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Back on planet Kinniku (giant Kinniku head) after being badly beaten, they gripe that if Suguru would have been there to help, they wouldn't have lost to the DMP. Ramen Man explains to the 'older' generation that there is another who may possess the power of Suguru, Kinniku Mantaro. There is significant banter about him because Mantaro is a spoiled coward.

Cut to Mantaro's (Kid Muscle's) room. Mantaro is about to eat and gets overjoyed because it is his favorite, beef guidon. However, to the dismay of Mantaro, he won't be allowed to eat until his studies are complete. Feigning study, he is really looking at a girlie magazine. While fawning over the beauties, his Grandfather taps him on the shoulder, but Mantaro is in deep thought and ignores this. Upset at Mantaro's lack of discipline, the old man begins to explain to him about his destiny and so forth. Mantaro, being the irresponsible, spoiled little wretch that he is, decides to run away from all this. Using his fart flying technique to outrun his pursuers, he ends up on a spaceship that autopilots itself to Earth. After crash landing, Mantaro finds himself in a field next to a peculiar looking shed (the old house of Suguru and Mitokun/Niku from the early manga). Inside, Mantaro is curious about a coffin shaped box. He presses a button and out pops Mitokun (Niku) from his cryogenic preservation. Niku explains to Mantaro about his destiny, and again, not wanting the responsibility, Mantaro runs back to his space pod, to blast off again. Much to his chagrin, he encounters Blood Killer (Adversarious) of the DMP, who has come to destroy him. After running for his life from the DMP bully, Mantaro takes a break to eat a bowl of Beef Guidon. Again he is denied his favorite meal, as Blood Killer (Adversarious) crushes the bowl. That does it for Mantaro, and after an emotional outburst, he beats the living hell out of Blood Killer, ending it with the Kinniku-buster. Blood Killer retreats to fight another day, and the episode ends.

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The next scene cuts away to the heroes approaching and entering the Hercules Factory Training Facility, where Buffaloman, Robinmask and Rikishiman are there to greet them. Thus they begin their training. One phase of training has the fighters bending backwards over a curved spiky thing, similar to half a donut, embedded with long spikes. They must suplex their dummies over the spike without getting pricked. Terry the Kid does so flawlessly. Samuu does so, but touches the spikes, and thus passes, but barely. It is now Mantaro's turn. The coward that he is, he hesitates, until Robin Mask threatens to push him over it. Mantaro begins his move, but Terry the Kid, who is munching on a bag of nuts, spits one with so much force, that it embeds itself in Mantaro's arm. Mantaro, being stung by the projectile, loses his balance and  falls to the side, gashing his shoulder on one of the spikes. When Niku begins to berate him for screwing up, Mantaro complains about the nut, and it is revealed that Terry the Kid interfered. Niku and Robinmask began to chastise Terry the Kid about interfering, and Terry again starts off on his tirade about his dad losing all the glory to Suguru, and so forth. He explains that if Mantaro were drowning in the ocean that he would swim the opposite way, and would never help him out. At the end of the rant, Mantaro and SpecialMan Jr. take off in the wrong direction, away from the rest of the group and they are told to come back, that they are going towards the sparring ring. Specialman Jr. then begins to crack and out comes Boaconda (English name). Boaconda tosses Mantaro into the ring and activates the cage feature, which locks the two of them in until one wins. They are now trapped in a huge steel cage match, in which Mantaro gets the crap kicked out of him. Not to be outdone, Terry the Kid jumps onto the side of the cage and taunts Boaconda, complaining that Mantaro is taking the spotlight, as Suguru did to Terry Man. Boaconda, annoyed, lashes his spiked tail at the side of the cage and succeeds in knocking Terry the Kid flat on his back, far away from the cage setup. Still reeling from the hit, and suffering from a gash on his thigh, Terry the Kid is approached by a cloaked stranger. The stranger helps Terry to sit up, and removes a patterned handkerchief from his cloak. When he removes the cloth, a picture of Suguru and Terry Man, holding the HUGE trophy they won as the Machine Guns tag team. As he begins tying the bandana around the gash on Terry the Kid's injured thigh, Terry recognizes it as belonging to his father. The cloaked figure reveals that it is the handkerchief that Terry Man gave to Suguru as a token of their friendship, and that Suguru wore it into battle always, because it made him feel as if Terry Man was right there fighting along side him. Terry the Kid mentioned that he never saw his dad bring home a trophy as big as in the Machine Guns picture, and it was explained that Terry Man refused to accept them for himself, as his greatest reward was helping his friends. Finally the cloaked figure states that Suguru held Terry Man up as his inspiration and role model. Hearing all this, Terry the Kid decides to help out Mantaro somehow. But, the cloaked figure taunts Terry the Kid, reminding him of his vow never to help Mantaro. Terry the Kid recants and vows to try to be a man as good as his father. Terry the kid runs off to help Mantaro, and you see a shadowed face of the cloaked stranger. It is Suguru. Leaping again to the side of the cage, Terry the Kid distracts Boaconda from his attempt to pop Mantaro's head off his body, and when Boaconda releases Mantaro to give Terry the Kid another whack with his tail, Terry loads up some nuts in his mouth and fires away at Boaconda, putting large indentations/holes in his armor. Urged on by Terry the Kid, Mantaro then grapples Boaconda into the Kinniku-buster move (butt-buster) and decimates the robot into torn shreds. The aftermath shows Mantaro and Terry the Kid giving each other the thumbs up sign.

