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The Bus's Transit of Anime Realities
This anime is every bad thing I associate with U.S. Manga Corps (opinion has changed): bad colors, mediocre music and sound, and far from top quality animation. Still if your a fan of video game fighters, you'll enjoy this anime. The story is good enough to hold the fight together, and actually all the fights are important unlike the Street Fighter 2: the Animated Movie. Its goods at only concentrating on the story's main character, but unfortunately it does give us bits with the mediocre characters (only as characters not as video game fighters), Mondo, Duke, Fo, and perhaps Rongo, but atleast they still are relevant to the plot. Also the video does give us very authentic fight scene, unfortunately only special moves, but some people say that is the only way to fight in the video game. The animation still has a unique style and there is some great artwork available. Again you have to be a fan or looking for a cheap anime to enjoy this, so it is definately not for everyone. |
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All images can also be found if you Visit U.S. Manga Corps Battle Arena Toshinden Page where you can also pic up Quick Time Movies |
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Review for Battle Arena Toshinden Eiji Shinjo, a finalist against Gaia in the last Toshin Tounament that nobody won, brother Sho has just defeated two of the Toshin champions using their own moves and the a fellow fighter, Rongo, was defeated by a mysterious opponent using the same strategy. Eiji joins forces with his friend Kayan to try and find out what is happening, resulting them to go to their friends Sophia and Ellis to warn them. When Eiji meets up with Sophia, Sho comes to defeat his younger brother, but is it really Sho he is facing and who is behind this. Now the story isn't to original, and maybe even tacky since were seeing one man create so much destruction because even if he's an android he's still a human, making the Man Machine Project sound pretty stupid. Still their are bits where you can really get into the action and the fight scenes are done very well, so we don't have to care about the plot. Even with the low quality of the animation there are always scenes that are masterfully done and I can see why they can sell the cells. |
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After defeating Sho's clone, Eiji goes to meet up with Kayan and Ellis to tell them what he now knows about the Man Machine Project by the Organization. Kayan and Eiji leave telling Ellis to watch her back, and they are right since a Man Machine of a fighter killed by Ellis's father, Gaia, named Chaos has come to capture her to lure Gaia into a trap. Her two friends try to rescue her, but this Man Machine is far greater and knows the fighting styles of the two. Soon Gaia comes to stop Chaos who has no data on him, but Ellis tries to save her father from some throw blades that have a poison on them that only tho Organization has an anidote for. Now Gaia has to exchange himself for the anidote and try to fight Chaos again who now has data on him. Definately the worst episode on the tape because the character who return stink. The voice actress of Sophia changes her image to a cold character, and why the h*** would the Duke have a grudge with the Organization. The fights are still well done, but you don't get any animation treats in this episode like in the first volume. Also the horrible sound effects and music are even more noticable. By no means was this a good way to end any series. Battle Arena Toshinden copyright 1996 Takara Co., Ltd. Package copyright 1996 Central Park Media Corporation Review on this page © 1997 Russ Stevens |
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