Why do games always categorize the entirety of japanese swords as "Katana" when the katana is in fact just one of many...

>game has a "longsword"
>it's a one handed sword

>game has a "bastard sword"
>it's a two handed sword

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Because technically it's also every sword, and the idea of standaridsed makeup of a katana, (or any of the subcategories listed) is nonsensical until the 19th century.

Go to an actual arms museum, you had people getting Katanas that were basically just huge, almost unusable clubs with a bit of a sharpened edge made because they looked scary.

Because it's the one which sounds better, you nerd

Aside from tsurugi, every single sword on the picture is a katana.
Ken means any sword.
Tsurugi means double-edged sword.
Katana means single-edged sword.

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What games feature good Naginata combat?

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Japanese swords

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i have a feeling that all of them are men

yes, and?

what makes you say that?

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any game with a Uchigatana? looks the best, fuck are there any good games with precision cutting and sword play other than Metal Gear Rising?

They all look the fucking same.
Seriously, just look at them, there's almost no differentiating aspect aside from their curves and lengths, the hilts all look the same, blade look all the same. The usual normal nigger cannot make the comparison between them, they all still look like a katana unless switched around to the point where it's a dagger or a spear.

European medieval swords had better designs at least, they could decorate their hilts, blade itself and make it so you can at least make out the difference between a longsword and a bastard sword. I'm not saying the japs didn't decorate their own weapons as well, I'm fully sure they did but you just don't see that as often in games, so people will just bunch up all the types together, katana, sword, whatever, it's easier to just give the base word for it that everyone understand instead of giving a term others didn't hear of and then having to explain yourself.

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YOOOOH DO-DON

>game has a bastard sword
>two hand it on purpose

>game has a longsword
>one hand it on purpose

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the head seems a little big, and the hands, and the shoulders.

it also says 女装カッフェ right on the sign

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Feeble Amelican "minds" can't grasp something as noble as proper swordsmanship.

anatomy is hard thing to do, okay?

those are just chink shit

i group your mom as a whore and you as a bastard child

Obsessed

i... can't read Japanese

>not posting the pasta
What are you, a fucking idiot? God I have to do everything myself

Gomenasai, my name is Ken-Sama.

I’m a 27 year old American Otaku (Anime fan for you gaijins). I draw Anime and Manga on my tablet, and spend my days perfecting my art and playing superior Japanese games. (Disgaea, Final Fantasy, Persona series)

I train with my Katana every day, this superior weapon can cut clean through steel because it is folded over a thousand times, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my sword license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.

I speak Japanese fluently, both Kanji and the Osaka dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Japanese history and their bushido code, which I follow 100%

When I get my Japanese visa, I am moving to Tokyo to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an animator for Studio Ghibli or a game designer!

I own several kimonos, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Japan, so I can fit in easier. I bow to my elders and seniors and speak Japanese as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.

Wish me luck in Japan!

Cute gif, user. And you're right.

"katana" literally means "sword" in nihongese

miyabi, nigger

But where is the half-zatoichi?

It's a reference, you idiot

seeing their craftsmanship made me want to retire as a smith
I still do

What is a joke? You dipshit.

>Nagamaki
>Sir Alonne's peculiar shape tachi had a dedicated name
Well shit, you learn things everyday.

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The same reason why no mention is ever made of channeling one's Unagi, it is too complicated and powerful for our filthy western culture to understand

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>why are similarly curved, similar looking swords with similar lengths all put in the same category
Because it’s usually irrelevant as far as game play is considered. Most games have unrealistic swordplay wherein you just swing the sword about with no technique anyways, so slightly different blade curvature wouldn’t effect that.

>Japanese invent the long sword
>still use inferior curved blades with chisel point

Why.

the curved swords were only used by samurai and were more of a decoration and sign of status.
The people who were actually fighting in war used more proper weapons like spears

Shut up retard

seething because you have low IQ

Why is odachi a "very large tachi" when it's closer to a katana in shape/blade curve?

Why is "double edged sword" used as a phrase when saying something has side effects?

