Otherwise they'd have to do more animation. This way they can have lots of streaky lines, and the guy's mouth moving, but not a whole lot else actually going on.
If the guy just went ahead and clipped off three fireballs in rapid succession instead of standing there shouting about how he's about to unleash SUPER MEGA FIIIIREEBAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!! then the whole episode would be enitrely too expensive, and anime as an industry would collapse.
If L5R was an anime, I'd hope it'd be like that. Then, instead of getting six Hida's Avalanches in rapid succession, your average Crab would stand around yelling about just one for ten minutes while my Mantis filled them full of arrows.
However, if a sniper DID yell out his attack, his target wouldn't hear him. Unless he was a crappy sniper, or used a megaphone. Or was within 10 feet of his target.
I was going to make a better point, but I forgot what it was...
My guess is that it's a brain bug. One anime did it first, (very likely it was Mazinger Z), in a cool way, without really thinking about how silly it was, and then everyone else started apeing it because that one show did it well, and it was unique. By the time people realised how silly it was, it had become a genre convention.
Also, it might be a throwback to the Martial Arts practise of shouting to get your breathing right as you attack. An evolution of "HIYA" if you will.
On an unrelated note, my new obsession with a large robot and his hammer collection has inspired the first gaming world creation blog of mine in a long time, so watch my space.
Well, for slayers it's part of the spell, but I think the real reason is so that anyone who drops into the anime after the first few episodes will realise that the character is doing a kick-ass move and that it has a kick-ass name.
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If the guy just went ahead and clipped off three fireballs in rapid succession instead of standing there shouting about how he's about to unleash SUPER MEGA FIIIIREEBAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!! then the whole episode would be enitrely too expensive, and anime as an industry would collapse.
If L5R was an anime, I'd hope it'd be like that. Then, instead of getting six Hida's Avalanches in rapid succession, your average Crab would stand around yelling about just one for ten minutes while my Mantis filled them full of arrows.
In other news, Rhapsody in Blue kicks ass.
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However, if a sniper DID yell out his attack, his target wouldn't hear him. Unless he was a crappy sniper, or used a megaphone. Or was within 10 feet of his target.
I was going to make a better point, but I forgot what it was...
-KB.
p.s.: New blog entry!
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Also, it might be a throwback to the Martial Arts practise of shouting to get your breathing right as you attack. An evolution of "HIYA" if you will.
On an unrelated note, my new obsession with a large robot and his hammer collection has inspired the first gaming world creation blog of mine in a long time, so watch my space.
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The word is branding.
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