Thread:FrenchTouch/@comment-9803708-20161108075620/@comment-6548012-20161108133211

Hello, I am a little familiar with Japanese history, and, to answer your question, I'd say this would be fairly normal and sensical, starting from Heian jidai&mdash;let me break down the basic elements for you: He's wearing some sort of garb under everything, I don't know what this would be, but I don't think the artist knows either; he's wearing a kosode on top of that, which is the most basic and current kimono, with a hakama and what is important to know is that these elements would be mostly seen during Sengoku jidai so even though I say Heian jidai there might be a little ambiguity with his clothing, but he's kind of a samurai, so it goes well. Anyway, he's wearing typical japanese footwear as well, though the armor on the feet is completely stupid, because if you're gonna be jumping and running around all the time, this is a good way to die. Another thing I'm not too happy with is first, his scarf, but you could justify it quite easily, and second, the mask, it's a mix between the samurai mask and an oni mask (an oni being an ogre, these masks are often wore to scare children nowadays,) but it looks too flashy and unnatural, but I guess that's only a minor complaint, so he has a good placement of armor (except the feet and these two useless plaques on his torso that only serve to disrupt movement) and he wears the traditional obi, he seems to be wearing two kaku obi but the artist's drawing style makes it hard to deduce... It is good, but again, why the shit would one want to privilege cosmetics over their own survival? That's the main problem here. I mean, someone who tries so hard to look good that they neglect their survival deserves to fall from hundreds of meters high by stepping on their clothes. And finally, he wears his coat and hood over everything, as if it was a haori, so props for that&mdash;I think it would be nice if it covered more, but I understand it wouldn't look the same.

So yeah, here's what I thought about it, in conclusion, it is sensical to see this outfit, as it is pretty traditional, but it tries so hard to be sophisticated that it lack proper elements for survival in the activities of an Assassin.