Kinnikuman

Kinnikuman is a manga series created by the duo Yudetamago in 1979. It spawned a 36 volume manga series, 2 anime series, and multiple sequels/spin offs.

Plot
The story tells of the clumsy Chojin superhero Kinnikuman; who finds out that he's Kinniku Suguru, the prince of Planet Kinniku. He then manages to earn fame when winning the 20th Chojin Olympics and starts his true career as a Chojin; battling threats to justice such as the Akuma Chojin, The Akuma Knights, The Perfect Chojin and the Five Fated Princes.

Standing as a Manga/Anime
Kinnikuman is very hard to place due to the inconsistent feats presented by many characters. For instance, many Chojin during the 20th Chojin Olympics were able to travel to the moon and back to Earth in mere minutes, yet in the 21st Chojin Olympics, Pentagon is noted as the fastest Chojin despite having only supersonic speed. The series also suffers from gag feats that further cause inconsistency.

However, even ignoring this, Kinnikuman has some fairly powerful characters. In the more consistent canon sequel, Kinnikuman Nisei, characters inferior to many of the High Tier characters from the original series have been shown capable of dealing and recieving Mountain Busting attacks, while characters from the original series such as Ataru had power equal to the impact of a napalm bomb. In the original series, there were many characters with fairly overpowered abilities. For instance, Planetman, whilst not being as powerful as the planets he was made from, was able to use many of their abilities such as gravitational fields. Pentagon also had some slight time manipulation abilities, while the likes of TVR was able to have complete control over that which he viewed.

One subjective feat is Suguru punching a character and sending them to the moon, destroying a significant fraction of the moon (enough to be on par with a continent's size). While the feat was held with some plot significance as one of Suguru's finishing moves, especially due to being the weakest finishing move, it was never used again, and people with diamond durability could tank far stronger moves. However, while such could constitute as plot inconsistency, other powerful feats such as Planetman's control of the planets and Suguru deflecting his Sun (which were never stated to be inferior to their true celestial entities) may have such significance of diamond busting as merely when combined with Akuma Shogun's already massive power.

Original Series

 * Kinniku Suguru


 * Terryman


 * Robin Mask


 * Ramenman


 * Brocken Jr.


 * Warsman


 * Buffaloman


 * Ashuraman


 * Akuma Shogun


 * Neptuneman


 * Kinniku Ataru


 * Kinnikuman Super Phoenix

Kinnikuman Nisei

 * Kinniku Mantaro


 * Terry the Kid


 * Checkmate


 * Mars


 * Kevin Mask