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Battle Arena Toshinden Director: Masami Obari Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes Studio: Central Park Media C Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-07-08 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 17 Average rating: 3.0 "Weak character development" Overall, this isn't too shabby of a movie. The action scenes for the most part were well made. However, character development didn't get much past the main character. It is as if they were trying to cram everyone from the game into an hour and a half just to say they were there "shiver" Why do I even bother? Battle Arena Toshinden is yet another (say it with me now) pointless fighting-game anime that has no veritable purpose other than to increase the number of pointless fighting-game anime in an already crowded genre. Just one reason not to watch Battle Arena Toshinden... Like most other anime of its ilk, Toshinden doesn't have much in the way of plot or character development. The plot is so painfully derivative that it barely merits mentioning. A group of bad guys known as "the Organization" decide to make some sort of super android, so they send out prototypes to battle the world's greatest warriors and learn their fighting techniques. Naturally, the world's greatest warriors are the Toshinden fighters. Now, this wouldn't be quite so bad if the Toshinden group were at least a mildly interesting group. However, they're either strictly one-dimentional or tossed into the anime solely for the purpose of a few pointless battle scenes. Oh, and that "mysterious, long-lost brother" cliche just has got to go. From there on in we get to the action, which could have been this title's saving grace. However, as far as martial arts stuff goes, this title is pure garbage. The battle scenes are just plain ridiculous, usually just involving the characters executing incredibly silly-looking (and poorly drawn) special attacks, most of which involve enough spinning to make me nauseous. And it certainly didn't help listening to the English voice actors crying out the attack names in Japanese. Ick. ... and here's another. As far as production values go there isn't much to say. The art and animation weren't overly spectacular, and there is a noticeable lack of artistic detail. The voice-acting was just plain poor, and the dialog equally repugnant (the line, "I guess I'm not much of an actor" has got to be heard to be believed). Ultimately, Toshinden is another another anime headed for the turkey bin. As far as fighting-game anime go, anything else looks golden (even Tekken, much as it pains me to say it). Don't waste your time nor money. "The worst video game to anime translation" This movie is one of the worst video game to anime translations that I've ever seen. The fight scences were poorily done, the character designs were beyond ugly, the story was played out, the dialogue was tired, and the most important thing of all THIS MOVIE DOESN'T DO THE VIDEO GAME ANY JUSTICE. "Wonderful Anime Movie" this video was full of great fight scenes. i loved it. i would reccommend this to any one who can handle really, really good anime. "I WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE THIS ANIME 1 STAR" THIS ANIME IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE CRAPPIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! YOU'RE BETTER OFF GOING WITH STREET FIGHTER THE ANIMATED MOVIE OR FATAL FURY!!!!! ANYTHING IS BETTER THEN BATTLE ARENA TOSHINDEN AS YOU CAN SEE THESE PEOPLE THAT GIVE THIS THING SUCH A HIGH SCORE AREN'T ANIME FANS!!!!