Talk:Mikazuki Munechika/@comment-216.158.160.204-20150226033231/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150226172126

Mikazuki Munechika is a member of the Tenka Goken. It is hard to get datas about them on non-japanese medias, but they were praised as Japan's best Swords in the Kamakura period (which is considered the Golden Age of Nihonto). Mikazuki is also a national treasure exposed in Tokyo National Museum, and unlike Dôjigiri Yasutsuna, Mikazuki has no creepy legend about it.

So, yeah, it's pretty much one of the best Swords in the World. Jokes like Ex-Calibur, Cortana, El Cid's Tizona, Al'batar (the Sword of Prophets) and Roland's Durandal just don't compare. Durandal is rusted, if it ever existed. Cortana is broken, and is not intended for combat anyway. Ex-Calibur doesn't even exist. Tizona is one handed (while katana can be used with one or two hands and are more versatile).

Though Mikazuki has not been tested by Shitôjutsu schools of Edo period (Yamano school & Yamada Asaemon lineage), because they were too precious to take a risk (what if...) and thus left in private collections of Daimyô, along with Honjô Masamune and other prestigious blades. It is also unknown if Mikazuki is better or inferior to Muramasa, but average carbon % of Nihonto is 0,5 ~ 0,7... while Muramasa has 0,78% even though it was made from Tamahagane (yeah, it's crazy...).

A katana tested by sir Yamano and forged by the great Hizen Tadayoshi, bears on it's Nakago a mei saying "Futatsu-dô setsudan Yamano Ka'emon-no-jo Nagahisa" (Yamano Kaemon-no-jo Nagahisa cut through two bodies). How great is that Hizen Tadayoshi dude ? Well... Yamada Asaemon and Fujishiro have in common merely 6 Swordsmiths they ranked as the best of the best (Saijô Ôwazamono for Yamada Asaemon, and Saijô Saku for Fujishiro).

Just 6 people. Meaning, Tadayoshi is one of the best in the world. Nosada is also a member of this super-elit-club. Yeah yeah, that's Kasen Kanesada, the dude you can have at the begining of the game (he is so Under-rated... well, they were a lot of fake Kanesada produced in Edo period anyway) ! ><"

Why am I saying that ? Well... the world record of dead bodies-cut is owned by Dojigiri Yasutsuna. One of his ancient users (I don't know who, but it was way before the Edo jidai, possibly the mario bross like combi, Hachiman Tarô and Shinra Saburô, badass Minamoto generals, the elder hailed as the Scion of the God of War Hercule style, and the second the founder of Daitô-ryû Aikijûjutsu) cut through 6 dead bodies in Tameshigiri, no less. That kind of legendary level of sharpness seems almost like a fucking joke (that is, until the idea of being among them pop'up in your head). So yeah, Minamoto no Raiko could really have chopped of an Oni Dai Yôkai's head with it, no matter how thick was his evil neck and bones. If Zombie Apocalypse is the nightmare of humans, then Dôjigiri is the nightmare of zombies plus Satan himself.

Sword testers of Edo period thought only the best swordsmen should do Tameshigiri, in order to be sure of the blade's abilities, and not the one of it's wielder. But maybe the Minamoto guys were just monsters. lol

In any case, Mikazuki is thought as the equal of Dojigiri, it's peer.

Six bodies versus Two bodies. You understand now ? It's not because the character looks good among the others. It's because he is Mikazuki Munechika, one of the Five Swords Under Heaven, that they decided to make it a nice looking guy and the poster guy.

That's how great Mikazuki Munechika is.