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Kenji Iwaisawa’s animated manga adaptation, On-Gaku: Our Sound, takes a quirky, awkwardly comedic journey into the lives of a trio of delinquent high schoolers, Ota, Asakura, and their leader, Kenji. Their reputations precede them as a group to be feared, with Kenji heralded as the master of the spaghetti fist – really it doesn’t take much for Kenji to chase anyone away, apart from entering the room. Kenji, for all intents and purposes however, is just a little more flippant and fickle than most folks read him as. He largely keeps to himself, and doesn’t pay much mind to anything unless he feels it’s important, kind of like when fellow girl student, Aya, warns him that a gang of mohawk-wearing students from a rival school have challenged him to a duel. He’s interested, initially, at least until some time passes, and soon enough, he’s not. This pattern of behavior is […]

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