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May 26, 2008 3:18 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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"Adrian!"

Cut to Sasshi looking like Fist of the North Star. Haha.

His Bruce Lee face and slo-mo hand movements in the ring almost made me fall off my chair. :D
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Dec 5, 2008 5:20 PM
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i think there was a jackie chan in there too. and hten DBZ kamehameha too that was rich.

ADRIAN aaahahahaha
Feb 19, 2009 4:36 PM
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Sasshi's Kenshiro appearance was awesome.

Not sure how next episode is going to be, though. Dinosaurs? What is there to parody, other than Jurrasic Park? I don't think there's enough to qualify as a genre.
Nov 29, 2009 2:09 PM
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Another great episode, after the first 2 rather boring ones this series seems to be on the right track now... loved Sasshi's Kenshiro too...
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Jul 22, 2010 8:58 AM
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Infinite kick combo... that's cheating!
Aug 24, 2011 2:56 AM
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Martial Arts parody this time. I wonder if the panda was a reference to Ranma ½? Ah well...
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Dec 30, 2011 7:17 PM
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The bulletproof hint after his training was epic lol -- it just keeps getting better and better with each ep
Jul 14, 2012 6:36 PM
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jackie chan? and dbz, this is just getting better and better each episode
Oct 1, 2012 11:10 AM
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Too many reference, I can't stop laughing.
Apr 12, 2013 11:10 PM

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Big brother. X)

Lol General Tao.
Please learn about cel animation and its technical process.
Learn how special effects and backlighting were done without computers.

Apr 18, 2013 7:14 PM
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Martial arts parody.:D
Jul 5, 2013 2:07 PM

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Haha that Chinese dress and all those references! Lets see what they're going to do next :p
Mar 6, 2014 9:31 AM
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the dbz joke was just awesome.Also liked the doll scene since it had some development.
Feb 7, 2015 6:25 AM

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A reference does not equal a joke. I get all the references but so what? I'm supposed to laugh because they mention something I've heard of? Not very funny so far. Plus, they keep re-using animation and the intro of every episode is extremely lazy.

Aug 4, 2015 9:59 PM
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this episode is awesome also who is that man with blue hair who helped them? why is mune mune want him so badly???? sashi is so cute with arumi when he gave the doll to her!
i laugh a lot when sashi dropped the dragon boll energy and also when they cut the name of the attack that was hilarious :3
Nov 16, 2020 2:01 PM

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Another Imperial March remix xD

Probably nothing can beat ep. 3's over the topness (which also had another funny preview), but it was still awesome. I'm really enjoying the show.

Plus, they keep re-using animation and the intro of every episode is extremely lazy.

Typical Gainax. I wish there was a unique OP, but oh well, this one is fine too. The song is catchy and I love Arumi's fox "ears".

P.S. I didn't get that many references but they were still hilarious. Those during the fight: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Marshall Law (Tekken), Goku?

P.P.S. This episode was directed by somebody with no other credits in any show, what o_O
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Now in china it was absolutely wtf as always, jackie chan, bruce lee, hokuto no ken, dragon ball etc so many references xD that was really fun
Apr 28, 2022 2:46 PM
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I want Mune to hug me like that too!

That premise and training, Jackie Chan's Snake In The Eagles Shadow? Adrian! from Rocky, Fist of the North Star, Bruce Lee's Game of Death, Drunken Master, Tekken, and DBZ again. What's up with that Starwars theme at the end? lol

Cretaceous extinction event next?
Jan 28, 3:22 PM

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and... after this episode, i was completely sold on this show. A fighting panda (Genma Saotome or Tekken 3?), Kenshiro, "Adriaaaan", the jumpsuit "that makes you believe you're stronger", Sayaka as the tournament host even if it's starting straight to the final, Sasshi becoming Marshall or Forest Law (Tekken 3, no doubt this time, i always spammed those somesault kicks myself), and Kamehameha and how Arumi's father responded to it "those stupid parodies can't actually work"... all of this still extremely funny like it has been already in late 2005. And no, Arumi, blond hair look good on him.
Aug 9, 3:32 AM
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I understood most of these references! Seriously though, I was going to say "Gainax used to do some pretty solid comedy" but when I thought about it I realized that serious stuff like Evangelion was sort of the outlier and their action stuff like Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill were always funny.

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