Kengan Ashura - Blog Posts

Doodle.

So I just go to finally watch this and I know I'm kinda late to this situation but I do have my own thoughts on this crossover.

To be honest it's 50/50 for me. Not the best but also not the worst, I do feel like it was kinds rush and semi with holes. I don't know if it's a big issue or not but I kinda don't like how it left in a cliffhanger, like in this case it feels like this was going to be a one time thing and just add to the collection of kengan and baki content. I don't think a one hour special crossover is enough for all the characters to be there. also why so many characters? Like I'm happy that they add some of my favorite but just listen to the list:

Baki Hamma

Tokita Ouma

Akiyans Kaede

Akoya Seishuu

Biscuit Oliva

Adam Dudley

Gaia

Gensai Kuroki

Muteba Gizenga

Hanafusa Hamjime

Hanayama Kaoru

Jack Hammer

Yuujirou Hamma

Sen Hatsumi

Cosmo Imai

Kaiou Jyaku

Kaiou Kaku

Kaiou Retsu

Kanou Agito

Katahara Metsudou

Katahara Sayaka

Katou kiyosumi

Kura Raian

Orochi Doppo

Orochi Katsumi

Pickles

Reinhard Julius

Sekibayashi Jun

Shiba Chiharu

Shibukawa Gouki

Shinogi Kureha

Tokugawa Mitsunari

Tyson Jerry

Yamashita Kazuo

Yoroizuka Saw Paing

Yoshizawa Kokomi

Also the death row convicts I ain't writing more names

And you think that they would all get a reasonable amount of screen time, right? No Olivia gets only like two or three voices lines before getting knocked out by shibukawa and even him has small amount of voice lines.

I fell like they try to hype it up by adding multiple characters but just expecting to be happy that their favorite characters is just there like kaiou Jyaku was just there basically saying the same darn line "I wanna teach them" what's the fucking point of him being there if he ain't going to do anything else? That's the main problem I have with it. Too many characters but just sitting there like a cardboard cutout and don't get me wrong, I loved that some of my favorites were there but they were just sitting there also I don't know if it's just me or what but where the fuck was Pickle? Like his name of in the introduction and they brought him up one time but that was it, did I somehow skip him somewhere or what?

Was I fucking high during this moment? Can I get the time this happened?

I feel like it should be more like a crossover series, with one or two seasons, with it being at its own pace. It would give more time for other characters to shine and interact while getting more screen time and less leaving things on cliffhangers. Each episode would be Baki and Ouma training for the big day and the same with the other four for their fights against each other with one of the episode is about being able to go into more detail about the fight that Doppo and Saw Paing dad had, maybe even showing all of it. It would give put more time for it to world build better and not feel like a rush project.

Like this is great, amazing even. I been wanting this or a crossover with street fighter for a while but I leave me to wonder if the are only going to show Kengan and nobody else or are we going to get like multiple fights with different characters, maybe even same characters that haven't had enough screen time or only appear for a few episodes like Muhammad Ali jr or shunsei kaka.

I know the main focus is on Baki and Kengan but I love seeing how different characters from different shows will react to each other. It makes it a lot more fun to how they react before the even began to fight.

Anyways, baki has a great ass from this view. Very happy that we're getting this well deserved cross over. Please leave comments on which characters would you like to fight and bye 👋

Sometimes the babygirl is a psyco medic, it happens

My Rant About Ensemble Casts

Ok so basically I hate shows that have massive ensemble casts that never get used. It infuriates me to see shows and stories introduce 10 or 20 different characters and their unique traits and then proceed to not elaborate on any facet of their personality. What makes it worse is its not hard to do right its just writers are too lazy or forget to properly explore their characters and that makes it worse. Stuff like My Hero Academia are the perfect example of this flaw with them introducing a slew a characters and then proceeding to swiftly move on and focus on the same core group the entire time. This wouldn't be an issue if they hadn't set up these characters to be interesting and unique to begin with, its just awful that we are teased with the promise of growth for this characters and then shot in the fucking back when the writer just goes "Oopsie oh well guess we won't be hearing from them again until I need a background character to be plot relevant.". There are shows and series that do this well such as things like Kengan Ashura but due to low popularity and a not so decent anime adaptation they never see the light of day in the west except for in small circles of loser nerds like myself. This disparity shown between quality and popularity is so egregious in 90% of cases and I fucking can't with this shit anymore. I just want the cool shit I like that is better in everyway to get the respect and notoriety it deserves rather than being in the shadow of poorly written works.