Current anime kings of fan service, panties, impossibly bouncy boobs and just titillation in general returns, yes, Ikki Tousen is finally back on the silver screen.Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians Season 3 (DVD). If Hakufu ever hopes to compete worldwide, she's going to have to deal. Her friends have lost faith in her, new enemies appear, and a younger sister she never knew existed suddenly shows up on her doorstep. Hakufu's dreams of participating in new fights and tournaments are put on hold as new obstacles block her path. Ikkitousen: Great Guardians.

This time around it is the girl-groping playboy Saji that seems to have mysteriously disappeared, taking with him Ryomou’s heart (feelings that she really isn’t accustomed to), as well as the appearance of a mysterious character who seems intent on disrupting the lives and power balance of the great fighting schools. Her friends have.Anyway, the franchise makes its third return to the screen with Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians, a tale that once again focuses more heavily on the grappler Ryomou Shimei than on the original series’ protagonist, the air-head, fun-loving and hard-hitting Sonsaku Hakufu. Hakufus dreams of participating in new fights and tournaments are put on hold as new obstacles block her path. Ikkitousen: Great Guardians. She is first introduced as a mysterious cloaked girl (Red Hood in the English version) 1 with a crystal ball who would often show up and speak to Ryomou, and true identity was.

However, note that the animation itself isn’t actually that bad, with some good flowing lines and action sequences that get pulled off really well. And of course, there are plenty of panties and short skirts to be seen as well. Pity really).The animation and character designs are quite colourful as always, and once again a lot of effort has gone into designing the girls with impossibly big, gravity defying boobs that seem intent on being nestled in the tightest of tops. Sure it can be followed, but it really isn’t very strong and hardly able to be taken seriously at all, especially now that the series seems intent on following a more ridiculous, super-hero-like power system that completely defies all laws of physics and in my mind, quite frankly ruins the good work put out by the original anime series.Oh well, guess it isn’t actually the story that director Koichi Ohata is pushing to sell the series with anyway.(Oh, and if you are wondering now that I think about it, the amount of fighting and battle sequences do take quite the back seat once again and to be honest, even when we do get to see some action, it isn’t particularly as well done as it has been in the past. Oh, and an unknown, Sun Tzu-quoting girl also appears into the mix, claiming to be Hakufu’s long lost sister – and who also seems pretty capable of stealing the unusually bashful Koukin’s affections in the process as well.In other words, it looks like Hakufu once again has one hell of a lot of work cut out for her!It must be said that Great Guardians story line certainly does come across as convoluted and confusing as the last series, which I’m afraid isn’t a good thing at all.

Unless you really enjoy your fan service and the idea of half-naked girls beating the crap out of one another, I really can’t recommend this one.Skip it, you really aren’t missing anything apart from some poor writing, titties and a well designed panty or two. The sound track also remains pretty fun with some good numbers pushed through by Ami and Rio Asaba who are responsible for the opening and closing tracks respectively.Overall, Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians really doesn’t offer anything new and in fact is an even further step back from the enjoyable series that was the first Ikki Tousen outing.

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