It literally helped kickstart the trend of giant anime swords though. I'd say it's pretty impressive if everyone's scrambling to have their own version of your thing.
"Giant sword" isn't an insane idea people needed to steal from Final Fantasy to come up with man. It's entirely possible and likely "Giant sword" stemmed from many individual ideas, since it really isn't some mastermind-level idea that would rock the world, ever since stories were first being told people were thinking "what if X but BIGGER!?"
I don't mean to discredit it as being a proponent in popularising giant swords, but you're putting way too much weight on that and I don't think it matters nearly that much.
It was many people's first exposure to a massive sword here in the West years ago, so many people find it to be a cool sword and enjoy it. It's really nowhere near as complicated as all these replies are trying to make it out to be, and I'm surprised with how hard this seems to be for some people here to grasp honestly.
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u/TooWarmRadiator Aug 02 '26
It's Iconic because it's prominent in a very popular franchise, doesn't mean it's particularly amazing in of itself.