Favorite Fight Sequence Ever: Anime Edition

I agree with most of the ones posted before; here's a few that haven't been mentioned yet:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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Jotaro VS Dio at the end of the 1st OVA. Smith VS Neo in the 3rd Matrix flick (one of my favourite battles of all time) has nothing on it. Epic stuff. The timefreezing scenes are amazing, and Dio is the ultimate badass.

Noir

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Chloe vs Kirika & Mireille. Not because the fight was very memorable (only seen it once so far) but because of the intense emotions involved. Chloe had seen Kirika as her precious friend up until that point and her betrayal just sent her over the edge. And the sheer irony that she's killed with her "precious treasure" in the end... a sad end to a great character.

Elfen Lied

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Nana's first confrontation with Lucy. BRUTAL. Bit by bit she's torn to shreds by her merciless opponent. Puts a sadistic smile on my face just thinking about it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

A few people have already mentioned the battle in One Piece against Luffy and Crocodile. I'm here to reiterate their claims. I caught the battle myself a couple of weeks ago, and promptly rewatched it several times.

I always enjoy the fights where the hero is the underdog, and manages to overcome an opponent that he should have no chance whatsoever of defeating. Such is the case here. This one clip doesn't do the fight real justice, since you have to watch the entire arc to appreciate the emotions and tension that this fight represents, in which hundreds of thousands of lives rest in the outcome of this fight, but newbies should find it to be an enjoyable clip nontheless.

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YouTube Video

The bar has been significantly raised here. If Luffy has a better fight later on, I'll be quite impressed.

By the way, if anyone has an mp3 of the classical piece played, please share it, thanks.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The music in that scene is from Dvorak's New World Symphony.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E0MKN5V9

Enjoy

I was speaking idiomatically.

I agree with the final showdown between Dio and JoJo. EPIC sums it up perfectly and you could see the writer put a lot of thought into it with all the characters actually thinking their moves through instead of random DBZ flurry of punches and junk.

It's not much of an actual fight but in EP 4 of DIEBUSTER:

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When Nono arrives as Buster Machine 7, DieBuster and starts using space probes as weapons and using the buster beam to slice a whole freaking moon/miniplanet, it was just breath taking.

EP 5 of Gunbuster

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When the Gunbuster takes on a whole freaking armada millions strong of space monsters breaking out all of it's moves. Truly one of the most beautiful mech scenes in classic anime.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wow. Let's see if I can pick out any fights from animes which haven't been mentioned yet here but should definitely be..

Mech Battles:

Gun X Sword:

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When Dann fights a rematch against the rapier wielding mech in episode 16.

The build up to that fight was great as well as the overall animation and even the music was pretty fitting. Come to think of it, that anime was full of awesome mech battles. True, some were too short but the animation was always awesome and the music nicely complimented it.

Power Battles:

X TV:
All fights in this series were awesome but of course the fight of

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Kamui vs Fuuma

was epic as long as your not sick of the repetitive music by that time.

Noein - Mou Hitori no Kimi e:
The fight between

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Karas and his friend who then ends up dying by the face.

It has a unique animation style very fitting for fighting sequences.


I find it strange that I can only remember one epic mech battle ..aside from the ones already mentioned. Thanks to those who mentioned Macross Plus though, I've been planning on watching thpse OVAs for a while now. The Macross movie kind of turned me off.. but now I've got a good reason to watch it.

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the fight between Kenshin and that guy who claimed himself to be the Son of God was awesome. the anime turned widescreen just for the fight!

also i like all the fights from Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou. they're fricken cool!!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Noein

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Episode 12, the fight between Fukurou and Karasu. The animation was amazing, on par with that of a movie's quality. The entire episode was done incredibly well, but the fight sequence itself was awesome. Huge explosions, lots of fast arm-sword fighting, and one of the strangest conclusions to a fight.

I also loved the sketchy-style used in some of the fight scene when Fukurou and Karasu were flying around the port. It only added to the feeling of just how fast the fight was moving

Edit: Oh, just saw this was already mentioned. Seconding it anyway, it was an amazing sequence.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

T_T Someone already mentioned the One Piece fight I was thinking about... Well, it was amazing xD However...

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Though I found it way more satisfactory than the final fights in the next story arcs (Enel and Foxy) I believe that this battle will be dethroned soon, when the last battle of the CP9 arc is animated (In the manga it was way beyond amazing)

Another fight I loved was from Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Yeah, not the anime most of you would expect to see here)

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The Utena vs Arisugawa Juri fight in which Juri says that she doesn't believe in miracles, and that Utena should show her one if she believes in them. The way Utena's sword drops from the sky (After Juri's knocks it off her hands) tearing Juri's rose in half just as Utena's rose is about to be cut was simply amazing.

Gankutsuou

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The mecha's duels are pretty good o_o Just when I though the series couldn't get any better, then the mecha duel between the Count and Frank happened xD Having another mecha battle scene near the end of the series was a really nice touch too.

And last but not least, probably every single battle scene in Eureka Seven. Mechas surfing in the sky AND fighting at the same time? That show is too amazing for it's own good @_@;;;

There's nowhere I can't reach.