Originally Posted by
HaruhiToy
Generally, an anime fight goes like this:
1. Provocation/Challenge. Blows/lightning bolts/whatever get traded.
2. Hero get beat down. Usually after puffing up. ("I am not going to lose to you!") Villain: "pathetic worm you aren't worth my time."
3. Villain yak yaks over technique or superiority or metaphysics or whatever long enough that Hero recovers enough to get up again. ("It isn't over!")
4. Villain surprise stage. Usually emotes new anger or perhaps amusement, usually as a sign of receding contempt. Hero isn't dead yet dude why don't you read the script they gave you?
5. Hero pulls out new, stronger weapon/technique/power-level ("aaarrrghhhh!") that they should have used from the get go but that would have made everything done with back at step 1.
6. Sometime repeat steps 2-5 because the bad guy also ratchets up another level. In Bleach this is done about 37 times.
7. Villain finally beat down. The big variance happens here but the options are A) die, B) slink off B1) forever, or B2) vowing revenge, and then the all time favorite C) become friends with hero.
Now of course this isn't the end of things. After this you "level up" to the next bad guy and if you thought the LAST guy was badass it turns out he was just a flunky for the super-badass that is coming next. Here you usually get the obscured-eyes-evil-grin trope and go back to Step 1, already in progress.
So which fight is "best?" None of them.
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