Can you wield two katanas

Most of us are familiar with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Leonardo fights with two katana, one in each hand. In every other movie I have ever seen in which katana appear, they are treated as a two-handed weapon. There are a few forms in Tenshinsho-den Katori Shinto ryu. I know they exist, but was not able to progress to that level in my local school. Here is a link to a video of the style.

He does, however, states that you should use two long swords while training!! Chinese and Korean depictions of Japanese pirates i. So, yes. Dual wielding katanas is historical and doable and you don't have to be Miyamoto Musashi, Deadpool, or a Ninja Turtle to do it! This would be within the realms of possibility. I would not rule out the existence of some kata for this, because there are hundreds of Japanese sword schools.

But, it is unlikely. To understand why, you need to know what a katana is. It is not a general term for a Japanese sword. It is not a weapon designed for the battlefield. A katana was one of the swords carried as a marker of social privilege and responsibility by the members of the Military Government.

The other was the wakizashi. They form a pair, because the katana is a long sword for two hands which is not suitable for all occasions. Indoors for example. So, there are some techniques for dual wielding katana and wakizashi. But not very many.

Situations where it might be useful include corridors and when surrounded. He was famous for conceiving the thought of a specific type of swordsmanship that involved two swords. He involved the Katana and Wakizashi for this. The two sword Kenjutsu technique was called the Niten Ichi Ryu. A few historians claim that Musashi was inspired to make such a technique after seeing one performance. This was of the Japanese Taiko drums. His father simultaneously used the Katana and the Jutte.

Since there is no fluid movement when the hands are used, Musashi did not favor the use of both hands on a sword. Musashi also disliked the use of both hands during horseback. This was especially when riding in fields, marshes, or among people.

This was the Katana sword and a companion sword, like the Wakizashi in his case. With that, he would be able to wield another sword with ease. With this style, one can see the passion for perfection and motivation. This style became favored due to the practice of using two swords.

Yet it also involves styles with the Kodachi, Tachi, and Bo. Musashi also became popular because of his skill of throwing weapons. He often threw his Wakizashi in a very accurate manner. Kenji Tokitsu believes that there was a secret style of the Niten Ichi Ryu. It was the Shuriken technique which is performed by throwing the Wakizashi.

He is a part of its 12th generation of enthusiasts and practitioners. Duel katanas looks alright on a select few characters, but I've always liked just the one. If your not welding at least 9 Katanas then your doing it wrong. What you think mouth, underarms, toes and knees are for decoration? Train harder. As for characters? Anything that might give them super attributes, like super strength, super stamina, super balance, and the unpracticality of something as far as this, starts to become less and less.

Just imagine Thor or Hulk with ten Adamantium Katanas in each hand. You can't. Its too awesome a thought to imagine. Your brain explodes and melts over your pancakes. That's before you even add in that Marvel has super metals and fictional metals.

Remember how Psylocke had that body armor that bended and hugged her body like latex but was supposed to be as study and durable as 50 cars super compressed? Except as light as Kitty's brain? Patent that fizzle fo sho playa and make super swords with them. Whose big time successful Mr Happy Pants Man now. Sho nuff. My martial artist friend Rand attacked a cop with a katana. Chikuma Koshirou from Basilisk dual wields two kama scythes. Given the size of his swords, this is no small feat. Between them, Kyoraku is the only shinigami that dual-wields even when his zanpakuto is sealed due to the fact that it seals into the form of two swords.

Ukitake's seals into the form of a single sword. Ggio Vega's release allows him to use three blades, one on each hand and one in his hair. Nnoitra Jiruga releases into a six-armed being that wields a weapon in each arm. In the final arc, a new dual wielder is revealed. The true form of Ichigo's zanpakuto turns out to be two blades of differing lengths to accommodate his Soul Reaper power the larger one and his Quincy power the smaller one.

Undine of the Twin Swords from Claymore is of course well known for the massive physical power that lets her use two standard issue BFS ' at once. Upon her demise, Deneve took up her blade and spent the Time Skip learning to bulk herself up to pull the same trick. Code Geass : Suzaku pulls off some dual-wielding in his mecha. Rolo's prototype Vincent Knightmare had a pair of these that could combine into a double-bladed spear.

