Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc Season 2 Announces Worldwide Netflix Release Date & New Key Visual

Pony Canyon announced on Nov 28, 2024, that the second season of Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc anime is scheduled to release on Jan 12, 2025.

It was also revealed that Netflix will stream the new season worldwide weekly from Jan 13, 2025.

Season 2 continues the saga with the second stage of the battle, which unfolds at the Tottori Sand Dunes, pitting the allied forces of Seigi and Akuma, including Kinnikuman, against the Perfect Large Numbers Corps, including Nemesis.

A newly released key visual featuring Nemesis and Robin Mask was also released along with the announcement.

The visual also highlights prominent members of Seigi Chojin, including Ramenman, Warsman, and Brocken Jr.

Season 1 of Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc aired from July 7 to Sep 22, 2024, with Netflix licensing it for streaming worldwide weekly starting on July 8 of the same year.

Staff of the anime includes:

• Director: Akira Sato
• Assistant Director: Jun Soga
• Series Composition：Makoto Fukami
• Character Design: Hirotaka Marufuji
• Animation Supervisor: Mamoru Yokota
• Action Supervisor: Masami Obari
• Prop Design: Yoshinori Iwanaga
• Art Design: Osamu Ii
• Art Director: Satoru Hirayanagi
• Color Setting: Sayo Mogi
• Director of Photography: Keiichi Saito
• Editing: Yoshinori Murakami
• Sound Director: Yuichi Imaizumi
• Music：Yasuharu Takanashi
• Animation Producer: Rui Kuroki
• Animation Production: Production I.G

Cast includes:

• Kinnikuman: Mamoru Miyano
• Meat: Sumire Uesaka
• Terryman: Daisuke Ono
• Robin Mask: Katsuyuki Konishi
• Warsman: Yuki Kaji
• Ramenman: Tomokazu Seki
• Brocken Jr.: Jun Kasama
• Buffaloman: Hiroki Yasumoto
• Black Hole: Toshiya Miyata
• Springman: Hiroyuki Yoshino
• Turbomen: Kenji Nojima
• Crushman: Yusuke Tomioka
• Nemesis: Takeshi Kusao
• Grim Reaper: Junichi Suwabe
• Marvelous: Yoshihisa Kawahara
• Jack Chi: Shinobu Matsumoto
• Polarman: Takashi Matsuyama
• Akuma Shogun: Toshiyuki Morikawa
• Neptuneman: Tomokazu Sugita
• Mayumi Kinniku/Prince Kamehame: Akira Kamiya
• Chairperson: Toshio Furukawa
• Knock: Hideo Ishikawa
• Announcer: Shinichiro Ota

The first animated series based on Kinnikuman was produced by Toei Animation and directed by Yasuo Yamayoshi, Takenori Kawada and Tetsuo Imazawa. The 137-episode series was originally broadcast in Japan from April 3, 1983, to Oct 1, 1986.

It was followed by Kinnikuman: Scramble for the Throne, directed by Takeshi Shirato and Atsutoshi Umezawa. This 46-episode series was produced by Toei and aired on Nippon TV from Oct 6, 1991, to Sep 27, 1992.

Kinnikuman is a Japanese manga series created by the duo Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada, known as Yudetamago.

The manga was originally published in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from 1979 to 1987. It restarted publication in 2011 in Shueisha’s web magazine Shū Play News, and has spawned spin-off manga and anime series, video games, anime films, and several Kinnikuman-related merchandise.

Source: Press Release