Togainu no Chi

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Synonyms: Blood of the Reprimanded Dog

Japanese: 咎狗の血

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 8, 2010 to Dec 23, 2010

Premiered: Fall 2010

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex, Picture Magic, Lantis, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Movic, Nitroplus

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Action, Boys Love, Sci-Fi, Suspense

Themes: Gore, Survival

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.23¹ (scored by 36,360 users)

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Ranked: #8435²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #2244

Members: 88,672

Favorites: 361

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Synopsis

In the wake of a third world war which left Japan in ruins, an organization known as Vischio seized control of Tokyo and renamed it Toshima. Taking place in its back alleys are battle games known as Igura, overseen by the Vischio, in which contestants battle and bathe in each other's blood to earn the chance to go up against its tournament's king, Il-re.

Igura is not the only fighting tournament around; Bl@ster is a similar yet vastly different game since it prohibits murder and the use of weapons. The only way to win is by knocking out the opponent. Akira, a young man isolated from his family, is known to be undefeatable at Bl@ster. However, his life on the top is shattered when he is accused of murder. Unable to prove his own innocence, all hope is seemingly lost... that is until a mysterious woman named Emma appears and offers him a chance. Now, to regain his freedom, Akira must participate in Igura and ultimately defeat Il-re.

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Preview airing on September 23, 2010. The regular TV broadcast started on October 8, 2010.

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Adaptation:	Togainu no Chi
Other:	BOY's LOVE Nitro+CHiRAL

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shiki

Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese

Akira

Main

Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

Rin

Main

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Keisuke

Main

Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Nano

Main

Yamazaki, Takumi
Japanese

Motomi

Main

Ichijo, Kazuya
Japanese

Gunji

Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou
Japanese

Kau

Supporting

Kiriwar

Supporting

Konishi, Katsuyuki
Japanese

Arbitro

Supporting

Okano, Kousuke
Japanese

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Iwakami, Atsuhiro

Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue

Producer

Maruyama, Hiroo

Producer

Doi, Yoshinao

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Opening Theme

"Rose-Hip Bullet" by GRANRODEO (eps 1-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "No Moral" by Itou Kanako (eps 1)
	2: "bright lights" by Kimura Seiji (eps 2)
	3: "Don't Stare Me" by VERTUEUX (eps 3)
	4: "-toge-" by Sadie (eps 4)
	5: "once more again" by Misato Aki (eps 5)
	6: "Requiem Blue" by Watanabe Kazuhiro (eps 6)
	7: "crossing fate" by OLDCODEX (eps 7)
	8: "Yasashisa ni Mamorarete (優しさに守られて)" by Kita Shuhei (eps 8)
	9: "Honed Moon -Togareta Tsuki (Honed Moon -咎レタ月)" by Itou Kanako (eps 9)
	10: "Don't look away" by CurriculuMachine (eps 10)
	11: "STILL anime Ver." by Itou Kanako (eps 11)
	12: "GRIND "style GR"" by GRANRODEO (eps 12)

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Jul 13, 2021

Kindy_

Recommended

This review is kinda biased. I played the original game and even own some figures of the characters. And I must say that I had so much fun watching this.

Let's start with the story
A story of a multiple stories visual novel is always hard to adapt in an anime format. But here ? It was great. They tooks scenes from each characters routes, changed a few things and it made sense. They also added new scenes (mostly around the end) that go well with the flow of the game.
It's maybe still a bit complex, I wished they spend more time explaining the situation of Akira ... when he was still a bl@ster player and more time on the ending.

The art is the thing I can't stand up for
The art is very inconscistent from one episode to another. I must say that aroud half of the anime I kinda liked it. But at the start and especially the last episode it was bad. The last ep was easily the worst of them. I don't know if they fixed it in the dvd release but since I had the Tv version I couldn't tell. It was so bad I didn't managed to follow the action, they also re-used the same animation many times. Another problem I had was the brightness of the anime, or the lack of it. Somes scenes were in total darkness, it was horrible to follow
But it doesn't mean it's all bad ! I loved this design of Arbitro and the designs of his 3 dogs, they had great movements and were just better here. Some fights are nice too
But one thing was innacteptable in the version I watched. They cut out the gore. I especially came to see blood gushing from everwhere, like the games. But I was so wrong, and that's sad. The speciality of Nitro Chiral is to make gory BL VN. One scene that was censored was one of the visions of Akira which is from one of the bad ends of Keisuke. The one where he has the guts of Akira in his hands. I was so disappointed.

The best apect of the anime is next, the sound
I cannot say I wasn't impressed. First thing the opening, you know it's good when you didn't skip it in all 12 episodes. Rose-hip bullet by granrodeo is just so good. Next thing the background music, very good. Sometimes a anime has such high-quality BGM that you start to notice it and tell yourself "hey I like it". And that the case here. Very fitting.
Now for the icing on the cake, the voice acting. Dare I say it's better than the game ? Heck yes ! Starting with Akira. In the game he was kinda emotionless and there were too few times where he showed emotion. Now the feels are more presents and we can see how much his seiyuu improved. I liked his performance in the anime, much more than in the game. Next Rin. His voice was perfect in the game and it's still perfect. Motomi, Shiki and Keisuke were the same than in the games, solid voice acting overall.

Time to speak about chracters
Nothing to say exept they were more or less the sames than in the game. Akira had a big glow up character-wise and Arbitro was perfect. I love so much this version of Arbitro. We also saw more of Gunji and Kiriwar, which was good because they are so fun to see arguing.
And spoilers, I was so happy when Keisuke finally died, I hate so much this character

You could say I had a great time
One thing I must say is that the game is heavily censored. The scene where Akira see a guy fucking a corpse is cut, the blood and gore censor was very present.
So was also the sexual censor. When Akira is attacked by three dudes, they started sexually assaulting Akira before slurping his blood. They not only removed the shoking scenes but also every notion of romance. If you're going to watch this cause it's tagged "shonen ai" DON'T. Akira and Keisuke are just two bros, Rin is a little touchy and that's all.
Personnally I don't mind, somes scenes in the game were kinda hard to watch (Keisuke I'm watching you) so to just focus on a action, mystery with a touch of gore show was not bad, 18+ elements were not so present in the game anyways. It's more of a 15 and up kind of show, not like the 18 and up rated game.

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Oct 13, 2021

PushingZedzzzzz

Mixed Feelings

I liked it. It had potential, but it failed to adequately flesh out the characters/character-relationships & story.
It just didn't flow & explain the backstory well enough for those of us who haven't read the manga, novel or visual novel. Which made some parts a bit confusing.

Also, what happened to the bl? There was nothing boys-love about this anime, which was disappointing. I mean, I didn't expect explicit, but there wasn't even a hint bl, not even implied, it was more bromance if anything.

Still, I liked it, it was average. I certainly didn't dislike it, I just think it had potential to do much more. ...

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Nov 10, 2016

damanique

Not Recommended

I came to this anime expecting BL, and instead found a lot of misery, death, bloodbaths, more misery, senseless character deaths, quasi-existential yammering, more death, more blood, and a feeling of dissatisfaction and pointlessness.

I haven't played the BL game or read the manga and I suppose I should have checked the reviews before watching this so I could have avoided this exercise in anime-watching masochism.

There is literally no emotional pay-off to watching this. At all. The good guys don't win. The bad guys don't lose. The bad guys also don't really win. Nobody really wins or loses, everything is miserable. The one character development ...

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