[Fish Sandwich]

Sure enough, the show is nearly over, and it's time for another, much bigger one of these. Back when I made that first poll, there were quite a few sacred blades left to appear, but now they've all been assembled... for a while, actually, but I wanted to give the Xross Saber itself some time to sit, and a week with no new Saber seems like the perfect opportunity for me to bust out this excuse to still talk about Saber.

As with the first thread, this is strictly about the swords themselves, not the characters... nominally, anyway. If you like one weapon over another simply because of who holds it, that's as good a reason as any; what I'm more trying to get at there is that if you happen to passionately dislike a character, but DO like their weapon, you shouldn't feel bad about picking it.

Sword But Big and Sword But Gun turned out to be rather popular last time around, but the responses then were still nicely varied, and I'm really curious to see how everyone feels over a half a year later with way more options. I mean, sure, Gekido and Suzune are classic choices, but now we've got a stylish black sword of nothingness, a sword that literally IS a character just to make that one "rule" even more pointless, a really elegant rapier, a crazy time-erasing trident, and even a sword that could be argued to be the "all of the above" option for the poll.

I still think every answer here is a correct answer, but, funnily enough, as I'm pointing out all the wild new gimmicks that have shown up since I originally said the very gimmicky Suzune was my favorite, it's gotta be Rekka for me now? It's still not an easy choice to make, but the phrase "simple is best" comes to mind. You can't go wrong with its basic but heroic style, and the show's story has worked wonders in the past 7 or 8 months to build my attachment to it. Touma and that sword have been through a lot together, and it even got a whole epic lore backstory complete with a prophecy and everything. It's hard for me not to see it as the coolest thing ever at that point!