Ikkitousen

When I read the official review of Ikkitousen, I told myself: "Yea! Another Tenjou Tenge. Some arse kicking fights!" But I was so horribly wrong!!

There is NOTHING great about the series. The characters fight for no reason. They fight like bersekers without using their minds, breaking each other for no reason, then will ally afterwards, then fight each other again, and use insanely powerful blows on each other, but still manage to come out alive. Dreadful!

Regarding character development, there is nothing great again here. The main girl lead is just a battle-addict-crazy. She is accompanied by another girly man who appears to fight like a ... god, but of which we are not shown almost anything. It's just fight, fight, fight and fight. No story, no reason for fighting.

The story is not well developed. IMHO, I really believe they just copied Tenjou Tenge, changed the characters and created a sort of pseudo story without any meaning. I really mean it, they COPIED Tenjou Tenge (TJTG). Go watch TJTG and you will see the many similarities by yourself.

The only thing good about it is the enormous amount of fan-service and ecchiness. In almost every episodes, you will get to see the panties and bra of almost all the main girl characters. In the middle of the fight, you will see shirts getting ripped and skirts being blown open to reveal the characters` underwear. There is also a fair amount of sex, although nothing much is shown. This anime, with some more ecchiness, would be a hentai. Amidst model-sized bodies, large bust sizes and lots of in-between leg shots, the fight rages... Lolz! Hentai, I tell you!

(I never knew girls would give such kicks with a skirt to expose their panties so often..)

Mind you! The cloth-ripping and underwear-popping-out thingies happen to only girls. The boys NEVER get their clothes torn, no matter what happens. What`s more? A kick is able to reduce a shirt or skirt to shreds, but the underwear remain intact! I don`t know of what material those underwear are made of, but I guess titanium threads. They NEVER get ripped! Skin can get bruised, bones crack, blood splurts but the bra remains undefeated! OMG! o_0

Returning to the story, the characters appear to fight for almost no reason. They wear some ear-ring objects which supposedly contains the soul of legendary fighters. So? They are supposed to fight because of that? And for what? The domination of the territory? In what way is this useful? Wakaranai! I have no single idea! Conclusion? The plot line su*ks!

Now, I would like to point out parallels between Tenjou Tenge and Ikkitousen. Tenjou Tenge (TJTG) comes first, followed by Ikkitousen.

Nagi Souchiro => Sonsaku Hakufu
Bob Makihara => Koukin
Todoh Accademy => Nanyang School
Disciplinary committee => Disciplinary Committee
4 main characters (Nagi, Bob, Masataka, Aya) = 4 main characters (Sonsaku, Koukin, Ryomon, Gakushu)
Main character has a dragon => Main character has a dragon too, though pitifully illustrated
Ultra powerful blows => Here too
Fanservice => Duh! Same!

As you can see, there are many similarities between TJTG. But nevertheless, I will still prefer Tenjou Tenge. I have been deceived by the anime, and I do not believe I would be re-watching it anytime soon. Conclusion: It`s just a fight-fight-fight-ecchi-hentai-fight-kick-fight-ecchi anime with no good plot line. A great enjoyment for those who appreciate fan-service. Watch TJTG if you want the same thing, but with more fun, and better story but with a long filler. (Can't get everything, can you?)

Ikkitousen: A poor attempt at action, or a drivel of goo at your shoes?

Ikkitousen is not your regular anime, as it masterfully and elegantly sets itself apart from others by being as unoriginal as it can be. Not a common sight in the world of anime today you might conclude and nod, and most everyone can only but concur. Indeed, it is so awful for its genre that even animes that reek of incompetence and utter failure, laugh and triumphantly raise their arms in victory, when compared to this piece of cancer in your lung.

It might not kill you, true, but then again, it ... might...

Story: 18/100
Story you ask in a manner that is much similar to those who try to resurrect the dead. Story you ask in a manner much very similar to those who strain themselves with effort, becoming exhausted from the sheer pressure of forcibly trying to travel in time with only their minds. Indeed, you are wasting your time, go look elsewhere. As long as you are in this realm you will neither time-travel as likely as you will find a grain of story in this anime. As this anime throws about ideas of books and "chosen ones" with their own made-up words, forcing a community of their own into existence within the anime and finding it logical to make one character fight the next to fight the next to fight the next - indeed, it makes not much sense, none of it, ever. As the anime is coming to a close it tries to no avail to connect all the dots and gather around all the strings, but by then everyone already knows that there is no point trying to make a memorable story from that which never was. It is as foolish as trying to make a car appear in front of your eyes with only a pen at your disposal. This anime tries to redeem its lack of story by a string of events in the end, but horribly fails to do so.

