@@Nesten-zi1oz No haha, unless he has twice the amount of blood as a normal person. Maybe he's like a Thorny Devil and can shoot it out of his eyes as a defense mechanism...
@@pillgod5043 Reminds me of what Kamijou Touma, the weakest esper, said to Accelerator, the strongest esper when Touma beat him. (Anime is Toaru series).
Good MC personality Good heroine Good fighting Good romance Good story overall I hope this masterpiece will get a second season when 7 star swordsman held
@@TheHawkblade207 The manga was axed just a few chapters after this scene, I don't know if there is a light novel but if there isn't than there will never be a second season.
"Vision, taste, hearing, touch, smell―right now he didn't need any of them. In this instant, he didn't even need to breathe. Abandoning all of those things, he concentrated the strength left over". Ikki is truly badass
Also both received the attacks of their respective opponents as Ikki and Touka actually failed to parry their attack and instead taken lethal damage from the other.
They are both the same, bit they executed romance differently. Asterisk faks around the girls and being that dense protagonist, while rakudai protagonist literally faks the main girl.
well the ASS war was a harem with random episodes having no point but fan service like the pool episode. All the 13-year olds prefer the harem where no romance happens and a self-insert protagonist that is #1 where Ikki is "the worst one." They also don't appreciate the detail that went into this and the fact characters aren't cardboard.
+Josue Vilca Huaranca not rly, she stuck to her pride which is a huge deal for chars like that. CQC is her expertise and as she said she would disappoint herself if she ran from such a fight.
Fun fact to anime only: in the novel is stated that in this singular moment of Itto Shura it wasn't just the 1 minute power compressed in a second, ikki gave up all of his senses in exchange for power which is why his body bleeds, it's not only sheer power pressure backlashing but also him put quiet literally everything in a single slash, he only swing he's blade on the point where the swords would clash .
The science of going completely past your limits actually confirms that this would happen to you in this scenario. If you look at powerlifters who try to break records, often times they will start bleeding seemingly out of nowhere, but in fact they were bleeding from a very small wound (such as a pimple). This is because as blood pressure increases, the pressure against the walls of the veins, arteries, etc. increases. As any type of matter would, blood will travel to the area of least resistance. In Ikki's case, that is all of the wounds and orifices on his body.
The anime shows this very well. Everything fades to black and white as his vision fades, the sound dampened around him, his blood moves too quickly through his body and ruptures. Every sense he has is given up for this one strike.
I wonder how would you make your wounds open up with that much bloodflow flowing through you like, Ikki straight up abandoned all his 5 senses and became one with the blade just to end the tiring fight
With Itto Shura, even if he says he's going beyond his subconscious safety limits, that's still only the case with the eventual breakdown caused by over-straining his body repeatedly for a minute. It's a whole minute, his body still has to hold together to make use of that duration. But if it's just one attack, a single second? Now he can really abandon _everything_ in exchange for pure force. Nothing matters after the one swing, after all. As long as he's not the first to drop, he wins. Turn off senses other than dynamic vision, turn off breathing, produce enough pull to tear muscle and blood vessels alike. Maybe even fracture some bones. The body only needs to last a single move.
Michele B2 Its an extremely advanced technique that puts a massive strain on your body and mind. Side effect may include nosebleeding profusely, massive hormonal imbalance emotional immunity to shame and death by Snu Snu. Only to be used in presence of a female opponent, or well......male....if that's your thing.
Chi Kim will prolly start reading that soon and i'm not surprised tbh considering how their relationship was in the anime. But please don't spoil it next time.
The reason it was cut was because it wasn't as popular, and its manga was cut to bc of editor problems, just a few chapters after this, and they arent animating a light novel
" I am fighting because I want to beat this noble knight with everything I have" those lines where they simultaneously shout gives me chill every time.
I love the final blow and the symbolism of Ikki breaking Todo’s sword. In this world your weapon is a manifestation of your soul. Ikki breaking Todo’s sword means that his soul was stronger and sharper than hers.
I think it's a reference to the episode where they were in kids shelter. Ikki saw how Touka kindly treated and cared about kids like she herself was once. Since that moment he started questioning whether he had a similar source of strength. And his encounter with his father made him even less confident in his resolve. He then realized that his sword infact is not "useless" and there are a lot of people whose hopes it carries and a promise he made with Stella is enough to fight. So, in a sense, Ikki shattering Todo's sword means he is not pursuing abstract goals anymore, now he carries the will of all people around him
@@-kurogane- Not only that, as that old man (Todo's mentor) says, Raikou (Lightning) was actually slower than Todo's Raikiri (Thunder Cutter). But at that last moment, Ikki evolved his Raikou to defeat Raikiri. He then deduces that Ikki's life were full of do or die moments like that and he has to constantly outmatch his past self because that's the path he's chosen.
@@leonmagnus3088 Raikou is the sword art and doesn't evolve here at all. Itto shura (single stroke of hell) the power concentration tech evolved into Itto Rasetsu (single stroke of the demon?) as Ikki squeezed everything he had into one second instead of one minute. Iirc I saw on the wiki that in the novels he does take Raikou further and makes a new sword art called Oikage (chasing shadow) where in combination with Itto Rasetsu and a limit break? he swings so fast the sword's shadow can't keep up.
@@leonmagnus3088 IIRC, there was additional thing to that as well. He was slower, noticed he was slower, he went even faster/evolved/past his limit, and to make up for the distance lost, he intentionally aimed for her sword with intention to shatter it which would knock her out. If he didn't change his tactics pretty much midswing she would've struck his body first and most likely won, but, as is his thing, he won with his otherwordly ability to read his opponent and overwhelming skill
KY2 AQW huh, missed that. still, gotta be faster (or at least close to) im nowhere near that (this started with how you could beat her) but someone skilled with a longer range weapon surely could
@@TheZoragon I think it was mean't to say that he could stand among the top as another great knight. It's probably cool to a japanese listener as throwing random words from other languages tends to but the native speaker will find it hilarious and absurd half the time.
This battle with Itto Shura is the most realistic all out, I've seen in anime. No one else's vains were popped through sheer power going into a single strike
Yes, the fight was short. So what? There was a time constraint, but instead of giving it up and botching it they actually made the one hit KO much more epic than a lot of the longer fights I've seen. I don't care; I loved the ending, the whole series was amazing, and it NEEDS a second season. So there.
@@animefan3120 it probably didnt cost much, it was just doing a lot with a small budget. They didnt show any extended fight. It was one strike. It was the meaning behind the strike that powered this fight.
This fight showed me that you don’t a whole lot of combat and what not. All a good fight needs is good animation, amazing music and some awesome dialogue and boom chills
It's amazing how the opening's lyrics line up at the exact moment they start moving towards each other. You can clearly hear the lyrics "運命はこの一瞬で決まるだろう", which means "Fate will be decided in this one moment", which is exactly how the fight is written
We got a second season of Classroom of The Elite, if that can happen we can bring this masterpiece back. It did everything right. Fights, romance, mc, good heroine development, and good animation. I know there's still a chance.
