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Cheap cosplay: How to make an awesome magic sword slash for just three bucks【Photos】

Casey Baseel Nov 1, 2020
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A cool and clever idea that Demon Slayer fans, and kids too, will love.

The sky’s the limit when it comes to how much time and money you want to put into your cosplay props. Custom fabrication and digital after-effects are both tools that can make your photos look as close to their source material visuals as possible, as long as you’re willing to make the financial/temporal investment.

So when you see this awesome recreation of Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba hero Tanjiro’s magical sword-fighting technique above, you might think that Japanese Twitter user @nam_5 spent a lot of time fiddling with photo editing software to render the First Form: Water Surface Slash, which leaves a trail of mid-air water waves behind the blade, in all its glory.

But nope, there’s no Photoshop trickery involved here whatsoever, and @nam_5’s son, who’s holding the sword, didn’t just go learn magic either. Instead, this is a super-cheap, and super-clever, idea made possible entirely with things @nam_5 picked up at his local 100 yen shop.

①100均ショップでおもちゃの刀と平巻テープ(すずらんテープ)の青と白を買ってくる
②刀身にテープを長めに貼りつける
③鬼滅の刃「ちょっとだけDX日輪刀」の完成！総額330円

息子に渡したら早速遊んでくれました。
「水の呼吸壱ノ型水面斬り(みなもぎり)！！！」 pic.twitter.com/MJkKye2OBJ

— nam-5 (@nam_5) October 25, 2020

All you need to do this for yourself are a plastic katana and two rolls of translucent plain weave tape.

Just cut off a few long strips of tape, attach them to the sword in an alternating pattern…

…and swing away to vanquish your demonic foes!

▼ Total after-tax cost to become his son’s hero: Just 330 yen (US$3.15)

After sharing his idea, others were quick to try out @nam_5’s anime sword-crafting technique for themselves, with some also adapting it for Demon Slayer’s flame-based sword techniques by using pink tape instead of blue, and it seems like you could create dramatically wide manga-style motion blurs by using a single color of tape that matches the hue of the sword.

https://twitter.com/ALOT_dk1/status/1320705702659149824 https://twitter.com/Kobe_Cherrytei/status/1320697260296957952

So don’t worry if you don’t have a massive budget for your cosplay project, or hours upon hours to sink into it, because all you really need is imagination.

Source: Twitter/@nam_5 via IT Media
Images: Twitter/@nam_5
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Follow Casey on Twitter, where he highly recommends tracking down and playing Mercenary Force, the Game Boy game shown in @nam_5’s profile icon.