Is megalo box the prime example of why animu with an unlikeable/uninteresting/unrelateable protagonist is doomed to fail?
i dearly loved hajime no ippo but with this whole I WANNA CHALLANGE DA CHAMP meme it was boring to the point i forced myself trough episodes.
You're just a zero-attention zoomer, JD was a fine protagonist.
>Is megalo box the prime example of why animu with an unlikeable/uninteresting/unrelateable protagonist is doomed to fail?
no
why
Because you grew up in the cell phone age.
One problem was it discarded the premise of "dudes using exoskeletons to box goddamn that's gar" with Joe foregoing using one as his gimmick, and just getting by on talent and the ability to not die when he gets hit by a guy wearing hardware designed to multiply their strength tenfold and then the fight scenes weren't terribly well animated or choreographed to show it off.
Personally thought Joe was okay. I mean, he was just a kind of dumb jabroni meathead who wanted to reach the top. He was Rocky, and that's okay. The corporate scheming was what was unrelatable. ANY military would already have thoroughly invested in and investigated the use of exoframes far before they reached commercial/entertainment use. Maybe that's also part of the lingering dissatisfaction: the military should've been shown using those things already during the PTSD-flashbacks.
No, blame internet culture, nowadays to succeed you need to be controversial as fuck
Yes, but retarded manimefags will disagree.
>blaming MANimefags when shounenshit is ruining the industry
Fuck off.
He just didn't have any real character development
the thing with the show is that it started out great and made a big splash, mainly with its great aesthetic, and people got hooked by that alone. Popularity mostly relies on getting people to tune in in the first place. 60% of viewers won't even notice a decline in quality
Moeshit is even worse desu.
>Moeshit
Enjoy your ban.
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The fights were so disappointing from an animation standpoint. Lots of stills and very little weight behind everyone's movements yet we are supposed to believe the punches they are throwing would break bones.
>i dearly loved hajime no ippo
If you watched Megalo Box without watching AnJ you're a fucking retard.
Welcome to modern anime.
Why are people always bringing up Ippo when Megalo Box is a tribute series for Ashita no Joe?
That picture and premise suggests it's boxing but even more concussion-inducing, which was kind of interesting. Then I sit through multiple episodes of protag getting by without it? What the fuck, how boring.
No stakes - The anime
Because it's good and it involves boxing.
I usually see people bring up Joe rather than Ippo, OP's just a retard or something.
Joe was the only good thing about Megalo Box. The pacing and story otherwise were shit and apart from the first and last episode it was really a drag to watch. Could have been so much better but fuck it, it's over now. OST was alright though.
>Joe was the only good thing about Megalo Box.
You crazy.
Maybe I had unrealistic expectations for this but after a great first episode it went downhil really quikcly for me, and I was what seemed like one of the few people who didn't give a shit about the whole gearless thing since AnJ was never about the boxing. But the character development and story in Megalo Box was so bad. It took until the last ep with Joe and NotRikishi to make it really interesting. Everything in the middle was a poorly handled mess.
Might have worked if it was twice as long.
Megalobox wasn't without its flaws but it had soul, which is all I can ask for in a re-imagining of a classic.
>that bed scene
>that climbing through the abandoned gym scene
He deserved better than he got. At least his life changed for the better and he turned it around post kaboom.
>Joe was the only good thing about Megalo Box.
Sorry, you called?