The cover for that version is at the top of the page. Tracy: Neya Michiko
Battle Arena Toshinden is based on the series of fighting games of the same name. The Japanese acting is forgettable as well, despite a cast packed with A-list names. Chaos smugly informs them that only the Organization has the antidote and flees back to the base, knowing that Gaia will likely seek him and Uranus out in revenge. Battle Arena Toshinden Remix. The series has been pretty much forgotten now. Questions or comments? There's also the question of why these people walk around with claymores and katanas and can fire massive energy waves from their weapons. On the positive side, a few of the characters actually have enough humanity to care at least a bit about; on the negative, the backstory-light plot feels rather like a sequel to something that doesn't exist.
The original US Manga Corps DVD, which hit the street on 1997-05-19, was the first US-released anime DVD, narrowly beating Manga's Street Fighter 2: The Movie (ironic), and Pioneer's Armitage III. Try these stores: The main menu from USM's DVD, the first anime DVD on the US market.
As for what counts: The art is sharp looking, while there aren't any big meaty fights it also never slows down enough to get boring, and everybody does the right moves (and yells out the right names) with an added bit of animated flair. As Eiji walks home, he is confronted by a mysterious, gun-wielding warrior, Vermillion, and the film ends as they prepare to fight.
Losing means paying the ultimate price – your life! The relatively "realistic" (I use that word loosely) characterization is a strong point of the whole thing, and had me almost caring about these folks. Generally quite impressive for one of the first efforts in the medium. Battle Arena Toshinden contains the following tropes:. Uranus appears and destroys Sho, goading Eiji before taking her leave.
On that count, Toshinden gets the job done--the distinctive character designs are sharp-looking, attractive, and recognizable, as are all the moves (and everybody yells the right thing when doing them).
The backdrops are rather bland, but then the games weren't known for their spectacular arenas, either. It was also among the earliest anime DVDs anywhere in the world.
There isn't a single thing about this anime that's good, period. If you don't, you're going to feel like you're watching a sequel to something you've never seen, but the story is too thin to care anyway--what counts is that the characters are likable enough and the drama doesn't get in the way of the short-but-consistent battles. With Ted Lewis, Chris Orbach, Alfred DeButler, Emma Rayda. In the North America market, Central Park Media released the anime on VHS in two versions: an uncut version and an edited PG-13 version, with the latter omitting the nudity and graphic content of the former. Have something to say about this anime? The other strength is that the drama isn't heavy enough to bog it down--the feel is relatively light. Sex/Mature Themes: 2 - One brief provocative scene. After Ellis is hospitalised, Eiji, Kayin, Gaia and Sofia, with help from a policewoman, Tracy, launch an all-out assault on Uranus's base, aided by Rungo, Fo, Mondo and Duke, the other fighters from the tournament.
Duke: Billy Regan As you might expect, Battle Arena Toshinden has quite a bit in common with the Street Fighter II movie (and Alpha--the plot is nearly identical), though that one is definitely higher quality. You thought deeply about the anime “Battle Arena Toshinden” and now you think it’s time to put these thoughts into words and to do so in a well-structured form?
Switch to Normal Layout Switch to Mobile Layout. The original DVD (cover and menu shown here) was US Manga Corps' first digital effort, and was the first anime to make it to DVD in the US, period.
