Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.169.149.237-20140108093910/@comment-3250527-20140808203848

69.204.51.67 wrote: ...those same "inconsistancies" exist in the manga.

Who said I used the manga? I used these: Volume 7, Volume 9. These are not manga, these are light novels. These are text.

I don't even believe in the SAO Manga, as they are only ripoffs that repeat the SAO story. The only exception to this "ripoff repetition" is Girl's Ops.

69.204.51.67 wrote: Kirito's total head height is only 5.5 heads tall, with an arm length of 2 heads, and a shoulder width of 1 head length. Regardless, his arms still measure at about 27" long.

Here is where some deviance in your data occurs. First, you argued that Kirito had a head height of 6 and, with some anatomy proportions, you determined an arm length of 27.09". Now, you say that he has a head height of 5.5, but both File:Kirito_Full_Body.png and File:Kirigaya_Kazuto_LN.png have a 6 to 6.5 head height. I don't know which model sheet you are referring to, but those anime and light novel concept arts diverge from your claim of a 5.5 head height.

Using File:Kirigaya_Kazuto_LN.png, the blade length to arm length ratio was 6.5:5.7 in cm, which the blade is longer by 1.14x. Determining his arm length, using the head-lengths formula (6.25 heads tall, and an arm length of 2.25 heads long), the arm is 24.38" long. Thus, the blade equates 27.79", so the entire length of Elucidator, in that said file, is be 37.06".

Even so, with your 5.5 head height and a 2 head-length long arm, the arm length comes out to be ((67.72/5.5)*2)=24.625, not 27, inches. 130% of this measurement is 32", which is a 4" difference compared to the contingent 36". And, by adding the remaining 1/4th sword length for the hilt, the entire sword length comes out to be 40" (a size I would gladly accept).

69.204.51.67 wrote: It sounds to me like you're only measuring the hand grips themselves, not the total hilt.

As for the length of the hilt, yes we were measuring different areas. I was indeed measuring only the length of the hand grips. I looked at Dark Repulser, and the designated area was indeed 1/4 of the sword length. And so, that brings us back to a divergent blade length.

69.204.51.67 wrote: Based upon that model sheet, Kirito has relatively large hands for his height, so yes, it is conceivable that his hands could be up to an inch wider than mine, even if he is just under 2" taller than me given that his hands are proportionately larger than mine.

As for Kirito's hand width, where is the proof as to having a 5" wide hand? I am nearly the same height, and I also have a 4" hand span (according to the correct definition of a hand-span), and a 3" span from the base of the pinky to the base of the index finger. I recently measured the hand of an accomplice, which turned out to be 5", but he had a height of 6'5". I asked four other people about this "adding one inch to height equals an extra inch to hand width" and they all claimed that it was ludicrous to even think that. The only possible way was for that individual to have a large girth, which Kirito does not.

And my explanation as measuring the hand from the base of the pinky to the base of the thumb was for the sake of used space along a hand grip, as the thumb mostly wraps around the index finger. I can fit both hands on a rod that is less than 7" long.

69.204.51.67 wrote: Oh, I also just rechecked the File:Kirito_Full_Body.png... You asked for proof. There [it] is.

69.204.51.67 wrote: I also just went back and measured the File:Dark_Repulser.png with a tape measure. ...Do I need to give more proof?

Thank you for these images, and I can see that the hilt (the area as you described) is 1/4th the entire sword's length. However, doing math, File:Kirito_Full_Body.png has a head size of .9375" at 6" tall. (6/.9375)=6.4 heads tall. ((67.72/6.4)=10.58" (the twice of the arm length and half of the arm length cancel out). The hilt (end of pommel to end of hand-guard) to in this picture is 10.6", not 12".

However, this shows nothing about his hands being 5" wide.

And stop quoting all of the text I am writing down. There are some parts that you aren't even addressing.

And Gsi, I apologize for these walls of text. Apparently, the "Light Novels take precedence over other forms of media" rule is being challenged.