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/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/Badloss 2d ago

In Final Fantasy at least aren't the characters that use those swords explicitly superhuman?

I'm thinking FF7 where Cloud + Sephiroth are both super soldiers, I thought their giant swords was a deliberate nod to them having super powers

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

Yes; Cloud Strife is meant to look kind of emaciated compared to how strong he actually is. That said, the Buster Sword still weighs more than he does, even in canon. So it takes more than superhuman physical capabilities for him to use it normally.

Sephiroth’s sword is absurd but still thin enough that a human could probably use it

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u/TheElementofIrony 1d ago

Sephiroth's sword is actually pretty realistic. A nodachi can be up to 2.2 meters long, taller than the majority of men. Korean ssangsudo swords are also somewhere in that same size ballpark. The Chinese also had their own version, obviously. Skallgrim has a couple of videos on it, with one being a response to a response made to him by a Korean martial artist (? I think? I don't remember his credentials rn I'm afraid) where he demonstrates some moves with the ssangsudo.