Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-9090085-20141113102806

BenRG wrote: Fencing and most oriental sword-arts are very different. Fencing uses stabbing moves whilst most oriental swords are single-edge cutting weapons and so use blade-edge rather than point attacks. That's the core difference between Fencing and Kendo, to my knowledge. In fact, if you tried to use one for the other, you'd find them quite incompatible: a katana's curved edge makes stabbing less then effective, and it's too heavy for the quick "flicking" parries common to the style; while a rapier's light weight makes it ineffective for slashing, and it might even break if used for the "hitting" parries common to the style.

And now that you bring it up, Raven's outfit does bare a passing resemblance to a Bōgu; big difference is the lack of a breastplate.(it's even hard to make out her face behind the mask.)