Lethal Ninja Weapons You'll NEVER Want to Encounter DEBUNKED
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- A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, sometimes assassination and guerrilla warfare.
Ninja is an on'yomi (Early Middle Chinese-influenced) reading of the two kanji "忍者". In the native kun'yomi kanji reading, it is pronounced shinobi, a shortened form of the transcription shinobi-no-mono (忍の者).
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"I come in peace, but I'm still going to destroy you"...most Roman thing ever said lmao.
Want some Pax Romana my friend?
Pax romana
Dues Ex Imperium
American*
Except at Cannae, they come in pieces.
The debunked video forgot about the ancient ninja art of spinjitsu, which allows the user to create an elemental tornado by screaming “ninjago” at the top of their lungs, thus alerting the enemy of their position.
And the enemies ran away dropping their plastic swords in fear
EW B it is not getting it’s sources from series, movies, anime’s, or games. Ninjago is a series. It does not exist.
@@claigeannccda302 WOOooosh
@@claigeannccda302 woosh you hear that its the joke going right over your head
ClaigeannCCDA r/wooosh
So the moral of this whole observation: *What happens in night patrols, stays in night patrols.*
😉
Unless you wanna get shanked from behind in da streetz on a dark and stormy night.
Usual Metatron greeting: "Hello noble ones"
Today's metatron greeting: "Hello noblest of noble ones"
Whooo hooo we got a promotion!
maaderllin still no raise though.
nah, it's just that this time he only greeted the most important of us and ignored the rest.
Well, I did got a mail from work, starting from next payment I'll get a raise c:
Kurtownia who are the important ones and who are not
Or did we just finish eliminating the competition?
When throwing a Kunai with a chain, I'm sure the ninja yelled "Get over here!"
Scorpion. ....haha
LOL, Flawless Victory....FATALITY!!!
😂Omg this comment is priceless
They probably can spit fire from their mouth too =))))
The best comment.
As a part Japanese man who has studied Japanese history for years, these misconceptions of the shinobi annoy me ALLOT, especially the whole "Ninja vs Samurai" crap. UA-cam needs more people like you to debunk this insanely annoying and ignorant content.
Celtic Samurai exactly!
Celtic Samurai may your yari be ready your quiver stocked and your katana polished
You clearly never watched Naruto. 100% accurate.....🤣🤣 jk
Celtic Samurai
I've seen the Ninja video before and was puzzled by some of the weapons that I didn't think had anything to do with Ninja.
Thanks for clearing these misconceptions, great video!
The contente from those kind of vídeos are meant for Brain dead People Who believe every thing on Internet
They forgot to mention shadow portals. Ninjas could use portals to teleport from one shadow to the next. I know this is a historical fact because I saw it in an anime or game or something.
moismyname WEEB ALERT!!!
NubPlayz it's a full on weaboo right here, thinkin the world is an anime, what a knee slapper xD
Gkhi9 J9u89 tmThe joke flew right over your head like C-47s over East Germany during the Berlin Airlift.
Wooooooosh xD
moismyname they are not getting their sources from an anime or game. Also: saying “because I saw it in an anime or game” is not a valid reason.
Metatron is slowly becoming an italian, japanese loving, roman enthusiast rapunzel.
Some Random Guy too late, he's already like that since the beginning
You made me cry because he is no longer rapunzel
let me guess some thot pretending thief cut his hair for his safety?
"Well, of course, a katana could cut space and time, couldn't it?" That might be the best line on your whole channel.
@Sean Wilkinson What is RZA?
@@koroneovanastrea1811 wu tang clan
@Rick Vis 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The best warrior arm with a katana a and an english longbow ,tuck a .45 and carry an AK-47 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone knows that the enemy of ninjas are pirates.
Rob Kirkland
Duh! That is just common sense
No!!!!
It's James bond!!!!! >:c
You mean zombies?
@GAMEDOSE the real enemy of the Shinobi is having like four health bars.
Rob Kirkland no it’s fruit
"Lethal Ninja Weapons you'll Never Want to Encounter"
Weebs with plastic swords.
Oh god
Indeed. There was a booth at [anime weekend Atlanta] that sold really heavy duty plastic prop swords. (they were smashing cinder blocks with them)
A weeb full of nerd-rage charging at you with a 7 pound club would be quite terrifying.
Fear the obsessed, for they will defend their muse as if it were their own life; because it IS their life.
Dont forget bokkens 😂
Anastasia glinchikova those bokkens freaking hurt lol
1960's :
Batman: "We must not draw attention to ourselves. Let's sit at the bar like normal patrons."
Robin: "Great idea Batman!"
1660's:
Ninja1: "We must not draw attention to ourselves. Let's run across the rooftops."
Ninja2: "Great Idea!"
Running across rooftops is a genuine ninja technique called the Tanuki Gakure No Justsu.
It makes use of the fact that most people don’t passively look up more than 45 degrees.
