It’s about the length of a katakana, but it looks straight like a ninja sword. A katakana is a short curved two-handed sword (or long one hand), a ninjato is a straight short-sword (one-hand).
(1) Deceiving your family and friends rarely pays off, no matter what you think you’ll gain by pulling a fast one. You’ll never be able to keep your lies straight, you won’t remember who knows what, you can’t control who talks to whom, and the whole house of cards will come down around your ears in the most embarrassing way possible. Stick to honesty and truth – it’s a lot less bother.
(2) It’s really easy to jump to Conclusions. You can’t jump back, though… you have to swim, or crawl, or grovel through muck and mire and lava. Much easier to check things out first – ASK! (Thank you, “Phantom Tollbooth”)
Sadly, not a lot of people learn these lessons without the application of an oaken clue-by-four.
A oak yo-yo those Hurt more than any training katana I been hit by almost every kendo training sword and some one brought a “kendo” flail i.e a oak yo-yo she used due she wanted something that had further reach but had more flexibility in her way of preferred fighting
I had a bad moment there when I couldn’t find Doubt’s left arm … then I saw how she’s wound around herself, getting ready to hit one into the nosebleed seats. Cass, run faster!
Okay, looks more of a wood texture this time… though the shading of planes seems off.
Also, for reference, and oak training sword is called a bokken or bokuto, depending on the way it’s cut.
Outside of anime exaggerations, they’re used for training more in the sense of a kendoka practicing swinging a sword (since the oak is reasonably heavy… if still a fair bit less than a steel sword) as opposed to the sort of training where masters are hitting students with sticks. Bokken can easily break bones and be used as a weapon in and of themselves (buy thugs and punks, particularly teenage gang members who can’t get their hands on an actual sword… and would rather hospitalized someone than murder them).
Sometimes the direct approach is best.
Cass, it’s a boken. I have a nice one in white oak as well as a few normal ones.
And here I thought it was a ClueBat(TM)!
It’s about the length of a katakana, but it looks straight like a ninja sword. A katakana is a short curved two-handed sword (or long one hand), a ninjato is a straight short-sword (one-hand).
Before it was processed in the woodworking shop, I would’ve called it a ‘clue-by-4’
#BUT_MAYBE_THAT’S_JUST_ME
Doesn’t look boken to me, it looks perfectly intact to me! Leaves a fiver in the pun jar on my way out…
Well, the first thing you should do is … not that.
AUUUUUUUUGH!
Yes! Good Doubt!
Sukeban indeed!
The two big lessons of American sitcoms:
(1) Deceiving your family and friends rarely pays off, no matter what you think you’ll gain by pulling a fast one. You’ll never be able to keep your lies straight, you won’t remember who knows what, you can’t control who talks to whom, and the whole house of cards will come down around your ears in the most embarrassing way possible. Stick to honesty and truth – it’s a lot less bother.
(2) It’s really easy to jump to Conclusions. You can’t jump back, though… you have to swim, or crawl, or grovel through muck and mire and lava. Much easier to check things out first – ASK! (Thank you, “Phantom Tollbooth”)
Sadly, not a lot of people learn these lessons without the application of an oaken clue-by-four.
A lot of people never learn these lessons . . . period.
Sin duda.
It is too bad Doubt didn’t use a yo-yo instead. But that may have been a bit too obscure of a reference.
A oak yo-yo those Hurt more than any training katana I been hit by almost every kendo training sword and some one brought a “kendo” flail i.e a oak yo-yo she used due she wanted something that had further reach but had more flexibility in her way of preferred fighting
Or a gold coin?
Breaking out the Ol’ Baka Hammer!
You deserve another one, Castela. Listen to what she’s trying to tell you.
Listen to your Guardian Doubt, Castela. It will save you a big headache later.
Even though it may give you one right now
Good subversion: I HATE comedy of errors
Dude–aunt Doubt’s “AAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!” is cast in marble…
I see Doubt with that side ponytail, and I expect to hear her shouting, “Gibbs, Gibbs, GIBBS!” Come on someone out there was thinking it too.
Castela is getting the kaiju equivalent of a Gibbs Smack.
She’s got a much thicker skull than DiNozzo, and Doubt isn’t Gibbs, so it may take a few tries…
Doubt knows the game. She’s literally the name of the game. She will teach you that the only way to win the game of doubt is not to play.
PLEASE tell me Monica is near by to witness this. XD
I had a bad moment there when I couldn’t find Doubt’s left arm … then I saw how she’s wound around herself, getting ready to hit one into the nosebleed seats. Cass, run faster!
That’s a really big bandage that’s suddenly appeared on Cass’ head… (I sooo wish we could edit prior posts.)
Doubt is REALLY enjoying this.
On a different note…
…why has Doubt lost the skin texture that she had on the previous page?
Spare the rod spoil the child. Use the rod concuss the child.
Okay, looks more of a wood texture this time… though the shading of planes seems off.
Also, for reference, and oak training sword is called a bokken or bokuto, depending on the way it’s cut.
Outside of anime exaggerations, they’re used for training more in the sense of a kendoka practicing swinging a sword (since the oak is reasonably heavy… if still a fair bit less than a steel sword) as opposed to the sort of training where masters are hitting students with sticks. Bokken can easily break bones and be used as a weapon in and of themselves (buy thugs and punks, particularly teenage gang members who can’t get their hands on an actual sword… and would rather hospitalized someone than murder them).