![]() There’s a great storyline in the second half with this rich tech guru, but it never quite reaches the height of the early episodes. It definitely peaks in the first half with the immigrant community and Joe up to his eyeballs in painkillers. In a way, because the main theme is about being happy with what you have, the show ends very anti-climactically. In Nomad he finally settles on what he has and is happy with that. Joe in season 1 had nothing, or at least felt he had nothing. It is about finding your home and cherishing what you have. ![]() Nomad jumps in straight away into everything from racism and immigration and finding your new home, to big tech interfering with dreams and the egos attached to that, and the lives of those you touch along the way. A nice little undercurrent of the bottom punching up and something about a wild dog versus a trained hound, but they weren’t the most interesting themes around. The first season had an overall theme, but it felt pretty bland as far as themes go. About him finding his home, rebuilding his broken relationships, his own relationship with boxing, and reclaiming his life for himself and those he cared about. Joe the disheveled underground boxer who tries to forget the life he left behind, believing he has no home to return to. A character with genuine depth, with dreams that were broken, an attachment to characters, a personality beyond me angry me punch up. This is a Joe that the first season never felt like it had. As soon as he fucks up once, he hates himself, skips town and gets addicted to meds because it turns out having mechanically enhanced fists repeatedly whack you in the face does bad things to your brain. The answer was the guy couldn’t handle his newfound responsibility, having grown up as a wild animal on the streets effectively. They went out drinking and tried to come up with what Joe would do after becoming Megalobox champion. They were basically told by producers that western fans loved the show so go make more. Then Megalobox Nomad comes out and absolutely blows season 1 out of the water.Ī sequel to Megalobox was something even the biggest fans of the show weren’t asking for, and it was something the directors admitted to as much in their recent interview at ANN. ![]() It was an anime carried by its style more than anything, but that style was genuinely excellent. Joe is fairly one-dimensional, his coach is a simpering irritant, and his kid sidekicks are kid sidekicks with everything that typically comes with that role. The characters aren’t the most interesting in the world. But mostly it’s just about boxing with training arcs and the like. There’s this underlying narrative about the wild wolf raised on the streets succeeding against the rich corporate folks. It’s a bit like if the Tour de France had this one fellow who entered except he said fuck bikes, I’m going to run. Megalobox was this stylish anime from a couple of years ago about this bloke called Joe who entered a futuristic boxing tournament without the regulation equipment.
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