Audience reviews
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k-0da
This show is pretty awesome.
Balls to the walls high testosterone action, paired with absolutely stunning animation from the late, great, Studio Gainax. Everything here is so fluid, each expression pushed to extremes. The big choppy outlines on the characters are great aesthetic touches. The action itself is nicely choreographed--nothing out of this world, by any means, but it's cheesy and perfect for the OVA's overall tone. You should watch this for the animation alone.
The story is pretty bare-boned, all things considered, but the characters are all delightfully cheesy and delightfully charming. I wish Yukari had a little more agency in this, but you get what you get with 90s OVAs.
Overall, deeply enjoyable 90s action fun. Short, quick, great watch.
Read at the sourceNeimaj
"The sky is blue."
- Noboru "Leeroy Jenkins" Takizawa, 1991.
I gotta say, this is easily without a doubt, the most thought-provoking and profound statement of the 20th Century. After that, I believe he won the Noble Prize for Literature in '91. Nadine Gordimer? She doesn't exist. I wish more anime were like this OVA. Don't let that score fool you, this anime is incredible. In fact, don't even look at it. You're going to look at it right after you read this review, aren't you? Well, there's a new transfer student and his name is Noboru Takizawa. At this school, students settle arguments and disputes not with their words, but with their fists. Boxing is a prominent sport at this school. Some students would use dirty tricks to win a match. Enter Saburo Ibuki. Saburo is a cheater who would d…
Read at the sourceDi-Ansatsu
Well that was a decent fun watch.
Honoo to Tenkousei is a short serie who is both an homage and a parody to classic shōnen like Saint Seiya or other anime from the eighties.
Just from the opening, you can feel the love they put into this work: everything in those two episodes like the soundtrack, the characters design, the animation and the overall atmosphere are all a love-letter to those anime. And of course, they use every cliche in the book like the nonsensical romance, super attacks, the speaker for the fight, the rival who cheats, etc...
But what make this show works is that they know how and when to use their jokes: they don't overwhelm you with jokes every two seconds (like many bad "spoof" movies) which is a good thing. They know when to have jokes and when to have some so cal…
Read at the sourceButtermeupScotty
This anime is decent but not great. One of the main reasons I watched it is because I am going through all of Gainax's older works. I really liked the art style, which had thick black lines and a dirty cel look. The animation was choppy but that was on purpose since they were trying to emulate the look of older fighting anime. The story is not very great, but it's not supposed to be since it is only two episodes. The ending was decent but was very predictable.
Overall, this is a decent anime to watch, especially if you want to watch some of Gainax's older anime, and see where the studio started.
Read at the sourceFAKEANIMEGIRL
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Blazing Transfer Student is a 1991 two episode Gainax OVA specifically made to advertise the much longer running manga, as such things often are. This shonen/delinquent parody stars Takizawa Noboru, a good-natured but daft boy who challenges the school bully Ibuki Saburo for the love of Yukari Takamura. Honjakuniku High seems to only follow one rule, and it's the one unwritten rule of all fighting anime: the winner of a fight gets whatever they want. The endearing thing about Blazing Transfer Student's style of humor is that it never leaves the mind of its setting. The characters are all teenagers and consistently act as melodramatic and self-absorbed as one would expect selfish high schoolers…
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Overall this Ova is a fantastic representation of the manga. The characters are portrayed better then expected each bringing over there comedy to the ova so well that if you aren't laughing I'm shocked.
The fighting in this serious is well brought over as the manga doesn't really follow any tradional martial arts but instead an all out crazy system especially in the beginning with an winners takes all system.
Overall amazing well done worth watching only a couple of episodes long and still this ova will produce a bunch of laughs and fighting enjoyment.
Downsides are that the manga is a much longer and In dept story including a number of characters that sadly won't be seen here and a lot more insane fighting scenes. Overall just quite generally sad that no full anime was made for this se…
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Blazing Transfer Student originally caught my eye because it was brought up a lot by People In The Know as something Kill la Kill was heavily inspired by. It’s an old Gainax OVA from 1991 in which a mysterious transfer student arrives at his new school and immediately gets into battles with the leaders at the school. The school runs entirely on student power and whoever beats someone else in a fight can claim whatever the loser owned. The influence is fairly clear, albeit made stranger by the fact the original Blazing Transfer Student manga was itself intended as a parody of old 70s fighting manga like Tomorrow’s Joe. We’ve human centipeded our way through anime history where nothing is original anymore and parodies are turned straight.
The story is all very flimsy in Blazing Transfer Stu…
Read at the sourceMS06FZ
To begin with, I'd like to say that this show is only a 10/10 if you know anything about Fist of the North Star and the shows of Go Nagai.
If you have, or know anything about fighting anime in general, you'll love this. Because it's a total love letter to them all. There is basically no plot, just two episodes of lots of punching, shouting, sideburns and jokes.
The art-style is a Go Nagai-esque heavy lined style, very much like an animated manga. The music is full of heroic themes, and a rock OP reminiscent of Ai Wo Torimodose (as is fitting.)
What the show does well is compress into two episodes every fighting show cliche it can, from ludicrously named finishers to the devoted girlfriend and the school violence which provides the backdrop for things like the Getter Robo manga. There…
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