Anime Weapons

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I'm not really sure why but every time I see it, I get a special feeling.

>>150366491
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDA1bUkotIk

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Spears are the godamn shit. Especially when they have a built-in kamen rider scarf.

>>150366491
Ki. If you mean a real weapon, I'd go with Homura Akemi's watch thing.

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>>150366491
of course the katana

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>>150366491

>>150366491
IT'S A STUPID FUCKING WEAPON FROM A STUPID FUCKING ANIME AND EVERYONE OF YOU THAT ENJOYED PSYCHO PISS DESERVES TO HAVE A BAG OF BROKEN GLASS SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROATS.

>>150366709
>With enough force you can turn a spear into a sword you know that right?
I'm aware. In fact my favourite spears are the ones that are just swords on a stick.

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>>150366672
I raise you this.

>>150366702
Psycho Pass was fun, even if it went a bit too far up its own arse near the end and didn't reach the full potential of its concept.

The Dominator was one of the best parts of the show though. Everything about it was intertwined with the plot and made sense in the universe (even the gore explosions), while being aesthetic as fuck.

>>150366751
but anon, that's a magically enhanced stick. Of course it can penetrate steel.

>>150367101
Unbeknownst to many, it is only the edge of the katana that is actually hardened. The rest of the blade is relatively soft.

>>150366702
I enjoyed it

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>>150366491
>he trusts his life to a weapon
>doesn't master the basis of all combat
what a fool

>>150367322
Masters of combat would know that hitting somebody in the back of their necks is not a good, clean way of taking somebody out of the action.

>>150367322
Who needs a knife in a nuke fight?

>>150366569
Why does it looks like a girl with a weird dress and bad body portion in thumbnail?

>>150367340
maybe she's aiming for the kill

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Toss up between
Nippon steel
Fists
Determination/courage/friendship/heart/abstract concept or emotion.
Butts

>>150366682
OVERJUSTICE GUN MORPHING

>>150366731
so that's what those are for

>>150367322
>>he trusts his life to a weapon
>>doesn't master the basis of all combat
Not mutually exclusive at all.

I have a thing for dual wielding. Either glorious nippon steel katana, or handguns.

>>150367882
What of rapier/dagger (as nonexistent as it is in anime)?

>>150366569

I get uncomfortable looking at that handle. It feels it would be difficult to grip properly while swinging.

>>150367922
>dagger
Sure.
>rapier
Haven't seen anyone dual wielding this.

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>>150367882
>dual wielding

somewhere in this thread, motobe is crying

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>>150366491
If it counts as one.

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These were pretty fucking solid.

>>150367922
>watching fantasy anime
>mage gets attacked by powerful swordsman
>hold him off using just her dagger
This is the reason I don't like daggers and would rather they just used a sword.

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>>150366491

>>150368117
As in a rapier in your main hand with a dagger in your offhand for parrying.

>>150368483
might as well go with a shield.

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>>150366491
your body

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>>150366491
Mine <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< yours.

>>150368366
>I'm the best

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The pilebunker shield, of course.

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>>150368420
>the Dessert Eagle

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>>150366491

>>150366491
Dominator is badass as fuck.

>>150366702
Psycho Pass was good flick. It was a manime oasis in the middle of dry SoL CGDCT desert.

>>150368646
True

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>>150366491

I'm old school

>>150368524
Shield were large, unwieldy and had mostly went out of use centuries before rapiers were even a thing.
Bucklers on the other hand were quite popular and were, like polearms in general, the unsung heroes of weaponry that never get enough recognition.

>>150368919
I only see a flux capacitor

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It rustles the shit out of my jimmies that 92fs long-slides dont actually exist.

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Mach caliber is really cool and bro as fuck.
https://youtu.be/x6DFj6kjO0U

>>150368367
Strength isn't nearly as important with swords as people think. Swords are not for hacking. They are for cutting.

>>150369043
Right, but the reach of your weapon is one of the most important factors, and merely holding off an attacker wielding a sword with just a dagger would be nigh impossible.

>>150368646
The only acceptable response to this thread.

>>150368524
The advantage of the dagger over the buckler is that you can stab the guy with a dagger.
That's useful when you manage to bind the enemy's weapon with your main weapon, but also in a case that is far too overlooked in fiction:
When you have stabbed the enemy and then your weapon is stuck and the enemy isn't dead yet. Rapiers in particular are easy to sink into human bodies, so it wasn't rare that somebody would get impaled all the way to the guard. At that range your rapier is completely useless even if it isn't stuck in some French bastard. And that's where you finish the job with your dagger.

