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Akiyama - Firebird Inferno

We open with Akiyama sauntering into the fight, a smug look on his face and hands in his pockets. He lifts one hand and snaps his fingers and, suddenly, it starts raining cash all around the fight area.

The enemies all start getting distracted grabbing as many yen notes that they can get their hands on before Akiyama zooms forward, wave-dashing to and fro each individual enemy before launching them into the air with an upward kick.

Once all enemies are airborne, Akiyama jumps up and aerial combos them over and over, progressively getting faster and faster until his legs literally catch on fire and he is a living tornado of flame.

Finally, Akiyama jumps off one of the enemy’s head to get above them when an ethereal image of a flaming red phoenix appears behind Akiyama in the air, shrieking like an eagle as Akiyama flying axe kicks one of the enemies, driving their body into the next enemy and the next before driving them down to the ground in a fiery explosion.

Does extreme fire damage to all enemies and increases the money you make at the end of the battle.

Tanimura - Black Shell Binding

It starts with the enemies still mad-dogging Kasuga and company before their attention is stolen by the sound of a gunshot. We cut to Tanimura holding his pistol up into the air, letting off a few more warning shots before calmly putting the gun away, knowing he won’t need it.

The enemies all start to charge at Tanimura, but the detective simply performs his Tortoise Shell Defense technique to counter the front most enemy in the group, getting in the middle of the mob.

Shaking off their surprise, two enemies deliver a punch and kick to Tanimura, who effortlessly grabs their wrist and ankle, twisting their limbs to make them flop helpless to the ground, knocking down the other enemies around Tanimura.

Tanimura whips out a pair of handcuffs and locks the two limbs together, leaving the two enemies to writhe helplessly on the floor. The other enemies get back to the feet, only to have their own limbs twisted and manipulated in a similar fashion before all the enemies have been handcuffed together in a writhing ball of limbs and pain.

Finally, Tanimura takes a step back before jumping into the air and delivering a flying kick to the ball of goons, an ethereal image of a black tortoise snarling behind him, before launching the goon ball into a giant pachinko machine that erupts out of the ground, the goons bouncing around over and over until hitting a hefty payday for Tanimura.

Deals extreme blunt damage to all enemies and has a high chance of stunning any survivors.

Shinada - My Big Comeback

It starts with a shot of Shinada’s feet, walking calmly towards the group of enemies while the tip of a baseball bat is dragged along the ground, creating sparks.

The enemies stop and stare at Shinada, some of them even laughing at how pitiful he looks, before Shinada tosses a baseball into the air, smacking it with the bat directly into one of the enemy’s mouth, embedding it in his teeth.

While the enemies are shocked by this, Shinada drops the bat and charges forward, grabbing the enemy with the baseball in his mouth by his midsection and Meteor Tackling him through the mob, knocking them all on their asses before Shinada throws baseball-mouth behind him.

While the enemies struggle to get back on their feet, Shinada whips out his iron club and charges forward again, baseball swinging the club into baseball-mouth’s head, knocking him ass over teakettle. As he does this, he drops the club and whips out his extendable bo staff, performing some slick bojutsu attacks on the next enemy in line, ending with Shinada driving the staff into his stomach and pole-vaulting off him into the air.

While in the air, Shinada pulls out his katana and slices the third enemy in line with a downward slash into a kneeling crouch, before getting up and spinning around in a slash at the enemy’s midsection.

At this point, the fourth and final enemy is scared shitless and tries to run away, only for Shinada to flip the katana into an underhanded grip and throw it at the remaining enemy, stunning them with a pommel strike at the back of the head.

Finally, Shinada flicks out his knife and delivers a series of lightning fast slashes across the last enemy, leaving flashes of blinding light following every slash.

Finally, the enemy stumbles backwards after Shinada finishes his onslaught, stands dazed for a few second before a fountain of blood suddenly erupts from dozens of cuts across his body, finally falling to the ground in pain.

A pounding beyond comprehension, you say?

Masaru Watase as a Poundmate summon