{"id":130111,"date":"2026-02-15T07:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/?p=130111"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:12:56","slug":"reference-art-strain-the-noodle-ninja-beginning-hiyashi-the-sonic-noodle-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/?p=130111","title":{"rendered":"[Reference Art] Strain the Noodle Ninja &#038; Beginning Hiyashi the Sonic Noodle Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stealth noodle<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Strain the Noodle Ninja<br \/>\nFull art:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1863\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-300x218.jpg?wsr 300w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-1024x745.jpg?wsr 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-1536x1118.jpg?wsr 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/DBKKd71Q-strain-2048x1490.jpg?wsr 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-150x109.jpg?wsr 150w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-450x327.jpg?wsr 450w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-1200x873.jpg?wsr 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-768x559.jpg?wsr 768w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strain-scaled.jpg?wsr 2560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top: <em>&#8220;Noodle tachi&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nLeft: <em>&#8220;Nodachi style&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nRight: <em>&#8220;Pulled from the left shoulder&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TL note: A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tachi\">tachi<\/a> is a type of saber. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C5%8Cdachi\">nodachi<\/a> is another name for an oodachi, a larger tachi. It is possible that they specifically chose a nodachi because the \u91ce kanji can be read as &#8220;tsuke&#8221; in names, leading to a pun with the &#8220;men (noodle)&#8221; tachi with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsukemen\">tsukemen<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Hiyashi the Sonic Noodle Ninja<br \/>\nFull art:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1863\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-300x218.jpg?wsr 300w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-1024x745.jpg?wsr 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-1536x1118.jpg?wsr 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/DRXlLRib-begin-2048x1490.jpg?wsr 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-150x109.jpg?wsr 150w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-450x327.jpg?wsr 450w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-1200x873.jpg?wsr 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-768x559.jpg?wsr 768w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/begin-scaled.jpg?wsr 2560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stealth noodle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":130112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2417,2134],"tags":[3151,2498,2135],"class_list":{"0":"post-130111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reference-art","8":"category-rush-duel","9":"tag-noodle-ninja","10":"tag-reference-art","11":"tag-rush-duel"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/02\/strainthumb.png?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130115,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130111\/revisions\/130115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}