Animes with double sided scythe?

xRatatosk said:
Just look for it yourself honestly.

It's very uncommon. Especially since you're so picky.

chibishoujo said:
Forgot to mention that in trinity blood the scythe has multiple forms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQPu06dMkpQ
This one features your so called double sided scythe

TheCorruptedWolf said:


I guess that's counts as the first one I've seen. Although the design of it looks weird, at the first look at it, it looked like it has 4 blades that are the same length. But at a closer look, I realized it there was only 2 long blades.

chibishoujo said:


I think bleach might contain a character that also uses a double sided scythe,but Im not entirely sure ovo

xRatatosk said:
I dunno. Personally Scythes are my favorite weapon so barely seeing them is disappointing :/

Glad one of my favorite games had a character with a Gun - Scythe though.

TheCorruptedWolf said:
Why didn't anyone in japan thought of it? It could be an overpowered weapon!

TheCorruptedWolf said:


I know, swords are overused in anime.

Zefyris said:

Because contrary to swords, double bladed scythe have no historical relevance, and would make for a very poor weapon if someone were to try using it? The only things close of scythes used in war were the war scythes. And even those were really tiring to use. Let's not talk about a double bladed one, which would to boot lose partially one of the only advantage of the war scythe, because you would need to hold it far closer of the blade for it to work like a bladed staff.

Paul said:
Did someone say gunscythe?

TheCorruptedWolf said:


Yes, so what if you have to hold it closer? It could attack faster and it is balanced. It could even probably block the one bladed scythe.

Zefyris said:

It's too heavy. The main point of the war scythe is the lever principle, giving a lot of strength to the blade, allowing it to cut through armor better than a simple sword due to this. If you hold the weapon closer to the blade, you lose the only point of this weapon, to only leave bad things. If someone during the medieval period had tried to go to war with a double scythe, both his enemies and allies would have just laugh at him, and with good reason. It may look cool, sure. But that weapon is absurdly impracticable to use.
Even the war scythe was a weapon only used by farmers and the like due to its downside. let's not talk about a double normal scythe.

Pain_is_love said:
Fate Stay Night: UBW, which is just airing, actually

TheCorruptedWolf said:
Why didn't anyone in japan thought of it? It could be an overpowered weapon!

TheCorruptedWolf said:



You are only talking and focusing on power, when it comes to speed, it isn't really a weapon that can beat it. In medieval, they mainly focus on defence and power, I mean, how often do you see someone without armour in the battlefield?

Yes, I get it a normal scythe has it's own potentials, but can it really overpower the dual-bladed scythe?

chibishoujo said:
This is not an RPG/fighting game. Realistically speaking this weapon would likely result in self injury.(People that actually used a scythe back in the day were the common folk most of the time)
It having a blade on each side might balance the weapon out,but that wouldn't matter since the advantage of having a scythe is using it as leverage to inflict fatal injuries .
One side being heavier then the other makes the hit have more force which is good for a scythe.
if you want something that takes advantage of speed/mobility then a smaller weapon that doesn't make use of entire body to properly function.
Fighting with a scythe would be similar to fighting with a halberd cause of its size

The potentials of a dual bladed scythe are inferior to that of a regular scythe or alternative weapons that do utilise speed.

TheCorruptedWolf said:



Yes, I know this isn't an RPG game. Do you have any idea how to use the two-sided scythe? Yes, you could get injuries from it, but it won't be from the blade, you could twist your wrist if you do something wrong. Besides, this is an anime.

chibishoujo said:


You'd have the second blade in your back before you twist your wrist.
Its a silly conceptual weapon.

TheCorruptedWolf said:


What do you mean? Could you re-word?

dream_eater1012 said:

I assume what they mean is that since with a scythe you'd be striking outward to some extent, the other side may end up stabbing you in the back.

Take this image for example.

If I imagine another blade on the other side of the scythe, it would, or be dangerously close to, hitting the guy.

Also, it seems fairly pointless to have another blade there. The scythe is already a fairly hard to handle weapon. Adding another blade would just be too much trouble to try and figure out how to use, and there are plenty of other much more practical weapons out there. The only real reason for using it would be Rule of Cool.

But I guess if you really care to find some examples, there's some on the TVtropes page.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SinisterScythe

TheCorruptedWolf said:
How many times do I have to say this, both are two different types of scythes, which means it is used in different ways. I mean who would be stupid enough to do that?

dream_eater1012 said:

Then how else would it be used?

TheCorruptedWolf said:


I don't even know how to explain. It's like just saying a gun and a sword works the same way, they are both weapons right?

Because you are saying they are both scythes, so they must work the same. WRONG.

TheCorruptedWolf said:



You are only talking and focusing on power, when it comes to speed, it isn't really a weapon that can beat it. In medieval, they mainly focus on defence and power, I mean, how often do you see someone without armour in the battlefield?

Yes, I get it a normal scythe has it's own potentials, but can it really overpower the dual-bladed scythe?

Zefyris said:

a normal scythe doesn't have war potential. The war scythe have the direction of the blade changed by around 90° so that they can turn into properly usable hast weapons. the double scythe you're talking about doesn't even have that first step done. at least make it double war scythe, this would be less ridiculous, and closer to a blade staff with double blade.

Also, fastest weapon? Even without accounting the fact that anyone would be tired of using such an heavy and bad balance (because yes, it's symmetrical, but the way the blade are put (not in the axe of the pole weapon) make it very unbalanced) that you wouldn't even finish your first fight, let alone last a whole battle by rotating this heavy weight around, how can this even hope to beat the speed of a Bô for example which will be used the exact same way but is far lighter ?
And like I said, that thing is far too heavy to actually gain any decent speed. Any light weapon on the other side will kill the wielder of such a weapon before you can even start to properly attack.

That, and what chibishoujo said. He explained the leverage (I thought it was lever principle in english, *sigh*) better than me. That's why you lose any interest of using a scythe if your two hands are closer of the heavy blade. a war scythe is a proper pole weapon (although rudimentary, and the fact that the blade is curved still give it a bad balance even after it has been redirected by 90°, so an halberd would give a better result for example), but a double scythe is no longer one. And yeah, that second curved blade in your back sounds dangerous. It would limit severely your movements in order to avoid injuring yourself when you swing it, making it even more tiring to manipulate than just the heavy weight alone.

dream_eater1012 said:

If you can't even explain how it would work, then why should I believe that you're right?

Saying it's different but then not explaining how it's different isn't going to make me say, "oh, I get you now." If they work differently, I would genuinely like to know how.

TheCorruptedWolf said:
I wish I could draw and animate to demonstrate how it works. I just hope they make an anime about it soon though.

TheCorruptedWolf said:
The double-sided scythe blades are longer than a farming scythe but it could be same length or a bit shorter than the war scythe. I don't like war scythes because the blades are too curved, the sharp part would just be hiding behind the blunt part.

dream_eater1012 said:

It's also possible to explain with words.


And this doesn't really make sense, since war scythes are the ones that actually got some practical use. Yet here it seems you're saying that the usual scythe is better than the war scythe when it comes to fighting.

Zoltor said:
It's not a good anime at all(everything about the anime screams either bad execution or bad choice), but It's the only anime I can think of atm, that has such a weapon in it.

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