Go buy a few hundred million copies of the source material and you might get your wish, the source material didn't sell well enough to justify a 2nd season sadly
@mondays are shit yes it is. To defeat a genius, what do you have to be? Either an even greater genius or a demon. Of curse its not literal but i like it nonetheless
I absolutely love how they both aknowledge that Todo will win if she dodges Ikki. Even more how she decides to take him head on despite knowing how powerful his Itto Shura is. This really is an honorable duel between two chivalrous knights, and that is why-depsite it being finished in a single blow- is better than almost every month-long fight in anime history.
The funny thing is that the audience probably only managed to see them powering up for a few seconds before there was a sudden explosion in the middle of the arena. They would have missed the clash of swords if they so much as blinked at the wrong time.
@@ousamadearudesuwa Omg.... You LITERALLY see Todo's sword shatter, they did clash blades, Ikki won because he put all one minute of Ittou Shura into a 1 second swing, meaning it's 100x stronger than a single Ittou Shura, granted they had handicaps so he didn't kill her, but if there was none, she would've died. As for Ikki being wounded, he didn't get wounded by Todo at all, that was from his Ittou Shura now known as Ittou Rasetsu puts strain on his, so much so that it puts him in the hospital for 1 week instead of 1 day.
@@ousamadearudesuwa And to top that, he doesn't necessarily mean they have to stand to win, shown from Ikki vs Stella, he was laying down; but was greatly shown who lost. Same result would've happened, you can see that Todo is knocked out and the sword is broken, if he was laying down, he'd be conscious enough to show that he won, or his blade shows it enough.
@@eleesium8407 Its in the LN. Their swords were able to strike the other, but Ikki's willpower was able to become stronger than Todo herself, shattering her own sword in a single strike. Its far obvious with Edelweiss, Ikki's sword was shattered while trying to attack the strongest swordsman, and had to use a fragment of his blade just to graze a flesh wound unto the strongest.
For those complaining we didn't get an epic, episode long duel.....you clearly misunderstood the battle. This was the two Noble Knights wanting a fair duel but circumstances beyond their control forced their hands. Ikki wished to face and surpass the greatest of the Knights before him, He wished to duel the ultimate power. He wanted to face the strongest and use all of his strength to surpass her. Raikiri on the other hand, saw strength beyond what system deemed, she saw might within this supposed failure and wished to face him with a similar desire to test the others strength. These two Noble Knights wished to see the others power and bring out their greatest respectively but the Interference from the Kurogane family stopped this. They were ultimately unable to have their great duel. So ? They made the best of their circumstances, all the strength of Ikki's useless power used for one single purpose and the full unrestrained might of Touka's greatest technique were used to keep this duel exactly what they want. They took the results of Ikki's father and said to hell with it, this is their battle. She could've had an incredibly easy win, Ikki was coming at her dead ahead, he would've been easy to beat, she says so herself "I only need to dodge him once and I win", she would've had a confirmed place in "the seven star sword art festival" but she acknowledged Ikki's dream and tested his metal more than happy to lose should it prove Ikki is far more than a failure.
I love this fight for so many reasons. Raikiri knows she can easily win if she dodges but chooses to fight straight on in a fight to see who can truly win. Ikki realizes that he can't beat her with just Itto Shuro so he condenses everything he has in his tank into one attack which most likely broke the sound barrier and his limiter. Stella recognizes all of this. I love when everybody is an intelligent fighter. Ikkis Itto Shuro was the best part of this whole thing.
thruth be told, in the manga, it's "With my weakest, i'll beat your strongest!" But they "changed" it cause it didint make "sense" even thou most readers knew what the MC was yelling about :D
"With my weakest, i'll beat your strongest!" Yeah, that does not make sense. Its his strongest move, so clash with full power against each other. If you would clash low vs high and win with the low, you would be way above your enemy xD
That 3 minutes animation actually save my life. Watch this whole series out of stress failing my clinical exam due to overwhelming anxiety. Saw this final fight and I took that "run through this extreme moment" personally, slice through every single questions ask by my professor, doctors, and specialist that attend my exam and actually pass the exam.
After this fightthey called that technique itto retsura or something like that which meant something about a demon I believe. That part where his eyes turn red in my opinion makes him looks like a demon and I feel it just fits so damn perfectly
+Extenio Not really, he always calm down his power and one hit everything when he want. I still prefer this fight than Saitama fight, kinda boring when you almost unkillable.
Some of you may say "What is this?", "That was too quick". I have to tell you, this is one of the most epic fights I have seen in my entire LIFE. It's short, but it doesn't disappoint you. Even now, after finishing it, every time I watch this fight, when the OP starts, my body is assailed by shivers and goosebumps ! THIS IS THE BEST. IT'S AMAZING! I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS ANIME! IT HAS EVERYTHING!
+Jay Lu I'm not saying that this scene sucks, even i must say that this fight is really epic. But, the overall of this anime is too simple, dense and mediocre. And it doesn't matched my type, that's all. That's only my opinion.
Todo lost to the Seven Star Sword King Muroboshi because he was afraid of Raikiri and stayed outside of its range (Not really a bad strategy) but Todo knows what its like to put everything into one attack and have the opponents run away from the strike. Ayase actually uses worse tactics than the sword eater himself unknowingly to herself, which is why when she gets her redemption arc it feels waranted just she isn't best girl. Todo isn't best girl as that's Stella no questions asked
She lost with dignity unlike certain bow user jerk..when he about to lose proceed to begging for his life .after try hard to humiliate ikki,cheap shot him ,take other people credits..and sorry for poor english
I cant find anywhere to read the on but does the director or principle finally wild out we kinda get a sneak at it at the end of the manga but it leads to nothing
There aren't many moments in anime that I would call perfect, speaking as someone who has spent somewhere between hundreds and thousands of hours watching hundreds of episodes, whether it's the effects, the background story up to said moment, the emotions, the hardship, that moment being the absolute culmination of what that character has been working towards. That being said I believe I could count the number of moments I consider perfect on my hands, when Shiro fights Gilgamesh in fate/stay, when Alucard awakens all those souls sleeping within him, when Nanashi fought for his life against Luo-Lang, Kaneki breaking at Jasons' ministrations, Haruyuki flying for the first time, when Kid and Black Star fight the Kishin for that scrap of time, more come to mind but i'll leave it there, this for me ranks among such great moments as these.
+Mas'il Von it's not about the fight itself, which was pretty good, it's about the culmination of the first season, what happened and premonitions of the future, but if you don't think about anything outside of what actually happened, that's good too...
Loga Levaard Really? ... REALLY? You counted TOKYO GHOUL but not Gurren Lagann? .-. Oh, and Kaneki vs Jason was pretty shitty I can say a MINIMUM of 3 perfect moments in gurren lagann -When Simon awakes from his depression -When team gurren comes to fight the antispirals -When the Antispirals "die"
@@edchinyosh925 Man, that was such a badass moment! Hell, that entire fight was fucking awesome! I really hope we get a sequel or another series that takes place in that timeline.