Not weapons, but similar: in Comic Girls , Tsubasa manages to triple-wield brushes in an attempt to increase her output when faced with a deadline. Kamika from Corpse Princess fights with a pair of katanas. Cyborg : In the vs. Devilman OVA, is able to wield two blasters at once. Death Note does this with pens. Just watch me L, I'll solve equations with my right hand, and write names with my left.

Kanda does this at one point in D. Digimon : Daipenmon dual-wields popsicles. It even has a special attack for each of them — Strawberry Death for the red one, and Blue Hawaiian Death for the blue one. Lobomon dual wields light sabers which can be combined to one two bladed lightsaber darth maul style and some other sword wielding digimon like Karatenmon, Yasyamon, Vajramon and many others. A few like Dinohumon and Zanbamon wield two different types of blades at once.

Korikakumon dual-wields axes, which he uses for a Blade Spam attack. Shutmon wields a pair of giant, wrist-mounted scissor-blades that cause anything they cut to stop working plus another pair that he can wield normally. The Digimon Universe: App Monsters manga even shows him multi-wielding all four at once.

It's unknown whether or not Sansho had the same ability, as Piccolo killed him before he would have had the chance. In Fairy Tail Erza dual-wields on occasion sometimes quad-wielding using her feet as well as multi-wielding with swords at once. New Transfer Student Tetsuro dual wields shinai. Later on, Shirou uses Projection magecraft to make copies for himself. It's usually around this point that fans start to wonder at the many similarities between Archer and Shiro Takumi Touya from the light novel series Fire Girl dual wields two kendo blades on both hands as his primary specialty in combat, something he's trained in, and competed in competitions with, since at least middle school.

King Bradley does this in Fullmetal Alchemist , using two sabers at once. Sometimes he carries multiple extra swords, so that he can keep dual-wielding even if one or more of his swords get broken. This is also parodied in an omake , where King Bradley wields five sabers at once: one in each hand, one in each ear, and one in his ass.

Denied, his saber, he then dual-wields a set of trench knives. In Gamaran , the Souen School led by Nikaido Misaku specializes in Dual Wielding katana and wakizashi, a fighting style which is noted for being perfect for defense and even the author thought it was " a tad too overpowered ". Outside of swordsmen, there are also Agon and Hakuryuu dual-wield battle axes , Tsuchiryuu chinese duck-bill Axes , Sekiryuu and Seirin with Iron Whips and also Muraku Matsumoto's secret weapon has him dual wielding two weighted chains at once.

It even throws them for the Double Tomahawk Boomerang! Gintoki does this for a while against Housen in Gintama. He his often seen dual-wielding in flash-backs to the Joi war. Nowadays this is something he use only against opponents against which even simply switching his wooden-katana for a real blade wouldn't be enough.

Common in Gundam series. Amuro Ray from the original Mobile Suit Gundam , who would use both the Gundam's beam sabers on occasion. His perhaps most famous instance of doing so is during his duel with Zeon commander M'Quve in the Texas colony. From Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam , Haman Khan and her Quebley often did this as well, mostly because the Quebley had no other equipment that required hands as it had no shield and all its other weapons were built in or free-floating so there was no loss in doing so.

Paptimus Scirocco's The O is also notable in that it uses four arms in order to wield four sabers at once two regular arms and two smaller retractable ones in its skirt armor. Sandrock in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing uses a pair of heat shotels — a pair of very massive, and very heavy blades — as its primary melee weapons. The redesigned version in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz has even bigger heat shotels, to the point that they're probably as heavy as Sandrock itself.

It still dual-wields them. When he upgrades to the Strike Freedom — which has beam shields built into its arms — he can do this with no penalty. Yzak and Athrun are also prone to this. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 : Setsuna does this all the time in his Exia which actually has seven swords, but with only two arms it can't use them all at once. The 00 Gundam can do this as well. Like the Exia, it can dual-wield beam swords but also can dual-wield a pair of similar sized solid swords that also act as a pair of laser rifles.

The absolute nadir of this trope is the Seravee variant that appears in the manga. It has three Seraphim units attached to its back, all of which are capable of fighting independently. When attached to Seravee, they can each pull out two arms, meaning that Seravee can wield a total of 10 beam sabers at once. After he upgrades to the Double Bullet he gets beam sabers installed in the shoulders allowing him to quadruple wield. After the time skip as Captain Ash, his new Dark Hound dual wields a spear and saber.

