Hello everybody from a new member.
I'm a japanese graphic novel translator (very often) in distress...
Take a look at this picture (btw, it IS a copyright infringement, but it was not me to upload this picture on the Internet):
www.gianisa.com/blade/ art/random/japset1.jpg
Please look at the second weapon counting from the bottom, the oddly shaped battle-ax... The author claims this drawing is based on a Nepalese weapon, but I couldn't find any evidence of that.
What do you think, is this weapon based on some real-world example, or is it pure fantasy?
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Raffaele
from Italy