A Legend Reborn
9th January 2002Generation--Next!
16th January 2002Making the Cut
23rd January 2002Like Father, Like Son
30th January 2002Dial Up Danger
6th February 2002Mask of Terror
13th February 2002Call Waiting
20th February 2002Trouble Afoot
27th February 2002Fury of the Scorned Shoe
6th March 2002Unmellow Yellow
13th March 2002The Hand That Bites You
20th March 2002Cold War
27th March 2002Checkmate!
3rd April 2002Feeling No Pain
10th April 2002The Student Rebellion
17th April 2002The Final Move
24th April 2002Roxanne Rocks!
1st May 2002Cutting the Slack
8th May 2002The Muscle League vs. the Muscle League
15th May 2002Water Damage
22nd May 2002A Bad Sign
29th May 2002Road Rage
5th June 2002From Bad to Worse
12th June 2002Ultimate Courage
19th June 2002Ink or Swim
14th December 2002The Kid vs. the Squid
3rd July 2002Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy, known in Japan as Kinnikuman II sei, is a manga and anime series made by Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada under the pen name Yudetamago. It is the sequel to the hit manga Kinnikuman that they started in 1979. The toy line of Kinnikuman was released in North America as M.U.S.C.L.E.. The name of Ultimate Muscle was chosen to connect the Americanized storyline of the M.U.S.C.L.E. toyline of the 1980s into the anime. Bandai also produced intermittently distributed toy tie-ins during the initial run of Ultimate Muscle.




