Do you ever get tired of the samuri sword?
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I perfer the Tanto.
When you need to knife a man and watch his guts spill on the ground, laughing at his failed attempts to put them back in his body.
Accept no subsitutes.
When you need to knife a man and watch his guts spill on the ground, laughing at his failed attempts to put them back in his body.
Accept no subsitutes.
It'd be nice to see some other Japanese swords get exposure in pop culture, and what about more obscure but equally awesome weapons like Damascus blades or kukris?
I kinda like the Berserk armour myself, It looks badass and it gives shierke something to doCasual Shinji said:It's also one of if not the only samurai movie that tells you about the code of the samurai, which is a pretty damn interesting one.OctoH said:
I also like that it has Forrest Whitaker as Ghost Dog and not some athletic-looking guy. It's fun to seen this big dumpy guy be a swift and silent killer. It probably has something to do with the parallels the movie draws between samurai and bears.NOOOOOO, don't show me the Berserk armor. That horrendous creation burns my eyes!The_Blue_Rider said:
Lets see a katana face off against that >
(If you dont get a good grasp of the swords size from the pic, its about that guys height, that guy is roughly 6ft 5)
I can't tell you how much I LOVE Berserk, but adding the Berserk armor was a horrible mistake.The_Blue_Rider said:
I'd have to go into great detials to explain why exactly. Simply put: The Berserk armor is a deus ex machine basically turning the comic into a shounen manga, when Berserk was always above that sort of thing.
I disagree, the armour was important for Guts' character. Throughout the series many characters commented on the fact that Guts seemed like more of a monster than the things he was fighting. The Berserker armour is the next step in blurring the line between man and monster for Guts, and it makes the Hellhound (The personification of Guts' rage) more of an influence on him than ever.Casual Shinji said:
More so it shows how willing he is to put himself into danger to protect his newfound companions, and the woman he loves. I have a feeling though, that in the closing parts of the manga, Guts will have to decide whether to continue using the armour, and follow the Skull Knights path, or whether to remove it, and fight as a man, not a monster
No, I mean it makes sense with Ramirez, Duncan, and Connor, but why do so many other immortals wield katanas? They can't all have a deep connection to Japan.Athol said:
The one thing I loved about Guts as a character is that he fought on his own strength. Sure, it was monstrous strength, but it was his. He didn't rely on some demonic power to be strong. It was all his muscle and unbreakable willpower which made him survive the horrors he was faced with. This all stems back to when he was raped as a child; A situation in which he had absolutely no power to fend off his attacker.The_Blue_Rider said:
All the strength he had achieved up till the "Fantasy arc" was his, he earned it.
The Berserk armor defeats that entire struggle by simply giving Guts power. Now, whenever Guts finds himself in a bind he can just switch on the armor and easily dispose of everything. It makes every future battle totally predictable. I mean, every battle since he received the Berserk armor was like, "Oh shit, too many monsters. Better switch on my armor."
It gives Guts a deus ex machina, which breaks down his previous achievements as an actual human swordsman who was able to fight and kill Apostles on his own mortal strength.
Well we're going to have to agree to disagree, i wouldnt worry about the armour though, i think that Kentaro Miura (i think thats how you spell the authors name) will get rid of it sometime before he has a showdown with the GodhandCasual Shinji said:
Yes the jumonji yari is a disturbing weapon (in the hands of an expert) but the elongated blade of a naginta is why I brought it up. The idea of combining a sword a and a staff is awesome and I wish it was more represented in society. Plus the original designers did a hell of a job on it. Way better than that European shit. But I totally hear what you're saying, the yari is a great weapon; its just really hard to learn how to wield it properly.SckizoBoy said:
I'm tired of Katanas because they aren't the best sword, they were the best for the job they were designed to do against the people the Japanese were facing. During the Crusades, the Arabs found their vastly superior swords were being broken by European long swords and great swords because of the sheer weight of the blows. The Europeans needed swords that could go through plate armor which tended to be a little less feasible when you exist in a desert. Personally, the Gladius is my favorite sword. It is short, which makes it good for close quarters, and was broad enough to be used as a shield of a sort in a pinch.
And to the above person who seems to think the Yari is superior to anything in the West, I give you the Sarissa.
And to the above person who seems to think the Yari is superior to anything in the West, I give you the Sarissa.
A little bit over the katana... I'd like to see more cutlass type swords. Or swords of the lazer variety. It's been a while since I've seen a good lightsaber knockoff.