![]() Subverted in Excel♡Saga, when Excel has to win a bowling competition and runs into Nabeshin in a restroom, who reveals he is a legendary bowling coach and offers to train her.In fact, considering how monumentally popular Eva was in Japan, the reverse may be true. Watch it today and you're liable to think that the bit was inspired by DDR. Notable because the episode was produced about four years before the original DanceDanceRevolution was introduced. Neon Genesis Evangelion played it surprisingly straight when Shinji and Asuka have to learn how to work together by playing some weird Japanese hybrid of Twister and DDR.A previous chapter had one for Yue, bonus points as part of the training montage involved actual flying.Chapter 239 of Negima! Magister Negi Magi has one, complete with Exploding Calendar.Layla, who normally Suffers Newbies Poorly, is impressed enough to allow Sora to stay with the Kaleido Stage crew. She comes oh-so-close to pulling it off, perfecting the spin technique but missing the opposite trapeze bar by thatmuch. Episode 2 of Kaleido Star uses this when Sora preps herself to duplicate the "Golden Phoenix", a favorite trick of Layla Hamilton, one of her idols.Episode 6 of Beyond the Boundary has one where the gang spend an entire week training for an epic song and dance number that they need to perform in order to defeat a monster. ![]() Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS' Teana and Subaru had one of these set to Subaru's Image Song when they were training for their two-on-one battle against Nanoha.The "running along the water" scene is even duplicated - albeit with the protagonist inside a giant robot. The original Gunbuster had one played so straight it comes across as a homage to Rocky.
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