Johji Manabe has a good variety, although like Toriyama, when he can't draw a race he cheats and makes them furries. Also similar to the Old Masters like Leiji/Nagai/Tezuka/etc, he has one universe that is the "main" universe and all the others they're merely acting in it. Always thought that was a nice twist to the old days. I mean there's also sometimes a lazy reason for it (Astro Boy designs in Monster manga, really Tezuka?) but when they semi-acknowledge it they can get some good comedy bits out of it.
EIther that or similarly designed characters, like how in the games no one gets Kamille's name right in Gundam crossovers.
Votoms is good stuff too, but there's a bunch of different ones. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Trooper_Votoms
Bit closer to Area 88 than other mecha shows though.
Also changes style with each one, Pailsen Files is like NCIS/JAG but not stupid instead of being about the war for instance.
Haha, you should see the hitman in Mad Bull, they would all be thrown in the slammer in the UK for that one. He's all that and a pimp and he beats one of his girls to death and rigs another with a grenade. Realest damn nigga in animoo. Well ok that last one is more slav-y, but that's nig-tier either way.
The sapper guy in Jormangund is a 'good guy' but somehow just as bad, rofl.
neither of these have anything on Grappler Baki.
A running gag is that the manga reached 60 million sold because people wouldn't quit it without at least seeing one fight end.
Heck, Syria was still a whole country when the last one started.
thankfully anime has a budget, so a lot of that gets tossed so they can actually finish before they die, and it's cut down to 24 ep installments of each arc. Still a bit silly though. I got stuck with it in my wrassling phase and just had to ride it out. Basically takes the style of Noh theatre (lengthy internal monologues about fighter motivation and possible technique usage) and puts it towards MMA. You can tell dude that writes it is heavily autist himself, a move that would take 2 seconds irl takes half a chapter to execute. I guess you could say if Upotte and Gunsmith Cats are 'gun porn' then it's a form of 'wrestling porn'
Marnia (((Robinson))) wrote for Huffpo and based it off some jewish thing called Karezza.
weird, never picked up on that. Then again it came out when my main goal in life was to become Hyrule's token hispanic.
THESE WEEDS WON'T CHOP THEMSELVES, STOP BUGGING ME NAVI
SHUT UP ZELDA, GET OUT OF MY HEAD, I REALLY NEED A NEW TUNIC AND YARD WORK PAYS FIFTEEN RUPEES AN HOUR
also lol dorfs confirmed not-quite-so-shit jews.
don't forget the noice tweeest. the mick mobster was actually the kid's ally the whole time
On a similar note, would also rec Last Man Standing, not as 'smart' (actually, it's based on a western, just "brought forwards" hence more gunplay) but same basic idea.
Kinda funny about 10 years separate them but one same main character and some similar extras. It's like they wanted to bring it even further but figured since cities have actual police now it'll need a few extra modifications here and there. (works much better for it too)