What's the deal with his sword? It makes no sense. How do

>>159413741
Grind the blade on the side that'd normally face the user and leave the spine on the side that faces towards others.

Put the edge on the other side of the sword

>>159413741
Just fucking google "sakabato" and stop making nonsense threads.

In what way, does it make no sense?

>>159414447
Because you temper the edge by quenching it. That causes the curve. You couldn't do that with the spine of the sword.

>>159414550
I'd assume it's not a traditionally made katana with differential quenching. Western swordsmiths didn't usually do that stuff and they worked just fine.

I thought the sword was a metaphor for his penis, saying he has become impotent or has lost all vigor

>>159413741
Reverse blades are such a meme. Without the edge it is basically just a blunt object that you can bludgeon people with. The live action looked like total shit because of this fact.

>"Pacifist" blade
>You can still stab the fuck out of someone with it

>>159413741
You just unfold the steel a thousand times.

>>159413741

MC is supposed to swing his sword at sonic speeds so the reverse blade should be hacking people to death anyways.

>>159415017
Sure, but lets not pretend it would be simple or anything like stabbing someone with a sharpened pointed blade.

>>159415160
>kuzuryuzen involves poking a fool in 9 spots semi-simultaneously
>kenshin using this is somehow not lethal

>>159414947
Wasn't he even more feminine when younger?

>>159414947
Kenshin has only had sex one time and it was basically pity sex. He's never been all that masculine.

Why not just make a sword with no edge as opposed to an inverse edge?

>>159415635
I would settle for some pity sex right about now

>>159415662
Because, as the pacifist he is, he still need to be able to kill if need be.

>>159415662
Because then it wouldn't be a sword

>>159415662
His magical sword style cannot work with non edged weapons. A reverse blade is already a major handicap for him with regards to draw speed.

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>>159413741
Fold it in reverse

>>159415811

MY

>>159413741
Take a regular sword and blunt the edge?

I own a replica sakabato and it looks just like any other katana from a distance

up close it's just thicker on the end that would normally be bladed


Kenshin never really uses stabbing attacks so the point doesn't matter as katana are primarliy slashing styled weapons to begin with.


In terms of both anime and irl it makes a lot of sense it can still fuck someone up with enough force put behind it and at the end of the day if you really need to kill a motherfucker you can just flip it or stab someone.

Reminder that Kenshin didn't beat Shishio and only survived because Shishio was having too much fun beating the fuck out of him and all his friends

>>159415635

Watch the oavs... all of them

>>159415662
Because sometimes you need to cut something that isn't a person.
Kenshin still carried a sword, and that meant that people were going to start shit, like the assholes with the log cannon that attacked the dojo.

>>159416929
The OVAs are noncanon according to the author himself

>>159414550
You're pretty much correct here about this sort of blade being impossible to make with the same heat treatment; it's fiction.

Still, it's not like you couldn't simply sharpen the reverse side with a grindstone - even if the core is not heat-treated compared to the edge it's still more than hard enough to slice flesh.

>>159416827
>never really uses stabbing attacks
Except for that one attack that stabs in 9 places, still not lethal when he uses it. Kek.

>>159415368
I audibly laughed, as you're right.

>>159417612
Aparently a few years ago they found some reverse blades in korea from japan, but from the image I saw is wasn't a full size katana.

>>159413741
The blade is on the other side, pretty self-explanatory OP.

>>159417834
The wounds just close up instantaneously, like with the radish.

>>159418993
He hits eight times with the back of the sword and replaces the only stab with a pommel strike.

Still retarded but eh.

>>159417368

the first oavs are the manga. kenshin and tome bang in it. and kenji had to come from somewhere, that's twice at least