Art: 45/100
There are no qualms to be had with the art, at all; it is decent for its age and for its budget, and does its best with what it has.

Sound 36/100
Both the opening and the ending was awkward to say the least, neither was memorable nor catchy. Definitely not anything to set ones ears on. The music throughout the anime was not memorable either, but the seiyuus (voice-actors) were actually quite okay. Truly, not expected but pleasantly true though.

Character 22/100
Most remarkably no characters you will fall head over heels for, and far from actually liking greatly.There is no more to say about this bit, seeing how awful and incomplete it is, to begin with.

Enjoyment 27/100
Although being a complete waste of time, those who are prone to fanservice will delight in this anime. To give this anime some compliments you can actually only but agree that the fanservice was not too horrible, although remarkably misplaced and foolish.

Overall
Pointless and stupid.

Overview:

A brilliant, modern adaptation of the Chinese novel: Romance of the 3 Kingdoms... in the same manner that the movie Friday is an adaptation of Tale of Genji.


Plot: 1/10

The plot is that a bunch of high schools are engaged in a turf war for control of Japan. The show tries at first to convince us that this is a clever allegory for the warring states period of Chinese history in which 3 kingdoms called Wu, Shu, and Wei fought each other for total domination of China. Firstly, a writer should never start out painstakingly explaining their own allegory and treating the audience like idiots. ... Secondly, any attempt at being clever or actually being a modernization of the classic novel are tossed out the window about 5 minutes in. This is a soft core porn that makes a half assed attempt at claiming to be a brilliant adaptation of a classic. Honestly I prefer it when the "plot" of a porn involves fucking the pizza delivery guy and not being ridiculously pretentious. The characters all are supposed to represent characters from the novel and for some reason wear magic beads that insure that they will have the same fate as their namesake in the novel. The real plot is that a bunch of chicks fight each other and tear clothes off with every kick and punch. There are also plenty of BDSM scenes involving hand cuffs, erotic asphyxiation, and urination. No one and I repeat NO ONE, has ever watched Ikki Tousen for the plot and left satisfied.

Characters: 1/10

The main character is Hakufu Sansaku, who is supposed to be the reincarnation of Sun Ce. Why the creators chose a secondary character as the series lead and not a larger role like Liu Bei or Guan Yu is honestly beyond me. The main villain, who looks like a bitch and has the threatening power to decimate watermelons, is based of Dong Zhuo. Serious? That guy got killed in the first 50 pages. Apparently a character based on the actual main villain Cao Cao turns up in the 2nd or 3rd season, but honestly I felt I had watched more than enough Ikki Tousen after 1 season! If you haven't read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, let me sum this up in a simpler fashion. The main male protagonist is a bland loser, the only thing developed about the female characters are their tits, and the villains are laughably stupid.

Sound: 2/10

the soundtrack that plays during the fight scenes is completely underwhelming and the the opening and closing themes to quote Fullmetal Jacket, both can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

Art: 5/10

The art is I guess the high point of this series, if you want to call it a high point. It at least sucks less than everything else. Studio Arms knows how to draw tits decently well.

Enjoyment: 1/10

As a porn, this series probably won't arouse you. As an adaptation of a great Chinese novel, this series is a steaming dump on the source material. As an anime in general...this series sucks man!

Overall: 2/10

If you are a true connoisseur of crap, this is one notably bad anime that you can't afford to miss. If there was an anime version of MST3K, they would watch Ikki Tousen. Strictly for masochists only!

Ikkitousen is by far the worst anime series I have ever watched. With way to many panty shots, and an overall patheticness surrounding it, I don't understand why you would want to watch it, unless you were into Hentai.
When I read the review for Ikkitousen I thought that it would be worth the watch, but boy was I wrong, I literally had to force myself to watch it to the end so then i could advise people not to watch it. It is awful in every sense of the word.

Lol Bai.

this is one of the worst and most disgusting animes i have ever seen. thairs no plot to this anime and zero character devilment the main hero is a idiot. and its mostly underwear and brest shots 100% of the time you dount want to watch this anime its a waste of time and if you hear some say ikitousen you beater run for the hills . the voices are 100% horrible.
if you are looking for good anime i recommended sekirei or rossario +vampire thay are two great animes with stroy line and is way better than iki tousen

I'm just gonna try and prevent people from watching this by adding my review here as well.This anime already has those who oppose it,I'm one,but I'd like to point out a few of its ood points as well(if it has any of course)



