I seem to only be choosing new animes to watch with 'Punch' in the titles lately. :) Last time it was Punch Line, and now it's this one! But in difference from the former (which was good, but not memorably good) this one show shows some pretty serious potential!

It's about a hero who looks very ordinary, but is really very powerful (you might even argue he's the strongest person on Earth), but he has one big problem: he can't find an opponent he doesn't instantly knock out with just one punch. He's getting bored. Life seems trivial and dull, to the point where he almost seems kinda suicidal in some of his battles (I mean come on! He's taking that giant guy's punches head on for what? When he could be dodging them?!).

I just finished the first episode, in which he beats up a wide assortment of strange villains, and then, plot twist: sub-subterraneans appear, destroying his house while he sleeps, after having already killed 70% of the population! He fights them off, but they're strong, and suddenly... he starts feeling a feeling he hasn't felt in so long! How it feels to have a real fight!! As he stands victorious, sweating, shivering, towering over his foes on a cliff of rubble, the King of the Underground appears and challenges him, and he runs that beast head on! And then: his alarm clock rings and be instinctively (accidentally?) punches it through the floor.

Sound like an entertaining premises for a show? Well, I thought so too! And not just the premises: but the show! Awesome idea, animation, comedic quality and plot aaand everything about it really. As seems to be the trend with modern (fighting) anime, it progresses at a super-fast pace, but of course, it's the first episode. This might've been more eventful than most just to get us hooked. And that I am.

I'm looking forward to following the show and catching up on the remaining, already aired 11 episodes (out of 12 total, just 1 left!). Here's a bunch of screenshots to give you a taste of content:

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It's the 13th today and I write a bit.
I have a lot of lies in my life and shit.
I give myself advice but I'm tired of it.
As soon as I start I just try to quit.

I think about the life and the universe.
I think about the truth and our ruse of dirt.
I think about my views and the views immerse.
And new views emerge, and these views converge.

The first quatrain was so perfectly symmetrical.
I didn't want to... further this outlet at all.
I feel I can't match the perfection, in that little section.
And look! This set appalls.

It's getting short now. Then it goes longer.
It's growing weaker. Then it grows STRONGER!
All in my life seems to arise in waves.
I lie, looking at lights in the shade.

Looking at the light from another side.
I see another time in my grave.
I'd rather not find time for other times.
I'd rather just keep with my play.

I'd rather play games and confuse myself.
So that I don't know why I'm really here.
I'd rather sit at home where I drew my shell.
Instead of facing any other fear.

Thoughts. That I think about.
They flood my mind, go up and down.
Thoughts. That I think about.
I blink my doubt, away.

You never say tonight: is a New one!
You just say Tomorrow's a new day.
You never say this year: was the Greatest!
You just say: the Next will be insane.

But I'm at my nexus of living now.
I don't want to fade or to simmer down.
I don't want to age and then linger round.
And yet I want to live until I'm clear.

Until I'm prepared, to leave my fair,
Until I've done my share of grieving, and thieving, and contriving these little jeers,
Until a time when I am wise enough to say I'm NOT wise without thinking even a little: Yes I am!
Reality is like a barren sand, a scary land, a jarred hand. Thoughts, I understand. Thoughts, are my demand.

Thoughts, are who I am.

He used Gear Four! Now it's an all out war!
This what I'm here for! Seems so long they've stalled!
But now he's here yall! Now he's here in full force!
So yall just gruel jaws and blink at all awes!
Law, is close to a corpse but of course he'll get saved,
He lived and he fought his own way he was brave,
The village is caught in all like they're all slaves,
Rolling like a cotton ball on the course that soon-to-be-a-corpse paved!!
Luffy closes in the for the slay, hey,

He used Gear Four! Now it's an all out war!
This what I'm here for! Seems so long they've stalled!
The last... hundred episodes or so it seems the war has rolled,
Such a long road it's almost growing old but yo, they're telling the tales of the untold
And he's a hero, even if he claims not to be,
He's got a lot in him, but not a lot of greed,
Not one drop of evil, he's done a lot of deeds
Yet all he does is what he wants: he's free

He used Gear Four! Now it's an all out war!
This what I'm here for! Seems so long they've stalled!
But yo! We're closing in on the next episode!
One Piece 726, is where it all unfolds...

No one is you and that is your power.

Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Eleven.

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I'm not a Hobbit.
I saw a bank, I pondered I'd rob it,
But the plan stank, laundered Monopoly money,
I took nothing from it.

I think nothing of it!
All of the thoughts that I think,
A potion for me, a notion of drink.
It quenches my thirst, it leaves me a mill
On thoughts when I would, be frequently still.
And leap to the hill, a tea table stands,
It caters to me, and meets my demands,
I table for thrills, for all of my plans,
Are there when I need them, like grains in the sand.

I'm not a Hobbit,
I'm like a tree where I stand!
I'm like the mountain of hope!
I'm like the fountain of prose!
I'm like a noun or a note!
I'm the profound and the close!
I'm the bigger, the better, the thinker, forever!
And yet, I'm little as a toast.

I'm not a Hobbit,
I'm like a coast,
I'm as wide as the Earth!
But sometimes I feel like a moat.