Although Lu-Ying is safe and the Red Flower Gang has been defeated, World War II is on the horizon and the Japanese army is making moves to wipe out gang activity by employing martial artists of their own. Worse, the German army is in Shanghai as well looking to secure the List of Hope which Guise had intended to use in the creation of a sanctuary city.
An action series threaded with various types of comic relief. Though a sequel to Souten no Ken, the storyline here is almost entirely self-contained with little relation to previous events.
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Honestly, I would have loved to have been paid to draw characters with such hideous designs. Every day, the animators must have laughed themselves to tears. The men’s necks are so thick that they can barely move (which is odd, because they actually don’t have to, seeing as they’re animated); they resemble blimps that failed the cut for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
We hear about how anime industry employees die young or at their desks, but there are hidden perquisites to every job, and drawing truly hideous characters must be among the most coveted.