AND BOY DOES IT SHOW, I'd say this change greatly increased the impact that boxing anime fans have been craving for the longest time. Instead of sticking to the same "Ashita no Joe" guns that bullets could crack for its own niche, the production staff team went for a more independent work which incoporates real-life societal issues, while still following Joe as he travels from place to place, while simultaneously not being able to move on from his past friends and rivals. Rather than make yet another season of staying with the whole "tribute to the past" thingie-a-bob (which was what attributed to the less-than-stellar feedback in both Japan and the West at the time), the staff team scrapped that idea, and went for a more mature theme that displays the post events of Gearless Joe in a long timeskip of 7 years, where everyone has matured and Joe's fall from grace as a depressed adult post-Megalonia. And apparently the production team behind the prequel also thought of it the exact same way with director You Moriyama, whom producer Minako Fujiyoshi had to convince him to do so, thinking that the prequel by itself is an open-and-shut case. Even I'll admit that going back to Season 1 now, just feels like the re-watch has made the experience much worse and a slog to finish this "boxing" anime.īut the sequel here, dubbed Megalo Box 2: Nomad? NOW THIS IS A 100% GAME CHANGER of anything but everything that we haven't yet seen before. Going back to Megalo Box, the prequel being a creation and a homage to the 50th anniversary of Ashita no Joe a.k.a Tomorrow's Joe, was a fun watch when the anime first debuted in Spring 2018, but quickly faded into obscurity for it being like a stereotypical Shounen anime where the underdog fights his way through all the underground boxing ring matches, to then rise up and be a formidable foe. The most successful and decorated Olympian of all time, Michael "Flying Fish" Phelps, sums the one word this way: "Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The Hummingbird and the Nomad (Storybook) The voice was so beautiful that it filled the Nomad's empty heart with a gentle warmth just for a moment.Īfter it had finished its song, the Hummingbird flew towards the ray of sunlight that was peeking through the clouds." The Nomad didn't want any more trouble, and stopped to hear the Hummingbird's song. Though they felt that they had been duped, the Nomad admitted defeat. Hummingbird: No, you still have eyes to see me and ears to hear my song. I lost my home, my fortune.and my family died from illness. Wanting to be freed from the persistent pest, the Nomad agreed. Hummingbird: Then how about this? If I can make you lie, listen to my song. Hummingbird: Please, I must sing my song. Hummingbird: Will you listen to my song, Nomad? I'm in a hurry, ask someone else.īut the Hummingbird just won't give up and pursued the Nomad. "As the wind whirled by, a Hummingbird appeared before the Nomad as they made their way through the wasteland.
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