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No.20827
Ashita no Joe 50th anniversary project.
JD (Junk Dog) participates in fixed boxing matches in an underground ring in order to live. Today, he enters the ring again, but he encounters a certain person. JD wants to take on a challenge that risks everything.
t. ANN
No.20829
Bit of a mixed bag based on the first episode. The soundtrack was lit, but the actual animation for the first fight, albeit not cheap, was still average, with plenty of shortcuts and workarounds. Considering it was a shitty fixed match, a springboard serving as mere introduction to the sport alongside JD's frustrations, I have hope that they'll kick it up a notch in the second episode when the real nigga shit starts.
That being said, I felt like I was transported back to the 90's while watching it. The character design, the directing, and the environments all positively reeked of the oldschool.
No.20830
JD is like a less crazy and more civilized Mugen from Samurai Champloo.
No.21024
One of /christian/'s resident anti-anime who's probably not even a Christian posters claimed the protagonist of this show looks too effeminate. How full of shit is he?
No.21076
Quality has ups and downs during the episode, but overall the style is just what I like. Like OP said, OST seems solid, and characters so far are pretty likeable. I think I'll follow this one.
Get ready for another underdog boxer story.
No.21430
Action manime of the season not that there are many contenders
MC doesn't have a jewfro in the manga (((what))) could be the cause?
No.21604
>>21430
He looked pretty damn generic to me.
He doesnt look like a "Junkyard Dog" to me at all in that mango.
No.22027
>>21430
>>21604
The one in the anime looked like he was designed by Atlus.
No.22350
Surprising nobody, the newly minted Joe got his shit pushed in by the reigning champ. Average animation throughout the fight, but the show is managing tension and hype pretty well. Always leaves me very excited to watch the next episode.
That OP though www
No.22361
>>22350
I likes my underdog boxer cliche stories
No.22390
>>22350
>in the future, surnames will not exist and there is only one person named Joe in the entire world
No.22394
No.22405
>>22390
>new cartoon network show
>Kara-mecha
>Using power suits, karatekas fight in deadly tournaments
>MC goes by the alias Inu-Rounin
>Fights the current kara-mecha champion, Esteban Gonzales
>"Oi, esse, yo soy el champion de kara-mecha, come fight me in the tournament"
>Can finally enter tournament, gets to pick a name
Haruto
No.22451
>>20827
So far it looks like your average tournament anime. We got a talented cocky underdog (whose personality is indistinguishable from the personality of all the other protags in these shows, albeit with a bit more edge), we've got a rival who happens to be the sport's champion going "get me if u can, fag", we got the manager who's threatened by the mafia for some added conflict, and of course we've got the sport: futuristic edition. Where racing anime has hover cars, boxing anime has exosuits.
It's not bad, but seems extremely generic in every aspect.
>>21024
>the protagonist of this show looks too effeminate
if anything, he looks like a nigger
>>22350
>Surprising nobody, the newly minted Joe got his shit pushed in by the reigning champ.
It could be worse. It could be Shokugeki no Souma
No.23199
>Stealing from and wrecking the shop of a shady motherfucker who sells hard drugs to children
>Everything is resolved with boxing
It's the little things that ruin the tone and atmosphere. Everyone involved should have had their asses lit up.
I don't know what they're going to do about Joe's Gear now. They better not try and pull that shit where he fights barehanded because it magically gives him some kind of edge.
No.23209
>>23199
They are probably going to do something munchkin about it. Like trying to capitalize on speed and dodges with little to no power.
This episode's animation also seemed lacking. Looks like they will balance their budget with good main-fight episodes spaced by others like this one.
No.23217
They added children into the cast.
This show is now fucked and unsalvageable.
No.23218
>>23217
>>20827
>Ashita no Joe 50th anniversary project.
No.23226
>megalobox is a homage to Akita no Joe
Fuggg, why didn't I hear this sooner?
