History Anime / ShadowSkill

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Eva Stolla, Scar Face, and Crimson.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Kurudan monarchy.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Eva Stolla, Scar Face, and Crimson.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Elle, who was a DarkSkinnedBlond in the manga

* BerserkButton: Gau, Elle, and Diaz become filled with UnstoppableRage whenever someone they care for is threatened or injured.

* InASingleBound: Kurudan ''Sevalles'' and ''Valles''
* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:The inverted WifeHusbandry of Elle to her adopted younger brother Gau when they take a RelationshipUpgrade after her real older brother Diaz dies, since they're NotBloodSiblings after all.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Diaz Ragu

* KickChick: Elle Ragu.

A series of four [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA's]] made before and telling a different story than main series also exists, and was released in English speaking territories by Creator/MangaEntertainment, the first on is own as Shadow Skill: The Origin, and the other three [[CompilationMovie bundled together]] as Shadow Skill: The Movie.

* TheDeterminator: Even among warriors, the siblings Diaz and Ellie stand out. The former manages to AscendtoaHigherPlaneOfExistence, becoming a DeityOfHumanOrigin as the reward for being such, while the latter is used as the role model by the other such deities to inspire the main hero to transcend his limits and fulfill his potential.

* FirstLawOfResurrection: G, who [[UnexplainedRecovery came back]] as a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]] made of {{Paper Talisman}}s who was LivingOnBorrowedTime, so that he could get his [[UnfinishedBusiness revenge]] on Kuruda.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Elle. It's also the reason why she's in debt.

* HonorBeforeReason: The representative of the Holy Kingdom of Kishliana, Zel Zakulet forces Elle to kill him in a duel to the death when he seeks to avenge the honor of his father and mentor, the previous representative, who had also forced Elle to face him in a fight to the finish in her younger years.

* KiManipulation: Elle, Gau and the other Sevaar all use ki to boost and amplify their attacks and defenses.
* KlingonPromotion: To become king of Kuruda, a Sevalle must defeat the current king to become the High Sevalle and next in line to the throne.

* TookALevelInBadass: Gau, who successively goes from being the weakest fighter at the start of the TV series to arguably the most powerful (via his unprecedented mastery of Cannon) at the TV series' end.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: The last fight of the TV-series is mostly some kind of bizarre/symbolic flashback including gazelles for some reason. It's all very serious Fauxlosophic discussion about violence. Or something.

*** 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, Scar Face, 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 with the help of ThePowerOfFriendship of the rest of the main cast and becoming a true warrior.

Her adopted brother, Gau Ban, is another fighter using the Kuruda Annihilation Techniques, and seeks to surpass Elle. Also along for the ride are Faurink Maya, called Folli, a Sui Reme talisman user who acts as a sort of watchdog for Elle, providing the brains to her brawn, and Kyou Ryu, a Septia (those who catch demon beasts) who has a crush on Gau.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Even though Scarface and Crimson are the most powerful fighters in Kuruda, the former being next in line to succeed the King and the latter being the CourtMage and MasterSwordsman, they mostly do nothing substantial throughout the series to prevent/oppose the BigBad's plans, with the exception of trying (and failing) to capture Kain.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Len Fuma is the poster boy and fan club president.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Eva Stolla, Scarface, and Crimson.

** Played with with [[spoiler: Gau towards Scarface]], since he isn't aware that the latter is his older brother.
* BreakTheCutie: Darkness to Gau, at Scarface's request.

* FallenHero: The disgraced 58th Sevalle and Elle's immediate predecessor, G aka Kain Phalanx. A ChildProdigy who was potentially even more powerful than Scarface, he gradually [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity degenerated]] into an [[InsufferableGenius braggart]] who finally went [[TheUnfettered rogue]] and tried to short-cut the formal process of royal succession by attempting to assassinate Hawk Eyes.
* FinalBattle: The epic 3-part tv series finale.

* LoveTriangle: Low likes Kyou who like Gau who is more or less oblivious [[spoiler:He's secretly in love with Elle, who loves him back too -- at least in the extended anime remake of the OVA.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:In the TV series, Hawk Eyes is actually Kyuo's grand-uncle, being the twin brother of her deceased grandfather. In the manga, it is revealed that BigBad Shere Kahn is actually the biological father of both Scarface and Gau, making them either full-brothers or half-brothers.]]

