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Ani-One Asia Adds Megalobox Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited 's Ani-One YouTube channel announced last Friday that it has added TMS Entertainment's Megalobox original anime, beginning with the first two episodes on Saturday and Sunday, and a new episode every following day at 8:30 p.m. GMT +8. The stream is available in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Taiwan.
The anime premiered in Japan in April 2018.
The anime celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ikki Kajiwara (pen name Asao Takamori) and Tetsuya Chiba's Ashita no Joe manga, and it features an original story. In the new story, a man called JD (Junk Dog) participates in fixed boxing matches in an underground ring in order to live. Today, he enters the ring again, but he encounters a certain person. JD wants to take on a challenge that risks everything.
Yō Moriyama (animation director for Master Keaton and Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, concept designer for Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress and Attack on Titan) directed the series at TMS Entertainment, and he was also in charge of conceptual design. Katsuhiko Manabe (Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raoh-den Gekitō no Shō, Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raoh-den Junai no Shō) and Kensaku Kojima (live-action Shinya Shokudō series) both oversaw and wrote the scripts, and mabanua (Kids on the Slope) composed the music.
The anime will have a sequel anime titled Megalobox 2: Nomad that will premiere on April 4.
Source: Ani-One Asia's Facebook page
