History BFS / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'': Tsubasa Kazanari's Symphogear is powered by a fragment of a legendary katana[[note]]Ame-no-Habakiri, the sword of the Shinto storm god Susano'o[[/note]] and has the power to create swords. These can range from reasonably-sized but capable of [[FlamingWeapon lighting on fire]] to building-sized [[RocketPoweredWeapon rocket-powered]] monstrosities that fall from the sky, and that's without using [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-Drive mode]]. All made possible by ThePowerOfRock. [[RuleOfCool It's that kind of show]].

* Tsubasa Kazanari's [[Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear Symphogear]] is powered by a fragment of a legendary katana[[note]]Ame-no-Habakiri, the sword of the Shinto storm god Susano'o[[/note]] and has the power to create swords. These can range from reasonably-sized but capable of [[FlamingWeapon lighting on fire]] to building-sized [[RocketPoweredWeapon rocket-powered]] monstrosities that fall from the sky, and that's without using [[EleventhHourSuperpower X-Drive mode]]. All made possible by ThePowerOfRock. [[RuleOfCool It's that kind of show]].

** Two of the members of the Genkai Tenpei [[note]] a squad of natural born warriors with tremendous training and use of foreign weapons at the Shogun's service [[/note]] have oversized weapons: Homare, a bona fide ActionGirl and AmazonianBeauty can use a massive greatsword/claymore to mow down her opponents, while the sinister Genra wields a massive [[ImprobableWeaponUser iron oar]] as his weapon of choice.

* ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' has plently of [[SmallGirlBigGun small-to-average ladies with ridiculously massive weapons, optimal range be damned]], but the most recognizable one is Black Gold Saw's signature weapon, the King Saw. It is a massive scimitar-like blade with a serrated false edge, and a similarly serrated bladed handguard in its now-most common depiction. Even when taking her horns into account, the thing is ''still'' around as long as she is tall.

*** Kenpachi Zaraki's sword is almost as long as a tall man in base form because he's the only Soul Reaper apart from Ichigo who cannot properly seal his sword. When the sword does transform, it becomes a giant backwards-facing blade roughly twice the size of his own (very large) body.

** Guts and his 6ft long, 400lb Dragon Slayer are a classic example. The story behind the Dragonslayer is an interesting one -- the blacksmith who made it was commissioned to make a [[MeaningfulName sword that could kill dragons in one stroke]]. But since dragons did not exist (at the time), he forged a sword too large and heavy for humans to wield, because the only way to kill an impossible creature is with an equally impossible weapon. The only reason Guts can swing it around at all, let alone as skillfully as he does, is that he's been training with oversized swords since childhood: he began with a normal-sized longsword, which was much too big for him when he was six years old, and simply scaled up the size of his weapon as he grew up. The Dragonslayer is simply the logical conclusion of this progression, but unfortunately the Dragonslayer hasn't yet lived up to it's name when comes to dragon slaying aside from [[http://i.imgur.com/7Dk1Vlb.jpg cover art]]. Ironically, despite a painstaking attempt to portray the weapon somewhat realistically with a lot of momentum and almost no real cutting edge, author Kentaro Miura has admitted in interviews that he originally hit upon the idea of the huge sword just as a gimmick to attract readers.

