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Modern battle shounen fights are garbage. Bring back old style fight animations!

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May 8, 6:43 AM
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Compare shounen fights from the 90s to mid 2010s to the ones in the last few years. It's night and day difference.

Fights back then were much more clearer, smooth and it's like they were hand drawn, everything is perfectly detailed.

Compared to the garbage today where it's ridden with excessive flashy aura effect, minecraft blocks that were never there in the first place and cheap animation where characters face are warped and landscape that looks like playdoh. You could hardly see what they're doing and completely ruins the tension.

That's a sign of laziness.
Howdym8May 8, 6:46 AM
May 8, 6:45 AM
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Old man yells at clouds

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May 8, 6:48 AM
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Many things are much worse nowadays. Can't help that. :(
May 8, 6:54 AM
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Howdym8 said:
Compared to the garbage today where it's ridden with excessive flashy aura effect

As if old anime fights didn't have flashy effects as well.
May 8, 7:06 AM
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I don't really have a problem with animation in modern anime fights
I wish there were more actually well planned/strategic fights and not just screaming out attack names and shooting nuclear bombs out of character's hands like DBZ
Naruto used to be very strategic early on with great fights and an interesting power system and then it messed it all up in Shippuden
May 8, 7:06 AM
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1) Watch better battle shounen (e.g. World Trigger s2-s3)
2) Battle shounen aren't the only kind of action anime with fights (e.g. 7th Prince)
May 8, 7:26 AM
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Reply to Nirinbo
1) Watch better battle shounen (e.g. World Trigger s2-s3)
2) Battle shounen aren't the only kind of action anime with fights (e.g. 7th Prince)
@Nirinbo World trigger has some awesome strategic battles, its so underrated. The manga goes hardcore on strategy in the last arc.
May 8, 8:18 AM
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@Nirinbo World trigger has some awesome strategic battles, its so underrated. The manga goes hardcore on strategy in the last arc.
@Turn_A_Blum I was afraid that the newest manga arc wouldn't be as good as the B-rank wars, but I'm glad I'm loving it and I don't care about the lack of action.
May 8, 8:52 AM
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You know there are other genres you don't have to watch shonen only.
May 8, 8:59 AM

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Tengen vs Gyutarou soloes every old shonen fight and its not even the best modern anime fight.
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May 8, 9:49 AM
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hey rememeber that fight between Yusuke and Hiei in chapter black when they reused the same punching animation like two to three times

oh right do you remember despite how cool it was that a part of Yusuke's and Doctor's fight choreography was lifted from a Jackie Chan movie
May 8, 10:07 AM

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Idk I think modern battle shounen's animation is usually good, they're usually the highest budget productions coming out in a given season so they generally look good

Shows like Hokuto no Ken or the original Dragon Ball do have a charm to them that I don't see much in recent shounen action series, though I don't know how to explain it.
May 9, 6:27 AM

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@Turn_A_Blum I was afraid that the newest manga arc wouldn't be as good as the B-rank wars, but I'm glad I'm loving it and I don't care about the lack of action.
@Nirinbo I kind of understand the mangaka. He wants to cover every detail, it helps because its showing how to they are carefully preparing kids to survive. Kind of true military approach, very rare to see elsewhere.
May 9, 6:45 AM

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I agree and made a related thread about this grievance with modern animation.
May 9, 9:59 AM

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Watch Solo Leveling, JJK, Chainsaw man before winning.

And even if you did do an eye checkup for taking off nostalgia lens.
May 9, 5:35 PM

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another thread where we overrate something old, boohoo.
May 9, 5:47 PM

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I'm watching shadow skill, does that count?
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May 10, 11:40 PM

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I agree

I’m watching Lazarus at the moment and while it isn’t a good show, it’s so refreshing to characters actually fight instead of reading dialogue blows at one another.
May 11, 2:37 AM
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Budget and schedule is everything when making a good fighting scene, Most modern animes are made hastily so their schedule is very bad, That's why they pale in comparison to 90s animes.
May 11, 4:49 AM

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> Started Shin Samurai-den Yaiba
> 5 seconds in, there's an epilepsy fight
> Couldn't nope out any quicker

The more I see these flashy rubbishes, the more I feel myself becoming a boomer.
May 11, 5:07 AM

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The powerpoint aura fights are peak fiction dude

May 16, 4:56 PM

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I don't care about the style fight. It should mostly be:

- not an ugly eyesore
- proper build up
- long enough (without going with Luffy vs Katakuri fighting over 20+ episodes or something)
- cool effects if superpower/magic involved

Currently watching Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and modern fights are more than decent when they happen. They're only small skirmishes with the Kaban-s for now but it's ok.

Solo Leveling also has a cool atmosphere.

KnY didn't feel flashy to me, despite the modern colorful style on traditional fighting.
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May 16, 5:02 PM

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This alt-account has 3 Anime listed.
It's all porn.


Guys?^^
Can we stop falling for this idiot and not be ultra serious about his bait, right now, please?
May 16, 5:22 PM
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@Turn_A_Blum I was afraid that the newest manga arc wouldn't be as good as the B-rank wars, but I'm glad I'm loving it and I don't care about the lack of action.
@Nirinbo WT approaches combat wonderfully.
May 17, 2:25 AM

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modern fights can be good, but there’s something about that raw, unfiltered fights intensity that only older animation can do.
May 17, 2:32 AM
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This alt-account has 3 Anime listed.
It's all porn.


Guys?^^
Can we stop falling for this idiot and not be ultra serious about his bait, right now, please?
@Merve2Love Not happening, MAL userbase engages trolls out of principle and to grow their forum post counts. Look at thewiru or Dragevard (and before that GenshinRosaria) threads.

All that matters for shonen fights scenes is strategy. MHA has some of the worst I have seen.
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best fight scenes iv ever seen in anime was from fist of the north, fate/zero & maybe ninja scroll

nothing will beat the fluidity and impact from fist of the north & ninja scroll was pretty brutal also, fate/zero was really flashy & what id expect from a modern type combat anime, very satisfying combat from all 3 of those anime imo

ill give dragon ball an honorable mention aswell
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Ranpy said:
@Merve2Love Not happening, MAL userbase engages trolls out of principle and to grow their forum post counts. Look at thewiru or Dragevard (and before that GenshinRosaria) threads.

All that matters for shonen fights scenes is strategy. MHA has some of the worst I have seen.

Good Point.

I would add Deg and that Polygon-Guy, while we're at it

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