In the late 60's and early 70's was kickboxing extremely popular in Japan in a few years had achieved levels close to hearing the Japanese favorite sports like baseball or sumo, the most popular figure at the time was Kickboxing Tadashi Sawamura, and harness the pull is made a anime series based on his career "Kick no Oni", although the series is fiction in it, there are interesting aspects of the genesis of Kickboxing in Japan, recreates the first bout of the Sawamura Thai Adisong appears the promoter Osamu Noguchi, training ...
The series produced by Toei Animation famous company, was created by Ikki Kajowara and Kentaro Nakashiro and consisted of 26 episodes.
The series was very popular in Japan was aired on TBS, could also be seen in the United States and several South American countries, Brazil was one of the biggest hits of the 70.
Here you have a link to Episode 2 where there is a particular version of the fight against the Thai Adisong Sawamura.
