#the tournament arc

[duckapus]

The Tournament Arc Episodes(First Half)

If Mario Was in…Street Fighter

Once again, Mario’s dumbassery has gotten him into a Situation. This time he’s traveling the globe, fighting powerful and skilled martial artists who keep trying to beat the shit out of him for some reason. And what the hell is a “Shadaloo” anyway?

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

After Mario “won” the World Warriors Tournament and took down M. Bison, the Mushroom Kingdom’s been struck by Martial Arts Fever, leading to a rise in property damage and hospitalizations. While most of the crew tries to either reign in or join the chaos, SMG4, SMG3 and Emulator have an idea…

Super Meme Fighterzzz

To get the Martial Arts Fever out of everyone’s systems(and profit from the current trends), the SMGs and Emulator have opened the Super Meme Fighterzzz Tournament! 128 competitors from across the SMG4 multiverse go head to head in hopes of getting the grand prize…which I have not come up with yet. Also Emmy wanted it to be 64 contestants, but 4 pointed out that they needed enough episodes for the arc tobe a decent length. Most of the major characters from throughout the series will be participating, with the notable exceptions of the SMGs(due to them hosting the event), the non-combative characters(like Tari, Boopkins and Whimpu), and Mario(who already “won” a fighting tournament this month and can’t be bothered). The episode is mainly about preparations, storyline starters, and the opening ceremony.

Luigi Nation

Luigi is tearing through the early rounds like nobody’s business, but this is the longest he’s stayed in his Buff form, and Mario’s worried that he’ll either burn out or let the victories go to his head, especially when his next opponent turns out to be Saiko. Meanwhile, Shroomy somehow loses against a Noddy, and Meggy finds out that-victories permitting-she’ll be facing Desmond soon. Desmond, who doesn’t remotely like her and has the power of the Greatest Warrior in the Galaxy at his disposal. Uh oh.

Sports Wars

It’s the grudge match you’ve been waiting for; Professional Sports Coach and Sort-Of Lawyer Meggy Spletzer vs Teenage Demigod Desmond the Basketball, and it ain’t gonna be pretty. Meanwhile, Kaizo, Steve and Penta Knight are defeated in quick succession by a mysterious cloaked figure who 3 and 4 find strangely familiar.

The Way of the Garo

Marcy and Bob weren’t expecting to have their rematch so soon, but here we are. Meanwhile, Luigi goes up against Sans, Tari and Lil Coding investigate some strange happenings around the arena, and Mario causes trouble for Karen and the Guards at the concessions stand.

Mario Reacts to Tournament Highlights

Exactly what it sounds like. It gives a chance to give some attention to the non-main character fighters.

[mechanimereview]

The Tournament Arc

This post is a very long awaited response to Momomanamu’s post at Anime Hanabi regarding their dislike of tournament arcs. If you read through it, it’s a decently articulated post about why they have a dislike for shonen tournament arcs. There are some complaints about battle shonen in general back in the day where a studio had to put out an episode of a show a week which could lead to not much…

[prokopetz]

Topic: the work of pre-20th Century popular fiction which would most benefit from being adapted as an anime with a tournament arc.

[wyrmswears]

hey so. click for quality.

speedpaint under cut:

[lostgoosebe]

I should have been the green ninja

[sleeping-pajamas]

[Email sent by administrator Kawika

Request of assistance with tournament work and attendance.

You have been invited to the tournament.]

Pajamas was in his office doing work when the invitation came to his personal email instead of his secretary. After reading the contents inside, he smiles to himself and taps a button on his office phone. "Markus, I would need to make a few important appoints. Make them a priority."

From the other end, his secretary responded. "You got it boss."

Satisfied, Pajamas leans back on his chair with a sly smile. "This will be fun."

[let-them-fight]

MIKU vs BRIDGET

[samkuchingdraws]

Some HAIKYUU!! sketches from the past couple of days~

[waterghostype]

happy birthday to peak ninjago season

[maesonc-artistic-adventures]

Watched the YYH live action and I’m obsessed! They did such a great job adapting the show and I just had so much fun watching it! Enjoy some doodles!

