Why Do Very Powerful Attacks Always Miss In Anime?

[Good Night Owl]

Seriously. Cocky dude channels a huge attack, shatters the ground, changes the sky, levels a building, next thing you know, he's in disbelief that his attack missed.

Powerful Anime attacks almost *NEVER* land kill shots. It is scientifically impossible.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Munithe EXT:

why cant dead characters stay dead in any media

because the nature of the work as a fiction means it doesn't have to pretend death is an absolute.

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by apathy:

Originally posted by Good Night Owl:

Well, it is one final punch and final chess move that ends it though. Even after long drawn out scenes, these attacks aren't very effective.

lol I didn't mean that literally.

Look, it was a low hanging fruit, and I took it, ok?

[Xero_Daxter]

I'm the type of anime villain who doesn't waste time and attack the main character before he gets a chance to charge up his attack which takes him 10 minutes to start up.

[Candyy]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I'm the type of anime villain who doesn't waste time and attack the main character before he gets a chance to charge up his attack which takes him 10 minutes to start up.

But you need better stats

[Dracoco OwO]

Plot armor dodges.

[Xero_Daxter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9bDzHP6_Pk

[steven1mac]

Because they yell the name of their attack, and enemy would be dumb to just stand there. If Naruto was real, the only enemy any of the ninjas could sneak up on would need to be deaf.

[NW/RL]

If you kill the bad guy too early then you don't have a reason to keep telling the story, especially if the entire story was about fighting the bad guy

[AdahnGorion]

Because else the mangas would only be 5 pages long

[Good Night Owl]

Yeah, yeah, I know everybody. The story would be too short. What I mean is, why don't they write these scenes more creatively? Maybe save the "ultimate attack" for the end of the fight, or add some kind of condition that the character can't make normally as a means to win a particular fight... Or maybe don't even have big flashy ultimate attack, what about some political intrigue that flavors the fight in some way. Something other than recycled tropes you see over and over.

Saying "It would be too short" is kind of stating the obvious. When is the last time you watched an ultimate attack and thought 'I bet THAT will destroy him'? The answer is almost never because it's so predictable, it hurts!

[Devsman]

I dunno, I'm not familiar with this trope. The one over the top power level anime I like is TTGL, and the strongest attacks never miss in that one.

[Tristin]

It's gotta miss, or at least hit but don't end the opponent. Why? Because then the battle can be dragged out longgggggg.

[Rio]

Idk Dragon ball Z had a lot of final big attacks winning, specially in movies.

Like gohan's attack on cell.

[Devsman]

Originally posted by Tristin:

It's gotta miss, or at least hit but don't end the opponent. Why? Because then the battle can be dragged out longgggggg.

:lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Seems to me, at that point you would just have them do a normal attack and save the GEEGA DWILL BWEAKU for the last thing that happens in the fight.

Maybe the problem is the writers have time to burn and a simple punch takes less than a second, compared to something they can charge up for thirty or more.