''Last Bronx ~Tokyo Bangaichi~'' (ラストブロンクス -東京番外地-), is a realistic 3DCG street fighting game developed by Sega 's R&D Dept.#3 (AM3 aka Hitmaker ) on the Sega Model 2 mainboard. This is the very first motion captured weapon fighting game, it was released in Japanese game centers on June 1996, two years before the famous System 12 Soul Calibur (07.1998). Home versions, shortened to ''Last Bronx'', were produced for contemporary Sega game consoles and Windows systems. In Japan , the very popular "Last Bronx" franchise was novelized and serialized into comics and radio drama. A VHS video documenting the motion capture process used for the game and introducing the characters was released in 1996 and a year later, Takashi Shimizu directed the live-action movie ( V-Cinema ). Overseas, the opening theme song single ''Jaggy Love'' (ジャギー・ラブ) has acquired a cult-like status beyond Sega fans and 90's nostalgics. In may 2005, the Chinese publisher Ching Win has licensed the ''Asuka Comics DX'' Mangas which were scenarized by the game director himself, for an official release in Taiwan . In spring, 2006, Sega will finally release its long scheduled definitive and strict emulation of ''Tokyo Bangaichi'' on PlayStation 2 as a tenth anniversary celebration.
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We all grow weary of this bitter strife. And so now I call on each of you in the name of peace. You all know how useless these recent squabbles are. I have a modest proposal to remedy this unfortunate situation: I call for a fighting tournament, solely between the chosen leaders of each worthy gang. A decisive battle that will spare the lives of the young while settling the question of which group has the power to rule Tokyo . Of course the fights will be held in secrecy, and the results will not be made public. .
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I regret that under no circumstances can a refusal to participate be accepted. In the event that any of you do not attend, I will make arrangements to have flowers sent to the funeral. I look forward to meeting each of you at the appointed hour. "
Several of the recipients of this very peculiar shrugged it off as a practical joke or thought it was a trap set by a rival gang. But when members off their crews were found face-down in Tokyo Bay , the truth of its warning became very clear. There will be no '' Répondez S'il Vous Plaît '' to the .
Tokyo was riding high on the Tsunami of global economic supremacy when the bubble broke in 1991 . Then things fell apart. Hundred billion yen building complexes were left half-finished, and Salarymen started having Instant Ramen for lunch as the slush-money supplies dried up. And slowly, the hidden Japan began to emerge, crawling in from the shadows on the outskirts of town. Bōsōzokus and Yakuzas ; loan sharks and slave-traders: Doomsday cults, madmen and thieves.
Those were the days of the where young gangs met and dashed and slid into run down streets, slick with their own blood. Then a single crew of unstoppable bōsōzokus appeared to put an end to the violence and bloodshed. Through fair-handed dealings and iron-fisted fighting skills, the '''Soul Crew''' gang blazed a path for the future of Tokyo's young...
...until, under circumstances still riddled with doubt and accusations, the leader of the was viciously killed. The tenuous balance of power was thrown out of whack, and every street tribe with pride, dreams or ambition felt the shock wave of his fall like to call to arms. The '''Second All-Tokyo Street War''' was ignited.
At the height of the fighting, an ominously worded challenge to the leaders of the toughest gangs appeared in Graffiti scrawls all over Tokyo.
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- (工藤 優作): "Life was easy back in the old days; '''Soul Crew''' ruled the streets, and nobody gave us any trouble. But since our leader got wasted, you gotta watch your back around here. Now I'm the boss of '''Neo Soul''', but I have to fight to get any respect. '''Joe''' split off to do his own thing, and '''Zaimoku''' went back home to work for his father. Now every punk on the street wants to challenge me for the chance to be the new Number One. But I've got three big sticks that say I'm here to stay."
- --- Age: 19 / Size: 171cm / Weight: 66kg
- --- Weapon:
- --- Crew: Neo Soul / District: Naked Airport ( Haneda Airport )
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- (稲垣 丈): "'''Yusaku''''s a good kid -maybe a little wet behind the ears- but he'll do alright. I coulda taken over the '''Soul Crew''' after the shakeup, but that's not my thing. So I told '''Yusaku''' it was time for him to step up and be a man. Then I hit the road. Just give me some clear streets and room to ride and you won't hear any complaints from me. That's why I started '''Shinjuku Mad'''. We're into the same things: bikes, brawls and bad attitudes. It's not that we go out looking for trouble, it just seems to come out out way. Never seems to hang around for long though. Hard to cause a beef on two broken knees. Anyway, that's my story. I'm not too interested in this whole fighting game, but I've got time to kill. And somebody's gotta show '''Redrum''' what it means to be bad."
- --- Age: 23 / Size: 179cm / Weight: 76kg
- --- Weapon:
- --- Crew: Shinjuku Mad (新宿マド) / District: Dark Rooftop ( Shinjuku )
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- (財目三郎): "I thought I could give up all this king of the streets tough baloney when I came back to work for my father. All I wanted to do was put in an honest day's work at the yards, and set a good example for the rest of the '''Katsushika Dumpsters'''. Then this whole stupid '''Street War''' thing had to flare up again. That's the reason I quit '''Soul Crew''' to begin with. But now '''Redrum''' is making threats to my boys. They say there's gonna be trouble if I don't show. I say there's gonna be trouble when I do."
