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Shadow Skill 1 [VHS]

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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.

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?

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.

The beginning scene:nude sillohettes of a slave woman in chains, chanting about "invinsibility" and then the chains snap, and you find yourself in a huge arena with a small boy facing a young woman, fighting stances. This is the beginning of an amazing anime and journey known as Shadow Skill. The main "actor" is Gau Ban, a young, silent boy with his older sister, Elle Ragu, who isn't really his sister; she adopted him after his parents were killed. The two are making a journey to visit Gau's parent's graves, to mark his height on a tree to show them how he's grown. Along the way, Gau is trying desperatly to master the art of the Shadow Skill, a skill that was used by the slave women in chains who were forced to defend themselves against their masters, and though he is trying his very hardest, he cannot understand. Though his sister may seem cruel, she wants so badly for Gau to become a Sevalle, and the youngest at that. That's as much as I will tell, the rest of this amazing journey must be discovered through actually seeing Shadow Skill for yourself.
UPDATE: Well, don't I feel stupid. o_O This was a different part of Shadow Skill that I reviewed. Disreguard it to this one, but it is the beginning of another ShadowSkill which is very good. =)

What more can I say? Megumi Hayashibara as the female lead and playing one of her super cool roles. The animation is very good and the fight scenes are very detailed and are somewhat bloody. What shines is the detail in drawing the characters especially their muscles and the sort. If you're looking for some good action, get this video.

This is a very cool OAV episode. The series as a whole is good too, but you can't get that unless it's in raw japanese. What more can i say about a series where Megumi Hayashibara is the main female lead? All you Hayashibara fans will like this OAV. Aside from the voice acting, the quality of the animation is great and the action and fighting is very detailed and entertaining.

Beautiful animation, well-developed plots, interesting(and in some cases hot) characters, and on-the-edge-of-your-seat combat scenes...need I say more?

the legend of the stooges on the pile of the damned rocks! the effects, the music it simply rocks!