Anime sword draw

A night street: she draws at 3 seconds with a glint on the blade, then lunges at the camera against radial speed lines with sword in one hand and sheath in the other. The pose holds for the last three seconds.

A street at daylight: she draws and lunges in one burst with motion blur, impact lines and a trailing coat, then recovers into a raised guard. The blade stays rigid and attached to her hands.

A clean draw at 2.5 seconds, a slash with impact lines and a low stance with long hair flowing behind her. On model throughout, though the move ends in a stance rather than a lunge.

A sweeping draw with a white slash arc, then a forward lunge with hair and jacket billowing, strong follow-through on a static camera. After the slash only the hilt reads clearly in her hand.

A slow, tense draw for three seconds, a slash with impact lines, then cuts to a side-view lunge and a back view with hair trailing. Strong follow-through, but not a static camera.

In a dojo she draws at 2.5 seconds, runs at the camera and ends in a lunge with hair and jacket flowing. The blade stays straight and rigid throughout; the final pose is held for about 3.5 seconds.

The most fluid sword work of the set: a fast draw, repeated slashes with arc trails and hair and jacket whipping behind her. She slashes in place rather than lunging forward.

A clean side-view draw of a long katana and a lunge with speed lines, but the lunge pose is then held for about five seconds with only hair moving.

She stands still for the first 3.5 seconds, then draws and the clip cuts to a wide stance against speed lines, sword raised and sheath in the other hand. Little forward lunge.

Cinematic rather than static: a crouch, a glowing draw, a tracking side-view lunge with long trailing hair, then a cut at 4.5 seconds to an extreme wide shot where she is tiny for the last three seconds.

A crisp anime look with a quick draw and slash, but from 4 seconds the blade turns into a glowing sword about twice as long, and she holds a stance rather than lunging.

Clean anime drawing, but for the first 4.5 seconds she stands still holding a bare blade, so there is no draw from the scabbard. She then raises it overhead and the clip cuts to a lunge against a new speed-line background at about 6 seconds.

A soft, painterly anime look with an overhead draw and a cut to a side-view lunge with speed lines. During the lunge the blade ripples like a ribbon instead of staying rigid. The clip is 6 seconds long.

Fast and energetic, with a draw, a sprint and a lunge against speed lines, but it is cut into several shots and the coat length and sword position change between them. The character reads as androgynous rather than as a girl.

Opens with an oversized cleaver of a blade already drawn, then cuts at 1.4 seconds to a lunge pose that is held almost still for six seconds while the background scrolls, with the blade out of frame.