@@nightcz3408 that's something you'd hear from an anime. Please watch actual historians who dedicates their lives in studying history instead of weebs that saw something on the internet
horahora153 It’s really not. Watch literally any of Gaijin Goomba’s videos. Their Which Ninja series literally delves into shinobi in popular media and picks apart all the ninja aspects of them.
He’s lived in Japan for years, has read many books, scrolls and visited many museums. Seen live demonstrations and spoken personally with experts.
A roof could be a good place to sit still and hide for sure. But I doubt running over them would do any good.
I mean, I could see sometimes you'd need to hide on one, but I doubt anyone would want to fall off or through a straw roof because they dattebayo'd too hard.
The part about stabbing swords into walls and cliffs was horrendously painful to the ears.
Wise Snake but not totally false... i heard before that ninjas did things like that... they werent fighters so they used everything to get over walls even their swords...
BTW. also the shurican were used... definitaly i mean if u have no armour u are instantly dead if u havent any encounters... and poisonous darts arnt that useful in near distance... so yeah i am quite sure that this things were used... its just logical...
Greetings
Have you ever thrown a shuriken? Shurikens are not used to kill people - you would need to be "Deadshot" (from Batman) to kill someone with a shuriken ... a direct shot to severe the carotid artery. They were simply used to distract an opponent they even mentioned that in the original video - for example, a person is unlikely to chase after you when he has a star stuck in his arm, head, body, leg - they are going to pull it out and bandage the wound ... of course the operative word is "unlikely" seeing as the damage is minimal if they are determined enough they could still chase you.
Vaughan MacEgan yeah but still you can distract someone terribly with this shurican... perfect to esacape if someone saw u who dont have a heavy armour... and shurican werent heavy or very striking u can carrie them easily and they were also great to genereally encounter heavy enemys by just throwing a 10 of them into the not armoured places(imagine u have a shurican in stuck into your knee which u cant remove but u still have to fight... its just obstructive) and if u really just walk into the enemys territory and everybody wants to kill u u may want to have a few more weapons by your side...
They dont use such a sword as i remember they used bamboo sticks like ladders and the last few meters they klimed with smth. The stroke into the space between the single stones... it was more a tool than a weapon smth. Like the kunai...
julian fuchs Makibishi would probably be more likely when running away from enemy tho. Scatter them around and that stuff will probably slow the enemy down. But that's my opinion based on quick wikipedia fact check so I dunno.
+julian fuchs
We are on the same page then with shurikens, I have practiced with them and the blades, so the speak, penetrate hardwoods quite easily, would they hurt, hell yeah, but, I've seen people take a kick to the groin and kept going - can't imagine how??? The pain doesn't register, with me, however,
I wouldn't be going anywhere with a piece of metal sticking in me.
Can I throw a star?
Shur I ken
doh you beat me to it!
Lol
You deserve my like sir.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
great pun tho
Is Mayonnaise a ninja weapon ?
Yes, ninja would shoot mayonnaise.
oh my, sounds "interesting", to say the least. I'd love to encounter a Ninja now ;3
No, you're confusing mayo w/ "Miracle Whip", a deadly posion from blowfish semen...
Michael Tucker Ninja assassinate people with a teamwork technique called "bukkake".
:O I want some Ninjas to try that on me once c:
"The curvature begins really early in the curvature"
-Metatron 2017
It does.
*lip smack* pretty accurate
Yo dawg i heard that you like curves
so i curved the curvature so you can have a curvature really early in the curvature
Why no mention of Pizza? In every ninja documentary I've watched, the ninja eat pizza.
Dominic Shelkey and Snickers, they are very much effective against samurais and soldier, in case of emergency and power up crisis
He mentioned castles walls made of pizza dough, though... dough... though...
What about Ramen. Everyone knows that ramen could replenish your chakra
Is that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle meme, if it is, clever then
Thats why they eat it!
To get into the castle of the evil daimyo they had to make a hole in the wall. They just ate the wall.
Are you claiming Anime is not historically accurate??? Shock! Horror!
Chi is real, you just need to find the right senpai.
Jim Fortune no because the video he has not debunked but claims to be debunked is not using anime as a source.
Caleb. You're just punking yourself now, surely? Obviously, they used 'make-believe' as their source.
thekeysman they didn’t though.
Please then, tell me what you believe their source to have been, and why it doesn't tally with what our actual teacher of japanese language says here. (Or with what my japanese girlfirend has read, for that matter.)
Why would ninjas use "ninja weapons"... you would be able to spot a ninja easily by the weapon he carries.
If you live in a castle made of pizza dough you probably wouldn't be tipped off by ninja weapons :p
Matt Nicholson "The straight ninja"
Is there a bisexual one lmao
He said everyone had a sword....when everyone has a sword...no1 does
Matt Nicholson don't take this joke too seriously ma-dud xD
Well, considering that many samurai were bisexuals, I don't why shinobi wouldn't be too. XD
I wonder how many seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they watched for research.
all of them
don't forget all the hentai breaks in between
OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
He forgot the historical "disappearing smoke bomb."