My-Otome pokes fun at this by having Yukariko do it with chalk. In both that series and My-HiME , she often uses a bow and arrows. This seems to be some kind of Church Militant ability, as all three characters are associated with the Catholic Church notably, the second two are members of the same organization , though vastly different rank. Commander Mary in Kurogane Pukapuka Tai dual-wields a pair of small cutlasses. The title mech from Linebarrels of Iron.

This is made notably less impressive when the soon-to-be-lancer starts quad wielding and even then it has another sixteen swords to rely on , then there's Tsubaki-hime, that can dual wield chainsaws.

By the third season, it has the ability to separate it into two halves , effectively twin long swords. Mazinger Z : The titular mecha wielded dual arm-blades. Mazinkaiser can deploy two "Kaiser Blades" from its shoulders. By all appearances they're broadswords.

And for some strange reason, the titular protagonist of Monster Princess does lots of this too. Of course, she also wields chainsaws and jackhammers as befits the situation. The anime of Murder Princess often has the titular character dual-wielding a katana and a dagger. In her case however it's totally justified; tonfa, being both offensive and defensive armaments, are one of those weapons which are intended to be dual-wielded even in real life.

Midori from My-Otome carries a pair of swords which she draws from a single sheath which really shouldn't work given how long they are. He fights by spinning around like a buzzsaw and juggling his swords , in case it wasn't absurd enough note His 7-sword fighting form starts at It's so absurd and unpredictable that even the Sharingan can't properly predict every attack.

Kotaro has an Imagine Spot involving Chizuru dual wielding onions. Setsuna has her sword for her main hand and sixteen daggers for her off hand.

Kaede often has a knife in both hands. Rakan's artifact can be used in both hands. He'd still rather fight you unarmed. One Piece : Roronoa Zoro often triple-wields katanas, with one in each hand and one in his mouth. This being anime, of course, it's always quite effective, as absurd as it would be in real life. It goes even farther, however, with Zoro eventually learning to nonuple-wield — that is, use nine swords at once, or at least create the appearance of this.

Not long after meeting Zoro, and long before Zoro's nontuple-wielding, Captain Kuro is seen wearing gloves with katanas on each finger. Combined with his incredible speed, he attempts to defeat Luffy, killing off or severely wounding most of his own crew, in order to carry out his master plan. Hatchan an octopus fishman, meaning he has two legs and six arms to match an octopus's eight tentacles uses six swords at once. CP9 member Kaku uses two swords, and thanks to a special technique his legs act like blades making a total of four.

Flower Sword Vista of Whitebeard's crew is notable for actually using just two swords, not three or six. He is a very strong swordfighter, able to be recognized by Mihawk, the strongest swordsman in the world, who said that among swordsmen only a idiot wouldn't be familiar with Vista. Shiki the Golden Lion from the Strong World film also uses two swords. Though his are notably not katana, more resembling double edged sabers. He also uses them as makeshift legs and can cut apart lake-sized sections of water with them.

A favorite intimidation tactic consists of him whipping up both his arms and displaying a frightening amount of blades from his giant sleeves, making it look like the swords and knives are his actual hands. And he's good at using them. These demonstrate her prodigious strength, as they are known to be unbelievably heavy and unwieldy, yet she swings them around like they were nothing.

Kodachi has been shown to use multiple clubs at one time. Ukyo uses both her large spatula and smaller spatulas at one time, though the smaller ones can double as projectile attacks. One of the myriad forms of the Ten Commandments in Rave Master is Blue Crimson, which splits the weapon into two different swords: one of fire and one of ice. Interestingly enough, the hero finds it somewhat difficult to use because he's right-handed. Genkishi, the Phantom Knight of Reborn! Adding on to this, Yamamoto Takeshi's box weapon is in possession of three swords, carried on its back.

What makes this more interesting is that the box weapon is, in fact, a dog. Revolutionary Girl Utena : Nanami faces the Ohtori duels with a scimitar and curved dagger.

