I have made improvements on the battle animation for each character. Each character now has 3 attack animations for added variety (though I'm currently not done with the 4th character yet. Scythe animation is hard -_-;). I've added more frames to the character too. Here is the comparison of the number of battle sprites in the first game:

http://emmanuelsalvacruz.com/wp/wp-content/uploa ds/2012/09/animcomparison.jpg

I tried converting it to gif format: