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Nov 5, 2009 5:47 PM
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Bui should have flung multiple axes at once...me likey.

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Apr 28, 2010 9:03 PM
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Kurama's fight seems unfair with all that effort, and Hiei looks like he has control of his
"The weak get washed away by the tides of fate...The strong drink it up."-Godot
Jun 29, 2011 8:52 PM
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That seriously was unfair. >_< But I guess tournament rules are rules. At least Kurama got the bigger win in the end. ;3
Dec 11, 2011 4:20 PM
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Kurama lost in the eyes of the rules, but in essence he won. His opponent died and lived. Though now the others have to assure certain victory!

Bui is fucking badass! This is giving me this vibe!
Dec 16, 2011 3:57 PM
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Hiei and his cool attitude on the frond. Awesome staff. And lol at hearing the stadium getting blown up. Until now those guys at the stand had fire, balls of energy, super punches, huge rocks landing on the again and again, super ghost serpents and even an axe in this episode. Seriously buying a ticket to that event is almost more dangerous than competing in it.
Those tickets should be coming with a life insurance, lol.
Aug 21, 2012 6:25 PM
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Kurama might have lost, but at least he's not dead!
Jul 10, 2013 5:29 PM
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That countdown was absurd. But at least Kurama is alive and he did a very great job. He indeed lost the match but he won the fight.

And what a very deadly tournament. Many audiences had died already watching it. It's watching with your life on stake.
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Mar 21, 2015 11:24 PM
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Hiei's fight looks awesome so far. I really like Bui's fighting style. No bullshit, just straight up assault. Judging from the fighters left, I'm guessing Kuwabara is gonna go up against the smaller Toguro brother. No idea how he could have a remote chance in hell of winning that since he was confirmed to be stronger than both Karasu and Bui
Apr 20, 2015 1:30 AM
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Talk about uninteresting characters. The entirety of Team Toguro is lacking in personality.

Hiei's fight dragging on is to be expected I suppose.
Jan 8, 2016 1:36 AM

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Why, hello there Rock Lee's predecessor!

Some of the influences on Naruto are so obvious that I can't help but notice... I really do see a resemblance to Lee during the chunin exam in Bui.

Monad said:
Seriously buying a ticket to that event is almost more dangerous than competing in it.
Those tickets should be coming with a life insurance, lol.


This! Hahaha.
Mar 27, 2017 5:03 PM

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Nice tat! Wow lol I feel like Toguro's and Yusuke's battle wont be explosive as this since Toguro only seems to use physical str.
Apr 9, 2017 10:39 PM

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Too bad Kurama lost.

Decent fight so far. I'm looking forward to more of Hiei's black flames.
Jun 22, 2017 2:40 AM
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Procedures procedures procedures. Boring. Convenient. I think it's all the author could think of to give each of the 5 a chance for battle, without actually killing any one of them. Good lord deux ex machina
Jun 22, 2017 2:43 AM
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Sean_Nessman said:
Procedures procedures procedures. Boring. Convenient. I think it's all the author could think of to give each of the 5 a chance for battle, without actually killing any one of them. Good lord deux ex machina


Gosh, see, it takes up half of the episode for Hiei to be on stage.
Hiei's wish is the best. This rigged tournament is bullshit
Jun 22, 2017 2:58 AM
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I like Bui. He doesn't talk much. He acknowledges his rival's strength and knows he cant beat him with the armor on. Good appreciation of himself and his opponent.
Also like the part he used the stone as distraction and once it's broken by Hiei, he's right behind to bring down the axe.
Jun 22, 2017 3:02 AM
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each time someone reveals their true power, a pole of light and energy is exploding to the sky. And the audience comments: Oh my god what is that power?? This is something else??!!! ......
But this is the 10th times and it's cliche as shit
Jan 8, 2018 12:59 AM

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I don't understand the count. Kurama had his shoulders off the ground before the 10 count. It seems pretty weird to me that you would need to literally stand up, but I guess those are the rules. I would assume it's just a purposely unfair ruling, but then they showed a replay of it. I still think contestants earlier had the count stopped when they lifted their shoulders off the ground. I guess that's the point.
Feb 5, 2018 7:18 AM

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Nah that lady referee just cheated, she didn't count anything
VTR is rigged too :P
Kurama stood up.. kinda, at least that's not "down"
But that's pretty solid for plot, so Yusuke can fight Toguro later

Aww but Koenma's lackey is right.. Should take chances whenever they put the guard down, like removing armors
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Oct 3, 2018 2:36 PM

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I was seriously expecting that it would be Kuwabaras turn. Well,I can live with Hiei, especially since his fight is even better than the first one.