* From ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Ryuko Matoi has half a scissor. That can transform to the size of a sword. Which can triple in length. She then takes it UpToEleven in the episode 25 OVA, in which she supersizes the blade into a several thousand foot monstrosity in order to fight a GiantMecha.
* Being that ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is more a comedy than anything, it doesn't allow many blades of any size to get in. [[AnimeChineseGirl Shampoo]] still manages to get away with swinging around a massive sabre in her first appearance, even if she does trade it for CarryABigStick afterwards. How big is it? The blade alone is roughly the same length as the distance between the bottom of Shampoo's pelvis and the top of her head. And she swings it around in ''one hand''. While carrying a chui (a long-handled mace with a basketball sized ''solid steel'' head) in the other.
** Ukyo fights using a huge okonomiyaki spatula.
* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'':
** When Fuu's [[EvolvingWeapon Escudo sword]] evolves, it just gets ''bigger'', to the point where it becomes longer than she is tall. It also weighs a ton if anyone other than her tries to use it, although that has more to do with its made-just-for-her nature than its mass. (In contrast, the other girls' swords gain more elaborate designs on the hilt.)
** The Mashin/Rune Gods themselves wield [=BFSs=], but they're large magical mechs, so ItMakesSenseInContext.
* Susanoomon from ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has what is, proportionally, the biggest effing blade ever with his "Zero ARMS: Orochi" weapon. He creates what looks like a BFG that's bigger than he is (which is made even bigger by the fact that he's probably more than 20 feet tall; there may be no "proportionally" about it) that creates a LaserBlade ''big enough to bisect the '''entire''' [[{{Cyberspace}} Digital World]] whenever it is swung''. When purged of all the armor pieces made from his components, it reveals [=KaiserGreymon=]'s sword (see below), albeit without the crest at the base of the blade.
** Most other blades belonging to individual Digimon are very large, if not quite to the same degree as that of Susanoomon. Memorable examples include [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]], [[Anime/DigimonFrontier KaiserGreymon]], [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad ShineGreymon]], [[Manga/DigimonNext VictoryGreymon]], and [[Anime/DigimonFusion most of Shoutmon's Xrossed forms]]. ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'' is a game more or less devoted to taking several famous Digimon and giving them [=BFSs=].
** Minervamon and Mervamon both use greatswords as big as them. Minervamon even wields hers one-handed.
** Taken UpToEleven with Mervamon's Wide Hi-Vision Sword, a sword as wide as she is tall and three times as long.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** Guts and his 6ft long, 400lb Dragon Slayer are a classic example. The story behind the Dragonslayer is an interesting one -- the blacksmith who made it was commissioned to make a [[MeaningfulName sword that could kill dragons in one stroke]]. But since dragons did not exist (at the time), he forged a sword too large and heavy for humans to wield, because the only way to kill an impossible creature is with an equally impossible weapon. The only reason Guts can swing it around at all, let alone as skillfully as he does, is that he's been training with oversized swords since childhood: he began with a normal-sized longsword, which was much too big for him when he was six years old, and simply scaled up the size of his weapon as he grew up. The Dragonslayer is simply the logical conclusion of this progression, but unfortunately the Dragonslayer hasn't yet lived up to it's name when comes to dragon slaying aside from [[http://i.imgur.com/7Dk1Vlb.jpg cover art]]. Ironically, despite a painstaking attempt to portray the weapon somewhat realistically with a lot of momentum and almost no real cutting edge, author Kentaro Miura has admitted in interviews that he originally hit upon the idea of the huge sword just as a gimmick to attract readers.
** The portrayal of the Dragon Slayer's weight extends to the [[VideoGame/SwordOfTheBerserkGutsRage Dreamcast video game]] based on the series, as it's nigh-impossible to swing the Dragon Slayer in tight corridors without it bouncing off the wall to little effect (and in the manga, Serpico tried to fight a duel with Guts in a tight space precisely to exploit this flaw). In the [[VideoGame/BerserkMillenniumFalconHenSeimaSenkiNoSho next licensed game for PS2]], set in the Millennium Falcon arc, this simply isn't an issue -- most of the action takes place outdoors, while the few indoor or underground areas that Guts goes into are spacious enough to allow him to use the Dragon Slayer to full asskicking effect.
** Many other characters have large versions of non-sword weapons as well, such as an atlatl-style spear thrower that generates cannon-like force or, in a Downplaying an Indian-style flexible sword that is of normal length but has far more blades than normal (based on a real Indian weapon known as an ''urumi'').
** Many of the Apostles wield massive weapons while in human form, but they have superhuman strength because their true forms are enormous monsters.
* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', Ryoko Asakura [[BodyHorror turns her arms]] into twin {{BFS}}s.
* Earth from ''Manga/ZatchBell'' is the king of this trope. All of his spells revolve around his sword, which isn't too big for demon standards. However, some of his spells increase the size of it. Jian Ji Sorudo causes a huge sword to form at the tip of his, which he can use accordingly. Varusere Ozu Maru Sorudon is one of his last resorts, in which he just makes it ''rain'' BFSs. [[spoiler: It is shown that if he had stayed in the fight longer, he would've awoken Shin Varusere Ozu Maaru Sorudon that just causes him to [[StormOfBlades summon more, larger, stronger raining BFS's]].]]
* Manga/InuYasha's sword Tessaiga is a normal-sized and rather dull-bladed katana in its unempowered state, but transforms into a BFS for use in battle whenever he has the desire/resolve to protect a human. Bankotsu's Banryuu, though technically a [[BladeOnAStick halberd]], makes an even bigger BFS than Tessaiga.
** On the other hand, the three swords wielded by MasterSwordsman Sesshoumaru are all of normal size.
** Jakotsu's sword ''looks'' like its only a bit bigger than average, if that. In reality, its actually [[WhipSword a bunch of very thin, very hard blades attached tip-to-tip which he can swing around with an incredible amount of force and control.]]
* Mikoto from ''Anime/MyHime'' fits the main trope when she becomes a DarkMagicalGirl later in the series.
* Arika from ''Anime/MyOtome'' is the proud wielder of both a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arikaBFL.jpg BFL]] and a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arikaBFS.jpg BFS]].
** Arika gets [[UpToEleven one-upped]] by her own ''mother'' in ''Anime/MyOtome0Sifr''. Her version of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of Akatsuki]] is large enough to cleave an asteroid in half from several hundred meters off.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Zabuza, an ex-Seven Swordsman of the Mist and the [[StarterVillain first major villain that Team 7 faces]] has a rather nasty {{BFS}} named ''Kubikiribouchou'' ("Decapitating Carving Knife") [[spoiler:that can [[HealingFactor repair itself]] with the iron from the blood of its victims]]. Kisame (also a former member of the Seven) has another BFS named ''Samehada'' ("sharkskin") that [[LoyalPhlebotinum only he can use]], and which is more or less a sword-shaped bundle of ''hooks'' as opposed to an actual blade. Its main strength is its ability to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb the chakra of others in order to aid its master]], and Kisame can also [[spoiler:fuse with it if need be]]. It also happens to be ''[[EmpathicWeapon alive]]'', to the point where it's capable of [[spoiler:abandoning its master if it finds someone else it likes better]].
*** Expanding on Zabuza, Kishimoto said Zabuza's early character designs had his sword about the size of a skycraper, or at least a small building.
** Outside of that group, the Raikage's bodyguard Darui has a sword that is a giant cleaver/ax with no point. It seems to be able to fold along a pivot sideways to be stored easier.
** [[{{Kaiju}} Gamabunta's]] tantō ([[GiantsKnifeHumansGreatsword which for him is regular-sized]]) was temporarily used by Tsunade as an insanely giant sword.
** Yet another one of the Seven Swordsmen, Chojuro also has a pretty big sword, but when he really lets loose his "Hiramekarei" will reach BFS status due to the powered up chakra.
** The Sword of Nunbaku, formed from the [[PhysicalGod Six Paths']] Truth-Seeking Orbs, is a titanic DNA-shaped sword that can destroy and reform the landscape at the user's whim. [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome Unfortunately, despite being presented, it never actually got used.]]
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
