My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Difference between revisions

** It can be seen to a considerably lesser degree in other anime where martial arts are a central element, such as: ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'', ''[[Flame of Recca]]'' and ''[[Sumomomo Momomo]]''.

* Also seen to a lesser extent in sports anime such as ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' and ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' (with training the sport instead of fight training).

* This isn't just a factor in martial-arts series. It can show up in [[Mons]] series like ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''[[Pokémon]]'', ''[[Beyblade]]'', and ''Bistro Chef'' (better known as ''Fighting Foodons'' in the States), and [[Cooking Duel]] series like ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]''. Essentially, anything that has individual competition, typically in a [[Tournament Arc]], will tend to end up with this kind of arms race.

* Displaying formidable multitasking skills, the eponymous ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is revealed in the series' ancillary manga to be able to train in the magical equivalent of VR constantly while leading her normal civilian life, apparently to explain her jump from neophyte magical girl to hardened battlemage in the short interval between the show's first two seasons. After the second season, she trains so hard she becomes known as "[[The Ace|Ace of Aces]]" and is promoted to Combat Drill Instructor [[Improbable Age|in her early teens.]] In the third season, another character trains herself nearly to the point of exhaustion in an effort to prove herself ([[Hard Work Hardly Works|but, of course, doesn't quite succeed]]).

* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', Motoko is stunned when Seta defeats her in martial arts, and becomes fixated on challenging him.

* The titular character in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi]]'' already goes through a daily regimen of [[Training From Hell]] to build up his stamina and improve his skills, but the few times he actually ''loses'' to an opponent, such as {{spoiler|Odin and Tirawat Koukin}}, he forces himself to train even harder for the inevitable rematch.

* The very reason Kyo of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' goes into the mountains to train for six months is to one day beat his cousin Yuki in a fight (the manga reveals {{spoiler|this is a lie covering up an unrelated [[Heroic BSOD]], though}}). Every time Yuki wipes the floor with him, he only vows to become stronger... over... and over... again.

* The five protagonist of ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'' spend a good period of the middle of the series training in the Guyana Highlands in order to overcome individual [[My Greatest Failure|failures]] ({{spoiler|For Domon, it's his unfocused rage actually helping the Devil Gundam; for the other four, it's DG Cell possession making them question their own motives}}).