Do we have a tag for those goofy panels hanging off her belt? I see these on Japanese clothing sometimes and I have absolutely no idea what they're supposed to be called or what they're for.
Do we have a tag for those goofy panels hanging off her belt? I see these on Japanese clothing sometimes and I have absolutely no idea what they're supposed to be called or what they're for.
I don't even remember what anime I saw them in, but in that one they held knives.
Those are actually armor plates. Iron is an uncommon mineral to the Japanese islands, so they commonly made armor out of hardened and lacquered wood panels, which they bound together with cords.