** Sagara Sanosuke starts out with a BFS (a ''zanbatō'', in fact) and a rotten attitude. It was his {{weapon of choice}}, hence his nickname (Zanza). Kenshin destroys it during their last fight. He says it is impractical and proceeds to easily outmaneuver the sword, which is bound by the laws of physics (especially momentum) to be a clumsy weapon. None of this stops Sano from breaking it out one more time in the Jinchū arc and showing it can be used for other things [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome like playing baseball with cannon shells.]]
** Fuji of the Juppongatana also wields a tremendously gigantic sword. Fuji is [[OurGiantsAreBigger gigantic in his own right]], the sword being an oversized hunting knife large enough to allow him to demolish a building.
* Explored in Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s debut manga, ''Manga/RGVeda'', in which a major character carries one, and remarks that it wouldn't ever be able to cut anything, had the sword not been magical.
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Asuna's PaperFanOfDoom can upgrade into a BFS. How this works depends on whether it's in the manga or the AlternateContinuity anime series ''[[Anime/NegimaSecondSeason Negima?!]]'' In any case, the fan is mainly for comedy (or sparring), while the sword is the business version.
** Meanwhile, Jack Rakan, a comrade of Negi's father, is known as "Rakan of the Thousand Swords". Apparently, it seems, including one the size of a ''skyscraper''.
** Asuna's classmate Kaede is a semi-closeted {{Ninja}} whose signature weapon is a four-pointed Big '' FuumaShuriken''[[note]]lit. Wind Demon Shuriken[[/note]] which is considerably wider from tip to tip than she is tall[[note]][[HugeSchoolgirl And she's almost six feet tall]][[/note]]. Also, she sometimes seems to pull it [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]][[note]]WordOfGod is that it splits into four sections, which she stacks and carries on her back[[/note]].
** Setsuna. That nodachi of hers is taller than she is (necessary for the demon-slaying work of her sword school).
** In weapon-to-wielder ratio, the sword that Evangeline's [[PerversePuppet puppet]] Chachazero uses, mostly in ''Negima?!'', also counts. It's not an unrealistically large sword, but not one that would be easy to wield one-handed. Chachazero does it just fine, though. She's less than a foot tall, making the sword seem absolutely gigantic.
** [[TookALevelInBadass Yue]] has started wielding a sword that's longer than she is tall. She even manages to kill a powerful demon with it.
** [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithFire Quartum]]]] can summon a pillar-sized sword with a spell. And it's [[FlamingSword on fire]].
** Given that Ku Fei's pactio weapon is a staff based on the [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Ruyi Jingu Bang]], and thus can [[TelescopingStaff expand to any size at will]], it has at times been the largest melee weapon in a series packed with them.
* The Heavy Blade class in the ''Franchise/DotHack'' series all wield these as a rule. For some reason, another rule for this class is [[BreastPlate skimpy armour for females]], but that's another story entirely.
** (Most of) The male Heavy Blades also use skimpy armor, but you don't get many of those on your team.
** As far as this series is concerned, Black Rose's [[http://dothack.wikia.com/wiki/BlackRose_(LINK) new blade really takes the cake!!]]
** Haseo from ''VideoGame/DotHackGU Trilogy'' takes this UpToEleven in his B-st form. He is DualWielding ChainsawGood BFS, complete with [[FieldOfBlades field of BFS]]
* After breaking ''four'' ordinary swords in a fight, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Karula]] from ''Anime/{{Utawarerumono}}'' upgrades to a BFS that only she is able to lift; however, because she demanded it be unbendable, unbreakable, and never need sharpening, the edge is not as sharp as a regular sword, so people she hits with it tend to splatter. She tests it out by splitting a giant boulder. Several strong men had difficulty even carrying it.
** And then she breaks that one too, which is never mentioned again because it's back for her next fight.
* The [[FauxSymbolism Ten Commandments]] sword, used by Haru Glory in ''Manga/RaveMaster'', is nearly as large as its wielder. Luckily, this only applies to its base form, Eisonmeteor; its other 9 forms are much more reasonably sized, with the exception of Gravity Core, which is even larger.
** ''All'' BFS wielders in the series (and probably all BFS wielders in ''history'') bow before the might of Uta the Eternal, who wields a sword 100 feet long and over 10 feet wide, even though he's only human sized (at least [[OneWingedAngel initially]]). It's seriously insane.
* Aya and Maya from ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' share a long, long katana that could not be wielded by either of them, y'know, in the real world.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has Fate Testarossa and her intelligent device, Bardiche. Not only does its Zanber Form start out larger than she is, but it can grow to such immense length that Fate could cleave through HumongousMecha ''at a distance''. Slightly justified in that Bardiche only transforms into its hilt; its blade is made of magical energy, which means that Fate can extend the blade further so long as she has the mana to spare.
** While not quite as oversized as Fate's, Signum's [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Levantine/Laevatein/Laevateinn]] is still (depending on artist and camera angle) longer than she is. Her new sword in the ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce FORCE]]'' manga is even '''[[UpToEleven bigger]]'''.
** Cypha has two. Vita's [[DropTheHammer Graf Eisen]] can upsize to the point that she's invisible when showing its full size. And Deville's axe. Goodness.
* D's Masamune from the two ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' movies definitely fits this trope -- if it wasn't for the curve of the blade, it would drag the ground whenever he wields it. As it is, it's a miracle he can unsheath it, let alone wield it with the superhuman speed he does. Well, he ''is'' a [[{{Dhampyr}} dhampir]] after all.
* Kamina from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one of these. He often makes a RousingSpeech when he draws it, and the longer the speech, the longer the sword, because RuleOfCool.
** In [[spoiler:the final fight with the Anti-Spiral, the TTGL uses giant versions of Enki's swords.]] Oh, and did I mention [[spoiler:the TTGL is 13 billion lightyears tall? That's a BFS! Actually, two BFS!]]
** Also, in the [[spoiler:second TTGL movie]] Viral pilots a [[spoiler: galaxy sized mech with 14 arms. Guess what 11 of those arms are wielding? Granted, they're not as big as the TTGL's BFS, IMO quantity over quality in this case.]]
** Also, in some [[spoiler:official art of the Tengen Toppa Gurren, King Kittan, and Agodega, (which never appeared in the manga/anime/movies, you clearly see that the TTG is wielding a katana, like Kamina. The TTG is, you guessed it, galaxy sized. Considering Kamina's normal katana is already a BFS, the TTG's katana is a BFS of a BFS.]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Mihawk's main sword [[BlackSwordsAreBetter Yoru]]. Can be mistaken, however, for a grave cross. The first time you see Mihawk's sword, you can easily mistake it for a giant marble cross that he's resting against. Then he draws it. The sword is bigger than he is. It gets progressively more badass afterwards, to the point where he can use it to slice a (frozen) tsunami wave bigger than a fortress in half with it. Horizontally in half. Plus Mihawk has a whole pack of killer baboons who wield similar great swords to him on his island., [[BloodKnight Zoro]] had to fight the whole pack if he wanted a chance of receiving Mihawk's training.
** Smoker's jitte isn't nearly up to Mihawk's standards, but it is still pretty huge.
** Whitebeard's glaive is in proportion to his body size, and the guy's 20 feet tall.
** Arlong's secret weapon is a huge, saw-shaped sword called Kiribachi (Cutting Plectrum, called the Saw Blade in the anime dub).
** Points for originality go to Funkfreed, Spandam's sword. It's a relatively average-sized sword that can transform into an elephant.
** The ''nodachi'' Trafalgar Law wields is nearly as long as he is tall, to the point that he carries it around in hand because the length doesn't allow him to strap it to his side.
* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', Sorath has one he calls [[GratuitousGerman Blutsauger]]. Both Tanaka and Satou later make several attempts to lift it, but neither of them succeeds to get it off of the ground completely. In Season 2, Yuji [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and wields it with ease, at one point [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing it]] one-handed as a finishing move.
* The Kaiser Blades from the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' OVA series ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}''. The movie sequel has [[DualWielding two smaller blades that are deployed from the shoulders]], but the original/Final Kaiser Blade was pulled out of Kaiser's chest, was three times the length of Kaiser, and able to cut through damn near anything.
* ''Manga/SilentMobius'' features the magical shape-shifting sword Grospoliner, a sentient weapon of ridiculous size in its sword form. However, Katsumi rarely (or never) uses the blade of the sword to cut enemies, instead mainly using the weapon as a magic-focusing tool.
* The Galahad Knightmare Frame from ''Anime/CodeGeass'', personal ride of Knight of One Bismarck Waldstein, possesses a sword so huge that the sheath needs its own ''propulsion system''. Bismarck himself also wields a human-scaled replica, which is still pretty over-sized. But then again, [[LargeAndInCharge so is Bismarck]].