Disappearing smoke bomb has some basis in reality but not as much as what anime and Hollywood put into it.
Enter the Dragon
Ninja vanish!
It's historical fact that ninja's didn't use smoke bombs they'd turn into smoke using the magical powers of the kuji-kiri ;p
Because historical scrolls describes ninjas as not actually disappearing but were found to be either crouching down with arms covering head, lying down, in a foetal position or planking once the smoke clears form the smoke bombs
Oh please Metatron,we all know that a ninja is the perfect combination of melee and assasination,the ultimate warrior.
perfect combination of melee, assasination and stabbing walls with their swords*
Kalameet stabbing pizza dough*
Blot twist. Metatron is a ninja and confusing people with facts and say some of them are not true to make him safe
Mike Siri his hair isn't long enough he must be early in his training. such a young grasshopper.
Das Carlin that is the reason why he left loopholes that led to make being able to reduce the fact
Yes, Blot twist. Also known as upside-down Rorschach.
Mike Siri **plot*
🅱️LOT 🅱️ist
I’m surprised the Chidori wasn’t there. The most effective lightning nature jutsu. It was definitely used by all ninja
That is because the rasengan is superior in every way.
@@Lumos89 Still gets beaten by tsukuyomi.
Not true, Chidori can only be used by those who have a Sharingan.
Elite ninja doesns't count, you should talk about explosive paper and kage bunshin no jutsu. Datebayo
@@jacobjensen7704 not true. Kakashi didn’t have the Sharingan when he first used Chidori. It’s a very risky jutsu to use without the Sharingan but it isn’t necessary.
Btw im quite sure that ninjas are green and wear turleshells.
Of course, Master Splinter was an apprentice of Muten Roshi!
Tyngchinchilla Chang And a katana that can cut through time and space.
Tyngchinchilla Chang
And were trained by a humble old rat
Ikr?
That did it for me!
In 8th grade world history, my teacher told me ninjas were Chinese soldiers, he also told me the Greeks disappeared in a day and the Romans replaced them. Shows how great American education is...
Josh Maack are you actually serious?
Suburban Slingshots he wasn't the best teacher, refused to give me anything higher than a C because I never played football
I thought ninjas were Chinese but moved to Japan. idk, heard it from JK news
Josh Maack i swear to god we have the same teachers, people like that made me hate football alltogether
Not american education, one dumbass teacher.
"The curvature begins really early in the curvature"
-Metatron 2017
Remember these words my friends. They hold much wisdom.
Yes Sensei
I need this as a t-shirt, so i can spread the wisdom to others
@@WatermelonEnthusiast9 indeed
Curve-ception
Talks about a sai, shows a fucking _Italian parrying dagger._
SwitchFeathers There were even rapiers in the frame, too...
I agree. However, I think the original video's creators were only trying to note the similarity between the sai and those particular off-hand weapons. They just didn't do that good a job of it.
well it was a pour choice and I'm in no way defending the video however the parrying dagger and the sai are very much alike when looked but with ignorant eyes if you don't know they're different just getting a glimpse through a quick Google search you can see how they'd be considered the same.
agreed
I gave Metatron the link to that video. That image sealed the deal for me.
What I learned from this video....
Ninjas were state sponsored nights watch and undercover/secret police, who may or may not have used their position to summarily execute a few "undesirables" every now and then.
Thanks so much for helping me demystify their role in history
So you would say that the sentence: "Ninjas - the assassins of the feudal Japan.", is equivalent to: "The CIA - the assassins of the modern USA." ?
No, because the cia does assassinate. Or at least they try. Cough bay of pigs cough.
Ninjas assassinate too, but this is not there main order. And not the main order of the CIA.
@@theashennamedjerry3203
That's your idea of an assassination?
@@CruelestChris you know what. I fucked up. The bay of pigs was an invasion.
@@CruelestChris I'd consider it an assassination. I don't believe there's any stipulation for assassination to be stealthy, if you start a full blown invasion to kill a particular target for political reasons, that's an assassination. Just a super fucking messy one lmao
''I come in peace, but i'm still gonna destroy your video''
I wonder what misconceptions future generations will have about modern soldiers
I'll tell you a modern one. "All soldiers are heroes and deserve our respect even if they are brainwashed psychopaths
@@sargerasserasion8170 not true
probs that everyone hipfired full auto and that magazines held near limitless amount of ammunition
AMERICAN soldiers were completely invincible with dead eye aim and a gun that could tear holes in time and space! Also they had an elongating chainsaw machete bayonet that could tear through armies with ease. That was a single AMERICAN soldier!
Boi, have you seen any Michael Bay movies? =))) LMAO
LETHAL -NARUTO- NINJA WEAPONS YOU'LL NEVER WANT TO ENCOUNTER
Who uses weapons in naruto anyways lol chakra goes brrrr
"what are the walls made of? Pizza dough?"
