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This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.


Tabby: Does anyone know how they make that sound? I've always wondered.

Seth: I have a Chinese straight sword at home that actually makes this sound when you unsheathe it quickly, mind you my Claymore doesn't (For the ten whole seconds i had a sheath for it) and neither does my Cutlass so maybe it has some basis in reality just horribly exaggerated.

Looney Toons: It sounds somewhat like a blade being drawn along a sharpening stone or a sharpening steel, moreso the latter than the former. Might be how they made/make it.

Seth: I just got a replica of Ichigo's ban-kai sword from Bleach and it also makes that noise when you unsheathe it... just in case you were wondering.

Thomas The Rhymer: "This is an Anime Trope, as well as Animated Trope" — and a trope of many other genres as well, so why single these out? As mentioned in the article it's in Buffy, and as Seth said it can be real too (I do it by twisting knifes against the table/surface edge as I pick them up). I might possibly do it while storytelling, sometimes. Summary: I'm pretty sure it's cross-genre.

Ununnilium: We used to have those before we had the navigation bars at the bottom. It's just lingered longer in this entry than usual.

Scrounge: Not sure if it's worth noting in thre article, but I believe "ssshiiinnng" or some variant is a proper omomatopoetic form.


Darmok: I find it interesting that somebody added "The obligatory example from Buffy The Vampire Slayer." without actually giving any example from said show.

CJHaacke I'm not sure if it is my imagination or not, but did this happen in the last two episodes of Noir?


Kizor: ...the blue glow of the scythe splitting atoms in Discworld is Cherenkov radiation, isn't it?

Can't recall the exact quote, but IIRC, Bug's Life did a subversion of this when one of the characters being wielded as a sword utters an unenthusiastic "swish swish, clang clang".


Micah: Removed for nonspecificity:
Eric DVH: Should examples about blades actually being drawn across stuff like their sheath be in here at all? I think a better trope is the completely unrealistic sound generated simply by the camera holding over it (with shine glancing along its length of course.)

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