Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon gives a new meaning to “battle damage”

By Spencer . June 8, 2007 . 3:32pm

Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon gives a new meaning to battle damageInsert Credit who is also glancing over Marvelous home page from time to time spotted a game based off of Ikki Tousen, a martial arts manga where schools are at war with each other. The obvious genre choice for a game is fighting and Marvelous came up with a gimmick to push the title. During fights characters in Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon have parts of their clothes ripped off when they are hit. It’s not exactly Strip Fighter II: Turbo because scrapped bits of cloth cover all of the naughty bits. As you can probably guess the cast is entirely female and there are no plans for a North American release. Will half naked 3D characters sell a fighting game? Marvelous and Tecmo seem to think so!

 

If you’re one of the handful of people who read the manga or curious check out the trailer.


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  • the_importer

    Anime based fighting games don’t make it in NA unless the show has been Americanized for kids to be played on Saturday morning.

  • the_importer

    Anime based fighting games don’t make it in NA unless the show has been Americanized for kids to be played on Saturday morning.

  • Hello Hello

    Being a Romance of the Three Kingdoms fan, I actually enjoyed this series. Too bad we’ll never see this game in North America. It’s also too bad they’re only using the female characters. I can understand that this is a fan-service game, but characters like Totaku and Ouin are what made the season of the anime so cool. =p

  • Hello Hello

    Being a Romance of the Three Kingdoms fan, I actually enjoyed this series. Too bad we’ll never see this game in North America. It’s also too bad they’re only using the female characters. I can understand that this is a fan-service game, but characters like Totaku and Ouin are what made the season of the anime so cool. =p

  • Hello Hello

    Being a Romance of the Three Kingdoms fan, I actually enjoyed this series. Too bad we’ll never see this game in North America. It’s also too bad they’re only using the female characters. I can understand that this is a fan-service game, but characters like Totaku and Ouin are what made the season of the anime so cool. =p

  • Hello Hello

    Being a Romance of the Three Kingdoms fan, I actually enjoyed this series. Too bad we’ll never see this game in North America. It’s also too bad they’re only using the female characters. I can understand that this is a fan-service game, but characters like Totaku and Ouin are what made the season of the anime so cool. =p

  • Nyeguitarist

    Well now i really wish my ps2 was capable of running imports.

  • Nyeguitarist

    Well now i really wish my ps2 was capable of running imports.

  • Carmen

    Whoa, what does this have to do with ROTK? Am I missing something?

    Somehow, this game doesn’t seem like a steller idea.

  • Carmen

    Whoa, what does this have to do with ROTK? Am I missing something?

    Somehow, this game doesn’t seem like a steller idea.

  • Aoshi00

    This anime is sort of like Tenjou Tenge except all of the characters’ names are based on those in Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, like Sousou (Cao Cao), Chouhi (Zhang Fei), etc, pretty much a blatant fanservice show disgracing 3 Kingdoms yet again.. now you have another fantasy show called Koutetsu Sangokushi too, at least it’s better than Ikki Tousen in theory w/o the naked chicks.

  • Aoshi00

    This anime is sort of like Tenjou Tenge except all of the characters’ names are based on those in Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, like Sousou (Cao Cao), Chouhi (Zhang Fei), etc, pretty much a blatant fanservice show disgracing 3 Kingdoms yet again.. now you have another fantasy show called Koutetsu Sangokushi too, at least it’s better than Ikki Tousen in theory w/o the naked chicks.

  • iga_devil_king

    whoa, this sounds awesome, liked both sereis and the manga, although its a shame we wont be seing this in the u.k.

  • iga_devil_king

    whoa, this sounds awesome, liked both sereis and the manga, although its a shame we wont be seing this in the u.k.

  • iga_devil_king

    whoa, this sounds awesome, liked both sereis and the manga, although its a shame we wont be seing this in the u.k.

  • iga_devil_king

    whoa, this sounds awesome, liked both sereis and the manga, although its a shame we wont be seing this in the u.k.

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