No, metatron, they're Japanese not Italians!
So the walls are made of mochi or daifuku? 😂
To say that Ninja and Samurai were inherent enemies, would be like saying that DvDs and DvD Players are inherent enemies. One has the information, the other makes use of it.. Probably better analogies out there.. But maybe you see what I mean. :P
A note on poisons. Very few poisons ever existed (even today; through modern pharmaceuticals) which could be delivered, in a high enough dosage to have any noticeable effect, via a coated weapon. Only one plant-based poison could ever hope to achieve that. And the plant it's made from didn't arrive in Japan until, around the 1950s. Actual poisons will almost always need to be either injected or ingested. And, often, in fairly large doses.. At least, any which could be stored for any length of time, will be. Poison is a HUGE topic...and a very misunderstood one.
Well not a weapn coated plant based poison, but a deployed with a weapon and plant based. Thyme mixed in with belladonna extract in powder form delivered from an axe that is hollow on the inside and has holes in it's head. The first swing toward the opponent's face will cover him in blinding powder (it's going to hurt and actually blind you for a good 30 minutes). Well at least this is what Fiore de'i Liberi gives us for armoured duels.
I've heard about shuriken and other blades coated in rotten meat and dung to instead cause deadly wound infections. Would that make more sense than poison? Or is that another baseless theory?
Poison takes time to produce effet. Even with moderne one, with some exeption.
The strongest poisoned weapon is Bulgar's umbrella. Walk in the street, stab your oponent's foot with your umbrella and click a button to inject an incurable radioactif element.
Your target is dead.
I heard that bowman shitted in they quiver to infect opponent.
talks about sai, 12:11 shows a parrying dagger...
Theldras Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis that’s a sai.
@@donsmeltzer4083 I don't think they are. Sering the clamshell as a Bilt and the combination with a rapier points at a parrying dagger
@@kimprins8338 Yep, it is a parrying dagger, and funny enough Sai were used with the same purpose if I am not mistaken, hence the similarities. As far as I know, they were mainly meant to catch the blades of the opponents.
@@gothkrix I think he has a video on Okinawan weapons were he talks about how Sai were used back then
He forgets to mention the legendary ninja Raphael when describing the sais
I suggest the creaton of a specific word for when a video gets debunked by Metatron: "Metatroned"! xD
Metonated?
I like it.
or " MetatrOWNED "
You have been METATROWNED
Glegionar Metatronked
Did I see rapiers with parrying daggers?? lolol
Yes, I believe you did... lol
Indeed you did, and was funny.
Yuexin Huo I was wondering why that wasn't brought up... 👍
TheBeastWithin same lol
hey, it's an awesome combo! Rapiers get extra riposte damage and can easily stunlock and interrupt.
All those late '70's and early 80's ninja movies did us all a great dis-service. I always thought of it more of a job description, sometimes freedom fighters, but thank you for this video. It does put much back into perspective.
Metatron you don't know how helpful your videos have been.
Thank you for sharing this information with us.
Shuriken was mentioned in South Park. It was the only one Kenny could afford.
as far as ninja's and poison goes. I'm fairly certain they used it in food far more often than any other weapon, because slow acting poisons have always been the best method of assassination. As far as poison coated throwing weapons and blow darts go, most likely didn't happen outside of Hollywood. Even a really potent poison directly injected into a major vein is going to take awhile to circulate through the bloodstream before it takes affect.
If the poison in question is only lightly coating something that most likely only got into capillaries, or lesser veins, your target is going to be made aware that someones trying to kill them, and have plenty of time to take action. It works for hunting because you can track the animal and wait for them to die, doesn't work so well for assassination and combat because they have plenty of time to sound the alarm and fight back.
Cyinide is the assasins best friend
@@sargerasserasion8170 A political murder is not exactly the best time to be using a chemical that ends in an obviously unnatural death.
@Izno Iznogoud LOL, yep!
The oss used poison in the bigot dart i believe
Blow darts were used. But for hunting, obviously. So a poison dart would make sense in that regard. Assassination, not so much. You'd be better off with poisoned wine (including saki) and other stuff
It’s nice to see someone on UA-cam that actually knows what they’re talking about :)
When i see: DEBUNKED at your chanell i know it will be great video
“The katana can cut space and time.” I loved that line.
Ironically, I regularly walk past a bookstore specializing in old books, and one of their illustrated books shows how you would ACTUALLY get over walls. Using a hooked ladder (blades/hooks at the top).(Living in Osaka) Which is a way better way than bending/breaking your sword to get over a wall. What the heck do you use once you get inside, after bending your sword. Also, how does pulling straight up on a strap pull the blade out from between the rocks? *facepalm*
I read a Japanese manga (Nintama Rantarô), it illustrates how ninjas use their swords to vault through short walls. The way is they put sword (still in scabbard), handle up, against the wall, then jump on the pommel to the top of the wall. Before they do that, they tie a rope into the scabbard, one end is tied to ninja's wrist. After being on top, they retrieve the sword using the rope.
phungvietanhao Except that has nothing to do with either the video or what I said...
