Introduction
Ayane Mitsui dreams of becoming a professional wrestler, and trains hard in hopes of facing her idol Manami Toyota at the All-Japan Women's International Championship. However, she is devastated when she fails her tryout for All-Japan Pro Wrestling. Seeing her potential, a man under the guise of representing an indie promotion scouts her out. The man who scouted her turns out to be Kunimitsu Tangay, a veteran trainer.
Eagerly accepting the invitation, Ayane initially believes she is being trained in strong style wrestling—but is shocked when Kunimitsu signed her up for a kickboxing match instead! With her pride on the line, Ayane pushes through, even though she lacks passion in her newfound sport.
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Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
Ayane-chan High Kick! is a hilarious sports anime with a ton of spirit and attitude. It subverts genre expectations while retaining the spirit of what makes it good. Ayane, a girl who wants to become a pro wrestler, is deceived into becoming a kickboxer by a shady coach who sees her potential for this entirely different sport. It's a shame there's only two episodes, because it's got a great formula- train, fight, new challenger, and so on. Furthermore, it's got great writing and comedic timing, both of which bring the characters to life. It even knows exactly when to switch into a tense atmosphere and take itself seriously. I was genuinely on the edge of my seat for the fights, and I've never once seen an actual kickboxing match. The fights had weight and impact and you can really feel the…
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Okokokok HEAR ME OUT. This is a VERY short anime. I went in completely blind and surprise surprise it was absolutely nothing new- but. It was honestly pretty enjoyable in the background. I was half watching half working but I was listening the entire time- It was honestly a lot of fun. There were a few intentional jokes that landed for me and I really don't think this show took itself seriously.
If you want something short, old, and fun to watch I would actually recommend this! Oh and it's not super pervy if that's something you like to avoid!
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In my search for a good sports anime with mainly female characters that would actually be worth watching, I came across "Ayane High Kick" and thought it sounded fun. After searching and searching until I found both episodes (dubbed in English, no less!), I finally watched it, and I thought I might as well explain this obscure anime about a kickboxer girl.
Story: 6/10 - fair
It wasn't BAD, I will say that. I actually kind of liked the idea of a girl who wants to be a wrestler but just can't make it in that world, so a kickboxing coach who sees the potential in her strong and flexible legs decides to start training her to enter the world of competitive kickboxing. Sounds really cool, right? Well, the anime didn't develop the story as well as I had hoped it would, and everything just seemed…
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To think Ayane-chan High Kick should have been a complete series, but the producers behind this didn't had the money to contineu this series or just didn't knew how to handle money and/or there was no intrest aswell. Kinda of a shame for being their first debut as a studio. Apparantly it was intented to have six episodes. Someone with a lot of money please build a time machine and go back to 1997 and sponser this anime project. It was pretty OK actually. Good enough to share some own thoughs with this, just to give Ayane High Kick a bit more love that it deserves.
Story: 6/10 (Fine)
Meet Ayane Mitsui, a redhead high school girl that wants to be a pro wrestler, but got tricked into the world of kickboxing. That's the story. I know the two sports don't really match each other, but I think I…
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Sadly this only got 2 episodes, if it got more, my rating would have probably been much different. There just wasn't enough time for the story, albeit in the 2 episodes everything was established and executed quite well.
Story: 4
I gave it a 4 mainly because of the ending, That was a BS doctor stoppage, I know the studio could have given the anime 5 more minutes to really finish the fight.
Art: 8
Not much to say, I'm just a big fan of the old aesthetic present in the anime. Sound: 6
I liked the ED, but the OP was awful. The soundtracks were just average, not something I'll ever remember either.
Characters: 4
The only 2 likeable characters, were Ayane and her Coach - everyone else was either annoying or just boring like Kayako.
Overall: 6
I would recommend it to people who like f…
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Ayane-chan High Kick is a sports comedy from the late 90s. It was written by Shizuya Isao and put out by Nikkatsu & Rikuentai. I've reviewed a lot of semi obscure OVAs so let's delve into this one.
Story:
We open with our heroine, Mitsui Ayane, skipping school in order to try out for wrestling. Unfortunately for her, throwing herself into things carelessly doesn't work out and she isn't signed. But things look up when she's approached by Tange Kunimitsu who sees championship potential in her. She eagerly takes him up on his offer to train her, not realising that he actually wants her as a kick boxer rather than as a wrestler.
The biggest issue with the OVA comes down to the humour. To explain it in simple terms, it can't decide whether it wants over the top, absurd comedy or more subdu…
Read at the sourceLuquillo
If there was ever a title that I would consider to be missed potential then it would have to be Ayane's High Kick. This very short series deserved a much longer run, because inside of this short OVA there's a story just screaming to be let out. Ayane's High Kick begins with a bit of promise, and it soon shows sparks of what it could have been, but it eventually falls victim to the low budget.
Fighting anime will normally follow a certain pattern. 1)Main character trains hard. 2)Main character fights very tough opponent and is driven to the brink of defeat. 3)Main character some how defeats said opponent that they normally shouldn't with lady luck on their side: This anime isn't really different as it follows that same pattern for the most part, but it's still kind of fun as you watch the…
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Anyway I tend to watch a lot of things and this one is a short two episode OVA and its called
Ayane's High Kick
With a title like that don't expect a romantic drama and it isn't. Its one of them fighting animes that I tend to like. Now this one was made in 1996 so don't expect it to be a looker by today's standards. I have to say it has a female lead character that must be slightly dim as she seems to be easily fooled into thinking that she doing wrestling training in kick boxing gear (ok there have been ones in the past that have worn kick boxing gear) but when the trainer takes her to a gym for it you would think she would clock on to it but she doesn't.
There is however room for a possibly series but considering it was made over ten years ago I don't think they will.
The thing its self…
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This anime is ok. Maybe it was a pilot of a TV series that couldn’t really take off. Who knows. I felt if this was developed in the same way Hajime no Ippo is, then it could have really worked. The series leaves you wanting for more because Ayane just wins fights out of luck and not really on skill. Watching this makes you realize it does have a lot of potential if they went on with it. But I felt it had some flaws, like we don’t see Ayane taking her kickboxing license exam. I mean, shouldn’t she have realized that by then? I would have liked it if they showed us that just to see how she handled it and how she got her license to fight. It’s a major plot hole and doesn’t really make any sense. Then again, Ayane is portrayed to be a student with bad grades, so w…
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