Anime HSD Kenichi - Anime

TemplateR · Jan 20, 2011

Well,

the great manga has it´s own section, why we don´t give them a thread about the anime of that manga ?^^

The Anime of HSDK has 52 Episodes and covered it from the beginning of the story to the confrontation against the top members of Ragnarok.

Differences between the manga and anime

Overall

In the manga, Kenichi starts training at Ryōzanpaku after beating Daimonji. Miu's map was so confusing that Kenichi needed Honoka to decipher it for him.
A short arc before Kenichi's showdown with Hermit showed that Akisame had brought Kenichi to train in the mountains to learn the art of tactics. In addition to learning such, Kenichi also showed that training can be a tactic in itself. This arc is not shown in the anime.
In the manga, after the second battle between Kenichi and Hermit, there is a short arc where Kenichi and Sakaki challenged another dojo, where one of the members of the Shinpaku Alliance was learning an unsportsmanlike version of martial arts (poking the opponents' eyes, using foldable chairs to attack, etc.). This arc is not shown in the anime.
Right after defeating Thor, the next chapter showed Kenichi slacking off in his training as he thought he was strong enough. His masters proved otherwise, with Apachai getting him severely injured. This is not shown in the anime.
Right after the arc where Kisara quit Ragnarok, the following 5 chapters followed Hayato's recounts of his meeting with Apachai, and how the latter followed him to Ryōzanpaku. This arc, which is not shown in the anime, was then immediately followed by Nījima's plan 'H' to get Hermit to join the Shinpaku Alliance. This is set after Kenichi went on the mountain retreat with Hayato in the anime, but in the manga, Kenichi participated in the action.
There is a short arc where Kenichi's father visited him at the Ryōzanpaku Dojo, and after witnessing the actual training, tried to get Kenichi to return home. He brought along his new gun, rotowski, which he secretly bought without his wife's knowledge.
In the manga, the 馬 family (Kensei, Sōgetsu, Renka, etc.) pronounces their family name ば, (Ba); in the anime, and in some translations, this has been changed to the usual Chinese pronunciation, ま (Ma.)
Blood in the anime version is either significantly reduced, or removed entirely when compared to the manga.
The anime ends before the YOMi arc(chapter 143 of manga), thus its existence is omitted.

In Tatakae!! Ryōzanpaku

Shigure does not exist in the monthly version, and two of the masters are said to be away on a journey (the silhouette of one of them seems to be Shigure, however the other figure was rumored to be Saiga Furinji). Also, Akisame's age is said to be 28 instead of 38, but despite the 10 year age difference his looks are the same.
Kenichi and Miu do not attend the same high school.
Ma Sougetsu and Ikki Takeda both look completely different as the former has a much less muscular and intimidating appearance and the latter has short black hair. Additionally, Takeda is named Takenouchi (竹ノ内?) (possibly a parody of Ippo Makunouchi from Hajime no Ippo) and is the captain of the boxing team. Natsu Tanimoto is also instead named Natsu Sugimoto (杉本夏 Sugimoto Natsu?).
Nijima's hair is a lot shorter and more flat-bowl shaped.
The group Kenichi battles against is named Snake (スネイク?) and is headed by three main members: Shōgo Furukawa (吉川将吾 Furukawa Shōgo?) (Top One), Natsu Sugimoto/Hermit (Top Two), and Kisara Nanjō (Top Three). The three of them later appeared in Kenichi as members of Ragnarok (Furukawa appeared as Berserker). Ragnarok was used as the name of Snake's rival group.
Kisara Nanjo's hair is different compared to the ongoing manga and anime and Shogo Furukawa was never shown chewing gum nor being normally passive compared to the ongoing manga.
The original Hermit looked exactly (with some slight hair differences) like the new Takeda, still however clothed in the same Hermit outfit.
Ryōzanpaku Master Differences: Shio Sakaki had a much slimmer build than in the spinoff, Apachai Hopachai was fashioned in the same clothes, with hair resembling Guile from Street Fighter, Shigure Kosaka is fashioned in more of a stereotypical ninja suit, Hayato is less muscular, Ma Kensei had the same outfit without his signature hat and a yin yang symbol on his shoulders, and Akisame Koetsuji had shorter hair.
Ma Kensei and Ma Sogetsu are adopted brothers instead of real brothers.
Kenichi did not mention his never-hit-a-girl policy.
Instead of Ogata who saved Natsu when he was little it was Ma Sogetsu.
It is a kind old grandpa who adopted Natsu and his sister instead of the other version of a heartless businessman.
After Kenichi defeated Shōgo Furukawa (吉川将吾 Furukawa Shōgo?) he became the Leader of Snake and become Top 1 reluctantly.
Shōgo Furukawa (吉川将吾 Furukawa Shōgo?) and Kisara become the newest disciple of Ryōzanpaku.
Instead of Mycroft, Christopher Eclair fights Sakaki, but Mycroft makes a cameo appearance in a flashback of Sakaki burying him and Christopher in a desert and he is also mentioned briefly. In the fight between Sakaki and Mycroft (in the monthly manga), Sakaki also makes a reference to the burial. Though Mycroft's hatred for Sakaki is never mentioned in the weekly manga.

My Opinion about the Anime:
Before I´m watching an anime, I must read the manga-version of that anime. Because I don´t want to be disappointed, If I watching the anime first and then read the manga of that. I always was disappointed backward and thats why I mostly reading only mangas. But somethimes I also watch animes for AMV and so on.
Anyway, after I finished read HSDK-Manga, I wanted to watch the Anime of that. After few episodes I dropped it, because of the differences between Anime and Manga and I don´t like it.

I hope, that the Anime will get a new Season, which is started from the beginning and more closely to the manga ( In Story ).

Gyues, what do you think about the Anime of HSDK ?

Ace4 · Jan 21, 2011