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Rocky training montage5/8/2023 ![]() Episode 17 of Space☆Dandy has a hilariously on-point parody of all the examples above it on this page, and then some - complete with an 80's-tastic Hot-Blooded training montage song.Haruka of Kotoura-san goes through one in episode 5, as the local Cute Clumsy Girl was assigned to race in the inter-class relay.For once he's not sure he can defeat his opponent, so Mugen engages in activities such as chopping wood, balancing on logs, carrying heavy statues up temple stairs, meditating by a waterfall, bungy-jumping off a tori gate, and falling asleep from sheer exhaustion. Mugen is challenged by a so-far undefeatable samurai with mysterious powers, their duel to take place at the next full moon."At this point things get rather boring, so I'll skip the details." ![]() In the Baseball Episode, Manzou the Saw is narrating events, including scenes in which our heroes are learning the mysterious art of baseball in a single night.The - Several throughout the showing, the first one being along the ending sequence on the first episode.Naru is doing well-Keitaro, on the other hand. ![]() Love Hina has one ticking down the days till the Tokyo U Entrance Exam.All set to an upbeat rock tune, as one would expect. The montage includes her practicing punches and kicks near the road by car-light, getting in the stomach by her trainer with a medicine ball while doing sit-ups, doing pull-ups while wearing a weight-suit, and of course jogging up stairs. Used in Ayane's High Kick when the eponymous hero is training for (what she believes to be) her first Pro-wrestling/Kickboxing mixed martial arts match.Blue Gender (an atrociously foreshortened compilation of the series) contains the world's bare minimum elements for a training montage: a total zero at the start->someone correcting how he holds a gun->some guy going "hey kid, you've got a knack for this!"->and suddenly, Yuji being ready to go into battle.usually, the team gets such montage before tournament arcs. Such as The Protagonist Hinata training with anyone who will throw him a ball after losing to Kageyama's team in middle school. Naturally, the volleyball anime Haikyuu!! has quite a few examples.Pedro, however, plays it straight ( Rocky parodies aside), when he is training to fight Gomez.The show then skips directly to the END of the training montage with the two of them watching the sunset on a beach Karate-Kid style and Nabeshin saying "I've taught you all I know." Excel then reveals that the reason we didn't see any training is because there wasn't any all they did was go look at a sunset. Subverted in Excel♡Saga, when Excel has to win a bowling competition and runs into Nabeshin in a restroom, who reveals he is a legendary bowling coach and offers to train her.In fact, considering how monumentally popular Eva was in Japan, the reverse may be true. Watch it today and you're liable to think that the bit was inspired by DDR. Notable because the episode was produced about four years before the original DanceDanceRevolution was introduced. ![]()
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