Buffaloman and Terry the Kid begin their match. Buffaloman feigns a handshake to start, but when Terry the Kid grabs his hand, Buffaloman knees him in the chest, sending Terry reeling. He then pins Terry to the mat and begins beating the holy terror out of him.

Cut to Samuu. When Ramen Man offers a handshake, Samuu rejects and immediately begins a barrage of blows to Ramen Mans face, all of which are easily blocked by the veteran wrestler. Ramen Man then begins his assault on Samuu, including a myriad of aerial tactics, and ending in a submission hold to which Samuu relents and subsequently fails his training.

Back to Buffaloman and Terry the Kid, Buffaloman is still wailing on Terry's now red and swollen face, but appears to be tiring. Terry the Kid explains to Buffaloman that he may be a daunting foe, but he is to old and out of shape to mess with this youth. Buffaloman, pissed off, hurls Terry the Kid into the air and does his bull charge (reminiscent of Bald Bull) and rams Terry with his horns a few times before Terry begins to taunt him again. This time saying that his horns aren't nearly as sharp as his spurs and have no chance of hurting him. This being said, Terry uses Buffaloman's horns as grips, and wrapping his legs around Buffaloman's neck, digs his spurs into his neck, bringing him down into several submission holds, until exhaustedly, Buffaloman gives in. Terry the Kid has passed.

Robinmask explains that Mantaro is next. Mantaro the coward that he is, begins to back away complaining about stomach problems, but inadvertently trips over the box that Robinmask was using and rolls all the way into the next ring, also accidentally pressing the button release his opponent. As the episode ends, Mantaro's opponent appears to be none other than Kinnikuman Suguru! Daunting, rock solid and in as good a shape as ever!

Finally the actual graduation has come and awards are about to be handed out. Again, Mantaro is nowhere to be found. Just in time, Mantaro appears wearing this butt ugly flower print suit. He is expecting to get "Best Wrestler".

The awards are handed out in this order:

Best Use of Weight: Sieuchin

Best Technique: Terry the Kid

Best Wrestler: Gazelleman

Mantaro is bewildered by not receiving the award because he DID beat Suguru but Robinmask explains that it is for the best overall wrestler. Mantaro asks if he has won any award, and Robinmask gives him the "Best Dressed" award.

Commencing the ceremonies, the new champions are loaded onto the space ship and hurtled towards Earth.