- ---Age: 26 / Size: 183cm / Weight: 102kg
- ---Weapon:
- ---Crew: Katsushika Dumpsters (葛飾ダンプスターズ) / District: Nightmare Island ( Katsushika )
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- (黒澤 透): "Welcome to ''' Roppongi '''... now get out. This is my turf, my town. You wanna walk on my streets, yer gonna hafta pay the piper. That's me. And I'm packin' a pretty big pipe if ya know what I mean. This whole figthin' tournament is a joke. Nobody gets over on '''Kurosawa'''. '''Yusaku''', '''Joe''', '''Zaimoku''' -the whole buncha them- they're running around playing kids games, trying to decide who's King Of The Hill . Last time I checked the crown it said "Roppongi Hardcore Boys rulz". If the whole town wants to scuffle for the top spot, I'm game. Never walk away from somebody when you can walk over them. And if that punk '''Redeye''' wants a taste, well, let's see how he likes sucking down three feet of hardwood with no teeth."
- --- Age: 25 / Size: 177.5cm / Weight: 71kg
- --- Weapon:
- --- Crew: Roppongi Hard Core Boys (六本木野獣会) / District: Radical Parking Lot ( Roppongi )
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- aka Dangerous Queen (豊饒 梛): "Just because I'm the only daughter of a Zaibatsu director's family doesn't mean I have to be spoiled rotten and nasty... but I am anyway. I formed the '''Dogma''' crew with one rule only; No boys allowed. I don't hate men, I just expect them to serve me. And if pigs like '''Kurosawa''' can't handle it, they can tell it to the business end of my sai. That Tomboy '''Yoko''' on the other hand is welcome to join us whenever she wants..."
- --- Age: 23 / Size: 167.5cm / Weight: 52kg / Measurements: 90-60-90
- --- Weapon: & Fork
- --- Crew: Dogma (怒愚魔) / District: Tears Bridge ( Rainbow Bridge )
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- (港野 洋子): "When my big brother '''Ken''' and I started the '''G-Troops''', all we wanted to was practice our skills: survival game tactics, Hand-to-hand Combat , some Commando weapons techniques. But the whole thing was training. Nobody was supposed to get hurt. But I guess word got out that the '''G-Troops''' could rock hard with the best of them. Then '''Ken''' got that "invitation" from the '''Redrum''' gang, and when he refused, they messed him up pretty bad. I haven't seen him since. So now there's nobody to take his place but me. I've been in some scrapes before, but nothing like this. The other guys in this tournament look pretty tough, and they've all learned their reps on the street. But I don't care about any of that, they can keep the stupid tournament. All I want is to get my hands on that '''Red Eye'''."
- --- Age: 20 / Size: 163.5cm / Weight: 49kg / Measurements: 86.60.88
- --- Weapon:
- --- Crew: G-Troops / District: Lust Subway ( Tokyo Subway )
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- (レッドアイ) / '''Ken Kono''' (港野 拳): Formerly known as '''Ken Kono''', co-founder and leader of the '''G-Troop''' Survival Game team, he made the terrible mistake to not take '''Redrum''''s threat with serious and paid the price for refusing his invitation. After being badly injured with fire, his anger made him mad and evil. Eventually, he was turned into and became himself an agent of the mysterious '''Redrum''' ("Murder" backward) organization. He was beaten by his sister '''Yoko''' at the tournament's final in the subway. '''Ken Kono''' apoligized and told the truth, then he died in his siter's arms.
- --- Age: ?? / Size: ???cm / Weight: ??kg
- --- Weapon: & Broiled Sauries
- --- Crew: Redrum / District: Tokyo
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- (富家 大): "Thrashing the streets of Los Angeles , shredding the slopes in Vale , chilling out back home in Osaka . Yeah, you could say I've been there and done that. I don't ask much out of life. Just have a good time all the time. But that doesn't mean I can't get serious when I need to. '''Kusanami''''s grandfather taught me about that, about finding a center and trusting myself. About using my stick. I learned a lot at the '''Kusanami'''- Dojo . And I met '''Lisa''' there. Man, is that girl hot or what? But she looks through me like I'm The Invisible Man . Can you believe it? So I quit the dojo and got together a couple of guys in '''Helter Skelter''' to tear up the streets of Tokyo and generally get it on. And when I win this tournament, I think '''Lisa''' will begin to see why she and I were meant to be."
- --- Age: 18 / Size: 165.5cm / Weight: 54kg
- --- Weapon:
- --- Crew: Helter Skelter / District: Cross Street ( Shibuya )
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- (草波 リサ): "Grandpa's ok I guess... he taught me everything I know about using my sticks. But I wish he wasn't so old fashioned about things. He doesn't understand that a high-school girl's got to have time to have fun. He's always nagging that I should spend more time in the '''Kusanami'''-dojo and less time hanging out with the '''Orchids'''. I just let him talk, then I go and do what I want. After all, since my mom ran off to America with that lawyer, I'm all the family he's got. What's he gonna do, disinherit me?"
- --- Age: 17 / Size: 159cm / Weight: 45kg / Measurements: 83.58.85
- --- Weapon: & Spatula
- --- Crew: Orchids / District: Moonlight Garden ( Takeshiba )
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