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So I just finished watching the first episode a little while ago, and I thought it was pretty good! There were some good funny moments. Everyone looks a little too 'cool' I think, but Kosaku's actor did a nice job of being kind of goofy like Kosaku is, I thought. And Sister Angela's actress is even more beautiful in action than she is on the cover of that Young Sunday! I still can't believe she's only 19. I thought she did a great job.

So it seems like the biggest change is that Mukoda... is a woman!!! With a son in high school! How weird! My tv guide has a little page about the drama and from the tiny cast pictures I thought this guy named Mitaka was going to be Mukoda! I was pretty surprised to find he's sort of her assistant slash best friend since childhood and a trainer in the gym. She's got that same spirit that Takahashi's old man has though, so I think it'll be interesting to see how it goes. I liked her. She makes some good faces. haha

The 'opening' was really cheesy. There wasn't really a theme song or anything, but there was this 3d rendering of a stain glass churce window and things kept flying out of it. A boxing glove, a rosary, a hamburger... lol And they all floated into a 3d ring where the title of the show appeared. lol The episode started with Kosaku losing a fight because he got distracted by a man eating takoyaki in the audience, and was set up with another fighter from that same gym after the match. Of course he was overweight and had 10 days to get down. About 6 days into his fasting he passes out while jogging through a park and Sister Angela revives him with a sip of tea. The day before the weigh in he runs into her again by saving a kid she's out with, and she takes him back to her church and as a thank you they invite him to their school lunch. So all the kids are shoving their food in his face and she tells him to eat as much as he likes and he caves and ends up being one pound overweight the next day and his fight gets canceled. Mukoda goes out and gets plastered because of it and passes out on the street. Sister Angela finds her and takes her to this restaurant all the boxers from the gym frequent (and it looked like Kosaku was working at a little earlier in the episode) and that Mitaka guy comes to get her. Mukouda passes out again at the table and Mitaka tells Angela about Mukoda's dream for a champion and how she thought Kosaku would be it, but he only keeps disappointing her. As they're leaving Angela sees a cut out on a bulletin board in the restaurant of Kosaku's debut match and realizes who he is in connection with Mukoda. The next day while she's praying she realizes it's her fault that he was disqualified for forcing the food on him and goes to their gym to confront them about it and convinces Kosaku to keep fighting and become a champion. While they're all yelling, a guy comes in and wants to challenge Kosaku. It's Onimaru! So Kosaku starts training really hard and passes the weigh in, and Onimaru invites he and Angela to his house for dinner with his family. In this show, Onimaru is old, his wife wants him to quit, and he doesn't want to let his young son down. On their way home Angela tells Kosaku she won't be going to the fight and he doesn't like it but doesn't fight her on it either. The next day during the fight he's not doing the best he can because he doesn't want to shame Onimaru in front of his son. At the church, Angela changes her mind and sneaks out of her room to go to the fight after all. She enters just as Kosaku goes down and on seeing her he decides he can't just lose in front of her and gets his second wind, but has underestimated Onimaru and goes down again. The only thing that gets him up is Mukoda promising to take him out to eat if he wins, which he does. On her way home Angela decides she kind of likes boxing. haha The next episode preview had a recreation of one of my favorite panels, Kosaku drowning his sorrows in ramen and looking like some kind of monster with his mouth stuffed full of noodles. lol The ending was just tidbits from the episode, but in the credits I saw a little manga Kosaku and Angela! I'm not sure what that was about since it was so fast though!

Well I didn't expect to do a summary, but there's a little one for you! I thought it was good overall, I'll definitely watch it every week while it's on! I'll take some pictures of the stuff in my tv guide and put them up here later. I don't have a scanner here, so I'll have to actually photograph the pages. haha I also thought that it was pretty funny that the guy playing Kosaku was in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial right after the episode. haha