* MeaningfulName: Each Sevalle who wins the Annual Royal Fighting Tournament is priviledged to choose their own codename, which will be their title. Scarface chose his name based on his famous [[ScarsAreForever scar]] that Crimson gave him; egomaniac G chose his name, because it was the 7th letter and thus "strongest" letter of Kuruda's alphabet (which is Latin!); and Black Wing aka Diaz, chose his name as it was also the name of his own personal weapon, the [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang boomerang]].

* MotionCaptureMecha: Subverted. A magical variant of this -- where a MasterSwordsman generates a mecha-sized {{Golem}} using his sword and manipulates it with said Sword ala Nintendo's Wii -- are used by the Holy Kingdoms of Kishiluna and Felisha.

* MysteriousProtector / SinkOrSwimMentor: Scarface

* OneManArmy / TheWarSequence: The Battle of Blorahan. Subverted in that EverybodyLives.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The former general/leader of Ashliana's rival nation, the massive-sized and massively-impoverished nation of Soulfan (who resents Ashliana's good fortune and blames Ashliana for it's own tragically low level of Souma), BadassNormal Master Leen, after resigning his position to go on secret fact-finding mission, tragically realizes too late that Ashliana is not really at fault at all for Soulfan's tragic predicament and Soulfan is actually merely being used by the BigBad in his plan to destroy Ashliana. However, he does manage to reveal vital info about the Soulfan invasion of Kuruda to Gau before he succumbs to grevious injuries from Ren Fuuma.
* RedheadInGreen: Kyou. All she needed was an Irish accent...

* StakingTheLovedOne: Scarface, when he was forced to stop his best friend G from killing Hawk Eyes.
* TeachHimAnger: Scarface's strategy for secretly training Gau. Subverted in that it is revealed that Gau was actually more powerful as a child when he was newly-orphaned and full of UnstoppableRage over the murder of his parents by bandits. Ironically, [[UpbringingMakesTheHero being]] with Elle has thoroughly mellowed him out to be too much of a NiceGuy that Low and even Elle calls him out on it.
* 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, souma has a finite supply limit, 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 superpowered inhabitants.
* TheDeterminator: Even among warriors, the siblings Diaz and Ellie stand out. The former manages to AscendtoaHigherPlaneOfExistence becoming a DeityOfHumanOrigin as the reward for being such, while the latter is used as the role model by the other such deities to inspire the main hero to transcend his limits and fulfill his potential.
* TheDragon: Ren Fuuma.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Subverted in the tv series finale, in as Gau is only able to both overcome his phobia of dying and defeat Ren Fuuma with the moral support and emotional encouragement of the rest of the main cast.
* TookALevelInBadass: Gau, who successively goes from being the weakest fighter at the start of the tv series to arguably the most powerful (via his unprecedented mastery of Cannon) at the tv series end.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: The last fight of the TV-series is mostly some kind of bizarre/symbolic flashback including giraffes for some reason. It's all very serious Fauxlosophic discussion about violence. Or something.
** Actually it's all about Gau learning to face his fear of death in order to be able to move forward and beat Ren Fuuma, which he does by being inspired through the example of Elle.
*** 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 with the help of ThePowerOfFriendship of the rest of the main cast and becoming a true warrior.

* YouLeaveHimAlone: Diaz to Scarface over Gau, as Diaz opposes Scarface's tough-love shock-therapy approach to Gau's martial education.

* FallenHero: The disgraced 58th Sevalle and Elle's immediate predecessor, G aka Kain Phalanx. A ChildProdigy who was potentially even more powerful than Scarface, he gradually [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity degenerated]] into an [[InsufferableGenius braggart]] who finally went [[TheUnfettered rogue]] and tried to short-cut the formal process of royal succession by attempting to assassinate Hawk Eye.

