| What do you think about the moments where a character explaining their own power in detail to their opponent in the middle of battle? Do you think it's a necessity or a stupidity? Personally I always see it as something foolish, why bother explaining your own power in detail to someone who is trying to kill/defeat you? If the purpose is to inform us the anime watchers/manga readers then better do it via narrators or via other characters. there was a character from Bleach who did that and it didn't go well for him, he got big hole on his chest because of his stupidity of informing what exactly his power does to someone who was trying to kill him.  |
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| It is generally less for the characters involved in the scene and more for the audience. It can be rather clunky sometimes but it can sometimes be used for interesting dramatic effect. Generally I would say just showing what is happening is better than directly telling the audience as the audience should eb able to parse what is happening in animation. I think its mostly just a holdover from manga more than anything |
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| From a tactical viewpoint it's pure stupidity, I prefer when such stuff is explained by a narrator or with inner monologues of the characters. |
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| You basically already answered your own question. It's moreso directed towards the audience. A part of it may also be a little cockiness since they may think the other character might not have a trump card up their sleeve. But I would think it would be even less immersive and distracting having a narrator explain the powers of characters in the middle of a fight. |
| Depends on the situation, but the explanations are more for the audience to see what's happening as the alternative is just to have a narrator describe it, or the character explaining through his mind. Tactically, it's stupid, but it's all about making sense of the situation for the viewers who are seeing something that can't be comprehended. |
| From a logical standpoint is completely stupid as in a life-or-death situation the last thing you'd want is your opponent knowing what you're going to do. From a narrative standpoint it is needed sometimes as if the audience is out of the loop they will not have much invested in their viewing experience, and whatever the character does power wise risks being seen as a deus-ex-machina moment. That said, a strong writer will have their characters' powers explained in situations that aren't convoluted or unrealistic, for example a character reassuring his/her friends their power before they enter a fight instead of mindlessly babbling it off to their opponent. |
| in-universe its stupid but for the audience i guess it's fine. i wonder if shonens will keep doing the whole "if i explain my abilities i will get a power boost" like HxH and JJK |
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| It's generally quite silly. However depending on the series silly may or may not be a bad thing, sometimes having characters explain to the camera what they're doing is just part of the fabric of the work, if the writer is aiming for something deliberately heightened. |
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| jujutsu kaisen explains that characters gets stronger if they explain their powers like a confidence boost becomes a power up |
| There's almost absolutely no reason for a character to do that aside from the author just lazily wanting to change the course of a fight or wanting to tell us the capaicty of a characters in just a blatant tone. I actually can think of two popular cases and one of those you said it, which: Bleach and Jojo. I watched the last arc of Bleach this year, and there were at least two fights where a character lost simply because they explained their power to the antagonist. In that fight you mentioned, the captain Rose literally told his opponent: "I'll tell you what, my Zanpakuto controls "music" its deceptive melodies resound in your ears... And give me power over your heart" and what did his opponent do? Well, he broke his own eardrums, so the power didn't affect him. There was absolutely no reason for him to explain his power. It felt like such a poorly executed way to make a character win a fight that it was honestly hilarious. If you don't have a way for a character to understand the enemy ability and make an interesting and in depth combat, just make them spell it out in the most obvious way possible lol, so that you can change the result of the fight to your favor in a one-sided note without anything interesting not tension happening between the two who are engaging in battle. This will be a bad and even shameless example of this happening, because when a fight happens to have a breaking point just because of this happening is lazy writing. Not only that, but the character explaining his power didn't fit in the narrative and the dialogue of the participants, and it was so explicit about what it tried to do that it felt like just a comment from the author instead of the character. For me the difference between Jojo and Bleach falls just in how you reach the outcome of a combat and the dialogues; Jojo's dialogue is so over the top and exaggerated that even when the antagonist explain their powers, they do it in a more natural and fitting way. For example, in part 5 when Diavolo explains King Crimson he says: "the clouds of the sky do not realize they have been scattered by the winds! An extinguished flame is not aware of the moment it has been snuffed! It's only the results. Only the results that remain in this world!" which, if you ask me, makes a huge difference as to blatantly saying that his power is to erase time. Not just that, but also it makes more sense as the fight was so one-sided that it was a clear win for Diavolo, so explaining his power, he, someone who is arrogant to his core, makes more sense as to state to his enemy that he is indeed untouchable. Even leaving that example aside, I think Jojo just does it better because even when an antagonist explains his power, there'e almost another character that does something so random and so bizarre that the fight will not finish just by explaining the power, unlike in Bleach case. So at the end and for me, it depends of how the dialogue is structured and the tone of the fight, that, and not making the whole "I am explaining my power" the whole reason the fight is decided |
Imagine NOT having your bro explain your ultimate attack to the audience AND your opponent! lol, lmao even. IMO that's how you know you've made it! It's a necessity, point blank, plain and simple!  |
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| Needed, because I have no time to learn what there abilities are, and it is kinda funny. |
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| Characters gotta give the audience the juicy details about their powers and moves while they ’re at it. Sure, it might be a bit, shall we say, tactically questionable, but where’s the drama if they don’t lay it all out? Is it stupid? Maybe. But in the world of anime, style points matter just as much as strategy. Why win a fight when you can win it with flair, right? |
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