Talk:Dual Blades

About "Unique Skills"
Do the novels ever emphasize on the names of all the unique skills, or do we only know <> and <>? If we know more, we could make a template for them. CrackLawliet (talk) 02:13, December 31, 2012 (UTC)

If there's a need, I'll personally do it myself. 03:06, December 31, 2012 (UTC)

The only Unique Skills mentioned in the LNs are «Holy Sword» and «Dual Blades». However, in a Q&A session of the 3rd popularity contest held by Reki as Kunori Fumio in 2005, several other Unique Skills were mentioned, but only superficially (i.e. only the names are mentioned, but with no specifics on each skill), so I doubt that a template is needed here. --Gsimenas (talk) 14:37, March 25, 2013 (UTC)

Snake Bite
You guys should recheck Volume 10: regarding "Snake Bite" in the previous versions it said "Dual Blades" in the old versions but was edited out and changed to '''“Aincrad style Twin-consecutive-hit Skill... «Snake Bite»”, '''this is probably still a translation issue, but any mention of dual blades is removed and will probably only start appearing in volume 12+Kazakiri (talk) 23:27, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

For your information, some of us did bring the topic of this skill up a week ago (http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:14552#32), but for some reason, the discussion stopped. I for one questioned whether this skill was actually a Dual Blade skill, as it was used with only 1 sword and only mentioned in Alicization, where Dual Blades hasn't been used, but we didn't reach a mutual agreement, so I hadn't made any changes on this issue. --Gsimenas (talk) 14:37, March 25, 2013 (UTC)

Blade or Sword for "刀"?
It's at least a good thing I put it as either "sword" or "blade", since coming from my knowledge of Chinese, the 刀 kanji usually means knife or blade instead of an actual sword. So instead of just simply taking out the sword part I decided to at first make it as sword/blade to leave it open.

Unless the original mangaka of the series wants it translated as "sword" instead of "blade", then by all means crush my sorry ass for making such an unnecessary change. SneaselSawashiro (talk) 07:48, October 18, 2014 (UTC)


 * HOW BIG OF A GIGANTIC SIGN DO YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY READ IT?! TALK PAGES ARE OBSOLETE, PLEASE USE THE FORUM WHICH IS EASIER TO TRACK!!!
 * The mangaka have no say in this. The author of the series is a novelist, not a mangaka.
 * This is Japanese, not Chinese. There are differences between the meaning/usage of the kanji in the two languages. The predominant meaning of 刀 in Japanese is "sword", "small sword" etc.. Maybe it has the meaning of "blade" in some context, but if no dictionaries that I checked (Denshi Jisho, Weblio Japanese-English, Weblio Japanese-Japanese) list it as a meaning, then such an occurrence should be rather rare.
 * Can you imagine how our pages would look like if we listed all the alternative translations? Unless there is a good reason to mention alternatives, we usually stick with one translation for simplicity. If someone disagrees on a specific case, we start a discussion on the forum to determine what to do for that specific case. Since the meaning "blade" doesn't seem to be common, I don't see the reason to mention it separately. If you have a valid reason to change it, then feel free to start a discussion on the forum. Maybe I'm wrong about this and someone else who support your opinion proves me wrong.


 * Gsimenas (talk) 21:50, October 19, 2014 (UTC)