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I'm home and settling in to watch more Bleach and entertain the cat before starting to clean this pigsty I'm currently inhabiting, and as I'm watching a bad guy set his attack ... mechanical thingy to assembling itself in dramatic fashion before it attacks the good guys, I am yet again driven to wonder why, in anime, nobody ever takes the 10 or so seconds it takes for the bad guy to power up/assemble/explain his diabolical plot in detail to just take the offensive and bloody attack?

If I ever make an anime, you can bet my heroes won't stand around gaping while that's going on without a damn good reason.

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I can only suppose they think it's not sporting to attack before the opponent is ready, or they want to wait and fight the opponent at full power because it's not any fun otherwise. But yeah, it's dumb. I don't mind it when it happens in situations where the characters acknowledge the stupidity of the move and say stuff like, "I know I could attack now, but I really want to defeat him at full-strength". But when they just stand around gawking, like they have no clue what they're doing...*headdesk*

Ah, shounen retards...aren't they grand! XD

Yeah, some sort of reason - even showing the characters exhausted and preactically unable to move is good. But when they sit there gaping like dead fish... *twitch*

My theory is that in certain genres, showing off is always instantaneous. Bankai, magical transformation sequences, monologues describing your own powers or analyzing your opponent's techniques,etc - none of them can be interrupted unless your opponent is boss-level.

In other shows, characters who come from this genre are good for a comedic moment as they get squashed. The other way around also seems potentially amusing but I don't recall ever seeing it, hmmm.

("I can't believe you just said all that. I can't believe I didn't shoot you while you were saying it. Wait, why are we still talking?")

In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, when the Rangers finished their endless morphing sequence, the bad guys were gone. I LOL'd.

BWAH! Really? I think I saw that movie a few times, but it was years ago and I don't remember that bit. That's hilarious, though. *dies*

I like it when they have conversations while they're rushing at each other, surrounded by speed lines. In Bleach, speed lines apparently mean that they're going slower--so they can talk before they run into each other.

If I were in Bleach, I'd be chopping Soul Reapers down before they were more than 30 seconds into their long monologue about their greatness/weapon/power levels/etc. One, because I'm just like that. Two, because they're so damned boring and annoying.

I also loves groups that don't attack in groups but instead come on one-on-one with their enemy. Smart.

...I have absolutely no honor, huh.

Not at all! You're just adhering to the Evil Overlord List (http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html)!

75. I will instruct my Legions of Terror to attack the hero en masse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time.

Which is to say: word. Drives me nuts when there's twenty people on one side and most of them just stand around while just a small group attacks.

At least have it be a thing where you send out one redshirt, call him Mikey, to fight the guy while you observe his weaknesses and style, then smash him into the ground en masse instead of feeding another single fighter to him. "Fighting him man to man didn't work. Send in the next man!"

Then again, when I used to watch Lost I couldn't help imagining the people around the person currently having a flashback just standing there waiting for the person to start interacting with the present again. "You too? Are you done yet?"

You too?

I wondered how they got anything finished when people would fall into flashbacks so often.

"Yeah, flashback again. I'm smacking the back of his head in five minutes if he doesn't come out of it on his own."

Have you watched any Firefly episodes? In one, Mal is about to release the people who attacked his ship, but wants to have a little talk first. He proposes they part ways and stay away from one another. The guy he is talking to will have none of this, and threatens to hunt down Mal. So Mal, uh, gives up on him ( kicks him into the jet engine ) and tries again with a different attacker.

That's why I'm convinced the best weapon in Bleach would be one that shuts your enemy up. THEY'D BE POWERLESS THEN.

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