Forum - View topicSword Anime VS Gun Anime
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NinjaGunslinger55
Posts: 14 Location: Leyline Dream Well. |
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Which anime type do you like better?
Sword/Katana anime like Champloo or RuroKen or Gun/Gunslinging anime like Bebop and Trigun?? Personally I prefer sword anime cause I just have a thing for close combat. And there is a lot of blood 
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Wait... "sword" and "gun" are genres now? When did that happen?
So... what category would the Vicious/Spike duels in Bebop fall under? Miscellaneous? Please be more clear with your question; I don't understand what you're asking. |
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Fuscus
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swords. there seems to be a bit more animation involved.
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Aokage
 Posts: 160 Location: The Chaparral of California |
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They aren't genres obviously, but the kinds of combat may be delivered via a specific vehicle. In this case, most animes focus on swords and magic or guns and science. Spike and Vicious fight very infrequently throughout the whole of the series, so there is no need to categorize it. Of the 26 episodes of Bebop, not even 5 of them involve Spike fighting Vicious. And even when spike does fight Vicious...Vicious wields a sword.
Anyways, I am very much against guns. They are loud and tacky. A sword can never misfire. There is no such thing as a drive by swording. To draw a blade means you have the intent to harm somebody. Drawing a gun may mean you are showing off. The amount of skill required to wield a sword, is far greater than that of a gun. Even without consideration of the nature of a gun versus the nature of a sword, I find swords to be more dynamic for combat. Shooting is done at a distance...and often with a great deal of running. Equilebrium is about the only thing I have ever seen, that made gunplay extremely interesting. But beyond this...it is just point and click. Swords are dangerous and personal. I love watching a good sword battle in Berserk, Champloo or Kenshin, more than I do the gun battles of Full Metal Panic, Trigun or Bebop. |
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Eesha
 Posts: 5 Location: in Kenshin's arms ... |
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I prefer Sword fights .. its more personal,measures the skills of the person and its more artistic and beautiful than just firing guns and blowing up things .. that's just me ..
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v1cious
 Posts: 6224 Location: Houston, TX |
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but Vicious also uses guns. look at the flashbacks.
just once i'd like to see an anime where an character uses a gun and a sword. |
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Aokage
Posts: 160 Location: The Chaparral of California |
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You could always go play Devil May Cry
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Ulthrion
 Posts: 40 Location: The Netherlands |
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Or Final Fantasy VIII
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Anyway, I personally prefer guns usually (depending on the setting of course). One reason is the fact that I'm not into samurai stuff at all. The other reason is that, although swords look cooler, guns are just that more effective. So in an anime set in modern society, theuse of a gun instead of a sword adds a little to the realism (of course there are enough anime that are not meant to give a realistic image of today's world). Farseer Ulthrion |
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pingo
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You got a point. Its why I love starwars. They got crazy battle droids with tons of fast laser weapons and stuff like that, but the jedis sword can reflect the blasts and totally kill anyone:D
also they have magic powers(the force..) which is cool. Its like a wizard swordsman. very neat. I like swords better than ranged fighting. Why? Its more bad arse. Its more personal. its a thing that requires strength and brute force, while with guns people just go into cover and shoots with their clumsy weapons and empty their rounds and rounds while shooting everywhere. I also think that Swords seem more honorable. It looks more cool because it also requires the wielder to move with agility and that makes it more entertaining. My favorite Anime fight character has to be Mugen from Samurai Champloo. I mean..... this guy. OMFG. lol. This guy looks like an ape when he fights. he's so freakin cool. Its like he break dances. hahaha. It just looks so neat. With this being said - I think guns are really cool too. I liked the fact about Spike, that he could do martial arts. Was it Kunn Doo or something he was fighting with? I just think seeing people like Gants from Berserk going crazy is really cool. Or kung fu in animatrix. I hear the Kenshin OVAs has really good fight scenes.. might check it out. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7992 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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My first love would be unarmed combat actually, as I practice martial-arts myself. I like melee combat a little better because it takes a little more skill, but as the saying goes "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight." The proper tools are necessary for the proper situation, I prefer both myself and enjoy fictional combat in all it's various forms. I love series like Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai Champloo, but I also really like gunplay as well such as that portrayed in Noir and Gungrave.
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Perfectsword
 Posts: 527 Location: Somewhere in NY |
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Well, If you look at my Name perfectsword (it IS a pun) I like swords. There seems to be a fluid motion to then, a dance, if you will. Takes skill two swing a sword properly, whereas a gun can be fired by anyone, even babies (Maggie Simpson).
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msi435
 Posts: 465 Location: Behind you! |
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Swords or guns eh.... hmm.... I have to go with swords because it takes more skill to kill someone with a sword than a gun and plus it looks cooler
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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as far as fight scenes sword fights look alot better.
I just wish there was a anime were they would do the famous Indiana Jones method of dealing with a guy with a sword just for once scene pull out a gun and shoot him. That would be funnny. |
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smutchi
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At first I thought I'd prefer swords (because it's more elegant in my eyes), but thinking about Noir (where they use guns most of the time) or Natsuki in Mai HiME I'd have to say that for me, it also depends on the fighter's sex. I don't like men using guns, I think it's more aesthetical when they use swords. As for women, I don't have a preference. I don't really know how to explain understandably why I think like that... Maybe it's just my taste. 
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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It depends more on how well the fight is done as opposed to what weapons are used. Cowboy Bebop's gun fights soundly outclass easily more than half the sword fights ever featured in an anime, whereas Gungrave's use of guns is...well...stiff, dull, & extremely repetitive. On the flip-side, the Rurouni Kenshin OVAs have absolutely stellar swordplay, but the TV series is often extremely lacking, especially in the filler episodes and smaller story arcs (and even the early Kyoto Arc).
The weapon doesn't matter, it's how much effort the producers put into it that makes a fight great or terrible. |
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