Ganbare Genki

Do Your Best Genki
First volume cover
がんばれ元気
(Ganbare Genki)
GenreSports, comedy
Manga
Written byYū Koyama
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original run19761981
Volumes28
Anime television series
Directed byRintaro
Written byShunichi Yukimuro
Music byKoichi Morita
StudioToei Animation
Original networkFuji TV
Original run July 16, 1980 April 1, 1981
Episodes35

Do Your Best Genki (がんばれ元気, 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.[1]

  1. ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-19.