Friday, February 20, 2015

All About the Fights

Whats better than a good ol fashion fist fight?

No really I'm curious because I can only think of  free food as a close second.


Since the beginning of mankind we've loved to watch two dudes or dudettes  duke it out. It's one of America's favorite pastimes, boxing, wrestling, or the increasingly popular MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). We love to watch people beat the heck out of each other, but guess what so do the Japanese. No one loves a fight more than the Japanese, from Boxing, to Sumo Wrestling and Martial Arts that can be traced back to the legendary Samurai of Japan. This love for fights clearly spills into the small screen in the form of Anime. Anime includes so many different fighting styles, every style used in anime is derived from some form of real world martial arts. The fighting styles can be clean and technical or outright crazy and imaginative. One thing you will get in anime that you don't get anywhere else is over the top crazy beat downs.


This scene is from the anime Naruto is outright crazy and a perfect example of a good ol fashion Anime beatdown enjoy.
Video found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaU9Oj-0ylE
Property of Studio Pierrot and Masashi Kishimoto

My oh my, pretty sweet right? This one fight scene alone did so much, everything was great from the choreography, animation, music and a use of flashbacks that established the relationship between the two characters. Gold.
The world of Anime is a goldmine of action and fight scenes you won't find anywhere else trust me. 

2 comments:

  1. I've never watched much anime, but some of the animation is almost life like, really cool. And you're right, even though they are animated, these fight scenes are pretty sick. I also imagine that this is what kids see when they play fight lol.

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    1. I'm glad you liked it, haha right the power of imagination

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