You're right. They should instead just categorize them as "shitty swords" so shitty that even the arabs made better swords. I can't imagine being a jap
>Can't make decent movies compared to the koreans
>Can't make decent novels compared to the Euros and Burgers
>All your art looks like the drawings of a 6 year old
>All your animation is just aping old Disney films

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Firstly, people don't give a shit.
Secondly:
Katana actually means both a specific type of sword(single bladed, and/or worn blade down), and just "sword" in general. Language does that: it does not follow strictly set and logical classifications: those were invented retroactively, and have only limited use.

Not to mention, as others pointed out, the word "katana" has become a loan-word in many languages, and with that loan, it's meaning changed even further, as it usually happens. In most languages it just became a generic term for any japanese sword, usually with one blade and curve, but not necessarily. Just like japanese loaned the word "mansion" but changed it's meaning to ANY very big house, including high-rise condos.

Google it, ESL monkey

It cuts both ways

damn op classy as fuck and strong look at the size of that sword

>All your animation is just aping old Disney films

>implying disney has ever made a decent original story

you do know they ripped the lion king off japan right?

People like you are even sadder than the fucking weeboo's. At least, the weeboos have some kind of genuine passion, even if they are deluded.
That is still one one step above deluded hate-bonerism.

Where my Nagamaki bros at?

>tfw Lion King

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double edged means it can cut both ways

>They ripped off Lion King from Japan
Lion King is just a retelling of a Shakespeare play you kimba loving retard.

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My nigga

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>even the Arabs
>even
Damascus steel was crazy good for it’s time, nothing of that time period could compare.

It’s like saying “even Bill Gates is richer than you”

even if im wrong there, their animation isnt ripping off old disney movies you jew loving faggot

I know, but I just think it shouldn't be used because a double edged sword is better than a single edged sword. I think it's a poor imperfect metaphor.

What's the point of it anyway? Why the long ass handle? Was it used by 2 or 3 japanlets with their small ass hands at the same time?

Not him but what's better? Deluded passion for something, which is due to lack of life experience, or realising that all places have good and bad things about them?

Because most of the longer ones are impractical, the shorter ones are too generic, and daggers are usually named daggers. Also pole arms are overpowered

It was originally used to mean that there is more than just one thing bad about something, it later started to be used in the sense that there are negative side effects. The reason for the first meaning is because a double edged cuts both ways as a previous user has said. The other meaning just comes from people misinterpreting its intended usage. Another example would also be the "hammer and anvil".

Except the fact that Anime as a whole was born from them ripping off old Disney shorts you retarded nigger. Just like Metal Gear was just ripping off Tom Clancy/Escape From New York, Silent Hill was ripped off from Jacobs Ladder, and almost every Mecha was ripped off from Starship Troopers. Japs can't into creativity.

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Hey, I know you aren't going to get replies for this well constructed post, so I'm going to thank you for it, as posts like these keep the balance of quality on this site.

Most european blades within an era or small enough geographic range tend to all look similar as well. You're comparing the arms of one country to a whole continent. Retard

user if we play the ripoff game we'll be here all day until we eventually return everything back to Gilgamesh.

Naginata a cute

It's not just the steel quality, it's the shape of the sword. Scimitar/shamshir is exceptionally good for slashing while being stupidly convenient for stabbing from the horseback.

>Why do games always categorize the entirety of japanese swords as "Katana" when the katana is in fact just one of many swords?

In your pic many of those swords are not contemporary with each other.The Chokuto and Tsurugi are swords of antiquity around 6th century AD.

The curved Tachi was only introduced to japan in the 13th century which would then develop into to Katana and its variants over the next 900 years.For 900 years they used the same design of sword with little change.

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This guy gets it.

>Except the fact that Anime as a whole was born from them ripping off old Disney shorts

i need more info on this. the first anime i find on Wikipedia fall somewhere between 1907-1917 and the first disney short i see is ~1920

youtube.com/watch?v=PTkcRxXWHkI
Japanese "humor"

>wield double edged sword
>get parried by enemy's sword and pushed back
>cut yourself with your sword
That's why

Did this actually happen?

Many such cases!

not really.

Because we don't give a shit. All chinks swords rook same.

It used to mean "a sword with edged handle"

too lazy to dig up the webm

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SUPERIORU NIHONGO BURAIDO FORUDO SUZENDO TAIMU

HEY KID...is that thing in your hands a WESTERN GAME???
DON'T TRY HIDING IT NOW...IT'S TOO LATE...MY SUPERIOR SENSES CANNOT BE DECEIVED BY SUCH MERE TRICKS OF YOURS.

Well, i got BAD NEWS for you, kid. NO ONE plays WESTERN GAMES on MY WATCH.
Hand it over NOW and nobody gets hurt.

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The crow tengu guy in the new Samurai Showdown has one too.

Thats what i used to think

Dark souls

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Where the FUCK can I buy a kodachi in the UK
Most knife sites I find look dodgy as fuck

Odachi's kanji literally means big or great sword. The maker of that pic didn't clarifying or made a mistake. Yes, it's just a bigger katana.

If you have such weak wrist/fight someone who can hit your sword so hard you cut yourself, you have bigger problems than weapon choice. If it ever happened, that would be extremely rare. Even in fiction it is not used, I can only remember one instance, from the Witcher short stories where Geralt hits a noble with noble's own sword in exactly this fashion.

All swords in the end are boring because of over saturation. Use a real blade like an axe or even go further and use a real man's weapon like a hammer/mace or morningstar.

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Not sure about a kodachi but you should check these sites from UK.Also never buy Katana unless an antique from overseas to the UK.

bladespro.co.uk/pages/katana-samurai-swords-uk

katanamart.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwb3rBRDrARIsALR3XeZBG0P7wiAPvO6JRvr_jZ2CWtnrQ_Mtf_J-2TkrCGGlxwzHaZWKbA0aAtZUEALw_wcB

>uk
>buying a knoife

>thinking about how perfect a metaphor can be
never gonna make it

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>Also never buy Katana unless an antique from overseas to the UK
You can legally have modern made ones too as long as they are made using traditional techniques I thought?
Either way I'm not gonna buy some cheap chinkshit. I can't decide between getting a nice little kodachi, or a deactivated webley, or going full retard and getting a deactivated bren

FPBP

this

>Knife is a non-sword
Wut?

i'm stealing this

uhhh japan is a continent lol

Just because it has a blade doesn't mean it's a sword.

>> 476670523
The main reason European swords were so good is their quality.
Japan at the peak of sword evolution was literally centuries behind Europe in terms of metallurgy, smithing techniques, and weapon design.
The main advantages that a straight double-edged long sword offers will not be as relevant in Japan. The armor was not as developed as in Europe, so the cutting was quite effective even on the battlefield.
The steel would be tough enough but the lack of spring tempering would mean it would bend or break on a sufficiently powerful poke.
Having two edges would also require better smithing technology than what Japan used to have. You either end up with a brittle piece of shit or a bendy dull sword-shaped stick.

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>You can legally have modern made ones too as long as they are made using traditional techniques I thought?

Thats correct.But customs will want to know that.So they will withhold it till you can prove by email and even with the right paperwork with the item they may hold on to it longer.Not worth the hassle if you can get a decent one in the UK.

But it's basically a small sword.

it's in asia. then you have china and the other places

This based Bethesda weebs

katana literally means sword.

That's a good point
All this fuss cos some chavs decided to stab each other with shitty cheap swords

Might as well throw in the entire Oakeshott typology instead of just going 'shortsword, longsword, greatsword' or whatever.

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All because the Euros were lucky enough to have dwarves

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Too small, that sword can't kill a Rathalos.

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Katana literally means sword.

there's a game where naginatas very slighly boost your defenses, does it have a real basis or is it just game balance ?

Wyoming Bill > Ken-sama.

Dont forget the Elmslie typology.

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Kenshi is a good example of a game that has correctly labeled Japanese swords.

It was mostly for hitting cavalry. It was probably ment as a halfway between a katana and naginata. You'd still be wielding a sword to fight other infantry, but you could also reach guy's on horseback with much more ease and force than a dude with a regular sword.

All swords are beautiful.

no, the use of it as meaning any sword of japanese making is a synecdoche.

Do you speak Japanese?

刀 (katana) literally means any single edged sword. It's a general term, and the individual swords have more specific names. Like nodachi. The character 刀 alone doesn't refer to any actual specific sword, but to the family of single-edged swords in general.

The kanji 剣 also exists, which refers to double edged swords, but those hardly exist in Japan. The only one time I've really seen it used is in relation to Kusanagi, the super old sword in the imperial regalia.

Why do you disgusting gaijin weabs argue about this shit with no factual basis.

They all look the fucking same.

Is that for real? I thought it was Shakespeare with lions.

Yes because as we all know, metaphors are perfect

For me, It's the odachi. The best sword ever made.

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Any more?

Nioh?

Do you even know why the Japanese use curved swords?

I don't even know why sabres are curved.

how the fuck would you even pick that up

Sabers are curved for the simple reason that curved swords are more convenient, especially on horseback.

>The curved Tachi was only introduced to japan in the 13th century
Not true, there are examples of curved japanese sword swords from before the 13th century, like this one for example.

It's not very clear but in the plaque below you can see that it says it's from somewhere around the 10th to 12th century.

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it's made for ancient powered armor.

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>There are people out there who knows OPs pic by hearts

we don't call them people

>emuseum.jp/detail/100194
Another example, this one is from the 11th century according to the website.

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>folklore
fuck, now i want to play Nioh again

>dacians were like japanese people
>but backwards

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>Have your swords idolized
>Only your spears, polearms and sudoku knife are any good

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Yes that is true.The mongols introduced them in their invasions of the 13th century but Chinese traders and smiths as well as home grown smiths would have introduced the Chinese dao before that date.However the 13th century date was an approximate i used since its the mongol invasions and we have pictorial and written sources for wide use by then.

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That’s it. I’m sick of all this “Masterwork Bastard Sword” bullshit that’s going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I’m talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that’s about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.
Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.
Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I’m pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.
Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That’s right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:
(One-Handed Exotic Weapon) 1d12 Damage 19-20 x4 Crit +2 to hit and damage Counts as Masterwork
(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon) 2d10 Damage 17-20 x4 Crit +5 to hit and damage Counts as Masterwork
Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don’t you think?

>tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

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Katana=AK
Odachi, Uchi, Tachi=AKM, AK74, AK103 etc

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Read about this recently and this user has got it right. Standard equipment for a well off samurai was a katana, a wakizashi, and a yumi. The majority had at least a yumi and katana. Samurai were arguably more deadly with a yumi than any blade.

Yumi/naginata/or spear

Nihonto is any traditionally made Japanese bladed weapon.

The nagamaki is fucking cool. Hell I can't think of single game that gives it as an option and thats a shame.

nagamaki sounds like a type of sushi lol

Dark Souls 2 has one, but it's a boss weapon from a tough end-game boss.
The mod Gekokujo for Mount & Blade also has nagamaki you can use, iirc.

Why do Tachi and Uchigatana bend so much? And how the hell did they even make a blade that can bend that much?

If someone draws a katana and doesnt land a stroke in the same movement, odds are he was dead. More than just the design of katana but how it sat on the user while sheathed.
>two samurai in striking distance
>they both draw, one goes for the slash
>the other had anticipated this and steps to the side whilst poising to stab, which he does.
>fight over

bend you mean the blades curved?

I love when stuff is explained like this. I could read it all day

Read Hanachirasu.

>inferior curved sword
you are retarded

curved sword is superior for the sword's intended purpose, even the west dropped straight swords for sabres when they realized this

>wood powered Mecha

lol manlet

>visual novel

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Yari fucks ngl

It's really strange that Naginata is pronounced as if it was spelled Niginta

5'11" manlet detected

It's not though? Lrn2Jap

I like bird gifs but you're fucking stupid. You're talking about hilt decoration on a simplified diagram.