No.23282
>>23226
It's literally in the OP
No.23479
>>23217
came here to post this
show is now shit
No.23484
>>23479
But anon don't you feel the need to adopt poor street urchins who are clever to aid you on your quest through life? For making your own see generic awkward slice of life one or two broadcast this season. We are perfecting the formula. Soon we will be overrun with babies!
No.23496
Oy (((Joe))), keep it down
No.23499
>>23484
>tfw no zero-charisma zero-luck drug-addled -damsel-in-distress thieve's-guild apprentices to steal things to help you on your quest to become the #1 boxer
>>23496
friendly reminder that Joe is an (((illegal immigrant))) and participates in match fixing.
also now that Joe has no gear how is he going to fight his next match? It's tomorrow (in anime time).
No.23576
>>23499
Some fast rigging to make it barelly functional, all speed and no strength. The plan is to dodge instead of parry (which was the advice he got this episode).
No.23597
>>23576
>inb4 they strap some PVC tubes to his back and arms and he has to go without gear
No.24023
>Gearless Joe
Fully expected it, but it's still stupid. Also Joe's fear of fighting gearless was entirely unrealistic. Gears don't do anything for endurance and stamina and there is absolutely no way gear increases effective punching strength so dramatically that it outright launches people off their feet (like it did here), otherwise a normal geared fight would be over in a single blow to the unprotected body/head. The difference between geared and ungeared boxing would be minimal and only centered on your offensive output, which really isn't all that gamechanging. Also the fight animation was mediocre.
Overall pretty shit episode.
No.24025
>>24023
It makes sense that he would be scared, since going gearless means he can't block anything. Since gears also don't increase your moving speed, Megalobox seems to be a slow game with a low TTK.
Otherwise, mediocre episode. I'm starting to like Nambu a bit more though.
No.24028
>>24025
I don't think you understand how getting hit works. If someone is hitting you with enough force to launch you off the ground and send you flying 15 feet, no quality of gear or perfect blocking technique is going to neutralize that. Let alone blows to the unprotected body/head, which would snap all bones involved in half, rupture organs, or outright kill you. Surely Joe's gotten beamed in the head/ribs a few times in his career, yes? He knows all this and thus him being deathly afraid is just completely unrealistic.
Either they went a wee bit too ham on the power of Shark's gear for dramatic tension, or more realistically, Gears just aren't that effective in increasing power output. Joe wouldn't be scared shitless in either event, since he'd already know damn well what to expect.
Also wasn't all too big a fan of the timeskip montage. Feels like they're moving a bit too quickly, but then I realized this is going to be 1 cour.
No.24032
>>24028
Man it's anime physics, I can't take punches taht send people flying several feets in the air seriously. Those happen all the time.
This episode felt rushed to me too, but because they tried to tackle two themes at the same time
>Joe's relationship with Nambu
>Low-tier progress montage
No.24033
>>24032
>Man it's anime physics, I can't take punches taht send people flying several feets in the air seriously. Those happen all the time.
Don't conflate supernatural anime physics with realistic ones. This is supposed to be the latter. It's whatever though as long as this sort of shit remains a one-off. If they keep having Joe getting clocked halfway to the moon with every punch, then the overall quality of this show is going straight to the shitter.
No.24047
>>24033
>>24032
I also don't mind unrealistic punches and whatnot. For me story structure and character progression are more important.
No.25139
Did Joe forget all of his previous training or something? Just because Aragaki's gear doesn't give him ridiculous superstrength, doesn't mean he should be blocking and facetanking all his punches. It'd be far more dramatic and narratively appropriate if he kept up his usual game, but still managed to get his shit pushed in by Aragaki (as he'd assuredly train to account for Joe's evasive dodging) until he managed a miraculous comeback.
No.25140
>>25139
I think it's a father figure issue.
Joe wants to impress but also spite Nambu.
No.25146
>>25140
I suppose that makes sense. I was wondering how they were going to stretch this fight out for 12-15 minutes next episode, but if they pad it with heartwarming scenes of Nambu/Joe talking it out in the corner it'll work well enough.
