Ikki Tousen... Romance Of The Three Kingdoms with Panty Shots.

Ikki Tousen: 8 out of 10: The term fan service is thrown around a lot when people discuss Anime. Ikki Tousen is the greatest (or worst) example of blatant fan service I have seen outside of a pornographic Hentai.

One could easily watch the first few episodes and could think that blatant and somewhat creepy fan service is all Ikki Tousen offers, but something funny happened; I got drawn into the story.

In an alternate universe High Schools exist for fighting tournaments. The students wear teardrops shaped earrings that contain the essence of warriors from the Three Kingdoms period in China (also known as called the Six Dynasties) that followed the loss of de facto power by the Han Dynasty emperors. Each character in Ikki Tousen is predestined to the fate of their respective warrior.

So a history lesson is mixed in between the shots of leave nothing to the imagination white panties. Does that really excuse a grown man watching topless high school girls beat each other up?... Probably not, no.

The animation is rudimentary and the episodes can be a touch repetitive. There is also that guy blushing sex humor I despise. Nevertheless, as soon as I start to fail to warm to the episodes something dramatic happens to break the pattern (The lesbian rape in Episode 6 Roku is a particular game changer.)

So if you enjoy a good Anime and do not currently appear on any sex offender lists I can highly recommend Ikki Tousen. Give it a few episodes you may be drawn into the history and characterization. Alternatively, you might just be a sick fuck... different strokes and all that.


On a side note all episodes are available for free on IMDB.



"Rare instance of fight damage in television Anime"



"Why do these old monks living alone in the woods always have super powers?"



"Mothers spanking "Adult" children always ends up badly... usually in a NEA grant and a one-woman show."



"Fan Service Part A"



"Fan Service Part B... do you think they have a specialist who draws nipples or is someone drawing Bulbasaur one week and topless girls the next"



"I wish they all could be Anime Girls"



"Our main players left to right, Sex Protagonist, Comic Relief, Disturbing Cougar"






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Dead Girl Walking (Kaiki! Shinin shôjo)... Non-living Dead Girl

Dead Girl Walking (Kaiki! Shinin shôjo): 6 out of 10: If you watched the recently released Japanese horror anthology movie Rampo Noir this film might seem like a missing fifth chapter. Indeed it certainly would have made a better fit in that anthology than that insipid Yoko Ono Mars.)



Dead Girl Walking is about a girl that has heart attack and is no longer alive in the traditional sense, yet her spirit is still in her body and she can still move with ever increasing difficulty. Dead Girl Walking, as its title hints at, takes this pseudo zombie like theme and single mindlessly travels to some dark places.



It is a Japanese television production from the, but unlike other segments from this series, it has decent gore effects and good direction. The only real problem with Dead Girl Walking is as a stand alone project is there really isn't much here.



Once the girl starts decomposing the story arc is pretty well set. While the film is both creative (Sometimes reaching an avant-garde level in its visuals and ideas) and deceptively humorous (the family's attempts to dispose of the girl are in reality quite funny) its conclusion is never really in doubt.



The characters themselves often seem almost cartoonish; which, in its own way, does add to the surrealistic effect of the proceedings. Dead Girl Walking is a decent ride for both fans of high art and gore hounds alike and is an above average television short.








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