I'm sure we can all agree that the anime we hope get another season are: Overlord season 4 Rakudai Kishi no cavalry season 2 Classroom of the elites season 2 Devil is a part-timer season 2 p.s Also I think we can also agree that carbon copy of this anime didn't deserve a second season before this and also I heard that there may be a season 3 for it
This is a super cool fight scene, it subverts your expectations of what a final battle is, it's not a long dragged out battle with a lot of flashy moves, it's two people putting everything into one strike to decide the match.
@@reekoil6270 Kind of. Normally he uses Itto Shura to burn through all his mana and buff himself for approximately a minute. This time, he compressed that energy into a 3 second burst. Not that different from Ichigo's bankai versus Byakuya's: Ichigo took all the energy normally used to support a big/flashy bankai and converted it all into physical attributes like speed/power. But when Itto Shura was kicked off, Ikki had way more power than her for that 3 seconds. A more real world analogy would be to use fire: if you take a fire and disperse it, you can heat up metal to bend it. If you were to take that fire and condense it, like in a blow torch, you can cut through that metal.
i also think that because Ikki is injured, he knows he is severely disadvantaged, and thus have no choice but to put everything into one swing. if he was in full health, he may have acted with a bit more caution, and would eventually lost.
LoL in reality raikiri is the most powerful arsenal out there, in that anime so why dodge? only madman can tank that like ikki its miracle he can stand up in the end but he can not do it again in the 2nd time, fighting todo.
If you've seen all his fights and how he usually uses itto shura, you'll understand how hyped I was on that "ITTO SHURA!" shout when the fight began. 🥺
This, while it's the shortest fight ever, is my absolute favorite moment in all of anime history. The emotion put into this is just breathtaking. Everyone else has already explained the significance of Todo's choice not to avoid the attack. To her, it would be an affront to everything she believes in and she would feel absolutely disgusted and not even count it as a win. She'd rather concede than pull something so dirty. That's one of the many reasons why I liked her character. This was beautiful, and I seriously hope a season two will be made. Stella x Ikki for life!
actually its not the same, raiko means thunder while raikiri means lightning and in japan their different because thunder represents a suddent strength release and lightning represents strength released rapidly, in other words xd raikiri is speed while raiko is power xd
most ironic part is Raiko 雷(thunder) 光(light) - light of thunder Raikiri 雷(thunder) 切(cut) - thunder cutter which the technique should be able to cut of the thunder, and yet Toudou lose. (anyway you might say it cut off the thunder but not the light itself, afterall Ikki just done a Limit Break XD)
+AlexBlindness Nah man. They probably didn't even understand what happened. Raikiri is explicitly said to move at lightning speed. Ikki just matched that. The fight is only a fraction of a second, given that both of them were slashing in very much excess of mach 100.
AlexBlindness this might have been the most boring battle ever if there isn't those special powers like lightning since it would have just been two people dashing past one another while slashing and one of them falling over with a broken sword
i've lost count of how many times i've watched thsi fight already, so short yet so god damn good.and the voice acting along with the soundtrack sends the chills down the spine
@@okita_souji_alter ippo has a natural talent for boxing, he is a slugger & hard hitter. But still that won't be enough to become a boxer but he got the basics by default.
@@okita_souji_alter yes I agree, I'm just saying ikki is different, he doesn't have high rank magic or support from his clan he learnt everything by himself.
This fight still gives me chills to this day. Both Todo and Ikki was fantastic especially the moment Todo was like If I run from close range, where does my pride go.
I like how Todo is in light while Ikki is in darkness. Without context you would think Ikki is the bad guy, but if you have seen the anime or read the manga, it would make poetic sense as to why they are there
Ikki, the weakest Knight who was always overshadowed by those who were seen as brilliant geniuses. Todo, someone who many saw as the number one knight, with all eyes and the spotlight on her. That is poetic indeed.
Doesn't matter if this fight is only 2 minutes The whole thing was so amazing from BGM to Dialouge to legit just "let the best fighter win" One of my top fights in anime and its not even close
I really love how there was no ulterior motives behind the fighters themselves. Just two powerful people who want to test their chops against another powerful opponent to see how strong they themselves are in comparison
I didnt appreciate this masterpiece of a scene when i was 11, but now i know this scene is a masterpiece . 10/10 VA performance, 10/10 visual effects, 10/10 OST, 10/10 animation.
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"To defeat a prodigy, a weakling must become a demon." Ikki Kurogane
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"Did you do it?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"3 gallons of blood."
Literally my story i lost almost 3 gallons of blood when i fought 3 guys and one of them stabbed me in the stomach had to walk to the hospital myself
@@jigokudo2625 really?
@@Nesten-zi1oz dude we only have 1.5 gallons of blood lol
@@Nesten-zi1oz
No haha, unless he has twice the amount of blood as a normal person. Maybe he's like a Thorny Devil and can shoot it out of his eyes as a defense mechanism...
@@usmcmanatee2591 lol
8 years later, this still gives me chills
Facts
You're goddam right
i just went on a random marathon to watch the whole anime in one go, im fucking sweating and its 6am LOL
@@Nightcrawl7 not bad, read the ln
Yeah, same
you know it's the final battle when they start playing the anime opening during the fight!
Dagon mk2 oh yes
Dagonmk2 FUCK YEAAA
One of the best tropes.
Dagonmk2
Yeah...just like One punch man
Millard XD or Tokyo Ghoul season 1
That line "with my strongest, I will beat your strongest" still hits me for how many years now.
Fun fact, in the Ln he says with my weakest, I'll beat your strongest
@@pillgod5043 Reminds me of what Kamijou Touma, the weakest esper, said to Accelerator, the strongest esper when Touma beat him. (Anime is Toaru series).
@@adamharith782 Funnily enough Riku Misora (Rakudai Kishi Author) is a fan of Kamachi Kazuma (Toaru Author).
@@SayMyName504oooooooooooohhhhhhhh!!! 😩💦 🍆
@@adamharith782 Touma is anything but weak lmao
This is when you realize....... this 3 minute fight was better animated than the Nanatsu no taizai entire 3 season.
Well, its not difficult tho
lol truu
I think you mean 3 second fight.
Then you realize the Chika Dance from Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai outclasses them both.
guilherme martins I didn’t know what the anime was cuz of the Japanese but just hearing season 3 and bad animation together I figured it out
Todo: Close-Range is my territory!
Ikki:
OUR TERRITORY!
Communism comrade
r/UnexpectedCommunism
@Internet Hiburan our comrades
More like *my territory*
@@aless2906 you never EXPECTS the COMMUNIST INQUISITION!
That “Itto Shura” hit differently then any other anime character shouting their special move
I thought it was just me
*I felt that.*
tatsumi saying incursio too
what about « BANKAI » from ichigo
SAISHO WA GUUUUUU
Good MC personality
Good heroine
Good fighting
Good romance
Good story overall
I hope this masterpiece will get a second season when 7 star swordsman held
Me too but unfortunately it was just an ad for the LN
@@ebukarthur LN?
