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Battle Vixens (Ikki Tousen) Volume 4 
Details
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Catalogue Number: MVD2116
Certificate: 15
Date Released: August 7th 2006
Screen: Fullscreen 4:3
Languages: Japanese; English - Dolby Digital (2.0)
Stereo
Subtitles: English
Duration: 75 minutes
Special Features
- TV commercials
- Art gallery
- Outtakes
- Photo shoot
- Trailers
Synopsis
The Demon Awakens!
The mortal battle between Hakufu and Ukitsu has begun. A fight that will determine the future of all the fighters. Can Hakufu break the 800 year cycle? Or is death truly their fate. How can these stupid girls even try to fight their own fate?
Contains Episodes 11-13
Cover
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Review
In the last volume we were left with Hakufu and Ukitsu facing one another off, about to have a massive punch up. This is the fight Hakufu’s mum has been dreading for a long time, as fate decrees one of them will die. I figured this being the last volume we would at least get to see a massive battle, worthy of say, Street Fighter II or any Dragonball saga... Well that’s what I was thinking anyway.
Even before a single punch can be thrown, Hakufu just faints and it then becomes clear Totaku didn’t pay her a visit just to have a chat. A bizarre chi-attack (many of you will have noticed it in the last episode) causes a bruise to grow across Hakufu’s body, that will kill her once it reaches her heart. The only way it can be stopped is if she defeats Totaku and gets him to reverse the spell. So Hakufu and Ryomou head off to Totaku’s greenhouse of lurv to “persuade” him to reverse it. Things get even more complicated when Ryofu turns up determined to avenge her girlfriend Chinkyu, who was viciously raped by Totaku’s henchmen.
Not to give too much away, the course of the last two episodes sees the fighters having to settle their scores and deal with the problem of going against, or blindly accepting the fate they’ve been dealt by their beads. But it soon becomes clear there’s been another stirrer at work this whole time, and this presents more problems for Hakufu and the gang to overcome. The humour seems to have gone home early a this time around, but it’s kind of understandable, what with all the drama of the showdown.
The biggest disappointment with this last volume has to be the fighting, there wasn’t enough of it and it was unimpressive, and seemed to go down a notch in quality compared to previous matches. An important blow is about to be struck and suddenly it goes into static montage mode! A good fight should be fluid, full of movement and impact. But these last ones had none of that! Koukin also seems to have forgotten he’s a fighter as he’s about as much use as the UN in the middle of a Fragfest in the last few episodes, pointlessly throwing himself into the middle of fights trying to stop the now psyched up Hakufu, from crossing that thin line between fighter and killer.
In the end things have been pretty much left open for a continuation,
although the whole situation does come to a conclusion of sorts (albeit
rushed). Just not quite the one I was expecting to see. (Eye-On-Anime)