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Invincible Fight Girl’s creator wants to keep the dream of serialized animation alive
Juston Gordon-Montgomery opens up about finding the perfect balance between shonen storytelling and pro-wrestling wildness.
Invincible Fight Girl ’s story about a young accountant named Andy (Sydney Mikayla) who dreams of becoming a legendary wrestler is the stuff of shonen classics like Dragon Ball Z and One Piece. But the show’s setting — a world where everyone is some sort of masked brawler with unique costumes and signature combat moves — feels like a loving send-up of the pro-wrestling culture that defined the sport throughout the late ’90s. Though Gordon-Montgomery doesn’t want to put a number to how many episodes he envisions Invincible Fight Girl running for just yet, he’s confident that the show’s core concept has legs akin to Pokémon ’s.
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