And he's frighteningly good at using them. Aoshi's "mentor" Okina, wields a pair of tonfa which is of course justified, see above. Some of the weapons provided by the Gold Cloth of Libra in Saint Seiya , such as the tonfas and the nunchaku, are meant to be dual-wielded.

The Andromeda Cloth also wields the Andromeda Chain — one type of chain on each arm, and Shun can whip them out simultaneously to attack, unless the enemy requires more thoughtful tactics. Somehow, they never become entangled with one another, and Shun can wield them easily despite being the youngest, wispiest Saint ever.

Akira of Samurai Deeper Kyo uses two katanas. Later, during Akira's fight with Tokito, her sword splits into two swords. Kyuzo from Samurai 7 wields two katanas. Conservation of Ninjutsu never really comes up, but Kambei manages to defeat him or at least hold him off using his scabbard as an extra parrying weapon. Mifune from Soul Eater carries multiple swords. Usually he uses one sword but he does multi-wield we he gets serious.

Kid dual wields guns , and appears unable or at least very unwilling to use only one of the two. The finale reveals another dual wielder: Big Bad Head, who is also Takuto's father and learned his art under the same teacher his father.

Unlike Takuto, however, he has to use Star Swords connected to two different marks to achieve this, and, again unlike Takuto, is is also very competent with just one sword. Kirito from Sword Art Online is possibly the most famous example in the anime community. It's played surprisingly realistically in the VR game SAO, where most people can't use two swords, even though most games let you do that due to Rule of Cool. Kirito is the only player who manages to earn an extra skill that lets him do so.

He doesn't know how he earned it, though much later it's revealed later that the skill is awarded to the player with the fastest reaction times in the game, and is intended to mark The Hero in the game's metaplot.

However, unless they have Kirito's specific skill, Dual Blades, it falls squarely into Awesome, but Impractical territory, as they aren't able to utilize the Dual Wielding Sword Skills while doing so.

In later games after SAO, Kirito's experience with dual wielding carries over, despite there being no dual wielding feature implemented. Though he's managed to find loopholes to make it work effectively, such as activating individual singlehanded Sword Skills separately on each sword to imitate his dual wielding in SAO. Though he doesn't typically make use of this unless he gets serious in a fight. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann : Viral has a mech that dual-wields katanas. In the Manga, Ranmaru gets two swords when he awakens his powers, but in the anime version he only gets one, but dual wields his and Sakura's swords in the final battle.

Hatz from Tower of God dual wields Katana. In the final episode of Transformers Armada , Optimus Prime breaks off Galvatron's horns and uses them as a pair of swords. Apparently, Musashi is the only character to dual-wield in the manga because he's so strong that dividing his strength between the two swords isn't a problem, as he proves when he uses a one-handed sword to break a katana held in both hands.

In Vinland Saga the hero Thorfinn fights with a pair of daggers. Not particularly strange, pretty reasonable. Contrast that however with his first major opponent and secret great uncle. Thorkell the Tall, who dual-wields axes. Not just any old normal sized axes, big mo' fo' great axes almost as big as the hero.

He's murderously proficient with this style. Vividred Operation : An impromptu kendo match has Akane using twin swords against Wakaba. Comic Books. Batman : In the Batfamily, both Nightwing and Oracle fight with escrima sticks. One of Batman's rogues, Two-Face , is usually depicted wielding two guns at once, fitting his image of duality. Deadpool frequently wields dual blades of various sorts. He generally has two katanas strapped to his back, which he can use together, but also varies it up with a katana-and-sai combination e.

Usually he's got at least three to four blades on him at any time, along with the guns, grenades, and other various weaponry. The cover of Wolverine 88 shows him skewering Wolverine with both katanas.

In his self-titled video game, Deadpool dual-wields katanas, sai, and even ''sledgehammers''. The weapons point out that this has never happened before — no Emotion Knight has ever tried to wield multiple weapons at once, in the entire history of Die. Elektra , from Marvel Comics ' Daredevil , dual-wields sais, though, as mentioned above, they are traditionally dual-wielded.

How the recoil doesn't knock him over is anyone's guess. Groo the Wanderer : The titular character fights with two katanas, one in each hand. In the Shadow of Dragons : Evina wields twin royal rapiers. In Rat Queens , Violet and Betty both dual-wield.