Anime Character That Only Uses Sheathed Sword

Anime Character That Only Uses Sheathed Sword

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Utilise of a sword'due south sheath equally a weapon. If y'all nonetheless accept the Cool Sword, and so you tin can wield them both, or just leave the sheath on to pack an actress punch. If someone is using the sheath instead of the bract, it may be because they aren't intending to kill their opponent. An Iaijutsu Practitioner may employ the sheath as a main weapon, for feinting or stunning, or to show that it's not yet time to get dangerous.

Examples of Sheath Strike include:

Anime and Manga

• Rurouni Kenshin : Kenshin uses his sheath to land the finishing blow on Jin-Eastward in their boxing.
  • Hiko Seijuro Xiii does use the "sheathed sword every bit a shield" version--so he draws, while still blocking, and admittedly pwns Kenshin.
• Nameless of Sword of the Stranger refuses to draw his sword, making him this by default.
• Inuyasha frequently uses the sheath of his Empathic Weapon Tessaiga as a shield, since being able to contain Tessaiga's ability means the sheath is capable of generating a fairly powerful bulwark. He's also fabricated inventive use of the sheath's power to phone call the sword into it on at least one occasion.
• Bleach : when Ikkaku isn't fighting with shikai / Bankai, he dual wields his sword and sheath.
• In Corsair , Canale, a former assassin at present agape of killing, is challenged to a duel and fights generally with his sword sheathed every bit a result.
• In Magical Daughter Lyrical Nanoha , Signum will occasionally utilize her weapon's sheath to parry attacks. She can also combine her sword with the sheath to transform it into a bow.
• Kanda from D.Grey-man when he gets serious.
• In Digimon Xros Wars , the Bagra Regular army general Tactimon used a sheathed sword (Which he never unsheathes) to fight the good guys.

Comic Books

• In Usagi Yojimbo , Genosuké the compensation hunter dual wields his katana and scabbard from time to time. Withal, that seems to exist more a result of him always casually carrying his sword dangling over his shoulder, rather than a specific technique. Since he never tucks the sword into his belt in the conventional manner, he has to go on the scabbard in his off mitt even with the sword drawn. After coming together Gen, Usagi uses the same technique occasionally. He likewise uses his scabbard to beat sense into idiots who don't deserve to die.

Film

• O-Ren Ishii briefly dual wields her sword and sheath at the beginning of her fight with Beatrix in Kill Bill .
• The So Bad It's Good film Claret and Bone has the hero, Os, fight the Big Bad in front of the Bigger Bad. The Big Bad being armed with a sword, the Bigger Bad has his henchmen requite him one likewise. The Hero but throws abroad the sword and fights with the sheath.
• House of Flight Daggers : Mei manages to defend herself rather well against 4 mounted spear men using only a sword scabbard for a weapon while pretending to exist bullheaded.

Literature

• Sam Vimes pulls it off with panache in Night Watch .

Live Activity TV

• This shows up occasionally in Super Sentai and Power Rangers . Interestingly, many of the characters who do this are samurai:
  • In Ninja Sentai Kakuranger and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 3, when Ninjaman/Ninjor grows to Humongous Mecha size and transforms (into "Samuraiman" in the former), he connects his sword to its sheath and makes a javelin out of information technology.
  • ShinkenGold/the Gold Samurai Ranger does this in keeping with being an Iaijutsu Practitioner.
  • Shurikenger's sword has an extra-wide sheath, all the better to use as a baseball bat. Ironically, while his American counterpart is identified as a samurai this use of the sheath is edited out.
  • A couple others (Blackness Knight/Magna Defender and the Hurricangers/Wind Ninja Rangers) have it set up so their sheathed swords can be used as laser rifles.

Tabletop Games

• One of the Swordsman Schools in Seventh Sea teaches the employ of the scabbard as an offhand weapon.
• In GURPS: Depression-Tech and Martial Arts scabbards can be reinforced to use as a billy. Special designed sheaths can even be turned into a blowpipe.

Video Games

• Vergil in Devil May Cry does this every bit the first ii strikes of his main combo, and does information technology to Dante during a cutscene.
• Afro Samurai often uses his sheath every bit a weapon equally well, especially in the videogame where most of your combos involve a combination of sheath-strikes and cuts - and some of the niftier finishers involved steadying your opponent with the sheath to launch a pin-point strike through his skull.
• Ukyo's "weak" attacks in Samurai Shodown have him jabbing with his scabbard, keeping his sword sheathed.
• The Ronin'south Sayageki ability in Etrian Odyssey 2 Heroes of Lagaard.
• Mitsunari in Sengoku Basara uses his sheathed sword against opponents he doesn't want to kill, such every bit knocking Kanbe unconscious past hitting him in the face up with it.
  • In the Anime of the Game, Sasuke dual-wields with a sword and sheath when caught off guard by some other ninja.
• Occasionally done by Zhou Tai equally a juggling attack in the diverse Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi games where he is given a katana. Then again, he's ane of maybe two characters to even take a scabbard in the first place.
• Guy from Tales of the Abyss does this as function of his fighting fashion.
  • Same for Asbel from Tales of Graces , as role of his alpha arte moveset.

Web Comics

• No Need for Bushido uses this, combined with Calling Your Attacks.

Anime Character That Only Uses Sheathed Sword

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