I do plan on taking up valuable university places from our youth once I retire, whenever that will be. Like, get some old age studying done.
Always thought I'd end up a scientist when I was younger. Not neuroscience, of course, but something computer science related. The realities of university life proved to be quite a spanner in the works of that idea.
It's not quite Kickboxer... they're still national champions of course, and they held their own for a while during that game. It wasn't quite the traditional beatdown and the Japanese team only lost because the girls got really nervous after winning the first set (i.e. they were already good, but not experienced enough to win). But yeah, if this would have been a boy team they'd have lost 2-0 and got roflstomped so hard they'd visit the wizened old volleyball guru, who would have them carry water up and down an endless flight of stairs and drop coconuts on them from a tree.
I... think I'll go watch Kickboxer now, and then Jean Claude von Johnson.
They sort of did that already in one of the earliest episodes. Not carrying any water, but Hongo had them run up and down an endless flight of stairs, and when some of the girls complained, they started slapping each other.
But yeah, very classic in terms of sports arcs regardless. But Attack No. 1 is over 50 years old now, and the manga it is based on is even older. How classic is that really? Not a rhetorical question, by the way, generally curious, I think Attack No. 1 was the first or at least amonst the first shojo sports mangas/animes.
Just asking, you know. This is me, basically, every time I watch the show (or talk about it):
Hoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!
Well, a bit different. That would be creepy if the four of them weren't girls.