Kick no Oni

Kick no Oni - translated by Google
This review will contain: analysis of the anime, information about Sawamura and my opinion at the end of it all.
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I decided to start with Sawamura: a real person, who had an incredible story as a fighter, and the anime only adapts part of it. His career is summed up in 248 fights, 232 wins and 228 knockouts (in just 7 years). A brilliant career inside the ring. He popularized kickboxing worldwide (along with Noguchi). The anime managed to highlight this perfectly, keeping its feet on the ground (I'll talk about it later).
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About the anime: as you can see, this ... isn't really an "anime", it's more of an animated "documentary" about his career, that being said, we can't evaluate it objectively, it would even be lame "his life had no emotion" (lol). Even though the anime is repetitive, boring, it's still his life. It’s not possible to evaluate it objectively — but I found some loopholes. Therefore, I prefer to talk about what the anime most comments/does: a supreme compliment to honor. Yes, it may seem crude, but concepts such as masculinity, respect, friendship and the honor that surrounds all of this make Sawamura an IDEAL model of a person, but a failure as a character. Bringing back the comment about anime being "feet on the ground", the work brings this model of person as a form of maturity and reflection; and brings him as a character just a hitting and training machine (basically 80% of the anime). There wasn't a balance of those two things — not that I think it needed to be, but if that man-machine part was represented in a better way without it being 100% about tires hitting his belly, it would be better.
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About what I think: as I said before, I saw the anime more as an animated documentary than an actual anime, so I don't see many reasons to evaluate it objectively, so to speak, except the production (which is bad ). Seeing him graduate with his grandfather was something beautiful, invaluable scenes. The definition of honor, I would say. The production is terrible: several scenes constantly reused, characters ctrl+V. Bad in general.
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Ignorable notes: all the scenes in which his grandfather appears are splendid, the opening and ending are good.

Review- Kick no Oni(1970)
-Translated by Google translator-


History: 2.5 / 10
In fact it only "exists" at the beginning, because after that you are faced with basically a bunch of repetitive epsodes with predictable and unsalted fights, with only a few who decide to have a good plot to try to convince them not to drop and torture themselves until the end, tired of always seeing the same thing repeating over and over

Art: 2.5 /10
The 70s, it was not a time that anime and manga were so good artistically, but Kick no Oni excels, everyone is similar, really, there are only 2 types of ... hair and different faces, the rest changes only a few details, sometimes even confuses

Soud: 5/10
The soundtrack is not bad, but it is also not so good, since the sound effects ... Hm, reasonable ...

Chacarters: 4/10
As I said, the beginning is the best part, where you really see a construction of the relationship between some characters, a possible development taking place, but that is all together aside, forget, many saw only loose characters or simple script instruments. Oh, and the protagonist is a very shallow

Enjoyment: 3.5 / 10
I like old works, this assistance for being from the same creator of Ashita no Joe, but don't expect something of a similar quality, I don't know what he tried to do with it. In general the show is cliché, predictable and repetitive, almost everything that was good dies with the passing of the episodes, I do not recommend