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.

[PurpleBeast]

It is too OP.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Because by the time he did all that the evil guy could just side step.


Even worse trope to me is when someone throws a punch and then just starts kinda pushing the other guy with his fist instead of sending him flying right away.

[Phirestar]

It’s because they’re Strength pures that only have 1 Attack.

[Talby]

RNG

[Grynn]

Plot armour.

[apathy]

Rule of Drama.

Its not just in anime, its in almost everything. If Chess could be finished in one move, you don't have a game. If fights could be ended in one punch, you don't have a fight.

[Good Night Owl]

apathy eredeti hozzászólása:

Rule of Drama.

Its not just in anime, its in almost everything. If Chess could be finished in one move, you don't have a game. If fights could be ended in one punch, you don't have a fight.

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.

Personally, I think following tropes, and rules dull the effectiveness of the scene in shows an movies. As a story teller, you want to break trends, not follow them... I guess that is if you intend on making something truly unique.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Because they telegraph their power-up phase for 5 episodes to save on the animation budget, so the "frenemy" and "sometimes badguy" can step out of the way... Narrowly of course, enough to cut their cheek or something like that, for effect and crap.

[apathy]

Good Night Owl eredeti hozzászólása:

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.

Its the same reason why the Great Eagles in Lord of the Rings don't just fly the ring-barer to Mount Doom and end the trilogy before it starts.

Okay maybe that's a bad example, Tolkien hated the OP Great Eagles.

[Birds]

it needs to be more mid or it will mess up the story now.

unless it misses.

plus why don't people just swing full strength all the time? oh they'll miss and dislocate something, that's why.

[Candyy]

Because is like a Pokémon battle v:

If you use focus blast or hydro pump then yeah, you will miss v:

It would just be too overpowered and the anime show is ruined

[St✩rlight]

why cant dead characters stay dead in any media

[Acetyl]

It's communicating "temperance is a virtue". Work smarter, not harder, Just because you have power doesn't mean you can expect to win by just blasting everything out of the way by mindless brute force. The showey and powerful attack, with a build up probably, where this will be the one true solution, which then amounts to nothing... I suppose it's also neurosis inducing doublethink programming for children. The best you can is not good enough. You'll find that relates with another Bushido-like anime trope (it's actually an emotional and energetic organizational curve) which has the character needing to be beaten before they can access a greater hidden strength. So it combines it all. Kami (the hidden divine within, a protector), offering up a sacrifice, death and rebirth, never giving up, and the hope (conditioned expectation) that when your back is to the wall it will awaken a giant within. So it's a type of cultural conditioning which has its roots in Bushido, and all these elements work together. This type of emotional curve also probably has a genetic bias.

All of these factors have to be considered together I'd say, rather than as tropes individually. They form certain broader constellations which are fairly consistent.

[Faster With Feeling]

Because if they landed their shot the whole show would be over, hehe

[Volfogg]

Because they roll nat1 on attack roll.
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Or at least it could happen.