Can say the same about any weapon

Right, curved.

what is it about katanas and japan in general that triggers westcucks so much? Why do you only complain about people who love/praise this specific region?

>"spartans are real supersoldiers who fought for freedom against the savage persians"
>"yeah, spartans rock!"
>in reality they were the most despicable fucks who never had a successful large scale campaign and who's biggest accomplishment was ruling over and massacring a bunch of unarmed slaves who were the real (90%) population of Sparta

>"samurai were great warriors and katanas are cool"
>"WHOOOOO, How dare you say that filthy weeb?! They were obviously the most worthless and incompetent soldiers at the time etc. etc." seething intensifies
>in reality they BTFO mongols, even though the mongols completely BTFO the Europeans, like literally massacred half of the population of every region they touched because European weaponry and tactics were so incompetent in comparison

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it's for horseback if at all, someone would probably hand it to the rider and they would just kinda run into people with it or use their horse as a fulcrum to lift it up.

t. entry tier weeb
Samurais in Sengoku era actually used spears and guns in the war.
Katanas are literally meme weapons

japs didn't btfo mongols, water did

reminder that is unironically a picture of german spy

mostly true. There were plenty of instances of samurai using swords though. Remember Samurai were like knights, they defended big feudal land masses including small groupings of houses and the main house. Spears wouldn't be viable near buildings really.

sauce?

when did ullulilia get a tattoo?

I always liked tsurugis

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OOOOOOOOOO
I was hoping someone said that

First of all, you went on a complete tangent and dodged my entire point, based in the actual language that I speak, that katana does just mean any single edged sword.

Second of all, no one wore steel fucking armour so there was no practical need for a piercing tip or double edge ala a European arming sword. The first po9nt combined with the generally low quality of iron available to Japanese sword Smith's, led to the proliferation of single edged curved long swords.

Go back to reading fucking wikipedia articles lol

Just do it through a proper retailer and they'll do the paperwork for you

>Samurais in Sengoku era actually used spears and guns in the war.
incorrect
Those were weapons of the peasantry.
The weapon of the Samurai is the bow.

Go OFF dude, tell 'em

You're not japanese if you don't use this.

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Fuck me, last time I read that pasta I laughed because Ken-sama was older than me and a worse weeb than I ever had been. Now I'm five years older than he was at the time.

>that katana does just mean any single edged sword.
Show me a Japanese sword that is straight and only has a single edge, that isn't just a holdover from China. You cannot, because the forging process required due to the inferior iron the Japanese had available necessitated a curvature in the sword.
As you are surely are aware, the Japanese employ a differential heat treatment technique to make the metal on the back side of the sword softer than the cutting edge. This leads to a metamorphic effect as the martensite you generate on the edge has a different volume than the perlite on the side and back.

This difference in volume naturally leads to a shift in shape. A Japanese sword is forged straight, but only in the heat-treatment process does it acquire the curvature. This is distinct from the way western swords acquire their curvature, as they are simply forged into that shape.

>the proliferation of single edged curved long swords
The proliferation happened for a number of reasons, the first is the lack of quality materials, as I showed just earlier.
The second is as follows:
The samurai were cavalry archers and used the sword as their side arm, as a sword is not generally a battlefield weapon. Cavalry nearly everywhere used curved swords, because these are easier to cut with while on horseback. The sword was the symbol of of the samurai and entered public consciousness as such. And the cult of the sword spread.

The armor idea is nice, but you can stab people with a Japanese sword, it has a hardened point. Also, mind telling me if this looks like iron to you, because to me it does. The earlier lamellar armor also used iron scales.

Basically stop pretending you know anything.

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A better question would be why they always show katana in it's latter, post Sengoku form and not tachi, the actual military sword which is superior because of higher length and was actually used everywhere during wars.
Katana as we see it in modern pop culture has a pretty short blade, even more so for it's large handle. I'm no weeb and neither a fan of Japanese swords but still, comparing an average longsword's reach to a modern katana's is worng and unfair, you should make comparison with tachi instead.

