/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>770085

Forgot about that one. Goddamn I was giddy when I saw that and episode 12.

I'm also a sucker for awesome attack names, so it didn't disappoint at all in that regard.

Not entirely related, but you know what kind of power I really dislike?

Using razor-wire to fight. I've always hated it.

It's usually just so visually bland, and downright lazy.

>>770090

I like it as an OH SHIT moment, but I get what you mean.

The best example of it, though it isn't really wire, was from one of the ninjas from Basilisk, where he used women's hair infused in oils to make it extremely resistant. It was cool to see him actually handle it, rather than never moving his fingers.

>>770085

somewhat related, I liked in fate/zero how anything berserker grabs can be used as a weapon. I just realized that saito from zero no tsukima has a similar power, how he can use anything that is defined as a weapon like a trained professional.

>>770065

To extend it to visual novels, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception hit the right balance of edgy and exploitable to me. Exploitable in the sense that there's lots of uses for them, Shiki doesn't always just use them to kill people. Also I like that for such a broken power they're counterbalanced in that using them starts to fry Shiki's brain. It's never a pleasant experience and the development of the power, the eeriness of the dots appear in addition to the lines, the toll it takes on him, and how it's going to eventually kill him, seem a proper tradeoff, elevate the power a bit out of the realm of adolescent edge-fantasy, gives a real sense of fate and human limitation.

I think my favorite powers are the ones that are very versatile and with some brainpower can be used in clever ways (I'm also a big fan of the ripple from Jojo), and aren't too overpowered or, if they are, come with limitations/consequences for using them.

>>770264

The german suplex makes so many appearances in gag anime. Usually paired with a bridge pin too. There aren't too many gag anime these days though, partly because wrestling isn't as popular as it used to be.

>>770276

>a faker that can only copy weapons that will never be as strong as anything original

versus

>Magic door that teleports an infinite amount of original weapons from another dimension and wielding many of them at once them with his mind

Fixed

>>770272

Hey man, only Nasu could make literally killing a hallway be cool.

Something as basic as Rakshasa, from a series like Rosario Vampire seems pretty good to me, I am not too fond of abilities centred around one skill such as flight, or pyrokinesis, but combination of bunch of them on the other hand is different stuff.

>>770319

>Magic door that teleports an infinite amount of original weapons from another dimension and wielding many of them at once them with his mind

No there is a limited amount of weapons, whereas UBW is unlimited.

And he doesn't control them with his mind he just fires them off like cannons where Archer can fire them off or use the weapon the way its meant to be used.

>>770099

Pretty much this. I do appreciate an overblown choreographed chuuni attack when it's interesting but those are the norm, and you don't really see the more brutal, inelegant style of fighting as often. It's probably because they're not as visually interesting to depict, at least not without a lot of frames so you can capture the realism.

Its not a single weapon or skill but all of the magic and esper powers in the index series. I guess Kamachi would be the wielder of these. For magic its been described as bending religious and mythological practices to produce magic power. The better someone reproduces an event or item the more power they can wield. When Touma is not involved, which is rare, magical battles have little to do with magic itself and more to do with how much the players involved understand the religious basis of their enemies power. It ends up being a battle of how quickly the opponents figure out each others weaknesses than a competition of brute strength. The magic side stories are Touma free and really show off the more fun parts of magic battles.

The esper powers are largely similar. Instead of religion and mythology though, science and math take over. Non-Touma battles are big science experiments where the person who figures out a weakness wins in often a stalemate or long battle of attrition. This was demonstrated when Accelerator fought the guy who literally pulled punches to negate Accelerators reflection. The guy was a non-esper but managed to give accelerator a hard time just because he figured out a weakness in how reflection works. The Heavy Object series follows with the Academy city science side. The Objects are wonderful pieces of art and the main characters only survive by finding some weak point.

Note: Everything Kamachi writes has a thick layer of bullshit though, call it the fiction in science-fiction if you like. Its more obvious in esper powers than magic though since religious and mythology education is nowhere near as prevalent as science and math these days.

>>770565

Its so good at creating tension too, you hold your breath when you see Shinji trying to punch something to death. If he's clumsily throwing fists, it's a given that he has no tricks up his sleeve.

Sosunser is the best anime fighting style and if you don't agree with me you are wrong.

>>770319

>>770276

>>770505

You guys should watch Urahara, they just discussed this shit in episode 11 and basically they side with Emiya on this issue.

>>770926

>Urahara

You know they won't watch. Or if they watch they will hate it. Only pure good girls watch and like Urahara.

>>770652

Medaka Box got so insanely meta in the second half that it becomes hard to fully understand what the fuck is even going on at times. Even still, Zenkichi recognizing that he was effectively being pulled into Medaka's power and being sculpted into a protag character with unfair advantage and then choosing to fully negate that with another bullshit broken power that cancels out cliches and tropes so he could compete on his own is.. well, it's fucking amazing.

>>770990

>KIHARA-KUN

These should get their own mention for being mostly, somewhat normal humans and having so much influence over espers and even magic at times.

>>770647

Greatman Punch is a superior technique, anon.

hair morph

>>770065

My favorite would be mechas, but done in a manner like Patlabor, where there are varying types, and most are easily destroyed and damaged. It just seems more realistic that not all mechs would be near indestructable, and that there would be different types of mechs, which would be different in design and how they attack.

>>770099

You forgot

>Allahu akbar it

>Make it fall in love with you, and then wait for it to suicide because you're such a weenie

On topic, I love when it's something rather mundane to the universe it's in, but at an absurd level. Like Roy Mustang in FMA. His power is controlling fire, big whoop. Except he dials it up all the way to fucking eleven, and it makes him the one of the most powerful and dangerous characters in the series. It was even better in the first anime, because there was no mystical "Flame Alchemy" that only he knew the secret to. No. The first anime implied that fucking anyone could use alchemy to create flames to a certain degree, but only Mustang was ever that good with it, because he's JUST THAT BADASS.

>>771296

Have you seen majestic prince?

The main characters each have a different type of mech to suit their skills.

A character who despite losing everything they have still not giving up. I love seeing determined characters keep trudging forward, even if it might be hopeless.

>>770278

If you think about it, every anime with fighting in it is a wrestling anime. Backdrops are still the coolest shit and so is actual hand to hand fighting. I really want an actual grounded mano-a-mano fight instead of 1attack/60 hours nonsense.

>>771434

And speaking of psycho pass I enjoyed Maxishima's breakdancing-like fighting style a lot. Anyone who has a cool hand to hand fighting style is the coolest power in anime or manga.

>>770565

One problem I have with these overblown choreographed chuuni attacks is how they seem to lack oomph compared to more brutal, straightforward attacking. Another problem with lots of anime combat is it will involve these giant weapons that should by all rights be massively destructive like the Dragonslayer from Berserk. But when it's humans fighting humans with weapons of that caliber it would be too overpowered. So you get these giant weapons that aren't anywhere near as destructive as they ought to be, leaving them feeling like they lack any weight. It's like they're fighting each other with big foam swords, it robs them of impact.

>>771302

I think I have seen screenshots of it before, but I will check it out.

>>771320

I don't think I have seen this, but it seems enjoyable, thanks.