Meat begins Mantaro's training, but Mantaro, uninterested doesn't give much effort. Meat puts Mantaro in a submission hold that he claims has never been broken, and tells Mantaro to try to get out. Mantaro doesn't even try, until he spots three young schoolgirls and is quite taken with one of them. In his smitten state, he decides to get a closer look at them, and easily wrests free of Meat's hold. While hiding behind a hedge in front of the girls, he hears them talking about the latest fads and learns the name of the one he is quite overtaken with is Rinko (Roxanne). As the girls turn to leave, Mantaro begins to follow. But before he can get off the property, he is stopped by Gazelleman, who informs him that he is to train, and not to leave the property at all, until instructed to do so, by Gazelleman himself, who has taken charge of the new group. Words are exchanged, and Gazelleman and Mantaro are about to spar, when out of nowhere, Kevin Mask steps in the way and asks why to Hercules Factory graduates would be fighting among each other. Words are exchanged and Meat recognizes Kevin to be the son of Robin Mask. Gazelleman and Kevin Mask begin to fight, and Kevin Mask easily gets the best of Gazelleman. Sparing him any real harm, he taunts them some more and leaves.

Next scene, it is night and Mantaro and Meat are sleeping in the funny little house. Outside the window, we see three members of the DMP ready to pounce on the sleeping pair, but they are confronted by Gazelleman.

Upon awakening the next morning, Mantaro decides to go into town for a bite to eat, and notices the same girl from the day before and follows her all around town. Eventually he follows Rinko into a building that is hosting an IWF Wrestling Event. As he enters it pans to the center ring where the current tag team champs have just successfully defended their titles. Meat is the next one through the door, finally having found Mantaro after his chase. Suddenly, three members of the DMP enter the center ring and make quick work of the tag team champs. Meat thinks this is the perfect chance for Mantaro to wipe the floor with some DMP baddies. During the final blow to the tag team champs, it is revealed that Kevin Mask is one of the DMP. Meat is appalled! How could the son of one of the Hercules Factory's greatest champions  be affiliated with the DMP? Kevin Mask begins his dialogue about how, growing up he was deprived of a normal life, because of his father's push for Kevin to become every bit the champion he was. He says eventually he got tired of it, and took his frustrations to the streets, where he took on all the common street thugs and beat the hell out of them, and finally was given the opportunity to join the DMP (who he noted "gave him a sense of family"). Just then, Gazelleman busts through the door (looking quite demolished) and tells how the DMP were going to attack Mantaro as he slept last night, but that he stopped them, and instead got beat down in the process. Meat urges Mantaro to go on the offense towards them, and surprisingly he does and enters the ring looking like he's going to bust open the gates on them. But, staying true to character, Mantaro goes into a corny tirade about marketing the DMP's shirts and what not. When it is explained to him that they are going to stomp him into the ground, Mantaro retreats to the far doors where he entered. He is about to exit until the spotlight is shone upon him, and Meat's voice booms over the loud speaker. Meat introduces Mantaro as the man who will take on the DMP. The crowd begins to cheer on Mantaro, and he is awed by the concept of a fan base. He even sees the girl he followed into the arena cheering for him (it turns out she was only trying to get her friend's attention, who happened to be standing directly behind Mantaro). This spurs him on and he enters the ring. When asked who he will challenge of the three, he picks the shortest, who turns out to be Tel Tel Boy (Dialbolic). Tel Tel Boy makes a show of himself, and tells Mantaro that he will be slaughtered when they meet tomorrow. Meat tells Mantaro not to fear, as he will have 24 hours to prep for the fight.

Back at Mantaro's shack, Meat comes in and is outraged that Mantaro is making stupid shirts instead of preparing for the fight the next day.......

My guess is that Tel Tel Boy is calling up Bibinba, Mantaro's mom. We'll see next week though.