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Is it really odachi or ootachi? I've seen it typed in several ways.

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It's basically racism.
The Japanese doubly piss them off for not fitting the "useless minority" stereotype.

Sengoku a cute

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Sengoku is the best.

>retailer
they dont

>Show me a Japanese sword that is straight and only has a single edge, that isn't just a holdover from China.

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>6th and 7th century
That proves my point. Those are still firmly Chinese.

The Katana is perfectly designed to kill gays

what they are Japanese.They weren't importing every sword from china.

look here's one with the Japanese smiths signature still on the tang.

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These might as well be Dao, really. And that's my point. Those are Chinese swords, not Japanese. And the reason they stopped making them like that was that their materials didn't compare to what the Chinese had access to.

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>And the reason they stopped making them like that was that their materials didn't compare to what the Chinese had access to.

The mongols invaded with curved carvery swords.That style of sword was extremely useful to mounted Samurai so they adopted the tachi.The design is only one small part of why the style of sword changed.

You are not wrong.Although their smithing skill had improved past Kofun period.The edge hardening Hamon only reinforces the edge but you can still bend the thing over your knee from the flats of the blade.(And this would have been true of the softer chokoto).

Pig iron was used in Ireland as well as anglo Saxon England with similar techniques employed to edge harden and use of pattern wielded steel and they never resorted to curved blades.Style and function would have been just as important a factor than pure metallurgy.

Japs are cool and all but their military tactics have always been fairly retarded

OP, you're lucky they call it that instead of 'Samurai Sword'.

Where's the Daikatana?

Having all their best pilots crash into boats was an amazing strategy.

Holy autism
Nobody cares weeb

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It’s true. Samurai did fight and defeat mongols, but the mongols were primarily defeated by the ocean. Just because history doesn’t match up with your conclusion doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

>Show me a Japanese sword that is straight and only has a single edge
Is this straight enough for you?

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you degenerate barneyfag etc etc

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Because if you say Katana, literally anyone can get a vague image in their head
Bendy, diamond wraps on the grip yoooooooooooo! Taiko drum being hit on the side twice

What is the vague image when you say bec de corbin?

It can be pronounced either way. Odachi is more common.

what the others said but also their iron was really really shit for long straight swords

Fucking weeb

A stubby mattock?

Because the people behind the praise for Japs have almost always been embarrassing.

A saber's purpose is largely different than a bastard sword's or an arming sword.
Even then there are "straight" thrusting sabers.

ded show, kys

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Ehehehhhehehehe
Thrusting

A polearm with a mass of metal on one end.

dark souls

I don't care how much of a meme it is, I love these fucking images, they remind me of when i was a kid and didn't care about looking stupid.

It looks cool in vidya when you add effects and such.

No, I explicitly mean these images give me a sense of nostalgia, making shitty home movies on a 240p vidcam with my buddy's house when I went to sleep over.

Because spartan worshipers are just as easy to mock but they're not as fun to mock.

katana weebs are usually really into anime and bring over culture elements from japan into their daily routines. I used to know a guy who would exclaim some japanese word before he'd eat at a bbq we were at. Like dude, there ain't any lotus blossums here, we're in Terry's backyard. Eat the fucking sausage and stop being weird.

Spartan boys are still fun to mock. Especially the fat ones or skinny fats who go on about how eugenics and survival of the fittest are good models of society. All while pulling what they know of spartans from 300 and tacticool gym advertising.

I like hook swords they are neat

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I heard Ken-sama died in the fukushima tsunami.

Just real neat

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>longsword
>no longer than an arming sword

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guy with an appreciation for another culture dons a kimono for his wife to pose for a proper wear photo for a tourist fansite.

gets turned into a massive meme.

Yeah ok but what would you call this, Yea Forums?