* Ideon from ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon''. One of its weapons, the Ideon Sword, a beam of pure light emitted from each of Ideon's hands. While the beam's destructive power is immense (even cleaving a planet in half at one point), its most peculiar quality is its length. While adjustable, the maximum length of the sword is depicted as being quite possibly infinite.
* Balgus from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' gets one in the second episode, when facing off against the Zaibach cloaked Melefs. Considering these things managed to incapacitate with ease several other melefs (for reference, melef=15 foot tall mecha), the fact that Balgus proved harder to kill when on foot and armed only with his 8-foot long sword makes him [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome even more awesome.]]
* The Di-Swords from ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' are giant swords wielded by the six main girls of the show. In addition to being very large, they also [[PowerGlows glow]], [[EmotionEater feed off emotions]], and are invisible to everyone except other [[RealityWarper Gigalomaniacs]].
* ''Manga/EatMan'' has a few of these, though The Boer Sword deserves a special mention. Despite the fact that it's only ever used in one hand the thing's easily twice the size of anyone who uses it, dangles a mass of apparently self-motivating cables, and commands the allegiance of an army of monsters.
* At one point, a couple of mooks in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' team up to swing a giant sword against their opponent. Being ''Fist of the North Star'' mooks, the mookiest mooks in mookdom, they are easily bloodily killed one panel later in a {{Subversion}} of this trope.
* [[spoiler: Allen Walker]] and [[spoiler: the Earl of Millennium]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' have matching (yin-yang) swords that resemble giant cricket bats. Lavi's weapon is a hammer that can become huge.
* Kuroki, one of the operatives in ''Manga/BlazerDrive'' wields a sword that looks suspiciously like Allan's.
** [[spoiler: And now it's a WhipSword like [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Renji]]'s and [[Manga/DeadmanWonderland Hibana's]].]]
* Jio Freed in ''Manga/OPartsHunter'' eventually carries a Big Effin' Boomerang/Ninja Star whose size and amount of damage it can inflict is proportional to the fear and hate a person has. Thus to a fearful mook the thing ''fills the entire sky'' while to a pure-hearted angel it's a useless ring of metal (unfortunately the angel works for the [[BigBad bad guys]]).
* The Medicine Seller from ''Anime/{{Mononoke}}'' has a weapon that is less of a sword and more of a blazing energy blade attached to a sword handle. It can be just as long as it needs to be, including ''building-length''.
* One of the combatants in the TournamentArc of ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'' wields a "sword" that's big enough to need its own ''propulsion system'' and features its own energy weapon, making this a Big Fuckin' Gunsword. The combatant himself also counts -- his legs have been replaced with blades and he attacks by launching himself like a shuriken. It's justified when he mentions his preferred opponents are ''warships''.
* Father Remington from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' carries a crucifix-laser-broadsword that is taller than him. he gets over maneuverability issues by simply letting the sword tip slice through the ground during a sword swing.
* One of [[EquippableAlly Tsubaki's]] forms in ''Manga/SoulEater'' is a katana called the Fey Blade. For some reason, after Black* Star's last fight with Mifune in the anime, it increases in length to up to twice, if not three times, the original length.
** A scythe example, Soul's Witch/Demon Hunter form is also massive. One of [[TalkingWeapon Ragnarok's]] equivalent modes makes him considerably larger than usual.
* Some of the HumongousMecha/Samurai in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' use swords so large that they are actually ''independently pilotable vehicles''. In the last few episodes [[spoiler: the titular heroes use one as transportation. And Kikuchiyo (who has a cybernetic body himself, but merely the size of a large human rather than a mecha) actually ''wields one'' during his HeroicSacrifice scene.]]