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

* HeroicSecondWind: A fair number of Gau’s one-on-one battles seem to involve him getting utterly pummelled by his opponent only for someone/something to inspire him to get up and end the fight in a single blow.
* HonorBeforeReason: The representative of the Holy Kingdom of Kishulana, Zel Zakulet forces Elle to kill him in a duel to the death when he seeks to avenge the honor of his father and mentor, the previous representative, who also forced Elle to face him in a fight to the finish in her younger years.

* InformedAbility: Iba Stol (Hawk Eye) is the king of Kuruda, but the only time we see him in battle he gets winded from ''one attack'' from Ren Fuuma.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:in the tv series, Hawk Eye is actually Kyo's grand-uncle, being the identical twin-brother of her deceased grandfather. In the manga, it is revealed that BigBad Shere Kahn is actually the biological father of both Scarface and Gau, making them either full-brothers or half-brothers.]]

* StakingTheLovedOne: Scarface, when he was forced to stop his best friend G from killing Hawk Eye.

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

Shadow Skill is a {{Manga}} by Megumu Okada that ran from 1992 – 1996, with an {{Anime}} adaption airing first in Japan in 1998 and released in english by Creator/ADVFilms in 2005. Booth 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.

* HeroicSecondWind: A fair number of Gau’s one-on-one battles seem to involve him getting utterly pummelled by his opponent only for someone/something to inspire him to get up and end the battle in a single blow.

* CuteMonsterGirl: The Holy kingdom of Likitoa is a forest nation of feline PettingZooPeople, as exemplified by their champion, Kyla Lu Luka.

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

** Megumi Hayashibara actually get a chance to sing it in episode 13. She's supposed to be singing it as if she isn't a singer but she's obviously failing.

* BadassGrandpa: Iba Stol and his identical twin brother Jin Stol are supposed to be this.

* CrowningMomentofAwesome: All of the major characters manages to get at least one.

* AllPowerfulBystander - Even though Scarface and Crimson are the most powerful fighters in Kuruda, the former being next in line to succeed the King and the latter being the CourtMage and MasterSwordsman, they mostly do nothing substantial throughout the series to prevent/oppose the BigBad's plans, with the exception of trying (and failing) to capture Kain.
* AmazonianBeauty - Elle has a slender though very muscular physique.
* AnimeThemeSong - Surprisingly NOT by Music/MegumiHayashibara.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy - Len Fuma is the poster boy and fan club president.
* AshFace - In the first episode, Elle gets engulfed in the flames of a fire attack and is left charred black, only to shake it off and complain about her hair being ruined.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority - The Kurudan monarchy.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking - Eva Stolla, Scarface, and Crimson.
* BadassGrandpa - Iba Stol and his identical twin brother Jin Stol are supposed to be this.
* TheBeastMaster - The native magic style of Ashliana's rival, Soulfan. Gana Greeg, their champion is a Type 3.
* BerserkButton - Gau, Elle, and Diaz become filled with UnstoppableRage whenever someone they care for is threatened or injured.
* BigBad - Shere Kahn, Ren Fuuma's boss, who is also HeWhoMustNotBeSeen.
* BigBrotherInstinct - Somewhat inverted in Elle to Gau, played straight with actual siblings Diaz and Elle.
* BigBrotherWorship - Elle to Diaz, somewhat inverted with Gau to Elle.

