History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Complete Series Review

At first let’s talk about things, which people usually say are not well done in those series.

1. Too much series. I think if History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi had even one episode less – affect after watching would be not complete. It’s not Hellsing or Trigun, where characters from the beginning is all mighty and powerful. Training takes time, and training from just school boy to mighty warrior especially. In Kenichi fighting has 60% time of the whole series, but they did not forget about common life problems. Even if common life problems have only 40% of the time, they still do arise many different questions, each on of them for Kenichi are important – they make him stronger, apart from everyday training.

2. Graphics. Depends on your taste. Of course you cannot compare History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi and Ergo Proxy, but i think the authors of Kenichi did not planned to gain popularity by their graphics. Even so it’s not that bad i should say that i liked it. Visuals do not have too much useless details, although it doesn’t look like incomplete.

Okay with now let’s move on with good parts of History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi:

- Humor. Even thought it’s strange to fighting-type anime, that humorous part in the series are made very well and not ordinary – those funny jokes from Kensei, those „plates“ with jokes, which always appear when the time comes. Many scenes are made really fun, when you laugh in your fist with thought „Sugooiiiii!“

- Charisma. Almost every character has it, even if it’s bad guy and even if it’s Apachai Hopachai. Everyone of them has its  unique characteristic. Some of them are cowboy like man(beer, muscles and leather coat), some with different attitude beginning from wise master and ending with perverted old man. The villains are not worse, even thought there are not many them, the real fiends. Even „Alien“ Niijima, not that bad guy as he seems. I liked very much types of Hermit and Kisara.

- Self-development. History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi has very interesting psychological realism: of course everybody understand that it’s just impossible for short time span to change entirely. When series begin we see „suffering from complexes weakling“ but soon we will see, no not the HKM (Human Killing Machine), the same guy, but now he just has its  goal. He did cried a lot about training methods – but he completed them and he could achieve some results.

- Teachers. Almost every action scene in History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, runs under their supervision, i do not know does kenichi understands this or not. Their battle abilities are perfect, that is why they do not participate in „kids brawls“, they leave themselves role of wise sensei, supervisors. Kenichi even at the end not even close to his master’s level. The name of the series are very good from this point of view. History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi – yeah he maybe the „Strongest“, but he is still „Disciple“.

I feel sad that authors forgot the story about „Kenichi - Miu“, do not know maybe they did it in manga, but in anime they could at least at the end make it a bit romantic. Overall anime 8/10. Worth your time.