Spearwaifu
A list of women warriors who use spears. Title comes from the spearwives of the wildling civilization of A Song of Ice and Fire (a.k.a. Game of Thrones) and my own self-hatred. Two elaborate and detailed sources indeed.
Honestly, though, this is a really weird trend. It's apparently due to a Japanese folk legend about the wife of a prominent daimyo or some such who ably defended her homestead with a naginata (a Japanese spear with a sword at the end, for those asking), so it's sort of garnered this reputation in Japan as a woman's weapon. But like a really tough woman's weapon. Amazonian badasses. Japanese games could use more of that archetype, even if they do end up giving them all pointy sticks.
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