* The Shining Trapezohedron of ''Manga/{{Demonbane}}'' looks unweildy but it has the ability to cut through dimensions and seal away powerful gods.
* Gretel in ''Anime/FairyMusketeers'' has the Missing Grave, a giant Sword with flowers growing on it. It can only be used because she wears a pair of Oven Mitts that give her strength like an Ogre. The sword is taller than most of the cast.
* Housen in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' fights with an umbrella, like all Yato. Since Housen is also The Night King, it's a freakin' ''huge'' umbrella.
* Tessai in ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' carries a huge double-bladed sword that he can throw like a boomerang. [[spoiler:It plays a big part in his own death.]]
* Surprisingly enough, it's a SuperRobot known as Ganbarugar in ''Anime/GenkiBakuhatsuGanbaruger'' that had one of these and played it pretty realistically in its use. The sword is huge, but because of that it's really hard to accurately swing it at a moving opponent, so the mecha has to paralyse the enemy first.
* Mewtwo from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a Big Friggin' ''Spoon'', formed from psychic energy. No matter how stupid it may sound, it serves as an extremely effective close-range melee weapon, and it can stretch, curve, and turn into a ''fork'' to spear things with. And he once used it to deliever a DiagonalCut on the ''Trainer Tower'', slicing the building in ''two''.

