kazuma_klever_147★★★★☆EP 1seeing sid struggle with that disease made me feel bad for him and i wonder how he is going to find enough life energy
Tournament of the Gods: Title Match
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Synopsis
A young swordsman named Sid enters a brutal martial tournament for the most relatable reason possible: he wants to marry the girl he loves, and winning is the only way to prove himself worthy. The Toushin Tournament runs on high stakes: fighters battle one-on-one, and the loser surrenders their partner to the winner for a day. Sid brings along Selena, his childhood friend, as his partner, which already creates an interesting tension before anything else goes sideways. Then things go sideways. After early victories, a fallen angel named Aquross curses Sid with a disease that requires him to drain life energy from angels just to stay functional. The only painkiller available comes with its own complications. Now he's fighting through a tournament while managing a curse that's slowly unraveling his life. Don't go in expecting a clean fantasy adventure: this is a 3-episode OVA from 1997 with mature content woven throughout, produced by AIC with that distinctly late-90s aesthetic that fans of the era will recognize immediately. If you've watched something like Wicked City or Demon City Shinjuku and appreciated how those blended dark fantasy with adult themes, this sits in similar territory. It's closer to Ikki Tousen than a straightforward sword-and-sorcery story. Based on a visual novel, so the character dynamics and world-building carry more weight than you might expect from three episodes. Niche, but it knows exactly what it is.
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Hazuki Mizuhara
Yoshida Konami
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kazuma_klever_147★★★★☆EP 1
giovanni★★★☆☆EP 1the battle to win the title was pretty cool but everything went south so fast once that angel showed up and infected him
theanimewarlord★★★★☆EP 1That fallen angel Aquross is a total jerk, and seeing Sid go from the high of winning the tournament to that agony was rough.
chibiusa★★★☆☆EP 1i was not expecting the disease to be that intense and the side effects of the medicine are going to make things really complicated for sid
nure_onna_ninja★★★★☆EP 1sid finally becomes champion just to get immediately cursed by aquross and he looks like he is in so much pain now
hell_butterfly_hunter★★★☆☆EP 1The transition from the high of winning the tournament to the horror of the infection was handled nicely, even if it was hard to watch Sid suffer like that
iris★☆☆☆☆EP 1That curse from Aquross is a nasty way to force the adult content into the story and it makes the whole thing feel a bit mean
pippin_the_giant★★★☆☆EP 1Aquross appearing at the end of the match was a huge shock and it completely changed the tone from a tournament arc into a dark tragedy
larxene★★★★☆EP 1The character designs are very distinctive of that late 90s era and the world building around the angels feels a lot deeper than expected
kosenjo_no_obake★★★☆☆EP 1It was painful for me to see Sid go from a champion to a victim in just a few minutes because he worked so hard to win
marluxia_454★★★☆☆EP 1The way Sid has to rely on that drug just to function is a really grim plot point and it makes his situation feel totally hopeless
lugia_305★★★★☆EP 1The animation style has that classic AIC look and the tournament fights were actually pretty well done for a 90s OVA
solgaleo★★★★☆EP 1I really didn't expect the story to take such a dark turn right after Sid won the title. Seeing him go from the top of the world to being stuck with that disease is brutal, and the way he has to drain energy to survive is super intense. The 90s aesthetic, it works well for this kind of gritty fantasy setting too
matsumoto_melon_467★★★☆☆EP 1That tournament rule about taking the partner of the loser is extremely dark and it makes every single fight feel much more personal
vincentblack★★★☆☆EP 1I was not prepared for how fast this show turned into a total nightmare for Sid after he finally won the title match and then got cursed
hollow_ichigo★★★☆☆EP 1seeing Sid go from the top of the world to clutching his chest in agony made me feel so bad for the guy
shun★★☆☆☆EP 1Aquross felt like a generic villain and his motive for hitting Sid with that disease right after the title match was kind of weak
ikkaku_iron★★☆☆☆EP 1not sure how to feel about the side effects of that medicine and it seems like a lot for Sid to handle this early on
mamamu_yan★★★★☆EP 1the way the blue storm actually turned into that dark infection on Sid was such a transition from the hype of the win
necrozma★★★★☆EP 1my heart sank when Aquross showed up right after Sid got his trophy and that curse looks absolutely brutal for a first episode
