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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoCAukDI2w
There's nothing I hate more in shonen fight series where they shoot undefined projectiles of light at each other. Are these beams actually dangerous? Will they actually harm the characters if they make contact, or are they just flashy beams of light that do little damage? You can make a fight scene several times more interesting just by defining what's at stake if someone gets hit. It's stuff like this that makes me think a Touhou anime in the shonen genre would fail miserably.

I liked the earlier episodes of Dragonball, Yu Yu Hakusho and Naruto because in those series you knew exactly what was at stake. The Kamehameha wave when done properly would fuck shit up on a massive scale. You were pretty much fucked if you came into contact with the spirit gun in Yu Yu Hakusho. And in Naruto things like fire based attacks would burn objects, water based attacks would basically knock stuff around and shurikens would cut stuff. These are all expected behaviors. The problem with Touhou is that every character seems to have a different type of projectile. What happens when Marisa's master spark collides with Utsuho's nuclear energy. What exactly is the beams of light made out of that most of the Touhou characters throw at each other. How does someone with a sword in Touhou fight against someone with boundary hax.