Review: Invincible Fight Girl “I Am” ; “Dreamers and Busters”

With her parents’ reluctant blessing, Andy embarks on the first step of her wrestling journey: finding a teacher; her task takes her away from home and into the Big City, where she’s confronted with the reality of following one’s dreams.

Our Take

Are you a die-hard fan of WWE that still thinks sports entertainment is real and has real-world implications? Are you a My Hero Academia fan that thinks 160 episodes just isn’t enough? Well have I got the show for you!

It’s called Invincible Fight Girl. The premise of the series follows a young girl named Andy who lives in a world where pro-wrestling is as important to the global economic status of the world much in the same way heavy metal music is for Metalocalypse. At its heart, Invincible Fight Girl is a paint-by-number shonen anime that isn’t that much of a departure from the likes of Naruto. From constant inner monologues to even how art director David Depasquale pans along still shots to establish various settings so as to ease production pains and costs and focus more on the task/characters on hand. For a poverty network like Adult Swim, these are the things that producers have to do to make the show survive, especially one that looks as good as this one.

The voice acting, so far, is stellar. Sydney Mikayla is a knockout in the lead role of Andy and it wouldn’t surprise me if Sydney is an anime fan at heart much like show creator Juston Gordon-Montgomery as she features all of the nuanced anime-acting accoutrements that you would expect from seasoned vets like Kira Buckland and Bryce Papenbrook.

The action sequences are intense, but don’t expect your every-episode battle as you would in like a Ballmastrz thus far, but I love the fact that the producers put together a match in the first episode featuring the show’s star this way we can really set the table of what we can expect moving forward. Don’t like it? Move on. This is a show for fans of pro-wrestling BY fans of pro-wrestling. I’m not so sure the typical politics of professional wrestling has really shown up in these first two episodes just yet, but hopefully that shows up down the road because that’s a pretty big part of the wrestling mythos.

From a production value, the series looks far better than even the recent miss that was the network’s Uzumaki debacle and I’m willing to wager it took half-the-amount of time to produce. The show has been ordered for 20 episodes, but the first ten have to do well to justify the rest of the series being produced. Count me in as intrigued enough to let the network know to go ahead and order the back ten because if I’m in charge of overall strategy at Max streaming, I’d want a show like this to get some cross pollination from fans of AEW which will soon be showing PLE’s on the streamer, as well as some love coming from fans of animation that can hopefully help the aforementioned wrestling company do better than a 1000 non-paying fans per event.