Yeah there is so much disinformation about katanas from basement kids in the 90s/00s.
They are really impressive cause shit steel ended making a pretty good sword but most of the trick is the curve and the sawing action it makes you do if you swing correctly to cut through stuff like a chefs knife. But you do want it sharp, and free of burs so that it doesn’t get stuck part way in.
But you’d be up against a big stick with metal bolts in it that would win the fight mostly anyways.
Katanas are not actually that sharp. I mean, it’ll kill you just fine, but it’s almost more like a big machete than a sword.
Nah, they are sharp, but flimsy.
They were designed to cut-off unprotected limbs. Since iron was very scarce in feudal Japan. So metal armours weren’t really a thing for the majority.
Put them up against an European sword, where they did have more pure iron ore and they will break.
Yeah there is so much disinformation about katanas from basement kids in the 90s/00s.
They are really impressive cause shit steel ended making a pretty good sword but most of the trick is the curve and the sawing action it makes you do if you swing correctly to cut through stuff like a chefs knife. But you do want it sharp, and free of burs so that it doesn’t get stuck part way in.
But you’d be up against a big stick with metal bolts in it that would win the fight mostly anyways.