How would you do it?

I've been involved in choreography before. But never had to actually sit down and script it. But I imagine it's something like.

[X bursts through the doors framed to the right, bursting into the centre of the screen, then tumbling back out of frame]

[cut to X splayed out across the wall, bits of debris falling and cracks spreading out from the point of impact]

[shift perspective from looking at X to looking through his eyes, his foe running towards him, fist pulled back ready to punch.]

[maintain shot, the first flies out towards the camera, until it covers the screen and fade to black.]

[shift to the side, fist and face dominating the frame, our hero narrowly evading as the fist moves forward the face of Y enters the frame, the fist flies through X's wavy hair and then Y's face wretches in pain.]

[Pull the frame out, our hero's fist firmly embedded in Y's torso, hold frame.]

I already do it.

I picture manga pages and panels. Then I picture it animated. Sometimes I'll move around myself to get a feel for action.

Manga
>Tall panel zoomed out of character 1 standing on cliff
>Small rectangle close up of surprised character 2
>Medium rectangle of character 1 about to kick character 2
>Medium block of character 2 barely dodging

Anime
>Should character 1 jump or dash down?
>Do I even show it?
>Is the kick fast or slow?
>Blur, speed lines, or neither?
>Etc

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*Teleports behind you
*Surprise butt secks
"Nani!"
"Didn't I tell you? I have a watch that stops time. You've been frozen for 5 episodes while I fucked you, your sister, and had a wacky hot-spring adventure with your anthropomorphic cat that didn't exist in the light novel"
"That's bullshit, but I believe it."

let's do something silly. You wanna choreograph one together Yea Forums?

Who's fighting?

what is this thread?

No exposition. No dialogue. No internal monologue. Just once I want to see them cut through the bullshit and get to the fighting.

A lot of grappling, and being brought to the ground, tripping when the other attempts to get up, ear-biting, pummeling, just in general nigger shit

Ok, y'all took so long and I got bored. So our first fighter is going to be 'FEDORASWORD' A neckbeard who fights with a katana he bought off ebay.

Who's he fighting?

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Fedorasword can only fight his arch nemesis you twit.

the neckbear.

get consultation from various skilled martial artists to keep the base of everything realistic, add in a bunch of sakuga and a healthy dose of rule of cool while drawing inspiration from all of the best fights throughout anime history.

>characters stare each other down
>one character takes a Vom Tag stance, the other one takes a Pflug
>Pflug guy tries to feint a thrust to the chest, trying to size up the opponent
>Vom Tag steps back, trying to get some distance
>the other guy then attempts to commit a full thrust aimed at his opponents face
>the vom tag guy counters with a Krumphau
>from Krumphau, he strikes the opponent in the head with a false edge oberhau, killing him
the end

>the neckbear.
Right you are then.
It looks like neckbear needs to get up close and personal to score his win, While Fedorasword wants to keep his distance and win with his superior skills in ninjitsu!

What are they fighting about?

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Limit edition Blu-ray of [show of your choice]

Open shot.

BLU-RAY sits on the shelf. NECKBEAR stands before it, the crowd scattering from his all powerful B.O.

And so it begins... I drew two pages to get us kickstarted. We'll do it panel by panel from there.

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Both of these cultured gentlemen appreciate the classics. Perhaps... In another life, they could have been friends...

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WHO SHALL DRAW FIRST BLOOD? AND HOW?

>not Kaworu

Neckbear moves squarely into into fedora, sending him to the ground.

In the background a fujo insists kaworu is the best.

Shouldn't the bottom be one panel? Next page should have one act of aggression from Neckbear while reasserting his point.

As he does this, Fedora insist Neckbear is an entry level fan.

>Shouldn't the bottom be one panel?
I cut it by accident and was too lazy to fix it. Bear with me, I haven't done this in a very long time. Next panel, comin' up!

At this point, really regretting my decision to give them both facial hair. It looks like fedorasword is getting serious...

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The bear wakes in response to Fedorasword's katana, and in response he declares he's got over 200 animes on his MAL.

One guy punches a guy real hard because of friendship

>I love eating cocks

The beast is unleashed...
(I'll start actually trying a bit when we get to the sasuga. Promise.)
What happens next?

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If no one else wants to take it, fedora's, well, fedora, shadows his face, one eye glowing as his darkened visage dominates the page and he responds.

"It's
Just
Anime"

Fun fact; The hero is supposed to move with the direction of the text, So since manga is read right to left, that means the hero approaches from the right while the villain approaches from the left. Since this is left to right that technically makes Fedorasword our hero.

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By ripping off Tony Jaa movies

That's interesting, I'd never heard that rule, though my "scripting" has always been more for live events. Definitely not comics.

Besides, I always thought of Fedorasword as the hero anyway. He's the Japanophile, the one that's a real anime loyalist. Neckbear is a comics man at heart, but he appreciates anime. But his tastes are too western to truly be on the level of weeaboo that Fedora is. He relies on his mixed geekdom to provide his strength, while Fedora is a purist.

So in this sense, it'd be time for Fedora to strike back, hitting the butt of his sword (from the scabbard, true samurai style) to Neckbears gut, sending him recoiling.

And if I was solely doing it, I'd have him slowly lean back up and respond. "They're actually just Japanese Cartoons"

Fedorasword apparently also knows his Kenshin because he lands a heavy blow with a stunning display of battojutsu.
>"They're actually just Japanese Cartoons"
I'll try to get this in the next page.

Will Neckbear take this lying down? Or is hibernation time over?!

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Time to drop a classic "your attack is useless, but now I'm pissed" panel with dark screen tone

Things aren't looking good for our hero...

