Hiro Mashima
Widely regarded as a classic manga series, it has been cited by "Fullmetal Alchemist" creator Hiromu Arakawa as a series she "love[s]" and as an influence to her work, as well as by "Fairy Tail"s Hiro Mashima. "Assassination Classroom"s Yūsei Matsui cited it as one of his favorite mangas, while Yoshihiro Togashi was influenced by "Kinnikuman" on shifting the focus of his "Yu Yu Hakusho" from occult detective fiction to the martial arts genre based on a similar shift "Kinnikuman" did from comedy to action.