No.25150
>>25146
Hopefully the next episode has a better budget. The fights haven't been like in the first couple eps lately
No.25158
>>25150
Probably not. Either way, it's going to be unsatisfactory. If they resolve all the drama and tension mid-fight, then that'll break up the pacing of the fight and make it lame. If they go with pure action, the fight will be finished incredibly quickly and then the rest of the episode will be wrapup and talking. It's gonna be lame, I can feel it.
No.25500
I lost someone recently who I should have kept in contact with so episode 5 really struck a nerve with me.
>>24025
>It makes sense that he would be scared
If this was any other anime then sure, but this joe is based on Ashita no Joe. He always loved fighting and a challenge, even when nervous it was nerves of excitement. When he dies, there is a whole point of him saying he wants to stay in the ring until the fight leaves him. If this anime really wants to base itself on ashita no joe, then It really has to stick to a character who is always up to the challege. Joe, a man who makes the impossible possible.
>>25158
this better not be an anime with a budget that just blows all it's money on the first episodes Kill la Kill. But I guess they hooked us in that way and now we're invested.
No.26277
That entire match was about 0% hype. Not only was the match really drawn out, but the punches were weightless, the Rocky-strat™ was brought up out of nowhere, and the 50/50 weight distribution bullshit was dumb and unbelievable. To top matters off, Joe only won because Aragaki is a cripple.
Fuck all that, Aragaki deserved that win.
No.26282
>>26277
lol don't get mad. It was either that or Aragaki jobbing hard. They had to come up with an excuse for joe to win gearless against some top dog. This episode's animation was also an improvement compared to the last 2.
But was Aragaki fighting gearless too? Either he was missing a battery, or that cover was the battery itself. I've guessed that he would gift his gear to Joe, and considering that Aragaki retired, that's still a posibility
No.26336
They could have shortened the fight down a whole lot. I also didn't like how they do the same thing as every other anime and have a flashback in the middle of the fight. Ashita no Joe never did that and it was just panels and panels of the fight.
Also did Agaraki's EVA jacket mean anything?
>>23496
>((joim))
No.26358
>>26336
>EVA jacket
what?
And I'd rather they didn't shorten the fight, but at least made it look better. I keep comparing it to Hajime no Ippo, in which even spars had cool moves and could hype you up
No.26746
Hey the MC and his jewfro looks like Spike. They are
just like
each other
No.26793
>>26746
But Cowboy Bepop is shit normie cartoon that really has no place outside /co/
No.26797
>>26793
overrated, sure. Shit normalfag, no, it has good things to it that deserved it's praise
No.27335
Quite the episode. So Yukiko may or may not have pulled the strings to get the company for herself. I'd be pretty pissed if I were her brother. Wether or not it's true remains to be seen.
I think Joe will step in the ring anyway.
>Let me at least have this fight, we're done anyways, he'll rat us out
They fight, Joe wins.
Yukiko finds out about Joe's fake ID and her brother's plan. She intervenes and prevents Joe from having his ID found out, otherwise he'd be disqualified, opening a spot that Mikio could try to claim regardless of losing the fight.
No.27377
THE ENDING TO THAT EPISODE WAS BULLSHIT
so I'm expected to believe that a guy like nanbu is able to run up infront of a fighter as good as joe, midway through charging at brotherdouche(forgot his name already), and immideately inflict a KO gut punch to joe in such a short time. This is speed that joe cannot react to or at least be shown to notice before it happens. this is literally
>teleports in front of you
>nothing personnel joe
What the fuck, with speed and strength like that why isn't Nanbu competing in megalonia?
Also that sissy punch was able to knock joe out, long enough for him to be late for the match. And we all supposed to ignore the fact that nanbu should have called a hospital by that point if joe is passed out on the ground for that long.
