Ahhhh Anime, so much fun to be had with the freeing medium of animation. It allows for so many obscenely overpowered attacks that could never actually happen in reality. This topic is to celebrate the best of the best of those attacks. When the chips are down, it's all or nothing, your back is to the wall, and it's do or die...every hero and villain has that one technique...their FINAL technique...their ultimate technique. I ask you simply: what are some of your favorite ultimate techniques from anime and why do you love them so much?
If you ask me, it doesn't get much better than this. There's no way around it, it is truly an undefeatable technique. The only thing that can beat Kenshin's Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki is someone else using the same technique with a purer heart than his own, since the purity of one's heart is at the core of this technique's power (cheesy, I know, but hey, the technique's still badass).
Most people never see it coming. It's a sword-draw technique that's designed to strike within a fraction of an instant. As seen in Kenshin's duel against Aoshi, Aoshi's own ultimate - the Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren - is a "lightning-fast attack that lands six slashes in the same instant", and Aoshi starts his attack before Kenshin even draws his sword. Time seems to stand still the moment before Aoshi's first slash connects, allowing Kenshin to draw his sword and unleash the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki within that fraction of an instant. So yeah, the attack is ridiculously fast.
But then, as we see in the clip I provided, even if you know it's coming and you know what to expect - as Shishio does - and you try to block it, you're still completely screwed! "Even if you avoid the fangs of the dragon, the winds that gust around it will paralyze you and it's claws will rip you to shreds". The air is forced away to create a vortexing vacuum that sucks the opponent in while Kenshin uses the spin of that vortex to accelerate the 2nd part of the attack, striking with even MORE force than that of the first strike.
Too fast to dodge, lands even if you start your attack first, and if you block it you get smashed even harder than if you had been hit by the first blow. Yeah, that's one hell of a perfect, final, ultimate technique. :3
Most people never see it coming. It's a sword-draw technique that's designed to strike within a fraction of an instant. As seen in Kenshin's duel against Aoshi, Aoshi's own ultimate - the Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren - is a "lightning-fast attack that lands six slashes in the same instant", and Aoshi starts his attack before Kenshin even draws his sword. Time seems to stand still the moment before Aoshi's first slash connects, allowing Kenshin to draw his sword and unleash the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki within that fraction of an instant. So yeah, the attack is ridiculously fast.
But then, as we see in the clip I provided, even if you know it's coming and you know what to expect - as Shishio does - and you try to block it, you're still completely screwed! "Even if you avoid the fangs of the dragon, the winds that gust around it will paralyze you and it's claws will rip you to shreds". The air is forced away to create a vortexing vacuum that sucks the opponent in while Kenshin uses the spin of that vortex to accelerate the 2nd part of the attack, striking with even MORE force than that of the first strike.
Too fast to dodge, lands even if you start your attack first, and if you block it you get smashed even harder than if you had been hit by the first blow. Yeah, that's one hell of a perfect, final, ultimate technique. :3
