>>16714451yeah, but in contrast to the glorious nippon steel meme katana are only so well refined because historically accurate ones were made out of terrible iron that was in short supply
you can hit someone with the flat of a bastard sword and it'd fuck them up just because of how heavy the damn thing is and the sharpness of the blade is largely secondary sort of like how it's the weight of a meat cleaver's wedge that lets you get through so much material with one swing
making swords anywhere near that heavy would've been borderline impossible and certainly not economical in feudal japan. that plus the fact that low iron meant very little armored troops lead to katanas designed to be as sharp as possible using as little material as possible. you could easily bend one out of shape over your knee if you wanted, so the weight isn't doing anything to help you at all when you're swinging it and you need to cut along as much of the blade as possible
i have no doubt they're sharp enough to kill someone just by chopping, but the entire point of tatami mats as a target is that they're difficult to cut through. it's like taking an overhead swing at a loaf of bread with a butter knife then saying butter knives are poorly designed when it doesn't split it down the middle
and that's on kamisama
i think she means maine cracker
>>16714469mo
>>16714478but it makes perfect sense.. u improve by doing things that u couldn't previously do before and that means sometimes u'll end up trying something u can't do
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