Story 6/10
For those who lack the knowledge about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Chinese history,then they probably gonna rate it a 1.Good thing for me that I wasn't so clueless and I'm gonna have to thank Dynasty Warriors.Actually the reason why I gave this a try was this reason,the PS2 game by Koei that I so like.But it was a ... big mistake cause there's no relation between them.It does try to do something "original" but fails in the process for a number of reasons.
1st-Because it's a 13-episode anime.No time to et used to it and characters.
2nd-Speaking about characters,it introduces a lot with very hard names and different kinds of roles that one can hardly remember.
3rd-It doesn't focus on the story,it focuses on the fan-service.
4th-If it still didn't focus on the fanservice it focuses on all the other things except for the story.
5th-If you want to make a good story,let's ignore the fanservice for now.It wouldn't be full of females.
Although it des try to do somethin as far as fate vs freedom of choice goes,but it's so terribly written that its basis is easily ignored.

Art 2/10
I don't have to o into detail.Just cause this is old it's not a big reason enough to explain this anime's aweful art and animation.The characters are just ugly,the hair weird,the animation awkward.

Sound 3/10

Didn't love any of it.The OP was very cheesy,somethin that should not be taken seriously.Heck I don't even remember the ED or any of the in anime music accompany the events.That alone shows that who ever decided to animate it didn't intend even for a little to make this a worthy anime.

Characters 2/10
I couldn't stand the main character.We have to do with an immature little irl who all it cares about is beat others,et naked in front of her cousin and call him a pervert after that.It's a shame that she is entitled being the strongest just as every main character but can't even beat her own mother who punishes her by spanking her(one more reason why it can't be taken seriously)
Too many characters to remember that only appear once and then they disappear.Maybe Kouki was good out of the whole cast,but his role was only to appear in two or three episodes.He then disappears like the rest to make way for fanservice.Except for Kouki it's worth pointing out another good character and that bein Ryomou Shimei before being raped by Ryofu.

Enjoyment 3/10
I literally forced myself to watch all 13 episodes and I congratulate myself that I made it,same goes for the rest of the fellows.This was more of a hentai than a anime.Call it ecchi or whatever,this was just censored hentai and nothing more,nothing less.Even hentai would be more enjoyable than this anime.

Overall 4/10
This is high,but I consider myself a generous person and I wouldn't want to drag with it the good elements you can find in it(even a few) by giving it 1.
It tries to hard to be many things at times,but by surprise fails in all of them.

Seven high schools in Japan are waging out an all-out turf war for ruling the terriorities and one fighter stands out and her name is Hakufu Sonsaku. She is a high school student transfer to Nanyo Academy and she is a highly skilled fighter, but to make more amusing, she has the personality of a ditzy valley girl.

Hakufu Sonsaku is basically just there for the money shots in the series. In mostly every scene in the series, this is an upskirt panty shot whenever she's fighting or doing whatever the hell she does. Not to mention, she really adds the unnecessary relationship between her ... and her cousin Koukin whenever she obviously does stuff like spanking her ass, almost having her top off, and her uniform getting ripped to shreds every time she fights. Seriously, who made those uniforms, Brawny? Koukin is basically the guy who gets nervous whenever he's in the presence of being near girls' breasts; however, he gets a pass because IT'S HIS FUCKING COUSIN. The other characters like Ryomou are really there for more applied fanservice and Ryofu for the same reason and for a little yuri. That's right. She goes both ways with another girl named Chinkyu and blah blah blah. Who really cares?


As for the animation……Oh wait, what animation exists here? It’s mostly still shots of fighting instead of actual fighting because the animators were too busy of ridiculous boob physics. Some of the background work looks fine but still, the main part of the series was supposed to be the fights and yet the fights are really weak and uninspired to intent.

The music is so-so and nothing to give a damn about. It’s mostly generic J-Pop in the beginning and in the end something that was sentimental and yet doesn’t fit the tone to the series due to his overwhelming ridiculousness and speaking of that, I can’t believe how bad the Geneon/New Generation Pictures dub is and fuck, this is one of the worst dubs I ever watch with Carrie Savage, whose natural charm of naïve and cuteness, doesn’t work on a character who’s not even hateful but just pure damn annoying. You might as well just watch the sub…..wait, wrong statement…..yeah, just don’t watch it.

Okay not going to bother with a full review since I only watched 3 episodes but I feel like I need to say something about it. Maybe it's because I haven't looked into Romance Of The Three Kingdoms which it's said to be based on but from what I've seen the story's fairly bland. Seven schools at war and the main character is a decent fighter with a secret power which many other fighters recognize which leads her to have all sorts of battles.

