Netflix finally came through for once and I was able to get the original Ikki Tousen season on DVD in one go. For an anime that just doesn't happen all that often and yes I'm blogging about the first season of Ikkitousen or Ikki Tousen or Battle whatever way after blogging about the third season of the series. Go figure and that's because the original version hasn't been available on DVD for some time until lately when FUNimation boxed it up re-released like the good chaps that they are.
The first season is the beginning of it all and is your basic high school fighter anime where groups of students fight for the pride of their school in regulation bouts to see what school will become the ultimate leader for the next year. Of course the twist in this plot is that all the students are replaying roles of their ancestral warrior relatives. They are destined to play out their futures like their pasts but low and behold that just isn't going to be the case. After all if that happened we wouldn't have the other two season right.
OK so that's the plot but really Ikki Tousen is really just a fanservice driven series with mostly pretty girls fighting it out with each other. Most the battles end up with the girls tearing each others clothing off more than any real damage to the girls. There also happens to be a good number ecchi moments and a ton of innuendo and foreshadowing of sex and rape but I was pretty surprised to see that there wasn't a whole lot of straight up nudity as I would have thought there would be. Of course I enjoyed the guilty pleasure of watching it and yeah it's really just a turn off the brain enjoy the fanservice and mindless mayhem and battles as you're not going to be taking any thing earth shattering from watching it it's just a fun little series that spawned two other season and with it now out on a box set by FUNimation and for rent on NETFLIX so you don't have any excuse for not seeing this classic older series. I'm even thinking of picking up a box set
Here's the opening scene for your enjoyment if you've never seen it.
The first season is the beginning of it all and is your basic high school fighter anime where groups of students fight for the pride of their school in regulation bouts to see what school will become the ultimate leader for the next year. Of course the twist in this plot is that all the students are replaying roles of their ancestral warrior relatives. They are destined to play out their futures like their pasts but low and behold that just isn't going to be the case. After all if that happened we wouldn't have the other two season right.
OK so that's the plot but really Ikki Tousen is really just a fanservice driven series with mostly pretty girls fighting it out with each other. Most the battles end up with the girls tearing each others clothing off more than any real damage to the girls. There also happens to be a good number ecchi moments and a ton of innuendo and foreshadowing of sex and rape but I was pretty surprised to see that there wasn't a whole lot of straight up nudity as I would have thought there would be. Of course I enjoyed the guilty pleasure of watching it and yeah it's really just a turn off the brain enjoy the fanservice and mindless mayhem and battles as you're not going to be taking any thing earth shattering from watching it it's just a fun little series that spawned two other season and with it now out on a box set by FUNimation and for rent on NETFLIX so you don't have any excuse for not seeing this classic older series. I'm even thinking of picking up a box set
Here's the opening scene for your enjoyment if you've never seen it.
