I'm a big fan of the original remake of the series, so when I found out there was a sequel, I was psyched!
Now that I've watched it, I'm sad that there were only 6 episodes. Though the focus has been taken away from the coolest character in the series and it's full of inconsistencies with the original Tekkaman Blade (biggest being that Blade is actually moving, teksetting and remembering things, another being that Blade doesn't need Pegas anymore and that Aki now uses it, I could go on forever), but if you can look past that, it's a very good addition.
There's some excellent action schenes, the music is, especially during fights, pretty good. The story isn't really all that present and the character development is amazing, which is understandable since they need to do it in only 6 episodes, which causes one of them to be a complete bitch to one of the others in one episode and be her best friend the next!
It's a little weird, it shouldn't have been possible and really wasn't, but it was fun nonetheless!
Being a fan of the first series of Ikkitousen didn't help prepare me for the shock that was to be this second series.
Maybe I just remembered wrong, but Ikkitousen was a lot of fun. It had a somewhat interesting plot, it had a lot of action that looked pretty cool and it was very funny.
This one however appears to have tried to focus more on the story and possibly ecchi-ness, which in my opinion didn't really go so well in either departments.
Sure I don't mind a little big-breasted female half-nudity in a show, but when it becomes depentent on it, it is a sign that they did something wrong.
Trying too hard to make the story really interesting and that being noticable is also not really all that great.
The OVA seems more like what it should have been after it chose the path it did, real nudity and lots of comedy!
After years and years of putting it off and watching it halfway or just even a few episodes, I've finally gotten myself so far as to finish watching Tekkaman Blade (Teknoman).
It is awesome, it was back when I was 14 or so and saw the american version on tv here and it was awesome now! Even though it is a lot older then I remember and a lot of mistakes are made and at times it seems like a very low budget and almost badly written anime it is damn awesome.
I'm already usually a pretty big mecha fan, which is probably thanks to this show in the first place, but these are the pinnacle of mecha for me.
I don't know why it took me so long though...
At first I thought to give it an eight, because it's great, the story gets better the further the show progresses, even though they use some really cheap tricks to do it sometimes, but after having seen the Twin Blood special I must say that if it had been like that, the action and visual style and all, it would difinitely have gotten a 9 and seeing how the action could have been done I gave it a 7.
If you like mecha and you don't mind late 80s, early 90s style anime then this is definitely one you should watch!