Kengan Ashura Season 2 (2023) — Story, Release Date, Rating

Synopsis:

The second season of *Kengan Ashura* plunges viewers back into a brutal world of corporate gladiatorial combat. Here, powerful companies settle disputes through rigorously controlled, yet undeniably violent, matches between highly skilled fighters. The narrative follows a diverse cast of warriors – each with unique fighting styles and deeply personal motivations – as they compete for dominance in the prestigious Kengan Association tournament.

Beyond the intense physical battles, the series explores themes of power dynamics, corporate ambition, and the blurred lines between sport and entertainment. Expect detailed fight choreography, strategic planning, and a gritty atmosphere that emphasizes the cost of victory. The season delves deeper into character backstories and the political machinations surrounding the tournament, offering a nuanced portrayal of a society built upon strength and calculated risk.

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Netflix

Characters:

Tokita, Ouma (Main) - Voice Actors: Suzuki, Tatsuhisa, Pascal, Benjamin, Rabelo, Leonardo, Matzke, Paul, Tang, Kaiji
Yamashita, Kazuo (Main) - Voice Actors: Ariotti, Philippe, Ribeiro, Hélio, Cho, Silverstein, Keith
Akiyama, Kaede (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Alves, Natália, Uchiyama, Yumi, Zidi, Marie, Harlacher, Erika
Bandou, Youhei (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Monteiro, Oziel, Kusumi, Naomi, Zavala, Ulises Maynardo, Silverstein, Keith
Gensai, Kuroki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Schnetzer, Ricardo, Genda, Tesshou, Sepenuk, Pete
Gizenga, Muteba (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Júnior, Malta, Kusunoki, Taiten
Hanafusa, Hajime (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Vila Verde, Fabrício, Ishida, Akira, Forlani, Stanislas, Kimerer, Erik
Hassad (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakurai, Takahiro, Santana, Wesley
Hatsumi, Sen (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Briggs, Guilherme, Hasuike, Ryuuzou, Smith, Christopher Corey
Hayami, Katsumasa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Vasconcellos, Jorge, Kanao, Tetsuo, Surugue, Gérard, Epcar, Richard
Himuro, Ryou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Müller, Daniel, Mizunaka, Masaaki, Hernandez, Joe
Imai, Cosmo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Enoki, Junya, Gesteira, Yan, Papenbrook, Bryce
Inaba, Ryo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Perissé, Matheus, Ogata, Megumi, Bosch, Johnny Yong
Kaneda, Suekichi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Vieira, Luiz Sérgio, Yusa, Kouji, Bourlé, Bastien, Kimerer, Erik
Kanou, Agito (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Barros, Gutemberg, Ootsuka, Akio, Hebert, Kyle
Katahara, Sayaka (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Menezes, Bia, Hirata, Mana, Combes, Caroline, Cabanos, Christine Marie
Katahara, Metsudou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Persy, Luiz Carlos, Shibata, Hidekatsu, Lévy, Gilbert, Ochman, Joe
Kiozan, Takeru (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Rocha, Bruno, Miyake, Kenta, Palafox, Jorge, Azzolino, Tony
Kiryuu, Setsuna (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Santhos, Leonardo, Namikawa, Daisuke, Haberkorn, Todd
Kouno, Haruo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Antas, Rodrigo, Mizushima, Daichuu, Saab, Alejandro
Kurayoshi, Rino (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Guioli, Aline, Toyosaki, Aki, Jean, Bérangère, Buhr, Reba
Kure, Raian (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Souza, Marcos, Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu, Papenbrook, Bryce
Kure, Karla (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Palomanes, Luisa, Kurosawa, Tomoyo, Bachère, Valérie, Cabanos, Christine Marie
Kureishi, Mitsuyo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kondo, Takashi
Matsuda, Tomoko (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Marie, Jeane, Koichi, Makoto, Cabanos, Christine Marie
Mikazuchi, Rei (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tupper, Yuri, Ono, Daisuke, Hernandez, Joe
Min, Long (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Khanthavixay, Eric
Nakata, Ichirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Júnior, Francisco, Kaneko, Hayato, Altché, Romain
Narrator (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Lopes, Guilherme, Tachiki, Fumihiko, Bretonnière, Marc, Beacock, Brian
Nogi, Hideki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Telles, Ricardo, Nakata, Jouji, Pizzuto, Michael
Ooya, Ken (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bernardo, Paulo, Urayama, Jin, Surugue, Gérard, Azzolino, Tony
Ranjou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugita, Tomokazu, Matos, Marcelo, Djukanovic, Ljubisav, Hernandez, Joe
Reinhold, Julius (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Araújo, Anderson, Shirokuma, Hiroshi, Sorich, Michael
Sekibayashi, Jun (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Berger, Maurício, Inada, Tetsu, Valmont, Philippe, Green, Jake
Shikano, Gen (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Rossatto, Ricardo, Ishii, Kouji, Prince, Derek Stephen
Souryuuin, Shion (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yukana, Schachter, Louise, Rousseau, Linsay
Takeshi, Wakatsuki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kase, Yasuyuki, Sierpe, Fernando, Bosch, Johnny Yong, Buhr, Reba, Martín Díaz, Luis Manuel
Togo, Tomari (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ghezzi, Aline, Kobayashi, Yuu, Zidi, Marie, Harlacher, Erika
Tokita, Niko (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Rausenberger, Emmanuel, Adriano, Peterson, Morikawa, Toshiyuki, Kraus, Kevin, Green, Jake
Tyson, Jerry (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Simões, Márcio, Masaru Barron, Matthew, Williams, Imari
Wongsawat, Gaolang (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ribeiro, Renan, Tsuda, Kenjirou, Wang, Howard
Yamamoto, Koishi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tokumoto, Eiichirou, Solo, Raúl, Dondi, Márcio, Sorich, Michael
Yoroizuka, Saw Paing (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hiyama, Nobuyuki, Mascarenhas, Fred, Kimerer, Erik
Yoshitake, Yoshirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Back, Flávio, Yamamoto, Kanehira, Le, Aleks
Yoshizawa, Kokomi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Maekawa, Ryouko, Cabanos, Christine Marie, Macêdo, Lhays