>>150369078
It's difficult, but there were treaties written on this precise premise. They recommend putting the dagger blade against your forearm in order to be able to parry blows with it while closing in.

>>150369078
The whole point (pun unintended but welcome) of dagger vs sword is NOT holding them off, is agressively entering close and personal. Basically, you aim to sidestep / dodge / evade an attack, then inmediately enter close enough that the extra range is actually a disadvantage. Of course the rival tries to prevent you from doing that.

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>>150366491
girl-shaped weapons are the best.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaveMotionGun

/thread.

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Still one of my favorites

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>>150369078
just put your dagger on a stick

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>>150369458

>>150368920
>Shield were large, unwieldy and had mostly went out of use centuries before rapiers were even a thing.
There were literally bulletproof shields that were used in the late middle ages.
I heard about gun-shields that were used in naval warfare. Basically extra-sturdy tower-shields with a rifle attached to them.

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I dunno scythes are pretty cool I guess

>>150369586

And then they had the brilliant idea of putting several of those together, mounting them on a metal vagon propelled from the inside.

>>150366569
The guard always made me cringe. The only good aspects of it are the color scheme and the engraved cursive.

>>150369725
No, that happened later and for a completely unforeseen reason.

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This. It's so stupid, I love it!

>>150368920
>Shield were large, unwieldy and had mostly went out of use centuries before rapiers were even a thing.
Except nothing of that is true. The rapier was born in the late XV century, and the shield was still in use for all that century (and even in the XVI - ask the Spanish Tercios about it). Also not ALL shields were large, and the only unwieldy shiwelds are the body shield ones that do NOT need to be "wielded". The most common kind of shield from the XIII century onwards (excluding specialized pavises and things like that) was actually quite light in weight

>>150369959
Beat me to it
Easily my most memorable anime weapon with the Psycho Pass guns being a close second

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Other "Weapons" need not apply.

>>150370059
By the end of 15th century, shield were a rare sight, while rapiers really became a thing towards the rear end of the 16th century.
I'm not saying shields went out of use completely, pavises being the obvious example, being used as a stationary cover for archers.

This is a pointless discussion anyway because rapiers were never battlefield weapons, and even when shields were common they wouldn't have been carried in the daily context were a rapier would've been carried.

>>150370388
>late 15 century
>shields are rare

>rapier
>not a thing for all the XVI century

>pavises
>archers

Let's say that you don't know as much as you think you know

>>150370388
>even when shields were common they wouldn't have been carried in the daily context were a rapier would've been carried.

one word for you to google: swashbuckler

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>>150366491

>>150370431
Did you actually read my previous post? >>15036892

>>150370414
>late 15 century
>shields are rare
If we're nitpicking, yes they were indeed used for much longer in Africa, Middle East and India.
>rapier
>not a thing for all the XVI century
Earlier swords resembling rapiers did exist earlier in the 16th century, although its development into what we would call a rapier today and it's popularity came towards the end of the 16th century.
>pavises
>archers
>implying
You're either memeing on the fact that the same word can be used for multiple, similar but different things like "Claymore" or you should read up on your medieval and renaissance arms and armor.

>>150370606
>Did you actually read my previous post? >>15036892
I missed that thread, sorry.

>>150366491
Roy Mustang's gloves.

>>150370659
Accidentally deleted a 0 it seems. >>150368920
Point was that I did mention how popular bucklers were. So when I said shields, I excluded bucklers.

>>150366731
How does the top hole even work? Does the guy lower it from his head?

>>150370710
In the scene he lowered the hole around the guy's head then swung forward to pin the closer guy.

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>posting gundams
niggers, you know that's not even close to fair.
At least post an weapon from said gundam.

In any case:
Cannons. They're the best.

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>>150366491
the most powerful weapon, naturally

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BIG FUCKING GUN BACKPACKS

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The invisible gun.

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>>150366569
Excalibur truly is the best.

>>150370864
Ah I see that makes sense, I thought it was just an animation error.

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Why was it so fucking cool

>>150369770
What's wrong with the guard?

>>150370893
>niggers

>>150367134
Which means it would bend, instead of break.

