Given her Artificial Human nature, she may very well be literally full of weapons. Veronica in Franken Fran appears to be stuffed with spring-loaded weaponry.The other arm turns into an equally huge machine gun. In the manga, however, she gets a massive sword that replaces her arm entirely. In the anime, the Robot Girl Chachamaru from Negima! Magister Negi Magi gets a long, thin, retractable sword installed in her forearm, in addition to steel angel wings.hack// games, Kite can also attain this type of weapon (even specifically named after Sora), though it's not his only one. His are retractable and theoretically removable, but he never takes them off. For some reason, he rarely uses it after the first volume. Kurogane's Jintetsu is equipped with a knife in his mechanical elbow.Bubblegum Crisis: Sylia Stingray's power armour has a pair of these attached to her wrists.MagnaAngemon and Stingmon from Digimon.In Coffin Princess Chaika, Toru and Akari's old mentor Shin fights with a pair of blades attached to his forearms.The Energy Blade techniques of Dragon Ball (including Vegito's Spirit Sword, Salza's Salza Blade, Zamasu's God Split Cut, and Goku Black's Violent Fierce God Slicer) are performed by a character projecting a blade of ki from their hand.In D.Gray-Man, the Inspector keeps a switch-blade sword hidden up his sleeve.Alita's blades become retractable after she gets the nanite-based Imaginos body.The "Elbogen Blatt" style of "Panzerkunst" uses backwards-pointing blades attached to the "künstlers" forearms. A signature weapon of the titular character in Battle Angel Alita.Angel from Angel Beats! has five of these as her first Guard Skill.Commonly a weapon for a Predator Pastiche. Not to be confused with Shapeshifter Weapons, which are not limited to simply being blades. Compare its counterpart Arm Cannon, as well as Power Fist. Can be considered a subtrope of Cool Sword.
While these drawbacks mitigate many of the practical benefits of having swords attached to your body as opposed to carried, few will have the guts to question your coolness or badassery. Crafty opponents can also maneuver the wielder into getting them stuck in a wall or something else and because the weapon is attached to the wielder entirely, letting it go isn't exactly an option. They are also especially prone to Fake Arm Disarms, as they can be destroyed without gravely injuring the characters.
The last type is Awesome, but Impractical, as the blades prevent their wielders from performing mundane tasks when not in combat.
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