A one-shot OVA that gets the entire joke in one episode: a kid who actively despises his family's legacy finds the one reason to care about it, and the show treats that motivation with total sincerity instead of mockery. The comedy comes from how transparently dumb his logic is, but the boxing itself, when it finally happens, carries real weight because you understand exactly what he's fighting for. It's a 1990 sports comedy that knows the difference between laughing at someone and laughing with them, and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

Eiji Akagi is the second son of the legendary boxer Keijiro Akagi, but he wants nothing to do with the sport his father and older brother practice. A high school dropout, he plays guitar in a punk band, badly, and gets into fights with his classmates. His outlook changes when he meets the little sister of the local champion and suddenly becomes curious about boxing. His father's old coach is set on turning him into a great fighter, and when his classmate Naoya Kusanagi wins the high school boxing title, Eiji's anger begins to rise. Adapted from a Jump manga, this single OVA mixes sports, comedy and drama.