Top 5 Favorite Anime Fight Scenes? (Possible Spoilers)Follow

What's yours?

For me I'm not sure if I can really number these because they all are so well done, but here is what mine would consist of:

Naruto vs Sauske (Naruto): I know I'm probably going to get a lot of for this one, but this fight really was well done and well animated. In fact, I would go as far to say that it is probably the single most well animated episode of the entire Naruto series. At least up until the next episode where Sauske decides to transform into a drag queen gargoyle.

Spike vs Vincent (Cowboy Bebop Movie): I hardly remember this movie, but this fight scene still sticks out in my mind, which has to mean something. I think this fight really showed that Spike is deadly with or without a gun.

Asuka vs Eva Series (End of Evangelion): This is hands down the best scene in the entire Evangelion series. Asuka not only defeats an entire battalion, but goes on to hand other Eva Units their asses all under to what I believe was 3 minutes. Unfortunately, this fight doesn't necessarily end well for Asuka, but because of it this fight has one of the more powerful scenes in Evangelion.

Takamura Mamoru vs Brian Hawk (Hajime No Ippo: New Challenger): At first instead of putting this I was going to put Ippo vs Sendo (championship fight), but the animation and quality of this fight is just so well done, it just begs to be mentioned. The build up for this match was just so big and when it finally happened it just pulls you in and never lets go. Everything about this fight is on point and there really isn't much I can say about it outside of just recommending watching it. Oh, and it also has one of the most awesome knock downs in the entire series.

Wrath vs Gluttony (Full Metal Alchemist Movie): A kid with a metal arm and leg fights an overweight tentacle monster that wants to eat everything. Also, his tentacles have faces of his face. What more do you need?

Thanks for that, now I have to watch the entire thing again.

Any gunfight in Grenadier (admittedly not for the actual fighting ...) was definitely at the top of my list for favorite anime fight scenes, but honestly I don't remember fight scenes all that well. The fights involving Kenpachi in Bleach were worthwhile, as well. Oh, and Neji versus Hinata in Naruto made me love Hinata a whole lot.

Edited, Aug 27th 2009 8:55pm by lolgaxe

I whole-heartedly agree with End of Evangelion (I love the fan-made video set to Prodigy more than I should, haha). Also, some of the fight scenes in Hellsing kick ***...I'm especially fond of Alucard vs. Anderson scene.

Nexa

In no particular order: (SPOILER ALERT!)

Tamaki vs whats her face (totally forgot her name lol) (Bamboo Blade)
This fight was relatively short, but it was when Tamaki was locked in the equipment shed by her opponents friends and then hurt her ankle when running to the match. Once she realized that the girl cheated she totally pwned her. Probably one of my favorites since I also do Kendo and had to fight people when injured. Plus watching a little girls kiai shake an entire building is cool too XD

Kenich vs Kannou Shou (History's strongest disciple Kenichi *manga*
This is probably Kenichi's hardest battle in the entire series thus far. Very epic fight is all that I can say about it (that and I wish the anime went this far)


Clare vs Rigaldo (Claymore)
The one who is deemed the weakest becomes the strongest and pwns face, classic reason to love this fight. Plus I love the fact that there really wasn't a plan or a strategy when she won...just go berserk and keep slashing till your enemy is literally in pieces....

Light vs L (Death Note)
As was said before, a battle of wits and intelligence is sometimes better than a physical one.

Black Star vs Mifune round 3 (Soul Eater *Manga*)
This is probably Black star at his best in which he actually kills Mifune. He also gets pretty messed up himself.

Yep, its almost all released in English too, although you'll have to order it from the bookstore since it wasn't popular enough to be kept in stock (it's like 30 volumes.)

Or just get it off BakaBT.



Edited, Sep 1st 2009 1:22am by catwho

That part was freaking awesome.

Lessee. I've barely seen more than maybe a dozen anime, so I may not get five but here goes:

Spike/Vicious - Cowboy Bebop - not much that hasn't already been said. The only thing I didn't like was Spoilerthe fact that Spike dies

Sailor Senshi/Queen Metalla (sp?) - BSSM - First season ending (uncut version) SpoilerWatching all the Senshi die one by one then seeing their spirits lend power to Usagi was just really touching.

Ending Game - Princess Nine Ok, not exactly a fight, per se., but this had so much emotional tension and drama. I loved it. It was also the first time an ending took me completely by surprise. Very bittersweet ending.

That's all I can think of right now. Yea, I go for the emotional stuffs.

Spoiler warning!

The fight in the Buddha temple (Gantz) - An intense fight where the main character and his friends plus others goes in to fight an alien infestation like they have done before, except a bloodbath later, so many of the important characters whom you've been watching from the start gets killed. Totally unexpected.


The Northern Campaign (Claymore) - Even before the battles, the Claymore team leaders already realised they were sent on an impossible suicide mission. Their first fight with 3 Awakened Being scouts (20 Claymores against the 3 scouts) proved extremely difficult and they barely won. Half of the Claymore fighters proved too weak to be of any use, in fact. Feeling hopeless and depressed, some of the main characters encouraged the more frightened ones, talking about teamwork, doing their best and helping each other to overcome their challenges, cheering them up. Then when the battle against the Awakened Being army started, those very girls who had only just begun to build up their courage get ripped to shreds. The battle was intense, especially when Rigaldo arrived and killed the strongest Claymore captains one by one within seconds.


I guess the stark harshness of these fights really gave me an impression, not like many other anime fights where you'll expect the good guys to always survive the fight.

Edited, Sep 18th 2009 4:46am by McGame