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Once fueled by the rage, inner peace now serves as the vehicle for the mighty warrior most powerful form!

[otakupulse]

📣 Kaiju No. 8 - Episodes 1-12 (Dubbed) Available Now! 🦖💥

Brace yourself for the thrilling action of Kaiju No. 8! All 12 episodes of Season 1 are now available in English dub. 🌟 Follow Kafka Hibino, an ordinary man with a dream of fighting giant monsters, who becomes one himself! 💥 This anime delivers jaw-dropping battles, powerful kaiju, and an intense story of a man caught between two worlds. If you're a fan of monster mayhem, heart-pounding action, and epic transformations, this is one series you don’t want to miss! Click the link to start watching now! 📺🔥

Link is below 👇

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Get ready for a kaiju showdown! 🦸‍♂️💣

[thepersonaofwill]

Chun-Li gets deep scratches 🪝

Street Fighter 5

[wickedrealitygaming]

Holiday Gaming Party @The Green Bean!

Don't miss out; we're ending the year with our Gate City Grapple holiday gaming party at The Green Bean! Gamers, non-gamers, and spectators of all ages and levels are welcome!

For the anime gamer enthusiast, we have GateKeep, a Japanese artist specializing in fighting, rhythm, and trading card game art. https://pleasegatekeep.carrd.co/

Sign Up: https://www.start.gg/tournament/holiday-gaming-party-the-green-bean/details

Tournaments will start at 1:00 p.m.

12pm - Doors Open / Registration Open

1pm - Street Fighter 6 [PS5 / PS4]

2pm - Guilty Gear –Strive- [PS4]

4pm - Doors close TBD

[plrod]

POOCHIE UCHIHA! Ever seen a dog in cosplay? This probably the cutest photo shoot I’ve gotten to do! Like and share if you want to see more of Poochie Uchiha! #naruto #narutocosplay #akatsuki #hokage #akatsukicosplay #hokagecosplay #anime #narutoshippuden #itachi #uchiha #sasuke #animefights #dogcosplay #dogcostume #animedog (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-9T6ArLib/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[animedegens]

Welp, Ggs. What wallpapers do yall have?

Our Podcast- https://linktr.ee/Animedegens

Join our anime discord- https://discord.gg/6cX9rHGTp7

#anime #animewallpaper #onepiece #animefights

[mikeytriangles]

Who did it better? Aoki from #hajimenoippo or @sudogenki in his fight with @masato.official ? #thelookaway #lookaway #ippo #aoki #genkisudo #sudogenki #masato #anime #boxing #kickboxing #k1 #k1grandprix #mma #bjj #jiujitsu #wrestling #muaythai #martialarts #mixedmartialarts #fighting #animefights #animefight #animefightscene (at American Top Team D'Iberville, MS) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpO4VLQMGkS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[freshthoughts2020]

[otakupulse]

📣 Viral Hit - Season 1: Episodes 1-12 (Dubbed) Available Now! 🎥🔥

Get ready for a knockout ride with Viral Hit! All 12 episodes of Season 1 are now dubbed in English. 🌟 Follow the journey of Hobin Yoo, a high schooler who turns his life around by sharing viral videos of his insane street fights. 💥 With action-packed scenes, intense martial arts, and a plot full of unexpected twists, this anime is perfect for fans of adrenaline-pumping stories and viral fame. Don't miss out—click the link and start watching now! 📺🥊

The link is below 👇

Here is the link, (Watch the Full 12 Dubbed Episodes) 👉 Click Me Otaku 👈

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Get ready to go viral! 🚀💥

[nemesiscloudart]

ClashTitans: Ichigo vs. Byakuya in the ultimate showdown! #BleachRematch #EpicBattle #AnimeFight

🔥⚔️ ClashTitans: Ichigo vs. Byakuya in the ultimate showdown! #BleachRematch #EpicBattle #AnimeFight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KA8bmScl0 via Nemesis Cloud Art https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY8fXg4HgP3jJceHHqbnUaQ June 18, 2024 at 03:41PM

[thepersonaofwill]

Wonder Woman fights an intense battle ⚔🛡

It's always great to see Diana in action since she's incredible at combat 🔥

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Baiken and Bedman; Arhat and Bodhisattva

Guilty Gear is a prolific fighting game franchise from Japan developed by Daisuke Ishiwatari and the game company Arcsystemworks. Throughout its 25 year run it has been praised mostly for its soundtrack, its tight fast combat, its heavy metal aesthetic and for pioneering the now commonplace "animefighter" look, first with its 2d sprite artwork and later with their now signature 3d models that try to imitate 2d artwork. For being such gameplay-focused games, Guilty Gear does actually discuss a lot of interesting themes and questions within its story modes, character design and music. I want to talk about two characters specifically, those being the unfaltaring awakaned samurai Baiken and the error-prone guardian machine Bedman, how those two characters were developed in the iteration Strive and how both are way more similar than usual.

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Wielding her opponent's strength as her own

Baiken was one of the original playable characters in the first Guilty Gear game, the missing link. A rough looking samurai, Baiken's family and entire japanese colony were massacred when she was still a child by the series main antagonist, who also left her alive but seriously mutilated. Her personal journey is one of violence and vengeance, she made her objective to hunt down and kill That Man, no matter the collateral damage or how much she has to suffer. Very little changed between the years, that was until she met a little girl called Delilah, who similarly was on her own path of revenge. Confronted with the possibility of helping a girl not unlike her past self avoid the road she now treads upon, Baiken reconsiders her own purpose in life.