>>27335
Yukiko, as much of a bitch as she is, was always shown to be gung-ho with letting anyone in the ring to prove themselves. It looks like her brother is playing dirty outside of the ring to make it to the top and I'm betting that is why he didn't get the company. Interesting dynamic created but there is a question how far are they going to go for it since it seems like since we know the characters we are probably going to root for yukiko.
No.27381
>>27377
>nothing personnel
No.27493
No.28848
Not anything happening in this episode. Just undoing all the tenshion and suspense that was build up in the last episode
No.28868
No.28869
>>28868
When did you start using imageboards? This year?
No.28870
>>27377
remember he still hadnt recovered from the last fight
No.28871
>>27377
>teleports in front of you
>nothing personnel joe
my fucking sides
No.28872
>>27381
you're one dumb nigger
No.28876
>>28872
>thinks it's nothing "personnel" instead of "personal"
You're the one who's dumb, retard.
No.28878
>>28876
Once you realize the mistake you're making, you just might shoot yourself.
No.28879
>>28878
>A bloo bloo correcting improper word use is a cardinal sin
Kill yourself
No.28880
>>28879
Did you just arrive from reddit or something? It's a fucking meme you dip
No.28881
No.28887
>>28880
Could you please continue to keep us up to date about what all your friends on reddit are thinking?
No.28919
I gotta admit I like nanbu's plan to take yukiko down with him if joe wasn't allowed in but him not seeing the adherent flaw of "locking his ass in the room" really made him look like a retard.
I understand that joe has to make it to megalonia and win, but just letting him in anyway is just bullshit. That probably would have gotten her fired because there is no way all those shareholders would have been cool with that
No.28979
>>28879
>Kill yourself
Psssh… nothin personnel… kid…
No.29253
>>28919
It makes sense that he didn't want to reveal they had fake IDs, but yeah his plan of "I'll make it public that your brother fixed a match" was full of holes.
How would he prove it? All he could do was create a media scandal that could be swept under the rug
In the end what won her over was Joe's pure grit, and because she heard too many times the expression "the real deal"
Also, she's the boss
But what really surprised me was that she actually went back to a rematch. I honestly thought they would make something different, like placing Yuri at the top, and making the remaining 4 contenders fight for the privilege of facing him.
No.29300
>>29253
This all works out great for her. The big spectacle of Joe charging in on his motorcycle lets her offer the rematch without looking like she's undermining her brother, and Megalonia is still only a week away so whoever wins will still be healing and has a worse chance at winning.
No.29316
>>29300
That's right, she didn't even had to come out as the bad guy for that.
Now we'll see what shitpull her broder will come up with. Either to intimidate them, pry even more on Joe's fake ID, or come up on the fly with another AI that can (try to) beat Joe.
No.29464
I like the way they settled this fight, felt a bit like a bait&switch, but I'm pleasantly surprised
teach Shirato's gear something, so you can exploi it later: that's a good plan
but in the end Shirato threw the last punch, not his gear, which would throw off joe's plan, IF Joe wasn't the best boxer
No.29526
I still can't believe they are carying the whole "gearless' gimmick to the very end
Fuck, I thought he would eventually get some gear. But it seems every fight will be
>Joe gets pummeled, please feel sorry for Joe
>He pulled some last minute shenanigans and won the fight! YAY
No.30614
So both Joe and Nambu can be each other's scorpion in that metaphor.
No.30619
>>29526
joe needs a gofundme tbh
No.30623
>>30619
Place your bets! I haven't won any so far
Joe won't throw the fight. That much is pretty clear at this point. But what happens next?
>Nambu gets killed
>Nambu goes on hiding
>Nambu somehow protected by Shirato
No.30627
>>30623
All Joe wanted was to fight Yuri, not winning Megalonia.
So I'm guessing that he'll throw the fight, and he'll fight Yuri outside the ring once the championship is over.
