Do Your Best Genki

AnimationActionSport

Release

16 Jul 1980

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Production

Overview

Do Your Best Genki is a sports manga by Yū Koyama about Horiguchi Genki, 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.

Plot

In merciless post-WWII Tokyo, a frisky boy witnesses the death of his father at the exit of an amusement park due to heart failure on the night whose heavyweight opponent Syklon Seki earns the national championship. The boy presum...