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El Perverso

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I mean some two-three centuries of seeing preciously little actual use, plus the usual lack of quality controls inherent to hereditary positions and instructors being for practical reasons mainly concerned with maintaining student numbers and their governement stipends, meant Japanese martial arts kind of went to the dogs after the end of the Sengoku Jidai anyway...

Also failed pretty spectacularly the few times they were called on to face off with modern military methods in the 1880s so, yeah. Pedigree don't mean shit by itself when the chips are down after all.
It's rather unfruitful to discuss effectivness of sword against firearms. Still, all considerations leveraged, mid 20th century swordmasters were rather deadly with their techniques. Luckily, by that time that were mere demonstrations, nothing more.

But, you know what, you are taking it too seriously. I didn't mean anything like that and that was indicated by a smile.
 

RNDM

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It's rather unfruitful to discuss effectivness of sword against firearms.
The Japanese and Westerners alike used both (the latter mainly on officers) and bayonets were kind of a thing, too. Tellingly enough once the Japanese started fighting each other for real the first time in centuries it was the Western copycats (mainly Chōshū domain, who had hastily revised their hardline reactionary attitudes after getting utterly curbstomped by gaijin punitive expeditions at Shimonoseki) who steamrolled the unreformed traditionalists with almost comical ease.

Still, all considerations leveraged, mid 20th century swordmasters were rather deadly with their techniques. Luckily, by that time that were mere demonstrations, nothing more.
That's a terribly contradictory paragraph. How do you measure lethality with mere demonstrations?
 

El Perverso

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Sharp implements of any form are by default scary af on an intuitive, visceral level (which armies have long exploited with bayonets) and doubly so to rank untrained civilians so that's not saying much.
That's true, but some look more scarier that the others. Katana, as well as some similar weapons, being rather fast weapon, especially operated by some skilled user instinctively induces you to realise that you will be slashed to pieces far earlier than you realize what's going on. So I wouldn't call it a trash.
 

RNDM

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That's true, but some look more scarier that the others. Katana, as well as some similar weapons, being rather fast weapon, especially operated by some skilled user instinctively induces you to realise that you will be slashed to pieces far earlier than you realize what's going on. So I wouldn't call it a trash.
The speed of a weapon is not terribly apparent until actually witnessed in action, and *entirely* irrelevant for the primal fear of getting mauled by something sharp coming your way (which, when you get down to it, comes from primitive "reptile brain" predation avoidance instincts; virtually everything that munched on our ancestors did so by way of pointy teeth and claws).

And the intimidation value of a given weapon says nothing whatsoever of its objective quality as a killing tool - indeed in only too many cases the most frightful weapons a combatant had access to were also among the worst at actually killing people. (Which didn't necessarily matter much in mass warfare as battles were won primarily by breaking enemy morale, most of the dying happened during the ensuing pursuit.)

Objectively, though, Japanese weaponsmiths were stuck with some legitimately awful raw iron (melting down *ferrous sand* was a major source; say hi to copious amounts of silicate slag and other undesireableness) and didn't really update their metalworking techniques after about the 12th century AD so yeah. They did adapt their blade designs at least which in practice meant that by late Edo period katanas had on the average grown meaningfully shorter and lighter than before, thus better suited for peacetime carry and unarmoured targets in "civilian" contexts.

By comparison, you know that vaunted "folding" technique they're unnecessarily famed for? That's tek'nikly known as pattern welding and had been known to smiths in western Eurasia by the last centuries BCE at which time the East Asians in general, and the somewhat backwards Japanese in particular, were still transitioning from bronze to iron... By about the 11th century AD European smiths had worked out ways to get equivalent results with less man-hours and relegated the technique to decoration; their Japanese colleagues got stuck on it, partly due to the lousy raw materials they had to work with (all that laborious folding and hammering helps drive out the worst of the slag and spreads the rest evenly thus avoiding structural weakpoints).

How do you measure a one shot one kill merely shooting at the cardboard target?
You don't, and nobody who has any idea what they're talking about claims so.
 

zipzinger

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sidescroller without sexual content.
this is the first time i am going to download something like that from this site XD
 

ベボレド

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hands glued together playing coz controls are so damn close to each other
cant block, attack very slow, no nsfw content
graphics are preety tho
 
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