>>37857103there's plenty of reason to annotate it. Yokai Watch has plenty of common attacks, and the only unique animations are for Soultimate Moves, with many of them being reskins of each other's. Digimon's Story games all use cutscenes solely for an individual mon's signature attacks, with the majority of attacks elsewhere in the game being annotated ones that rely on simple animations for their execution
Pokemon attacks, meanwhile, exist in the middle; Pokemon moves are more recognizable and memorable, but also shared across multiple mons. So annotation and less personalized moves become more necessary, both for easy communication as described here
>>37857020 and due to the sheer number of them.
And honestly, how else do you imply something like Dugtrio is using Slash without visible slashing scars manifesting in the air?