* BreakTheCutie - Darkness to Gau, at Scarface's request.
* BrokeEpisode - Elle manages to drink away most of her money.
* CallingYourAttacks - Required for Kuruda Annhilation Techniques.
* CardGames - Faury's magic style is ''Franchise/YuGiOh''-style summoning and spell-casting.
* ColonyDrop - The BigBad's plan to destroy Kuruda in the tv series finale with a magical mountain-size meteorite.
* CrowningMomentofAwesome - All of the major characters manages to get at least one.
* CuteMonsterGirl - The Holy kingdom of Likitoa is a forest nation of feline PettingZooPeople, as exemplified by their champion, Kyla Lu Luka.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead - Elle, who was a DarkSkinnedBlond in the manga
* 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, as Gau managed to evade a single strike, so the technique was not completed on him, but even then, he was already beaten to within an inch of his life.
* DefeatMeansFriendship - Virtually every surviving fighter in the series. To be expected since it's a warrior culture after all.
* DiedStandingUp - [[spoiler:Diaz.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome - [[spoiler:Diaz's]] last stand against [[TheGrimReaper Darkness]], the immortal, beyond-superhuman embodiment of humanity's fear of death, as well as his corresponding posthumous award of the highest honor of the title of Sword of Ashliana [[spoiler: which which results in being resurrected and transformed into an unkillable immortal just like Darkness.]]
* ElementalPowers - The Holy Kingdom of Likitoa uses this.
* FallenHero - The disgraced 58th Sevalle and Elle's immediate predecessor, G aka Kain Phalanx. A ChildProdigy who was potentially even more powerful than Scarface, he gradually [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity degenerated]] into an [[InsufferableGenius braggart]] who finally went [[TheUnfettered rogue]] and tried to short-cut the formal process of royal succession by attempting to assassinate Hawk Eye.
* FinalBattle - The epic 3-part tv series finale.
* FinishingMove - Also doubles as DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Cannon for the Shadow Skill and Kuga/Krueger for the Yin Style.
* FirstLawOfResurrection - G, who [[UnexplainedRecovery came back]] as a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]] composed of PaperTalisman 's who was LivingOnBorrowedTime, until he could get his [[UnfinishedBusiness revenge]] on Kuruda.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl - Elle. It's also the reason why she's in debt.
* HannibalLecture - Virtually every fighter does this, ''except'' Gau.
* HonorBeforeReason - The representative of the Holy Kingdom of Kishulana, Zel Zakulet forces Elle to kill him in a duel to the death when he seeks to avenge the honor of his father and mentor, the previous representative, who also forced Elle to face him in a fight to the finish in her younger years.
* InASingleBound - Kurudan ''Sevalles'' and ''Valles''
* [[spoiler:IncestIsRelative - The inverted WifeHusbandry of Elle to her adopted younger brother Gau when they take a RelationshipUpgrade after her real older brother Diaz dies, since they're NotBloodSiblings after all.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath - Diaz Ragu
* InformedAbility - Iba Stol (Hawk Eye) is the king of Kuruda, but the only time we see him in battle he gets winded from ''one attack'' from Ren Fuuma.

* KickChick - Elle Ragu.