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the transformation sequence still gives me chills

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>>150368956
There really isn't a difference though.

>>150370388
War rapiers were a thing, although they weren't as common as broadswords.

>>150371439
It's several times larger than it should be.
>complaining about an almost okay sword in anime

>>150368920
>weaboos in charge of knowing how combat works
Shields will forever be able to parry and deflect attacks than any sword/dagger would. The funny thing is that while retards think more weapons will give you "more attack" or more avenues of attacking someone, you can be far more aggressive in attacking if you had a shield since you have the insurance of being able to ward off attacks better. Bucklers were small and barely covered anything and full size shields were not even much heavier than them.

Shield in offhand > Buckler in offhand or Holding single weapon in both hands (debatable) > Retarded dual wielding

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>>150372017
Oh shit, you're right. I almost forgot that. The blade is bigger too. Who cares, it's cool.

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The Hyper Weapon, of course.

>>150369393
>agressively entering close and personal
If you actually tried doing something like that and know how much of an advantage the range is, you'd know that unless the person you're up against is retarded or has never seen a sword in his entire life, you'd have a better chance turning around and running. There is a reason why throughout the history of warfare people were continuously developing ways to get further from what they were trying to kill.

>>150370893
Seras is shit and so is Harkonnen cannon.

>>150372047
I probably thought this shit looked cool back in the day but now it doesn't look anything but silly

>>150372158
I'm a Devil May Cry-fag, I like silly weapons.

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>>150366491
Pika Pika no Mi

>>150372044
I'd like to be a dragon.

Being a dragon would be cool.

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How the fuck has this not be posted yet?

>>150372278
What kind of dragon?

>>150372296
Because it's dumb as fuck. On several levels.

>>150366672

Seiken No Blacksmith AKA Nippon Steel Stronk: The Anime

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>>150372335
It's just a heap of raw iron and it's still extremely iconic. How is that dumb?

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Why is Japan so proud of their shitty swords?
European swords are superior in almost every way and also easier to manufacture .

>>150366491
the trident corporation psionic amplifier from sprigan. not anything new but its rare to see telekinesis ever explained with technology

>>150372025
That's true, but you don't really need a shield if you wear a full plate harness on every part of your body. That's why they can wield poleaxes without worry. By the late 15th century, even a somewhat well-off men-at-arms could afford one, albeit in poorer quality than the nobles.

The issue with preferring daggers/bucklers over shields is not limited to weight, but also context and convenience. In civil life you don't want to carry shields everywhere, while eating or while meeting a very important person, if you're not a guard or something. Meanwhile, you can conceal carry a dagger in addition to your already openly-carried smallsword/rapier. Daggers used as a parrying or riposte weapon just came out naturally within that context of civil everyday life.

I don't really know if shields really fell out of fashion in the battlefield though, centuries before rapiers even a thing, like he said.

>>150372422
>How is that dumb?
I wasn't calling its iconic nature dumb. I called the Dragonslayer itself dumb.

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>>150372428
They are in denial, basically.

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>>150372298
After he grew wings though.

Wings are cool.

>>150372428
Because while European Swords might be easier to make, Nip Swords are more FUN to make.

"Folded 1000 times" might be a hell of a meme, but it's fun as hell to do.

>>150372428
Katana were good for what they were used as:
cutting down badly armored people. The katana is an excellent cutter, and it's certainly the best that the Japanese with their shit iron could have produced.
I'm not sure why they have such a shitty guard, but I guess there's a reason for that too.

>>150371258
I still never understood how he got such a massive powerboost between his first and final encounter

>>150372428
>Why is Japan so proud of their shitty swords?
It seems to me that it's mostly weaboos that worship the Japanese swords.
Japanese themselves focus more on the Samurai's code of honor, bushido, etc. etc.
Not like the rest of the world didn't have equivalents of that, but yeah.

>>150372444
>The issue with preferring daggers/bucklers over shields is not limited to weight, but also context and convenience. In civil life you don't want to carry shields everywhere, while eating or while meeting a very important person, if you're not a guard or something. Meanwhile, you can conceal carry a dagger in addition to your already openly-carried smallsword/rapier. Daggers used as a parrying or riposte weapon just came out naturally within that context of civil everyday life.
Well yeah, that I definitely agree with. Hell it's not just shields, most if not all battlefield weapons were very unwieldy and impractical to carry around in daily life. I might be wrong but I don't think people carried around bucklers either though, I'm pretty sure they were mostly a dueling thing.

