Honō no Tenkōsei
Plot. Takizawa Noboru transfers to a school where all disputes are settled through fighting. He quickly runs afoul of the school bully, Ibuki Saburo, who has a boxing match with "God's Hall Monitor", Jounouchi Kouichi, to determine who will date the lovely Yukari. Takizawa is enraptured with Yukari, and decides to intervene in the fight which Ibuki won by bending the rules. Takizawa loses the fight in the first OVA to Ibuki's deadly finishing punch, but in the second OVA Takizawa develops his own finishing punch and eventually wins the day. Media. Manga. "Honō no  Tenkōsei", written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto, was serialized in the Shogakukan magazine "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" from July 20, 1983, to November 13, 1985. The individual chapters were collected in twelve "tankōbon" volumes, released from February 18, 1984 to January 18, 1986. OVA. "Honō no Tenkōsei" was adapted into a two-episode original video animation (OVA) anime produced by Gainax. The anime reunites director Katsuhiko Nishijima and character designer Yuji Moriyama of the original "Project A-ko" and features storyboards by Sumio Watanabe. The OVA features an opening vocal theme written by Shimamoto Kazuhiko, arranged by Kohei Tanaka, and performed  by Toshihiko Seki. The ending theme, , was composed and arranged by Tanaka and performed by Noriko Hidaka. The "Honō no Tenkōsei" OVA parodies anime of the 1970s, particularly "Tomorrow's Joe", and is complete with intentionally jerky animation, dirty-looking cels, thick black lines, and retro character designs, much like Shimamoto's drawing style. According to Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post "Honō no Tenkōsei" was released on both VHS and laserdisc, but not DVD. It was released on Blu-ray by Pony Canyon on March 19, 2014. Live-action series. A Netflix original live-action series called "Blazing Transfer  Students" or "Honō no Tenkōsei REBORN" was released as a sequel set years after the original story. The story revolves around seven students all named Kakeru who transfer into the school. It was released on November 10, 2017 and was directed by Toshio Lee. Reception. As of March 2017, the manga had over 1.6 million copies in circulation. Anime News Network's Justin Sevakis, commenting on the anime, said that "while the animation has that slightly soft shot-on-film look, the heightened contrast and angular designs that were meant to evoke the past have instead kept it looking modern