| It's by far the most important aspect to me. |
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| A lot.Composition,choreography and overall style>flashy ADHD 360°.And as you said,the emotional weight gives it a much higher impact than any amount of frames ever could. |
| Can I Still Go To Heaven If I Kill Myself? |
| Not much. I care way more about strategic battles, but I admit that the particularly well animated action sequence in the penultimate episode of World Trigger s3 made me think "wow, this is the actual good animation people have in mind when they say that Demon Slayer is only flashy effects". |
| 50% how relevant the fight is to the story and characters and 50% choreography (animation, tactics, actual movements, directing, etc.) |
| I find myself being most interested in the tactics of the fight. For armies and squadrons, it's about who's where and doing what. For individual combatants, it's...also about who's where and doing what, just on a smaller scale. Fight choreography isn't always about this so whether or not I enjoy it isn't well-correlated to fancy-looking fights. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I learned that it's the animation direction and not so much the choreography itself that makes the difference. And yeah... that is pretty much everything. Without that being excellent it's like listening to good music on terrible speakers. A very shitty experience if you know what good speakers sound like. |
| Well, it isn't hard to create good fighting choreography in anime television shows tbh..... |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
| I don't care about it at all, considering that I tend to zone out during fights and action scenes. I think it's much more important for me that the stakes are high and there is narrative progression throughout the fight, otherwise I start to lose interest. |
| it matters to me more as i get older, though most anime just don't have interesting fight choreography. sakamoto days is the closest i've seen to jackie chan levels, especially since it doesn't waste time explaining powers and doesn't spam ''sad'' flashbacks, ruining the flow of the fight. |
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| it's gotta be GOOD or i'm gonna write about it. Old Guy from the Boonies Becomes a Sword Master? i know i'm getting the title wrong, but i'm not going to dig it up right now... was AWESOME and also SUCKFEST often in the SAME EPISODE. swordfighting is ALL about how the peoples' bodies and weapons etc. move and look and if it is REALISTIC or entirely FANTASTICAL. with MOCAP you can frankly use REAL PEOPLE as your stunt-doubles today and then map them into the character designs. so sh!tty fights are ALL the studios' fault today. or if they don't have the cash/ability/knowledge to MOCAP. 'shonen fight anime blur' is a cost/time saving device anime studios have been using for multiple decades now. if the backgrounds are blank black, or blurred terribly, or just 'meh' during a fight... i do NOT like it. anybody that thinks the Demon Slayer fight scenes are 'meh'... is a noob-normie who has never held a NERF/foam sword or a random stick or a 'toy weapon' in their hands and had play fights etc. themselves. in animation you can do stuff that is frankly physically impossible with a real-life actor... even stunt doubles won't do "some crazy a$$ sh!t" i've seen in anime fights. wirework and CGA and green-screens and real-life effects like flashpots and fire and explosions and car wrecks etc. can only do so much 'cool stuff'. but in animation? it is ALL drawings! |
KiliianSleipnirJan 7, 8:41 PM
just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either.  |
| Having more realistic and grounded choreography during a fight scene is always nice to see but what matters is that it isn't boring. Emotional weight can and will improve ones enjoyment of certain fight scenes but it doesn't really matter overall. Someone can watch a clip of an anime fight scene, or of any scene really, of a show they've never seen and still think it's really cool and entertaining without having any connection or attachment to the characters or show. In fact, it's something that does happen where a show starts off with some really eye catching fight scenes. At at the end of the day, the rule of cool reigns supreme and that's more associated with how well animated it is and the techniques that go into said animation which can include how flashy it is. |
