The Niko style is my most favorite fictional martial art, due to it being a survivors martial art. Adamantine: helps you with muscule and bone control so you can fight to 100% even if you're injured, it also offers good offense and defence for your body against slightly larger or weaker opponents. Water: A primary grappling style that offers the user mid to high level grappling skills that allowed Ohma to go toe toe against Cosmo, who is also known as the King of Stranglers. But the water kata also allows you to learn how to go limp so you can either transfer power or or disperse it. Flame: offers the user high level of foot work and basically learning how to sprint. This kata was meant to help practicioners how to get out of a sticky situation with either foot work or literally running away. Redirection: this Kata is by far the hardest to master due to the practicioner needing to learn the flow of power their enemy is sending out so they can redirect that force somewhere away from them. In my opinion this is a mixture of Aikido and Jujitsu. Aikido was never meant for someone new to fighting to learn it was meant for more experienced users to learn so they can apply litte effort or little harm to their foe and that can be seen in the redirection kata, barely anyone in the manga/anime has anyone gotten hurt by this kata less it was mixed in with other katas.
To be more precise, it feels like the "soft fighting style" that martial arts movies want us to believe. This idea that adopting a technique like the Niko style makes the martial artist superhuman by experience. Those people who grew up watching Jackie Chan Drunken Master's, Donnie Yen or those classical movies involving Pai Mei. e.t.c, see characters gain super human experiences by training. In principle, the Niko style takes that aspect of Chinese marital arts and dials it up to 11. In principle, it's possible to take away some of the lessons taught, but it's also apparent that it's, to a degree, not human. Which is a running theme. Superman syndrome is a superpower, formless, the old Sage Master who is secretly a mega badass. Even features hair magic, supernatural senses (hearing, smelling), and so forth. Most of the character's abilities are somewhat tied to a real effect but enhanced to such a degree that it becomes superhuman.
Kengan Ashura is best Manga ever and other like Baki, Lookism and others is good but I respected both manga since both had good peak despite different topic but focus on fighting
I personally didn't really like Lookism, but I'm currently reading Viral Hit (it's from the same artist) and it seems pretty good so far. The Boxer is another great fighting Manhwa, though it's less martial artsy
fun fact, the Sawat boxing character is based on the real Muay Thai champion Samart, who then moved to boxing and became Boxing champ too, without taking too many injuries during both career, he's just too fast and too s(a)mart for anyone else to reach.
kengan asura fights are so good the impact and emotion with the fight with constant plot twists we dont know who wins kengan omega still good but shen wulong too op
im so glad kengan ashura is getting recognition. In season 2 of kengan, sekoyubayashi has his entrance including a bell from the undertaker theme. Pretty sick
Kanoh vs Gao lang is still the best existing fight of all mangas. Grando made the best MMV from that fight and i had it still watching it till this day. Makes my blood damn boil everytime 🔥🔥
I used to to love martial arts, but for some reason lost my passion for it and knowledge for it in general. A couple years later, after watching Kengan Ashura and reading the manga, it made me re-discover my passion for martial arts/MMA. I also discovered a lot of martial arts because of this. It is definitely my favorite martial art manga ever.
