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When Take got up,
Ippo was clinched multiple times for a minute and a half, making Take recover from the down. During a clinch, Take told Ippo that he found his weakness. Ippo kept on thinking about that, and attempted a close range fight with Take, but was unable to reach Take's head despite his feet being close to Take's. The first round then ended and Ippo was told that Take knowing his weakness did not matter as Ippo beats the odds regardless before. In the second round, Ippo continued having the same problem as the last half of round one due to Take using the Southpaw style, messing up Ippo's depth perception. After Kamogawa advised to close the distance so that him being a Southpaw did not matter, Ippo dashed toward Take, who also decided to go into close range. The two get into close range, however, Take had his shoulder on Ippo's chest, making Ippo's left and right fist unusable. In that position, Ippo was hit four times with short uppercuts, with the second round ending
soon after. Ippo hits Kamogawa. In the
third and fourth rounds, Ippo's punching power was cut in half due to Take being able to stop Ippo's rotation in his punches by ducking low enough to make Ippo have to punch in a downward trajectory, which he has no experience in. While dodging an uppercut in the fourth round, a cut under Ippo's left eyebrow emerged and began bleeding, affecting his vision and precision of punching.
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It’s lacking in all but one aspect, which is the pacing. I think everyone and their
mother have commented that every episode feels like it only lasts 5-10 minutes, it’s very engaging. But outside of pacing, the direction isn’t all that much. The series director is Omata Shin’ichi, a Studio Shaft graduate also known for Kaguya-sama and Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. You can clearly see this with the visuals of the show being full of recognizable “shaftisms,” yet those feel like mechanical surface copying without any underlying substance, especially when measured against other ex-Shaft directors such as Itamura Tomoyuki (Vanitas and Youfkashi no Uta) whose “shaftisms” look like a genuine artistic vision.
For example, the "glitchy green screen" and the "archaic wipe transition" effects are just failed "ironically bad" stylizations. Because stylizations are supposed to have style to them, there is nothing stylish about a wipe transition, anyone can do them in Windows Movie Maker, it takes no thought or effort. And wtf do green screen effects have to do with a murder mystery set in the XIX century? It's the last genre you'd expect to see CGI special effects in, there is no thematic connection, again, it's just pretentiousness.
The director also took the worst possible lesson one could take from working on the Monogatari franchise: how to fuck up the narrative by arbitrarily changing the arc order. The anime starts with an (original?) lore-dump episode that irreparably ruins the actual first arc of the story (episodes 2-4 of the anime) by retroactively turning all the plot points revealed there (for the first time, in the proper order) into pointless repetition (like the reveal of which exact supernatural beings the main couple are), as well as deflating many intended to be tense moments (like when the main character who’s been acting as a goofy clown for the entire arc
reveals himself to be an insanely strong fighter in the arc finale - but we’ve already been spoiled on that by the first episode).
And then there are fight scenes that are pure cringe, with characters double and triple jumping in the air as if it’s a match of Super Smash Bros.