Staff:

Kishi, Seiji (Director)
Nonaka, Ato (Episode Director)
BAND-MAID (Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance)
SiM (Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition)
Buchholz, Bob (ADR Director)
Daromeon (Original Character Design)
Laisné, Grégory (ADR Director)
Morita, Kazuaki (Character Design)
Sandrovich, Yabako (Original Creator)
Santhos, Leonardo (ADR Director)
Takahashi, Tomoko (Executive Producer)
Takanashi, Yasuharu (Music)
Uezu, Makoto (Series Composition)

Reviews:

User niflh (Score: 10/10):
I rate this with extreme personal bias and zero objectivity, as I love Kengan Ashura and I've been waiting for this release for what seems like a lifetime. In all honesty, though, it definitely will need part 2 of the season to (hopefully) round things out. My sweet husbando Kaolan must have a sore back because he hard carried this season; in fact, I might argue you could watch the episode of his fight and the ass-end of ep 12 and you'd have not truly missed anything all that interesting by ignoring the rest. That said, I'd not take back bingeing it all in asingle night purely for how much I love Kengan Ashura and the fighting tournament style. nnObjectively: It was like 12 episodes of filler that really just rehashed things we'd already established in SE1. Still think the Kaolan fight ep is worth every other second, though.
User ASHURAas (Score: 9/10):
For me as a person who likes and deals with martial arts, this is everything I could wish for, so this anime will appeal mostly to people who like a good fight and a little bloodshed. And the fight between Kaolan and Agito is one of the best anime fights in my opinion because it is very realistic, but of course with a little more action than in real life. If you like a good story, you won't find it here, but of course each character is special in its own right, and we get to know them through the episodes. So if you watchedthe first season, I see no reason not to watch this one as well :)
User Cayusashi (Score: 6/10):
Kengen Ashura has returned with the first part of its second season and is exactly what you'd expect. Some good fights with way too many characters to actually follow what's going on. I must admit, going into this season I did not remember what had happened in the slightest from the first season and needed to watch a recap. I say this because this likely influences my opinion of the overall plot so take it with a relative grain of salt. That being said, Kengen Ashura is definitely a show that benefits from the binge watching model of Netflix. The large number or characters from fightersto CEOs each with their own goals makes for an overcomplicated plot. When it comes to a tournament arc there are already problems with having to introduce so many characters over a short span of time while trying to flesh out everybody's motivations for fighting. When the entire show has been released its storytelling would be able to shine, but as is I have no idea why I should care about the thirty fighters outside of their fights. The CEOs have even less attention given to them despite being the main antagonistic forces within the plot. Kengen Ashura is bloating itself with continuing to follow many of these fighters despite already being out of the tournament. This distracts from Ohma and Yamashita's conflicts and only leaves a couple episodes to actually explore what's going on. Theoretically this is great, plenty of characters to watch even after they're out of the tournament, but in reality they don't do anything. They're just present to commentate on matches as they're happening. Even the climax of this episode batch was lame outside of learning more about Ohma's Niko Style. The best part of the show is the fights and some of the character's backstories. I particularly enjoyed the blind monk vs professional wrestler match. Otherwise, the story is a good enough excuse to write a tournament arc. Nothing more. nnWith there being so many characters, at least some of them have to be good. Unfortunately there's only a few of note from this batch. The professional wrestler was the best written side character by a mile and the climax of his fight was perfect for his story. The only other fight of any particular note was Kaolan vs the Fang of Metsudo. Two of the best fighters in the series clashing was bound to have good results and the outcome of the fight led to some nice character depth for the Fang. Ohma and Yamashita do not matter whatsoever in these twelve episodes. They do basically nothing except sit in the hospital after the first season's finale and make a choice whether or not Ohma will continue to fight. We do learn more about what Ohma went through during his Niko Style training but it doesn't add much to the character himself. Niko is a relatively shallow good guy right now but we may get some more depth to…
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Genres: Action, Martial Arts
Themes: Martial Arts
Studios: Larx Entertainment
Producers: Netflix, Pony Canyon, Shogakukan
Rating: 7.65 / 10
Rank: #1465
Popularity: #3665
Users Listed: 44,624
Users Scored: 21,481
NSFW: No
Last Updated: 07/27/2024
Aired: September 21, 2023 (Summer)
Type: ona
Source: Web Manga
Age Rating: R
Episodes: 12

Kengan Ashura Season 2

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