As you can see, on his hip he has a kusarigama chain and sickle combo. Though I’m curious what process lead to that being the decision the art and gameplay teams took over something like a Kusari Fundo chain whip, which would be closer in both construction and application to his typical Jōhyō rope dart. It could be an alternative way to stun players at a distance, or possibly lead to an interesting game of binding and grappling with his opponents for more space control rather than a direct kombo stun/linker
Have we heard anything from developer interviews as to the thought process the team had that ultimately lead to the Kusari-Gama rather than something like a Kusari-Fundo
(Btw, you may know it by its more popular name, “Manriki-Gusari”)