Thread:Ben Stevens2022/@comment-6697950-20160113110932

The descriptions for the Sleeping Knights comes from the novel, not the anime (since Mother's Rosario hadn't even aired at the time).

For Jun, his sword was called 大剣, which literally means "big sword". The Japanese wikipedia defines it either as a "two-handed sword" or a "greatsword" (both terms are in pseudo-English). Ironically, both articles actually link to the Zweihänder English article, which isn't even English, but German instead (do sword enthusiasts really need to use foreign terms for their swords to sound cool?).

For Tecchi, eh... there seems to have been a mistranslation, since it was apparently actually called a tower shield, but the tower part was omitted in the fan translation. However, it was described as (sliding) door-like (戸板の如き) either way. As for his weapon... another mistranslation. The actual word used was ヘビーメイス, pseudo-English for "heavy mace". Nothing about discs were mentioned.

However, for Nori, her weapon was called 鋼鉄長棍 (クオーター・スタッフ), so it was intended to be a quarterstaff (the actual Japanese, not the pseudo-English furigana, says long cane/staff), though it was actually supposed to be steel, not iron.

P.S. I didn't look at the Japanese terms at the time of writing the articles. 