Ganbare Genki

Do Your Best Genki
First volume cover
がんばれ元気げんき (Ganbare Genki)
Genre	Sports, comedy
Manga
Written by	Yū Koyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1976 – 1981
Volumes	28
Anime television series
Directed by	Rintaro
Written by	Shunichi Yukimuro
Music by	Koichi Morita
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	July 16, 1980 – April 1, 1981
Episodes	35

Do Your Best Genki (がんばれ元気げんき, Ganbare Genki) is a Japanese sports manga by Yū Koyama about Genki Horiguchi, 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.

Cast

• Genki Horiguchi (堀口ほりぐち 元気げんき, Horiguchi Genki) – Toshiko Fujita
• Hideki Horiguchi (堀口ほりぐち 秀樹ひでき, Horiguchi Hideki) – Makio Inoue
• Kenji Seki (関せき 拳けん児じ, Seki Kenji) – Katsuji Mori
• Yuko Ashikawa (芦川あしかわ 悠子ゆうこ, Ashikawa Yūko) – Kazuko Sugiyama
• Eiji Mishima (三島みしま 栄司えいじ, Eiji Mishima) – Shūichi Ikeda
• Katsuzo Yamatani (山谷やまたに 勝三かつぞう, Yamatani Katsuzō) – Hiroshi Masuoka
• Tomoko Ishida (石田いしだ ともこ, Ishida Tomoko) – Keiko Han
• Eikichi Nagano (永野ながの 英吉えいきち, Nagano Eikichi) a.k.a. Coach Nagano – Hiroshi Ōtake
• Takashi Kazan – Tōru Furuya
• Kisaburo Tanuma (田沼たぬま 樹いつき三郎さぶろう, Tanuma Kisaburō) – Ichirō Nagai
• Aiko Tanuma (田沼たぬま 愛子あいこ, Tanuma Aiko) – Shima Sakai

External links

• Official Toei site (in Japanese)
• Ganbare Genki (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia