Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.169.149.237-20140108093910/@comment-3250527-20140807191902

Now, the proportions of head length have reached contingency to a single answer, and is now moot. With a 7.5 head-height, and an arm length of approximately 3 heads, Kirito would have an arm length of 27.08", not far from your (rounded) 27.09" arm length using a formula that depended on shoulder width. And the blades reached contingency as to having an estimate of 36" (based on your measurements).

69.204.51.67 wrote: However, I also measured the hilt of each sword, measured from the cross guard to the end of the pommel, at exactly 1/4 the overall length of the swords, meaning the blade of each sword is exactly 3/4 the overall length of each sword.

I still disagree with the hilt length opposed to the sword length. In Kirito's original LN concept art, the swords' hilts are approximately 1/5 of the entire sword length. This is the best measurement that I can accept as the anime changes its proportions in many an area. To prove this, I went ahead and rewatched (and measured) instances of the ratio of Kirito's arm and the Elucidator: Episode 12 of SAO S1. These measurements are in centimeters.


 * Season 1 Episode 10; 03:35 -- 3.8:7.5 (x1.97)
 * Season 1 Episode 12; 10:17 -- 2.7:5.3 (x1.96)
 * Season 1 Episode 12; 11:26 -- 4.5:8.5 (x1.89)
 * Season 1 Episode 14; 03:36 -- 2.5:3.6 (x1.44)

The deviance is there, right in front of you. You may not pause in the same location as me, (our measurements will probably not be the same in «S1E12, 10:17») but I can see that the anime is not consistent in their ratios.

69.204.51.67 wrote: And, yes, I would argue that Kirito could easily have hands with a 5" hand width. I have very small hands, even for a typical man of my 5'6" height, and have a 4" hand width. Kirito is taller than I am and has corrispondingly larger hands. His hands are also proportionately larger, so yes, he could easily have a 5" hand width. This further adds up to a 12" hilt.

What I do not understand is how you can compare Kirito to your proportions; his hand width to your hand width. Does gaining one inch of height add an extra one inch to hand width?

This "hand width" I am speaking of is not:
 * the span of splayed fingers, from the farthest edge of the pinky to the edge of the thumb
 * the span of a hand flattened against a surface, with all of the fingers touching, from the base of the pinky to the base of the thumb

but the span from the base of the pinky to the base of the index finger. Make a fist. That is the length of "hand" I am talking about.

I do not understand how you can determine that Kirito having a 5 inch hand span is rational, even if this was measured from the "base of the pinky to the base of the thumb." Adding one inch to one's height does not add one inch to one's hand-span.