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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: comedy , tournament 
Themes: boxing , 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. 
User 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 users, rank: #6458 (of 10083)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.579 (Very good−), std. dev.: 2.208, rank: #1634 (of 10235)
Weighted mean: 7.538 (Very good−), rank: #1606 (of 10235) (seen all: 7.80 / seen some: 8.04 / won't finish: 0.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.512 (Very good−), rank: #1384 (of 7688)
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 (France) 
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:
Toei Animation-Oldies (Japanese) 
Links: We have 2
Other article: Show:
Shelf Life - When I Cry (Aug 6, 2007)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Rintarō 
Series Director: Rintarō 
Script:
Shunichi Yukimuro  (eps 1-35) 
Storyboard:
Kazumi Fukushima (ep 30) 
Masahiro Sasaki (ep 20) 
Masayuki Ōzeki (ep 33) 
Rintarō 
Episode Director:
Akinori Nagaoka  (eps 26, 32) 
Hiroyuki Ikeda (eps 28, 30, 33) 
Jōhei Matsuura (eps 7, 13, 20) 
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
) 
Yasuo Yamayoshi (ep 12) 
Yoshikata Nitta (ep 2) 
Yoshikatsu Kasai (7 episodes
eps 5, 8, 11, 15, 19, 24, 35
) 
Music: Kōichi Morita 
Original Manga: Yū Koyama 
Character Design:
Kazuo Komatsubara (eps 1-22) 
Takao Kōzai (eps 23-35) 
Art Director:
Akira Yamakawa (eps 3-6) 
Nobuto Sakamoto (ep 29) 
Tadao Kubota (32 episodes
eps 1, 3-12, 14-28, 30-35
) 
Takamura Mukuo (eps 1-2) 
Toshikazu Yamaguchi (ep 13) 
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
) 
Seiichi Nodate (ep 7) 
Shigenobu Nagasaki (ep 11) 
Shigetaka Kiyoyama (6 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 29, 34
) 
Shunichi Sakai (ep 13) 
Takao Kōzai (eps 26, 32, 35) 
Toshio Mori (eps 5, 12) 
Tsukasa Abe (eps 19, 24, 30) 
Art design: Takamura Mukuo 

Assistant Director:
Fumio Itō (5 episodes
eps 22, 24, 27, 30, 32
) 
Hiroe Arakawa (eps 33-35) 
Hiroyuki Ikeda (eps 18, 21, 25) 
Background Art:
Akemi Kato (9 episodes
eps 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 32, 35
) 
Akira Yamakawa (eps 1-2) 
Eiji Hirakawa (ep 29) 
Fumio Akutsu (ep 29) 
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
) 
Kenji Matsumoto (ep 13) 
Masuo Nakayama (8 episodes
eps 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33
) 
Teiichi Akashi (ep 13) 
Yasushi Nakamura (eps 1-7) 
Yoshiyuki Shikano (9 episodes
eps 8, 10, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 30, 34
) 
Editing:
Masaaki Hanai (eps 1-18) 
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
) 
Naoko Hara (eps 7, 16, 29) 
Shie Hirase (6 episodes
eps 4, 7, 16, 22, 25, 34
) 
Toyohiko Hiraga (eps 1-13, 15-35) 
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:
Akemi Hashimoto (eps 3, 9, 16) 
Akiyo Okuno (5 episodes
eps 18, 25-26, 32, 35
) 
Atsuko Tsunoda (ep 30) 
Eiko Mochidzuki (5 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27
) 
Hiromi Seino (eps 5, 12) 
Hitomi Kakubari (eps 13, 19, 24) 
Ikuko Kanda (eps 13, 19, 24) 
Kimiko Tamazawa (5 episodes
eps 17, 20, 25, 31, 35
) 
Kiyotoshi Aoi (eps 8, 31, 35) 
Kōji Miura (eps 2, 18, 20) 
Kumiko Tsukada (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
) 
Kyōko Matsubara (eps 2, 5, 8) 
Mariko Suzuki (4 episodes
eps 17, 29, 32, 34
) 
Masahiko Imai (eps 5, 30) 
Masato Fukami (7 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 34
) 
Mayumi Hiruta (eps 3, 9, 16) 
Mieko Saiki (ep 12) 
Mikiko Takanashi (eps 13, 19, 24) 
Momoko Ueno (ep 5) 
Nobuyuki Koyanagi (5 episodes
eps 2, 17, 20, 25, 31
) 
Ryōkichi Yoshizawa (eps 26, 29, 34) 
Ryōko Kishimoto (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
) 
Setsuko Matsuda (5 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27
) 
Shigi Nakajima (eps 2, 25) 
Tadashi Fukuda (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
) 
Taizo Noguchi (eps 29, 32, 34) 
Tazuko Fukutsuchi (ep 15) 
Tomoko Minami (ep 12) 
Tsuneo Takei (ep 11) 
Yayoi Suzuki (ep 12) 
Yoko Konishi (eps 13, 19, 24) 
Yoshiko Satō (eps 4, 10, 23) 
Yoshito Miki (eps 11, 31, 35) 
Yuka Hotani (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21, 28
) 
Key Animation:
Azuma Numajiri (ep 28) 
Emiko Tsukima (4 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 21
) 
Hideyuki Motohashi (ep 20) 
Hirohide Shikishima (eps 11, 15, 20) 
Jōji Yanase (ep 21) 
Kazuo Inoue (ep 7) 
Keikou Abe (ep 7) 
Kunihito Takahashi (eps 22, 27, 33) 
Makoto Itō (eps 19, 24) 
Masami Suda (5 episodes
eps 2, 8, 18, 25, 31
) 
Megumi Takeara (ep 28) 
Mitsuru Aoyama (9 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 32, 34-35
) 
Nobumasa Shinkawa (ep 15) 
Noriko Gotō (eps 6, 14, 21) 
Osamu Nuita (5 episodes
eps 9, 16, 22, 27, 33
) 
Sadayoshi Tominaga (ep 15) 
Satoshi Hirayama (4 episodes
eps 20, 26, 32, 35
) 
Seiji Muta (8 episodes
eps 4, 10, 17, 23, 26, 29, 32, 34
) 
Shigenobu Nagasaki (eps 11, 28, 35) 
Shinji Ōtsuka (4 episodes
eps 13, 19, 24, 30
) 
Shōjurō Yamauchi (ep 1) 
Takao Ozone (eps 5, 12) 
Toshio Takahashi (6 episodes
eps 3, 9, 16, 22, 27, 33
) 
Tsukasa Abe (ep 13) 
Tsunenaka Nozaki (eps 5, 12) 
Yukio Ebisawa (ep 7) 
Yutaka Oka (ep 3) 
Music Selection: Shigeru Miyashita 
Photography:
Sadafumi Sano (eps 1-14, 16-35) 
Yoshiyuki Tamagawa (ep 15) 
Planning: Yoshio Takami 
Production Assistant:
Fumio Itō (eps 3, 7, 9, 16) 
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:
Kiyoko Ikeda (eps 1-21) 
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
) 
Noboru Sekiai (eps 9, 13) 
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 
Broadcaster: Fuji Television Network 
Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry 
Production:
Fuji Television Network 
Toei Animation 
French staff
French companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
Canal +  (from 4 January 1988) 
Dubbing: Studio Mediadub International 
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 
Diego Michelotti as Nonno 
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 

Carla Comaschi 
Monica Cadueri 
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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