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** Taekwondo doesn't have a Master... Because it's a very recent style, dating to after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the end of the Japanese occupation, during which Korean martial arts were suppressed. Ki-using practitioners are very rare even in styles that do have Masters to teach the new generations, and it's likely Kisara is the first with the talent to become a Master.
** Judo too doesn't have Masters in spite of a clear lineage from Jujitsu... But it also turned itself in a sport in 1925. If it had Master-level fighters they left when the new competition rules were approved, and being a sport new ones failed to emerge. [[CantCatchUp Ukita, of all people]], is the last known chance for Judo to have a proper Master.
** Muay Thai too is a combat sport but has Apachai and Agaard... But they come from the ''underground'', where it remained closer to the traditional styles (and they both explicitely practice Muay Boran, though Apachai doesn't teach it to Kenichi).
** Savate, Karate and Boxing are well known as sports, but Christopher Eclair and the Karate masters explicitely practice the pre-sportivization styles (it's the whole reason Sasaki is at Ryozanpaku), and Boxing has a long history as street fighting, with the sport rules being a result of the betting, allowing it to preserve its Masters.
** ''Lucha Libre'' has a Master, and one of the highest-ranked members of Yami at that. Lucha Libre and all forms of professional wrestling are the direct and spiritual descendants of Pankration, the first martial art and one of the earliest spectator combat sports - Diego Carlo's predecessors were almost certainly Pankration practitioners that adopted new guises and traditions to preserve the art in spite of the Roman suppression of it, eventually arriving in Mexico and their Masters adopted Lucha Libre as their "mask".
*** In addition to the above, Diego and Rachel had their first major role during the D of D arc and worked closely with Fortuna, a Pankration practitioner, and Rachel finds actual Pankration oddly familiar - and just in case has ''far'' more effective techniques she just doeesn't like using in public.
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** Akisame's dismissive attitude is easily explained: Ryozanpaku is a place for masters that practice martial arts not turned into sports, and that's exactly what happened to Judo, with groundfighting techniques being severely limited after 1925 and striking techniques being outright banned outside kata.
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** As for why Daimonji was invited in the club... Tsukuba was scouting him for Ragnarok. And while nowhere near as good a fighter as even Tsukuba himself, Daimonji's raw strength still made him superior to most of Ragnarok's goons.
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* Ma Kensei and Renka stand out among Ryozanpaku's members and affiliates in that they are actually willing to kill under certain circumstances. They're also direct transplants from the Wuxia genre (the Phoenix Alliance being a Sect, if a very large one, of which Kensei is the Patriarch, while Renka is close to a Wandering Hero), in which the protagonists do in fact kill, and their affiliation with the Katsujinken practitioners comes from the fact they don't kill unless strictly demanded by honor.
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* Ma Kensei and Renka stand out among Ryozanpaku's members and affiliates in that they are actually willing to kill under certain circumstances. They're also direct transplants from the Wuxia genre (the Phoenix Alliance being a Sect, if a very large one, of which Kensei is the Patriarch, while Renka is close to a Wandering Hero), in which the protagonists do in fact kill, and their affiliation with the Katsujinken practitioners comes from the fact they don't kill unless strictly demanded by honor.honor and necessity.
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* The majority of the Master-class weapon users is armed with Western weapons. This is because of guns: their development outside Europe and European colonies stagnated with gunpowder-using matchlock smoothbore muskets around the 17th century while in Europe it progressed. As such European martial artists were able to adapt to the various innovations as they appeared, while Asiatic martial artists remained used to weak and inaccurate matchlocks and were decimated in the 19th century when they suddenly faced European and American armies carrying far more powerful weapons, leaving alive only those who for some reason hadn't been at the frontlines such as ninjas (like Shigure and her master plus the Kuremisago) and staff users.
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* The majority of the Master-class weapon users is armed with Western weapons. This is because of guns: their development outside Europe and European colonies stagnated with gunpowder-using matchlock smoothbore muskets around the 17th century while in Europe and its colonies it progressed. progressed, first slowly and then, through the 19th century, much faster. As such European martial artists were able to adapt to the various innovations as they appeared, while Asiatic martial artists remained used to weak and inaccurate matchlocks and were decimated in the 19th century when they suddenly faced European and American armies carrying far more powerful and faster-firing weapons, leaving alive only those who for some reason hadn't been at the frontlines such as ninjas (like Shigure and her master plus the Kuremisago) and staff users.
