Revy from Black Lagoon

Kenshin

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Ryomou from Ikki Tousen

This thread lacks of Hokuto no Ken!

Rei:

And more Gundam love (my favorite female)

Lacus:

And then there are those that have been already said in this thread like Kamina and Luffy.

Thumbs up for a total bad ass and one of the best action scenes in animation.  Sword of the Stranger rocked.

sword of the stranger of all the admittedly few anime movies I have watched remains my favourite, the overall plot my be a tad weak but the characters, the animation and the action just make Sword of the Stranger a wonderful movie. I highly recommend it to fans of anime and even people who aren't.

Yep it's a  great film, kinda reminds me of Ninja Scroll with all the violence. There are hardly any violent animes these days.

I was gonna say Naruto and Ichigo but everyone seems to hate them and I didn't want to get hated on. XD

fullmetal (edward elrich) and conan (case closed)

IMO, Sword of the Stranger is vastly overrated. The story kinda sucked, the action scenes were good, but they had no resonnance or originality. I give the movie a 2/4 stars, and I think it is FAAAAR inferior to Ninja Scroll or Spirited Away. :P That is why I can't recommend any of the barely present and nameless characters in the movie(I hate it).

Go watch the Samurai X OVA for the same boring ass characters and dialogue but with VASTLY better action scenes.

The story was pretty standard fare for an action movie, but that's not a bad thing.  It was told pretty well.  There was a pretty good amount of characterization.  Nothing mind blowing, but the story never really is the point of a movie like this.  What the fudge does "an action scene having resonance" mean?  That's got to be the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard.  Unless it copied other action scenes, I don't understand how it couldn't be original, either.  The only thing I can think of is that the fighters used established fighting styles, which I don't have an issue with.  The coreography was flawless; as I said, the best animated fight scenes I've ever seen (Ehh, I dunno, some of the FMA movie fight scenes are pretty incredible as well).

An action scene has resonance when it is good and original enough to influence other action scenes. When it is memorable and deep. It's kind of hard to explain, but scenes in any film can have resonance. That is my opinion and that is my meaning.

As far as the action scenes being original, the Matrix had original action scenes with resonance(spelling?), imo.

Wrath from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood comes to mind. It took quite a few protagonists to get him down.