are there any saki sanobashi (Go for a punch) updates?

im Not surprised lol

I think it's real and the so-called "4chan OP" was in fact a troll who skunked the search efforts before it even got going and far too many people took his word at face value despite the fact he had no evidence he was who he said he was. 

With that being said, I don't think the real anime itself was actually titled titled Go For A Punch or Saki Sanobashi.

There was a LOT of hyper-violent guro in the 80's and 90's that got made into anime during the "OVA Boom" and most of it was low-budget, obscure, weird, and even in Japan, it largely went unnoticed save for a cheapo VHS tape or a shoddy bootleg here and there.

The biggest hinderance outside of the "hurr durr it's not real cause some random guy on Reddit said he made it up" idiocy is the fact that we don't know the actual title. Go For A Punch sounds like the name a fansubber could've made for a bootleg version of the original source, or it might've been the name of a compilation bootleg that contained the actual GFAP/Saki.

My personal guess is that the footage itself is real but it was obscure and may have made it online to Limewire or some similarly defunct pirate site as part of a guro compilation mixtape.

But that's just my opinion.

Japanese people have said "saki sanobashi" isn't even a correct Japanese phrasing.

i'm 100% sure this thing is nothing but a shitpost.

With all the info we have about the kind of works associated with those kinds of anime videos I'm willing to believe it could be out there in some form but we truly don't know either way. I've always had my doubts about the reddit "deconfirmation" and I'm certain that "Saki Sanobashi" is not the real title and "go for a punch" is likely either completely made up or associated with some unofficial bootleg release of the original material. I'm curious how many of us would even watch it if it was discovered.

I have a friend who researches and catalogs the names of staff from anime OVAs from the 80s, including NSFW ones similar to Saki Sanobashi. Saki Sanobashi has become a running joke between the two of us. There's this idea I've read that Saki Sanobashi was "too hardcore" to be advertised in any kind of anime magazine, which is absolutely ridiculous. I will not provide any examples of NSFW OVAs, but any type of OVA during the 80s, NSFW or otherwise, would get coverage because of how new OVAs were. The more popular and less violent OVAs would get covered in magazines like Animage and MyAnime, while the more graphic and obscure ones would be covered in underground Otaku magazines like Comic Box. Dallos, the first OVA, was released in 1983. The first NSFW OVA was released in 1984. Saki would've had some sort of presence in these magazines if it released during this time period. Even if Saki didn't contain any nudity, it would not have been classified with SFW OVAs due to its (supposed) violent nature. The magazines my friend and I have purchased have had no mention of Saki. If it tells you anything, I've found information on a completely different OVA that never went into production before I found anything about Saki...

Continuing on: The switch to digital animation (in Japan) didn't go into full force until the late 1990s/early 2000s. In Saki was made during the 80s/90s, there would be lots of physical production material, including cels, genga/douga, settei, etc. Settei, for example, sometimes even includes the name of the animation studio and the character designer. However, none of this material seems to have surfaced.

In conclusion: We have a testimonial from one person, but no physical proof. We do not know the production company, any of the animators, voice actors, etc. Not a single staff member has come forward to confirm they worked on such a production. Not a single mention of it has been found in magazines focusing on OVAs. Not a single image or video has been found.

Even if it was real, and is possibly another OVA that was misidentified, it's a complete wild goose chase at this point. There's nothing to go off of.