Comments on: The Sacred Blacksmith 01 – Reality Check!

By: Anime Diet » Thinking about Fall 09.

Anime Diet » Thinking about Fall 09. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:53:22 +0000

[...] See my more detailed review for episode one’s for Queen’s Blade, Kampfer, Scientific Railgun, and the Sacred Blacksmith. [...]

By: rayyhum777

rayyhum777 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:33:28 +0000

@Niles – The show isn’t bad or displeasing in anyway, but to someone who has watched way too many anime, it just doesn’t stand out too much.
Chanting tend to be part of a magical fantasy story and I kind of think it’s necessary to show magic. They just have to say it quick.

By: Niles

Niles — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:42:56 +0000

I’m kinda turned off by magic chants so this one didn’t bother me. The last chant I paid attention to all the way through was either Unlimited Blade Works or one of the goofy spells from Bastard.

By: rayyhum777

rayyhum777 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:51:11 +0000

@ Aaron 24 – first, that’s an awesome journey! Hope your metal art/ craftsmanship advance more and more! Second, yeah, it’s anime, it doesn’t have to be complete truth. My initial feeling before everything went off a tangent was that I wish more effort was used in creating a “magic sounding” chant.
Mori was talking about the forging process for a (very) broadsword in Berserk and not the process of forging a uchigatana.

By: Aaron24

Aaron24 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:59:31 +0000

yes water, it cools the steel quicker therefor a harder blade. the sword would have a soft iron core,reduces stress during forging, tempering and under impact. clay is required for differential tempering and to create a hamon. not always required. i have studied as a blacksmith both in the uk and have just returned from training in japan refining wet forging, tempering and grinding trechniques. but to be honest its an anime, who cares if it isnt 100% accurate, its not a documentary!

By: rayyhum777

rayyhum777 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:24:05 +0000

@ Moritheil – That means the author needs a better research team. Without some sort of clay applied, plain water or even water with horse piss mixed in probably won’t do the trick.

@ Seinime – if you’re talking about Black Rcok Shooter, I need to watch that pilot.

By: moritheil

moritheil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:46:10 +0000

Well, I’ve forgotten the specifics, but the issue was that I couldn’t believe he wasn’t using oil. At that point in the forging, using water would have created a very brittle sword.

In any case, this just shows that when you know more than the writer about a topic, a show can really fall flat.

By: Seinime

Seinime — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:21:47 +0000

Lisa is secretly BRS.

By: rayyhum777

rayyhum777 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:22:30 +0000

@ Moritheil – well, actually, dipping the super hot blade into water or oil or even horse piss is one of the steps of forging most swords, that’s called “tempering”. I think the only exception is old Damascus swords (before 1600) because some of them were actually caste into shape.

By: moritheil

moritheil — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:55:20 +0000

Yeah, I had issues with the forging scenes in Berserk because they seemed all wrong. (You want to quench that sword in water? Really?)