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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3368815" data-attributes="member: 2067">You're read Order of the Stick?"Sneak Attack! Sneak Attack! Sneak Attack!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 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. 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.</blockquote>

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