Talk:Kusarigama

message: The Inuyasha stuff was nice, especially since I wrote it three months ago on an anime discussion board, but I'm not entirely sure why it was placed here, so I got rid of that.
I could go into a paragraph or two about *why* you can't swing the sickle-end around and expect to hit anything, but I'm not sure that's relevant to the article.
Question for previous editor: How is the kusarigama *not* derived from the kama?
Scribe--69.168.38.86 07:15, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It just not practical.  The way it spins in mid-air (around its axis, rather than along it) severely reduces any chance of cutting or piercing the target.  Plus, if the blade wraps around an opponent's arm, you've given them a weapon to use against you.  Also, per the above statement, I think it IS worth mentioning that the blade isn't commonly thrown, as depicted in fiction, but specific examples aren't necessary. --71.176.47.75 (talk) 17:28, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: I went ahead and rewrote most of this.  

message: I did a bit of editing and clean-up, but I didn't add any text/info.  One question, though....  The article uses two different ways to spell/punctuate the name of this weapon:  "kusarigama" and "kusari-gama".  Is one more correct than the other?  Does it matter?  It would be good to be consistant within the article, but I have little/no expertise in the subjects of Japanese language (or translation thereof) OR martial arts weapons, I don't know what to do.  Any suggestions?  Mutableye 02:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think "Kusarigama" is better than "Kusari-gama" as the latter could be mistaken to be a combined form of "kusari" and "gama". --Revth 03:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As with most issues of Romanizing Japanese, it's essentially a moot issue.  The only truly correct way to write a Japanese word is with Japanese orthography, so the best we can do without learning kana and kanji is to approximate.  Now, on the one hand, the word is compounded using regular, systematic rules.  On the other hand, it is a fixed phrase that regularly applies to a very similar and recognizable object every time it is used.  It's probably also important that -gama isn't a regularly suffixed form to other words, like -shi (city) or similar classifiers that normally tend to take hyphens when Romanized.  Ultimately, all those facts remain fairly pointless, as I still can't conclude whether the sum of various factors prefers for or against the hyphen.  I really don't think it's wrong either way.  Tsunomaru (talk) 07:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about name 

message: I was under the impression that it was Kasurigama. I've seen it spelled this way before but which way is right? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stupidninja (talk • contribs) 19:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "kusarigama".  People who know no or little Japanese often commit typographical errors when copying Romanized Japanese they've seen somewhere -- since that's a lot of letters, and native English speakers don't have any good self-correcting instincts for foreign words -- and that's most likely what happened when you saw it the wrong way.  Tsunomaru (talk) 16:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tomAto/tomOto 

message: * In InuYasha, Sango's brother, Kohaku, uses the kusarigama as his weapon.
* Axl Low from the Guilty Gear series uses a kusarigama, though his has two sickles on the chain.
* Hattori Hanzo from the Samurai Warriors series is portrayed as a ninja who uses a kusarigama, albeit using the aforementioned "sickle as the primary weapon" form. He also appears with this weapon in Warriors Orochi.
* In the anime/manga series, Bleach, Mayuri Kurotsuchi uses a kusarigama, which he pulls from his ear.
* In the anime/manga series, Bleach, Jinnai Doukou uses a kusarigama bakkōtō which he devours to unleash its power.
* In the anime/manga series, Bleach, Shuhei Hisagi's zanpakutō is a kusarigama-like weapon that uses an extra sickle instead of a weighted chain. The two blades of each end of the weapon also resemble axial fans, in that they can rotate freely. 
* Kusari from Sluggy Freelance is a female ninja/assassin named after the weapon, and wields either a kama or a kusarigama as her weapon of choice.
* Vagabond depicts a 'Tsujikaze Kōhei' (in-universe, the successor to the real Shishidō Baiken and responsible for the weapon's notoriety) wielding the kusarigama with the weighted end as the primary attack, and the mechanical aspects of the technique (in particular the reach and range) are crucial to his duel with Musashi; his defeat comes not from the use of a throwing knife, but from Musashi surprising him by intentionally drawing both swords; Musashi simply allowed the short sword to be the one entangled and then struck Baiken with the long sword. (In the historical encounter between Baiken and Musashi, Baiken died.)
* In the manga Soul Eater, a kusarigama that uses an extra sickle instead of a weighted chain is the primary weapon form of Black Star's weapon Tsubaki — though she often takes the forms of other ninja weapons and tools.
* Leinheart from Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom can wield kusarigama as one of his main weapons.
* Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden 2 can wield a kusarigama as one of his weapons.
* Anubis from Ronin Warriors uses a kusarigama with a bladed weight as his weapon of choice.
*in Ruronuni Kenshin, during the Shishio Arc, the crossdresser Honjō Kamatari uses a large very heavy version of a kusarigama, called a Ogama.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.58.180.16 (talk) 22:47, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture (WAY too much trivia, needs to be selected and re-edited) 

message: Didn't the kusarigama earn the ninja the majority if their kills on deadliest warrior. If so shouldn't it be mentioned that it was the most effective of all their weapons on the show in its trivia entry? --WikiDonn (talk) 22:31, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The most effective of the ninja weapons tested on deadliest warrior? 

message: I think that Kusarigamajutsu should be merged into this article because it doesn't really add anything new, but just regurgitates what was said in this article's summary.
      Ora Stendar 23:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Kusarigamajutsu Merge

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message: Variation or different weapon? 89.201.199.104 (talk) 20:11, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh-Gama (Big Sickle) 

message: For whom? The users? The opponents? If the latter: what is "mortality rate" based on? 
This feels less like an encyclopedic entry than a fanboi addition. 165.1.194.41 (talk) 08:41, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That was there before I expanded the article and I assumed good faith that this part matched the page number. Though, anyone is fully capable of removing it per Wikipedia being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. SL93 (talk) 13:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also, the weapon is said to have the highest mortality rate of any and all weapons of its time. 

message: Tell me weapons names 175.157.249.231 (talk) 12:28, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weapon names