Talk:Kunai

Comments
I always thought it was a weapon. Finding out it's a gardening tool is so crushing.

''Kunai normally had a leaf-shaped blade and a handle with a ring on the pommel for attaching a rope. This would allow the kunai to be strapped to a ninja who would throw the weapon at some obstacle then tie the end of the rope with another obstacle and glide across the rope to the next obstacle.'' I am highly skeptical as to the validity of this statement. 70.20.30.123 02:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm restoring the long list of apperances in anime, games and such. I believe that otherwise it would be spontaneously reconstructed by random users, increasing the chances of accidental damage to the article. (As has happened before.) If you think this list doesn't belong on the page, perhaps a separate article should be created for the ninja related contents.


 * It looks like a pretty crummy shovel given that it's not even concave on one side. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.186.125 (talk) 05:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

It's sad so many people think it's a weapon
But of course everyone is going to assume what the media says.

It seems like it would be a bit impractical as a throwing weapon, to be honest.

Don't get me wrong, though. Considering the far more espionage-oriented objectives and station of the real-world Ninjas of old, it may have been very handy for other purposes. Having a well-forged, well-sharpened one set amongst the rest of one's bric-a-brac could have given one a hidden, but powerful multi-purpose knife.

Addseale2 06:35, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Kanji
Changed the kana spelling for kanji as indicated by the dictionary. If kana is more common for this word in contemporary Japanese then please, restore them. Leushenko (talk) 12:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I am a guest, so sorry to not leave a name. I am wondering if this kanji is right? We use these chinese characters in Korea too, and 苦無 means something like 'useless' I think. 苦 is pronounced go and means 'use' in Korean, and 無 is pronounced mu and means 'there is not.' I realize that Kanji is often different from Korean use, but still, that is a little odd. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.69.12.84 (talk) 03:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, same guest as before. I read the characters wrong. 苦 can mean the ground, 無 still meaning "there is not' or 'void' and can be a verb. So it's a 'void in the ground maker' read semi-literally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.69.12.84 (talk) 05:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Description
The introductory sentence is the same as is found here: 

I'm not sure if they used the text from wikipedia, or if one of this article's contributors used the text from that site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spacepirate09 (talk • contribs) 04:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 14:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

In popular culture (trivia stuff, need to be organized)
The kunai is portrayed in anime (and resulting video games based on them) such as Naruto as a common weapon that is often used – sometimes thrown with a tag "火" or "爆発", symbolizing fire or explosion. The kunai explodes some time after impact with the tag attached to the ring of the kunai via thread, or wrapped around the handle. The character Tenten usually uses summoning scrolls which deployed multiple weapons most of which were elongated kunai.

In the Naruto series, kunai are often used as close and long range weapons by most ninja but mostly the weapons mistress Tenten of Team Gai.

In the Mortal Kombat series, Scorpion's signature attack is throwing the "bloody spear," a kunai attached to a rope, at his opponents to draw them to him and gain a free hit. He always yells something along the lines of "Get over here!" when reeling them in.

Ibuki from Street Fighter III wields kunai in several of her special attacks.

In Tekken 5, Raven can be customized to carry kunais (five on each of his thighs & ten on his back), although he cannot wield or use them.

In the Ninja Gaiden series, Ryu carries three Kunai on his left leg, but never uses them. However, he is able to find and use explosive kunai.

In both Mega Man Zero and MegaMan ZX Phantom and Model P/Px use Kunai as a basic weapon. In the latter, they are the weakest of the normal "buster shots", however they do fire faster and are thrown three at a time.

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Larxene uses eight kunai, four in each hand, as her weapons.

In Samurai Warriors, Kunoichi uses cutlass-like kunai as slicing daggers for weapons.

Sayoko Shinozaki, a ninja from the Code Geass series, wields kunai as her weapon of choice.

Characters like Tatsumaru, Ayame and Rikimaru, ninjas from the Tenchu series, uses kunai attached to a rope (grappling hook) to climb.

The character Misao Makimachi from Rurouni Kenshin uses kunai as her main weapon of choice, throwing five at a time.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game there's a card called the "Kunai With Chain" - however the card doesn't actually depict a kunai.

In Sengoku Basara 2, Kasuga, a female ninja, fights with 8 Kunai, four in each hand.

Needs some non-Naruto-ish pictures.
I mean, seriously. --Asperchu (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

IN YUGIOH
H THERE IS A DUEL MONSTERS CARD CALLED "KUNAI WITH CHAIN" ADD THAT NOW!

IN YUGIOH
H THERE IS A DUEL MONSTERS CARD CALLED "KUNAI WITH CHAIN" ADD THAT NOW! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.45.98.195 (talk) 16:26, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Minor Edit
Changed some of the wording in the first paragraph to enhance the flow and clarity. Hdesro1 (talk) 00:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Um...
I really don't think popularising the idea of kunai as throwing knives had anything to do with Naruto, being as you have the classic modern kunai design and use turning up in things like Revenge of Shinobi that came out two years before it; the account I've always heard was that the modern steel throwing kunai is an invention of the American ninja craze of the 70s-80s (much like the mythical ninjato blade) and came from confusing the kunai and shuriken (with many 80s-90s videogames using the words as if they were interchangeable). Herr Gruber (talk) 08:52, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Accuracy
The article currently states "By attaching a rope to the ring, the user could easily climb walls or trees, which required great accuracy when thrown." I don't doubt that throwing trees requires the utmost in accuracy (hence the skill involved in the caber toss) but I feel like this sentence may have originally said something else, and it got scrambled. Perhaps someone with more time can go through past edits and see where this throwing-accuracy line originally belonged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.186.125 (talk) 05:17, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Crowbar claim
The source for the Kunai as "like a crowbar" is.. Pathfinder. A fantasy RPG game.

Is there an actual source somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.182.241.244 (talk) 17:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)