Sakigake!! Otokojuku Movie

A short film on a underrated manly battle shonen, Sakigake Otokojuku The Movie serves as an introduction to the series.

The film's plot is straight to the point as we have our leading characters embark on a journey to America to participate in the tournament known as Great Battle August. Half the film is an outrageous road trip while the 2nd half are 4 rounds of 1 on 1 fighting.

Not much can be learned from the characters by the movie alone aside from expressing manliness & the friendship they all shared on this short adventure. The only flaws to this film are the anti-climatic final ... fight & the lack of other main characters such as Date Omito & The Three Fists. (Same goes for Akashi Gouji who only gets a brief scene in the movie).

But like the Otokojuku series, expect some last second rescues as characters miraculously survived their deadly encounters. Overall the film is great especially with its soundtrack that yells "awesome 80's!!" Like most shonen films, it merely has the beat up the bad guy scenario, but has its own flair as we follow the students of Otokojuku taking on various over the top challenges & will stop at nothing to succeed as they follow the spirit of Otokojuku. OSU!!

HELLOO EVERYBOODY ! Let's start that review, this movie is a sequel to the Sakigake anime, so it would be nice if you did watch the anime first, or at least know a little about the series, even without that you are probably going to have fun too, cause the movie is quite simples. The plot consists in a deadly competition between the toughest students in USA vs the toughest students in JAPAN, just like it also happens in the anime, but with new characters and a new motivation for the US men, and of course, the first years of otokokuju have to prove themselves ... once more. The artstyle if craziely good, manly as fuck(I love that kind of draw style), but the animation lacks a little, just like in the regular anime the fight choreography looks very off, and not cause of its time, but due to bad animation. The movie is really fun and will entertain any Sakigake fan and also any battle shounen fan, and probably even get the rest of the audience due to its over the top humour. Check ouy THEAnimeHERO review in his channel, dude is the best, you are gonna get even more interest in the story if you do. I really want a new adaptation of this.