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Nichirin Swords are the main weapons used by Demon Slayers in the Demon Slayer Corps. They are forged by special sword smiths, each crafted to fit the Demon slayer's preferences and fighting style, such as:

  • a flexible whip-like sword for Mitsuri,
  • a thin stinger katana for Shinobu; gaining agility and compensating power by using poisons
  • a pair of dual teethed/serrated katana for Inosuke who prefers to saw through his targets instead of slicing
  • a pair of cleavers connected by a chain for Tengen, who whirls it for both offence and defence

spoilerUm actually ... Inosuke's katana is not serrated by design. Inosuke's katana was an ordinary Nichirin katana, but he modified it personally to be serrated, much to the dismay/anger of his sword smith.

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In Jujutsu Kaisen, we follow our high school protagonist Itadori Yuji, who are friends with the occult club. After the club unsealed the rotten finger belonging to the King of Curses, Sukuna, other Curses are attracted to it and swarm the school. Yuji swallows the finger to gain its power and saved his friend. Despite being required to exorcise Yuji immediately, Gojo noticed that Yuji has control over his body and thus gave an alternative proposal: postpone Yuji's death sentence until he consumes all 10 of Sukuna's fingers so that Sukuna can finally be eliminated together with Yuji. Thus begins the story of Yuji training under Gojo with the rest of his school mates while he participates in exorcising other Curses.

spoilerUm actually ... Yuji has to consume 20 of Sukuna's fingers because Sukuna has 4 arms.

 

In Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, we play as multiple different protagonist throughout history as they fight against the Ancient (that the player chose as the antagonist at the early stages of the game).

The list includes:

  1. 26 BC: Pious Augustus, a Roman Centurion
  2. 565 AD: Karim, a Persian swordsman
  3. 1150 AD: Ellia, a court dancer
  4. 1485 AD: Paul Luther, a Franciscan monk
  5. 1760 AD: Dr. Maximillian RoivasHis chapter takes place in 1760 AD
  6. 2000 AD: Alex, an university student

spoilerUm actually ... Pious is not a protagonist, but rather the antagonist after turning into a lich. You play as him at the start and it ends with you choosing which Ancient he will be corrupted by and thus setting the plot into action.

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Most Ghibli films have English titles are close in meaning to their original titles, some even are direct translations from Japanese. However some films have different meaning, or lost some meaning, in their English localizations.

  • The Cat Returns's title is "Neko no Ongaeshi"
    • "Neko": the Japanese word for cat
    • "Ongaeshi": the Japanese word for repayment, as with owed favour.
    • thus this means The Cat's Repayment, which better describe the plot of the film
  • Kiki's Delivery Service's title is "Majo no Takkyuubin"
    • "Majo": the Japanese word for witch
    • "Takkyuubin": the Japanese word for delivery service
    • the original title has no reference to Kiki, and was referring to the greater group of witches doing the deliveries
  • Spirited Away's title is "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi"
    • "Sen to Chihiro": meaning Sen and Chihiro
    • "Kamikakushi": meaning mysterious disappearance or death of a person, explained to be done by gods.
    • which have the additional motif of the transition of Chihiro while she was working as Sen

spoilerUm actually ... Takkyuubin is not the Japanese word for express delivery, per se. Takkyuubin, also written as Ta-Q-Bin, is actually a trademark for the express home delivery service provided by Yamato Transport. Though nowadays, it can be synonymous with delivery services, such as how Band-Aid may be synonymous to adhesive bandages.

The generic Japanese word for delivery service is actually Takuhaibin.

The original title was inherited from the novel, but the novel mistakenly used the trademark in its title.

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