MMA Fighter Breaks Down Kengan Ashura Anime Fight Scene | Scenic Fights

The guy is a great teacher dude, seriously he does great at explaining the moves

The writers actually have around 22 yrs of martial arts experience combined, and they even act out the fight scenes before drawing them too! hence the quality of the fight scenes

Kengan Ashura deserves way more attention and acclaim than it's currently getting. So good, I literally jumped out of my chair, cheering and screaming with Cosmo at the end of that insane submission.

Me: “Sees kengan ashura character in the thumbnail” Me: likes video.

Kengan Ashura has a lot of fighting styles. A whole series must be made....

I came for entertainment, and got out with a master class.

I loved the breakdown of this fight, when they animate Kuroki Gensai vs Kanoh Agito, you guys really need to cover it

Kengan ashura is underrated af

The writier of this series Yabako Sandrovich was a martial artist.

Oh this is Gonna be Good!! Love seein this for Kengan!!

I am astonished, this fast thinking and reactions cant be achieved without LOTS of practice, repetittion and failed attempts. Now i respect the fighters/wrestlers more than i did yesterday.

I’m a simple man: I see Baki or Kengan, I click

This is breath of fresh air, this is a different type of reaction channel that could probly go far as fuck.

Kanoh is undoubtedly one of my favorite fighters in the Kengan series, the dude is so well written

I absolutely love how professionally this video was made, it displays the seriousness of the techniques

I love the narrative that Agito understood the pattern and just finished the fight right after Bc that is his strongest skill 'adaptation' to any fighter by the second

I wouldn’t say I even have a huge interest in mma or knife fighting but this channel does an incredible job making it fun and interesting. Great work as always

God this channel needs to do a lot more break downs, every time I watch chad explain some jiu jitsu I learn something new

Just to clarify some things that came up. Just in case some people haven't seen Kengan Ashura or read the Manga and don't necessarily know the context for things. Kanoh's lack of leg-locking while mounted, and lack of good ground control wasn't a lack of understanding on the author's part. It's to show that Kanoh, while being a fighter with serious skills and incredible conditioning, is not actually experienced in this kind of combat, and is figuring it out as he goes. Closest comparison is to Yujiro Hanma, except Kanoh's observably learning and developing in fights as he goes, instead of just having those abilities credited to him so he looks strong. It actually in canon makes people quit the Kengan matches, because the idea he's learnt, mastered and countered their best techniques in the space of seconds psychs them out. Similar to this, is why he's okay with being mounted and beat on for portions of this, while just watching. The dude's incredibly physically and mentally conditioned. He can take punches far heavier then Okubo can give, and stay up. Even the fake shot to the pretty hard overhand, which physically tilts him, just surprises him. Doesn't even come close to knocking him out, he's just shocked that it happened. Okubo, being an experienced MMA fighter, knows to look at his opponents' previous fights. He picks out that Kanoh's almost always fought on his feet, so he puts it into his advantage by going to wrestling and groundwork to tie him up and give himself advantage. Unfortunately, Okubo doesn't know about Kanoh's observational abilities, or Kanoh knows enough to avoid being put into an impossible situation and to avoid losing control. Kanoh is able to stay in, gets enough time to study Okubo's strategy and techniques, attempts to end the fight, fails, reads the pattern, provides a fake opening that he knows Okubo will take, counters with the right while Okubo shoots, then throws him to take mount, but Okubo's already out. The scary face is due to some form of Dissociative Identity Disorder that he picked up to cope with some of the worse things he's done. Because despite being almost entirely alienated from modern society, almost never socialized and looking like the God of all Edgelords, he's quite a nice person. Hence the transition from being quite reserved and tactical, into being very aggressive and controlling. It also allows him to use his "Formless" style of striking (think like what Systema was supposed to be, mixed with drunken boxing), which makes it harder to read what he's doing, harder to react to and block blows, and lets him provide a false opening to Okubo without it being a clear trap. Amusingly, there is some suggestion that his D.I.D makes him even more difficult to knock out. He has a couple situations where he takes pretty bad blows and his other half comes out, slightly confused. Considering it's an anime, he's either been psyched out to the point of switching up, or he's a two-stage boss and you need to beat both halves.

Whoever recommended this is a legend.