Fighting heedless of its own destruction

Bedman now only refers to a broken robotic bed. In past games, however, Bedman was actually Delilah's big brother, Romeo. Both were born with a rare condition that, altough gave them hyper-intelligence and psychic capabilities, also forced them to control their own powers through great suffering. Romeo in particular had to be constantly sleeping otherwise his waking brain would "fry his entire body alive". Driven by the dream of creating a perfect world, where neither he or his sister would ever have to suffer again, Bedman would appear in Guilty Gear Xrd as an apocalyptic threat, a herald of the "absolute world", before being killed in the game's climax. Now only his broken (and allegedly possesed) bedframe remains.

Why Baiken and Bedman are the same character and what it means to escape the cycle

Superficially, there already a lot of similarities one can make between the two of them. Both are missing an eye as well as having their right arm severed and broken. Both fight aggresively and unrelentlessly, described in-game as "someone who actually wants to die during the match". Both endep up being Delilah's main parental figures. But it runs deeper than that. Both of them were introduced as secondary antagonists in their respective debuts, and stayed as overall morally grey characters, although Baiken was a full-on anti-hero while Bedman was more of a well-intentioned villain. Both had similar personal justifications for whatever atrocity they might be forced to commit to reach their goals; Baiken believed in budhist karma, and embraced all the bad karma her actions generated, fully accepting whatever torture would come her way if it meant getting the opportunity to get revenge, her actions were justified because whatever she did to other people, fate would do to her; Bedman realized that creating his absolute world would mean him getting full control of it, for every person he killed he would remember their names and details so he could later bring them back to life in the absolute world, he would do anything as long as it was for his sister, his actions were justified because whatever he took away, he would later force fate to give back. Both characters were stuck in a vicious circle of progressively worse violence, unwilling to escape due to their own personal beliefs, a circle that they wouldn't escape from until the events of Strive. Based primarily on their theme songs, its my personal theory that the circle both characters find themselves into could also well mean the Samsara, the circle of life and death. Lets start with Baiken:

Mirror of the world (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUlN4PkxqsM)

If that's what you call karma then I must be a demon

Baiken's theme has a literal budhist prayer as part of its lyrics, so it makes sense to start here.  The song showcases what we already know, that she is a karmic demon, willing to cut all ties with the living world to get revenge. She doesn't understand people loving and caring for her, as she has already come to terms with her own tragic demise as she sees herself as nothing more than a ghost of the past haunting the present. But at some point that changes. After meeting Delilah and convincing her that a life pursuing vengeance is not worth it and that she should never start that journey, Delilah on her part asks her if she can instead stay with her. Having family, for the first time since her childhood, awakens something in Baiken and forces her to make a decision. Being sure that staying in the cycle could in some way harm Delilha, Baiken foregoes revenge, she gives up on violence, she realizes that after all, there was always another way. She realizes that without that objective, she now needs to face her biggest challenge, finding true meaning in life. Although only explicitly about Baiken escaping the violent cycle of vengeance, there are strong budhist themes in Mirror of the world apart from the prayer, those being the idea of the destruction of the self to reach enlightenment. Baiken believed that finding death in battle would bring her nirvana, only to find that her idea of enlightenment by bloodshed was nothing more than a personal justification for violence. By abandoning her quest to live a different life, she has finally cut that last thread of self and is ready to follow the path to true enlightenment, she is ready to become a mirror of the world, she will be nothing and everything at the same time.

The circle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyQdweaupY)

Consuming ten billion years in an instant and I'll come to you without a second thought

Bedman's theme, although not explicitly budhist at all, deals  with the same themes as Baiken's. Having the titular character being dead already, the song is sung from the perspective of the deceased Romeo trying to make sense of the afterlife. He talks of a circle, a very obvious Samsara reference, being the only thing after life, a circle that is absolute and infinite, black and white, finite and meaningless, all the same time, with no clear beginning or end, constantly repeating itself. We can assume that Bedman was not only trapped in a violent cycle of violence, but also is now trapped in the literal circle of life and death, despairing at the knowledge that eternal life and death exists, and that being trapped in its limbo, devoid of any divine warmth or choir, will make his existence meaningless. Unlike Baiken though, who tried and succeeded to escape it, Bedman instead ends up embracing and cherishing the eternal cycle for one simple reason. As long as he gets to reincarnate, he will get another chance at protecting and being with her beloved Delilah, as long as Delilah needs him, he will always come back to her, no matter how many endless limbos he has to go through to reach her again. Instead of fighting the circle, he gives in and accepts that, as long as the world needs him, he will not try to escape it. He finds purpose in the constant repetition of life and death, being always by Delilah's side.

Arhat and Bodhisattva

What I find really interesting about this is seeing two very similar characters go through the same crisis of faith and coming out with two different but not exclusive answers. When faced with the inminent Samsara, Baiken chose the path of the Arhat, reaching Nirvana through enlightenment, while Bedman chose the way of the Bodhisattva, a being that instead of choosing salvation for themselves, instead swore to liberate those around them to reach Nirvana alongside them. Quoting another Strive song What do you fight for "Everything in this world leads to soul enlightenment", what I find most endearing about this whole ordeal is how what made some of the most vicious characters in the series reconsider their own ways and drastically change the way they see their own spirituality wasn't a big life revelation or a magical cataclysm. It only was a little girl who missed her older brother and was looking for a big sister, nothing more than that, and it was enough to change at least 2 person's lives forever.

-Sergio Valtierra