This song shows the hardwork and their unbreakable will to make a weapon for their owner by thinking they will become strong. They will never make a bad weapon thinking even weapons have emotions. Hitting the metal in fire and heat we see. But Blacksmiths pour all their soul into it. Truly amazing
The voice actors for Sunraku and Elmu got married around when this episode got aired, and symbolic theme of the dual swords where both swords are in a symbiotic relationship like marriage. I think it was a wedding song, y’all. The care of the art to put everything of your heart to what you love is the essence of the concept of the anime and the forging. ❤
Kurai yozora ni, ro no honoo. Hibana wa umare, yami ga nametoru. Odoru kanazuchi, utau tetsu. Ton kara kan ko, kon kin kan. Omae wa yaiba, omae wa chikara. Tsuchi yori idete, ki o kube, hi o hagukumi, kin o kitaete, mizu nite hiyasu. Sekai wa meguri, shikashite komaru. Kin yori tetsu o, tetsu yori hagane o, hagane yori yaiba o, yaiba yori ken o. Akeru yozora ni, ken no kagayaki. Hikari o utsushi, yami o kirisaku. Odoru ken ni, utae ya sekai
As a blacksmith i can relate to the missing eye. Its really important to wear some eye protection, that shit can happen when the steel jumps off the anvil, out of the tongs, and very quickly. Nearly lost my eye, and got a nice burn scar on my cheek and eyebrow once. Its healed up since, but was a great reminder to keep the boss under the bit, and the work piece under the tongs. Also, put your grasses on.
I'm liking it. He's got good form. I love the effect of the magic circles, flying up after each hammer blow and then falling back to the glowing piece. It kind of breaks my immersion how he's not putting it back up in the fire like at all during the course of this. But I guess he's just using magic to retain the heat a lot better out of the fire. Edit, I like how this paste tribute to the fact that some blacksmiths actually do sing as they work. They will sing to their workpiece and however way they see fit, some will sing like a traditional. Song has been passed down through their family or from master to apprentice. Or they'll something that they came up with themselves as they work. My one pet peeve other than the lack of reheating the blade, is that he's not using the proper striking technique. He's swinging his hammer down and bringing to a complete stop rather than striking and letting the rebound of the hammer carry it back up to save energy in the swing to keep himself from getting tired quicker. Because that method that he's using will exhaust him much faster, nd I don't care whether or not he's in a game like Shangri-la Frontier, I'd like as much immersion as possible if feasible.
Spiritual energy is both energy and matter. It is also psychoactive and psychoreactive. Act of the blacksmith to hit the energetic runic symbols into the sword introduce power into the blade. But the act of accompanying your action with intention via blacksmith folk song introduce energy through another facet. He planted the intention, hope, and determination to improve the bladr through manipulating spiritual energy with the power of emotion. Remember, spiritual energy is psychoreactive, the stronger your willpower, the greater the effect of spiritual energy to the material world.
>listing off what he's doing pretty much >genuinely choked up like its the most moving thing in human history i guess i know what im gonna hunt down n binge
This, this is a master smith, a man of his craft, just looking at his form, his mivement, his consentration , his voice, that sword has part of his soul in it, each clash is deliver whit the power of his spirit. The song, an epitaph of a masyerpiece being born into the world.
If I'm not mistaken some Blacksmith did actually had songs because they had to synchronize their move so they could make good usage of the hammer's momentum while swinging.