Nah, Just wanted to verify that the use of sword to vault through the wall without damaging the sword is plausible, if not actually useful.
phungvietanhao Not the way they describe it. Which is what we're discussing here. Not to mention, I'm not sure that would make any sense, since you could just use a stick, and not break your scabbard. Why not just use a stick for the same purpose? More secure, 0% chance of loosing/breaking your weapon, and would be far less suspicious, should someone stumble upon it. No clear dents in the soil, just someone having left a stick leaning against the wall.
you can straighten bent katana rather easy. just do it over your knee. but obviously its still stupid to bend a sword to climb a wall.
You could also mention that ninjas probably had access to guns. Japan has had firearms since 1543 and they were common weapons for both ashigaru and samurai.
PS Love this video! I'm a big fan!
Samurai considered muskets dishonorable. The tokugawa shogunate didn't use them. Nobunaga oda did.
@@arminiusofgermania *laughs in Battle of Sekigahara and Siege of Osaka*
Chocuto
The last living Shinobi, uses shuriken
Whenever metatron jumps into frame i just imagine him crouching down under the camera like "Ahh this'll look cool!"
Fun part is... That's probably exactly what he does lol, and most likely many times until he gets it right
your hair is magnificent
Why thank you ^^
Metatron hey what's the song at the end of your videos btw Naples is a shothole its almost as bad as china
scientists theorise that it is the source of his intellectual prowess, his power level increases exponentially with length
Feminism is for nobody nahh too short
Well, that's an immens bullshit man. Italian here. Naples is rich of stunning landscapes and a lot of magnificent historical buildings, as you know since you're talking, Naples was for hundreds of years one of the two capitals of the "Regno delle due sicilie" or into english, the "kingdom of two sicilies".. if you think actual shit PROPAGANDA tells you that Naples is full of shit, well, you've just to take a week and go there yourself to see how it looks.
Turns out Naruto and Samurai Jack are not reliable sources of historical Info. 😂
But theyre still a fun ride
Technically we wouldn't know if Samurai Jack was historically accurate, as only a small portion of it takes place in Feudal Japan. The vast majority of it happens in the far future.
@@AnArtInEveryLabor Good point dude!
As a traveler from far future I can confirm Samurai Jack is a completely accurate source of info.
@@hz.kemalpasa2997 That sound something Jack himself would say lmao
4:02 Fun fact: I own two of those swords. Got them off ebay. Complete crap; the strap on the scabbard broke within hours, the bindings are coming undone and the pieces are loosely fitted together and rattle to high heaven. In the words of a great man, "What are you planning on killing? Butterflies?"
I love this channel + I love ninjas + I love debunkings =
Any chance of getting a video on the night patrols so frequently mentioned here?
Ninjas never used their smart phones to record themselves for security reasons, they only used them when they got back to their homes.
but but but, I thought ninjas wearing orange jacket and scream their lung out when ever they attack?
The katana being expensive weapons with a high status symbol.
Yeah lets break the katana and make it a knife instead.... genius.
walls must've been made of pasta
DeathKitten K. Modern mountaineers in the Alps and elsewhere use dedicated tools that are stabbed into mountains and stepped on. So the technique itself is not limited to weak materials.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 Yea but you wouldn't want to step on a sword you plan on using, you wouldn't want to stab a wall with that same sword either :P
Weren't old Japanese houses essentially made with mud walls? As in mud packed onto grids of bamboo surrounded by timber frames?
@@Fraggr92 really, the same with many medieval commoner buildings around the world. Just different wood
I read somewhere that the Ninja outfit is really from Japanese theatre where stage hands would be dressed in black. in plays only the results of Ninja's actions were shown so a stage hand dressed in black would assassinate a target or steal documents, etc, so people wrongly associated the outfit with Ninjas.
the stage technique is still used simply look up "matrix ping pong" to see a great example
Can you make a video about the Okinawa thing or about the origin common misconceptions about shinobi?
Hasn't he already done a video on the misconceptions about shinobi?
Yup, he has already done it.
This Gamer Guy the origin are literally endless.
it would be a whole documentary
This Gamer Guy okinawa case to be put simply is that they were a kingdom known as the ryukyu kingdom but during the edo period they were invade by the shimazu clan and its vassals in Satsuma from kyushu, which forbade the people from carrying weapons thus kobudo's foundation and karate grew from this sanction. the reason why ryukyu wasn't known as okinawa until modern times is because they were only incorporated during modern times, back then shimazu didn't want to explicitly announce they took control of the place to benefit from the trade and wanted to avoid confrontation with China which Ryukyu was a tributary of.
Ninja arts: rasengan, chidori, fireball jutsu.
