It’s subtle, but all the gentle touches at the beginning establish dominance. That’s the hardest thing to do in a fast fight - get inside their guard and gently touch them. Real swordsmen would have bowed out right there.
That's why touching someone without killing them is the greatest dishonor to them in Aiel culture in the Wheel of Time series as well. It takes the greatest amount of finesse AND power.
The fact that she was able to touch them all with her hand was enough to call it a victory That's how close to death they all already were But they still challenged her
Not only that, but she was fighting them with a handicap with the extra added weights. The only one to give her a challenge with the weights was Taigen and she nearly got him, but had to take them off. If she fought all the dojo members in the beginning without the weights.. it would have been even more of a slaughter.
@Viper6390 considering what we saw with her against the claw army definitely correct and she fought fowler better than taigan in an even worst state then him
In fact her hand gesture is a blade implying that she fatally "cut" them hypothetically, at that point she is just teaching them their own blind spots and flaws of the techniques they used. She thought that may be just enough for them to realise how outclassed they really are.
Uses Rogen-Ryu to defeat them while calling their style trash. “So you use Rogen-Ryu!” “No, it is also trash.” They got destroyed so badly 😂. She’s calling them all double trash.
Implying of course that all of these styles on their own are trash, it's like playing rock, paper, scissors but you use only one of the three. One will always beat the other, unless you are a master of all 3 then you will never lose.
Now I want to see Mizu and Geralt of Rivia duke it out in a spar. Geralt wouldn't give a damn about whether or not she's a woman, and if there's anyone who could teach her more about how to fight, it'd be him.
She did start easy on them by simply touching them with her hand, making "cuts" to imply that they would already be dead, then as they keep persisting and trying to gang up on her she progressively ramps it up, starting with simple hits to make them unable to fight all the way to breaking teeth and seriously injuring them.
This is where she lost me. They were being douchebags so she... permanently cripples and disfigures them? And she is never even being called out for it, beyond that one guy. Not only that, but their swords magically turned into wooden ones, when she knocked them through the wall... why?
They were wooden training swords all along. As for Mizu, I felt the series did a wonderful job of demonstrating how and why she became so cold and ruthless towards other people.
@@joshm9363 Watch the scene again, you can see them drawing steel blades after saying "Oh good, we get to kill you", before Mizu throws them through the paper wall, at which point their steel swords have sudden turned to wood. And yeah, the series explains why Mizu is such a terrible person, but she still is one and it was several episodes until I warmed up to her again.
@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel ah, got you, right before this clip starts they were drawing metal swords. She launches them through a wall that has training swords mounted on it, and those are the swords they then pick up for this clip. One way or another they’d been disarmed prior to flying through the wall. Clearly they’re no match for her so it doesn’t seem off to me. I felt that made her a more compelling character; she’s an antihero. She claims to everyone, including herself, that she’s on a path of revenge, but that’s not entirely what it seems. I think she’s fuelled far more by hatred borne out of her past experiences than revenge but doesn’t realise that for herself. She sees herself as the crane from her own analogy but actually she’s the typhoon. She sees herself as a badass, not as someone who’s tragically lost touch with much of their humanity… but also still a badass.
@@joshm9363 Huh, yeah, I guess that could have been it. And sure, she is driven by revenge, but most people who are like that, still don't go out of their way to maim innocent people. It paints her as not just ruthless, but actively vicious.
@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel yep. I think the best example of that might be in The Ronin and The Bride. The flashback scenes build so much sympathy but then in the present she behaves monstrously.
@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human It's cringe because it isn't cool to be a smug dickhead, yet this scene implies I should think she's cool. It doesn't help that the fight choreography is goofy nonsense either.
@@TopLob I wouldn't describe her as smug, just fully aware of how good she is. To quote Sherlock Holmes - "to underestimate one's own abilities is as much a departure from the truth as to exaggerate them". Personally, I love the coreography and style, but that's a matter of personal taste. I've watched tons of legendary animes that I've hated because I didn't like it's style.
@@TopLob Just because you don't like something, doesn't neccessarily mean it's bad. Just means it wasn't for you. That's fine. Nothing will please everyone.
@@direcircumstances when the writers derived a lot a story background from "realistic" scenarios than yes. You cant yoga slice a 140 lbs guy with skinny hands. I would have swallowed this bullshit if her sword was made out of a special element which has this type of capability. I agree the writing, characters and animation are top notch but this is makes no sense.
Remember she learned all this by shadowing random samurai outside a blacksmith forge Lmao, what a joke. I watch UFC videos all the time, so I guess I can beat Connor Mcgregor. Also how does a wooden sword stab someone? I'm happy all the casual american fans in this comment section are enjoying a dumb show just because the production quality looks good, writing is crap.
Mizu didnt just watch the individual masters coming to test out the new swords, she also trained with how to use their styles. She put weights on and exercised. She blended their styles in a way that is unpredictable to the school masters since they all follow one form. Which is easily predictable. Which is what made it ultimately trash to someone like her who knew most of the forms and had a blend that could beat them. It took Mizu years to learn swordplay. She clearly worked hard at it as we see her flashback scenes training and copying the master's moves. A great deal of the show was dedicated to her becoming a badass with a sword.
@@Amann0407 Thank you! It’s not like these masters had their swords made in a single day or anything. It’s like these guys need to see every second of her training in order to believe that she’s like that.
@@TheHeadNinjainComics yeah I dont know why they think she didnt earn her badass status. A fair bit of the show shows her training, and she was doing it since she was a little girl. For years. By the present time in the show, she is probably the best sword fighter in Japan, although she gets hurt alot.
@@Amann0407 by herself? Dude noone trained her, who was she shadowing Miyamoto Musashi? Does her training also involve being superhuman, getting stabbed multiple times and walking away from it after a minute like nothing happened?
