i think my hero academia sorta does this? i know the protag at least has to concentrate and think in a certain way to manage to pull fancy moves off before he internalizes the activation and can really do it at will, and i think other characters have similar challenges?
“so clench your buttcheeks kid, and yell this from the depth of your heart: SMASH!”
If you call out the name of your attack, you better hope your opponent doesn’t know what it is, cuz it seems pretty easy to block or dodge something you know is coming.
my favourite take on this is to have characters fighting in groups, then it becomes obviously necessary to call out moves so others know what’s going to happen and can know to not stand on the other side of the enemy that’s about to be showered in flame.
it also makes a nice contrast between solo fighters and those who simply don’t care about collateral damage: some villains can be pure chaos, you can have rogue heroes who just end up hurting innocent people because they don’t coordinate, and villains who do coordinate will look way more threatening because they aren’t hurting themselves.
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