Anime Blog Post Attack Go!!

This will probably belong up there with previous posts like Cereal Thieves as far as completely random topics.

During my channel-hopping the other day, I came across the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network used to show a lot of their own original shows, but nowadays it seems as if they've imported a bunch of Anime to broadcast.

There's lots of shows like that, from Pokemon to Yugi-Oh! to Zatch Bell. Its not the actual showing of anime that inspired me to write this, it's some of the things that happen in the show. Primarily, during the big battles. The dragon with the lion head is fighting the medieval warrior looking thing, and the lion-headed dragon exclaims, "electric bolt shock attack!!" Sure enough, an electric bolt shoots out of its mouth and strikes the warrior, shocking him. This was a regular occurence in all shows! One combatant yells out their attack and then does said attack.

I thought to myself, isn't that kind of silly to broadcast what you're about to do in the middle of the fight? Imagine in the middle of some giant 17th century battle one of the generals screaming out, "Calvary flanking manuever!" and then performing a flanking manuever. Of course if Anime were any indication, the response would be "Ha ha ha! Your manuever is no match for my Archery Arrow Assault! Ha ha ha!"

Logic would dictate that the reason for this attack announcement would be to know what exactly is happening. Anime isn't exactly the best as far as knowing what is going on in an action sequence. But I'd rather just make fun. :)