This episodes starts out with Tel Tel Boy making a call to Nanako-San (announcer guy) on accident. He quickly hangs up and dials correctly. This time he reaches Suguru, and begins the transformation into him. Mantaro seems petrified, but as Meat points out, Tel Tel Boy called the wrong person if he was trying to frighten Mantaro. The Hercules group recalls all the reasons that Mantaro isn't afraid of Suguru, and the other DMP members get upset about it. Mantaro jumps on Tel Tel Boy's shoulders and goes slap happy on him, until Max Man (Pumpinator) tells him to cut short the trauma call. Tel Tel Boy morphs back into himself and thinks he's going to lay the smack down on Mantaro, but Mantaro commences to beat the hell out of him. Mantaro pins him on his back, straddles him and begins laying into his midsection (keypad). As he does this, he unwittingly makes a call to the lamest weather update you'll ever hear. It informs him that there will be rain after 5PM. Realizing that he can make some calls this way, he dial up the Chinese take out and orders some food, including beef guidon (cut to his stupid rice bowl dance) and charges the whole thing to Tel Tel Boy's account. He then dials up the radio station and wins 2 tickets to the Mantaro/Tel Tel Boy match-up. Tel Tel Boy, after taking a beating, morphs the red tip of his antenna into a hand, charged with electricity, and then it is his turn to go slap happy on Mantaro. Mantaro is backed down into a corner, arms covering his face against the flailing antenna slap attack. Meat gives him some advice, and Mantaro then get Tel Tel Boy's slap timing down and manages to dodge the remainder of his slaps. Tel Tel Boy then grows electrical dreadlocks and wails on Mantaro something fierce. After Mantaro is worn down sufficiently, Tel Tel Boy explains that it's time to put him out. Hearing this, Mantaro pisses a fountain. All of the sudden Tel Tel Boy backs off in fear. Mantaro gets an idea. He mentions that it is after 5PM. He jumps to his feet and flies toward the roof of the dome. Tel Tel Boy extends his shock locks up to Mantaro, who dodges them all by twisting around. Mantaro then whacks his antenna hand up to the dome and breaks through the roof of the dome, exposing the night sky. Distracted by his last move, Mantaro is a prime target for the shock locks, which leave Mantaro hurtling back towards the canvas, and eventually landing with a crash. Tel Tel Boy can smell victory, as Mantaro lays beaten upon the canvas. But wait, all of the sudden rain pours in from the hole in the ceiling that Mantaro made earlier. The rain short circuits Tel Tel Boy, and Mantaro puts him into the Kinniku-buster and leaps into the air to finish it. (The American cartoon renames it the Kinniku-buster, instead of the Butt buster in this scene). Tel Tel Boy somehow slips free and they both hurtle towards the earth. Mantaro then uses the power of Ultimate Muscle and re applies the Kinniku-Buster for a powerful finish! Tel Tel Boy falls to the matt, battery totally drained. Mantaro has won!

Max Man and Kevin Mask are surprised to see Mantaro victorious. Meat rushes into the ring to congratulate Mantaro and informs him that the take out has arrived. Mantaro begins to eat, but falls flat on his face in sheer exhaustion. Seeing Mantaro in a helpless state, Max Man jumps into the ring in order to finish him off in a weakened state.

In the mean time Mantaro is laid out on 3 front row seats resting under a blanket, next to the beef guidon. Throughout the episode, Mantaro is seen sneaking the bowls to eat.

Max Man, in his impatience decides to make short work of a Hercules Factory graduate while he waits for Mantaro to rest. He will fight number one, which is Gazelleman, but since the DMP already beat the hell out of him, he will take number two. Terry the Kid agrees, but Max Man notes that Sieuchin is number two, and Terry is number three. Sieuchin gets into the ring and begins to beat the hell out of Max Man. Meat notices that Max Man looks really familiar. After a few brutal moves, Sieuchin is about to lay a massive kick on Max Man when he asks for a break to catch his breath. Sieuchin, the nice guy that he is, agrees to give him a quick moment, but it turns out to be a ploy by Max Man, who begins a vicious attack on Sieuchin. Morphing into the shoe, Max Man demolishes Sieuchin, and eventually plants a nasty suplex on him, driving him head first into the canvas. Max Man claims victory, as Sieuchin is sticking feet up, head buried in the canvas. Sieuchin recovers and asks him if that was his best. Max Man then uses his most brutal move on Sieuchin to finish him off. He launches Sieuchin into the air, and in the shoe form, he drives Sieuchin into the matt, toe planted firmly in him mid section. Sieuchin is finished and is removed on a stretcher. As he is taken out of the arena, Sieuchin asks if Mantaro saw that last move. Meat and the other say that Mantaro is out cold and couldn't have seen it, but Sieuchin says that Mantaro has been awake the whole time, eating the rice bowls. Meat immediately yanks off the blanket and berates Mantaro for sitting around while Sieuchin got the crap kicked out of him, and for eating all the food too. Mantaro goes to Sieuchin's side and finds out that after the suplex, he was finished, but that he took the brunt of the most devastating move, so that Mantaro would realize what he had coming. As Sieuchin is carted off, his bandana falls to the ground. Mantaro picks this up, encouraged by Sieuchin's selflessness, he vows revenge. Max Man says he has thirty minutes left, but Mantaro refuses the extra time and immediately goes to the back to prepare for the match. The three girls (including Rinko) sneak into the back and get a glimpse of Mantaro condition himself. Meat catches the girls and gives them the boot. He then sees Mantaro and is very proud.

