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EponymousKid
Since: Jan, 2001
2011-04-22 19:34:58
If it helps, you're actually thinking about ImaginAsian. That said, really not sure - my best guess is Mai Hime.
asterselene
Since: Sep, 2009
cakeeee
Since: Apr, 2011
asterselene
Since: Sep, 2009
Mazz
Since: May, 2012
2011-04-30 18:50:59
Kurokami, Kiba or maybe Ayakashi Ayashi? (I haven't watched any of them, I just looked through Wikipedia's ImaginAsian page.)
Edited by Mazz

Anime that was playing on the ImaginAsian (ia) channel one day and now I for the life of me can't find it again.
The characters fight with magic-fighting. I think the characters got their powers from tattoos or from a seal that glowed on their bodies...I only saw one scene, where there was a girl (late teen-early twenties), extremely exhausted and weakened, fighting against this rather obviously-evil woman...exhausted and worn out, the girl drags herself over to stand in front of the woman and barely touches her fist to the woman's stomach. The woman says something like "Hah! You call that a punch?" and then the girl releases her power. (Note that this is the English dub.)
The opening looked interesting so I'm just curious what it is.
Edited by asterselene