So what was the show about, might you ask? Well, if you’ve been a Double Dragon fan for as long as I have, then you should already be familiar with the franchise’s lore and history. You know, much like how the Ruby Spears Megaman cartoon was just called “Megaman” and not “Megaman: The Animated Series”.
Or just “Double Dragon” as it was simply called. Well, now that that’s out of the way, let’s get into the subject for today Double Dragon the animated series. But before I do that, I want to personally thank FailSeeker for suggesting this subject to me.
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And this particular subject was suggested to me by none other than, so I figured, what better time than now to review yet another cartoon series based on a video game? Well, that’s what I’m about to do right now as I once again delve into the world of Double Dragon. I know I keep saying stuff like this in every one of my introductions, but I know that I’ve covered quite a number of titles before in the past.
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It's too bad that Tradewest destroyed the franchise with this crap.Hey, this is MDTartist83, and welcome to another retro TV review by yours truly. Michael Donovan and Scott McNeil were not bad either. He could had used that talent as a Highlander villain instead of playing goody two-shoes Watcher, Joe Dawson (or maybe he could have a double role as well). Jim Byrnes makes a wonderful villain with his deep voice. The anti-drugs messages and voices are the only good part about this show. None of the supporting characters or villains were actually from the video game and the ones that were bore no resemblance with their videogame counterparts. I thought Double Dragon was about martial arts. Instead, they fought with magical swords instead. 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. Double Dragon was originally an Arcade game by the late Technos Japan Corp., about two brothers trying to save their girl from a street gang.
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