Talk:Neon Katt/@comment-37076256-20200105204507/@comment-26397825-20200105225614

Maybe not in the early days, but they've actually been making a lot of effort lately to show these smaller details. V1-5 is absolutely full of inconsistencies and retcons on how stuff works. But they seem to be settling in now on how the world works at large now, and that includes aura and semblances. It wouldn't surprise me if making sure a teensy bit of aura is lost when they use their semblance is an example of actually starting to buckle down on the minor details.

Basically, while they went for Rule of Cool in the beginning of the show, which also means using semblances when it seemed coolest and not caring about aura levels, they're doing better at NOT doing that now.

The Yang and Neo fight in V2 is a good example of them not paying attention to aura levels and animation. Yang's aura wasn't broken and yet Neo managed to knock her out temporarily in spite of this. The fans excused that as Yang blocking out from pain, but the fact remains that they still knocked out a character without thinking about how her aura should have protected her from being concussed.