I really expected to like this more ... since I always enjoy anime like Sekirei and Rosario + Vampire. Characters were pretty lame and the voice acting was subpar at best. The Art is probably the best aspect of this anime and it's not all that great. Sure some of the girls are hot but the fight scenes could be better.

I've seen some decent reviews for it though so maybe it gets better as it goes along but personally if it doesn't grab me after 3 episodes, I don't plan to continue. I wish I had more to say but I didn't see enough to review it any further. No offence to those of you that like it but this just isn't for me.

I began watching this as a filler in between my other shows. I finished this season for 1 purpose only, to write this.

UNLESS you enjoy overly ecchi content and RAPE scenes that end in death, I suggest you avoid this at all cost. I personally am unable to handle RAPE or blood when it comes to women and this reflects in my ratings. Same reason why I refused to watch Freezing past a few episodes. (I broke a new 300 dollar monitor when I got pissed and lost it.)

I don't have anything else for this. Watch at your own discretion.

I often consider "Ikkitousen" as a crappier version of "Tenjou Tenge" - they are two of the most popular fan-service filled fighting anime around. But the resemblance ends at this point. While "Tenjou Tenge" upsets the trend of ecchi fightin anime by actually being GOOD (yep, you heard me correctly), "Ikkitousen" came off as a more typical offering of this type by letting the fanservice get in the way of everything else. In fact, "Ikkitousen" is so overflowing with fanservice that it's probably the closest an anime can get to being hentai without actually becoming a hentai.

The concept behind Ikkitousen is rather bizarre. Basically, people ... who were involved in the Three Kingdoms era (one of the most illustrious periods from ancient Chinese history) are being reincarnated as school girls from different schools. These girls all have a lust for battle (predictably), and so the battles from the Three Kingdoms era gets played out between these people from rival schools (each school is supposed to represent a Kingdom I think). It's like an anime about delinquents with a peculiar twist, and with all the characters being girls (in order to provide fanservice, of course).

By now, you've probably fallen off your chair laughing at this utterly ridiculous concept, but you might be surprised to know it didn't turn out to be a complete disaster... but not for the reason you might think. The reason had to less to do with competent story development and more to do with the fact that, between all the ecchi and fighting, there's not really much room left for "Ikkitousen" to expand on its farcical ideas. It's content to mostly sit back and give the occasional two-sentence narrative of how a current event is a parallel to what went on in the Three Kingdoms era. Though I'm vaguely aware of some parts of the Three Kingdom's history, I won't pretend I'm an expert, not by any stretch of the imagination. Armed with my primitive knowledge, the barebone armchair narrative helped me to understand... virtually nothing at all. Of course, it doesn't help that they're referring to those famous historical figures by their names translated into Japanese, but still, I can just imagine how lost someone would feel coming into this anime with little or no knowledge about that part of Chinese history. On the other hand, not developing the storyline can probably be considered to be a blessing in disguise. The concept is absurd enough as it is, god knows how it could have turned out if they actually tried to work something from it.

As it stands, the anime ditched most of the story in favour of the ecchi and action. Though there are some intriguing personalities thrown in the mix (well, intriguing by the standard of an ecchi anime at least), they suffer somewhat from the lack of cohesion in the story, as it's hard to figure out what their motivations are at times. The action sequences are quite awesome in places, especially when you compare it against other anime of similar genre (such as "Variable Geo") and see how sucky they tend to be. However, the fanservice factor is just a plain nuisance. Its presence is so strong that it tramples over everything else that's going on, and is often distracting at the most inappropriate moments. It really needs to take a leaf out of "Tenjou Tenge"'s book and see how to provide fanservice without disupting the viewer from other aspects such as action and story. And while it's at it, it may as well learn a thing or two about proper plot development too!

Other than a handful of great fights, this anime has very little else to offer. If you're after an anime of this particular genre, I would point you in the direction of "Tenjou Tenge"... unless it's eichi that's primarily what you're searching for.

Ikkitousen stands as a prime example of what's wrong with the majority of anime in the market today. A decent amount of action topped with too much fanservice. Even amongst the fanservice crowd, it was too much for me to swallow. Showing pantyshot after pantyshot was the equivalent of overfeeding a goose for foie gras (yes, I was forced to watch it in full by my friend - as a result we are no longer friends). And even with that analogy it left a bad taste in my mouth.

It had a plot. I think. If it was anything worth remembering, I would write it here. ... Funny enough, I've actually seen hentai with a better written plot than this (Urotsukidōji anyone?) If it was a hentai anime, sure, I would watch it for what it is. But it's a mainstream, albeit mature-themed anime (as if there's anything really mature about it to begin with) that caters to those fans that like seeing animated boobs, butts and panty lines as they're kicking and posing in overly suggestive positions. The average adolescent boy or young man would have a wank fest at the series, but even past the first episode I thought it went simply overboard.

