Anime Megalo Box

Megalobox (Japanese: メガロボクス , Hepburn: Megarobokusu ) is a Japanese anime television series. The series is produced and animated by TMS tertainmt and its subsidiary 3xCube and directed by Yō Moriyama, his first directorial work. Megalobox was created in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the boxing manga Ashita no Joe.

Set in late 21st ctury Japan where boxers wear exoskeletons to fight, the narrative focuses on an underground fighter only known by his ring name Junk Dog, who decides to ter into a boxing competition called Megalonia, in order to defeat the champion, Yūri.

The series was licsed by Viz Media for an glish release and began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States in December 2018. A second season, titled Megalobox 2: Nomad, aired from April 4 to June 27, 2021.

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Megalobox takes place in a late 21st ctury Japan where people with citizship live in a metropolis called the Administrative Area, while people without citizship live in a massive slum known as the Restricted Area, located in the outskirts of the Administrative Area. Megaloboxing is a popular sport in the Megalobox universe similar to boxing, except the boxers fight while wearing metal exoskeletons called Gears, which makes their attacks much more lethal.

The story follows a man (only known by his ring name Junk Dog) who fights fixed matches in fight clubs located in the Restricted Area. One eving, while riding his motorcycle in the Administrative Area, he almost crashes into Yukiko Shirato, the CEO of the company Shirato Group. Junk Dog picks a fight with her bodyguard Yūri who is also the Megaloboxing Champion. Yukiko stops the fight but Yūri seeks out Junk Dog and meets him in a fight club where he easily beats the less-expericed fighter and tells him to fight him again in the Megaloboxing tournamt Megalonia, which Junk Dog would need a place at the top of the official Megalobox rankings to qualify for, as well as a proper citizship ID to ter the rankings in the first place. After Junk Dog's coach Gansaku Nanbu persuades the mob boss Fujimaki to forge Junk Dog an ID under the name Joe, the two are giv 3 months to achieve their goal of working their way to the top of the Megalobox rankings in order to have a chance of fighting in Megalonia.

Junk Dog is an underground Megaloboxer from the outskirts of town whose real name is unknown. He is forced to throw fights to earn money for his crooked manager. He initially fights with old Gear that is constantly in need of repair. He takes on the name Joe wh he has a Citiz ID forged in order to ter the Megalonia tournamt. He later takes on the ring name Gearless Joe (ギアレスジョー , Giaresu Jō ) as part of a gimmick to rise in the rankings quickly, fighting without Gear against Gear-equipped opponts.

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In the second season he takes on the moniker Nomad (ノマド , Nomado ), drifting to differt underground fighting rings with simple Gear and fighting opponts to fund his painkiller addiction. It is mtioned in the background that sometime after vacating his Megalonia belt, he lost an exhibition match to Yuri's disciple and the next champion, Edison Liu, and has not be se in a pro Megaloboxing match since. After meeting Chief, Joe decides to be his cornerman while Chief and Marla help him fight his painkiller addiction. He later returns to his hometown to make amds to his former frids, who had almost sev years prior cast him out for abandoning them as Nanbu died to fight in a boxing match.

Nanbu is Junk Dog's manager, coach and a gambler with a drinking problem who keeps making him throw fights, ev though deep down he believes in Junk Dog's abilities.

Betwe the first and second seasons, Nanbu dies of cancer. Sachio and the other childr the two befrided hold restmt towards Joe for abandoning Nanbu as he was dying.

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Yuri is Yukiko's bodyguard and the Megaloboxing champion. He seeks out Junk Dog after the latter insults his owner, meeting him in the underground ring he easily defeats him before telling him to work his way up in Megalonia if he wants to fight him again. Yuri is equipped with a unique prototype integrated Gear, which is surgically grafted directly to his arms.

Sachio is a young boy from the impoverished Restricted Area who is talted with using and fixing machinery, which he and his frids oft use to steal goods which they exchange for Red Candy, a type of drug.

In the second season, Sachio, now a teager, has become an underground Megaloboxer. He is noted to not have the resolve or natural talt for Megaloboxing, oft badly losing matches, and holds Joe in deep contempt for his actions as Nanbu was dying.

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Fujimaki is a mob boss that sets up fixed fights for Junk Dog and Nanbu. He assists the duo in acquiring a forged Citiz ID so they can ter Megalonia and pay him back with the prize money after Junk Dog refuses to throw a fight.

Aragaki is Nanbu's former studt. He was called up for military service a few years before the start of the story, during his time as a soldier he was directly hit by an explosion which cost him his legs and burned half his face off. Wh he returned home he started to suffer from PTSD which led him to attempt suicide and he also felt abandoned by Nanbu after finding that he had closed down his gym wh he thought Aragaki had died. He makes his return to Megaloboxing 3 years before the start of the story and fights his way up to rank 17, wh he hears that Nanbu has a new popular Megaloboxer named Joe he vows to destroy him so that Nanbu can feel his pain, but he also wants to earn money from sponsors so that he can repay everyone from the veteran's association for giving him his life back.

Mikio Shirato is Yukiko's older brother and the developer of Ace, a state-of-the-art Gear equipped with artificial intelligce that allows it to read and predict an oppont's moves, formulating the perfect counters and strategies. Mikio is arrogant, egotistical, and smug, believing stray dogs like Joe are not worthy of standing in the same ring as himself. Mikio was passed over for becoming the head of the Shirato Group in favor of his sister, a fact that causes him to hold a grudge against her.

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An Uruguay Megaloboxer sponsored by the technology company ROSCO. Formerly known for his explosive temper and aggressive moves in the ring, he retires from the sport after watching Joe and Yuri's bout at Megalonia. He later joins the police force and is seriously injured during a shootout, causing full-body paralysis. He is evtually approached by ROSCO CEO Ryugo Sakuma and agrees to have an experimtal brain chip and integrated Gear system known as BES implanted, which allows him to move again and inspires him to rejoin the Megaloboxing world to showcase the BES system's capabilities. Wh he reaches excessive stress levels, the implanted brain chip causes him to ter Mac Time, a mtal state where he becomes hyper-focused. Coming down from Mac Time temporarily regresses his mind to a childlike state, with episodes getting worse over time.

An undocumted Uruguayan Afro-Latino immigrant and the unofficial leader of his community who pretds to be a former ranked Megaloboxer to earn money in underground boxing matches. He was inspired by Joe to immigrate and plans to win Megalonia to help secure a more permant home for his people.

The currt Megaloboxing world champion and Yuri's star pupil. He defeated Joe in a title fight one year after the first Megalonia, which ded up being Joe's final match before he left town and became Nomad.

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The series was directed by Yō Moriyama who watched the second animated adaptation of manga Ashita no Joe during his youth. He was shocked by the quality of the series, not only in animation but themes of stray portrayed Joe Yabuki's character as well as his rivalry with Toru Rikishi.

The series was created as a homage to Ashita no Joe that reached its 50th anniversary in 2018. Producer Minako Fujiyoshi from TMS was approached by Kodansha in 2013 about making the project. Originally, the story would take place in the same world as Ashita no Joe involving Jo's rival Rikishi but the idea was scrapped due to difficulties. As a result, the team decided to make a more original storyline. The series still retained the themes of Joe, the never-give-up spirit of the character, and was going to be a parody instead. This idea was scrapped again and the team decided to make a more original narrative.

The artwork was influced by 1980s works like directors Katsuhiro Otomo and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Moriyama felt the animation of Megalobox would decrease in the future.

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In early screings of the series, Moriyama said, the first two episodes were developed to introduce the tire narrative and setting

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