Audience reviews
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JJMFREAP
BIG MEN DOING MAN SHIT - 2 MAN 2 SHIT is back with the second meatiest tournament arc in all of anime after the one it copied its homework from. With lots of muscles, martial arts, drama, muscles, plot twists, hot women, hotter men, wrestling, muscles, blind cyborg black dudes, muscles, political strife, intense back stories and of course muscles, Kengan Ashura is here to once again deliver on what it does best and deliver on its grand climax!
If you watched Kengan season 1 and liked it, this is really more of the same but even better! The matches are even better this time round, though there are some minor duds there too. Overall though, these are the strongest matches yet and the characters are now filtered down to the actually important ones, so there is much higher stakes and tension…
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Probably the strongest entry when it comes to individual fights and really digging into strategy, this was mostly a showcase of that CGI animation for its fight scenes and it certainly stacks up against the best of the previous two parts. If it wasn't for the somewhat confusing revelations at the end of this part, as well as the coup attempt taking up a couple of episodes and largely grinding the best of the action to a halt, this would rate higher. It certainly provides more interesting perspective on Ohma's background, how it relates to him now, and hints at a much larger plot that might make things more interesting in the future, which elevates it slightly. It certainly secures this show as something I will come back to as soon as more episodes release. Overall, it's slightly better tha…
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I think this season was Kengan Ashura at its best. I understand those who dislike the CGI as it does take some time to get used to. However, the ability of the anime to constantly have me second-guessing the outcome of each fight is unparalleled.
For every fight this season, I went into it thinking I knew who would win, but I was never certain during the fight, and I would repeatedly switch sides as the fight turned.
I thought Ohma being unconscious for this half of the season might have made it seem like the fights didn't have consequences and were filler, but the heart and soul of the animators, voice actors and producers made every fight seem important to the plot.
Read at the sourceCayusashi
Kengen Ashura has returned with the first part of its second season and is exactly what you'd expect. Some good fights with way too many characters to actually follow what's going on.
I must admit, going into this season I did not remember what had happened in the slightest from the first season and needed to watch a recap. I say this because this likely influences my opinion of the overall plot so take it with a relative grain of salt. That being said, Kengen Ashura is definitely a show that benefits from the binge watching model of Netflix. The large number or characters from fighters to CEOs each with their own goals makes for an overcomplicated plot. When it comes to a tournament arc there are already problems with having to introduce so many characters over a short span of time while…
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Kengan Ashura is back with the first part of its second season, and it starts off directly from where we left off in season 1 part 2. Round 1 of the Kengan Annihilation tournament has just concluded, and round 2 is about to start. The fights that happen in this part include:
- Wakatsuki vs Julius
- Sekibayashi vs Muteba
- Saw-Paing vs Rei
- Kuroki vs Setsuna
- Hatsumi vs Bando
- Agito vs Kaolan
All these fights were very good, but my favorite was definitely Agito vs Kaolan. The stakes were very high, and even though the animation is fully CGI, the fight looked extremely smooth and clean. Admittedly, the CGI is a bit jarring outside of the actual fight scenes, but hey, its a battle tournament series, so as long as the fights look good, that's really all that matters. The story is pretty st…
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For me as a person who likes and deals with martial arts, this is everything I could wish for, so this anime will appeal mostly to people who like a good fight and a little bloodshed. And the fight between Kaolan and Agito is one of the best anime fights in my opinion because it is very realistic, but of course with a little more action than in real life. If you like a good story, you won't find it here, but of course each character is special in its own right, and we get to know them through the episodes. So if you watched the first season, I see no reason not to watch this one as well :)
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I rate this with extreme personal bias and zero objectivity, as I love Kengan Ashura and I've been waiting for this release for what seems like a lifetime. In all honesty, though, it definitely will need part 2 of the season to (hopefully) round things out. My sweet husbando Kaolan must have a sore back because he hard carried this season; in fact, I might argue you could watch the episode of his fight and the ass-end of ep 12 and you'd have not truly missed anything all that interesting by ignoring the rest. That said, I'd not take back bingeing it all in a single night purely for how much I love Kengan Ashura and the fighting tournament style.
Objectively: It was like 12 episodes of filler that really just rehashed things we'd already established in SE1. Still think the Kaolan fight ep…
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