[duckapus]

The channel banner for the Tournament Arc would be a poster with the up-to-date tournament bracket and a "Super Meme Fighterzzz" logo. Except in between the penultimate episode and the finale, where the two sides of the bracket are replaced by stylized versions of the two finalists mid-clash with the logo between them.

[vennw]

I’m sure someone’s done this poll but let’s do it again why not

Feel free to discuss amongst yourselves

[sp00ky9]

Can’t wait for black butler to turn into a sports anime

[carlyraejepsans]

is it actually statistically possible for me to be responsible for changing the course of a poll with over 200k final votes I gegnuinely don't care bitch!!!! NOBODY pulled as hard as me in that race okay. I'm claiming that shit like reigen and the slit-mouthed woman.

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 37: Giovanni Potage vs. Ingo

Submitted kids:

Giovanni Potage: Molly Blyndeff, (potentially) Sylvie Ashling, Crusher, Dark Star, Ben, Car Crash/Fred Donaldson, Spike, Flamethrower

Ingo: Akari and Rei

Propaganda under the cut!

Giovanni Potage:

1. “while it is debatable that he adopted sylvie, it's a 100% that he adopted molly. because. well. he kidnapped her because her dad sucks.”

2. “IT'S CANON! Or at least half Canon. Giovanni kidnaps Molly to get her away from her terrible family. Since Molly and Sylvie are a package deal, he's often added to the found family. Sometimes a family is a 15 year old college graduate, a depressed and anxious 12 year old, and a 19 year old with the power of soup.”

3. "this is an actual line from the book (Prison Of Plastic) that basically confirms it: *“Eww. Parents,” he spat, forgetting that he himself essentially had six kids of his own with another on the way. Possibly two.*

we love ourselves a soup himbo with like eight kids. okay most of them are his friends but you see that quote. he sees them as his own kids"

Ingo:

“Old man and the feral children he stole from the past”

[kimbapisnotsushi]

okay no see the thing that made me really, really sad about hinata and the thing that made me really, really root for him and love him and want to see him win it all was how, like, people kept DENYING him. and i'm not talking about spectators in the stands going "omg he's so short haha, can he really do anything?" i'm talking about how his own team and how everyone who knew them in some way - as much as i love them - could never really separate him from kageyama. they were the freak quick duo, karasuno's number nine and number ten. they were amazing! so brilliant, the two of them. and hinata thought it was a way out, at first. he thought it was a way over the summit. he thought it was the key to being someone better.

but a key goes both ways, you know. it can lock you up just as much as it can set you free.

and hinata had to be so, so frustrated. everyone was finding ways to move forward except him. everyone expected him to stay stuck. and you could argue that that's not entirely true, sure, that he was always training, always trying to catch up, and they encouraged that. but nobody ever expected him to be more. nobody ever expected him to go beyond what he had with kageyama - they all thought that was enough for hinata. they thought he was fine like that because it worked for the rest of them. they underestimated how much he wanted to be capable. they didn't get how much he wanted to stand on his own two feet.

and that wasn't fair to hinata! it wasn't fair that hinata, who loved to play and loved the game and loved volleyball so so much, was the only one being left behind! he wanted to change that but nobody was trying with him!!! so of course he got impatient!! of course he was reckless!!! of course he was carving his own opportunities!!! there was no way forward otherwise!!! because if we take a minute to think about how training would have gone while kageyama was at tokyo, let's be honest — it probably wouldn't have gone well. nobody else can do with hinata what kageyama could do with him. hinata would have been held back. he would have felt useless. practicing serves and receives was stuff he was already doing constantly before that, and it wasn't teaching him anything. yeah hinata was a little bit selfish and a little bit shameless but being so finally got him somewhere!!

all hinata ever wanted to do was fly, even if it meant straying from the flock to do so