>>150372596
They certainly did best with what they had, and according to a few remaining western written records they were indeed good cutting swords.
Although similar records tend to emphasize Indian and Ottoman curved swords as being the most fearsome cutting swords.

>>150366491
fucking dumb.

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planet destroying gun? you got it.

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>>150372596

That's the funny part

Underneath plate Armour, which was designed to defend against cutting and stabbing blows, knights wore mail and leather. So assuming a katana managed to cut through this plate armour (It most likely wouldn't, some TV show showing a katana cut through some shitty cheap cuirass isn't very accurate) the mail and leather would provide more than adequate protection due to the nature of a Katana as a Cutting weapon. Also lessened mobility is a meme, armourers went to great pains to design armour that protected the wearer but also allowed them the ability to move.

The Katana wouldn't be been very useful if plate armour was commonly used in japan, but because Europe has much more iron than Japan, that doesn't happen.

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>>150372837

>>150372854
>knights wore mail and leather.
No, they wore gambeson underneath the plate. Mail went into the areas where the plate was insufficient. But most areas of the body had multiple layers of plate and no mail underneath.
>leather
Not really.

>>150372635

Your stupid right? you can't be serious?

>>150372837
is RWBY even anime?

>>150372854
>Also lessened mobility is a meme,
Mostly, but not entirely.

>>150372946
There were different variations of armor for knights over the centuries

>>150368956
>berreta
A pistol for womans.

>>150372959
What ever, some of the weapons are still pretty bad ass, too bad the fight scenes suck after the creator died

>>150372990
Right. But the better the plate got, the less mail was used. Because mail doesn't really add a whole lot to plate.
You can't cut through plate, and mail doesn't protect against bashing.

>>150372854
Mostly correct although knights did not wear leather but they wore gambesons which were many layers of hard cloth. Gambesons just by themselves provided a lot of protection and peasants who couldn't afford anything better often went to battle just in gambesons and helmets.

Plate armor itself wouldn't have been just hard but literally impossible to penetrate with a katana, or even a western made sword. You'd have to go through the gaps to have any chance. Even a full blown horseback lance blow could glance off if the blow wasn't head on.
There's a reason blunt weapons became popular.

>>150372959
Only a matter of time.

It is, quite undeniably, a manga now.
Anime adaptation is sure to follow.

/k/ is seeping in again

>>150366491
My favorite weapon is "that"

>>150372959
No but it has a manga adaptation so I guess it counts.

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>>150366748
Smalltime.

>>150372854
Is it true that crossbows just totally defeated all plate armor was is that just a myth?

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Where my Mateba bros at

>>150368366
>literally kirito with more bullshit

>>150372720
>I might be wrong but I don't think people carried around bucklers either though
I only knew that people talked about it being a dueling and a battlefield equipment, as on the battlefield it might be preferred by archers or pikemen who wouldn't bother themselves to carry shields on their backs while marching, etc. There were also smaller shields. People tend to think that shields are always the big-ass kite ones, the tower shield, or pavises, when smaller ones existed.

However, the fact that it was used as a dueling equipment in an unarmored context, different than armored one which used shields, swords, polearms, etc. (even all at ones), might imply otherwise. Why would swordmasters include sword-and-buckler instructions too in their manuals then, if it wasn't for civilian self-defense?

>>150373025

I think it depends on the period, Most Armour i've seen/read up upon is around the Norman conquest, so I accept that I could be wrong.

>>150373116
Mostly a myth.
To puncture through plate, the crossbow has to be pretty big, the plate has to be very close, and the bolt has to hit at a good angle.

I don't think they would be able to penetrate the really good armor at all, except maybe in its weak spots.

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The other guardian's weapons are shit designs, but Momon the Black's duel swords are rad

>>150373163
>Most Armour i've seen/read up upon is around the Norman conquest,
Well, that was long before plate armor really came into its own.

>>150372946
Knights almost always wore a full mail shirt and coif. The shirt usually went down to the thighs. Some extended right to the wrists while some were short sleeved.
Anything above the waist was usually covered with plate, a layer of mail and gambeson. In fact it wouldn't have been uncommon for the neck to be protected by multiple layers of mail and padding due to the aventail. Later the neck would be protected by an additional plate, aka the bevor.

>>150373117
that look like shit.

