January 2023
Greetings, anime fans, martial arts aficionados, fighting game devotees, and enthusiasts of all things pertaining to anime, martial arts, video games, and fighting tournaments. Antoni here with another written entry. It should come off as no surprise that I love anime, martial arts, fighting games, and martial arts tournaments such as UFC and what we have today with Karate Combat. I revel in how diverse and intriguing fight choreography can be when the impact of a punch, kick, strike, and/or grapple can have on a combatant. Most of all, I enjoy the brutality of any blow or hold that is unleashed by the combatant whether in a real-life martial arts tournament or in fighting video games such as Tekken and Street Fighter. Therefore, martial arts tournaments melding with fighting games and anime are up there with the best things ever to make any nerd let alone otaku enthusiastic as well as grin from ear to ear. Given my experience of growing up with various anime series, fighting video games, and martial arts tournaments, I thought it would be fun to make seven groups of seven anime characters that I grew up with and give them the martial arts I think perfectly suit them. A good number of them will be based on canon, while others will be based on fanon. There are going to be a good number of characters that I grew up with from Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Solty Rei, Detective School Q, Ultra Maniac, Wolf’s Rain, Technolyze, Baki the Grappler, Shootfighter Tekken, Shura no Toki, Chrono Crusade, Geneshaft, Samurai 7, and Hajime no Ippo who will be featured on here. I am sure that fellow hardcore anime fans would recognize them in the team-ups provided as well as make their own assessments of the martial arts I have provided for them. With that said, arm yourselves well and be prepared to kick butt with these eight martial arts teams of seven consisting of anime characters I have had fond memories with ever since I was a child. You might even feel you are going through a character selection of your favorite fighting game. The Splendid Seven (Sesshoumaru, Shuran, Inuyasha, Hakkaku, Ginta, Ayame, and Shunran) These seven Yokai warriors, consisting of two dog Yokai brothers, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, three spiky-haired brothers, Shuran, Hakkaku, and Ginta, and two auburn-haired sisters, Ayame and Shunran, capitalize on bloody brutality when they pummel their opponents without respite or mercy, thus making them emerge as victors in any tournament. Therefore, they prove themselves to be a strong team because of how much they can take brutal hits from their opponents while delivering more serious ones. Strength and stealth define them with abandon, and they do not surrender that easily when the chips are down. Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha) – Mixed Martial Arts Shuran (Inuyasha) – Professional Wrestling Inuyasha (Inuyasha) – Pankration Hakkaku (Inuyasha) – Muay Boran Ginta (Inuyasha) – Lehtwei Ayame (Inuyasha) – Taekwondo Shunran (Inuyasha) – Shaolin Kung Fu The Honorable Budoka (Kuranosuke, Kisuke, Shinosuke, Toran, Wakana, Enju, and Karan) Honor, decorum, valor, and stamina are the hallmarks of what defines them as martial artists. The three dashing gentlemen, consisting of Kuranosuke Takeda, Kisuke, and Shinosuke, have been Karate practitioners ever since they were young boys. While the four ladies, consisting of Toran, Wakana, Enju, and Karan, are deeply rooted in Chinese martial arts. Their strikes are a combination of accurate and deadly because of how much they do not hold back in unleashing their series of punches, kicks, and strikes, thus numbing their opponents in pain due to knowing a thing or two about pressure points. Kuranosuke Takeda (Inuyasha) – Shotokan Karate Kisuke (Inuyasha) – Goju-Ryu Karate Shinosuke (Inuyasha) – Kyokushin Karate Toran (Inuyasha) – Wing Chun Wakana (Inuyasha) – Baguazhang Enju (Inuyasha) – Wushu Karan (Inuyasha) – Hung Gar The Kings of the Iron Fist (Baki, Ryoma, Takeshi, Kiibo, Alexander, Ichiro, and Ippo) Boxing or Mixed Martial Arts? Who gives a damn? Seven strong dudes who use Boxing’s punishing punches while incorporating Mixed Martial Arts’ strangulating clinches and bloody attacks? You’re going to give a damn, especially when Baki Hanma, Ryoma Sakamoto, Takeshi Sendo, Kiibo Miyazawa, Alexander Volg Zangief, Ichiro Miyata, and Ippo Makunouchi combine their furious fists, super strength, and crushing clinches with aplomb! Once these seven strong clinchers and punchers put their fists and clinches to great use, their opponents need pray profusely for their survival to not end up dead, let alone reside in a hospital. Baki Hanma (Baki the Grappler) – Total Fighting Style Mixed Boxing Ryoma Sakamoto (Shura no Toki) – Pride FC Style Mixed Boxing Takeshi Sendo (Hajime no Ippo) – Naniwa Style Mixed Boxing Kiichi “Kiibo” Miyazawa (Shootfighter Tekken) – Nanshin Shadow Style Mixed Boxing Alexander Volg Zangief (Hajime no Ippo) – Otowa Style Mixed Boxing Ichiro Miyata (Hajime no Ippo) – Kawahara Style Mixed Boxing Ippo Makunouchi (Hajime no Ippo) – Kamogawa Style Mixed Boxing The Queens of Titanium Strikes (Rosé T, Rose A, Winry, Megumi, Maya, Solty, and Kaoru) There is no escape let alone point of blocking when these seven sultry babes have shell-shocking strikes to perfectly compliment their fancy footwork. Whether Rosé Thomas, Rose Anderson, Winry Rockbell, Megumi Minami, Maya Orihara, Solty Revant, and Kaoru Ichinose use their punches, kicks, and strikes to take their opponents down or use defenses and evasion to block their opponent’s attacks, they never surrender before the bell rings. 