| First, lets define it. ""Fight choreography is the art of designing and staging simulated combat for performances, creating the illusion of real fighting safely and effectively for stage, film, or TV, focusing on realistic or stylized movements, character emotion, and storytelling rather than actual violence, much like a dance but with conflict". As for ur question, it is very important when it comes to the quality of a fight. Being able to understand the movements of characters as they fight and making sure that it's fluid can tell me that a fight is good. A great example is Kakashi vs Obito. Choreography is fluid and has alot of emotional weight. It has the perfect combination of the two. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| I think it's probably the 2nd most important factor behind the emotional weight, some people would argue it's the most. Most of your average fight scenes blend in, but when the choreography is very good, it sticks out, even among other fights from the same anime. Like the famous naruto fights everyone knows, or for me recently, SAO II Mother's Rosario arc with the Sleeping Knights fight. That immediately popped out to me compared to basically everything else before as unique because of the choreography from it. |
| By all means, my answer should be yes, but I'm not capable of detecting "really" bad animation or choreography, though I can obviously detect excellent ones. So my answer is no. For example, One Punch Man season 3 got downvoted to oblivion because of "terrible" animation, but to me, it only appeared average, worse than both season 1 and 2, but not the bottom of the barrel. |
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| Oh yeah, I'm similar in this regard, the emotional weight takes priority for me. Although there are exceptions - in Kabaneri, I really enjoyed all these fight scenes with Mumei in the spotlight in the first few episodes and the post-series movie because of the sound effects and how "technical" it all felt. Plus I'm a sucker for cute-but-deadly type characters and it was just really fun to see this scary side of her. I'd say I care more about the choreography itself in tokusatsu. In recent memory, Kamen Rider Vram's debut fight was excellent and just last week the debut for Kamen Rider Nox had some absolutely phenomenal work. |
| Your planet is really bright. |
Reply to _ohara
@ktg Thats how I know you havent watched One Piece.
- Marineford
- Wano
And anyway, so what if they're 1v1'?
Demon slayer fights:
'' I NEED TO BREATHE. GET UP! GET UP! GET UP1'' *Flashback* ASSPULL Power up! *The demon has a flashback* CHEAP EMOTIONAL PAY OFF and then the usual terrible humour at the end between tanjiro, zenitsu and Inosuke
I was a fan of season 1 and Mugen train but then it fell off so hard
- Marineford
- Wano
And anyway, so what if they're 1v1'?
Demon slayer fights:
'' I NEED TO BREATHE. GET UP! GET UP! GET UP1'' *Flashback* ASSPULL Power up! *The demon has a flashback* CHEAP EMOTIONAL PAY OFF and then the usual terrible humour at the end between tanjiro, zenitsu and Inosuke
I was a fan of season 1 and Mugen train but then it fell off so hard
_ohara said: This how you know someone who watches anime on tiktok, probably maybe to quickly increase their anime watch days count. This claim of yours doesn't hold up. You could prove me wrong, but you can't, bcuz tiktok anime weeb and that would require you to actually go watch the show which will be impossible for youDemon slayer fights: '' I NEED TO BREATHE. GET UP! GET UP! GET UP1'' *Flashback* ASSPULL Power up! _ohara said: ok the "cheap" claim is purely subjective, but the way you claimed it seems to imply EVERY demon has it. Which is a crazy thing to say bcuz fun fact: only 30% of the demons encountered in demon slayer has a sad backstory, based on the anime checkpoint in your list. This just goes to further the tiktok anime watching proof. On the very little chance you didn't watch it on tiktok, this simply means you weren't paying attention and have a very selective memory that only benefits when you want to complain and seek validation for it.The demon has a flashback* CHEAP EMOTIONAL PAY OFF _ohara said: Humor will always be subjective, so whenever someone yap on about "terrible humor" it just means "it wasn't my humor". So while there's nothing to debate here, it's surprising and looks very dishonest for a One Piece fan of all things, to say "terrible humor." We eat that shit all the time in One Piece lmao. Probably it's just tiktok, you watched One Piece on tiktok too, so those parts were trimmed and cut and remixed and skipped and sped-up and whatever they do, so you didn't get to see all that bullshit usual terrible humour at the end between tanjiro, zenitsu and Inosuke _ohara said: haha nice joke. I also like how you sneaked One Piece in there and thought we wouldn't noticebottom line, one piece and quite frankly most battle shounen absolutely mog demon slayer |
TyrectyJan 8, 6:23 AM
| Those battle shounen (like the actual ones where they throw out devices) have so much presence. |
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