Megalo Box - The Ascension of the Stray Dog
It was a normal afternoon weekend, I was watching some anime on the free version of Crunchyroll, when the usual commercial break started. I saw then the silhouette of a boxer walking through what looks like a run-down gym, his hand caressing the walls dirtied up with traces of blood while walking towards the ring. During this walk, we see flashes of various boxing matches, the arms of the fighters adorned with robotic implants , and our main character trying to give his best in the fight with strikes that have the impact of a bomb straight to his face. This was Megalo Box , and it just gained all of my attention. Megalo Box was born in 2018 for the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic manga, Ashita No Joe , a manga I never got a chance to read, or watch one of its anime adaptations. This is something that I feel I should try and fix eventually, considering this is one of the greatest classics of the sports genre, known as Spokon in Japan. There were many things that hooked me ...