@@sanjjithdineshkumar1600 Light Novel
It’s a solid 6/10 imo
@@ebukarthur who knows we saw what happened with classroom of the elite so who knows
when you beat the boss on 1hp
Minus strike for the win
My friends would call this a single pube-hair of life
You may want to get new friends
KirbyDude my friends call it a pube of health as well
#darksoulsboss
*Ikki losing all his blood*
Yuuri-Sensei: "That's my student all right"
Guifire97 lmao
lmfao
😂😂😂
Normal MC: loses all his blood and nearly dies
JoJo MC: (loses two gallons of blood) this is but a scratch!
Lol
this is the kind of anime that i thought will turn into generic ecchi anime, but it was change to be great action romance anime, so unexpected...
ikr..this one is good especially the LN.Sad that they stop translating it in English.
CUTE SALAMANDER for real i was waiting for colume 6 chap 3 for ao ling
vol.6 chap 3 came out
hyou ka WHERE???
baka-tsuki
5 years,that "ITTO SHURA!" still gives me chills
x2
That badass line will forever be memorable
Single stoke of hell
- you're welcome
It was classy, they gave it big love but didn't tease it out for fucking 5 minutes
Bro for all the 19 years that I've been alive, I've yet to witness something that surpasses that "ITTO SHURA" 😮💨🔥🤌
Am I the only one who watches this scene from time to time?
Wish this had a season 2 tho.
Same and ive been waiting for season 2.
No you are not the only one
still waiting :(
@@TheHawkblade207 The manga was axed just a few chapters after this scene, I don't know if there is a light novel but if there isn't than there will never be a second season.
@@sirmcdust5572 Actually, there is s light novel, so thats why I still have hope in The second season xD
"Vision, taste, hearing, touch, smell―right now he didn't need any of them. In this instant, he didn't even need to breathe. Abandoning all of those things, he concentrated the strength left over".
Ikki is truly badass
Aye quoting the novel
@@sebastjankosec yeah it's fucking amazing volume 9 when he uses itto ratetsu again is also amazing
Also both received the attacks of their respective opponents as Ikki and Touka actually failed to parry their attack and instead taken lethal damage from the other.
Didn't he need to see what he was hitting
Breathing technique
The voice acting and the animation makes this short fight a masterpiece.
LET'S GO AHEAD!!
ITTO SHURAA!!
eh looks lazy
@@juless27 You're lazy
@@juless27 Bish what?
It's been almost 6 years already and this fight still gives chills and yes that "ITTO ASURA" hits different
Yesssssirrrrrr!
ITTO SHURA and INCURSIO give me chills
How is this series so underrated compared to The Asterisk War? This had better fight scenes, a better MC, better romance...
I gotta admit the asterisk war was fucking amazing to me but this hands down beat it with a better mc better fight scene and the better romance.
Ikr asterisks war is so crap and generic. Re watched some of it the other day and it really pales in comparison to this show
They are both the same, bit they executed romance differently. Asterisk faks around the girls and being that dense protagonist, while rakudai protagonist literally faks the main girl.
Well imo the romance in chivalry of a failed knight was rushed, the story was great, the fights were great, but they could've done it a bit better.
well the ASS war was a harem with random episodes having no point but fan service like the pool episode. All the 13-year olds prefer the harem where no romance happens and a self-insert protagonist that is #1 where Ikki is "the worst one." They also don't appreciate the detail that went into this and the fact characters aren't cardboard.
When the skill uses HP instead of MP xD
😂😂
Lol true af.
If he had MP there would no anime of this
Yukiteru Amano Trueeeee 🤣
Shield hero 👀
The look on Todo as she is drawing out her Raikiri is fucking intense
tht was her rape face.....lol
+Henrie Storm Exactly, I thought only I felt this way.
+Henrie Storm well todo give Ikkirito the change of win beacause if she avoid the atack ikkirito lose XD
***** srry i cant speak english very well
+Josue Vilca Huaranca not rly, she stuck to her pride which is a huge deal for chars like that. CQC is her expertise and as she said she would disappoint herself if she ran from such a fight.
Fun fact to anime only: in the novel is stated that in this singular moment of Itto Shura it wasn't just the 1 minute power compressed in a second, ikki gave up all of his senses in exchange for power which is why his body bleeds, it's not only sheer power pressure backlashing but also him put quiet literally everything in a single slash, he only swing he's blade on the point where the swords would clash .
The science of going completely past your limits actually confirms that this would happen to you in this scenario. If you look at powerlifters who try to break records, often times they will start bleeding seemingly out of nowhere, but in fact they were bleeding from a very small wound (such as a pimple). This is because as blood pressure increases, the pressure against the walls of the veins, arteries, etc. increases. As any type of matter would, blood will travel to the area of least resistance. In Ikki's case, that is all of the wounds and orifices on his body.
The anime shows this very well. Everything fades to black and white as his vision fades, the sound dampened around him, his blood moves too quickly through his body and ruptures. Every sense he has is given up for this one strike.
@@Nikotov3 this is really Well made After Reading what you guys say
I wonder how would you make your wounds open up with that much bloodflow flowing through you like, Ikki straight up abandoned all his 5 senses and became one with the blade just to end the tiring fight
With Itto Shura, even if he says he's going beyond his subconscious safety limits, that's still only the case with the eventual breakdown caused by over-straining his body repeatedly for a minute. It's a whole minute, his body still has to hold together to make use of that duration.
But if it's just one attack, a single second? Now he can really abandon _everything_ in exchange for pure force. Nothing matters after the one swing, after all. As long as he's not the first to drop, he wins. Turn off senses other than dynamic vision, turn off breathing, produce enough pull to tear muscle and blood vessels alike. Maybe even fracture some bones. The body only needs to last a single move.
i love when he screams Itto Shura
You forgot Itto Shura of the Night.
+Dread Walker "of the night"?
Michele B2 Its an extremely advanced technique that puts a massive strain on your body and mind. Side effect may include nosebleeding profusely, massive hormonal imbalance emotional immunity to shame and death by Snu Snu. Only to be used in presence of a female opponent, or well......male....if that's your thing.
Chi Kim will prolly start reading that soon
and i'm not surprised tbh considering how their relationship was in the anime. But please don't spoil it next time.
Devin Irelan same
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry needs a second season. Its main character and story is way better than asterick wars.
So true too bad I just found out about this anime 1 month ago
The reason it was cut was because it wasn't as popular, and its manga was cut to bc of editor problems, just a few chapters after this, and they arent animating a light novel
Blazexkn D why wouldn’t they animate a light novel
@@Epicbird-hb5eg cause popularity problem
kevin adrian they’ve animated plenty of light novels
The voice actors must have had a lot of fun reading those lines
" I am fighting because I want to beat this noble knight with everything I have" those lines where they simultaneously shout gives me chill every time.
same dude, I love this anime so much
big boss omg same here lol
big boss same here lol
Saying itto shura must have been like the english voice act for goku screaming kioken x10 at the top of his lungs
I love the final blow and the symbolism of Ikki breaking Todo’s sword. In this world your weapon is a manifestation of your soul. Ikki breaking Todo’s sword means that his soul was stronger and sharper than hers.
