I totally was thinking of Ryuko when I drew it! Although her sword has a loop around the handle so it'd be actually physically possible unlike a scythe.



As for how long? Let's say too long and leave it at that. When I started it I didn't really know what I was doing and I wasn't confident using paper to animate with so I animated the whole thing digitally, then printed out my digital frames and traced them on paper. It was an extremely stupid thing to do but I could do the whole thing much faster now.