* While it's not particularly huge, [[BrattyHalfPint Trom Bone]] from ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' wields his father's sword, which is a bit large for a boy his size. Hamel, on the other hand, wields a BFV?a Big Fraggin [[ImprobableWeaponUser Violin]].
* Alice L. Malvin from ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'' has Mahne, a double-bladed sword meant to be used by cavalrymen. She uses it ''on foot'', and wears a pair of sabatons in conjunction with it for the express purpose of kicking it free when one of the blades inevitably gets lodged in the ground.
* A number of monsters in ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', including Flame Swordsman, Swordstalker, Buster Blader, Amazoness Swordswoman, and Gilford the Lightning. A monster with a sword that is not a BFS is just out of place.
** Arguably the most ludicrously oversized sword in the series belongs to Gilford the Legend in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. While it's pretty big in the first place, the guy who summoned Gilford proceeds to equip several more swords onto him, each of which is absorbed into Gilford's sword, making it even bigger. By the time he's done, the sword easily measures ''over twenty feet long''.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' gives us monomolecular cutters for use by 10 meter tall mechas. Swords with a chainsaw-like edge. Mao was shown to even have a holster for one. Although the first season only showed that one instance, ''The Second Raid'' had Clouseau owning Savages with a similarly sized scimitar.
* Cattleya from ''Anime/QueensBlade'' wields a giant two-handed sword appropriately named "Giant Killer".
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** [[ManipulativeBastard Fiamma of the Right]] is able to produce a FlamingSword that is '''30-40 km long'''.
** Kanzaki has one as well though "Shichiten Shichitou" (Seven Heavens, Seven Swords) is "only" a 2m long katana.
** Acqua of the Back wields Ascalon, which is roughly 3.5 meters long and weighs roughly 441 pounds, beating out even Gut's Dragonslayer. It was even created under similar circumstances, with the maker fashioning based off the legend of Ascalon killing a dragon and calculating for the measurements a sword would ''realistically'' need to be at to be able to kill a dragon about 50 feet long. {{Deconstructed}} when Acqua is eventually BroughtDownToNormal. He's forced to abandon Ascalon because he can't pick it up without the SuperStrength of a Saint.
** The Knight Leader wields Hrunting, the sword Literature/{{Beowulf}} used, which is roughly 3.9 meters long yet weighs as much as a regular sword. Hrunting shrinks down to 80 cm when not powered up.
* A subversion from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': The sword wielded by Syaoran looks to be more-or-less realistically sized, but because Syaoran is just a little boy, it looks huge in his hands.
* Averted in ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'', relatively speaking. Despite having a lot of swords and weapons, Aoyama rarely uses this trope. Yet, Kojiro's Laundry Pole has the power to grow really really long.
** Also the Devil King Sword (Mao Ken) is quite large compared to Gekko. Gold in the Underworld arc wields a gargantuan scimitar, but is quite justified because it fit its size.
* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 11. Captain Konoe Tsurugi's OneeSama has one almost as tall as she is, which she uses against Konoe during their battle.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza has Multiple {{BFS}}es in her possession.
** Pantherlily's sword, Bustermarm is four times his size (and he's a big guy[[spoiler: most of the time]]).
** Gajeel's Karma God: Demon Blade is so huge it's comparable to ''buildings''.
** The Musica sword found by Pantherlily can become one at will.
* The warriors in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' wield, well, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore claymores,]]'' which are really just replicas of the historic Scottish swords that are longer and thicker. They aren't extravagantly large for BFS standards (though still nothing to sneeze at; they're typically three inches longer than the wielder is tall), but they seem to be realistically proportionate for the female warriors who wield them, who are half-demon anyway and are able to wield them [[OneHandedZweihander single-handed]], something that ordinary humans can't do. That, and [[spoiler: [[ThunderboltIron the blades are indestructible]].]]
** Post-time skip Raki has also entered the ring, as he wields a humongous sword of his own.

