The cover art of the Death Note manga show Light Yagami wielding a scythe this is a mix of Covers Always Lie and Rule of Symbolism.In Campione!, Athena and her mother Metis wield scythes as in this verse, they are also death goddesses.Buso Renkin: Tokiko's buso renkin, the Valkyrie Skirt, is classified as a Death-Scythe buso renkin but is actually Downplayed as it has very little resemblance to a traditional agricultural scythe, consisting of four leg-mounted mechanical arms, each with an angular blade at the end that are similar to the blade of a straight war scythe.
GRIM REAPER SCYTHE BLADE PATTERN MOVIE
In the third movie the younger sibling Shizuku wield one of these that was later passed on to Rukia after the siblings fused with her.His resurrection activation command is "Pray, Santa Teresa" and refers to praying mantis - probably the scariest and most badass insect. That can be regrown and shot out of his arm. However, after powering up he grows six arms and his own strange scythe-like weapons becomes six double-bladed scythes, that he wields all at once. His original weapon isn't really a scythe so much as a pair of opposite-facing crescent blade stuck to the end of a long pole. He specifically states that he actually dislikes the weapon for its Sinister Scythe connotations. Shuhei Hisagi's Zanpakuto Kazeshini, which is a pair of chained together sickle-like weapons.The protagonist was a merc in a super-powered black armor with a toothy grin and skeleton-like features. Tsutomu Nihei (The creator of Blame) made a one-shot manga called Digimortal.Dead Master wields the black Dead Scythe in Blackā Rock Shooter.His spells are named "Death Scythe", and they can adapt to cut through anything by changing the blades' nature and sharpness. Black Clover: The blades formed from Jack the Ripper's Severing Magic resemble the curved blades of a scythe.Among the supposed members of the Shinigami Dispatch Association in Black Butler, only one has an actual scythe in possession - a rogue shinigami named Undertaker.Chikuma Koshirou from Basilisk dual wields two kama scythes that return to his hands when thrown.
While farming scythes will only have the sharp edge on the inner curve, a war scythe will likely be sharp on both sides. But even keeping the blade perpendicular to the haft has its own benefits, such as being harder for the opponent to predict and building armor-piercing momentum in its swing, with the added bonus of being able to cut an opponent in half once you've impaled them. Scythes have been used as polearms before in real life, though this usually involved straightening the blade into something more like a large Blade on a Stick. It is also likely to mark the special or dangerous enemy, as well as the macabre touch brought on by evoking The Grim Reaper. But in the arms of a skilled fighter-especially one whose social class forbids him from owning conventional weaponry-it's as lethal as any sword or mace. The scythe is a farming tool whose primary purpose is to mow grass and harvest grain.