Japanese ju jitsu in video games and cartoons

[Eazy123]

I don't know about cartoons but in video games I think most martial arts are so exaggerated that you kind of can't tell what they are specifically anyway. I hold a deputy black in TKD, and Hwoarang (Tekken), Juri (SF) and Kim (KoF)...well, they do a lot of kicks, but nothing I'd look at and say "That's TKD!" aside from Kim's dobok.

I'd really like to see a martial arts game without the fluff of supers, ultras, fireballs, ten foot jumps, goofy-ass nonsensical plots and all that stuff. Something using real moves, stances and blocks.

I had an idea once about wanting to make a fighting game using real-life scenarios. For instance, a bar fight or something, where you could occasionally use bottles or stools at the sacrifice of reputation points (using such items would be considered fighting dirty), a soundtrack featuring real songs (the bar would have "bar songs" like AC/DC or whatever playing, for example), and a cohesive story mode to tie it all together. But I don't know shit about making games and it's just an idea I was tossing around in my head.

 

[Prime Yossarian]

its huge in Australia. We do a top 100 every Australia day.

 

[Emanuele]

In what sense is true ju jitsu only Japanese Jujitsu though? Judo is a direct evolution from JJJ, and BJJ is a step further along. They both have their roots in JJJ, but its kind of like asking why no military is employing single shot rifles today. Because guns have evolved in a clearly better direction, and so has JJJ.

Saying that judo and BJJ are ju jitsu it is like saying we are apes.
Human beings derive from apes, but we aren't apes.

 

[Teefs]

But JJJ is not grappling. Is a mix of strikes and throws.
There are several characters in video games that performs strikes and throws, but they are never listes as ju jitsu praticioners. Why?
For example, in Virtua Fighter videogames there is Kagemaru, a ninja, his fighting style is karate strikes and judo throws; the same of JJJ.

To be fair Wikipedia has his style listed as Hagakure-ryu Ju-Jutsu.

Kage-Maru:
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"Kage-Maru (影丸 Kagemaru?) fights with Hagakure-ryu Ju-Jutsu. He was born in the village of Hagakure. "Kage-Maru" is the name given to members of the Hagakure clan who work in secret in the shadows of society. His birthright was to become the tenth-generation Kage-Maru..."

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I have no idea what any of the respective games might list his style as, though. I haven't played Virtua Fighter since probably sometime in the 90s.