* In the first ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' movie, Achika ends up turning Tenchi's sword, usually a lightsaber-ish weapon, into a massive energy blade, capable of cleaving BigBad [=KAIN=] in half.
** In ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'', when the seven jewels Tenchi and the girls hold are united, they form into a massive crystal sword. Which Tenchi doesn't really use because he's such a NiceGuy

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': When Kirito shops for equipment in ALO, he chooses one of those claiming regular swords are "too light"
* Being a shonen centered on fighting, ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' has a modest number of BFS users, usually with a proper justification, and tend to be focused on OneHitKill tactics. These include:
** The Ichinose clan (including Zenmaru and Kai) wields the Sadanaga blades, referred to as "Kaitou" (Beast Sword/Mystery Sword), which are large, heavy nodachi with no crossguards designed for an aggressive battle style. Both Zenmaru and Kai are shown to be rather proficient ''only'' because they both trained with it since childhood.
** Shingo Mido of the [[BladeOnAStick Four Divine Spears]] wields the "Onidachi" (Demon Splitter), a 4 meters long x 48 pounds spear. He trained so much that he can be very efficient with that.
** Ryuho Kibe the ''Silver Ogre'' wields a weapon which he calls "Colossal Steel Sword", but is actually a very large [[CarryABigStick kanabo]]. Thanks to the Juugan battle drug he can wield the whole beast with one hand. Two other members of his squad use oversized swords in combat, heavy enough to crack the earth on impact.
** Minor character Ginji Tatehara carries around a "Mystery Sword" called Kasumi Shirosada, which is a nodachi with a thinner-than-usual blade, which makes it faster.
** Inverted with Arimaru: her sword is normal sized, but her shield (which is vital to her fighting style) is enormous.
** Sequel Series ''Gamaran Shura'' features Shiba Hien as Iori's StarterVillain and first major opponent belonging to the Shogunate's best 100 warriors: Hien took over by force the secrets of the Genba Ryuu of Nodachijutsu and wields a precious ''zanbato'' called "Monohoshizao Masamune". Unlike the Sadanaga, this sword resemble a normal katana but the wrapped maki hilt extends beyond the tsuba, which lets him wield the sword even in close combat with deadly effect.
* Tohka has one in ''LightNovel/DateALive''. During her RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the first novel(third anime episode) it grows to ''10 meters'' long.
* Brioche Dalkian of the Biscotti Republic Omitsu Squad is shown to have one in the second season of ''Anime/DogDays''. It's difficult to estimate the size of it as we never see all of it on screen at once. The best estimate of it size come from [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Lupine God Void Fang]] standing tall behind a line of hills, about a mile over them. [[OhCrap Then she attacks with it.]]
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Black Luster Soldier has one by default. Yami also gets some with his Black Luster Soldier and Blue-Eyes White Dragon armor.
* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'':
** Alibaba's sword Amon takes the form of an enormous, and extremely wide black sword [[PlayingWithFire which also has fire powers.]] Since the size is so different from it's normal sealed form, he has trouble wielding it without performing a full-djinn equip.
** Ren Kouha's blade on the other hand makes Amon seem tiny. Kouha's sword is basically a giant cleaver that's even bigger than his entire body, (although that's partly because [[PintSizedPowerhouse he's not very big himself]]) and it's magical abilities allow it to grow even bigger, to the point that he could use it as a shield for a large portion of his army.
* Kenshi Masaki in ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'' Has the Tenchi-ken, a sword made from a '''''[[RuleOfCool compressed mountain]]'''''!

* La Pucelle from ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' has the ability to change the mass and size of her sword. Meaning her sword can effectively become this.
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', [[HeroesPreferSwords Saizo has one]], the Mari Blade. He later has it reforged after too much damage in the finale. Date Masamune and Sanada Nobuyuki also sport massive swords in the few scenes they get to show them off.
* Defied in ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', where the main character is deadset against using longswords because they're unwieldy in the caverns and tunnels where goblins live (and we see one NewMeat character die precisely because his sword is too long to swing in a goblin cave and he knocks it right out of his hand). Note that the series has a Guts stand-in with a large sword who's seen fighting in the open to great effect. But the titular main character, as the name implies, is heavily specialized in killing goblins. A weapon poorly-suited for that role is a weapon he doesn't want.
* In ''Manga/BlackClover'' Asta's first sword is a huge claymore nearly as long as he is tall. He also gets a second one later on; more along the lines of a proper longsword, but still quite large. Aside from having slightly different (but still AntiMagic) powers, the longsword is useful in situations when the larger sword's size makes it too unwieldy. [[spoiler:His third sword can remove effects caused by spells and even negate Reincarnation magic.]]
* ''Manga/NingenFushinNoBoukenshatachiGaSekaiOSukuuYoudesu'': Karan's sword which is as long and wide as her. As a [[DraconicHumanoid Dragon Race]], she [[SuperStrength has the strength]] to carry and wield it effortlessly.

* ''Manga/NingenFushinNoBoukenshatachiGaSekaiOSukuuYoudesu'': Karan's sword which is as long and wide as her. As a [[DraconicHumanoid Dragon Race]], she [[SuperStrength has the strength]] to carry and wield it effortless.

** Arika gets [[UpToEleven one-upped]] by her own ''mother'' in ''Anime/MaiOtome0Sifr''. Her version of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of Akatsuki]] is large enough to cleave an asteroid in half from several hundred meters off.

** Most other blades belonging to individual Digimon are very large, if not quite to the same degree as that of Susanoomon. Memorable examples include [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]], [[Anime/DigimonFrontier KaiserGreymon]], [[Anime/DigimonSavers ShineGreymon]], [[Manga/DigimonNext VictoryGreymon]], and [[Anime/DigimonXrosWars most of Shoutmon's Xrossed forms]]. ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'' is a game more or less devoted to taking several famous Digimon and giving them [=BFSs=].

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':

* Arika from ''Anime/MaiOtome'' is the proud wielder of both a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arikaBFL.jpg BFL]] and a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arikaBFS.jpg BFS]].

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'',

** Haseo from ''.hack//G.U. Trilogy'' takes this UpToEleven in his B-st form. He is DualWielding ChainsawGood BFS, complete with [[FieldOfBlades field of BFS]]

* Surprisingly enough, its a SuperRobot known as Ganbarugar that had one of these and played it pretty realistically in its use. The sword is huge, but because of that its really hard to accurately swing it at a moving opponent, so the mecha has to paralyse the enemy first.

** Erza has Multiple {{BFS}}ES in her possession.

* Mikoto from ''Anime/MaiHime'' fits the main trope when she becomes a DarkMagicalGirl later in the series.