I think it's a reference to the episode where they were in kids shelter. Ikki saw how Touka kindly treated and cared about kids like she herself was once. Since that moment he started questioning whether he had a similar source of strength. And his encounter with his father made him even less confident in his resolve.
He then realized that his sword infact is not "useless" and there are a lot of people whose hopes it carries and a promise he made with Stella is enough to fight.
So, in a sense, Ikki shattering Todo's sword means he is not pursuing abstract goals anymore, now he carries the will of all people around him
@@-kurogane- Not only that, as that old man (Todo's mentor) says, Raikou (Lightning) was actually slower than Todo's Raikiri (Thunder Cutter). But at that last moment, Ikki evolved his Raikou to defeat Raikiri. He then deduces that Ikki's life were full of do or die moments like that and he has to constantly outmatch his past self because that's the path he's chosen.
@@leonmagnus3088 Raikou is the sword art and doesn't evolve here at all. Itto shura (single stroke of hell) the power concentration tech evolved into Itto Rasetsu (single stroke of the demon?) as Ikki squeezed everything he had into one second instead of one minute.
Iirc I saw on the wiki that in the novels he does take Raikou further and makes a new sword art called Oikage (chasing shadow) where in combination with Itto Rasetsu and a limit break? he swings so fast the sword's shadow can't keep up.
@@leonmagnus3088 IIRC, there was additional thing to that as well. He was slower, noticed he was slower, he went even faster/evolved/past his limit, and to make up for the distance lost, he intentionally aimed for her sword with intention to shatter it which would knock her out. If he didn't change his tactics pretty much midswing she would've struck his body first and most likely won, but, as is his thing, he won with his otherwordly ability to read his opponent and overwhelming skill
Scenes like this are why I fell in love with anime.
Can you beat the Raikiri too?
+SimonB sure, give me a minigun and a lot of fucking ammo at around... Idk, 1km distance to start? Chain her up a bit maybe?
KY2 AQW what if she just breaks the spear? or avoids it?
KY2 AQW wait, if she can dodge a bullet cant she dodge a spear? or am I missing something?
KY2 AQW huh, missed that. still, gotta be faster (or at least close to) im nowhere near that (this started with how you could beat her) but someone skilled with a longer range weapon surely could
0:40 in the manga he says "with my great weakness I'll break your invincibility" ..
After the fight he was also called "The Crownless SwordKing".
-KaYn-ThE- sHaDoW-rEaPeR- Which is freakin awesome. The title reminds me of Meroleona from Black Clover.
That’s a way better line. Glad you shared that.
The novel is so good. Crownless Sword King is such a cool title.
So much better than another one. I mean what is he? A pint of beer?
@@TheZoragon I think it was mean't to say that he could stand among the top as another great knight. It's probably cool to a japanese listener as throwing random words from other languages tends to but the native speaker will find it hilarious and absurd half the time.
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
He's bleeding everywhere already, mom's spaghetti...
Ethereal SOMEBODY TOUCHES HIS SPAGHETS
He's bleeding mom's spaghetti already, mom's spaghetti
Очень добрый парень ?
hes nervous on a service he looks calm and ready
nxt Eminem
This battle with Itto Shura is the most realistic all out, I've seen in anime. No one else's vains were popped through sheer power going into a single strike
When you realize this masterpiece of an anime doesn’t have a second season
There is a rumour of a second season dropping in 2021 so keep an eye out for that
@@Nincompoop_Incarnate
let's hope but don't get to hopeful
@@gloriaramos4468 ye, if it not in 2021 then there won't be a second season, ill probably read the LN if that happens
Manga is axed. But LN is on progress.
Have hope Hataraku Maou-sama which released and ended almost the same time and same year as Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry got a season 2
Yes, the fight was short. So what? There was a time constraint, but instead of giving it up and botching it they actually made the one hit KO much more epic than a lot of the longer fights I've seen.
I don't care; I loved the ending, the whole series was amazing, and it NEEDS a second season. So there.
Agreed
Agreed
Agreed!
Agreed on that 🙋
Agreed
This is why I can't forgive Asterisk Wars. It stole the attention this anime needed for a season 2
omar martinez Is this why?
@@thunderblade95
Yes. They aired at the same time and that anime is more generic and brightly colored.
@@cunnyman Thanks. Now I know what to never watch because I love this anime
Just believe the reason it got s2 instead of this is because the animation is ass and the budget is cheaper to animate it.
But you gotta be honest with me Asterisks war op is 👌
This is the shortest fight ever but by far one of the BEST ever in anime history! So much depth and emotion in this scene.
i hadn't noticed before but the ground starts shattering from the sheer force of the sword's unsheating, holy shit! 2:15
damn, good pointing that out. That's crazy lol.
This is god tier animation
Anyone have the math on 7 deadly sins season 3 production cost cause I want this one episodes cost compared to the entirety of 7 deadly sins cost
@@animefan3120 it probably didnt cost much, it was just doing a lot with a small budget. They didnt show any extended fight. It was one strike. It was the meaning behind the strike that powered this fight.
thats pretty normal in anime 😂
This fight showed me that you don’t a whole lot of combat and what not. All a good fight needs is good animation, amazing music and some awesome dialogue and boom chills
Yeah, i mean it was only one swing
And a whole seasons worth of character development to understand both sides
Remember, it needs stakes as good as this too
@@nikkoa.3639 true
@@nikkoa.3639 and oh boy were the stakes high af
It's amazing how the opening's lyrics line up at the exact moment they start moving towards each other. You can clearly hear the lyrics "運命はこの一瞬で決まるだろう", which means "Fate will be decided in this one moment", which is exactly how the fight is written
finaly i found this
Damn i like this fight more and more
We got a second season of Classroom of The Elite, if that can happen we can bring this masterpiece back. It did everything right. Fights, romance, mc, good heroine development, and good animation. I know there's still a chance.
Yea the next volume is even better
YES. There is still hope.
Go buy a few hundred million copies of the source material and you might get your wish, the source material didn't sell well enough to justify a 2nd season sadly
Everything was perfect, except that fricking lets go ahead announcer
@@vonhelsing7281 a simple 'fight!' will do, but they had to go 'lets go ahead!' im crying
Fun fact: "Raikou" actually means "Lightning", while "Raikiri" means "Thunder" so it actually makes sense that Raikou wins
The light is faster than the sound
@@aarongonzaga7878 Yup, exactly 👌
That was very smart of the creator
unlike Asterisk shit
CODM DarkDevil It's very smart for the creator to have a backup plan you stoopid
CODM DarkDevil I hope you also have good day TOO
My favorite part is still how both thought this:
"I am fightning because I want to beat this noble knight with everything I have"
yea that is the best part
I can't do anything but agree
for me, this so COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL BADASS OR WHAT U WANT.
Dai nana ken raiko
It’s also a major compliment. They acknowledge each other’s strength and their potential to be a true noble knight
"In order for a mediocre man to defeat a genius, he has to become a demon."
That actually sounds very wise. I like that, and it's kinda true
@mondays are shit yes it is. To defeat a genius, what do you have to be? Either an even greater genius or a demon. Of curse its not literal but i like it nonetheless
"if i dont go to hell who will?"
