Ashita no Joe/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: After he returns from, Joe is met with
 * Fridge Brilliance: Nishi's abrupt personality change wasn't because of characterization marching on; it was because the juvenile prison scared him straight.
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * The Problem with Licensed Games: Legend of Success Joe.
 * Tear Jerker: The death of . Joe finding out has gotten a severe case of brain damage after his fight with . And of course, the entire finale, where.
 * The first one's specially poignant in the anime, because it also included a BIG Hope Spot.  and when   BAM.   Cue the Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame and the narrator explaining what was going on.
 * In the first anime, to add insult to injury,
 * And about the third one, well... we all know what happened there. Not helped by how
 * Weird Al Effect: Very few western Otaku have ever seen the original series. But the show has been parodied for so long, and by so many creators, if you've watched a lot of anime, you've seen Joe.