Suggestion: Every Japanese Sword Is A Katana

Current is an unsourced image. I put together this from Genshin Impact, where every sword from Inazuma (the Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Japan) is a Katana while the Fantasy Counterpart Cultures of other nations have non-katanas:

The text is impossible to read on Night Mode

Also is it just my monitor or is there a tiny uncropped pixel at the top of the image?

I like the idea though, but maybe include some swords in the "other region" that clearly have a different weapon's inspiration. Like the Iron Sting (rapier of some sort), Favonious Sword (with the crossguard), or the Light of Foliar Incision (seems to be based on a cutlass, talwar, or shamshir).

Edited by Stage7-4 on Feb 27th 2023 at 9:04:37 AM

I went looking for PNG's of Sumeru's weapons but couldn't find any good ones. I would have liked to have one from each of the playable region.

This better?

That's better

That works

That's sharp

Looks good. There are two opaque pixels visible on night view, though, near the hilt of the topmost katana. (One is just to the right of the word "Swords", the other is below it and slightly to the right.)

Here's my final draft (also resized):

I'm just curious - does this technically count as This Image Is Not an Example since technically they aren't Japanese but from a Fantasy Culture Counterpart to Japan?

I don't know, but it does count as "This Image is not an example" because Genshin's Inazuma has several swords that are explicitly not katana's (the Inazuma claymores for example).

But just to triple check if it fits the trope, is this trope when katana's are the only "Japanese" weapon or is it when all types of Japanese swords are incorrectly called katanas?

Genshin's very particular in that swords and claymores are considered very distinct things there. All of Inazuma's swords are katanas (except for the umbrella), the claymores aren't katanas but they're also not, by Genshin's measurements, swords. As for the trope definition, I think it's both.

Edited by MissConduct on Mar 4th 2023 at 11:43:20 AM

"This is exactly what we're Tachi-ng about."

Edited by Stage7-4 on Mar 8th 2023 at 3:50:04 AM

This as the caption, plus the names of the swords themselves in this labelnote. ^{L-R, T-B} Sacrificial Sword, The Black Sword, Prototype Rancour, Amenoma Kageuchi, Mistsplitter Reforged, Haran Geppaku Futsu

The sword names don't add anything to me as a non-fan. I added it but without the tag. Locking up.