OVERVIEW
Kengan Ashura starts of with Yamashita Kazuo who sees a guy (Tokita Ouma) being taken into an alleway by a much bigger guy, soon Yamashita realizes that they are gonna fight ofc he is certain that Tokita (who he doesn't know yet) will loose, much to his surprise Tokita wins with fair ease & soon after Yamashita gets entangled in a underground bussiness that makes use of settling big scores (be it building rights, or getting entire factories under said company name) by letting fighters fight for different companies with the company Yamashita works for also being apart of those & using Tokita as their fighter
STORY
The way they handled the story wasn't rly up to par with the manga, the show wasn't bad but it was definitely compressed, which is sad as the story is very amazing & each character gets it's fair share of screen time which in the anime was mostly skipped past, just to get to the fights or it was made into a quick flashback scene (do have to say i liked how they made those scenes)
But ofc it was still able to hype you up for the fights to come & still give some share of screen time to some of the characters (not as much as i wanted it to but oh well)
In the end i was still able to like it to some degree maybe because i already know the characters & their story.
CHARACTERS
The Characters in the anime didn't rly have much development, they get but a little bit of development as most just gets cut or is used in a quick flashback sequence of sorts, alot of the interactions between characters inbetween fights or right before them is also cut, which again sad as their is some amazing characterization in the manga, that makes you like a lot of the different characters even if you 1st hated them. the anime rly just went with fights & just a little bit of development for some characters. And it doesn't rly help when you know it has a big roster of characters but they aren't rly developed.
FIGHTS
The fights were quite nice, the 1st few fights were quite nicely done, it made some impact & impresion on you, but not all fights were as good there were some that weren't executed as good or just didn't leave as big an impact as the others (or like the manga). They were all quite smooth & fluid, aswell none of the characters were of model during fights or regular scenes. The anime did struggle with making the fights as impactful & epic as the manga. (sad as the fights in the manga leave a big impact & lasting impression). Some of the fights just didn't rly add that extra story & impact that the manga was known to do.I do have to commend the studio for using real fighters to perform the different moves & the studio recreating them almost perfectly in the anime, the moves rly did look great.
ANIMATION
The animation was pretty decent, alot of people will prolly be put of by it being CGI but tbh it wasn't half bad & it had significantly improved since the 1st teaser trailer we got which honestly looked very bad, the final product made everything look much better & was pretty fluid when it came to the movements, ofc it had it's fair share of flaws, but that is ofc to be expected, CGI is still far from perfect but it has been gradually improving in shows & this show is def trying to make it look great. Aswell it also made use of 2d imagery so not everything is CGI, there were a ton of scenes outside of fights(which are all full CG) that were 2d. Which they nicely implemented & made look rly good and blend together quite nicely.
MUSIC
The ost wasn't rly anything too special, most tracks aren't rly too memorable, atleast to me. The OP was quite good, the ED wasn't rly my thing but it did quite nicely fit the show.OVERALL OPPINION
In the end the show wasn't all bad but it wasn't able to rly convey the same emotion i had when i read the manga, but nontheless it had it's moments that were quite good & enjoyable. so now we wait for part 2 & hopefully it's better & improved(also this is my 1st full on review so i'm sorry if it isn't the best)