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* In the seventh OVA episode, Boris's analysis of Kenichi is represented by a penguin: a creature with no aptitude for killing ("neither claws nor fangs"), but which can survive (and even thrive) in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
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* In the seventh OVA episode, Boris's analysis of Kenichi is represented by a penguin: a short creature with no aptitude for killing ("neither claws nor fangs"), but which can survive (and even thrive) in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
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* The majority of the Master-class weapon users is armed with Western weapons. This is because of guns: their development outside Europe and European colonies stagnated with gunpowder-using matchlock smoothbore muskets around the 17th century while in Europe it progressed. As such European martial artists were able to adapt to the various innovations as they appeared, while Asiatic martial artists remained used to weak and inaccurate matchlocks and were decimated in the 19th century when they suddenly faced European and American armies carrying far more powerful weapons.
weapons, leaving alive only those who for some reason hadn't been at the frontlines such as ninjas (like Shigure and her master plus the Kuremisago) and staff users.
** On the other hand, unarmed fighters practicing Eastern styles remain numerous even at the Master class... Likely for the same reason: when the Europeans armed with modern guns invaded they weren't at the frontlines, so they had the chance to adapt and learn how to face them - the eventual result being the hilariously one-sided fight between the Ryozanpaku masters and Fortuna's troops.
** On the other hand, unarmed fighters practicing Eastern styles remain numerous even at the Master class... Likely for the same reason: when the Europeans armed with modern guns invaded they weren't at the frontlines, so they had the chance to adapt and learn how to face them - the eventual result being the hilariously one-sided fight between the Ryozanpaku masters and Fortuna's troops.
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* The majority of the Master-class weapon users is armed with Western weapons. This is because of guns: their development outside Europe and European colonies stagnated with gunpowder-using matchlock smoothbore muskets around the 17th century while in Europe it progressed. As such European martial artists were able to adapt to the various innovations as they appeared, while Asiatic martial artists remained used to weak and inaccurate matchlocks and were decimated when they suddenly faced European and American armies carrying far more powerful weapons.
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* During the D of D Rachel doesn't like how pragmatically the Pankration team fights but finds herself appreciating them for some reason she can't place. That would be because Pankration is the spiritual ancestor of Lucha Libre, being the first martial art whose competition had clear rules that included both striking and grappling and being a spectator sport at the Olympic Games and other sacred games - though the dangerous life in Ancient Greece meant they couldn't afford any flashy move. She had likely been told about it but couldn't consciously recall during the tournament.
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* Ma Kensei and Renka stand out among Ryozanpaku's members and affiliates in that they are actually willing to kill under certain circumstances. They're also direct transplants from the Wuxia genre (the Phoenix Alliance being a Sect, if a very large one, of which Kensei is the Patriarch, while Renka is close to a Wandering Hero), in which the protagonists do in fact kill, and their affiliation with the Katsujinken practitioners comes from the fact they don't kill unless strictly demanded by honor.
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** The Ma brothers actually said something like this out loud after their fight in Chinatown where Kensei quickly gained the upper hand. Sogetsu asked how was it possible when the last time they had met they had been equals, and Kensei explained that Sogetsu trained alone while Kensei trained with friends at Ryozanpaku: Kensei has sparring partners and Sogetsu doesn't. In fact the members of One Shadow Nine Fists are ''banned'' from fighting each other in any way, a safety measure given they tend to fight to the death and some are unable to pull their punches... But it also means they get much less practice.
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* The unarmed members of Yami on average have better moral compasses than their armed counterparts. Arbitrary? No: a fight involving Satsujinken weapon users ends with someone dead or maimed by default while unarmed ones can at least choose to not kill and mutilate their opponents, members of the Armed Division have got themselves desensitized to killing and maiming.
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* When Tirawit takes over the Koryu High Karate Club he deems Daimonji as useless in spite of his strenght and muscles, that he got by himself and are the reason he was ''invited'' in the Karate Club... Or maybe ''because'' of those muscles: those muscles were known to slow him down and by the time Tirawit takes over they're still there to slow him down in spite of a year of Karate, he likely deemed him too stupid to be useful.
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* Early on Miu teaches Kenichi a throwing technique to win a ''Karate'' spar, something that, as Daimonji points out, you're not supposed to do in Karate... But that's only in ''Japanese'' Karate styles and under sports rules, the original Okinawan forms (and a few Japanese ones) maintain throwing and grappling. Considering Miu lives with Sakaki, an expert of all styles of Karate, she likely wasn't aware of the difference.
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** To make it more horrifying, he's a ''Sei'' ki user, meaning he fights with ''calm and clarity''.