Didn't notice I was watching the video three years later until you said "Happy Easter" and went to check the date. That timing!
Here we go again...
Kevin O'Neal freedom for the kekistani people
*SHADILAY*
Kevin O'Neal ✊
ON OUR OWN! GOING DOWN THE ONLY ROAD WE'VE EVER KNOWN! LIKE A-oh you meant a metatron rant.......Oops
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Real ninja vs Fantasy ninja
Fantasy ninja gets instantly recognized and arrested. Real ninja takes out his/her target and is never suspected. Real 1, fantasy 0.
but a fantasy ninja can kill everyone who tries to arrest him and scream "ninjago" to create a tornado
Until the ninja gets shot by a mini-gun with infinite ammunition.
Idk dude Kakashi is pretty OP it would not be easy to arrest him
Sorry. But both of you are wrong. Back then we all fought using elemental Jitsus and the base of everything was chakra. I don't know what all this shit about farming and samurai is. But your all wrong
5 ninja weapons i never want to encounter - before watching your video - 5 different kinds of poisons XD
"I come in peace, but I'm still going to destroy your video."
"I come in peace, but i'm still going to plunder your village tho"
Ha! So the "ninja" from Deadliest Warrior lied and cheated about their weapons..........and still were killed by a Spartan.
Nope
piss off
Yep, and the Spartan could've done it with his shield alone!
(Fun Fact: If you look at the kill tallies of the Spartan and the Ninja, the Aspis shield alone had more kills than the Ninja's entire Hollywood/anime/comic book inspired arsenal)
That show was a big load of bullshit .
Deadliest Warrior's entire shtick was taking enemies who weren't front line combatants and putting them in straight fights with enemies who were. It made virtually every fight feel like shit and reflected badly on just about anyone or anything they decided to feature.
Ninjas may use their swords to climb.. but Lara Croft can use flimsy arrows and just stab them into thick planks and stand and climb on them like it's no ones business. She's a real ninja. :p
Why would I want to encounter ANY lethal ninja weapon?
Yes, or ANY lethal weapon, period! Actually, ANY weapon. Are they saying it's good to encounter other weapons? What weapons are not made to be lethal, BTW?
OVER BORK Honestly, I'd find the sentient katana with arms far more disturbing than the mugging.
Alexandre Martins A dubstep gun
MUCH better than your video "debunking" of the gunny's longbow segment, (read my comment there). YOU specifically pointed out inaccuracies & mentioned (if not stated actuall direct) source materials & your experience. You also directly oposed points it the video with conflicting points from your research. Step by step, completely analytical & informative w/out diving too deep into each point. Well done I applaud you on this video, however, you left me with more questions about ninjas. I would love to see an in-depth educational video about them, especially with demonstrations.
Yeah I think I see what you do mean, this was more "professional" and the other one was more for fun, enjoyed both personally but I get your point
In that context, you might not be able to call Sai Japanese weapon at all. Okinawa was originally separate kingdom called Ryukyu and wasn't even part of Japan till late 19th Century. Since we don't call American Indian weapons American weapons, maybe we have to call sai ryukyu weapon?
The "Sai" is a traditional Chinese weapon called a Tiechi (Iron Ruler).
It is not a farm tool, an Indian Trishula, a nail for fixing ox cart wheels to their axle, a pitchfork for hay or any of the other nonsense people talk about it.
Unfortunately every single thing Megatron says about Okinawan Kobudo are things that are widely known to be false and do not have backing by any historical evidence. Although this seems to be a running theme with his videos, debunking other people and claiming to rely on historical evidence while simultaneously perpetuating the same type of ignorant pop culture falsehoods he claims to be correcting.
Anyway the name Sai is quite likely a recent name of at least I have only seen it used in 20th century documents. Prior to that the Okinawans used the traditional Chinese name of the weapon, just like they still do in much of Southeast Asia today where the weapon was widely introduced by various groups of Min and Yue language group speaking immigrants (Tekpi being a Minnan Language pronunciation of the local variant name used for the weapon in Southern Fujian and far southeast Guangdong).
Likewise the Tonfa is also a traditional Chinese weapon known as a Guai (Crutch). The Nunchaku also being a Chinese weapon called Liang Jia Gun in Mandarin languages, Nunchaku being possibly derived from the Minnan language pronunciation of the name (Nung Cha Kun)
The weapons ban he is talking about did happen, peasants were not allowed to carry weapons. It's the exact same law they had in both China and Japan and just like in China and Japan it was only haphazardly applied with weapons possession and even militia training by peasants being general ignored. As long as they did not hold anti government attitudes or rise to the levels of serious potential military threat it was often seen as a benefit to the country to have local village defense squads to keep order in rural areas where policing was difficult or even on existent. Many of these peasant militia organizations were also organized, encouraged or funded by local gentry. Village defense squads usually practiced with staffs, spears, and polearms.
Some of the Okinawan village arts using these weapons are still being passed on in various "Mura Bo" (Village Staff) squad traditions today.