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Jan 2, 2019 4:47 PM
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It's ridiculous how they keep bending their rules all the time.

First it's best of 3, then all 5 matches have to be fought, even when one team already won 3.

Then they demand 5 people per team, but didn't bother with that one zombie team that had only 3 guys fighting.

Now Kurama was clearly getting up again while she was counting, yet he still lost. "Still in down state" my ass. I would have killed that incompetent referee.

Yeah, right....
Apr 1, 2019 4:21 PM

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one of the best fight scenes thus far. the opening battle sequence was intense, well animated and directed. Starting to think that the creators like Hiei's fights because they always seem higher quality than the rest. It was the same when he used his dark flame for the first time.


Anyways not a fan of the constant powerups midfight neither from our team our villains. I wanna see more strategic and more raw fighting skills and more dependence on skills like speed etc. This fight is just ok so Hiei is incredibly strong and just overwhelms Bui by a large margin. Lets give him a powerup so he can keep up and make Hiei struggle again.
May 31, 2019 1:36 PM
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Aww, Kurama fight's outcome is sad, that's so unfortunate. Well, it's finally time for Hiei, and goddamn he got a nice powerboost. This fight should be very interesting.
Apr 21, 2020 1:15 PM

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These rules keep changing every episode lol
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Aug 21, 2020 4:30 AM

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What the fuck! That was such bullshit man! Damn those rules!
FUCK!
I just love how Yukina acts when they tease Kuwabara like that! XD
So it is Hiei vs Bui, it really seemed like it was gonna be Kuwabar vs Bui and Hiei vs Elder Toguro, but whatever.
Hiei has an anti masturabation thingy going on there lol
Oh shit the way he ran bro, that would have been so creepy if it was night time, I just shouted "FUCK!" XD
Bui is really badass! Blue hair eh!
"I have forgotten how to wrap it again" Damn that sounded cooler than I thought!
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Jan 3, 2021 8:04 AM

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the countdown thing were stupid.

and hiei fight is the best so far.
Jul 29, 2021 12:04 AM

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bs how Kurama lost that even though he killed the guy. oh well.

the guy hiei is fighting is strong af

Mar 21, 2022 10:55 PM

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Throughout the tournament they've been so lax with the counting. It was a cheap way for Kurama to lose, but at least he survived.
May 22, 2023 4:41 AM

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God that ruling was bullshit. Kurama was technically up by the time the announcer had gotten to ten and where did it say in the rules that he NEEDS to be standing up fully in order to count that he's up? What a joke, Kurama should've won that fight! All that effort just to be told you lose and he had to turn into Yoko Kurama just to be within a fighting chance of Karasu. Oh well at least Kurama is still alive. Hiei's fight on the other hand? Looking pretty good as per usual with him. Bui's pretty badass as well. Really looking forward to seeing what Hiei is in store next.
Sep 22, 2023 8:21 PM

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Right, the rules that only appear to try to ruin the protagonists chances and nothing else, I've already forgot what was the point of this annoying tournament.

Hiei's fight started good, then it turned into some saiyajin-thing, let see how it goes down; I also got reminded of Rock Lee and Sasuke with how their power-up got presented.
Nov 25, 2023 10:23 PM

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hiei is so badass 😏
Dec 7, 2023 1:04 AM
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Rock Lee took the idea and improved it. lol
Feb 6, 3:46 PM
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Kurama the first loser that won. I loved how Yusuke backed the violence to that ref. Hiei gonna be on his timing
Mar 4, 4:41 PM

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This is down to the wire. Kuwabara, Hiei, and Yusuke have to win their fights, because Sakyo and Koenma are NOT fighting.
Apr 15, 12:09 PM
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Man, Hiei and Kurama's fights are really something.
Apr 15, 12:14 PM
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Rock Lee took the idea and improved it. lol
@NoFutureZine yeah, most of Kishimoto's ideals are taken from Togashi's.
May 26, 9:57 PM

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What a bullshit ruling. Since when is it considered “down” when you’re getting up and aren’t on your chest/back anymore? They stopped counting in the exact same situation multiple times. The complete randomness and inconsistency of these rules is getting annoying.

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