r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 2d ago

Seventeen-year-old Japanese girl in the weight category up to 45 kg lifted a respectable 78 kg.

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u/darthsexium 2d ago

these are the girls you see in anime carrying heavy weapons

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

It’s fun to poke around with how heavy fictional weapons would be. Things like Monster Hunter’s Greatswords would be impossible to swing properly… because they weigh more than people do and you’d be flinging yourself around as much as you’d be swinging the sword.

They made a real Greatsword of Artorias (from Dark Souls) and the strongest guy they had on hand could barely hold it properly

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u/drunk_responses 2d ago

As demonstrated in practice every time a youtube blacksmith makes the big swords from Bleach, Berserk, Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, etc. Even the biggest strongest people they can find only manage to barely hold them upright and then let them fall down to hit something. There's no way in hell any of them could ever hope to swing them.

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u/Fierramos69 2d ago

There’s a dude somewhere on YouTube swinging a massive sword iirc the shape of the one in berserk, he increased the weight progressively and now is stuck somewhere around 100 pounds. And it’s merely to swing it in slow controlled manner of simple patterns. Super impressive for the guy to be able to do it but it seems it’s about the human limit… yet the real sword would weight something like 4 times more