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Wanabetana

sure you can have your curved blades, katanas, longswords and machetes
but can you be the sword

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The strongest sword in the game

tonberry-kizashi

>FEEL THE STING OF MAH LONGSWWWHORD!

whoe gives a FUCK about this shit?

One doesn't give a damn when he is mocked, the other goes into an assblasted rant about how much of a gaijin you are and how he will soon get a japanese gf and life in Japan watching anime forever. Doesn't take a genious to know with one is the funniest to mock.

Wouldnt want to run into him in a dark alley

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Lol the muslims got beat by the mongols

where the fuck is Nioh 2

People who use any kind of swords are fags, true japanese power comes from martial arts ther is no honor in defeating someone if you arent using your own fist to do it

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This is a Japanese Japanese sword

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Why did swords get fat again after the Type XIX?

Heretic 2 melee combat is a staff with a blade on the end very similar to that and it's the best staff combat in any game afaik. you can play almost the whole game melee, there's only a couple puzzles that need other weapons.

Good god I wish it was like that in Way of the Samurai but the fucking movesets are so limited man. It all comes down to spamming sword break parries and juggling them in the air. But it is the closest we have yet and it’s fucking awesome still

That's uh, not actually how the philosophy works. Especially if you consider tools are viewed as an extention of the form in japanese culture.

What does katana mean?

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katana = 形な
meaning no form

for me, it's the trident halberd

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>game has warrior classes
>vikings, knights, and samurai are the only options
Why is this? Shaolin monks were basically an ancient assassin's guild and jaguar warriors existed too

You want the game to list down EVERY warrior in every culture?

Yes

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Ninja Gaiden 3 Razer's Edge
Momiji
>images blocked

The Lion King is a million times better than Kimba the White Lion

>mfw realizing I turn Ken-sama's age tomorrow

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How old was he?

27 year old American otaku (anime fan)

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Stupid question but what is the advantage of curved swords over straight ones ? Also why every blade wasn't made with double edge ? Wouldn't that be more polyvalent ?

>I got 3 years before I'm that age
>mentally unwell enough that I won't be a stutter sperg
Hell yeah dude!

I never understood this distinction. Were bastard sword grips really too small to fully hold with 2 hands? That seems like the dumb idea to me.

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The smallest penis.

Don't quote me on this but I think I've heard that curved swords are easier to cut with.

this is correct, you need less finesse to cut with a curved sword.
This especially comes up if you're on a horse

because they fall into the category "inferior sabre" the Japanese couldn't even create proper bows

There is no true distinction, all sword names are arbitrary, and would change depending on the time and region. Sometimes rapiers were called long-swords, long-swords were called hand-and-half swords, and great-swords were called two-handed swords. Its only in the modern day that we have tried to divide swords into clean categories, and in this modern category system bastard sword is just another name for long-sword. The closest thing to what most people would consider a bastard sword(a sword that can fit two hands but be light enough for easy one handed use) would just be a short long-sword in this new system. Of course it not like this new category system is an official thing done by an organization, its just something generally agreed upon by the people who know a lot about swords.

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whats wrong with their bows?

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A gunrange in my city actually had a odachi horse sword over the main counter. I asked if I could hold it and the owner just took it down and handed it to me. Fucking thing felt like a spear but was shockingly light, felt like holding a hatchet at arms length.

Was a very nice ornament but the tommy gun I got to fire full auto shortly after was a fuck of a lot more fun.

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made out of crappy wood

fpbp

They just pale in comparison to the Englishman's

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>gets called a halberd

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lmaoing at your life rangelets. FUCK YOU BOW, BALLISTA, AND GUN YOU FUCKING COWARD ASS FAGGOTS! AT LEAST SWORD IS POLITE ENOUGH TO SHOW HIS FACE BEFORE I BEAT IT IN!

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It was made out of multiple strips of bamboo and wood.
The Longbow isn't anything special, its just a straight limb self-bow which is one of the least efficient bow designs. Recurves are more efficient at 60+lbs, and no 100+lbs was not something unique to the English pretty much all war-bows around the world and even some hunting bows were that heavy.

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