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What is your favorite attack or technique in anime?

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Macross missiles.

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Raikiri

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Raikiri being a consolation prize on the way to combining chakra shape manipulation and chakra element transformation.

The way the move was reverse engineered to make sense and give weight to the move in Kakashi Gaiden is what puts it over the top.
 
Anything that's not Stoner Sunshine from Getter Robo Armageddon can get the fuck out of here.

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I don't know if I have a single top favorite attack in anime, but yeah, this one's a damn good one.
 
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Rock Lee using the 8 gates. There's nothing like going all out and seeing your opponent rag dolled helplessly across the room in every direction. I'm not a big fan of Naruto, but the fight between Rock Lee and Gaara was probably the best fight in the series and it's still hype as fuck.
 
I like Kuroko's "misdirection" a lot.

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The ability to mess with people's perception and take advantage of it "from the shadows" is compelling. Makes me want to learn sleight of hand techniques.
 
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Baoh.
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It's not too hard to find this one on YouTube since the rights lapsed years ago, but it's worth tracking down the hilariously terrible dub. As a mid-80's OVA, it's not bad. The animation is nice, but the story is bonkers. Every character has over-the-top super movies that are either subtitled or explicitly named by on-screen characters, the main scientist bad guy talks like a pirate, and there are little to no character motivations for anything.

Screened this for a few friends for a movie night once and they couldn't get enough of it.
 
Every.
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Move.
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In.
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Baoh.
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It's not too hard to find this one on YouTube since the rights lapsed years ago, but it's worth tracking down the hilariously terrible dub. As a mid-80's OVA, it's not bad. The animation is nice, but the story is bonkers. Every character has over-the-top super movies that are either subtitled or explicitly named by on-screen characters, the main scientist bad guy talks like a pirate, and there are little to no character motivations for anything.

Screened this for a few friends for a movie night once and they couldn't get enough of it.
i have this on dvd,

one of the best ever,
since it's created by jojo creator
 
These two combined also lead to, arguably, the coolest moment in DBZ

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Yep, that beam struggle is still the peak of Dragon Ball for me.

But as far as naming a single technique . . . I think I have to go with the Final Flash. The build-up, the scale of the attack, and the Falconer soundtrack, all comes together to make an unforgettable moment.

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"You're going to destroy the whole planet, FATHEEEER! You've got to stop it!"
 
Damn. Some really cool ones in here.

It isn't super flashy, but I loved Getsuga Tensho from Bleach. It was a simple move that didn't pause the moment for 10 seconds to hold on it and exaggerate it (in most cases), so it never came off as overly intrusive or silly. You never thought "why is the bad guy just sitting there while he is yelling his move?" Well, not much anyway. And for being simple and quick, it was still powerful. I also love how much this power's form changed, in how he unleashed it and the impact of it depending on different scenarios.

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Unfortunately it's too old for gifs, if I wanted them I'd have to make them myself. But Grandpa Danbei from the OVA of Cutey Honey. If anyone is old enough, or an aficionado of anime I'm sure they'll agree on his move set.
 
I'm going to try this again since it wasn't working when I tried to post from my phone before. Anyway, from a stylistic standpoint, I think it looks awesome.

Took long enough for a SM gif. Too much sausage in this thread

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Venus is best Senshi
 
Final Getsuga Tenshou

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Years before this aired I was talking to my friend about the series and said to him "I'm sure at some point someone will fuse with their zanpakuto itself and become a physical manifestation of the spirit as, like, the final version of the zanpakuto. I dunno, Hokai or some shit?"

Won it.
 
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