Just like in Japan the Shizoku class could own all kinds of weapons. As basically all the major Okinawan martial arts come from Shizoku lines (just like all the major schools or Japanese koryu bujutsu) it is ridiculous to talk about people who could swords, spears, and bows and who were members of the ruling class having to walk around with farm tools.
Especially as the weapons mentioned were actual weapons with no similarity to any farm tools.
The homelands of the infamous vagrant mugen
Actually the Ryuku islands were a part of Japan since they 16th century. Also, genetically speaking, okinawans and Japanese are the same race.
@@mnichoson542 Not as bad the bastard American soldiers who are currently raping them during their occupation.
I wonder how an actual ninja would react to a video containing such knowledge.
They would probably be glad to see that all of their real secret techniques are covered up by fiction so no one knows the truth.
amadeusz antyga how would you know they were a ninja? That would be like a spy coming out to respond to spy misconception... I'm sure it's happened, but he wouldn't say "I know because I am a spy"
Horrible for PR.
Or brilliant? Nobody would expect a real spy to come out as a spy, that's genius!
#NotASpy
Well Metatron does talk about time after the hypothetical ninja was at, so then the ninja could know the future to some extent.
Tangent FYI I am a ninja
When I trained with the Bunjinkan (and the amount of historical basis for the Bunjinkan is another matter, but at least we did work off of actual historical records for our techniques), we talked about the origins of the Ninja mask, and there was one. In theatre the Ninjas were often the baddies - and because they were supposed to be able to vanish and re-appear they put them in all black, including a hood, so that they would not be visible against the black background. They also moved props and the like, since they were already there and hard to see.
As to the weapons, it's pretty clear that there is a huge conflation in western culture between Okinawan arts and the Ninja, despite the complete lack of historical connection - so thank you for the video - it's nice to see some historical context being brought into the discussion.
As to the Bunjinkan, I would love to see your take on it someday, but I'm not sure I would wade into that swamp personally...
I still ask if you could do a debunking video on Hattori Hanzo.
Alexander Medeiros Forgive my sheer ignorance, but what was wrong with him? (Unless you are refering to the fact he not only forged the katana, but polished it himself, two entirely different skills ...)
nigelft I was referring to since he is a popular character in games, and movies I would say my idea was like a fact from fiction about the famous man from iga
Maybe I have been loosing my memory, but isn't Hattori Hanzo a fictional character in Kill Bill. That was based on a "Ninja" of note in Japanese history?
Bart Williams yes he was real. He was one of the most famous ninja. He served Tokugawa iassu and he was known as "the devil". He saved Iassu on multiple occasions from certain death
+Alexander Medeiros
Even more interesting is the fact that hanzo did it while his liege was trapped behind enemy lines and had lost almost all of his men.
Hanzo could have easily betrayed him, but he didn't and smuggled his ass to safety.
Thank you so much..I lived in Japan and studied the Japanese language in college as well. Your input and commentary is totally correct and much appreciated, at least by me.
12:12. European fencing daggers are japanese sai now. Cool.
Lol
well, Okinawan, but still.
Always noticed most of the so called ninja tools in fiction are really things that would have been improvised as needed. Which make sense as spys operating during covert operations.. you would have to dress and equip appropriately for that role
example would be playing a farmer you wouldn't have a full kit of combat gear so you don't stand out, but would have farming tools that would be easily turned into improvised weapons
Most of the undercover operations were to spy and acquire info, for that reason most of the ninja tools were used to facilitate infiltration but not for combat, like the chain in the kama. But yes, if they fail its main rol; infiltration&spy; they would be forced to fight with wath they had in hand.
That's the point many miss. How do you transport all this (supposedly) specialized equipment unnoticed?
You choose a disguise that allows you to carry what you need.
Weapons are not farming tools. (with very few exceptions)
I can imagine some peasant getting arrested for carrying a pair of tekko kagi and saying "No officer, they are farming tools, I swear."
Yeah, and my katana's a kitchen knife. lol.
夏武俠 like "my bow is a suit hanger"? Btw i could buy a bow and use it like that xD
Uhh ALOT of tools where repurposed as "weapons" douchbag
But a suit hanger can be turned into a bow but probably not as eficient a actual bow
I mean, the sai was basically just a sharpened farming tool. It was used to handle hay and simillar, basically just forks...
Tell that to the English and Billhooks
This is my very first video I've watched by Metatron. Based on his specific knowledge and love of Japan and their culture, with the fight to let the truth come forward. I will subscribe. Well done.
Orochimaru, Tsunade and Jiraiya walk into a bar...
francisco chong it's a strip bar and orochimaru is a long timer there.
You should know that ninjas and samurai were enemies, in fact ninjas were the natural predators of samurai and a ninja would have to eat three times his body weight in samurai every day to maintain his chi or he'd lose the ability to run like an idiot.
You are a troll right?
