Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Yowamushi Pedal

There's this anime about cycling called Yowamushi Pedal. I stumbled upon it randomly on an anime site, it looked lame but it turned out to be really nice!

Yowamushi Pedal

Basically the anime paints a picture of a regular nerdy otaku, Onoda that cycles everyday to school/other towns as a form of transport. He does this so he can use the money he saved from his bus fare to buy Gachapons. Unknowingly, he nurtured his ability to cycle through his countless years of 'training'.

When he got into high school(Sohoku), he encountered a hardcore cycling freak, Inaizumi and a competitive and yet friendly guy, Naruko who randomly helps him with his cycling techniques.

Sohoku Team Members

After a few series of events, they all ended up joining the school's bicycle racing club. They trained really hard and had to overcome many obstacles along the way.

Japanese producers are really damn good, the way they portray the whole training process was really interesting and entertaining. Basically it was a try-hard explanation about the complexities of cycling which is probably true in the professional levels. Don't get me wrong, this is by no means a bad thing. In fact, I found it really interesting and entertaining!

After a long and gruesome training camp, game was on at the Inter-High bicycle racing tournament.

At the Inter-high tournament, they showed many formidable opponents from several schools, with the main one being the past reigning champions, Hakone High School.

Characters that were introduced all had their histories and backgrounds, adding a lot more flavor to the story line.

Hakone's Izumida

Just looking at 1 of the guys, Izumida. Look at those fuckin' abs man. I know it's an anime, it's just drawings and it's fake but FUCK it's gorgeous. Apparently this guy names his Pecs (Adam & Frank) hahaha. This guy's not even the main character but he sure as hell caught my eye. (no homo)

Currently the anime is at the 2nd day of the Inter-High, this is definitely one that I'll be following.

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