I would ahve liked to see it lentghed just to see some badass swordplay. Kaku was more about his df than swordplay so zoro hasnt had a good swordfight since Mr.1
I understand your wish to see more swordplay from the fight – we all want more of what we like, right? -- but at the same time, if you look at that fight as a whole and see the dynamics of it, there aren't too many places where Toei could add more thrills without messing up the flow of the action.
Think of it like a roller-coaster. There are some roller-coasters that are exhilarating because they shake you up and spin you around and do all sorts of crazy things in a very short time -- but the reason why they are so short is exactly because if you had to do all that same wild stuff for five more minutes, the effect would be nauseating, not exhilarating.
I guess we define "good swordfight" differently, too -- and that's fine. It's not necessary to agree on everything.
I realize that but if u put too extremely talented martial artists against each other it will take a long time to get that strike.
Not always – but you're right, it's not always a fast fight either. The ideal is usually to expend as little energy (and time) as possible in the fight -- but that doesn't count the time you spend hovering around them, sizing them up, exchanging intimidating remarks, looking for an opening. But as long as you take advantage of that opening quickly and effectively, you're still keeping with the ideal. So it's not always a 1-hit-KO, but that's the ideal to aim for.
> It would be boring if eventually zoro just keeps 1 hit ko'ing his opponents untill mihawk. That's not what I mean by "faster fights". I mean in terms of dynamics and decisiveness.And yes, 1-hit-KO for the rest of the series would be mighty boring, but again, that's not what I mean.
Wait, maybe we're operating on different definitions of 1-hit-KO. Would you classify the Ryuma fight as 1-hit-KO? – I wouldn't. To me, a 1-hit-KO is the Bellamy fight -- where the first and only blow of the entire fight is the killer blow. In the Ryuma fight, Z and R exchange a lot of blows -- though none that injure each other -- before R finally dies. Do you consider that a 1-hit-KO just because Ryuma went down without making Zoro bleed first? I don't.
Three to five says not really.
Agreed. As I said to Ivotas, I didn't have the time to check my facts at onemanga.com or in my tankos, so I was relying on memory – and my memory is obviously faulty -- so I stand corrected, and I agree with you both.
> Notice everytime he used a 1 sword attack it's a finisher after he has used 2 or three sword style to weaken opponent. If he only used 1 sword he could very possibly lose. Good point! And that theory's borne out in things I can't talk about in the anime section, too.
Wow, I'm really rusty on some stuff that I thought I once knew well.
My training is obviously incomplete …
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Edited to include my comments
