So you have a badass-looking weapon, right? What better way to show it off to the viewing audience than to strike a dynamic pose with it? If that’s not enough, let’s play with the perspective a bit to make the tip look ridiculously larger than it should be. There you go, does that look cool enough? That is the Weapon Tip Focus shot.

The Weapon Tip Focus shot is a type of wide shot that relies heavily on Forced Perspective, in which it takes the tip of a character’s weapon and has the scene angled in a way that makes it seem more elongated and larger than it actually is, often as big as the character wielding it. Most of the time, this type of shot is rarely, if ever, used for any sort of practical purpose, but rather for dramatic effect and for the sake of Rule of Cool. If used also for a practical purpose, it is to convey the weapon's size and heft.

One of the most prominent and most popular usages of this type of shot is what is collectively known in many anime and manga circles as the Brave Perspective after the Brave Series or the Obari Sword Pose, named after Japanese animator Masami Obari. The pose predates Brave, going all the way back to Iczer, Obari's first mecha credit. This specific pose is commonly used in a lot of Mecha Anime, though also seen in other shows, in which the subject — commonly either a mecha or a warrior-type character — is depicted in a wide stance, their arms and center of gravity lowered towards the ground, and two-handing their weapon of choice, most commonly a longsword or melee weapon.

Ironically, Obari himself rarely actually used it in his credited works. In truth, it was fellow Japanese animator Mitsuo Fukuda who was behind it, first seen in Sunrise's 1990 anime Brave Exkaiser. However, Fukuda did credit Obari and his animation style as inspiration for the pose, resulting in the common belief that Obari was the originator of this stance. Since then, Fukuda's pose has been used in a plethora of other anime produced by Sunrise, while also receiving the (albeit not as frequently used) nickname Sunrise Perspective as a result, as well as a great many other anime not produced by the studio.

While the trope is most commonly seen with bladed weapons such as swords, it is not required for such a shot. Any kind of weapon can be applicable, such as guns, clubs, axes, or things that aren't even weapons at all. What is most important is the posing and the perspective of the shot.

In most cases, this will almost always be combined with Audible Sharpness. Not to be confused with actual fighting styles based on using the tip of a blade. Also see Ass-Kicking Pose, Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You, and Sword Pointing.

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