Top 5 Anime Gunfights

I spent a good portion of the day reconnecting with my inner otaku, and I found this little gem:



This video is this person's Top 5 Anime Gunfights. The order here is:
5. Hanai vs. Harima [School Rumble]
4. Revy vs. Luak's Gang [Black Lagoon]
3. Spike vs. Vicious [Cowboy Bebop]
2. Alucard vs. Alhambra [Hellsing]
1. Ryushuna vs. Setsuna [Grenadier]

My point here isn't to dis/agree with his/her choices, nor am I here to spaz about how awesome the gunfights are, etc. The point of this entry is really to attest to the quality of each respective series.

For starters, at #5, School Rumble isn't even an action anime [not really, anyways]. It's a parody anime whose encompassing theme is about young students in a comedic web of romantic crushes that never get anywhere. The fact that a gunfight that only exists metaphorically in the minds of 2 confused boys is on this top 5 list only highlights the "jack-of-all-trades" quality of this show.

#4. Black Lagoon is to anime what Crank is to movies. 90% of the this series is adrenaline-pumping pistol/rifle/bazooka/missile/grenade/chainsaw/knives/katana/you-name-it action. This particular scene takes place relatively early, and even to this day, I remember I "rewound" the video to watch it again.

#3. To be honest, Cowboy Bebop never made much of an impact on me as a whole. It's a pity though, because it is very highly regarded. However, after watching the scene in the video, it was a pretty damn good fight - minus the distracting music.

#2. This is the only gunfight that I hadn't seen. I think this was from the newer, remade Hellsing OVAs - the ones that take so long to release [every 6-12 months] that I easily forget to keep up. Hellsing features the gunslinging vampire, Alucard, and his awesome sidekick Seras Victoria, in their ongoing fight to kill the monsters created by Neo-Nazis, all while stepping on the toes of super-elite Catholic and Protestant warrior-priests. So...what's not to like?

#1. This was a MAJOR surprise, and the one that convinced me to write this entry. Grenadier was one of the animes that spurred my addiction to anime a few years back. On the surface, it looks like another superficial anime that features a blonde, big-boobed bimbo on a generic adventure. To be perfectly honest - it is. But that's really not telling the whole [cheesy] story. Underneath, there's actually a pretty deep and prevalent theme of peace [preaching peace in a wild west-inspired gunslinging show = cheesy story] - but as this person's top 5 gunfight video suggests - it also has a ton of intense and unique gunfighting scenes with a lot of comedy that makes this series really enjoyable [for guys?].