Difference between revisions of "Ring ni Kakero"

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Ring ni Kakero
Original Manga	Masami Kurumada
Director/Artist	Yukio Kaizawa, Toshiaki Komura
Format	Anime (TV), Anime (OVA),Manga
Made By	Toei Animation
# of Episodes	S1: 12 S2: 12 S3: 6 S4: 2+ (Ongoing)

Genre

Sports, Shonen

Sum it up in a Sentence:

A dumb boy has fantastic boxing prowess for no reason, nuclear explosions occur as he fights with over the top characters in the ring.

Main Description

The story centers around the life of a young boxer named Ryuuji Takane and his sister Kiku, who is also his coach. Their father had been a famous boxer but is now deceased. Ryuuji and his sister both inherited their father's talent for boxing: Ryuuji inherited his strength and techniques, while Kiku picked up his talent for analysis and strategy. Ryuuji and Kiku leave home to train and become famous in order to help their lonely mother. On the way to stardom, they have to defeat the strongest challengers all over the world.

In Ring ni Kakero 1, the characters are briefly introduced, telling the story from the moment Ryuuji and Jun Kenzaki, his eternal challenger and supposed best friend, achieve stardom and fight for the National Boxing Title. Ryuuji's sister then tells the story from the beginning, when Ryuuji was the finalist in a local youth championship and had to compete against Kenzaki, the latter winning in a close K.O. one-to-one fight.

Afterward, most of the series depicts Ryuuji as being Kenzaki's successor after Kenaki was terribly injured and almost crippled. Ryuuji competes in the Japan National Boxing Championship, where he encounters strong and deadly opponents, including:

• Ishimatsu Katori, a comic relief character but also a strong fighter
• Takeshi Kawai, who specializes in the upper jab technique; he is also a pianist and likes to cheat
• Kazuki Shinatora, who specializes in the Rolling Thunder technique; he is a former kendo practitioner who retired when he challenged his father's cruel training

Ryuji also fights opponents from the United States (Black Shaft) and France (Napoleón Baroa). He fights an opponent named Führer Skorpion, who orders a fellow member of the Boxing Team to spy on Kenzaki and Ryuuji as possible threats to the World Championship.

They also fight a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Jesus Christ later on.

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Personal Opinions

AzraelNewtype

Let's just get this out of the way, the show is ridiculous. It's blatantly Saint Seiya with boxing gloves instead of cloths. The first season of the show is two tournaments in a row though, with a single training episode in the run. For a shounen fighting series, that little time spent training is a miracle. Everything about the show is gloriously over the top, and it's pretty entertaining at that. It's definitely not as good at serious drama as the other boxing shows, but if you're not looking for that you could do worse.

Links

• Anime News Network (TV Season 1)