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If you are wondering why there is a no rating sticker on the box I scanned, I bought it used for $5 from First Choice Video, a video rental store in Morton, Illinois. Living in Morton makes it difficult to get a hold of any anime unless your willing to drive to Peoria, so I buy whatever I can get. Quite a bargain actually, because there is no way I'd pay full price for a new version, but I'm a huge video game fighter fan, so I still enjoyed watching it, but I have no urge to follow anything that came from this title.

* This maybe unexpected, but I now have seen Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture thanks to the Sci-Fi Channel and now have a review for it. Click Here.

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Ten years after the Bogard brothers' father, Jeff, is murdered by his rival who was attempting to be the only one who knew about the ultimate form of matial arts, Terry and Andy are reunited to learn from the only living person who knows this art Jeff Bogard's master and to avenge their fathers death. The two feel the best way to settle who will be the only person to carry on this technique is to see who would beat who in the King of Fighter tournament. Of course this allows an outside force to act on the tournament since their father's murderer runs the tournament, and he wants to stop anyone from carrying this knowledge on. Now the question is, how can the two beat the crap out of each other and avoid the assasination attempts that are going to occur.

I think this anime was done quickly to try capitalizing on the same success Street Fighter 2 had, and it does show with the low quality. The animation itself isn't bad, but the colors are pretty dull, the soundtrack absolutely sucks, the dialouge isn't very good, and the fights are pretty short. It still captures some of what made the game...well I can't say Fatal Fury one was much of a game, but you get the idea. They do a great job of the producing the authentic special moves and there is some great artwork. A video rental store is actually more likely to carry this title since it is based on a video game than other titles like Neon Genesis Evangelion, so it might be worth a rent, but otherwise don't buy it unless your a huge fan of Fatal Fury.

No I will not buy Fatal Fury 2, the anime, even if I enjoyed that game a lot.

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No matter how much you dress up a turd it is still a turd. Yes that is a bit extreme to describe my disappointment when I see that Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture wasn't much of an improvement over Legend of the Hungry Wolf. Since I haven't seen Fatal Fury 2, and I still won't, you might call me under qualified to give a review to the film, but many people signed my guestbook, (if you want to piss on my opinions, go right ahead) so I had to give this film a chance.

Laocorn a descendent of Gaudeamus is searching for his ancestor's armor that made him nearly invincible against the Romans. He wants that same power and the only person that immediately opposes him is his twin sister Sulia. Unfortunately she can't stop his army, so she finds Terry Bogard and gains his assistance a long with brother Andy, Joe Higashi, and Mai Shiranui. Now they are trying to get to the three pieces of armor Laocorn doesn't have to prevent the possibility of the reemergence of the God of War.

There are some excellent fight scenes, but only for the art work, the action is very poor. Mai, Joe, and Andy work as a great comic team which helps the Andy/Mai relationship, but this hardly works on the romantic, emotion level. Yet these are among the few forgivable flaws in the movie. Then you have the Terry/Sulia relationship which allows for some well done redrawn LotHW footage; is extremely pathetic especially how it ends. Maybe this isn't something that needs to be stated, but it seems the Japanese really go for the concept of sacrifice yourself for anything. As for the plot, it seems perfect for these characters unlike LotHW, but since I haven't seen any of the film's bad guys in the Fatal Fury games, they aren't extremely effective villains no matter how cool they are except for the guy with the Clockwork Orange mask. What the heck was the reason for bringing Billy and Geese back when they do jack s*** for the plot, for a sequel? With this ridiculous ending, I hope not. Toshinden had a similar story line, which shows that detailed art doesn't make a great film since Eiji and Kayan's story is written a lot better. Makes me with the more likable Toshin fighters could teach the FF cast a lesson.

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