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hadou-ken
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anyone know of any martial art anime out there. i already saw:
tenjoy tenge baki the grappler street fighter: episodes and three movies shura no toki fatal fury anyone know of more |
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hentai4me
 Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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well do you enjoy the over the top anime super violence or more down to earth ones?
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hadou-ken
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kind of like the ones i mentioned above
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hentai4me
Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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Dragon Ball Z is probably number one, running at over hundreds of episodes of rather pointless violence with all the macho posturing and planet destroying abilities we come to expect form these kinds of things.
Naruto for the same kind of ninja magical abilities action, supposed to have a halfway decent story to it as well, but after 20 episodes I couldnt really find one, the fighting is top notch I suppose though. Yu Yu Hakusho, I've not seen it myself but its meant to be very similar to these others. Rurouni Kenshin, the OAV's are more serious and more down to earth but the series has the same elements as you seem to be looking for, lots of talk about how one style trumps another, bad guy of the weeks new unique abilities(though they arent always 'of the week' but its the same kind of format) |
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Tony K.
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Before this turns into an all-out list thread, to those of you replying, please put some kind of description next to your suggestions.
I will not lock this, but I can't speak for any of the other mods. |
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immortalwarrior
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grappler baki is another good martial art anime and fist of the north star which has a lot of different martial art styles in it. Grappler baki is just straight forward fighting with no powers what so ever just old fashion fighting, fist of the north star is similar except in a way ken has powers.
Street fighter is another good martial arts anime. i know of others but can't remember names but these are good for a martial arts fix. |
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hadou-ken
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i have seen every of the anime you guys listed. yuyu hakusho, naruto, rurouni kenshin i already saw all of this. isn't there more martial arts anime?
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hentai4me
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well this isnt really my speciality(if you didn't gather from my far from praising descriptions) but those are probably some of the more popular 'fighting' series and you didn't say you ha seen all of those hence the assumption. do you want shounen series then? |
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Tony K.
Subscriber Moderator Posts: 11441 Location: Frisco, TX |
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Have you seen Hunter X Hunter? It's not martial arts by a long shot, but they use a concept similar to ki, chi, and chakra. It's more of a technique that implies mastery of discipline and control of bodily energies, like a martial artist would.
Also try Bleach. Reiatsu is yet another form of that martial artsy spiritual energy you're looking for, while the entire series runs on a supernatural theme of ghosts, spirits, and death gods. Of course, there's King of Fighters: Another Day, though it's much too short to really be satisfying, but KoF is KoF, and it's better than no KoF anime at all. |
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pumirya
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1.Based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, the story comes now as an anime series, except taken to the next level. Set in the future, where humans have turned into war, people have begun turning their bodies to into bulking, mechanical creations, and the bigger, the better.
The Nobuseri, a band of mechanical Samurai warriors, intend to take the rice harvested by farmers from the village, so in response, the elder of Kanna Village has sent Kilara, Komachi, and Rikichi to Kougyakou to meet up with seven Samurai warriors: Kanbei, Katsushirou, Shichiroji, Heihachi, Kyuzou, Gorobei, and finally, the armored Kikuchiyou. Now this band of seven fearless Samurai warriors will have to battle the Nobuseri and their emperor, Ukyou, as well as prepare the villager's men for battle. 2.Rurouni Kenshin is about a man named Himura Kenshin who was once an assassin called "Battousai the Manslayer." He fought in the revolution and was believed to be the strongest imperialist. However, due to a horrible incident, he put away the sword that kills and decided he would never kill another human being, no matter what. He took up a reverse-blade sword. This way, even though he used the impressive Hiten Mitsurugi style, he could protect others without killing. Ten years after he starts wandering, he meets a girl named Kamiya Kaoru who mistakes him for a man who calls himself "Battousai the Manslayer" and is killing people in the name of the Kamiya Kasshin style. Kaoru attacks Kenshin, thinking he is this person, since he carries a sword. However, she quickly learns that he is not the one 3.boy named Yuske Urameshi is a ghetto-street junior high schooler who is flunking classes. The story picks up in the downtown area, suddenly, when he spots a kid standing in the street in the path of an oncoming car. Yusuke pushes the child out of the way, but loses his life in the process. He goes to the spirit world, where the ruler has a body of a toddler, and his assistant is the somewhat beautiful Botan, who rides an oar like a witch rides a broom. From there, he makes many choices and crazy decisions that both help and hurt him. Yu Yu Hakusho. All three of these have the martial arts in them you are looking for. |
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Kruszer
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I've found Legend of Condor Hero to be a highly entertaining martial-arts anime. I definitely recomend it, having just ordered the last couple volumes which will be in my possession shortly. It's about a guy, who due to ill treatment, escapes his martial-arts school and is taken in by a powerful female master living in a nearby tomb. He's a quick study and soon becomes a very powerful master himself, in the process they fall in love. However, due to a misunderstanding she leaves him and he journeys around China searching for her. It's liscensed here in the US by Tai Seng a distributor of lots of Hong Kong films and such, I think LoCH is their first and only anime so far.
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patch
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I always prefered the soul reaper translation. Although not the literal translation of shinigami (死神 - literally god of death), I feel that it conveys the meaning more of what they really are. |
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Tony K.
Subscriber Moderator Posts: 11441 Location: Frisco, TX |
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Well, the term "reaper" usually makes me think of the Grim Reaper, the Western version of Death (the skeletal figure in the cloak carrying a scythe). I personally would like to use shinigami all the time, but since everyone might not know what it is, "death god" seems to be more universally interchangeable, at least for me. |
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outlawwolf
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If shinigami translates to death god, then death god=shinigami. There's not point in debating which one carries the meaning better because they mean the same thing. It's like saying the meaning of Hello, Hola(spanish hello!), and Konnichiwa are different.
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-gecko-
 Posts: 285 Location: Near Seattle, WA |
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Ikki Tousen is another martial arts anime. The story revolves around Hakufu Sousaku(sp?) who is a ditzy female high-schooler who comes to a school imbroiled in a great struggle for supremacy among the schools of the Kanto Plain. She just happens to be the embodiment of one of the greatest warriors of all time (or something like that). It's a recreation of some great legend (the name escapes me) and is based on the manga Battle Vixens, IIRC.
I enjoyed it up to the third DVD; i haven't gotten around to searching out the last volume (R1 US) yet. When it goes on sale at Right-Stuf... |
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