Reviews

Kengan Ashura is clearly inspired from Baki and like Baki, Kengan Ashura is about high action tournaments, sleazy buisness men, and very unrealistic fighting. It's mindless fun for the most part. Just something notable was that even knowing the show is supposed to be ridiculous, there were times I cringed a bit when they tried to explain some ridiculous move or technique. The animation for the most part is pretty good but nothing extraordinary or ground breaking. I'd say it's a step below something like Ajin in terms of 3D animation. The blood effects feel pretty cheap and there's definitely a sense that at some points a 2D animation style would be better.
The characters and their abilities aren't exactly very compelling a lot of times sadly. They are just simple things like the person being agile while being fat, being very sturdy, or like a kaio-ken thing where they "unlock" their potential and two characters have essentially the same ability in the show but they're just called different things. The main character also has an ability to control "the flow" of energy or whatever and that allows him to basically do advanced parries on the opponent but it's not really explained that well.
The relationships between characters also feels a bit tepid, with me not really feeling like there is a clear cut villain that I can hate or a rivalry that I feel is iconic. In the show there is also a relationship between our MC fighter and a salaryman who is forced into being his manager. That relationship works pretty okay at it's role as comic relief and seems like there are hints that there will be something more than just that in the second season, though in this season comic relief for the most part is the extent of it.
Kengan Ashura has enough problems to make it feel more generic than not, but it's not a bad watch if you don't expect anything too special from it.