The exception is the oddly spunky end theme sung by Ellis' voice actress, Kyoko Hikami. Battle Arena Toshinden (闘神伝, Toushinden) is a two-part original video animation based on the video game series of the same name. A freely organisable overview on all anime listed on aniSearch, The most-rated anime on aniSearch during the current season, The leaderboard where all anime are listed according to their over-all ranks, A list of the currently most-visited anime detail pages on aniSearch, An anime calendar with publication dates that’s sorted by seasons, Your gateway to a myriad of legal anime streams of your favourites, Your anime planner with broadcast dates for your favourite shows, Our toplist for anime characters, where they are listed according to their ranks, A freely organisable overview on all manga listed on aniSearch, The most-rated manga on aniSearch during the current season, The leaderboard where all manga are listed according to their over-all rank, A manga calendar with publication dates that’s sorted by seasons, A freely organisable overview on all movies listed on aniSearch, The most-rated movies on aniSearch during the current season, The leaderboard where all movies are listed according to their over-all rank, A list of the currently most-visited movie detail pages on aniSearch, A live action calendar with publication dates that’s sorted by seasons, Your gateway to a myriad of legal movie streams of your favourites, Your place to go for discussions and polls within the aniSearch community, Various overviews on how our community and their database activities, Your news from the big world of anime manga, gaming, Japan and more, A list of all existing clubs and those which are the most active, Particular polls for our community put together by the aniSearch staff, Your calendar for anime conventions and other events all over the world, Your place to go for DVDs and Blu-ray discs of your favourite series, Offers for high quality PVC figurines of your favourite characters, “The book store” with a myriad of offers for manga and e-manga, PC or console games from Japan or with a relation to anime and manga, Offers for Asian movies and TV series in various language options, Your classifieds marketplace for Anime, Manga, PVC-figures and more.
Sho (Eiji's long-lost "evil" brother... apparently) is worse--he gets talked up a lot but seems to be a totally random excuse for unnecessary additional drama. Kayin: Hideo Seaver Let's face it, though: Most people don't watch this sort of thing for the deep story. By Tamsoft/SCEA, it was ported to the Sega Saturn and Windows, and the first of the three sequels and some spin-off puzzle games also showed up in arcades. Set up by an entity known simply as "The Organization," the … Consummate studly-male-lead veterans Tomokazu Seki and Takehito Koyasu make Eiji and Kayin sound reasonably likable as antagonistic partners, and Yumi Touma gets just a bit of drama as Sofia, but that's about it.
I can't remember if I've seen this exact plot several times before or it's just so cliched that it seems that way (at minimum it was used in both the Street Fighter II and Alpha movies), but regardless it's a functional excuse to give every character at least a quick brawl and build up an "unbeatable" supervillain to fight at the end. Original Story: Takara Co.
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It's also a little like the first two Fatal Fury OAVs (less so the movie, even though it was directed by the same fellow). Sofia: Debbie Rabbai Rungo: Tsuji Shinpachi Chaos blinds Gaia with gas and aims poison-tipped darts at him, but Ellis jumps in the way and is poisoned. Gaia appears and fights Chaos again, and in the process, Ellis deduces from Gaia's pendant that Gaia is her long-lost father. Some features on aniSearch will only work when JavaScript is available!
Now, someon… It's also the first bilingual anime DVD (the two competitors were both dub-only). The menu is limited, but functional and illustrated; there are language selections and a scene index, as well as short introductions to the main characters and some previews of upcoming releases. There was also a much-newer re-release that apparently adds some special features: An art gallery, a retrospective video, and a fight montage video.
Now Gaia is in hiding and Uranus is busy on a project to rebuild people into super-powerful cyborgs with an advantage over just strength--they can copy all those cool special moves you have to push a bunch of buttons to do in video games, and all they have to do is watch the original in action. On the down side, because of the way the main menu is set up it responds very slowly every time you change the selected item (on a first-gen DVD player at the time the disc was released, just selecting an item was downright glacial).
These are, however, only accessible to our. Eiji, along with his best friend Kayin Amoh, split up to warn the other competitors.
Bottom line: If you remember the Toshinden games, this anime gathers the characters from them, gives them a bit of humanity, and has enough decent-looking fights to satisfy.
In the final round of the Battle Arena Toshinden tournament, Eiji Shinjo faces the tournament's sponsor, Gaia, in mortal combat. 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 … In fact, since there was no subtitled version on VHS, the DVD was the first example of the way the multi-language abilities of the DVD format changed everything for sub fans. The focus is mainly on Ryu/Ken clones Eiji and Kayin, who are stereotypes but at least feel reasonably human. Released in 1996, the film is based primarily on the events of Battle Arena Toshinden 2, but incorporates elements from the first and third games in the series.