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>>150366491
Anything that is useful.

>>150373187
The coif is another matter entirely. Taking off your helmet (or at least raising the visor) was a necessity in battle at times. You didn't want to be unprotected during those times.
But as I said, in general mail was where the plate was insufficient. They had special mail sleeves for people whose torso was already well protected by plate, but whose arms needed additional cover.
Mail is heavy. You don't weigh yourself down needlessly if you don't have to. Not just that, but given mail's non-rigid nature, it's going to weigh you down at the wrong place, your shoulders. You don't want that if you don't need it.

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Quick moving, strictly trained Samurais have an infinite advantage against slow moving, brutish knights.

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>>150366491
Tanks would be nice. Not anime though.

>>150373283
>quick-moving
The Japanese had to take a few hints from the Europeans because up until we showed them how to do it right, they were still suspending their armor from their shoulders.

>>150373283
I love samurais as much as any weeb but a knight would steamroll a nippon warrior 10/10. The knight has better technology that simply counters the samurai in every way.

>>150372596
They are also a decent thrusting weapon. Besides, why do people always compare two swords from two totally different places? Also, why is it always the katana, why not tsurugi, tachi, or something else?
>cutting down badly armored people.
That's ALL swords, not just katana. Except maybe lightsabers or something in the future.

Or a chainsaw (I doubt it, but dunno. Never tried it.)

>>150373283
I know this is bait, but I'll post this video just so people who aren't knowledgeable in the subject can learn more about it.
You can check both of the channels involved in the video for more information about medieval, renaissance arms and armor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RR6I-BLKbQ

>>150373345
>That's ALL swords,
Nah, the Europeans abandoned cutting more and more as time went on, until they equipped their cavalry with exclusive thrusting devices in the 20th century.

>>150368713
underrated post

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>>150373235
Wait, what is this dark souls shit I'm looking at?
I might pick this up.

Anyone knows where is this from?

>>150373117
That old relic?

>>150373402
Of course we know.

>>150373170

This

Especially as breastplates had a curved shape which gave it increased strength. It makes it harder for a bolt or arrow to get a straight hit

>>150373402
I'm pretty certain that's Goblin Slayer, I haven't read it myself, but people really like it.

>>150373426
Give me the name, please.

>>150373448
Thanks, gonna look it up.

>>150373473
Hope you like rape with your brutality!

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I'm partial to wide-beam weapons. Especially ones with extremely limited ammo like the original buster rifle.

>>150373524
wait what

>>150373652
Y'know how Akame ga Kill was the "Brutal Shock Edge" manga for a while?

It has been usurped.
Well it wasn't really paid much attention to for a fair while prior to GS, but still.

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>Will never be any porn of her and her musket

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>>150373524
Man this is fucking great, why haven't I heard about this before.
This fucking MC holy shit.
Still chapter 2 by the way

>>150366731
Looks like it's made out of cardboard.

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motherfuckin wizard gun

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>>150372296
Goddamn, the Dragonslayer is the coolest thing ever. A perfect match for the best character I've ever seen.

>>150372854
>The Katana wouldn't be been very useful if plate armour was commonly used in japan
It's not like swords were particularly useful anyway. Armoured combat disqualifies most swords because plate deflects just about everything that doesn't carry enough force to smash bones, which is why in just about every culture swords were just sidearms while polearms and maces took the main stage.

Katanas were sidearms, taking a back seat to spears and bows and only really so much popularity due to being a status symbol and main duel weapon in peacetime.

>>150373774
>"""""
Stop that.

>>150367101
He's lvl 99 Crono doing a Mop-only NG+.

>>150368646
same

>>150373394
All swords are bad at cutting armored opponents, not only katana. Never did I say that Europe didn't abandon cutting and emphasized thrusting as time went on. Besides, what you said has nothing to do with armors, because they abandoned them too gradually, until standard uniform army happened. Only like dragooners or something that still wore cuirasses. They chose 1796 pattern cavalry swords over basket-hilted backswords or broadswords. 1908 pattern was made exclusively for cavalry thrust, and very unwieldy as an infantry sword, so it's useless to generalize it to any kinds of situation involving cut or thrust debates. Furthermore, it wasn't about armor at all, because nobody wore it anymore, except for some early bulletproof vests (which were useless against anything other than pistol rounds anyway). Slashing opponents were less risky because if you thrust them you might lose your sword stuck inside your opponent while on high speed. There were basic techniques to avoid that situation, but it remained riskier and harder than cutting. People always bitched whenever they changed the design towards more cut-centric or thrust-centric. People always bitch anyway. Not to mention differences of army tradition between each countries.

