I dissagree. In anime all you do is call out the name of the spell or attack you are doing. In D&D you have a long dragonic speach to say for casting. In real martial arts, no attack <Ive been taught or have even heard of> had a goofy name like Legendary Dragon punch, nor do you call it out when attacking. In a real fight, you might as well tell your enemy what you are doing before you do it. "Stand there while I round house you in the face." To jump back to spell casing, A Fighter or Monk may not know what the incantaion for fireball is, as where in anime you have to be dumb not to caught what you where just hit with.
You're read Order of the Stick?
"Sneak Attack! Sneak Attack! Sneak Attack!"
Named attacks are a tradition of martial arts, again. In a fencing match, two sword artists definitely know which traditions and which kinds of attacks the other is using. Anime pauses the action to declare it to the world, which can certainly remove verisimilitude, but imagine it more like the player at the table saying "I use Power Attack" and then the enemies being able to identify: "Oh! That's Power Attack! He must be a very strong warrior to sacrifice his accuracy for such a mighty blow!"
The device of named attacks is there in the game already (and in martial arts worldwide), though the specific stop-namecry-go isn't (and doesn't need to be, as only those same kid-focused anime really do it much anyway).
Shouting out the attack as you perform it, meanwhile, isn't different from shouting a Draconic word for a spell, or screaming "Unnh!" as you swing your blade -- it's a battle cry.
I dissagree once more. The hobbits are by know means powerful comapred to the dwarf, the wizard of the ranger, but there by no means comapre to naurto. While not the stongest, they can fight well enough to defend any chalange that came to the party. On the other hand, Naurto is as represented correctly.
Debatable, but , anyway, it's the same slope. You take characters who seem ill-suited to their positions (Naruto flunked out of Ninja School, Frodo is just a little hobbit to be sent to Mount Doom), and they wind up finding the strength to win anyway. The hobbits are more than "not the strongest," they are the very weakest, who run and hide when danger presents itself rather than face it, they are the children that the world wants to protect, the innocence that needs defending...turns out, they save everyone's butt.
Naruto is the most ignorant, who pays little attention and cannot master his own abilities due to his chaotic, scatterbrained nature. He is the very model of a slacker, but it turns out that when danger presents itself, he can rise to the occasion and (sometimes) save everyone's butt.
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