AniWorthJudo Boy
Introduction
Young Sanshiro Kurenai is the proud heir of a judo dojo. One day, he finds his beloved father dead and a glass eye not too far from the corpse. Ready to avenge his father and take his honour back, Sanshiro and his friend Ken start searching for the mysterious one-eyed murderer...
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.46/10 · 778
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Audience reviews
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honno_tea
When I was a teenager, my dad and I used to go to kung-fu movie night. We'd grab some popcorn, soda and milk duds, and take a seat in the packed theater to watch "Iron Monkey" or "Five Deadly Venoms". Everyone would shout when somebody got clawed to death or there was a particularly cool stunt. It was awesome. The movies transcended an evaluation of "good" or "bad" and became something else. The best parts of Kurenai Sanshiro take me back to those days, to that hot loud room where I had so much fun.
Unfortunately, the show has some bad episodes too. The whole thing is so episodic that it's necessary to go one by one:
1. The Scarlet Wind: Off to a great start. It's fast paced, psychedelic, and has probably the craziest special effects in the whole series, from 3d models to bizarre camera…
Read at the sourceCrocMagnum
Exploring all the quirks of this anime never ceases to amaze me. You see commenting on Kurenai Sanshiro is like opening a Matryoshka, a Russian doll, every time you uncap a doll you find a smaller doll inside it and so on. Likewise for Kurenai Sanshiro, aka Judo Boy, each info leads to another and so on.
So this is no brief review but I humbly believe the anime deserves these clarifications.
First of all Kurenai Sanshiro was never licensed in USA, this might explain why English reviews about it are so scarce.
*** Edit: in 2019, 'Sentai Filmworks' obtained the license for Kurenai Sanshiro. The company made Judo Boy available with English subtitles (still no English Dub though) on their streaming services: HIDIVE.
Sadly the streaming ended on 2021. It seems like Sentai filmworks lost…
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