Having not seen the eps in question I can say anything 100%, but I somehow doubt they took a couple of the berserker's more interesting traits into account. The biggest problem of course is trying to separate out the fact and fiction of the berserker (like swords and spears being unable to "bite" their skin). Interesting parallels do exist though between what berserkers were known for and certain martial legends of other cultures. One of the easiest mistakes often made, at least from many accounts, was that berserkers were dumb brutes on the battlefield. Some accounts on how one becomes a berserker parallels shamanic training seen the world over. The hardest part of course is trying to quantify how one would continue to operate after the fatal blow is struck against them (best parallel I can think of for this involves animals such as bears and how they press an attack even after being shot in a vital spot).
...in short I'm curious what they quantified and to what degree ^_^ I heard about the katana test, and how many things it passed through on one stroke ^_^
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Date: 2009-04-20 03:33 pm (UTC)...in short I'm curious what they quantified and to what degree ^_^ I heard about the katana test, and how many things it passed through on one stroke ^_^