Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi

Written by RenjiWu09 on August 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM

A classic shonen genre that brings the audience to be accustomed to all sorts of martial arts and Kenichi's growth. The story shows his growth as a martial artist and as a guy with more confidence as he continues to train. I liked the series because it goes over a lot of moral issues through fighting. Though it may appear to be a combat type of series, it's not really just fighting each episode. There's a great deal of humor and a bit of drama. Each episode is really refreshing and I didn't find it very repetitive since this is a very long series. Though shonen, History's Greatest Disciple has a great deal of fan service with female characters making it also ecchi. It's not too much, but I'm not too bothered by it since the overall story was satisfying.

The animation was well done and fairly consistent. Sometimes they use stills to take up time and dramatic dialogue to take up a bit of screen time. However the animated action scenes aren't too shabby though I wouldn't say the series is action heavy. It's more instructional most of the time taking the viewer through the basics of various martial arts. The voice acting was very good and it brought many characters to life defining their individual martial arts style. It was unfortunate that the voices for Furinji Miu and Furinji Hayato had changed in the OVA due to the deaths of the voice actors. The new voices however don't disappoint as they try their best to sound as similar as possible. I do recommend this series to viewers of many ages. I think we shouldn't miss this original shonen series.