Maji!

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Aired: 1990

Theatrical anime based on Ayumi Tachihara's delinquent manga 'Maji!,' produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha as a 50-minute medium-length feature. The film translates this banchō-style yankii comic into anime form, focusing on the tough lives of delinquent youths and their bonds of friendship and old-fashioned honor. As a notably hard-edged shonen-source theatrical anime in the 1990 landscape, it preserves Tachihara's characteristic 'manliness' ethos and gritty fight choreography, drawing strong support from young and adult viewers. The series was later continued as OVA installments 'Maji! 2 Kosohen' and 'Maji! 3 Risshi-hen.' (C)Ayumi Tachihara / Tokyo Movie Shinsha