In order to beat a genius, a mediocre man has to beat them in what they aren't a genius at. This is the true power of a Jack Of All Trades.
@@mikedanielespeja6128 I stole that phrase mate.
I absolutely love how they both aknowledge that Todo will win if she dodges Ikki.
Even more how she decides to take him head on despite knowing how powerful his Itto Shura is. This really is an honorable duel between two chivalrous knights, and that is why-depsite it being finished in a single blow- is better than almost every month-long fight in anime history.
The funny thing is that the audience probably only managed to see them powering up for a few seconds before there was a sudden explosion in the middle of the arena. They would have missed the clash of swords if they so much as blinked at the wrong time.
Jason Aguilar Lol, you're actually right.
There was no clash of swords as both wounded the other badly. Ikki was just able to stand long enough
@@ousamadearudesuwa Omg.... You LITERALLY see Todo's sword shatter, they did clash blades, Ikki won because he put all one minute of Ittou Shura into a 1 second swing, meaning it's 100x stronger than a single Ittou Shura, granted they had handicaps so he didn't kill her, but if there was none, she would've died. As for Ikki being wounded, he didn't get wounded by Todo at all, that was from his Ittou Shura now known as Ittou Rasetsu puts strain on his, so much so that it puts him in the hospital for 1 week instead of 1 day.
@@ousamadearudesuwa And to top that, he doesn't necessarily mean they have to stand to win, shown from Ikki vs Stella, he was laying down; but was greatly shown who lost. Same result would've happened, you can see that Todo is knocked out and the sword is broken, if he was laying down, he'd be conscious enough to show that he won, or his blade shows it enough.
@@eleesium8407 Its in the LN. Their swords were able to strike the other, but Ikki's willpower was able to become stronger than Todo herself, shattering her own sword in a single strike.
Its far obvious with Edelweiss, Ikki's sword was shattered while trying to attack the strongest swordsman, and had to use a fragment of his blade just to graze a flesh wound unto the strongest.
For those complaining we didn't get an epic, episode long duel.....you clearly misunderstood the battle. This was the two Noble Knights wanting a fair duel but circumstances beyond their control forced their hands. Ikki wished to face and surpass the greatest of the Knights before him, He wished to duel the ultimate power. He wanted to face the strongest and use all of his strength to surpass her. Raikiri on the other hand, saw strength beyond what system deemed, she saw might within this supposed failure and wished to face him with a similar desire to test the others strength.
These two Noble Knights wished to see the others power and bring out their greatest respectively but the Interference from the Kurogane family stopped this. They were ultimately unable to have their great duel. So ? They made the best of their circumstances, all the strength of Ikki's useless power used for one single purpose and the full unrestrained might of Touka's greatest technique were used to keep this duel exactly what they want. They took the results of Ikki's father and said to hell with it, this is their battle.
She could've had an incredibly easy win, Ikki was coming at her dead ahead, he would've been easy to beat, she says so herself "I only need to dodge him once and I win", she would've had a confirmed place in "the seven star sword art festival" but she acknowledged Ikki's dream and tested his metal more than happy to lose should it prove Ikki is far more than a failure.
Bro I swear this comment is underrated
Lol she can win ? 😂😂😂 in ur dreams
She wouldnt able to dodge his attack
She said it in manga he was too fast
Inother words plot armor, smells like bullshit that's why the manga got cancelled because of plot armory shit like this.
i dont even know how many times I've watched this short clip but It still never gets old and i still get watery eyes c:
I don't get watery eyes. But it does get me good
+Ricardo Ortiz-Joseph lol idky im so emotiinal when it comes to movies, or shows. whether they are sad or even just for surprising me c:
+HyHealZ HyHealZ or for something exciting.
+HyHealZ HyHealZ
I understand. This was epic as fuck
+Yuno Gasai i can t picture gasai yuno act like the way you did XD
I love this fight for so many reasons.
Raikiri knows she can easily win if she dodges but chooses to fight straight on in a fight to see who can truly win.
Ikki realizes that he can't beat her with just Itto Shuro so he condenses everything he has in his tank into one attack which most likely broke the sound barrier and his limiter.
Stella recognizes all of this.
I love when everybody is an intelligent fighter. Ikkis Itto Shuro was the best part of this whole thing.
You know it's gonna be epic, when you hear the opening song during a fight
Damn straight
hell yea lol
John Smith
And may I just say: I *love* the opening song for this series!
+Ricardo Ortiz-Joseph Yes sir.... At first I wasn't feeling it but then it grew on me.
John Smith
I was feeling it within the first few episodes.
"THAT WITH MY STRONGEST, I WILL BEAT YOUR STRONGEST!" ITTO SHURA!!
thruth be told, in the manga, it's "With my weakest, i'll beat your strongest!" But they "changed" it cause it didint make "sense" even thou most readers knew what the MC was yelling about :D
Oh thank you. now i'll know ^_^
Glan epic
That as just become my newest favorite quote. And I just starting watching this series!
"With my weakest, i'll beat your strongest!" Yeah, that does not make sense. Its his strongest move, so clash with full power against each other. If you would clash low vs high and win with the low, you would be way above your enemy xD
Girl: *hits me*
Me who believes in gender equality: 0:53
K this gave me a giggle
@@DataBotFound Same.
Kazuma is proud
Judging from your profile pic arent u a girl?
@@garnac3138 perhaps
That 3 minutes animation actually save my life. Watch this whole series out of stress failing my clinical exam due to overwhelming anxiety. Saw this final fight and I took that "run through this extreme moment" personally, slice through every single questions ask by my professor, doctors, and specialist that attend my exam and actually pass the exam.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS SEASON 2!!!!
HurricaneOG same
HurricaneOG 😱😱😱😱😭😭 Same!!
Guess you didn't get any christmas presents this year boi
This anime was such surprise for me. Never thought when i was started watchiong it would be that good.
Maybe next Christmas bruhh
I simply adore the color and art transitions at 1:53 onward. Absolutely beautiful.
Me too.
Even better when you realize that its the style of opening and todo was the only character in the opening to not be colored red
When your anime switches to a Manga Format with animation w/ Top Quality
After this fightthey called that technique itto retsura or something like that which meant something about a demon I believe. That part where his eyes turn red in my opinion makes him looks like a demon and I feel it just fits so damn perfectly
you would think 1 hit K0 would be lame ... but damn 8/8 Ikki
+ilikecheese123ish XD I think you didn't watch One punch man :D
+Extenio now that's a real one hit KO show lol
+Extenio Not really, he always calm down his power and one hit everything when he want. I still prefer this fight than Saitama fight, kinda boring when you almost unkillable.
Shinn Asuka that's the joke of the show tho
+Shinn Asuka It's not saitama's fault that he's a god....
7 years later. This scene still gives me chills that run up my spine and adrenaline that makes me want to be in this world and fight.
