8, 10, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 30, 34
)

Kaoru Honma (9 episodes
eps 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 32, 35
)

Masuo Nakayama (8 episodes
eps 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33
)

Yoshiyuki Shikano (9 episodes
eps 8, 10, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 30, 34
)

Editing:
Osamu Tanaka (eps 19-35)
Finish Animation:
Akemi Tamura (7 episodes
eps 9, 15, 18, 24, 30, 32, 35
)

Akio Hayashi (17 episodes
eps 2, 6-12 even, 15-16, 19-20, 22, 24-25, 28-29, 31, 33-34
)

Michiko Masui (12 episodes
eps 1, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 28, 31, 33
)

Shie Hirase (6 episodes
eps 4, 7, 16, 22, 25, 34
)

Tsutomu Tsukada (24 episodes
eps 1-7, 9-14, 17-19, 21, 23-24, 26-27, 30, 32, 35
)

Yasuko Suzuki (5 episodes
eps 4, 22, 25, 29, 34
)

In-Between Animation:
Akiyo Okuno (5 episodes
eps 18, 25-26, 32, 35
)

Eiko Mochidzuki (5 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27
)

Kimiko Tamazawa (5 episodes
eps 17, 20, 25, 31, 35
)

Kumiko Tsukada (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
)

Mariko Suzuki (4 episodes
eps 17, 29, 32, 34
)

Masato Fukami (7 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 34
)

Nobuyuki Koyanagi (5 episodes
eps 2, 17, 20, 25, 31
)

Ryōko Kishimoto (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
)

Setsuko Matsuda (5 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27
)

Tadashi Fukuda (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
)

Yuka Hotani (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
)

Key Animation:
Emiko Tsukima (4 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21
)

Masami Suda (5 episodes
eps 2, 8, 18, 25, 31
)

Mitsuru Aoyama (9 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 32, 34-35
)

Osamu Nuita (5 episodes
eps 9, 16, 22, 27, 33
)

Satoshi Hirayama (4 episodes
eps 20, 26, 32, 35
)

Seiji Muta (8 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 32, 34
)

Shinji Ōtsuka (4 episodes
eps 13, 19, 24, 30
)

Toshio Takahashi (6 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27, 33
)

Yutaka Oka (ep 3)
Music Selection: Shigeru Miyashita
Photography:
Yoshiyuki Tamagawa (ep 15)
Planning: Yoshio Takami
Production Assistant:
Hiroe Arakawa (6 episodes
eps 13, 17, 20, 26, 29, 32
)

Hiroyuki Ikeda (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 6, 10, 14
)

Sachiko Tanaka (9 episodes
eps 12, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30, 33-35
)

Yūji Katō (11 episodes
eps 2, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31
)

Production manager: Matsuji Kishimoto
Record Keeping:
Yoshiko Hara (eps 22-35)
Sound Effects: Michihiro Itō
Sound Recording: Kenji Ninomiya
Special Effects:
Masayuki Nakajima (29 episodes
eps 1-8, 10-18 even, 19-24, 26-35
)

Shōji Satō (4 episodes
eps 11, 15, 17, 25
)

Theme Song Composition: Kōichi Morita (OP, ED)
Theme Song Performance: Kinya Hori (OP, ED)
Makio Inoue as Horiguchi Hideki
Toshiko Fujita as Horiguchi Genki

Katsuji Mori as Kenji Seki
Shūichi Ikeda as Eiji Mishima

Ai Sakuma as Setsuko Yamaya
Akira Miyauchi as
Enomoto
Mutoh (ep 11)
Takefuji
Hideyuki Tanaka as Okamura (eps 27-29)
Hiroshi Masuoka as
Katsuzou Yamatani
Shozo Tanuma
Hiroshi Ōtake as Nagano (eps 2-3, 5, 20)
Ichirō Nagai as Kisaburo Tanuma
Isamu Tanonaka as Street performer (ep 1)
Kazuko Sugiyama as Ashikawa Yuuko
Keiko Han as Tomoko Ishida
Keiko Miyazaki as Teruko (ep 20)
Keiko Yamamoto as
Otaki
Street performer (ep 1)
Kiyonobu Suzuki as Iwata (ep 7)
Kōji Totani as Nagaoka (eps 17-18)
Kōji Yada as
Announcer (ep 3)
Doctor (eps 33-34)
Kunihiko Kitagawa as Maruyama
Makoto Terada as Man A (ep 1)
Mami Koyama as
Minako Horiguchi (ep 3)
Mother (ep 10)
Mariko Mukai as Mother (ep 8)
Masaharu Satō as
Journalist (ep 1)
Man B (ep 1)
Takamura (eps 6, 10, 16)
Masashi Amenomori as
Oden vendor (ep 8)
Refree (ep 1)
Nana Yamaguchi as Uno's mother (ep 8)
Naoki Tatsuta as
Aoki (eps 26-28, 31)
Middle schooler (ep 9)
Okabe (eps 7, 11)
Nobuyo Tsuda as Okiku (ep 16)
Satomi Majima as
Imai (eps 6-7)
Nurse (eps 33-34)
Seiko Nakano as
Noboru (eps 9, 19-20)
Nurse (ep 4)
Sumie Sakai as Aiko Tanuma
Takashi Tanaka as Lord (ep 2)
Tomiko Suzuki as Michiko (eps 9, 19-20)
Tōru Furuya as Takeru Hiyama
Yasuo Tanaka as
Doctor (eps 4-5)
Priest (4 episodes
eps 19, 21-22, 28
)
Yōichi Mitsuhashi as Member B (ep 11)
Yoku Shioya as Member A (ep 11)
Japanese companies
Animation: Toei Animation
Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry
Production:
Toei Animation
French staff
French companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
Canal + (from 4 January 1988)
French cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Giovanni Brusatori

Theme Song Performance: Rocking Horse
Gabriella Andreini as Sugar (child)
Marco Joannucci as Sugar (young woman)

Beatrice Margiotti as Isadora
Carlo Allegrini as Titolare palestra Maruyama
Claudio Trionfi as
Brisco
Kenji Seki
Gabriella Andreini as Madre di Sugar
Giorgio Del Bene as Lestamano
Giovanni Petrucci as
Pepper pugno d'acciaio
Signor Mishima
Graziella Polesinanti as Madre di Isadora

Italian companies
Arabic staff
Arabic cast
Audio Recording: Essam Al-Assiry
Montage: Gamal Al-Fank
Supervision: Sohail Elias
Theme Song Composed & Arranged: Amer Madi
Theme Song Performance: Mustafa Shashaa
Amal Al-Dabbas as Fares (Genki)
Anwar Khalil as Monzer
Hussein Abu Hamad as Shams (Grandfather)
Khidr Baydoun as Coach Tawfik
Lina Al-Tal as
Aziza
Hanan
Zahra
Maher Al Bilbisi as
Kamal (eps 12, 15-16)
Waleed (eps 20-23)
Muhammad Khalil as Commentator
Nasr Anani as
Fares's father
Jalal
Rabee Shihab as
Basem Al-Namer
Mertah
Rifaat Al-Najjar as
Najma (Grandmother)
Nour

Amal Dabas as Faris 
Anwar Khalil as Monther 
Hussain Abu Hamad as Grandfather 
Lina Al-tell as Hanan 
Nusr Enani as
Jalal 
Nader Shoja'a (father) 
Rabee Shehab as Mertah 
Refat Alnajar as Grandmother 
Arabic companies
Broadcaster: Saudi TV (1988)
Dubbing: Al-Sharq Al-Adnaa Studios (Jordan)
Production: Alshurq Aladna Company (Jordan) 

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