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Battle Arena Toshinden, released in Japan as , is a fighting game series developed by Tamsoft and produced by Takara.

Developed by Tamsoft and produced by Takara, the Battle Arena Toshinden series is composed of four video games, though the first three numbered entries are often referred to as the Toshinden trilogy. A prequel game, Toshinden Next, was revealed in 1997 featuring concept art, but ultimately cancelled.

While the main series used realistic proportions for the cast, the spin-off titles instead used a chibi artstyle.

When Tamsoft was initially developing the cast, director Shintarō Nakaoka started with a basic concept taking inspiration from the duality of Ryu and Ken Masters of Capcom's Street Fighter series. Working with character designer Miho Furukawa, he then followed with developing certain character archetypes to provide a variety of physiques to the game, such as the "big man", the "guru", and the "lolita". As development progressed others added their own elements, such as programmers adding unique animations to characters to give them more visible personality, while one core person was assigned to each character to assist with the planning stage.