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Katanagatari (Japanese: 刀語, "Sword Tale") is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Take. The series is published by Kodansha under the Kodansha Box imprint. The story revolves around a katanagari, or "sword hunt" for 12 weapons that were created by a single swordsmith.
Both the sword and dagger versions were used in the Philippines, with the dagger version being known as the gunong or gulok (also called punyal, from puñal de kris, "kris dagger"). Unlike the keris, the gunong is more commonly used as a utility knife and only used as a weapon as a last resort.
Kenji Narukami (鳴神剣二) /Magic Bullet Fencer (魔弾剣士, MaDan Kenshi) Ryukendo ("Ryukendo" translates from "Dragon Sword Way"), the series' title protagonist, moves to Akebono and is mistaken for a demon upon arrival. After defending a dog in the street, he finds himself confronting a Demon Beast, being chosen by GekiRyuKen and ...
Box of Pain (Magician sticks a sword and daggers through an assistant's head in a box) Water Torture Escape; Episode Three May 5, 1998 (US) October 3, 2010 (HK) Bed of Spikes (Death of Cora) The Stretch (Magician stretches an assistant's arms & legs to the breaking point) Daggers of Death (Knife-throwing at an assisant while strapped to a wheel)
A second season entitled Mystic Knights: Battle Thunder was planned, but later cancelled, and its budget put towards Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and the English dub version of Digimon: Digital Monsters. [3] The resulting series was an attempt in doing an original non-Japanese special-effects series rather than adapting from actual Japanese tokusatsu.
The acinaces, also transliterated as akinakes (Greek ἀκῑνάκης) or akinaka (unattested Old Persian *akīnaka h, Sogdian kynʼk) is a type of dagger or xiphos (short sword) used mainly in the first millennium BCE in the eastern Mediterranean Basin, especially by the Medes, [1] Scythians, Persians and Caspians, [2] then by the Greeks.
Alex Stedman at IGN said the episode was a 7 out of 10, lower than the second episode due to the large amount of exposition required, but still felt it was a strong foundation for the series. [102] Welch of The Guardian was excited by the series' start, though he agreed that the first episode "took a while to get going" with its large amount of ...
Gun Sword is a 2005 Japanese anime series produced by AIC A.S.T.A, written by Hideyuki Kurata, and directed by Gorō Taniguchi. The series aired on TV Tokyo from July 4 to December 26, 2005, totaling 26 episodes. The series was licensed for North America by Geneon Entertainment, who produced an English dub overseen by New Generation Pictures.