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Neckbear bellybounces our hero into the shelfspace behind them.

Alright, Might be time to start wrapping this up. What's Fedoraswords ultimate technique?

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Is this actually what happened?

He channels thoughts of his one true waifu 4 laifu, then finds the ability to swing his sword at ultra-high speeds, a testament to countless nights spent fapping furiously to her image.
>WEEABOO SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: SLASH OF ONE THOUSAND (semen) DEMONS

>Protag encounters an Antag
>They start fighting
>Antag is tough to beat and gets the better of Protag
>Protag deals with it and uses his main attack, shouting the name of it
>It takes the Antag out in one hit

Our finale might take a bit. Don't let the thread die before I can deliver!

That sounds like a generic shitty shounen fight desu 0/10

>MC encounters villain
>MC challenges villain
>MC draws sword, Villain draws gun
>MC goes ?????
>Villain shoots MC
>MC dies

Use bruce lee movies to make key frames.

Basically this I would also look up martial artists fighting and how some moves work to make it more accurate or get new ideas.

Not a suggestion but I'm loving this

youtu.be/LNynzv85cDo?t=437
youtu.be/jPJf433dYQ4?t=142

>premise
two rivals that has been separated by several arcs are now reunited and want to find out who is stronger they don't like each other so they won't hold back

>setting
the end of the universe

>weapons
rival uses all kinds of weapons swords, spears, guns, most elemental you can think of, etc. MC just uses his fist and legs

>skills
lot of stupid galaxy destroying ones though they'll still use their basic ones

Hahahah thank you. Glad you're enjoying it!

Here it comes. Our stunning finale...

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he fights god by proving he doesn't exist

O....Oh.

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Well that's now how I saw this going...

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Is this when the Misatofags strike?

>MC runs into villain
>both taking fighting stance
>MC lightly pushes katana out of it's scabbard with his thumb
>screen goes black
>SHING SHING
>MC puts katana back into scabbard
>villain falls apart into several pieces after 3 seconds of dramatic tension

Sort of similar to this, I like the thing where A walks towards B with their sword drawn, but doesn't seem to do anything, and visibly walks through B (complete with afterimages), and a second later the slash appears on B

i have a crazy idea to show a long shot of characters fighting each other with their whole bodies in frame and without making something like pic real during fast chase fight

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Well that's.... huh.

...I um. Hope you had fun folks?

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i assume it's because they don't have a high enough budget and animating fight scenes can be a pain in the ass. so they have to use shortcuts like and

it's always the case, lazy fucks, cannot even animate a fight for 5 minutes after hours of characters staying in one position with 3 frames of mouth movement and eyes blinking

Thank you for your work and your sacrifice of a few hours o7

>MC calls upon the power of friendship
>his friend turns the villain's torso into red goop with a high-caliber sniper from kilometers away

>another life
Another show you mean? Or is it not a reference

>secondary hero gets rekt by villain
>MC arrives and uses his powerup item
>fights evenly with villain
>transform into an inferior form to give himself a handicap
>upgrades said form and btfo's the villain hard

Fucking fujos. Gave me a big chuckle. Thanks user.

For an actual sense of weight and realism, look no further than Toji no Miko.

Ignoring those ghostly rush attacks, it has hands down the best portrayals of sword fighting in a TV anime to date. And the best portrayal of actual twin sword techniques that doesnt involve any sort of useless flashy spinning crap as it is done on most "sakuga" and star-wars-esque choreography.

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Really good stuff, underrated

I used to write "playable fanfics" for budokai tenkaichi 3 and writing fights was the funnest part. About that hobby of mine, basically I created a story using Pikkon as the main character and I would write segments as long as serious Yea Forums posts (around 2000 characters) to get you into the mood and somewhere around it I'd write which character you gotta fight and conditions like winning with a certain move or fighting without ki blasts.

Lots of time there was little story and I used my writing space describing the fight; as for my brain, I distinctly remember watching Naruto shippuden around that time and I geared my story towards a scene where Pikkon unleashed his true power by giving and angry stare followed by an explosion. I don't know if Sasuke actually did this or if it was on the 2nd opening but yeah.
The fighting choreography was stuff like
>Holding back tears, Pikkon fights Piccolo hoping to knock him out with a barrage of punches. However, on his current mental state, Piccolo couldn't even feel the pain and swiftly buried his right fist in Pikkon's nose, who fell on his knees crying in pain. His stare fixed on #17, Piccolo slammed his left foot in the ground and powered up his body beyond the limits as the android did a smug smile. Concentrating the power of the special beam cannon on his fingers, Piccolo propelled himself up to the sky betting it all on a penetrating strike to get through that energy barrier as Pikkon watched in horror knowing how futile it'd be.

As a kid I thought writing battles was cool, then I realized nobody would read a book like that even if I changed subjects since it screams anime. And also why would someone read anime fights instead of watching real manga or anime? Now I found out about light novels and I think they're dumb but I'm low-key frustrated that someone else lives off that. Thinking and writing fights is fun, and light novels bypass the need of drawing skills and schedules.

This shit is rad.

Too bad that anime fights have been poisoned by Naruto-shit and became weightless acrobatics and style over substance garbage, just to wow the shounen brainlets.

Kiritsugu VS Kotomine is this except for small internal exposition at the beginning when a technique doesn't work and the guy wonders why. But the characters never talk to each other during the whole fight, it happens in real time.

>separated by several arcs
>end of the universe
>but they care about m-muh rivalry instead
>they wont hold back
>but wont use their galaxy destroying skills
>implying it matters in the end of the universe
retarded, absolutely retarded. please fire your writer, please fire your writer, hes an imbecile

Like this.

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