When selecting Ikki Tousen I fell a victim of my unfortunate tropism for shapely fighting women, triggered by Chizumatic's top rotation. Unfortunately, while some frames are pretty, the series itself turned out to be a species of violent porn with pornographic voilence. I used to go around and say how Naruto was "brutal" and "barbaric", but Ikki Tousen goes way beyond. The problem is, Naruto's world is brutal and barbaric; but if we say that, there are no fitting words to describe Ikky Tousen except by analogy (seen any Japanese porn recently?).

The biggest disappointment was Ryomou, who turned out to be a psychopatic bitch with a sadistic bent (of course). By the way, Wikipedia says: "Her psycho side is not nearly as bad as Ryubi, Sousou and Hakufu." What a pit of lies.

The only reason I lasted for 3 episodes was the shocked disbelief at the vileness of it all.

Oh, and you know what's the saddest part? Kan'u nearly won Don's babe poll (nose to nose with Lafiel). It means that so many people watched this garbage far enough to Kan'u to actually appear.