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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vashdaman" data-source="post: 361592" data-attributes="member: 246">Thanks for the suggestion! Based on my limited Google search, I'd say it definitely counts and it actually sounds quite good. Did it even come out in English, either anime or manga? Yeah, I agree. Martial arts do frequently pop up in anime. But even just semi-realistic and considered portrayals of martial arts, as a central focus for a film/show seems to be nearly no existent in today's anime landscape. I mean, we could very well consider Naruto as a martial arts series(I did actually find the shows description of Chakras to be very amusing, but probably more for the fact it's a mixing of yogic terminology with a show about Japanese ninja's, I assume this is purely down to the translation work, however) , but it's probably more of a kid's superhero show in reality.True, Samurai certainly were martial artists. But I suppose it just comes down to what your definition of a martial arts movie is. I've personally never really considered Seven Samurai and the like as 'martial arts' movies, they've always been in they're own category of 'historical samurai movies' for me. I've never seen any Kenshin stuff though apart from Trust&Betrayal which was probably as much of a character driven drama as much as anything (though the fight scenes it did have were of class A potency). Sword of Stranger was a little more excessive (in a good way) in it's fights and the fact that it didn't just focus on Samurai but on Chinese warriors too set the film apart from the usual samurai suspects, and makes it feel a bit more martial artsy, in my opinion.So yeah, swordplay definitely seems to be the best, realistic martial arts action we're getting in anime right now. But Japan does have other well known martial systems it could use for proper inspiration for anime, such as Judo,Karate, ect, (I don't really know much about Japanese martial arts) but I think they also have various fairly well established variants of Chinese Martial art systems over there as well.@teoThanks for the recommendations! Personally I wouldn't really define a boxing anime any more a martial arts show than I would Rocky, so it's not really what I was after. Some of the other ones look interesting though, if a bit more comical looking than what I would usually go for. Still it's interesting to not that even these shows are quite old now too. I guess Martial arts just don't particularly fascinate the current crop of anime industry creatives? Ooh, sorry. I've practically written my own pod cast here!  :lol:</blockquote>

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