Overpowered Special Finishing Moves 奥義
What do the most popular anime have in common besides a heroine and female characters with really large cartoon breasts? Overpowered special finishing moves dude! When anime still had some integrity left, almost every main character bad ass had a special ultra finishing move. Nowadays, most special moves are weak or just look plain stupid (Line Barrells comes to mind…) The best overpowered finishing move takes a long time to charge and can only be done like once or twice during the whole series. And there is no way for the bad guy to block or counter it. If you get hit by these special moves, you are going to either get seriously injured or die.
Spirit Bomb
Goku’s spirit bomb is the most lethal finishing move evar. First of all, the spirit bomb always takes 2-3 episodes before Goku can even use it. Goku has to gather ki from every living being on the planet or the galaxy. Piccolo or Vegita have to get their asses kicked protecting Goku so he can get it off. Once the spirit bomb is complete and Goku throws it, bad guys can’t dodge or block it. The spirit bomb is like a homing missle that locks on to bad guy energy.
If the spirit bomb is so over powered why didn’t it kill Vegita or Freeza?
Vegita only got hit with a small portion of the spirit bomb. I don’t know how Freeza survived the spirit bomb but my theory is that since most of the Nameks were dead or gone, there wasn’t enough ki for Goku to gather. The spirit bomb has no limits. As long as you can gather enough ki, you can destroy any bad guy with it which makes it the perfect deus ex machina. When the going gets rough, stupid decisions reign, and you gotta save the day, pop some senzus, gather some easily found Dragonballs, and finish the bad guy with a spirit bomb.
Twin Buster Rifle
Wing Zero’s twin buster rifle can destroy entire space colonies……Can any SEED mobile suit do that? I don’t think so. Whenever Hero pulled out the special twin buster rifle move, you knew that the whole series or movie is almost over……This special move is so powerful that it isn’t even used on bad guys which makes it a little less cooler than the spirit bomb.
Tsukiyomi
Tsukiyomi traps the target in an illusion that is completely controlled by the user. While it only takes a few seconds to complete in the real world, the user can make it seem as if days have passed for the target. Depending on the user’s whim, they can either torture their target for days on end, or make them relive a traumatic event over and over. When the jutsu ends the resultant psychological trauma will render the target unable to fight for a while, and possibly suffer a complete mental breakdown.
If Itachi makes eye contact with you, it’s a wrap. You are getting tortured for years in the Tsukiyomi world where Itachi is god and there is no way you can counterattack or escape. Everyone who eats this move ends up hospitilized for weeks (Kakashi wasn’t around for a while due to his Tsukiyomi injuries)
What about Rasengan? Isn’t that overpowered too?
No it isn’t. A skillful enemy can easily dodge it and Naruto can do as many as he wants. Rasengan is the a cheap but very useful move like the Kamehameha and Sasuke’s breathing fire attack (Chidori sucks and so does Kakashi)
The best, most popular manga have the most over the top special finishing moves in the anime genre. People watch anime because they want to be entertained. Bleach and One Piece are cool, but the characters and the special moves are quite realistic despite a few fantasy elements. Fantastic entertainment is creative. There is a time and a place for real, adult stories and themes. Anything scifi or fantasy should push the limits of our imagination. So what is your favorite finshing move and why?
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Also, please mention on Sailormoon and other various copycat animes, while they are doing their transformation moves the bad guy can just interrupt in during the middle of it since it takes some time for them fully transform and to attack. All the new anime sucks just like the new ongaku, look at how Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker let us down with Rush Hour 3 and it would have been better if it would have came out in 2005 not 2007, once you wait so long the strings loses its attachment and your mind disconnects from its old way because you learn something new everyday, I think. I possess great memories of previous years, loved the 90s to be honest.
Good comment ScholarO1, I agree with you. Sailor Moon first had the unblockable tiara move and then she got the Moon Staff. I can’t remember one enemy being able to block any of her special moves even though she takes a few minutes to get her overpowered moves ready. But at least it only takes her a few minutes and not 3 episodes like the Spirit Bomb.
Anime has lost it’s integrity.Japan hit its peak in the 90s and since the bubble collapsed anime/manga has gotten way more negative and too realistic. It is like America’s fascination with Batman even though he is a B tier hero. No one cared about Batman in the 90s even though Hollywood tried to shove him down our throats with a bunch of really sucky movies.
Rush Hour 3 failed because Jackie Chan is washed up and Chris Tucker didn’t have any material to work with. The stunts, script, and jokes were boring. Jackie Chan must have banged up his body pretty bad because he can’t do anything anymore. I don’t even think Rush Hour should have had a sequel. And you are right about learning something new and having your mind disconnect from what you used to like. After watching Ong Bak, the Matrix, and Transporter, there is no way anything less than that can entertain me.
The 90s was great though. All the best music, movies, and anime came from the 90s. Japan and America, unfortunately, aren’t wealthy countries anymore. Japan especially has failed to live up to its own hype.
I don know guys… Death Note was a pretty good anime. And it felt more real then any other anime i have watched sense i was 6. I have seen all the animes and they all are good, but so far Bleach and Death Note take the cake.
I like both Bleach and Deathnote, but I feel that the fantasy in anime is probably lost for good. For example, in both Bleach and Deathnote, the action takes place in the regular, boring world we all know too well. The shinigami are like office workers. Deathnote, while somewhat fantastic in the beginning, gets really pedestrian real quick because most of the time the shinigami’s are not even involved in the action. You don’t even get to know more about the shinigami world even after (SPOILER!!!) Light dies. Naruto is about school like sometimey, somewhat boring Harry Potter. Dragonball might be the best anime of all time because it is so fantastic and fun.