No idea if this is where this is meant to go, but here it is
Apparently the game has a issue where it's not updating where a character is positioned at the time of a attack, this happens most with Malboro type guys, but Ive seen it everywhere from bosses to birds..
The AoE thing shows on the ground, you get out of it.. by strafing or back stepping or what have you,yet even though you are WELL out of the AoE area, and sometimes, well away from the monster, your hit with what ever lovely tricks that monster put out.
I tested this 4 times today just to see if maybe I was wrong, but still, Malboro puts AoE on ground, i move to the left outside its AoE, and still get the host of status effects I tried it left, right and backward, even hit sprint and was well outta attack range and still got the effects.
Against some things this is a mere annoyance, nothing more then a stray hit, but aginst say a FATE where its all Malboro creatures, it tends to end you fun