I didn't bother writing out a full in-depth review on what I liked and didn't like about it, because honestly, this anime has about as much depth as a bowl of pho after a starving third world family has been through it. The fact that they tried to justify the story being based off the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a riot in itself.

If you're a horny guy under the age of 20 that likes tits, ass and fighting in-between, this is surely the anime for you. If you want something with even a grain of substance, don't bother.

Story: 1
Art: 4
Sound: 3
Character: 1
Enjoyment: 2
Overall: 1

The show is only good because it has fan service and beautiful girls, otherwise the story is literally ignored. I realized that the anime explored any space to dispel and attract more viewers to the show, being on the beach, home, forest, on the school terrace, in a joke that should be comical etc ... Seeing the characters looking to develop before a Horrible narrative and full of fan service, mediocre struggles and stupidity to the limit. You noticed episode 8, where the camera followed Hakufu and ignores her expression and goes down to her big tits. (I didn't have the ... fuck nudity show, why didn't you try to show intuitive dialogs with content ?!) I didn't understand the premise very well, well ... they were forcing a fight in which they could enjoy the nudity and then BANG !!! !! big tits rolling !!!
Ikkitousen is an anime that will be known by the girls with big tits and more flashy simple desing (exp: Kanu). Seeing that the director had no options but to follow only the branch of nudity, I had to sit and wait for the show to end up seeing that horrible development and poor animation.

So, I respect fanservice. Ikkitousen has a lot of fanservice. But oh my god, it is absolutely not worth it here.

This season, and most of the series, is a nightmare. The art in season 1 is terrible, but it does make a significant leap as the series moves on. The plot is also so poor. In the end, you find yourself wondering what the point of all their bullshit is, other than simply being compelled via destiny. That is not a plot you grow attached to. The characters are not diverse at all and their names are completely bland and hard to memorize. There are ... scenes where two characters refer to the same person, by completely different names within the same 10 seconds. This absolutely boiled my blood. This mixture of characters that are difficult to distinguish and a uninspiring plot crushes the story and leaves you caring for nothing. I'm sorry, but do not waste your time here. Actually, if you want a decent Ikkitousen experience, proceed to season 3.

I may just be saying what everyone else says about this one but I'll say it anyways. This is ridiculous, an anime which has random high schoolers fight each other to the death and follow the "Fate" of their beads just because their ancestor did it in this legend that, frankly, I could give two shits for. Now I know that the romance of the three kingdoms is a legend which this it based off of, but unless you know what the legend is and the details of the people within it you aren't going to be able to understand a lot of what happens ... and it feels like a cheap way to get you to look it up. Now despite what others say that "oh all this fighting is pointless" is mostly true, the only reason I can see for all this is for the honor and tradition of their fallen ancestors. Anything more than that is all above my head, and even with this, to to the death seems to be a stupid way of going about it, especially when one member of every generation of the families must follow this "fate" that was given to them and end up dying the same way every single time. Do they really think that this is what their ancestors would have wanted them to live, doing the exact same thing that they did and dying the same way? No, it defeats the purpose of why they fought in the beginning.
When getting into sound and art, this is an older anime than most so I'll cut it slack their. As for the character, when they aren't going on about the actually plot, they do have some enjoyable moments, kind of. And that where the praise ends, I'm normally the one who likes to defend some animes that some may see as not so good, but this is not one of them. I'm going to watch the sequel to see if that got any better, but my money says probably not.

I say! What a disappointing ecchi anime! From the get go we are expected to track at least a baker's dozen of names where one would expect to be allowed time to get familiar with the characters. Furthermore, this anime has the gall, the absolute gall, to basically make the show a re-run of some events that occured several thousand years before the story begins! As a result, all fights and friendships are set in stone based on the past events, allowing characters to determine the outcome of fights long before anyone has even rolled their sleeves up. Not to mention the constant blue-balling! Similar ... to ecchi greats like Highschool DXD, Ikkitousen features school uniforms that seemingly corrode upon human contact, leaving all but the characters breasts exposed for the most part! I came here for a good time and by jove I felt betrayed. Panties are, of course, made of much more durable materials in this universe, perhaps because the students get to pick these themselves. Perhaps this entire show is a social commentary on what school life would be like in a child-ruled anarchistic society where adults, let alone teachers, are nowhere to be found. In conclusion, this show was a jolly old mess and I look forward to season two.