* KlingonPromotion - To become king of Kuruda, a Sevalle must defeat the current king to become the High Sevalle and next in line to the throne.
* LoveTriangle - Low likes Kyou who like Gau who is more or less oblivious [[spoiler:He's secretly in love with Elle, who loves him back too -- at least in the extended anime remake of the OVA.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather - [[spoiler:in the tv series, Hawk Eye is actually Kyo's grand-uncle, being the identical twin-brother of her deceased grandfather. In the manga, it is revealed that BigBad Shere Kahn is actually the biological father of both Scarface and Gau, making them either full-brothers or half-brothers.]]
* MartialArtsAndCrafts - To a degree, with the Martial Arts Language.
* MeaningfulName - Each Sevalle who wins the Annual Royal Fighting Tournament is priviledged to choose their own codename, which will be their title. Scarface chose his name based on his famous [[ScarsAreForever scar]] that Crimson gave him; egomaniac G chose his name, because it was the 7th letter and thus "strongest" letter of Kuruda's alphabet (which is Latin!); and Black Wing aka Diaz, chose his name as it was also the name of his own personal weapon, the [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang boomerang]].
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy - The Holy Nation of Ashliana and the four kingdoms within it are very reminiscent of the classic MedievalEuropeanFantasy, with noticeably less bladed weapons.
* MissedTheCall - Subverted with Diaz, who sacrificed his sure-shot at being Sevalle to become a highly-paid mercenary to be able to cure his sister's fatal disease, even if he ended up a diseased cripple.
* MotionCaptureMecha - Subverted. A magical variant of this -- where a MasterSwordsman generates a mecha-sized {{Golem}} using his sword and manipulates it with said Sword ala Nintendo's Wii -- are used by the Holy Kingdoms of Kishiluna and Felisha.
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe - Elle's motivation for becoming a martial artist in the first place, to repay her brother for his sacrifices on her behalf.
* MysteriousProtector / SinkOrSwimMentor - Scarface
* NamesTheSame - [[Literature/TheJungleBook Shere Khan?]]
* TheOneGuy - Gau in the central ensemble. Note that there are FAR more males than females in the series overall, but within the band, Gau is the only male.
* OneManArmy / TheWarSequence - The Battle of Blorahan. Subverted in that EverybodyLives.
* OneWingedAngel - Darkness, who transforms from a short-haired blonde to a long-haired brunette (sort of like a reverse Super Saiyan).
* PapaWolf - Diaz to his younger sister Elle and surrogate younger brother Gau.
* PowerBornOfMadness - G's StartOfDarkness.
* PromotionToParent - Diaz to Elle, Elle to the orphaned Gau.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath - The former general/leader of Ashliana's rival nation, the massive-sized and massively-impoverished nation of Soulfan (who resents Ashliana's good fortune and blames Ashliana for it's own tragically low level of Souma), BadassNormal Master Leen, after resigning his position to go on secret fact-finding mission, tragically realizes too late that Ashliana is not really at fault at all for Soulfan's tragic predicament and Soulfan is actually merely being used by the BigBad in his plan to destroy Ashliana. However, he does manage to reveal vital info about the Soulfan invasion of Kuruda to Gau before he succumbs to grevious injuries from Ren Fuuma.
* RedheadInGreen - Kyou. All she needed was an Irish accent...
* RingsOfDeath - Kyuo's chulinks.
* TheRival - Low to Gau, they even have corresponding battle names, White Lightning and Black Howling, respectively.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS - Faury/Folli/Folly, for just one example. The whole series liberally mixes the pronunciation and spelling of "s" and "l" in both the manga and the anime ova and tv series.
* StakingTheLovedOne - Scarface, when he was forced to stop his best friend G from killing Hawk Eye.
* TeachHimAnger - Scarface's strategy for secretly training Gau. Subverted in that it is revealed that Gau was actually more powerful as a child when he was newly-orphaned and full of UnstoppableRage over the murder of his parents by bandits. Ironically, [[UpbringingMakesTheHero being]] with Elle has thoroughly mellowed him out to be too much of a NiceGuy that Low and even Elle calls him out on it.
* 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, souma has a finite supply limit, 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 superpowered inhabitants.
* TheDeterminator - Even among warriors, the siblings Dias and Ellie stand out. The former manages to AscendtoaHigherPlaneofExistence becoming a DeityofHumanOrigin as the reward for being such, while the latter is used as the role model by the other such deities to inspire the main hero to transcend his limits and fulfill his potential.
* TheDragon - Ren Fuuma.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself - Subverted in the tv series finale, in as Gau is only able to both overcome his phobia of dying and defeat Ren Fuuma with the moral support and emotional encouragement of the rest of the main cast.
* TookALevelInBadass - Gau, who successively goes from being the weakest fighter at the start of the tv series to arguably the most powerful (via his unprecedented mastery of Cannon) at the tv series end.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome - The last fight of the TV-series is mostly some kind of bizarre/symbolic flashback including giraffes for some reason. It's all very serious Fauxlosophic discussion about violence. Or something.

* UpbringingMakesTheHero - Subverted. Ironically, Gau's happy life with Elle is what's said to have caused Gau to weaken as a warrior. [[spoiler:Played straight in later arcs in the manga, where it's revealed the infant Gau was secretly placed with his foster parents, who were simple farmers, to prevent him from becoming evil like his biological father, Shere Kahn.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy - Kain to Gau, when he comes back as a ghost to help against Ren in the tv series finale.
* YouLeaveHimAlone - Diaz to Scarface over Gau, as Diaz opposes Scarface's tough-love shock-therapy approach to Gau's martial education.

A series of four [[OVA's OriginalVideoAnimation]] made before and telling a different story than main series also exists, and was released in English speaking territories by Creator/MangaEntertainment, the first on is own as Shadow Skill: The Origin, and the other three [[CompilationMovie bundled together]] as Shadow Skill: The Movie.

Shadow Skill is an {{Anime}} series that aired first in Japan in 1998 and was dubbed for the USA by Creator/ADVFilms 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.

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

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

->''"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 Creator/ADVFilms 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.