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Anime fight scenes

During a majority of Anime fight scenes I noticed a huge trend.
In the middle of a fight the main character and the opponent briefly battle for a short while.

Then all of a sudden the two characters come to a halt and start talking for literally two to ten minutes. Instead of a fight scene it becomes a dialouge battle.

This is just my opinion but I think its very stupid. If someone is really trying to kill or hurt you they are not going to sit and speak to you. They are going to use all of their power to murder you. As quickly and efficiently as possible.

Another trend I dislike in anime is during the middle of a fight it switches to another character or characters who are giving their opinions on the outcome of the fight. And their opinions on the fight takes about three or more minutes to explain who's going to win and why.

I really think this is dumb. I feel as though I have been cheated from a potentially good fight with sometimes a pointless dialouge. Its as if the artists said were tired can we rest a little? And the director says sure just make the character's mouths move so we don't have to animate the fight.
And we'll save money too.

This happens in a lot of animes. Even good ones. I'll name a few.

Rurouni Kenshin[TV] , DragonBall Z, Yu Yu Hakashu, Inuyasha,
Naruto, Street Fighter 2 V, 3x3 eyes, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing
Trigun, Fatal Fury,etc there is a lot more.

What do you think about this?

During a majority of Anime fight scenes I noticed a huge trend.
In the middle of a fight the main character and the opponent briefly battle for a short while.

Then all of a sudden the two characters come to a halt and start talking for literally two to ten minutes. Instead of a fight scene it becomes a dialouge battle.

This is just my opinion but I think its very stupid. If someone is really trying to kill or hurt you they are not going to sit and speak to you. They are going to use all of their power to murder you. As quickly and efficiently as possible.

Another trend I dislike in anime is during the middle of a fight it switches to another character or characters who are giving their opinions on the outcome of the fight. And their opinions on the fight takes about three or more minutes to explain who's going to win and why.

I really think this is dumb. I feel as though I have been cheated from a potentially good fight with sometimes a pointless dialouge. Its as if the artists said were tired can we rest a little? And the director says sure just make the character's mouths move so we don't have to animate the fight.
And we'll save money too.

This happens in a lot of animes. Even good ones. I'll name a few.

Rurouni Kenshin[TV] , DragonBall Z, Yu Yu Hakashu, Inuyasha,
Naruto, Street Fighter 2 V, 3x3 eyes, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing
Trigun, Fatal Fury,etc there is a lot more.

What do you think about this?

Actually I think it complements the anime and makes it even better. It is better to receive an explanation of how the main character defeated the bad guy than to just see it (body language is quite limited in anime) and wonder about it for ever.

Also remember that in most of stories the characters don't just want to defeat their foes in combat. Sometimes they want to prove they are better, prove they are doing the right thing, prove they are going to win, etc. Sometimes they don't want to fight and they hope they are able to make their opponent come to his senses. In order to accomplish these goals it is necessary to exchange a couple of sentences.

But this concept is not new, it is probably about 30 centuries old. In the Illiad, the warriors on each side knew not only the names of the warriors on the other side, but they also knew their entire family trees! And before, during and after the fights they would stop and give a lengthy speech about why they are better, why they are going to win this fight, even what they are going to do after they win the fight.

It is probably a much more romantic and lively way to remember a great fight and it works for me.

Of course, if there is too much of this it just becomes annoying, like in the fight between spoiler[ Sakura and Ino, with 40 minutes of flashbacks about how they used to arrange flowers together ] in Naruto. That was just plain ridiculous and in that case you are right.

It feels like the more Shounen-esque an anime is, the more it has of this.

This is the reason why I love Ghost in the Shell so much. Awesome story, characters..well, everything. Whenever you saw a gun fight or a fist fight, it started, it happened, it ended. I love my Naruto and Bleach etc, but sometimes I just like to see a "fight".

kincato, just in half a day you already started three threads that talk about the flaws in most animes in general. well, here's a fact that you have left forgotten. the makers of anime are humans just like the rest of us and true they might be blessed with talents but don't expect their works to be divine and godly.

kincato, just in half a day you already started three threads that talk about the flaws in most animes in general. well, here's a fact that you have left forgotten. the makers of anime are humans just like the rest of us and true they might be blessed with talents but don't expect their works to be divine and godly.
every anime will have a few things that are just bad where everyone would wonder what were those japanese thinking. just bear with it.

DBZ definitely had longer fight scenes than say Naruto, but it did have it's share of talking during fights as well. How long DID it take for Namek to blow up when Frieza said they only had 5 more minutes?