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Greetings, Splendid Seven devotees, martial arts aficionados, and fighting video game fans. Antoni here with another written entry focusing on Sesshoumaru, Shuran, Inuyasha, Hakkaku, Ginta, Ayame, and Shunran specializing in the martial arts they do. As per tradition, I shall be talking about the number one main martial art each of these seven Yokai warriors specialize in the most based on their skills and personalities as well as what moves opponents need to look out for. This is also based on the surveys I have been conducting to see what my watchers and people who answered them thought were the most appropriate but also the most brutal in terms of inflicting as much damage to their opponents. So, let’s gear up and step into battle with the Splendid Seven’s main signature martial arts. Sesshoumaru: Mixed Martial Arts The Octagon is always welcome to have Sesshoumaru in to give every opponent who dares to challenge him in one bloodily brutal beatdown. Being the honorable martial artist he is, Sesshoumaru neither seeks fame nor fortune from the public, the critics, and/or promoters such as UFC and Pride. He demonstrates disciplined dedication by never having an ego and training his body, mind, and spirit to prevail against stronger opponents. His uppercuts, liver punches, ground-and-pounds, sprawl-and-brawls, double-leg takedowns, armbars, and Kimuras are guaranteed to make his opponents bleed like oceans and writhe in pain. Shuran: Professional Wrestling Anybody who has access to a television or enough money to purchase tickets to a Pro Wrestling match whether it is WWE and/or TNA in the USA or Lucha Libre in Mexico would raise their voice in excited jubilation when Shuran enters the ring in his large-and-in-charge bravado and glory. He emits the showmanship and the fighting spirit necessary to make Pro Wrestling a sight to behold and not a joke. The moves his opponents need to be wary of are his piledrivers, bearhugs, sharpshooters, torture racks, full Nelsons, German suplexes, and suplex power slams, which are known to crush bones and tear ligaments to tiny shreds. Inuyasha: Pankration Zeus, Ares, Heracles, and Theseus have blessed Inuyasha with magnificent muscles, super strength, ferocious fists, and radical wrestling moves when he steps into the arena to give the spectators a great battle against opponents while his oiled, muscular body gleans in the sunlight. Therefore, he gives glory to the Olympian gods for the battles he has with more powerful opponents. Inuyasha loves devastating his opponents with his Superman punches, jabs, double axe handles, hooks, hammer fists, tracheal grip chokes, and rear naked chokes because he can smash joints, tear ligaments, and deliver fatally bloody blows to their bodies. Hakkaku: Muay Boran The kings of Thailand would never stop singing their praises to Hakkaku because he is velocity, high energy, persistence, and strength personified. Hakkaku demonstrates that strength alone does not make a great fighter, but combining strength, speed, and timing can make a truly complete fighter. There is nothing that can bring him down even when the opponents he faces are much stronger and tougher than him. Hakkaku can overcome his opponents with his elbow slashes, elbow strikes, spinning elbow strikes, upward headbutts, overhand punches, flying knee strikes, and knee bombs to make them bloodied and bruised. Ginta: Lethwei Crowds of Burmese royals would be more than elated to cheer Ginta on when he steps up to do battle with more powerful and speedy opponents because he maintains a positive attitude and incorporates perseverance in every move he makes. Ginta may have a charmingly lovable face with adorable dimples, but he is not to be underestimated because he can unleash quick and powerful attacks that can make his opponents bloodied and bruised to numbness and pain. He accomplishes this with his thrusting headbutts, side headbutts, spinning backfists, cross punches, flying elbow strikes, jumping knee strikes, and push kicks. Ayame: Taekwondo Quick as lightning, strong as titanium, fierce as a lioness, and agile as a gazelle are what perfectly describes Ayame as a combatant whose strikes can make opponents bigger and stronger than her fall like trees being cut down by lumberjacks. She is a clear example of a beauty who fights like a beast thanks to her speed, strength, balance, and timing. Laying a hand on Ayame would be a terrible idea because she possesses excruciating strikes to bring her opponents down. Her strikes include reverse punches, knife-hand strikes, ridge-hand strikes, spear-hand strikes, roundhouse kicks, spinning back kicks, and spinning axe kicks. Shunran: Shaolin Kung Fu There has never been an instant where grace and might could not merge together, for Shunran is a combatant who can do just that and more thanks to her cleverness, craftiness, and conscientiousness of the human anatomy in terms of pressure points. She leaves no opponents unturned, as they end up walking into her trap and become prisoners to her vicious strikes. Shunran’s moves can be best described as soaring like a crane, trapping like a praying mantis, and slashing like a tiger. Her specific attacks include her leopard blows, finger strikes, palm strikes, nerve strikes, tornado kicks, double flying kicks, and split kicks. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and train hard and well, everybody.