Also, I am still against the whole "basic" maneuvers and movement count as an action. By doing such, each individual will exhaust their AP before they even have a chance to set up for something grandiose or to finish off the fight.
Why should it cost me an AP to move towards the battle? Or for me to jump or dodge out of a way of an attack? Am I suppose to just stand there and tank whatever comes my way just to ensure I will have enough juice to counterattack and use a jutsu? What about omnidirectional attacks that require more than 3 AP to dodge them all? Would that not give rise to a new meta of attacking, a new rise to character control, and a new rise of people dying because they are not allowed to defend themselves properly?
Throwing an item....I guess could count as an action if you were going to use it set up for something else, i.e. Hiraishin, a fūinjutsu inscription/trap, explosive tag, etc, but that would have to written into the RP OR you tell the judge/BGM so they know ahead of time and keep track of it.