Talk:Thief's Respite/@comment-74.101.248.218-20160120133951/@comment-26397825-20160122040118

It may not fit a traditional kusarigama, but by the literal translations of the words (chain-sickle) it fits because they are both sickles (the blades/guns) on the end of chains (/ribbons). There's not really another word we could call them, to be honest, as a sickle on the eend of just a chain with no weight doesn't have a name, and they don't classify as rope-darts because the blades are the wrong types entirely, as well as being used in the wrong fighting style.

Basically, they are anime kusarigama, not historical kusarigama.