No.30660
>>29526
If I had to guess, the gearless part is what will get Yuri to challenge Joe to a gearless match. Geared Yuri will beat Joe, but you could tell from their first encounter that Joe cut under his skin with his 'is that how you box' comment. Yuri seems bored at being at the top so I think he will think it's not a fair fight to fight Joe with gear when he has it. It's like beating a computer opponent in starcraft when you have power overwhelming, sure you win but there's no gusto to it.
So I think Joe will win the next fight surreptitiously, Nambu will be AFK until after the Yuri fight and then he beats Yuri in a 1v1 gearless match and is able to pay back mafia nigger.
No.30814
>>29464
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that QUALITY. It wierd how he is built up to having an eternal rivalry with his sister only to fuck off into the sunset.
>>29526
That was ashita no joe as well. He get's beat to shit in multiple chapters, then in the final chapter the opponent mindfucks himself, joe starts auto-reviving, and then in a couple strong punches the opponent is down after never being hit once.
>>30623
I see nambu getting killed
I can see joe surviving and a rematch with Yuri
I also see the kid working with yukiko.
No.30815
megalo box? more like boring box amirite?
No.30822
>>30814
>in a couple strong punches the opponent is down after never being hit once.
Hajime no Ippo stands as the best boxing anime ever. And that's in spite of having the worst trainer ever.
>>30815
The fights are betting pretty boring, and considering this is a fighting anime, that's a considerable negative point
No.30857
>>30815
>not megalo boring
No.31322
>nip rap
>kid was supposed to stay with Shirato so he would be safe
>lol nope, gotta go straight to the ring and do nothing useful at all
child characters were a mistake
also, I did not expect Nambu to settle it that way
that was brutal
the fight itself was shit, as expected
No.31341
glen burroghs voice acting I thought was cool in the last episode but hearing it again it was
QUALITY
>>31322
I did not expect nanbu to do that either I guess we were all wrong with our predictions.
I'm betting that Mob boss isn't done yet and he's gonna come back to joe specifically to lose against Yuri.
I hope the actual final fight doesn't take a backseat like the fight against glen did. I appreciate that joe did a cross counter but I need more.
No.31348
I don't hate this show but I don't love it either, which is weird because I want to love it because it tries to do the whole funky nip fusion aesthetic that I love. Definitely not a classic but a solid effort overall.
No.31373
>>31341
Ok, so now pretty much all the complications have been resolved. Mob boss could come back to haunt Joe again, but at this point it would pale in comparison to Yuri's fight.
I think we're heading to an anticlimatic death
>>31348
We're on the same boat. Good effort, but it's a 7.5/10 in the end.
No.31470
>have awesome piano version of guitar theme playing to hype up fight
>have awesome (brief) theme for Glen Burroghs' introduction
>ruin it by having a fucking child drop some suhweet nig beets at the climax of the fight
No.31476
>>31470
Don't you like rap?
Gotta get the trash audience, anon.
No.31496
>>31470
It's such a contrast. There are some great songs in there, but then they sprinkle some shitty rap in there as well.
No.32133
ONE EPISODE LEFT STILL
Yukiko did nothing wrong.
Yuri could have fought Joe, wrecked his shit, and at a later date have a gearless rematch.
No.32161
I am hype for the final match now. I like the decision to dedicate the penultimate episode to building up the final fight so that it doesn't feel like just another inevitable Joe win. And even assuming Joe wins, Yuri has enough backstory and has earnt enough audience respect that I'm not hoping for him to get fucked up or anything.
No.32179
>>32161
Given the precedent set by Ashita no Joe, joe is heading to an early grave
I'm enjoying it so far, but suffering prematurely because it's gonna end already and I feel like it would have been much better as a two cour series, with less rap, and more budget dedicated to fighting scenes.
No.32784
Though the series is one of the better ones of this season, the final showdown was shit, and the ending was shit too.
No.32788
>>32784
Yeah, it was disappointing. Sort of a non-ending. I wouldn't say it completely ruins the show but it takes everything down a notch.
