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During the 1980s, when school violence was a major educational issue, this gag manga blended grit and friendship into a militaristic flavor—one where absolute obedience to teachers and corporal punishment by teachers were taken for granted, and where everything among students was decided by power dynamics, all within the setting of a school.
00:21This comedy manga was set in the 1980s, when school violence was a major educational issue, and depicts a school where absolute obedience to teachers was the norm, severe punishments by teachers were the norm, and decisions between students were made based on the balance of power, but it also involved guts and friendship.
00:47Now, let's take a look at this work.
00:51The original author of Sakigake Otokojuku is Akira Miyashita, and the manga version was published in a total of 34 volumes from 1985 to 1991, while the anime version aired a total of 34 episodes in 1988.
01:13The story begins at the entrance ceremony for Danjuku, a school famous for its ultra-Spartan education that accepts delinquent boys from all over the country.
01:24Although it seems like there will be some turmoil, the entrance ceremony ends quickly, and the teacher tells the students to return to the dormitory using a route home that is filled with various tricks and traps.
01:37As a result, many students collapsed on their way home from school, but there were also students who easily passed through the traps and equipment and helped other students.
01:52The student's name is Tsurugi Momotaro, and he returns to the dormitory with the student he helped.
01:58However, the dinner at the dormitory was so bad that one of the students, Genji Toga, did not take a day off and went to a restaurant in town, but was found by a teacher and beaten up.
02:10Mr. Toga thinks that Tsurugi Momotarou has been the informant and a fight breaks out, but when the real informant comes forward, Mr. Toga is impressed by Tsurugi Momotarou's manliness, as he doesn't make a single excuse.
02:24After that, Tsurugi Momotaro and his friends begin their difficult life at the cram school.
02:35Now, let me introduce the characters.
02:40First, the main character, Tsurugi Momotaro, nicknamed Momo, whose trademark is a white headband, is forced to drop out of a super elite school and goes to Otokojuku with a letter of introduction.
02:54Although he is intelligent and quiet, he is good at fighting and has strong friendships, and he becomes the leader of the No. 1 class at Otokojuku, and later becomes the leader of Otokojuku.
03:08In team matches against other schools, martial arts tournaments, combat battles, and other team competitions, he often plays as the captain, and has won every match, even close ones.
03:20Just like Momo, he has friends who act together under the number one system. First of all, Togashi Genji is also known as the leader of the charge at Otokojuku.
03:31He has incredible tenacity, not caring about his own life in order to win a fight, such as challenging his opponents with dynamite strapped to his stomach.
03:41Toramaru Takashi is a retired government official and possesses superhuman strength. He also demonstrated the secret technique of the fierce tiger dragon, Daihohi, which uses farts.
03:51There was also Matsuo Tayu, who had a hairstyle and mustache similar to Sazae-san's and was an avid drinker.
03:58Tazawa Ippei, who wears round glasses and calls himself the most intelligent student at Danjuku, uses an extremely messy English to give off an intellectual vibe.
04:09Hidemaru Goku, the son of the boss of one of Japan's leading gangs, is initially pampered at Otokojuku thanks to his father, but
04:23If a father's group is destroyed, he will be punished by teachers and other students and will be demoted to an ordinary student status.
04:32Tsubakiyama Kiyomi is a large woman, but despite her small outward appearance, she is timid and has a sissy personality, so the other students look down on her.
04:45In addition, there was J, an American exchange student who became a student at Otokojuku after facing off against Momo in a boxing match.
04:54Furthermore, the head of Otokojuku, Edashima Heihachi, is a mysterious and superhuman figure who is a former rear admiral of the navy and is said to have met with MacArthur Haratari after the war and become friends with him.
05:10At the age of 33, I founded Otokojuku in order to nurture the talented people of tomorrow in Japan.
05:17Basically, no matter what happens, I just say that I am Edashima Heihachi, the head of Otokojuku.
05:28In the anime version, the first half mainly focuses on the harsh training and intensive training by the teachers at Otokojuku, his confrontation with the top second-year student, Akashi Goji, and a boxing match with J from Super Police Academy.
05:44At the end of the story, the Fourth Kyora Teaching's Fuunryu Kohen concludes the Kanto Gogakuden.
05:54Kyora Fourth Training Camp is managed by a temple called Hokokuin on the land of Mount Fuji, and involves battling in groups of four across four stages while climbing the sacred Mount Fuji.
06:07The battle was a deathmatch held in an arena that made use of natural elements such as the lava and wind of Mount Fuji, and it was a fierce battle in which the winner would be those who reached the top of the mountain and ultimately brought back a scroll called the Trademark Museum.
06:24As both enemies and allies fall one after another, Momo barely emerges victorious and Otokojuku survives.
06:34Then, in the second half, at Otokojuku, a martial arts match, Daiishin, or the Conquest of Paren, is held once every three years.
06:47In this martial arts event, Daigoin Jaki, the top No. 3 Star, won three consecutive times, and reigned as the shadow ruler of Otokojuku.
06:58The rules are that the tournament will be held at the summit of Mount Karlon, located in the Yatsugatake Mountains in the depths of Shinshu, with each team consisting of eight people, fighting in pairs like a tag team match in professional wrestling.The tournament will be decided in a total of four matches across four stages.
07:18The stage is atop a forest of countless pillars made of non-special alloy and modified steel, where people fight wearing magnetic shoes worth 1 million girth, and fight with Time, Hyakuchu Rinto, and Rubon and Teimou swords in a 30-meter diameter kiln containing Nongzhang Mountain, suspended by ropes.
07:39The battle takes place on Sansho, Hexagonal Star Island, a star-shaped island made of salt sandstone floating in a lake of oil.
07:49The final stage is an arena surrounded by statues of the eight-headed god, where when lightning strikes, 100 spears fly out of 800 holes, creating a powerful thunderstorm. After a life-or-death battle, Momo defeats the Great Forceful Demon.
08:09Now, we are finally at the final episode, episode 34.
08:16However, due to the sudden cancellation of the show, episode 34 is actually a compilation of the previous episodes.
08:28Therefore, strictly speaking, the final episodes of the anime versions, Sakigake and Otokojuku, do not exist.
08:36The sudden cancellation of this program was due to the extreme language and brutal depictions in the drama, especially the content that seemed to justify pre-war military activities.
08:50Apparently the PTA at the time protested quite vigorously.
08:54Therefore, sponsors could not continue to produce programs that were educationally inappropriate.
09:03From episode 31 onwards, a lot of the content is skipped over, or rather, the Great Restoration and the conquest of Parlen are forced to end.
09:12Because of the sudden cancellation, episode 34 was a compilation except for the last few minutes.
09:21The last few minutes were a month after the Great Restoration and the victory over Pahlen.
09:27The program ends with Momo, Toga, Toramaru, Jayla, and No. 1 Star walking back to the cram school through a flurry of cherry blossom petals.
09:37Now, let's take a look at Otokojuku's achievements.
10:07Check out the video below to see Otokojuku in action.
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