Some of you may say "What is this?", "That was too quick". I have to tell you, this is one of the most epic fights I have seen in my entire LIFE. It's short, but it doesn't disappoint you. Even now, after finishing it, every time I watch this fight, when the OP starts, my body is assailed by shivers and goosebumps ! THIS IS THE BEST. IT'S AMAZING! I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS ANIME! IT HAS EVERYTHING!
This anime sucks. it's just the reality
+Dimas Iqbal i beg to differ. in my opinion, this anime is far from sucking. it's not necessarily good, but it definitely doesnt suck
+Dimas Iqbal o really? Then why do so many people like it? Care to explain?
+Jay Lu I'm not saying that this scene sucks, even i must say that this fight is really epic. But, the overall of this anime is too simple, dense and mediocre. And it doesn't matched my type, that's all. That's only my opinion.
Dimas Iqbal you made your opinion sound like the truth, which it isn't for a lot of people.
Todo is like the complete opposite of Ayase, actually Honorable and even goes as far as to meet his attack rather then just simply try to avoid it.
One of the reasons why she appeals to me as a best girl.
@@SempaiLovesAnimeandRiceballs she is hands down the best girl.
@@FBR2169 Yes.
The deadly sin of pride
Todo lost to the Seven Star Sword King Muroboshi because he was afraid of Raikiri and stayed outside of its range (Not really a bad strategy) but Todo knows what its like to put everything into one attack and have the opponents run away from the strike.
Ayase actually uses worse tactics than the sword eater himself unknowingly to herself, which is why when she gets her redemption arc it feels waranted just she isn't best girl.
Todo isn't best girl as that's Stella no questions asked
This was fucking epic. Amazing season.
+Kurogane Ikki remember, 30 kisses a day ;)
boobeebah13 >:) im such a naughty girl aren't I ikki kun
boobeebah13 that fucking cabin scene yo 10/10
holy shit no 9001/10
+boobeebah13 i got a huge boner 1000000/10
5 years later and this fight is still one of the best ones i have ever seen!
Top 10 Anime Battles without a doubt.
This wasn't even a battle lmao. Just one swing.
Later on in the LN, they would have a rematch when he's fully recovered. She lost again.
Of course she did 😏
She lost with dignity unlike certain bow user jerk..when he about to lose proceed to begging for his life .after try hard to humiliate ikki,cheap shot him ,take other people credits..and sorry for poor english
I mean he played steal edelwiess swordplay which is impossible to copy and gave him a fricking power boost
I cant find anywhere to read the on but does the director or principle finally wild out we kinda get a sneak at it at the end of the manga but it leads to nothing
@@Necrophz I don't understand your question. Please rephrase.
There aren't many moments in anime that I would call perfect, speaking as someone who has spent somewhere between hundreds and thousands of hours watching hundreds of episodes, whether it's the effects, the background story up to said moment, the emotions, the hardship, that moment being the absolute culmination of what that character has been working towards. That being said I believe I could count the number of moments I consider perfect on my hands, when Shiro fights Gilgamesh in fate/stay, when Alucard awakens all those souls sleeping within him, when Nanashi fought for his life against Luo-Lang, Kaneki breaking at Jasons' ministrations, Haruyuki flying for the first time, when Kid and Black Star fight the Kishin for that scrap of time, more come to mind but i'll leave it there, this for me ranks among such great moments as these.
like I said, I could mention a lot of absolutely awesome moments, but then we would be here all day.
+Mas'il Von it's not about the fight itself, which was pretty good, it's about the culmination of the first season, what happened and premonitions of the future, but if you don't think about anything outside of what actually happened, that's good too...
+Loga Levaard Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
WHY you don't counted Gurren Lagann? xD
cause i couldn't think of only one moment from it.
Loga Levaard Really?
...
REALLY?
You counted TOKYO GHOUL
but not Gurren Lagann?
.-.
Oh, and Kaneki vs Jason was pretty shitty
I can say a MINIMUM of 3 perfect moments in gurren lagann
-When Simon awakes from his depression
-When team gurren comes to fight the antispirals
-When the Antispirals "die"
She experienced something far worse than death, she got yamchaed.
This one moment has stuck with me for almost a decade, truly one of the greats
The whole series leading up to this one swing of the sword. Nothing else gives me the tingles like this show!!!
This is one of the best surpassing your full potential moments I've seen.
Bosco Choi mobile suit gundam iron blooded orphans look it up
Chills.
splash ketchum hey barbatos ,isn’t that that your prey,show me everything you got!
@@edchinyosh925 Man, that was such a badass moment! Hell, that entire fight was fucking awesome! I really hope we get a sequel or another series that takes place in that timeline.
@@allthatishere same here hoping something
I'm sure we can all agree that the anime we hope get another season are:
Overlord season 4
Rakudai Kishi no cavalry season 2
Classroom of the elites season 2
Devil is a part-timer season 2
p.s Also I think we can also agree that carbon copy of this anime didn't deserve a second season before this and also I heard that there may be a season 3 for it
Hell yea!
Devil is a part time season 2 got announced
@@icestorm2115 ik lol I just saw, hype is real
@@icestorm2115 Yes
Overlord season 4 and new movie also got announced! I just need one more thing on your list for my life to be complete😂
This is a super cool fight scene, it subverts your expectations of what a final battle is, it's not a long dragged out battle with a lot of flashy moves, it's two people putting everything into one strike to decide the match.
They both looked so pissed...that wasn't seriousness, that was full blown anger!
they pushed their utmost limits of their attacks.... anyone would look like that when they're trying to just outright smash someone...
outright smash someone if you know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Alpha Foxtrot Cheesecake actually that was stella a few times in the series... thinking about ikki's "itto shura of the night"
Alpha Foxtrot Cheesecake lol
If my memory serves me right from reading the light novel, she went so 'all out' that she even had intent to kill behind her attack.
When you're so badass that both the of you turned into Manga
Todo: RAIKIRI
Kakashi: That's my girl
Favorite moment in all of the anime i watched so far. The black and white art style, the blood, the veins, the little to no colours are just amazing.
ONE PUNNNNN... whoops I mean
*ONE SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!*
Good one!!
+Sir Fappington [Saitama hated that]
+Hirasawa Yui [you feel your sins crawling on your back as saitama stares at you]
Denzel Fernandez
i have accelerator on my back,saitama wont be able to touch me :P
Hirasawa Yui true but let's see how long until season 2 comes Out
This, a 3:35 minutes fight is better than the 90% of all the anime fights I've seen... FUCKING EPIC :D
“If I dodge...I’ll win but...”
My pride is telling me to take it head on
Best moment lol
So she lost to injured weakened Ikki in a head on fight?
@@reekoil6270 Kind of. Normally he uses Itto Shura to burn through all his mana and buff himself for approximately a minute. This time, he compressed that energy into a 3 second burst. Not that different from Ichigo's bankai versus Byakuya's: Ichigo took all the energy normally used to support a big/flashy bankai and converted it all into physical attributes like speed/power. But when Itto Shura was kicked off, Ikki had way more power than her for that 3 seconds.
