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Bumping for response on redeeming qualities of Japan.

>>12253489
I believe this should dismiss all misconceptions.

>>12253479
That again. Ugh.
>japanese sword aren't made to fight armored enemies
>they slash better than european better against unarmored enemies

Here

>>12253489
Amazing arts.

>>12253489
Optimistic view on life.
Extreme xenophoby.

>>12253509
When is an enemy gonna be unarmed in a battlefield? That's like saying a gun is good when it's shooting someone that isn't wearing any clothes.

>>12253522
I said unarmored you fucking moron.
It means it's good at slashing other samurais and peasants, but it sucks when they try to invade other countries.

Who cares about swords? There are much better reasons to dislike Japan.

>>12253510
In the 1700's they were still using that shit when Europe was using pic related.

Compared to Korea or China, Japan lagged behind, both in technology and culture.
It's only thanks to Meiji that they are now relevant.

>>12253547
It's only thanks to America not nuking the shit out of it, and pillaging it to kingdom come, that it is now relevant.

>>12253489
>>12253536
The Europeans must have drawn really small. I can barely see these paintings!

>>12253553
No, you fucking moron.
Japan was already relevant before. Learn to history.

>>12253522
In most of medieval Japan. The katana fighting style is based in skill while most western swords are based in strength anyway.

>>12253556
So? If America had chosen to burn it to the ground or turn it into a nuclear wasteland, it wouldn't be relevant today.

>>12253568
If France never helped murica, it wouldn't be relevant either. And if the soviets had the balls to nuke it, it would be nothing but ashes.

Who cares about swords? Are you some kind of nerd?

>>12253576
PAHAHAAHAHAH. France??!?!?! You're serious right now?
>Battle of Midway
>Island hopping
>Annihilating the Japanese fleet
I mean I give credit where credits due, the British helped quite a bit as well as the aussies. But the fucking French???

>>12253568
Well, if they did it one time, the difference would be rather small by the modern day. Japan did more to hurt Korea by controlling its economy for 30+ years than America did to Japan in 43-45. In order to make an irrecoverable loss, you must systematically dismantle the economy and reform it to extract wealth to a select few or a host country. See: China before Deng Xiaoping, the Middle East with its oil barons, and all of Africa.

>>12253592
>he doesn't know about independence war
Expect a americafat to know his national day but not the circunstances around it.
I'm not surprised, all americans I met were morons.

>>12253595
I'm not talking about reforming the economy. I'm talking pillaging everything, spreading salt in the soil, burning down every last factory, and shooting anyone that resist. Basically how the soviets treated Berlin at first.

Sometimes I feel like /jp/ is purgatory, but I don't know what I did which was bad enough to deserve being sent here.

>>12253597
OOOOH! That. Yea France helped a ton during that. Those weapons and what not.

Swords weren't really designed to hit other swords, contrary to what Hollywood might have you believe. It fucks the blade real quick.

>>12253607
>and what not
Yep. Full ameridumb.
I'm not surprised the US hire foreigners experts.

>>12253611
I'm not gonna go into full detail about all the shit France did for America. It's off topic.

>>12253616
>it's off-topic
>says the guy who talks about nuclear bomb in a sword thread
Who bring a n bomb to a swordfight anyway?

>>12253610
Crossing another sword is a big part of fencing.

>>12253622

Yes, and fencing isn't generally used in actual combat. It's a dueling/sports thing, not war.

>>12253564
those fucking strength weapons aye

>>12253621
This isn't a thread about swords. This is a thread about how over respected japan is.

>>12253622
You don't fence when you're trying to kill your enemy.
Zorro is not historically accurate.

>>12253632
>OP shows a japanese sword
>"y-yeah but it's not about swords"

>>12253564
That doesn't in any way redeem it. If it's gonna fucking bend the minute it hits something, I'm not picking up that sword.

>>12253633
It was just an example. Would you be calling this a horse thread if I somehow discredited Japanese horses?

>>12253635
>swings katana with all his strength at sword locked in place with clamps
>bend the minute it hits something

Yeah, sure thing bub.

>>12253637
Of course.

>>12253635
That's the point : it wasn't designed to hit something.
If you hit something, it's because you suck, and therefore need to git gud.

I don't know why, but my balls itch a little, and smell like cilantro.

>>12253633
It was just an example. Would you be calling this a horse thread if I somehow discredited Japanese horses? Then again you probably would.

The katana was basically Japan's rapier or dueling pistol.

Contrary to popular portrayal, samurai actually used bows and arrows, often mounted on horses like the Mongols, and when they fought in melee combat on a battlefield, they usually fought in formation with spear like one would have pikemen.

During the warring states period there were literally hundreds of thousands of guns in use in Japan, more than in any other country in the world at the time, and one of the most famous Japanese warlords was known for their tactics with firearms.

After unification, guns were banned in order to consolidate power, and Samurai were essentially given a status of knighthood and given a code of chivalry to keep them in check. That's where samurai with katanas comes in.

gb2/v/ with your shitty threads.

>>12253640
When do you not swing a sword with all your strength? More so since that's a two handed sword.

>>12253657
When you you swing a sword at another sword clamped to a table?

I don't think I'll ever understand why Asuka smugly ate that watermelon.

>>12253635
It wasn't created to hit something solid, it was created to slash the meat and create and injury avoiding the bones, as someone said most of medieval japan lacked iron armor or decent armor in general.

>>12253657
>When do you not swing a sword with all your strength?

When you're in actual combat and don't want to get stabbed by the git who just dodged that massive blow that has left you unbalanced and wide open?

>>12253674
More over metals in Japan were shit. The reason the Katana was folded over so many times was to try to get impurities out of the shit ore. Making it very, very, very, brittle. Making it kinda shit.

>>12253657
>cousin is playing skyrim
>every attack is a power attack
>he is playing on adept

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.

mfw there are nerds in this thread right now who believe european fighting style = baseball bat swings and japanese fighting style = superfast precision laser cuts undetectable by the human eye

my sides

learn a bit of REAL swordplay retarts

>>12253723
I once had a Japanese blade and I was using it to cut one night, and it cut the full plate in half. Wow!

>>12253732
Can you swing your katana to intercept an object moving at 100mph at you?

>>12253741

Dang!

>>12253732
Do you even dragon twister?

>>12253746
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzhs1Z8Rwnk

>>12253741
my friend bought a 1500$ european longsword and i bought a 70$ japanese katana and i cut his sword in half vertically needles to say he was very impressed by the japanese katana and went back to walmart to return the eropean longsword they give him a full refund

someone post the spanish version of ken-sama!

You should always practice safe cutting techniques with Japanese knives. They can be dangerous.