Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi

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Synonyms: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

Japanese: 史上最強の弟子ケンイチ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 61

Chapters: 584

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 9, 2002 to Sep 17, 2014

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Martial Arts, Shounen

Authors: Matsuena, Syun (Story & Art)

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

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Score: 8.16¹ (scored by 31,117 users)

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Ranked: #432²

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Popularity: #133

Members: 56,180

Favorites: 3,393

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MangaShounen SundayMatsuena, Syun (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

Kenichi Shirahama is a good-natured but bullied 15-year-old boy. Tired of being weak, he joins his school's karate club to grow stronger, only to end up as mere target practice for his seniors. However, the beautiful transfer student Miu Fuuriniji changes Kenichi's undesirable fate: she is a first-rate martial artist who introduces him to Ryozanpaku dojo.

There, Kenichi meets the dojo's six eccentric masters, who then decide to take him in as their disciple! Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi tells the story of history's strongest disciple Kenichi as he trains tirelessly under the world's greatest martial artists—who each specialize in their own martial art—to gain the strength to protect the people and values important to him.

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Background

Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi has been published in Italian by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint since March 22, 2014.

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Related Manga

Alternative version:	Tatakae! Ryouzanpaku Shijou Saikyou no Deshi
Side story:	Shijou Saikyou no Gaiden
Adaptation:	Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi, Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi OVA
Spin-off:	Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi Plus

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Characters

Shirahama, Kenichi

Main

Hopachai, Apachai

Main

Kousaka, Shigure

Main

Fuurinji, Miu

Main

Koetsuji, Akisame

Main

Sakaki, Shio

Main

Fuurinji, Hayato

Main

Ma, Kensei

Main

Niijima, Haruo

Supporting

Tanimoto, Natsu

Supporting

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Jun 13, 2016

584 of 584 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

AyyyItsNaru (All reviews)

30 people found this review helpful

Kenichi is your average protagonist.
Gets beat up
Gets a master
Gets OP as fk
Beats up everyone
Good shit.
But it's a 500+ chapter manga and I get that alot of people might not have the time to experience it fully but I'd say it's worth the read. It's like Naruto,you have to grow with it. Everyone remembers Naruto,right? It's not THAT good of a series but because we grew with him,he's like our childhood hero like Goku. Kenichi is somewhat the same as us. Plain old ordinary human. None of that chakra BS. Kenichi has to go through trials after trials that'll test his love for Miu and read more

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Dec 19, 2016

584 of 584 chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

ariffmontel (All reviews)

27 people found this review helpful

(minor spoiler alert)

this is a story about a boy who is constantly bullied, he learned martial arts from 5 masters after meeting miu, who is also his love interest. This is manga basically tells his story from being a zero to a hero in a 1 year period. this manga starts of well, but after a while, it becomes very dull and in my personal opinion, very childish, it had a lot of potential but my expectations crumbled halfway reading the manga, though i was hoping it to get better because a lot of reviews were giving it a really good score but after 584 chapters, nothing changed. the author keep on recycling the same concept for the mc to win the important matches, in which he is very durable and can stand a punch, he just keeps on getting up again no matter how many times the enemies kick his ass, and in the end, he comes up with something to defeat them. this process repeats itself so many time, even till the ending of this series. the fan service is also way overboard, i understand the concpet of this manga whereby comedy is almost constantly there even in tense battles but it gets to ridiculous points, and ironically, it contradicts the plot and characters of this manga, where almost ALL the bad protagonists eventually turns into good guys in some random plot twist, even the baddest of the bad guys is actually good in a way, which is somewhat ridiculous, some even turned into good guys in the heat of the battle. another thing which i cringe is that the fact NONE actually dies in this manga, combine these 2 and we get a manga actually meant for children, but then the ecchi factor is too strong for them so i guess this is either for really childish adults or kids who haven't discovered hentai, lol.

The characters, almost all of the characters didn't get developed enough. same goes for all their relationships. kenichi like miu in the beginning, miu hints that she also has mutual feelings for him, it goes on like that until the end, i really hoped for something more. all the other characters also mostly have the same fate. one thing i really need to commend, is nijima, he makes this manga so much more likeable with the comedy that he brings but his screen time gets drastically reduced after 2/3rds of the manga.

Overall, i think this is a pretty enjoyable manga if you just want to chill reading but just don't expect such a deep plot. the plot is so simple and predictable even a child could figure it out. The only thing it was lacking for me, was probably a hint of DRAMA to make it appeal more to the adult audience.

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Sep 16, 2014

584 of 584 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

zombiexhead (All reviews)

12 people found this review helpful

This manga is example of that writing a review before reading complete manga is a bad idea. To me, this manga is great, but i have one problem with it , at the beginning it's very good and interesting but near the end it's just mediocre and boring.

This is a martial arts manga with a little bit of romance and comedy. The story is about Kenichi Shirahama - a teenage kid who learns martial arts and being inspired by Miu Furinji to become stronger and be able to protect her. The story plot is great but later from good martial arts manga it read more

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Jun 27, 2020

584 of 584 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Mohammadalriz (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

I will give it you from the end : THIS MANGA IS AMAZING !!! Really amazing ,and to be honest , I find it much more better than other long series like Naruto and Bleach . I know you may be shocked right now , but this is my opinion , and I will supply the reasons that let me say such a thing .

First of all, the story is not that amazing , but the beginning was so simple and unique in the same time , but what let me gave it 7/10 is the comedy scenes during fights and the read more

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