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Billy and Jimmy wore ridiculous looking costumes and they didn't even use their martial arts.

The animation was bad, the music was cheesy and the writers has obviously never touched a Double Dragon game in their life. This is one of the worst adaptation a video game could have. Then they wear ridiculous looking costumes. Jimmy is betrayed by the Shadow Master, so he becomes a good guy, teams up with Billy and unleash the power the Dragon Sword together, which splits in two. The Shadow Master kills off Abobo and Willy and replaced them with more incompetent bad guys (none which were actually featured in the videogames). In the series, we learn that Jimmy is actually a pawn of a guy called the Shadow Master (who looks nothing like his NES counterpart). However, Jimmy and Billy's female cop girlfirend, Marian, are kidnapped by the Shadow Warriors and Billy managed to beat the Shadow Bosses' two henchmen: Abobo and Willy and confronts the Shadow Boss, who at the end turns out to be Jimmy (surprise, surprise). It seems that everythings that happens to Billy, also happens to Jimmy (this includes stains on clothes). I don't remember much after that, except that Billy gets reunited with his long-lost twin brother, Jimmy. As a result, the old master advices Billy that he must leave (actually he dies, but they can't use that word in a Saturday Morning Cartoon), so Billy must take the Dragon Sword and protect Metro City (Ed's Note: W.A.M! I though this was based on Double Dragon, not Final Fight) from a group called the Shadow Warriors. Billy Lee is a martial artist who was raised by a wise old master. The pilot episode is loosely based on the NES version of the first Double Dragon (noticed the word loosely). A company called Tradewest took over the franchise in the U.S and they made this abomination of an animated series (among several other abominations) that eventually destroyed the franchise. While it was not the first of it's kind (Technos' Kunio-Kun came first), it was very popular and spawned three sequels at the Arcade and three home versions for the Famicom/NES and even a Super Famicom-only sequel, Return of Double Dragon. Check it out, it doesn't take itself to seriously and its provides more fun than most.ĭouble Dragon was originally an Arcade game by the late Technos Japan Corp., about two brothers trying to save their girl from a street gang. For whatever reason I like Double Dragon more than the DC comics stuff like Batman.I do kinda dig the Superman shows though. I liked very much that it doesn't look at all like anime which I don't much care for. Basically its a 90s toon with a cool 80s vibe. There is also a degree of character development unlike some toons. I also like the dragon that leads them to secret spots the boys need to get to. The parts with the masks didn't bother me at all, sorta a bonus actually. Of course Double Dragon was a great video game series. This show has something, kinda hard to define but its there. The bad guys, especially Shadow Master are very cool. The plots are nothing special but probably better than most. I liked the animation and the characters were drawn large. Unlike some of the other reviewers I saw plenty of martial arts in the shows I watched.

I watched a couple of episodes on youtube and enjoyed them.