History Anime / ShadowSkill

* {{Badass}} - Anyone they bothered to come up with a name for. Notably Elle, Diaz, Ren, and later, Gau himself.

* HeyItsThatVoice - Music/MegumiHayashibara is cast as Elle. If you've watched ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', Elle's first few minutes on-screen will give you serious deja vu vibes.
** The English version provides an instantly recognizible Creator/GregAyres as Gau. Creator/LuciChristian, despite putting on a rarely-heard husky voice, is only slightly less recognizible as Elle.

* HeyItsThatVoice - Music/MegumiHayashibara is cast as Elle. If you've watched {{Slayers}}, Elle's first few minutes on-screen will give you serious deja vu vibes.

* AnimeThemeSong - Surprisingly NOT by MegumiHayashibara.

* HeyItsThatVoice - MegumiHayashibara is cast as Elle. If you've watched {{Slayers}}, Elle's first few minutes on-screen will give you serious deja vu vibes.

* MegumiHayashibara - Elle Ragu

* TheDeterminator - Even among warriors, the siblings Dias and Ellie stand out. The former manages to AscendtoaHigherPlaneofExistence becoming a DietyofHumanOrigin as a reward for being such, while the latter is used as the role model to inspire the main hero to transcend his limits and fulfill his potential.

* TerminallyDependentSociety - The wealth and prosperity of the Holy Kingdom of Ashliana (composed of the FloatingContinent capital city of Juliannes and it's surrounding border city-states of Kuruda, Kishiluna, Felisha, and Likitoa) is due to it's unnaturally-high levels of [[TheLifeStream Souma]] which is a result of the regular periodic manifestations of Ashliana's patron diety, Lunalis Umbra, Lord of the Moonshadow. However, soma is in finite supply, and should it run low and fail to be replenished (as it was in the tv series when Lunalis Umbra was prevented from returning for a prolonged period of time, as he could only visit the earthly plane during the New Moon), widespread intense famine and heat-drought resulted and there was a general [[BroughtDownToNormal decline]] in the overall physical and magical abilities of Ashliana's inhabitants.

*** Foreshadowed by Darkness and expounded by Ren Fuuma. Basically a beast fights for survival, it needs no other reason and does not fear battle. Its primal instincts are its battle skills, it has no need for fancy combat techniques. Darkness, Kain Phalanx, Scarface, Elle Ragu, Len Fuma, and several others have told Gau he needs to become a beast to survive combat with the opponents he faces. The montage is Gau finally realizing this for himself and becoming a true warrior.

* FinishingMove - Also doubles as DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Cannon for the Shadow Skill and Kruger for the Yin Style.

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** The English version provides an instantly recognizible GregAyres as Gau. LuciChristian, despite putting on a rarely-heard husky voice, is only slightly less recognizible as Elle.

* TearJerker - Episode 21. You will cry ManlyTears.

* MagnificentBastard - Scarface. Even his wife agrees with the assessment!

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-->''"I am invincible. My Shadow Skills... '''perfectly honed'''. The power of my blow... [[PunctuatedForEmphasis HAS. NO. EQUAL]]!"''

-->''"I am invicible. No one can defeat my Shadow Skill. My one single blow is invicible!"'' (Japanese sub).

Shadow Skill is an {{Anime}} series that aired first in Japan in 1998 and was dubbed by ADV Films in 2005. It tells the story of the first-ever female Kuruda Sevaar Elle Ragu and her adopted brother Gau Ban and their adventures as they fight in a world of honour, magic, and fearsome enemies.

!!''ShadowSkill'' provides examples of:

* BigBrotherComplex - Somewhat inverted in Elle to Gau, played straight with actual siblings Diaz and Elle.

* CardGames - Faury's magic style is YuGiOh-style summoning and spell-casting.

* NamesTheSame - [[JungleBook Shere Khan?]]

-->''"I am invincible. My Shadow Skills... '''perfectly honed'''. The power of my blow... [[ThisIsSPARTA HAS. NO. EQUAL]]!"''

* BeyondTheImpossible - Gau and Elle both strive for this with varying levels of success.

* AnimeThemeSong - Surprisingly NOT by Megumi Hayashibara.

* FirstLawOfResurrection - G, who [[IGotBetter came back]] as a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]] composed of PaperTalisman 's who was LivingOnBorrowedTime, until he could get his [[UnfinishedBusiness revenge]] on Kuruda.

* DeathEqualsRedemption - Kain, who was finally restored to [[DyingAsYourself sanity]] after he was forced to fight Gau in a lucid state, when Gau managed to survive his G's seven-part killing attack, which should have killed him (Gau managed to evade a single strike).

* DyingMomentOfAwesome - Diaz's last stand against [[TheGrimReaper Darkness]], the immortal, beyond-superhuman embodiment of humanity's fear of death, as well as Diaz correspondingly being posthumously awarded the highest honor of the title of Sword of Ashliana (which includes being resurrected and transformed into an unkillable immortal just like Darkness.)

*** Foreshadowed by Darkness and expounded by Ren Fuuma. Basically a beast fights for survival, it needs no other reason and does not fear battle. Its instincts are its battle skills, it has no need for fancy kung fu techniques. Darkness, Kain Phalanx, Scarface, Elle Ragu, Len Fuma, and several others have told Gau he needs to become a beast to survive combat with the opponents he faces. The montage is Gau finally realizing this for himself and becoming a true warrior.

-->-- '''Mantra said before unleashing some''' '''''serious''''' '''ass-kicking.'''