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[Decadent~!]

I remember a few years ago seeing the Zen Nippon SogoKakutougi Championships (All Japan Combative Sports Championships) for 1994 and 1995, and remembering that it was hosted by ShinBuKan. Does anyone know of this organization?

[Setsuna162]

I don't know but i as remember there is a Japanese comic named Sura no Mon which had this style. The author created this style base on Kyokushin, don't know if it exits or not.

[Iwaks]

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Shinbukan webpage - http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~sinbukan/index.html

I have read some interviews of Shinbukan kancho Honkawa Hiroshi and it was very interesting (from Japanese Full contact Karate magazine)

[Iwaks]

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Also Shinbukan is not a split group from Kyokushin... I read that Kancho Honkawa is friends with some Kyokushin notables though.

[kakatootoshi]

Dear Setsuna162,
The "Shin" in "Shinbukan" you see in "Shura no mon" means "god", while the "Shin" in the "Shinbukan" being discussed here means "real". Many japanese words just happen to share the same romanized pronunciation, and sometimes it is better to look at the orginial character to cross-check. By the way, the character "Ignacio da Silva"(see below) in "Shura no mon" is actually inspired by Shihan Francisco Filho.


OSU!

[Setsuna162]

OSU!
I think the guy who can break 3 baseball bat with low kick (forget his name) is inspired by Shihan Royama.
It seems that the real Shinbukan also has grappling techniques. Is it similar to Daido Juku?

[Iwaks]

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yes, it is very similar to Kudo. many Shinbukan students enter professional MMA fights in Japan and Korea at the moment.

[Shura]

Wow, there's actually Shura no Mon fans here. I remember reading that series a long time ago, and looking back, I'm really impressed to how Kawahara kept up with each era of fighting sports and martial art styles and its impact on mainstream culture.
The Shinbukan arc definitely deals with Kyokushin karate as its homage. The God of Martial Arts, Ryuuzoji Tesshin is Sosai without a doubt.
Takemi Naoto probably relates to Toshio Fujiwara; can't really think of any other famous Japanese Nak Muay it can relate to. Hayama Satoru is probably an amalgamation of Satoru Sayama (Tiger Mask) and Cesar Takeshi of Shootboxing.
Hida Takaaki is obviously modeled after pro-wrestler Antonio Inoki. His trainer, Frank is a nod to the God of Wrestling, Karl Gotch, who brought pro-wrestling to Japan in the 1950's.
Arios Kilrein is Mike Tyson...lol, there's glaring similarities like both losing their trainers and going down the wrong path. Arios even uses Tyson's peek-a-boo style that gave everyone (especially Tsukumo) a hard time.
And you can't forget the Bob King-Don King parallel...and the objection to the referee for counting to fast. Buster Douglas-Tyson at Tokyo anyone?
And then the Vale Tudo arc...this was written in 1994, right around the time that the UFC and Brazilian jujutsu was making a real impact in the United States.
Quite a bit of the participants of Vale Tudo were ficitional representations of their real-life counterparts in the UFC and K-1. As kakatootoshi mentioned earlier, Ignacio da Silva is most likely inspired by Franciso Filho. William Smith's character clearly resembles the look and attitude of Pat Smith. Ramon and Leon Gracielo (obviously Royce and his brother Rickson).

[Sonik]

Masakatsu Hokuda from the Shinukan karate has participated in a K-1 Heros event and lost to Yoshihiro Hakiyama (Kodokan Judo)

[Decadent~!]

Are CMA and Seikeikan (is Seikeikan Martial Arts the same as CMA but decided to go with the C instead of the S as how Sambo was changed when it was Anglocized) related to Shinbukan? Or is it a splinter group?

http://www.091.co.jp/seikeikan/frame.html

I noticed the afforementioned Okuda is intrinsically involved in the organization of the CMA/ Seikeikan and its rise to power in DEEP and MMA in Korea).