This show is one of the best action animes I've ever seen, but it still lacks that certain something. For one, it has a little too much of the "amazing, radical technique trump card blah blah blah". It makes some of the fights ridiculous when it would just be cooler to watch a fight with this amazing animation. Secondly, the series comes off a little ethnocentric. Fighting and martial arts are practiced the world around and they could have focused on more diverse martial arts (probably going to butcher the spelling on these but: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, krav maga, Greco Roman wrestling, shota Khan and others). Also, any character that isn't strictly Japanese kinda gets jobbed. It would have been cooler to see a more universal representation of fighters, especially if this is supposed to be about the best fighters in the world. I mean, if you look at modern day contact fighting sports, your have representatives from South America, Mexico, USA, Korea, Japan, Africa, Europe/U. K., Russia, China and more. Having more diversity in the breadth of characters would have added more legitimacy of an ultimate fighting tournament. I will say however, the mocking of massive modern conglomerates was pretty funny. Overall, it's and enjoyable watch, just not an amazing one and it does get a little repetitive.