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Sorry if I misunderstood in the previous ask. Anyway, Ghost in the Shell, 6 ,10, 1.

i just meant i cant do fandoms im not in sorry

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Photos from 1935 Japan via Old Photos of Japan.

Japanese school girls practicing naginata (薙刀). Naginata is a pole weapon traditionally used by members of the samurai class. It consists of a wooden shaft with a curved blade on the end. In the modern martial art form of naginata, it is carved from one piece of Japanese white oak or it features a replaceable blade constructed from bamboo. Practitioners wear protective armor called bogu (防具). It is very similar to the armor worn by practitioners of kendo. In modern Japan, naginatajutsu is practiced especially by women.

xkyaliix

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and tag tamorapierce here because this is just too cool for words. 

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And that limb held, `cos here I am, with thanks!

Look at them, at the easy grace with which they wait, at their focus on the weapon and beyond it, the opponent.

devildyke

#reblogging for atma
okay yay this means i can add on to this
the reason the naginata is used primarily by women is because wives of samurai (who were part of the bushi/warrior class in japan, and everyone in the bushi no class no matter what was a warrior. and yes, women could be samurai too) would often be the ones to defend the house. which means they got trained in their own arts, a lot of them a lot more direct, efficient, and brutal than what samurai were trained in. because when your house/kids/livelihood are threatened, you want shit that works right now. that’s the most important thing you have is your house and family and in no way are you gonna let some punks threaten you like that. so it became very rapidly associated with women, which is a high honor for this, because it’s a scary, efficient weapon, with its long handle giving superior leverage that overcomes most swords with ease.
as someone training in the samurai arts, and who has fought against naginata a few times, these things are fucking effective and scary, and can easily take me out in less than a few seconds. i’ve fought against eishin-ryu, katori-ryu, and tendo-ryu style naginata techniques and they all kick my ass, with tendo-ryu ranking up there as one of the most deadly arts i’ve ever practiced against. the head of tendo-ryu lives near me, actually, and she’s a little old lady who takes absolutely no shit whatsoever and is confused as to why more women in the US don’t do naginatajutsu.
absolutely fear samurai women always. this is no joke. these women are the realest deal you can find.
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Thank you! I sit here in delighted fascination. :3

put a fandom in my ask box and I will tell you which characters I would:
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1. bake cupcakes for:
2. trust with the keys to my car:
3. put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
4. have a crush on:
5. pack up and leave if they moved next door:
6. vote for President:
7. pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
8. pair up:
9. vote off the island and into the volcano:
10. wheedle into fixing my MP3 player:

jamietheignorantamerican

excuse me, you identify as HETEROSEXUAL????? Uh. Don’t you know that word was MADE UP, by some German Journalist in the early 20th century in A LETTER????? I get you’re all trying to be “special snowflakes” but HETEROSEXUALITY. IS. NOT. REAL.

red-sequin-apples

lolsob the notes for this post are full of people going “don’t you get all words are made up at some point!!!”. You’re so close to getting it… So close…

lisaquestions

It’s on the verge of tragicomedy.

Um…
great-blaster

(very quietly drops this in here and runs away)

Volume 17
RIDE 138
RIDE 139
RIDE 140
RIDE 141
RIDE 142
RIDE 143
RIDE 144
RIDE 145
RIDE 146

Volume 18

.7z containers can be unzipped with Winrar if you don’t have 7-Zip.
It’s very low quality because I’m more concerned about speed. I’m also not gonna do the extra end notes for that reason. Please only consider these a temporary thing to satisfy you until higher quality scanlations from other teams are released. Or something. I don’t even know if I’ll keep a long-term commitment on this. (I really just want to get to volume 18)

I don’t follow any official or otherwise translations for this series, so some ways of how I translate may be different from what you’ve seen before.

This post contains resources for where you can read Yowamushi Pedal manga.

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