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 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:46 pm
Tenkai, you're pretty good with Japanese weapons. What's the name of the chain weapon thingy, the one with the long chain and a small blade at the end, that's used a lot in Ninja Assassin?
Also, I hate you Desi. How is it?
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:47 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:50 pm
It looked like a Kusari-gama, a popular ninja weapon in a lot of games, though traditionally those have kama, or sickles on one end. I dunno if the the blade on the end changes the name or not.
EDIT: That game is actually just called "Swords"? LOL
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:51 pm
I'm just jealous of your wardrobe
emo
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:54 pm
I'd say kusari gama too, except it looked less like a kama and more like '' a knife attached to a chain''.
Im talking about ninja assassin though.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:59 pm
Nighthunter Tenkai, you're pretty good with Japanese weapons. What's the name of the chain weapon thingy, the one with the long chain and a small blade at the end, that's used a lot in Ninja Assassin? Also, I hate you Desi. How is it? Silver is right, in a sense. You are thinking of the Kusarigama, or chain-sickle, which is a long chain with a weight at one end and a kama, or sickle, on the other end. It's commonly associated with ninjas, but that's a matter of popular culture. It wasn't exactly a "ninja weapon", but just another specialized weapon with its own school, like the jutte. A similar weapon that is considered a ninja weapon is the manrikigusari, which is a chain with a weight at both ends. The "kusari/gusari" part of both names means "chain". The way the guy in Ninja Assassin uses his weapon is overly stylized Matrix-fu and works more like a manrikigusari or a rope dart in how he uses it. The curved blade was probably inspired by the kusarigama, but contrary to popular culture, you dont throw/swing around the sickle. It's a surefire way to get hit in the head with it. You throw the weighted chain, and use the sickle for close range, or when youve used the chain to trap/disarm the opponent's weapon. *inhales*
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:01 pm
The more you know.
3nodding
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:05 pm
I wasn't even paying much attention to what was being done with the blade with it. The weapon itself just seems really awesome, just going off the chain use, and probably particularly hard to use.
Thanks guys.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:11 pm
Nighthunter I wasn't even paying much attention to what was being done with the blade with it. The weapon itself just seems really awesome, just going off the chain use, and probably particularly hard to use. Thanks guys. Yeah. Since it's a single-edged curved blade, making sure it swings with the edge facing the direction of the swing isn't always possible. It's probably even more impossible with a Kusarigama because the blade would just trail behind it. It'd probably be more effective using the blade-end as a dagger for when someone gets inside the chain. Then again, this is going on a physics standpoint, and I'd be a hypocrite if I said I was against the anime-style of using those sorts of weapons. If you're talking about this in terms of RP, then forget what I said there. >>
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:13 pm
I thought the chain with little weights on each end was called "kusari fundo"
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:14 pm
C. Fox I thought the chain with little weights on each end was called "kusari fundo" I think the name is interchangeable, or refers to a similar weapon.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:17 pm
No no, I meant real world physics use. Just watched the movie and found that weapon pretty cool. Don't have any intentions of using it in an RP context. I like my firearms and straight edged weapons for RP, I understand how those work. =P
And I could imagine swinging it with any kind of blade would be difficult, definitely far more so with a sickle than just a blade. Using the weighted end makes sense. Far easier to control.
Edit: According to wiki, the Kusarifundo and manrikigusari are the same thing.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:24 pm
Tenkai, give me your SC2 username.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:29 pm
Ammiel Moonblade Tenkai, give me your SC2 username. I added you already. It's Panda.drpanda.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:45 pm
*Crawls out of the woodwork*
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