A boxing prodigy who is Ryuuji&#039;s main rival.  He continues to fight in the hopes of being recognized as the world&#039;s best boxer despite an injury he sustained when fighting Ryuuji.  A serious and determined boxing genius. 

In order to fulfill their dead father's wish, the siblings, Kiku Takane and Ryuuji Takane aim for the champion title of the boxing arena. The sister, Kiku, will act as the trainer while her brother, Ryuuji, will concentrate on the role of the boxer and learn the Boomerang Hook technique. His battle with many rivals has led to the growth and maturity of Ryuuji. The junior high boxing tournament has began and Ryuuji will be fighting his arch-rival, Jun Kenzaki. The battle begins.
 
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Married to [Ai Maeda](https://anilist.co/staff/95487). Previously married to [Nao Nagasawa](https://anilist.co/staff/96037) with whom he has a daughter.

After defeating Black Shaft's makeshift Team USA and proving their worth to the Shadow Clan, Team Golden Japan Jr. will finally enter the World Jr. Boxing Tournament. In order to fulfill their goal of a perfect victory they'll have to take on teams from countries like Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, and the mysterious and godlike Team Greece.
 
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Immediately after Ryuuji Takane won the Champion Carnival, the U.S. Junior Champion Black Shaft appeared, and challenged the best Japan has to offer, just before the World Tournament is about to happen. Now Ryuuji, Takeshi Kawai, Kazuki Shinatora, Ishimatsu Katori, and Superstar Jun Kenzaki have to prove to not only Black Shaft, but the world, that they are truly world-class boxers before the World Tournament starts. But Shaft is not recruiting boxers for his challenge, but instead gets a life-timer criminal from Death Row, the leader of the Great Angels, one of the toughest gangs in America, a mysterious woman, and the "Dark Emperor of the South". Also, Shaft negotiates with Don Giuliano, the Italian Junior Champion, just in case...
 
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After defeating Black Shaft's makeshift Team America, the Golden Japan Jr. team returns to training for the World Tournament that will be held in Tokyo. But during training the Shadow Clan, which uses boxing as an assasination technique, kidnaps Kiku in order to lure Ryuuji and the others into a fight to see who's truly the better representatives of Japan's junior boxers.
 
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Takane Kiku and Takane Ryuji are the children of a legendary world contender boxer. Kiku, the daughter seems to have inherited her father's boxing sense and tries to teach Ryuji to become a world contender. However, Ryuji hates boxing and gets picked on. After Kiku and Ryuji leave their hometown for Tokyo, Ryuji eventually learns to discover a passion for boxing after an encounter with a boxing prodigy, Kenzaki Jun. This will eventually lead him to learn crazy moves and out of this world opponents to become one of Japan's top junior boxers. 
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At the end of Ring ni Kakero 1, Ryuuji Takane went up against Superstar Jun Kenzaki for the World Title. Now, 17 years later, Rindo Kenzaki, the son of Jun Kenzaki and nephew of Ryuuji Takane, lives with Ishimatsu Katori, the "Kenka Champion" from Ryuuji and Jun's time. Rindo will meet up with a new generation of boxers to create a new Golden Japan Jr. to take on the world. 
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Special chapter first released in the Ring ni Kakero Real databook and then rereleased in the Oh! Super Jump magazine to conmemorate the release of the anime's second season.

Compilation of four one-shots centers around the author Masami Kurumada and his assistants from studio Shinwa-kai. 
1. Aidokushashō ni wa te o dasuna!! (愛読者賞には手を出すな!!?) [WSJ #13, 1979]
 -Kurumada and his assistants brutally slaughtered rival mangaka such as [Osamu Akimoto](https://anilist.co/staff/97155/Akimoto-Osamu), [Hisashi Eguchi[(https://anilist.co/staff/113237/Eguchi-Hisashi), and [Leiji Matsumoto](https://anilist.co/staff/97597/Matsumoto-Leiji) for the Jump weekly survey. 
2. Ring ni Kokero (リングにこけろ) [WSJ #18, 1980]
 -Kurumada and his assistants vs Team Japan Jr. from [Ring ni Kakero](https://anilist.co/manga/44231/Ring-ni-Kakero/). 
3. Sayonara hashi (さよなら橋) [WSJ #11, 1981]
 -Kurumada falls in love with a hostess in Hakata. 
4. Nekketsu manga no densetsu (熱血漫画の伝説) [WSJ #19, 1983]
 -Kurumada competes against a villainous rom-com mangaka.

A collection of short sequences taken from the Ring ni Kakero manga, made during the production of the fifth Saint Seiya movie by the same team, available via a mail order form included with an issue of the Super Jump magazine in 2004. It was included in the Kurumada 30th Anniversary DVD.

The Mythology is the plan of the gods. A perfect story created by them, that should never be changed in any way. However, there where mortals who altered the Mythology with their own hands. Pegasus Seiya, Ryuji Takane, Kojiro of the Fuuma, and many others were brought to this prison, where they're going to be erased to restore the Mythology to its original course... But they're not going to disappear without fighting for their existence.