No.32793
>>32788
>>32784
Cool fight
Shit climax
Here, have a supercut of joe getting his shit beat
No.32794
>>32793
>Cool fight
This one was probably the worst fight of the whole show and not worthy of the final battle. Choreography was boring, lopsided, looked like the reused 2-3 punches 50 times. Perhaps they did run out of money?
No.32795
>>32794
>Choreography was boring
what? it probably had the best coreographed punches so far (maybe sans the first two fights, but I can't confirm now)
No.32798
>>32795
>they rarely move around the ring
>most of the fight shows Joe standing around taking punches
>you can't really see what's going on, because most of the shots are close-up
<best coreographed punches so far
No.32809
>>32798
Punches themselves are well animated.
And unfortunately no fight in this series has good or well animated footwork.
Compared to a staple like Hajime no Ippo, Megalobox has seriously lacking fights. But I mantain that compare to previous fights this one had good animation and punches that felt like they had weight.
No.32810
>>31373
Holy moly, I love this image. I want a Megalobox Nano in the next 8chanmania.
W-What is stick out her butt?
No.32811
Also, Joe didn't die.
He also didn't reveal his real name.
blueballs/10
No.32812
>>32810
>megalobox at 8chanmania
why didn't we think of that before?
No.32818
People seem disappointed by this episode but it was pretty much what I expected. The characters got a nice sendoff and Joe is victorious. I don't wish they'd had a more melancholy ending at all.
I sort of agree that the fight could have been a bit better, but then again I see the fights almost as a necessary evil. The show is about boxing so you gotta have fights, but the strength of the show (apart from the obvious stylistic elements) is the character exploration and how that relates to their fighting strengths and weaknesses.
It's still my AotS. Hinamatsuri and HisoMaso are the contenders after Darling predictably threw in the towel early but Megalo Box was more consistent and got me more hype (dat soundtrack).
No.32821
Everything about this show was awful.
No.32916
How is Yukiko not sued the hell and back from the investors in the army and megalo boxing when Yuri removes the gear and fights gearless? There had to have been more people besides her putting money into a military and worldwide entertainment for her to allow yuri do what he did. That would have been market suicide
There is also no way that this match is even remotely fair since yuri is recovering from super surgery, and don't say they had advance medicine and technology of the future because all douche bro had was scalpels, tweezers, and an automatic toothbrush. When is the separation from the matches because I can imagine a month of
REVERSE AUGMENTATION
would definitely not be enough to recover unless you're wolverine or some shit. I would also like to ask what was up with not using the painkillers if we don't even know if they would have reverse side effects; yuri is just being a dipshit for no reason. Also what is up with douchebrother all of a sudden being so chill and completely giving up on his quest for revenge to shutdown yukiko at every step?
The ending was so fucking weird and disjointed, what was up with the speech about dying, what was up with the accordion music, what was up with setting up a second megaloboxing if we don't even know why yukiko is investing, what is up with hotwheels yuri and not everything paralyzed yuri, what was up with joe completely giving up on boxing? It's nice everything
After saying all of that I do like the anime and I would recommend it because it's short and it's not slice of life waifushit.
>>32784
>>32788
Yeah I agree.
>>32818
>fights almost as a necessary evil
>saying this unironically while watching a boxing anime
Having anime fights and character exploration aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, they wasted the second to last episode with more nothing instead of a whole lot of potential character exploration. This was a 13 episode anime that wasted it's budget first 3 episodes and then squeezed out some juice at the final match.
>>32821
Not true. I would say that Joe, Nanbu, and Yuri are pretty good characters that carry the show while eating up the scene anytime they are on. They aren't deep characters but what traits they are given they stick with it, and are ones that are definitely shown in the show and make. I would have given the kid a pass but then he started wrapping which was one of the lowest points of the anime.
No.32917
>>32916
>They aren't deep characters but what traits they are given they stick with it, and are ones that are definitely shown in the show and make.
durrrr
What traits they are given they stick with it and maintain those character personalities throughout the show making it worth following each of them to see what they do.