Rin Ogata from the RideBack series, who uses her ballet training to make the Fuego mech dodge and evade swarms of combat automatons.Though he later learns all that dancing has made him strong enough to fight monsters. he at least dances when battles take place, anyway. Magical Circle Guru-Guru's Old Man North-North could be this.This is in comparison to his manga incarnation, who is more of The Brute. The 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime version of Envy is a dance battler, incorporating capoeira-like moves and lots of leaps into his fighting style.Fakir, Kraehe and Mytho in Princess Tutu, all ballet dancers, fight much in the same manner as they dance.2 Bon Kurei, who practices Okama Kenpo (basically, weaponized ballet), and Boa Hancock, the Empress of the Amazon Lily island who fights with spinning kicks. A couple characters in One Piece fight this way, a prominent example being Sanji, who fights entirely with his legs and whose style is based partly on Savate (martial arts developed by French sailors).
TV TROPES DANCE BATTLER SERIES
The manga Double Arts features the main leads Kiri and Elraine developing a dance-based fighting style, from which the name of the series is taken.L of Death Note, inspired by the more talented Naomi Misora.Ranga, the Idol Singer Ringo's Angel in Angelic Layer, was built to resemble a belly dancer and incorporates dancing into her attacks.Impressive on film, at least as difficult to achieve in animation. Jeet Kune Do was developed by Bruce Lee (also an accomplished dancer) as a deliberately showy style, so it fits the trope. Spike Cowboy Bebop is sometimes seen doing this.Frequently assumed to have been influenced by break-dancing or capoeira or both. The producers call it the "champuru kendo" fighting style. His geta sandals have metal plates on the soles ◊, so he can block swords with them. Mugen from Samurai Champloo is untrained in any sort of fighting style, but possess enough raw power and ax-craziness to do whatever feels right to him and still come out on top.In the movie, for instance, when he does a shoulder spin to get back up on his skateboard, for no reason other than that it looks cool. Misaki Yata also uses quite a bit of breakdance-like moves.Yukari Mishakuji of K does quite a bit of this, with a lot of twirling and posing.Miu has a bit of this in her personal fighting style, with it focusing more on grace, acrobatic movements, and gymnastics.This lets him wear down and psyche out his opponents, who come to believe he's incapable of feeling pain. He encourages his opponents to get in close and attack him, then secretly uses dancing-like skills to dodge their blow and fling himself around to fake being hit. Seigfried essentially uses a more defensively orientated version of this.