Honestly speaking, I tried watching Baki. But failed to finish it bc of the hype around it - personally I didn't understand what was going on. As for Kengan Ashura, I was really investing in the world of martial arts at the time. Turns out I also became genuinely interested in the series. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeah I don't really like baki I didn't know about the hype I just sorta couldn't get the story I think I also just didn't really like the art style much either That's just personal taste though since objectively I think most would consider it good
You know who Seki reminds me of? A pro wrestler by the name of Curtis Candy, who now has a reaction RU-vid channel called Spaz Boys Comedy. Curtis was a heel when he ess a wrestler and loved the sport so much and gave it his all
I will say, I would love to see an anime that doesn’t have any exaggerations with the fights and takes a protagonist who learns to fight from 0-100 and tries to teach the audience along with the protagonist
VMatt, I've always believed Kengan-verse would be the perfect match-up to the PTJ verse. Both are attempts at taking irl martial arts, close-quarters, hand-to-hand combat but they become gradually more absurd, but not as outright unbelievable like Baki. In fact, Baki is much closer to History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
Adam doesn't use "hockey martial arts". It's just because of hockey that his Erector Spinae Muscles are changed to the point where he has insane balance and can hit from every position with full power. He just uses MMA/Brute force. And you should've showed the part where both characters ( Takeru and Seki used their unique moves. That being Wrecking defense/Offensive Defense and Raging Vigour. )
I finished watching the anime not so long ago, and I loved it, if I were to complain about something, is that they don’t give enough credit to real life martial arts, other than that, it’s perfect
10:49 not how formless style works, it just adapts and creates a fighting style to specifically counter your opponent's style and has some roots in the Niko style
What he explained is not exactly correct but you are not correct either. The Formless Style is, as the name implies, formless. It’s all about flexibility and being able to reacts to whatever your opponent throws at you, and hiding your own intent behind the irregular movement. The creating new fighting style part isn’t from The Formless Style, that’s Agito’s special ability. He’s basically Mahoraga. He can adapts to every and all martial art. You will have to defeat him before he can adapt to counter your style. That’s why Gaolang have to use Muay Thai toward to the end of the fight because Agito already adapted to his boxing. And that’s also why Takeshi created his trump card, the Blast Core. Because after he lost to Agito, Agito already adapted to his Karate. How do I know this? It’s because in the Sequel Manga Kengan Omega. These is a new character who is also practitioner of the Formless style, a perfect formless too. And he didn’t shows any sign that he can adapt and create new fighting style to counter his opponent’s fighting style. And here is the fun part, The Formless Style doesn’t have root in the Niko Style. They are completely different. The reason Agito can also use some aspects of Niko Style is because he was taught both style from a guy name Tokita Niko. How do I also know this? It’s because the same guy I mentioned earlier from Kengan Omega confirmed that he was the second batch of Formless style user and the second batch wasn’t taught the Niko Style, only the first batch did which is the generation that Agito comes from.
In short, Formless style is about flexibility, being able to react to your opponents movement before them by hiding your intent through the irregular movement.
I love Kengan Ashura it was one the best anime I've ever seen. For some reason it makes me want to fight. I love how it showcases different varieties of characters and their story and reasons behind why they fight and different types of martial arts and styles.
You should try out teppuu. It's about women's MMA and goes into depth about MMA techniques, and is great at showing realistic fights. The characters are interesting and the fights are really good.
My favorite character in Kengan is cosmo. Like him I'm short in height but being short isn't a disadvantage if you know how to play it right. Shorter makes you agile and lower to the ground
So glad you made a video on my favorite anime/manga, i would recomend everyone to read and watch it because alot is missing in the anime compared to the anime
I love this show, but there's nothing to learn from it. I've been heavily training BJJ the last couple years. Royce (pronounced Hoyce) won because early BJJ was molded by Vale Tudo (no holds barred) competitions that had very few rules. Most of the original UFC fighters came from different sports with strict rulesets, making them easy pickings for a well trained (to that ruleset) Royce. Pro athletes train for specific rulesets and thats why the Gracies no longer dominate MMA. In the real world, all of the fighters in this show would train essentially the same way. Given that when skill is equal, the heaviest/strongest will win. This is why there are weight classes across most combat sports. This is a goofy "what if?" show and that's fine. If you want to actually learn anything, train.
Kengan ashura is great. Kengan omega is genuine dog water overall. Some good moments though l. Overall prefer Baki manga. Way more detailed imagery and the impact/movement is unmatched in fighting manga. Also definitely prefer the plot to og Baki way way more
Record of Ragnarok? Ig but the only similarity is that they are both tourney mangas. Heck Kengan wasn't even originally gonna be a tourney manga, that was a decision the author made halfway through the second fight.
Kengan Ashura surpassed Baki in terms of world building, character interactions and “grounded fights”. The only thing that Kengan Ashura has is the dumb fights that we see in Baki. (EX: Ohma vs Spider Assassin Kid)
