The series revolves around it being a complete action series. It manages to have a good plot of a boy trying to make his mother love him despite it not being reciprocated as a motivation but once the events of Emi Akazawa in the middle of the series the plot changes to a revenge story. Despite being simply action the majority of the time it does manage to do very well dramatically when it does. The best part of the series is the world building in the story by showing the fighting classes of the world which fall under the King Of Fighters character Yujiro Hanma.
Art)
The art is a big downfall of this series. It is fine at first glance but the low budget put into the series brings it down a few pegs. Character movements include in this at times as the movements are obviously just an image moving side to side with no other motions so it looks almost like a cut out. However, these moments are relatively few and far between still. Another issue is that the characters are sometimes very overly muscly. The muscles of many characters have a crazy amount of muscle that does bother some people.
Sound)
The sound of this series does well and while the back round songs aren't really memorable they some up the violent situations well. The 1st opening theme does some up the show perfectly with an all out testosterone filled shock. However, the 2nd opening is likely the worst opening I have ever seen and is very annoying because the animation used is old crapy 90s technology which, regardless of how revolutionary it could have been for the time, comes off horribly and is unable to demonstrate the character's abilities at all.
Characters)
The characters in this series are very generic really. Personality wise they do not really have much going on. Almost every character is a fighter or "grappler" as they refer to themselves and this defines their lives and character. The most memorable character of the series Yujiro Hanma is an interesting character in his simplicity but is still simplistic. Yujiro is a wild type man who is King Of All Fighters and wants nothing but a good fight in life. Im not saying characters are bad, they just have this common characteristic with little diversity.
