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Date of upload: Premiered Sep 20, 2021 ^^
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RYD date created : 2022-04-03T16:43:39.044274Z
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In explanation of Kogami's lack of skill in this fight, while he is constantly training, he is training in a society plagued by peace. He doesn't have a competent sparing partner to practice with or a masterful teacher to learn from. Further into the series, he comments on this himself after traveling out into the world and encountering the hardships outside Sibil's reach.
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Some notes about deploying folding blades:
1) Many larger folding blades (4 Inches, or 10cm and bigger) can be swung open with one hand by using the momentum alone. However, you do not want a blade that flaps open and shut in your pocket. Thus, many of the better quality knives have a notch and a pin that give it some initial resistance so that it is held shut in the closed-form. However, some knives can still open up, if you drop them on the floor. In order to deploy it with one hand, you need to open the blade a little. This can be done by pressing against a flipper, or an opening pin. These are usually designed such that you can open the blade completely in a fully controlled fashion, but it's still awkward with one hand. Thus, opening it a little and then flick it open is for many the preferred way.
2) some knives have a small protrusion on the blade's spine so that the blade deploys itself fully when you pull it out of your pocket. For this to happen, you need to put it inside your pocket so that it hangs from the clip, which is, in turn, hanging out of the pocket and thus the only visible part. When you pinch the knife (hopefully without the bordering textile...) you can pull it out and there's a good chance that the protrusion gets entangled with the seam. With practice, you can make it also reliable. With some knives, such as the Spyderco-style knives which have a hole, you can use a zip tie to recreate this protrusion.
3) most pockets are not meant for carrying knives. They are either too tight making the retrieval slow and awkward, or the textile gets entangled with the knife and you struggle pulling it out because of it. The latter can be especially mean as you might have tried it 10 times and it always came out in 2s and then on the 11th time it takes you 10s! This delay can make the difference between life and death!
It is in general better if you can put your entire fist in the pocket and grasp the knife firmly. That way it can be deployed the quickest and most reliable, as long as the fist doesn't get stuck...
Also, you can ruin many pockets through the hard parts of the knife rubbing against the textile during your walk. Eventually, you end up walking and suddenly your knife falls out and probably slides across the floor because of the momentum imparted by your leg...
Source: personal experience. I grew up in gun-free Europe, or in other words, I have been threatened a dozen times over with melee weapons...
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Overall, Psycho-Pass is a good anime but when it comes down to this particular fight scene, we can see limitations and the poor choices of weapons ( I mean those are good weapons, but they don't seem to fit the modern combat because of the TWO-HANDED deployment and limitations ).
Still, it's fun to watch and it's even better when we get to see the "MINCE-MEAT" king gives his BRUTAL but TRUE criticisms. Keep up with the good contents
Mad love to your crew and you guys
- James -
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Really appreciate the attention to both the actual realism and the narrative impact of these scenes. Of course it's not realistic, and it's interesting as hell to hear about why. But it's really interesting to think of what they think about the choices that are made in an inherently unrealistic medium.
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Thanks for reacting to this one. I already expected Logan to really go down on this fight scene, but it's really a shame that anime doesn't have a lot of realistic knife or kali fights. There is more weapon work in later Psycho-Pass movie fights, but they're disarmed so quickly that I felt it wasn't worth suggesting, like Kogami vs the SeaUN agents or Kogami vs Garcia.
The only other knife scene that's worth breaking down and is longer and more realistic is Nagisa vs Karma in Assassination Classroom. I hope Logan has more to say about that one.
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@ScenicFights
2 years ago
Psycho-Pass is a FANTANSTIC anime and you must watch it now. It's available both on Funimation and Hulu for your enjoyment. As always, let us know which fight scene you'd like to see us breakdown next!
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