@@metatronyt
I've seen the documentary series Naruto and clearly Japanese people don't run like that anymore because they ran out of samurai to eat. It's just common sense.
I’m surprised more people don’t know this, it’s just common sense really
Wait was that rapier and dagger? In the part about Sai (12:12), there is an image of two people who fighting with rapier and dagger It's pretty obvious, in fact one of the daggers has a clamshell guard. Not to mention the rapiers!!! Are they trying to say that there were rapier in feudal Japan? Maybe there was something similar, but those swords look a lot like rapiers, common in Renaissance Europe. Rapier and dagger isn't at all related to the sai, as far as I know. I think that really sums up the video right there. Rapier and dagger = sai. Totally true right there. NOT. Great video Metatron.
Well there are Japanese made smallswords that were made specifically for the foreign market, but then again those aren't rapiers either.
Lmfao, thanks for pointing that out.
That is a ninja performing a mission in Europe where he adopted local costume to fit in, but couldn't help but keep at least one distinctively 'ninja' weapon.
Yes. It was.
Well he's probably talking about sticking the sword in a wooden wall. Still, even if that didn't ruin the blade, stepping on it probably would.
Not only that, but it seems they completely ignored physics as well. A ninja would have to drive their sword kinda deep into a wall, in order to use it as a step. Otherwise, it would tip down and make the user on it slip.
Climbing a cliff...with a sword...
Alice Burke Diamond is unbreakable... your face that is.
(I love JoJoke's)
Nofariag I too am a JoJoke advocate.
Weeb:"Samurai and ninja are arch enemies"
Hanzo Hatori: "am I a joke to you"
one pic used for the cats hand was an Indian gauntlet & I also live the pic of two people practicing rapier & dagger used as a pic for sai...lol
Metatron I'm suprisedyou didn't point them out...but good job none the less.
Original video talks about sai but then shows a french parrying dagger :omegathonk:
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this video topped my birthday! :) thx metatron
lol Dedunked, is that something you do to a donut if you decide you actually didn't want coffee on it?
Who doesn't want coffee in a donut?
John Dough i dont get it :/
Always appreciate a video from the metatron.
OHHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOD!!!
Nice Video...
Also next your going to say: Is this a JoJo reference?
360p metatron best metatron.
Lehel Flothmann a.k.a. the only metatron i can watch because of my internet
1080p is the sweet spot - the highest graphics I can manage on my $500 RX 480 build.
spøøky mike søcks 1080p youtube only possible on rx 480? SUUUUURE
uhm you can do youtube 1080p with intel integrated graphics from like years ago, its your internet that matters.
bmxriderforlife1234 Who's joking here?
You know what is the most funny thing about "ninja weapons", "ninja tools" and of course "ninja dresscode"? If any of these were so exclusive to them and used by almost nobody else, it actually makes it really easy to identify a ninja. The best way to spy on a place, is to look like anyone else.
i don't want to encounter is the one who possess a sharingan or rinnegan
Byakugan FTW
LynKy12 There's tons of evidence. You just need to know how to break the genjutsus placed on certain scrolls.
Tenseigan > all other "gan"s
+francisco chong
Nope. : )
XD which gan is the best then?
I want a video about ninja pirate robot zombies !
records only mention them fighting in space so no connection to japan whatsoever >__>
or better yet, ninja pirate cyborg zombie jesuses (jesi?)
remember - cyborg, not robot. cyborg is robot, but 20% cooler
you forgot the cursed-nazi-ninja-witcher-farming-werebears
MANUXAL UNX yay something senseable finally
yeah
2:25 They probably got that from some Japan-edition of ”Assassin’s Creed” 😅.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't a specialized "ninja sword" be counter-productive, seeing as ninja (the real ones that is not the pop-culture ones) would want to remain undetected and wielding a weapon that only ninja use would expose one without a shadow of a dout.
True...unless the sword was concealed somehow. Like...a cane or something? Not saying it happened, of course...just an idea how it COULD have been viable.
That much is obvious, cane swords are/were their own thing though and IIRC not present in large in Medival Japan being more of a late renessance to early industrial era thing due to the demands for the blade. Still that's not what "Ninjato" is generally depicted as, it's generally depicted as Katana with a short straight blade and is worn openly either on the side or more often on the back. As Metatron pointed out some ninja were samurai and wouldn't have any reason for a special sword as they wear their swords openly and those ninja who weren't would want to avoid weapon that's essentially meant to be used only by members of the samurai class. Essentially nothing about the ninjato as generally depicted if you stop assuming that ninja were supernaturally capable and admit that they were just humans, well trained humans sure but still bound by the limitations of being mere mortals rather then demi-gods.
Honestly, though, they were right in the title - I'd be HORRIFIED if a ninja came at me with a weapon they weren't supposed to have been using :P Element of surprise?
"What were the walls made of? Pizza dough?"
Flawless.
And also, a shinobi would avoid any kind of fight
They just fight back when escape is impossible