Talk:Spring Mustachio/@comment-24.1.94.27-20160704083737

That's not a rapier - that's more of an Italian spada. The grip is very trypical of late nineteenth-century Italian foils and epees (the distinction between the two wasn't really made until the Olympics became a thing). The broader blade makes for a more cutting-oriented weapon than the usual Italian dueling spada, which makes sense once you see his cutting actions in the anime. Plus, the way he's holding the sword - with one finger instead of two over the gavigliano/crossguard - allows for easier cutting. Rapiers are longer and from a different time period than what the creators seem to be aiming for with Spring Mustachio. He seems to be from the late nineteenth century, while rapiers went out of style during the seventeenth. Plus, cup hilts were never very popular in Italy until the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries.

Just being nitpicky.