Who else hates oversized anime swords?

As a swordsman, I could rant about this topic for hours. This has ruined many of my favorite anime and it needs to stop.

Who's with me?

-Racob has spoken

Anime always screws up with swords. I will say I don't hate all of them, but a lot of them do look stupid.

<-----This guy.

So damn much.

It's so friggin' gaudy.

I'm okay with huge swords, but I hate oversized anime hair. Namely, I hate the hair of most of the main characters from the Yu-gi-oh franchise. Those be sum dum hairs.

@spitfirepanda: Sometimes I like oversized hair in anime.

Specifically, I like oversized hair in 80s anime.

Magik disagrees.

Bustersword 4 lyfe!!!

It's really not an anime thing, it's prevalent in multiple forms of media.

Magik above is a good example.

You need oversized swords to stand on.

Yeah, I agree.

You hate large swords probably because its so impractical in real life ?

It's only cool when comics do it

@god_spawn: That's a new thing, until very very recently her soulsword was pretty much just a long sword.

@kgb725 said:

Yes, that is my main reason.

This is what a swordsman should look like:

I'm waiting for the anime where the best weapon isn't a sword, but a mace or an axe! Specifically a mace though.

I like them because they just look straight up cool. Even though I do agree that they are unrealistic and impractical, this is anime we're talking about here, lots of things are unrealistic.

Although sometimes I do think more realistic looking swords look even cooler

For example: I think Ichigo's smaller Katana looking sword is cooler than his large and ridiculous looking meat cleaver (although I like this one too)

@squares: I know. I'm just messing around.

I'm okay with giant swords. If I wanted reality I wouldn't be watching/reading anime/manga.

@racob7 said:

@kgb725 said:

You hate large swords probably because its so impractical in real life ?

Yes, that is my main reason.

This is what a swordsman should look like:

If someone is much stronger then logically doesn't that then make it not impractical?

If they can throw a large sword around faster or a smaller sword just won't cut it then doesn't it make sense for the escalation?

I mean Lowlander swords in real life were absolutely massive, so is it such a stretch to say that large swords are impractical?

The large swords are awesome and most always have some special ability or are just there to make the character look stronger. If you should be ranting about anything, how about the overuse of fan service in most recent anime and how said fan service ruins the seriousness of the anime. Take HSD:Kenichi for example.

I do not see a problem

Bleach FTW

@pwok21:

Not really. A great sword, which is very hard to wield in real life, is small compared to absurdly large swords in some fiction.

Compare these with some of the images in this thread. Still big, but it doesn't compare.

@racob7: Here, here! Final Fantasy games are to swordsmanship what Guitar Hero is to actually playing a guitar.

@jedixman:

I do get that but these are regular people that are using these weapons, compared to fictional characters who are much, much stronger.

I do think there is a point where swords are ridiculous for someone's build regardless of strength (Cloud's Buster Sword and Sephiroth's Katana are prime examples).

@racob7: I understand why you don't like it but personally it just cracks me up. Seeing a character who looks like they weigh 140 pounds soaking wet with rocks in their pockets holding a sword that looks to be about 500 pounds is funny. Overdone but funny

Yeah it's unpractical but everytime I hear a description of Gut's Dragonslayer It's too awesome to deny.

I don't care for gigantic swords either.

Recent? Kenichi came out almost a decade ago.

more annoyed with the fact that a normal man with a normal steel sword from ancient japan can often slice large boulders clean in two in anime or slice steel bars walls other swords etc. how unrealistic that is bothers me so much.

Me.

@thatguywithheadphones: recent like popularity wise.

It's fiction, I don't mind it, nor do I ask for realism.

You're clearly just not doing it right, this is the bare minimum size of a sword you should be using if your a true swordsmen.

Anyways it actually makes a lot of sense for a fictional character to use an unrealistic sword. If you have the superhuman strength to casually swing around a massive sword wouldn't make more sense to do so as it provides far more range to the user and can cause more damage. You have to admit, it would be a bit silly for a class 100 character to be using a dager(assuming it doesn't have some special properties).

Yeah!!! that was the best 2D sword fight choreography I've seen yet back then.

@thatguywithheadphones said:

Yeah it's unpractical but everytime I hear a description of Gut's Dragonslayer It's too awesome to deny.

Yep one of the best Japanese comics and animated features that have been released yet. Sadly its author is too busy playing Idolmaster. LMAO!!!

I like Zabusa's the most.

Hate em

Ohhhhh cool. Shade's back?

Some oversized swords are cool!

those aren't big swords, they are knifes for Robots

I hate them.

I like giant swordz.

@racob7:

Sephiroth and his Masamune would like to have a word with you.

Big swords are cool but ridiculous absurd ones I can't really deal with. Like that Cloud dude from Final Fantasy 7 and that pic above me.

I'm waiting for anything where the best weapon isn't a sword..... Come on people switch up your melee weapons. I'm so bored with swords. Give me a polearm, or a warhammer, or anything except a god damn sword!

Shinra Soldiers are incredibly strong and agile, they swing those slabs of metal like paper.

Warhammers will rock any armor weilding opponent that is for sure. But light armored opponents will have the speed advantage.

No different from Superman being able to lift a planet or Batman knowing 127 martial arts, it's a power fantasy for men. It's stupid, but it's not supposed to make any sense.