The final chapter of Shootfighter Tekken features the final grudge-match showdown with Iron Kiba to prove if the Nanshin Shadow style of martial arts is truly the most powerful.  With more training, more fighting and more splattered blood, this last DVD ends this mediocre series none too soon.

Miyazawa has developed a new muscle growth system named Power-chan #1.  Kiichi trains with this system and pushes himself to the limit.  Even though Miyazawa is set to fight Iron Kiba, he trains and trains Kiichi till he almost breaks.  But a couple of weeks before the big fight, Miyazawa gets in a car accident that leaves him in a coma.  With the reputation of Nanshin Shadow style on the line, young Kiichi agrees to fight Kiba, the undisputed champion of the world.

To get ready for the fight, Kiba goes back to training again, getting stronger and stronger with each passing day.  He pushes himself harder and harder and with the help of his friends get into perfect shape.  But will this young boy be able to defeat a man who tosses a helicopter across a field when he arrives to fight?

This is a typical bloody fighting show, that left me pretty cold.  The fights are very over the top throughout the series, to the point of being ridiculous.  Fighters have their legs and knees broken, but still manage to leap and kick, not to mention stand, as if nothing had happened.  Near fatal wounds are ignored though sheer force of will, and every time someone looks defeated, they get up again, good as new.  The pinnacle of this stupidity is when one of the fighters battles while unconscious.  All the while blood is being splattered out of ears and eyes.

There wasn't really a plot, just people fighting, but the dialog was fairly inane too.  People go around spouting meaningless tidbit of knowledge that sound impressive but don't really mean anything:  "An offensive attack that has power and flexibility is never beaten."

This 50 minute DVD contains the second episode of the three in this series.  It comes in a clear Amaray case with the chapter stops and cast credits on the black and white back of the cover.

Audio:

This DVD has both the original Japanese soundtrack and an English dub, both in stereo.  I listened to each audio track and the Japanese was superior.  The English soundtrack was boomy with some of the lower bass sounds coming through too loudly, and the DVD really suffered because of this.  The Japanese track didn't have this defect, sounding clear and natural.  I recommend avoiding the dub track.

Video:

This show is presented in a widescreen (nonanamorphic) format, and looks good overall.  The image was a little soft in spots, but the colors looked fine.  The black backgrounds were not as even as they should have been, and there was some aliasing present.  These were fairly minor problems though.

Extras:

There are trailers for all three episodes of this series included on the disc, as well as previews for Munto, The World of Narue, Black Jack, and Cyber City.  There is also as an image gallery.  U.S. Manga Corps included something new and interesting too: Manga previews.  These were pretty neat, not just scanned in pages, but characters from the books superimposed over a series of different panels.  A text synopsis of the story is provided on screen to give you an idea of the plot.  It worked really well.

Final Thoughts:

The lack of plot, meaningless dialog and horrendously over the top fights that seem to last forever really doom this series.  I like fighting shows as much as the next guy, but the battles in this show were just too ludicrous for me.  Pass this one by, there are better discs out there.  Skip it.