A more real world analogy would be to use fire: if you take a fire and disperse it, you can heat up metal to bend it. If you were to take that fire and condense it, like in a blow torch, you can cut through that metal.
i also think that because Ikki is injured, he knows he is severely disadvantaged, and thus have no choice but to put everything into one swing. if he was in full health, he may have acted with a bit more caution, and would eventually lost.
@@TunesByAI2024 Yeah, the author mentioned it that way in the LN.
LoL in reality raikiri is the most powerful arsenal out there, in that anime so why dodge? only madman can tank that like ikki its miracle he can stand up in the end but he can not do it again in the 2nd time, fighting todo.
If you've seen all his fights and how he usually uses itto shura, you'll understand how hyped I was on that "ITTO SHURA!" shout when the fight began. 🥺
Ikki was forced to fight 19 rounds with little to no rest just so his father can make Ikki fail
This, while it's the shortest fight ever, is my absolute favorite moment in all of anime history. The emotion put into this is just breathtaking. Everyone else has already explained the significance of Todo's choice not to avoid the attack. To her, it would be an affront to everything she believes in and she would feel absolutely disgusted and not even count it as a win. She'd rather concede than pull something so dirty. That's one of the many reasons why I liked her character. This was beautiful, and I seriously hope a season two will be made. Stella x Ikki for life!
I'm hoping for Season 2 so I can see more of Ikki, Stella Touka, Shizuku, and more characters
this was one of the best sword fights ive ever seen
I usually cringe when they yell out their moves but damn. I came when he said ito shura
Samee
And then we hear "Let's go ahead" and cringe all over...
The VA for Ikki is a genius, his voice carry emotions. In this case, the hype is limitless
@@TheClosen FAX
You can thank the VA for that.
I always find myself coming back to this. After all these years, this scene is still incredible. Everything about it was great.
Ironic that Ikki beat Toudou with a technique called "lightning." I mean, that's just disrespectful.
Tachyon Lion XD lmao true
actually its not the same, raiko means thunder while raikiri means lightning and in japan their different because thunder represents a suddent strength release and lightning represents strength released rapidly, in other words xd raikiri is speed while raiko is power xd
Raikiri oddly enough means lightning cutter I believe
finallly someone with the same lvl of ocd as myself XD thought the exact same thing
most ironic part is
Raiko 雷(thunder) 光(light) - light of thunder
Raikiri 雷(thunder) 切(cut) - thunder cutter
which the technique should be able to cut of the thunder,
and yet Toudou lose.
(anyway you might say it cut off the thunder but not the light itself, afterall Ikki just done a Limit Break XD)
lol...the most hilarious thing is that, to the common observer this duel lasted like.....3 seconds......."LETS GO AHEAD" boom, done.
+AlexBlindness Nah man. They probably didn't even understand what happened. Raikiri is explicitly said to move at lightning speed. Ikki just matched that. The fight is only a fraction of a second, given that both of them were slashing in very much excess of mach 100.
AlexBlindness this might have been the most boring battle ever if there isn't those special powers like lightning since it would have just been two people dashing past one another while slashing and one of them falling over with a broken sword
@@samlim7963 like most of real life sword duels?
i dont want too spoil you, but this is not his fastest battle.
@@angielou-5188 Well, congrats, you spoiled me 😒
i've lost count of how many times i've watched thsi fight already, so short yet so god damn good.and the voice acting along with the soundtrack sends the chills down the spine
Finally an anime where the MC makes it to the top because of his efforts and training
Hajime no ippo?
@@okita_souji_alter ippo has a natural talent for boxing, he is a slugger & hard hitter. But still that won't be enough to become a boxer but he got the basics by default.
@@msp1925 that doesn't mean he didn't work hard tho. Dude had to train a shit ton to get where he got towards the end of the series
@@okita_souji_alter yes I agree, I'm just saying ikki is different, he doesn't have high rank magic or support from his clan he learnt everything by himself.
Sakuragi, slam dunk.
He had to trained his ass off to get to where he was, and even them, many were better them him.
0:53 - The reason I replay.
so watch it again.
@Moto Moto evet çok sarıyor
@Moto Moto Ben de reis eyvallah
@Moto Moto yoo her yerde var türk neden sasirayim
@Moto Moto önemli değil :D
Damn, that "Ittou Shura" moment was too damn epic.
Yes
That “Raikiri!!” gives me shivers every single time
This fight still gives me chills to this day. Both Todo and Ikki was fantastic especially the moment Todo was like If I run from close range, where does my pride go.
Is todo dead?
@@NeoPhoenix-99 no, she just got fucking wrecked. Ikki was in worse shape than her, physically.
1:38-1:41 you gotta admit. That movement was pretty epic😳😳
10 years later, still brings me to tears
Always found it interesting that Ikki used “Lightning Emperor” to beat Todos “Lightning Blade”. For an English speaker, I like the subtle flex.
Prof_X well here move is Thunder blade while his is lighting blade
the precise meaning of ikkis move is lightning, while todos means thunder. lightning is faster.
@@Jamplays592 light is 300000000 km/h and sound is approx 1300 km/h so yeah
@@АлександрБабанлы no lighting has its own registered speed which is slower than the speed of light
@@aaronforsyth3486 but it's definitely faster than sound
I like how his nickname went from “the worst one” to “another one” because he kept stacking bodies
the most epic 1 second fight ever
2:05 the synchrony is amazing
THE SEVEN SECRET SWORD: RAIKO!!!
Me: Chills intesifies
Dai nana ken raiko
@@rifqiyuliansah6222 Dai nana hiken:Raikou
I like more THE THIRD SECRET SWORD: MADOKA!!!
I like how Todo is in light while Ikki is in darkness. Without context you would think Ikki is the bad guy, but if you have seen the anime or read the manga, it would make poetic sense as to why they are there
Ikki, the weakest Knight who was always overshadowed by those who were seen as brilliant geniuses. Todo, someone who many saw as the number one knight, with all eyes and the spotlight on her. That is poetic indeed.
For the first time I didn't know who is going to win. Great anime!
I get chills every time i watch this
Same bro the series was just amazing it needs a s2
Feeitaan Art even tho it was harem
The harem made the characters stronger
Ronnie99104 That's asterix war, his sister lived him at first but she's over it.
Andrew Rogers ik I saw the series
I will never apologize for saying this is my favorite anime... I don't know how many times I've seen this fight, but it always gives me chills!
Doesn't matter if this fight is only 2 minutes
The whole thing was so amazing from BGM to Dialouge to legit just "let the best fighter win"
One of my top fights in anime and its not even close
I really love how there was no ulterior motives behind the fighters themselves. Just two powerful people who want to test their chops against another powerful opponent to see how strong they themselves are in comparison
I didnt appreciate this masterpiece of a scene when i was 11, but now i know this scene is a masterpiece . 10/10 VA performance, 10/10 visual effects, 10/10 OST, 10/10 animation.
"To defeat a prodigy, a weakling must become a demon."
Ikki Kurogane
"In the world of martial arts, hard work will always eventually surpass talent." - Natsu Tanimoto, "Mightiest Disciple Kenichi"
I saw it like 6 years ago, but once in a while this fight pops into my mind randomly, and have to watch it again. One of the best.