Anime’s Most Epic Sword Fight Has One Big Twist That’s Secretly Genius

Most anime make their epic sword fights theie biggest highlight, but Katanagatari had its best duel off-screen. Katanagatari is an anime produced by White Fox based on a series of light novels by Nisio Isin that follows a young swordsman named Shichika who fights without a blade, and his companion, the tactician Togame, as they travel around ancient Japan searching for a set of powerful swords. Most episodes focus on retrieving one of these swords from an enemy swordsman, with Shichika having to defeat them in combat. Episode 4 pulls a bit of a bait and switch by having its climactic sword fight off-screen.