Ganbare Genki

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]

Do Your Best Genki
First volume cover
がんばれ元気 (Ganbare Genki)
Genre	Sports, comedy
Manga
Written by	Yū Koyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	1976 – 1981
Volumes	28
Anime television series
Directed by	Rintaro
Written by	Shunichi Yukimuro
Music by	Koichi Morita
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	July 16, 1980 – April 1, 1981
Episodes	35

Cast

• Genki Horiguchi (堀口 元気, Horiguchi Genki) – Toshiko Fujita
• Hideki Horiguchi (堀口 秀樹, Horiguchi Hideki) – Makio Inoue
• Kenji Seki (関 拳児, Seki Kenji) – Katsuji Mori
• Yuko Ashikawa (芦川 悠子, Ashikawa Yūko) – Kazuko Sugiyama
• Eiji Mishima (三島 栄司, Eiji Mishima) – Shūichi Ikeda
• Katsuzo Yamatani (山谷 勝三, Yamatani Katsuzō) – Hiroshi Masuoka
• Tomoko Ishida (石田 ともこ, Ishida Tomoko) – Keiko Han
• Eikichi Nagano (永野 英吉, Nagano Eikichi) a.k.a. Coach Nagano – Hiroshi Ōtake
• Takashi Kazan – Tōru Furuya
• Kisaburo Tanuma (田沼 樹三郎, Tanuma Kisaburō) – Ichirō Nagai
• Aiko Tanuma (田沼 愛子, Tanuma Aiko) – Shima Sakai