It's all about usages and contexts, really. The same with katana. Although, I'm not sure why the Japanese still brought them during WW2, whether it's useful or not, etc.

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>>150370893
Mechas are weapons.
Just like tanks.

>>150374089
>that feel when somebody responds to you and you are almost positive they have subscribed to the same youtube channels as you

>>150373807
>wanting porn of an ugly freak.

>>150373691
Oh. Well then. I thought it would be just medieval, Dark Souls-y characters doing medieval, Dark Souls-y things.

Not a complete turn off, though.

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>>150366968
I agree

>>150366672
Kek

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>>150374153
Curiously, on /his/ (and maybe elsewhere) there seems to be some butthurt reactions towards Matt Easton, because everyone seems to take for granted that his opinions are the authoritative ones. He might throw some opinions, but most of them are so believable that it's hard to argue against him. It's not like Metatron who always presents safe consensuses, experiences, or facts. Matt often speculate and spout opinions, the most apparent being his movie fight scene reviews. That, or he's a skilled salesman or something.

But then again, it's mostly because of him that I'm fucking crazy about 19th century swords now. I actually prefer straight patterns more, by the way. Don't know why I don't bother with earlier century basket-hilted backswords instead, because honestly they are the same shit.

Shit is getting off-topic now. As expected.

>>150372158
It only looked cool when framed with Alucard since everyone but the Major were skinny long people and long weapons seemed more ludicrous.

I always thought it looked stupid, but accepted it as artistic license.

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GN Sword and any of its variants

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I see your swords, and raise you an oversized mace.

>>150374739
I totally respect him.
I confess to having watched a lot of lindybeige, but he's wrong almost by default, and he almost never really tries to get it right.
Matt reads up the sources and then he tries it out for himself and then he reports his findings. He is refreshingly based in fact.
But yeah, let's drop the wanking.

There's too many gundamfags in this thread
Is it because of Geass?
or is it just one guy?

>>150375093
Gundams have been aesthetically cool for a long time.

This thread isn't "cool weapons in well written franchise"

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The GBE >>150368646
A fucking Zaku or Gundam RX 178
Kaoru's weapon from Flame of Recca. It has six forms, the final one being "formless".
A waifu. Or better: A lot of waifus.

All weapons are waifus, though. Anyone who says otherwise must be beheaded.

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There's something about giant robots hiding with sniper rifles that's really amusing to me.

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>>150375093
>Is it because of Geass?

>when there's a gundam TV going on right now and OAVs twice a year
No, "geassfags" are too busy memeing and spamming.

DECALOGUE BROS WW@
>his favorite weapon only has one form

>>150369458
>D-Knight
Show was unexpectedly good though.

what is better, >>150369488 or >>150368646 ?

>>150366639
I came here to post this

>>150373185
that aren't african swords?

>>150368743
Dominator is shit compared to the GBE.

>>150366682
big boner

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>>150366491
Only the most powerful one in existence.

Legend has it that even Elder God Demonbane cowers in fear of its might.

>>150368729
this desu

>>150375923
GBE is more useful/functional
Z-Gun is just fucking cool

>>150372596
Pretty much this, inferior metal means they did the best with what they had available. Most Japs didn't wear much metal armor so katana cut through their shitty rice husk chest plates or wherever the fuck they used.

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Sexiest beam rifle and Gundam ever coming through

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>made to fuck up stuff that's specified to not be fuck up-able.

cant get much better than this.

Fate has some pretty top tier weapons:

Excalibur
Gae Bolg
Kanshou and Bakuya
Rule Breaker

Excalibur and Gae Bolg look neat, and do neat things. Kanshou and Bakuya are cool for the symbolism. Rule Breaker looks evil, and completely impractical, but it's ok because it's not for combat

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>>150366491

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>>150378000
You forgot the weapon of weapons.

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>this thread

>>150371053
cards > guns

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The cutest sword

>>150372335
like most weapons in this thread, it's impossible to use and therefore retarded

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>>150378041
Ea a shit.

>>150372104
this desu senpai

>>150374120
Yes, but unlike tanks, mechas are dumb garbage

>>150372930
Muh.

