r/TopCharacterTropes • u/No-Car-1999 • 8h ago

Characters Unique Reloads

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Just characters with unique reloads. That's it.

Equilibrium: Clerics wrist mags

Various games - Iraqi Reload: A few games have this reload, including Call of Duty and The Finals. I would've put The Finals version here but I couldn't find a gif of it.

Battlefield Hardline - Various reloads: Various guns have a chance for a unique reload, these are two of my favorites.

Battlefield 1 - Double Barrel: The sawed off has a chance to mimic the reload from the Classic Doom double barel reload

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u/Casual_necromancy 8h ago

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u/acebert 7h ago

Grenadier: Hohoemi no Senshi? Never seen it, but that's what google tells me.

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u/SirFluffyBottom 7h ago

Its okay. Its like if you took Trigun, added boobs and removed the narrative. The reload is its best addition to pop culture.

Its like a 5/10.

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u/acebert 7h ago

Ah, I doubt I'll be checking it out then, thanks for the quick review.

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u/earanhart 5h ago

It's not bad, but not really good either. Distinctly a "meh" shonen fanservice anime. Has a decent storyline and a couple character arcs. As SirFluffyBottom said above, it's distinctly "acceptable" territory all around. No real weak points, but also nothing overly good or interesting beyond that reload. For it's era the fight choreography is mildly impressive.

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u/Elysium_Chronicle 4h ago

Not what anybody ever watches the show for, but I unironically believe that due to some particular quirks in its production, Grenadier stumbled into one of the strongest relationship dynamics I've ever seen between leads in an anime.

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u/shutupyourenotmydad 5h ago

I'd honestly give it a 6. The fights are well choreographed and the animation quality is better than 60% of the slop that the industry puts out these days.

Is it fanservicey? Yeah, but for a show that has a premise built around fanservice, it's rather tame compared to your average modern 12 episode isekai.

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u/Elysium_Chronicle 4h ago edited 4h ago

A shining example of the early-2000s "save it for the finale" budget allocation, most of the fight animation isn't anything special, mostly carried by excellent key posing.

However, the duels in the finale showcase bursts of fluid choreography and complicated shot framing that hold up over 20 years later.

Also, the infamous reload looks like a shoo-in for stock animation, but IIRC, that specific sequence was only reused once. Every other instance is unique, and contextual.

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u/platysoup 3h ago

The finale in question  https://youtu.be/wwkxJNZ_P3k