Nov 26, 2025
A unique anime that is both informative and humorous. It is about bodybuilding and more specifically about a high school girl Hibiki Sakura's journey to lose weight. She loves to eat meat and has been gaining weight recently which motivates her to start going to her local Silverman Gym where she meets a couple of friends, all them being people with their own unique and silly personalities.
Dumbbell is an anime that gives genuinely a good advice about bodybuilding strategies and I can recommend it as the anime to watch for an anime fan trying to lose weight. It's an anime that shouldn't really be watched
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with your family because it does contain quite a lot of fanservice which can get uncomfortable at points.
The anime actually is very very accurate in its bodybuilding advice. The OP is a banger. It's called Onegai Muscle and fun fact it's sung by the same voice actor who played Jolyne in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean. Jolyne is also the same voice actor for the main character of this anime.
The anime does not have an ending as it continues in the manga. The art style is good and I recommend the English dub. I watched both the English dub and the original Japanese with English subtitles and I have to say that they are both funny but all the jokes in the English dub are translated into the English culture and way of speaking which made it funnier.
One other thing that you should know that might peak your interest to the show is that Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an appearance!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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