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I might be wrong but I think the kick's distance shouldn't be calculated as an ellipses since it should be impossible to make a kick with that form, when Mikey kicks Taiju which is when the leg is on the highest point the leg is fully stretched but using the ellipses as it is presented the left part is longer so it comes out that Mikey's leg changed in length during the kick, also Mikey isn't even in the center which implies Mikey moved on the right in mid air to be there so I believe that line is just a sort of exaggeration of the kick, in my opinion is better to calc the distance using Mikey's leg as r to calc it as a simple circumference.
I'll link the anime adaptation, we can understand better what he did.
For the timeframe I thought about this: since Taiju fell down faster than anyone perception we can find out the timeframe he needed to do that and use it for 1/2 of the kick since Mikey finished the kick when Taiju was on the floor otherwise I would just go for a 0,1 s - 0,08 s.
It’s unfortunate I had to waste the single permission from @Deagonx but I can’t keep letting this logic to keep coming up over and over.
This logic only holds because it assumes that Mikey must be kicking in a completely circular motion.
This is not true because Mikey throws his body into the kick (he doesn’t just move only his leg in a circle) as he jumps in the air. As he leans back into the kick he can gather more range thus distorting the circular path into a more elliptical shape. That’s why the mangaka drew the kick that way, and that’s why the animators animated Mikey leaning his body into the kick as he jumps in the air to better depict that motion. The motion wasn’t drawn to depict some sort of hyperbole, Mikey has undergone martial arts training thanks to his gaurdian, so he is well capable of performing such a feat.
The ellipses shape the mangaka has drawn* is more accurate and should therefore be used rather than the circumference of a circle.
*typo
Edit: The timeframe @Therefir used is fine for now till my thread gets sorted.
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