Mantaro emerges from the back and walks down the aisle gloriously, with Sieuchin's headband on. He enters the ring and begins to beat the hell out of Max Man. Max Man takes the last blows with ease and it is explained that he is resistant to blows, because of his shoe like resilience. Mantaro then applies some submission holds to him. Meat realizes why Max Man is familiar, he is the grandson of Snigator. Flashbacks show Snigator in a couple of his forms, including the hand! Max Man breaks free and morphs into the Shoe and does some damage to Mantaro, including a nasty pile driver into the matt. Mantaro looks down for the count, and the episode ends as we see the translucent form of Snigator enveloping the ring!

Mantaro feigns fatigue and falls to the matt. Max Man takes the opportunity to launch himself into the air and begins the same move that finished off Sieuchin. Mantaro lays still until the very last minute, and rolls out of the way, only to reveal that he left a pile of crap on the matt for Max Man to impale himself in. Max Man is completely grossed out and frantic about landing in the crap, and begins running around frantically. Much ado is made of this scene, that Terry the Kid recalls how, as a young boy, he lost a new pair of shoes to a misstep in a pile of dung. Mantaro then slams Max Man head first into the crap, and Max Man gets more frantic. Finally Mantaro decides to finish him. He launches into the air with Max Man still in shoe form on his shoulders, knowing that Max Man will think he is going to be slammed heel first into the pile of dung again, and will revert to human form. When Max Man reverts, Mantaro uses the opportunity to grapple him into a Kinniku-driver hold, and lands the move for a vicious finish on the canvas. Max Man is finished. Mantaro is victorious.

Next we see Kevin Mask step to the side of the ring. Terry and Gazelleman think he is going for Mantaro, and step in the way, but Kevin Mask reveals that he is quitting the DMP, for their lack of honor, and he removes his DMP shirt and rips it into shreds. Mantaro immediately pulls out one of his shirts and gives it to Kevin Mask, who let's it fall to the floor and laughs that he isn't joining the Hercules Factory. He reveals that he will go it alone, and as he turns to leave, tells Mantaro that he will see him in the ring someday.

Once Kevin is gone, the big screen in the arena lights up with an update from a Wrestling league elsewhere in Japan. It shows Sunshine, along with his two protégés standing victorious over the limp bodies of Gorgeous Man and the Barbarian. Meat.

End episode 9.

In town, Mantaro and Meat go in search of some food, and end up in a small diner. Who else happens to be in the diner, but Sunshine, in a long over coat and hat as a partial disguise. Conversation ensues and Sunshine flashes back to times past. He recalls some battle scenes including Kinniku Suguru and Kinnikuman Great (Terry Man) defeating Sunshine and Ashuraman. Along with Buffalo man changing sides from Sunshine's team to Suguru's team. It also shows a few clips from the Golden Mask saga and Ashuraman finally turning good and joining Suguru. Sunshine sheds a tear for the lost ally. He rants and raves some more until he wisps away as a sand cloud. Meat turning to speak to Mantaro, notices that he is gone.

Mantaro is off to find some more food, and ends up in a seafood restaurant. He runs up a 25000 yen ($255) tab and can't pay it. He is about to be turned over tot he police by the head waiter, when a stranger in a trench coat and hat (yup, you guessed it - Sunshine) offers to pay the bill.

Next we see Terry the Kid in the ring that he will be fighting in at noon, in a darkened arena. He shouts to Sunshine and the other two that he is ready and doesn't need to wait until noon.

Back to Mantaro and the stranger walking down an alley behind the restaurant. Mantaro explains how it is odd that a stranger would help him, but that he is indebted to him for his act of kindness. Sunshine reveals himself and puts Mantaro in a not too menacing one armed headlock and explains that he will gladly take him up on the favor issue.

End Episode 10

I wonder what the favor will be?