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muh nife

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>>150378565
Mechas have high cool factor, which is all that matters in the end.
Much better than tanks.

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>>150366491
I love beam rifles from the Gundam franchise, but the beam magnum from Unicorn has got to be my favorite. The return of the classic beam rifle sound effect made me nostalgia pretty hard when I first heard it.

>>150378886
I've never thought mechas were cool they usually look too dopey for my taste

>>150377742
unless you want to do something in moderation like say shooting the lock of a door to save the person locked behind it and not turn that and everything a mile behind it in a neutronfountain.

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To end him rightly

>>150375063
>let's drop the wanking.
That's not wanking, that's sucking a dick.

>>150366491
Black swordsmen

>>150366751
>>150367101
>Boner of muh sword
He's a gary stu who can TRACE ON.

>>150378646
>fingerring below the guard
>on the thumb side
Some people.

>>150379510
Of course. But I was more referring to our accomplishing nothing but feeling good about ourselves.

>>150374089
>history fag
Bitch pls. Lots of knights used mrning stars and warhammers.

>Slashing
Statistically stab wounds caused more deaths. So spears/pikes were still the best in most melee battles.

>>150370945
Power of NTR sloots?

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>>150366491

>>150379485
underrated post

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>>150374089
>I'm not sure why the Japanese still brought them during WW2, whether it's useful or not, etc.

They weren't the only one mad jack churchill got kills with both a sword and a long bow in WW2

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>>150366491

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>>150366751
Man, thunderbirds got weird in the new seasons.

>>150373117
Hot.

>>150373283
>slow moving,

I love this meme.

>>150366751
That whole series was basically about a xianxia protagonist wandering into a wuxia side-plot.

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naked collider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ArRHTblUI
I always found Trigun so comfy and the shooting so nice.
Also
>dub

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>>150366702
Listen mate.
Fuck off.

>>150366826
>it went a bit too far up its own arse near the end and didn't reach the full potential of its concept.
You can fuck off too.

Kogami was literally the a mixture of Jesus and Nietzche. How the fuck is that not based.

>>150383564
Bleh I mean makishima

>>150373283
I think it's been proven that armored Knights are hell of a lot more mobile than people thought. There are videos of people doing stunts in full armor. So in terms of mobility, I think if anything samurai and Knights are around the same. Weapons technology however, Knights win hands down.

>>150377063
this

>>150366751
what the fuck is this?

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>>150373910
Best gun concept ever.

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>>150366491
Literally blue mage.

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Ya-Haiya- setsuna hibiku Ya-Haiya- mujō e

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>>150384075

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>>150384670
Tennis shark, pls go.

Are Katana actually shitty or is it just a meme spurred on as anti-weeb posting? IIRC R. Lee Ermy himself admitted Katana were pretty high grade for their time.

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>>150367322
>he risks his life in combat
>doesn't manipulate others into achieving his own ends for him
what a fool

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How come there are so little anime based around real guns?

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>>150384891
real guns are boring senpai.

>>150373402
It's goblin slayer, good shit man

>>150375024
Mace spear hybrid is god tier good taste famalam

>>150384751
Short answer is, it's complicated.
Longer answer, they're excellent cutters and great at what they were made to do, just not the magical end-all, be-all of swords that Japan likes to portray them as.
They're strong, but not invincible. They will cut flesh and soft armor, but won't cut armor made out of metal. They can pierce metal armor, sure, with a good stab, but you can get a better stab with a spear.
Oh, and before anyone throws around terms like "pig iron," that's misleading. Japan did have shitty pig iron, but that's why they used the smithing techniques that they did, including the folding. That knocked impurities out and in the end, they were left with great quality steel.
Not quite as good crucible steel that the middle east developed and the Vikings used for the famous Ulfberht swords.
They're making the katana from Kill Bill, but this is a nice little video that gives a decent rundown of how katanas are made from scratch using traditional methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNuEDtnVdeM
Here's a good documentary about the Ulfberht sword that also covers a bit about the metallurgy of medieval blades. Not much on katanas, but I still recommend it if you have an hour to kill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTlmrAh1oHI

>>150373402
>what is this dark souls shit I'm looking at?
Berserk.

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You do OWN your favorite weapon in anime, right /a/?

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>>150372248

Funnily enough Ebony and Ivory are incredibly well detailed and not silly at all.

