AniWorthBattle Arena Toshinden
Introduction
For one year, Master Swordsman Eiji Shinjo has been haunted by the memory of his battle with the renegade champion, Gaia - a battle that was cut short by the forces of the malevolent syndicate known as "the organization."
Denied victory, Eiji left the tournament followed by his opponents mocking laughter. Worse still, Eiji walked away no closer to finding his long lost brother, Sho. But now, a mysterious warrior is hunting down the champions of the previous tournament and using their own moves against them - and it looks like that person may be Sho. Who is this powerful new foe and who is his next target?
Eiji and Kayin, his closest friend and greatest rival, struggle to unravel the mystery before they, too, join the ranks of the defeated. The answer lies at the heart of the Organization and its plans for world domination. At last, the ultimate battle between the greatest fighters in the world will be decided. But if Eiji loses, his friends - Ellis - may Die...
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.41/10 · 2398
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
SgtSalamander
Battle Arena Toshinden is a ridiculous fighting game adaptation that's 90% fight scenes and 10% nonsense. It's essentially nothing more than an advertisement for the game, which I suppose served its purpose as I'd never heard of it before. Though, it fails at being an anime, which is what I'm rating here. Beginning with the story, there really isn't much of one. There's a tournament, there's a secret organization bent on creating evil supersoldiers, and there's big fights. The whole thing feels insanely rushed, with no explanation as to why anything happens, which is compounded by the fact they drop characters into the story out of nowhere and act like you should care, which would only be true if you're already a fan of the game. The story just feels like an excuse to show off their roster…
Read at the sourceHannahFantasia
Story: This show had a nice concept of cyborgs and so forth! The inspiration from dragonball Z is obvious with 'Z-fighters' compared to 'Toushinden participants'
Art: The art style was well done! The simplicity in it was the thing that made me love the show!
Sound: I really love the simplicity in sound design in older anime series from the 90s. Having the exaturated explosions, sword clashes and screams are the things that make me look up older series.
Character: I really love how they represented the fighters and how they already knew each other.
Enjoyment: I never played the games honestly. But this show has amazing animation compared to shows from nowdays (I'm looking at you Toei Animations) This was only a short show so it was intended to be a bigger show. I enjoyed it and I hope o…
Read at the sourceColonelfancy
Ah, fighting games. They make such awful anime adaptations, no matter how much potential the content of the game has to offer. Some fighting games deserve the right to have some of the most bad-ass movies, OVAs, and specials ever made! This is not one of them.
For anyone who carefully perserved their button-mashing brains in Tekken, Virtua Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat back in 1995, you were fortunate enough to pass up Battle Arena Toshinden, an early psuedo 3-D fighting game that's so bad, it makes Rise of the Robots look like Guilty Gear. This sorry excuse of a game not only managed to get 3 sequels and countless spin-offs for the Sega Saturn (remember that dinosaur?), but a really crappy two episode OVA that does everything possible to ensure that nobody will want to ever play the games e…
Read at the sourceRetro8bit
Battle Arena Toshinden (like its video game brother) isn’t a very well know title, which is really a shame since the anime itself is pretty descent!
The plot at times can be a bite confusing, basically ever few years or so a tournament is held to decide the best fighter in the world......or at least until the next one anyway. The main villain (Uranus) is creating man machine clones to take over the world, and its up the Toshinden fighters to stop her........yeah basically that’s it. Now while the story isn’t going to win any viewers to actually play the video game, it does do an okay job of keeping you into the story just long enough before this 2 episode OVA ends. (any longer and it would definitely grow stale) This series does succeed in the action sequences though, wh…
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