Shin Ikkitousen

Today's world is a victim of a detestable sickness: The sickness of the airhead people who cannot understand a good story only because they see fan service. They are probably scared about boobs, and that's why their brain cannot follow the story of ecchi animes.

Please don't misunderstand me. There are a lot of simple and boring ecchi animes (as well as in all the other genres). But Ikki Tousen is an example of an old-school ecchi anime with a great story.

Not all the chapters of Ikki Tousen have been good (Western Wolves was a complete disaster). But after waiting for three years, we finally have ... a story that really works. Intriguing twists in the story and great new characters make justice to the legendary Ikki Tousen. Anything to complain about this new chapter.

I recommend Shin Ikki Tousen if you are already a franchise fan. If that is not the case, now you will have an excellent pretext to introduce yourself to this incredible universe.

Shin Ikki Tousen is an extraordinary comeback for this franchise. I am sure that the fanbase will love it.

Finally, I want to clarify that not enjoying fanservice is entirely valid. But what is not reasonable is to underscore a great anime, only because ecchi is not your favorite anime genre. For example, I don't enjoy the genre of Slice of Life, but I am not dedicating myself to underscoring those animes.

This is a direct sequel to the Ikkitousen Western Wolves OVA.

Shin Ikkitousen still has everything that one would come to expect from the franchise.

The top tier fanservice starts right out of the gate, from around the 1st minute into the 1st episode.

With only 3 episodes in total, there isn't much opportunity for plot depth.

Visually, this seemed to be of the best quality for the franchise yet.

... Many of the existing characters from the franchise make an appearance, though more screen time for some favorites like Kan'u would've been better. Some new characters come and go without much of backstory.

The power/ranking system still seems broken, but the fights are decent.

There isn't any plot resolution, but instead we're left with a set-up for another potential sequel to come.

Overall, a decent watch for fans of the Ikkitousen franchise.

It’s all part of the “ecchi” anime genre. These stories deal with sexually sensitive and scandalous topics, but they do not cross the line into pornography at any point. The anime has a lot of these things and will be fun to watch.

In this manner, it appears that many of the same things will occur as previously iwth the other season as well. There will be turf battles if our main character does not keep them at bay. This is how we maintain order. Watching the spinoff of the series with your lover is probably not a smart idea. In most of the movie, there ... will be fight scenes and shots of young women in revealing clothes.

New warriors desire to join the arena to protect their school from opponents, as they have in every version of “Ikki Tousen.” “Shin Ikki Tousen” is no exception, and in this season a new protagonist shows up and doesn't disappoint at all.

New allies and adversaries arrive with a new heroine. You may always acquire the first four volumes of the manga series, all of which are authored by Yuji Shiozaki, to get a sense of who will likely end up in the cast. It’s also a good time to pick up some of the older “Ikki Tousen” volumes to get caught up before the next anime season of this show comes out.

Good Show Overall!

Dude what to say about this sequel....
We all know that ikkitousen are not exactly the anime that you watch because of the story lets be honest, but still the themes that the anime have are no doubtly interesting if you like the story about the warriors of ancient China.

But the problem is, the plot here is sliced as much as they could, as i had said ikkitousen does not have that much of complex plot, and they cut even more to fit this ova format, and all this to have a such open ending that really leaves you hanging....really hope for a sequel but what ... was cut will be hard to recover.

About the new characters they were a decent addiction to the plot and they could be good side characters if they had more time/development but well.....they took a hard decision at the end, it was understandable but i still don't think it was a good decision if you ask me.

Animation wise its as others had said, probably the best ikkitousen had until now, but well in a 3-ova format is what you should expect i think, but still good.

About the sound it is the same for me as it was for the other ovas like western wolves, not bad but not great too.

Its a shame that we don't have another TV series, there were enough material for it, the end would still be open but it would make way more sense without the cut material, but well, its still ikkitousen so it was somewhat fun.

It's obvious now that there's a much bigger story they're trying to tackle with these short burst of OVA episodes, but with so much time in between and just a few episode released at a time I doubt there's much actual hype being generated. The only thing that probably keeps people coming back is the booba, but even that seemed a lot toned down in this season from some of the previous ones. It's still there, I don't think it'd really be Ikkitousen without it, but it feels mellowed out and dare I say a bit more mature.

The ranking system they introduced earlier in the ... story arc is still seemingly a big focus, as well as introducing a bunch of new characters and expecting us to care about them. I get that if you're a fan of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and all the history and lore surrounding it you might care more and might even recognize some of the Japanese renderings of the Chinese names. I'm just not the target audience it seems, and I can only imagine how niche that audience actually is.

When they introduce a new younger girl as Hakufu's younger sister, I was like "have we been here before, it feels like we've been here before." They already did that exact story line, though it might not have been cannon as that season felt like all filler anyway and it turned out she wasn't even who she said she was in the first place. Regardless it seems like they're doing it for real this time, and I guess it's fine it still works as a concept especially when you try to get into the history of it.

Overall nothing too special about this season that stood out to me as being all that different that what's come before, passably entertaining as tiddy animes go. 6/10