>>150385569
>Jericho
>kallen
muh negro

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>>150385569
Not for lack of trying or funds though. Hopefully the God Emporer will fix this tragedy

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>>150366491
I do like the Shining Trapezohedron alot too.

>>150366826
>The Dominator was one of the best parts of the show though. Everything about it was intertwined with the plot and made sense in the universe (even the gore explosions), while being aesthetic as fuck.

HOW? The very first or second episode exemplifies why having a gore explosion gun is absolutely retarded!

This anime is mediocre in every sense and anyone pretending otherwise is retarded.

>>150372837
>>150372930
>those stupid fucking shotgun nunchuks
Undeniably the worst, most idiotic weapon I have ever witnessed fictional or otherwise
I love it

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>>150369959
came here to post this too,
trigun had some proper good weapons in it

>>150384075
Came here to post this. The Caster is fucking sweet.

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>>150366684
>Not barefoot
Pleb.

>>150372335
You're dumb as fuck.

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>>150372296
Because you´re sword is too small.

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If you don't think casting magic using a fucking golf club is the tightest shit then you can get out of my face.

>>150383272
>Casually going over the 100%

it's not fucking 100% isn't it then? Goddamn it.

>>150380142
no doubt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MwdjyWstS4

>>150383499
holy shit, this is autistic.
but it's a good kind of autistic, saved, might watch psycho pass now.

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only a fool would trust his life to a weapon

>>150370672

They don't do much beyond generating a few sparks, you know? It was all alchemy that created those huge fires.

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Little girl, big gun, and I'm happy. I'm a simple man.

>>150373155
>use electric powers to turn double-pronged sword into taser
not much of a problem, m8

>>150372836

Planet destroying? Pfft. Tenchi Muyo had that dimensional cannon that they used on Kain.

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I like when they use modern weapons in anime
>Dat tower in Terraformars with a tons of guns inside that automatically targets and fires thousands of rounds per second.
Yes, they do exist.

>>150373910

By far the best anime weapon.

Cool to watch, had limitations and couldn't be used freely, and was something that the wielder used expertly.

Also it was the reason for the hot springs episode and naked aisha.

>>150368646
Best weapon hands down but I always thought it was made from some sort of rock, given its rough texture, looks too clean in here.

>>150391991
There was that weird gun from Final Fantasy Unlimited as well.

It fired three bullets of various types to make different effects. Towards the end they firing people as bullets to make it more powerful and at the very end he fired himself. Very cheesy I know.

>>150391979
>million rounds per minute
I mean, this one is ten years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEu9LLQpOF8

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>>150366672
1000 TIMES FOLDED GLORIOUS NIPPON STEEL

>>150379134
>see a bug walking around on the floor
>shoot it for shit and giggles
>somewhere, in the other side of the world, a fucking death beam came out of the earth, followed by a sea of lava
>whole fucking place shatters and theres earthquakes lava and shit everywhere
It sure is top fun.

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>>150366491
GLORIOUS REVOCS LIFE FIBERS, FOLDED OVER 1000 TIMES

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This guy in Gun x Sword had a katana-looking gun, the scabbard being the (ultra high capacity) magazines. I thought it was cool.

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>>150371649
This. Also the summoning sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoXYjLs6as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYLg80VsYY

>>150366672
So is the katana a meme weapon to Jap otaku too or do they really think it's that cool?

>>150392906
That was it. It as least made for an interesting weapon.

>>150392906
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LDAn7AM70
Love the description to this video.

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>>150372296

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>>150366491

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>>150366491
the type that's made from underwear

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>>150392643
Scissor wielders are QT.

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the only weapon i need to send your weeb ass to the shadow realm

>>150366731
It cannot be beat!

Rapier > Katana

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>>150393510
Sorry Yugi, but were you looking for this 5?

>>150368713
>>150393228
top kek

>>150389637

100% is the maximum sustained level, you can temporarily go over it with capacitors and overloading the feed lines. They do overheat when doing this, so there is a cooldown period.

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>>150393510
>shadow realm
>implying that exists.

>>150393665
Jesus christ how horrifying.

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>>150388189
CAINU ZA RONGSHOTTO

>>150391979
Why even have human soldiers at that point?

>>150366491
it really doesn't get much better than this

>>150373116
The power of the crossbow came with the fact you could train peasants with it in a few hours versus the decades of training that your standard archer would require.