The Shrine

There's a good chance this will summon Don to the thread to explain.



Also good, this series has consistently had some good fights during the series.



I also might have posted these before, but I have no clue!

My favorite anime fight choreography is probably in Darker than Black. Even the controversial second season has a ton of cool shit.

I think UFOTable is on their fifth time around doing Fate so they probably learned a few things. Fate has interesting characters if you don't know about the context of the fights but it's impossible to separate the fighting sequences that makes One Piece 'punch someone really hard until they go down' look like a treatise on proper fighting techniques. I mean that scene you basically begin with a MMX2 deal where a supremely overpowered character, Saber Original, decided she needs to go destroy the computer room... err..., destroy a giant blob of meat that might accidentally crush a civilian or two, leaving the immortal Shirou Emiya to fight against Gilgamesh. I always imagined Shirou gets immediately impaled a few hundred times as soon as the fight begins and rips off his shirt and you see his wound heal like a T1000 and say, "Nanomachines, son."

Despite Gate of Babylon has turned out to be totally unbeatable for other super legendary heroes that possess unbelievably skills and can penetrate stuff like Godhand (renders all attacks below something like level 99 to 0) and can pierce mana shields with ease, Shirou Emiya is suddenly knows Kung Fu and is going to dual wield two daggers and just parry everything Street Fighter 3 style. And then it turns out Gilgamesh is just a guy who farmed a lot of Excaliburs and keep on throw them for damage ala Final Fantasy ninja, but his authentic weapons turns out to be no match for the master of piracy, Shirou Emiya, whom we already know in his earlier battle that he'd eventually lead on a life devoted to counterfeiting legendary swords. So Gilgamesh decides to use the one sword that Shirou Emiya couldn't pirate, the Ea, and while he's making his pose for the super move, Shirou Emiya, who failed to sign the Hero Convention, just chopped his arm off while Gilgamesh was making a pose because we're supposed to believe that a normal human is so fast to be able to hit Gilamesh out of his super move, something no Hero has ever been able to do up to this point.

But at least the battle music is awesome.

By the way, Ilya in the second movie is the obligatory 'sister not related by blood' of Shirou Emiya, and people always thought that big sister Ilya who is supposed to be the most powerful Magi ever lived ought to be a lot better than her little brother at, well, just about everything. I think it started out as a dojin with Ilya as Archer girl and it eventually gained enough traction so she got her own magical girl spinoff, and unlike Shirou Emiya she fights with the proper piracy techniques. For example you'll see that she constantly discards her weapons, because pirated legendary swords cannot possibly clash against the real thing for extended time. In fact the whole point of Shirou Emiya's technique is that since he can't compete against any legendary weapon on quality he overwhelms them with quantity and it doesn't matter if your Excalibur is made out of tin, if you got enough of them it's got to be enough, and in particular any weapon only needs to be able to hold up for one exchange because Shirou/Ilya can always get more counterfeit weapons.

I really need to watch Darker then Black, seems like something I'd like.

And thank you Don for the amusing explanation. :p

Well, Fate suffers the same problem as Naruto. Like Naruto, Shirou Emiya is someone who won the genetic lottery but both series goes a lot talking about how it's their hard work/tactics/whatever and it gets insulting after a while. Shirou Emiya has the Avalon so he's practically immortal, and he's got like Saiyan genes so each time he didn't die he becomes stronger. Later it's revealed that he's been doing the Goku style 'kill yourself and recover and become stronger' training every day except he doesn't even need time to recover because he can't die in the first place. In the Sakura timeline there was a part where he just puts on a cape and is like 'screw this, I'm taking my harem back with my fists' and just punch everything to death and it's actually quite in line with how strong he really is. I don't like the character but I'm not opposed to him owning stuff, as long as it's not on the stupid fuzzy logic of how the power of mass piracy trumps all. In fact, pirating legendary weapons gets you killed by the will of the universe in the world of Fate Stay Night. Pirating Excalibur, for example, usually leads to an entire nation being destroyed. Again, Shirou Emiya can get away with that because not even the will of the universe can kill him.

Eric wrote:I really need to watch Darker then Black, seems like something I'd like.

And thank you Don for the amusing explanation. :p

I'm an anime elitist so if asked I wouldn't say Darker then Black is my favorite, but whenever I actually sit down and think about it it's basically the first thing that comes to mind every time lol.

The second season is controversial but I like where it goes and the fights tend to be even better because of [major plot point]