* Earth from ''Manga/ZatchBell'' is the king of this trope. All of his spells revolve around his sword, which isn't too big for demon standards. However, some of his spells increase the size of it. Jian Ji Sorudo causes a huge sword to form at the tip of his, which he can use accordingly. Varusere Ozu Maru Sorudon is one of his last resorts, in which he just makes it ''rain'' [[http://www.mangareader.net/266-25418-2/zatch-bell/chapter-283.html BFSs]]. [[spoiler: It is shown that if he had stayed in the fight longer, he would've awoken [[http://www.mangareader.net/266-34979-8/zatch-bell/chapter-317.html Shin Varusere Ozu Maaru Sorudon]] that just causes him to [[StormOfBlades summon more, larger, stronger raining BFS's]].]]

** Meanwhile, Jack Rakan, a comrade of Negi's father, is known as "Rakan of the Thousand Swords". Apparently, it seems, including one the size of a ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v22/c200/8.html skyscraper]]''.

* In the manga ''Rikon Choutei'', the protagonist has a really big sword, so big that [[spoiler:he is cutting the Earth to the core with his sword. It's actually part of a divorce process. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/rikon_choutei/v01/c001/28.html See here]].]]

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Verite'' episode 11. Captain Konoe Tsurugi's OneeSama has one almost as tall as she is, which she uses against Konoe during their battle.

* One of the combatants in the TournamentArc of ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita: Last Order]]'' wields a "sword" that's big enough to need its own ''propulsion system'' and features its own energy weapon, making this a Big Fuckin' Gunsword. The combatant himself also counts -- his legs have been replaced with blades and he attacks by launching himself like a shuriken. It's justified when he mentions his preferred opponents are ''warships''.

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' spinoff manga ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' has the Crossbone Gundam X-3, whose signature "Muramasa Blaster" is a fairly large sword to begin with but gets much bigger when the '''fourteen beam sabers''' built into it are activated. (It also has a [[FrickinLaserBeams beam rifle]] built in.)

** [[{{Kaiju}} Gamabunta's]] tantō (which for him is regular-sized) was temporarily used by Tsunade as an insanely giant sword.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* Zabuza, an ex-Seven Swordsman of the Mist and the first major villain that Team 7 faces in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', has a rather nasty BFS named ''Kubikiribouchou'' ("Decapitating Carving Knife") [[spoiler:that can [[HealingFactor repair itself]] with the iron from the blood of its victims]]. Kisame (also a former member of the Seven) has another BFS named ''Samehada'' ("sharkskin") that [[LoyalPhlebotinum only he can use]], and which is more or less a sword-shaped bundle of ''hooks'' as opposed to an actual blade. Its main strength is its ability to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb the chakra of others in order to aid its master]], and Kisame can also [[spoiler:fuse with it if need be]]. It also happens to be ''[[EmpathicWeapon alive]]'', to the point where it's capable of [[spoiler:abandoning its master if it finds someone else it likes better]].
** Expanding on Zabuza, Kishimoto said Zabuza's early character designs had his sword about the size of a skycraper, or at least a small building.

* Mihawk's sword in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Can be mistaken, however, for a grave cross. The first time you see Mihawk's sword, you can easily mistake it for a giant marble cross that he's resting against. Then he draws it. The sword is bigger than he is. It gets progressively more badass afterwards, to the point where he can use it to slice a (frozen) tsunami wave bigger than a fortress in half with it. Horizontally in half. Plus Mihawk has a whole pack of killer baboons who wield similar great swords to him on his island., [[BloodKnight Zoro]] had to fight the whole pack if he wanted a chance of receiving Mihawk's training.

* Defied in ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', where the main character is deadset against using longswords because they're unwieldy in the caverns and tunnels where goblins live (and we see one NewMeat character die precisely because he can't draw his sword). Note that the series has a Guts stand-in with a large sword who's seen fighting in the open to great effect. But the titular main character, as the name implies, is heavily specialized in killing goblins. A weapon poorly-suited for that role is a weapon he doesn't want.

* At one point, a couple of mooks in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' team up to swing a giant sword against their opponent. Being ''Fist of the North Star'' mooks, the mookiest mooks in mookdom, they are easily bloodily killed one panel later in a {{Subversion}} of this trope. * [[spoiler: Allen Walker]] and [[spoiler: the Earl of Millennium]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' have matching (yin-yang) swords that resemble giant cricket bats. Lavi's weapon is a hammer that can become huge.

* One of the combatants in the TournamentArc of ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita: Last Order]]'' wields a "sword" that's big enough to need its own ''propulsion system'' and features its own energy weapon, making this a Big Fuckin' Gunsword. The combatant himself also counts -- his legs have been replaced with blades and he attacks by launching himself like a shruiken. It's justified when he mentions his preferred opponents are ''warships''.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': When Kirito shops for equipment in ALO, he choses one of those claiming regular sword being "too light"

* The warriors in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' wield, well, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore claymores,]]'' which are really just replicas of the historic Scottish swords that are longer and thicker. They aren't extravagantly large for BFS standards, but they seem to be realistically proportionate for the female warriors who wield them, who are half-demon anyway and are able to wield them [[OneHandedZweihander single-handed]], something that ordinary humans can't do. That, and [[spoiler: [[ThunderboltIron the blades are indestructible]].]]

* Kazuki from ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' has an alternate weapon type -- a BFL (Big Fraggin' Lance).