Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Manga Video
• VHS Release Date: June 24, 1997
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304493746
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,245 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the best anime martial arts type fight scences, February 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadow Skill 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Shadow skill has some of the best choreographed fight scenes out of the entire anime universe of martial arts type action ( seconded only to Street Fighter). The OAV also has theatrical quality animation, fast paced action, and fairly decent voice-overs. Getting back to the story itself, it surrounds the training of a 14 yr. old bishouen named Gao Ban. He is being trained by his highly skilled, fight loving, and way cool sister Ella in the deadly technique known as the shadow skill ( an art that slave women mastered to defend themselves from male slave owners). Another bonus in this OAV besides the awesome fight scenes, and animation is the handsome fighter known as Scarface. This guy is way cool! I just love his fighting technique, he makes it all look easy.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT ANIME VIDEO, March 26, 2000

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"bunny015" (Rochester, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Skill 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ok this is one of the best anime videos you can buy. I would also reccomend the second shadow skill also. The point of this video is that Gau is going with his adoptive sister Ela. To visit Gau's parents graves .On there way Gau learns about the "Shadow Skills" in the Karoda school. And he want to beat a guy named Scar face, for more powerful shadow skills. So one of his last opsicals is to beat his sister Ela. Will he do it?

4.0 out of 5 stars No drama, but good action., June 20, 2001

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"solarnight" (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Skill 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Elle, practitioner of the Shadow Skill technique, adopts a boy named Gau as her brother and trains him. Gau wants to become powerful enough to beat the legendary Scarface, the champion of Shadow Skill. Not much in the way of story, but it's a good anime nonetheless. The animation is very fluid and the fight scenes have some of the best choreography in any martial arts anime yet. The soundtrack is great, especially the tune that plays while Elle and Gau train atop the mountain. What really disappointed me, though, is that Gau never fights Scarface at the end, and is evidently still too weak to even match him. The main characters fight just for the sake of fighting, so there's really no drive or emotional appeal during the battles, making them less interesting. Despite this, it's fine. Martial arts fans should see this.