Lady Katana: Shit Happens

If anyone's ever taken martial arts classes, they'll know the pretty standard procedure- stretch, punches and kicks, forms, techniques, maybe meditation thrown in somewhere. It was lead by the younger bald guy, while the older lady did office work- he was the crazy badass mofo.

Great guy, maybe a bit too intense, but fuck it. So imagine this skinny dude running you through the same shit you've done maybe 50 times, do all the kicks, do some conditioning, etc etc. And then one day, he pulls a goddam knife on one of the people in the class, mid-session. Projects his action maybe a bit more than a normal knife-murderer would, but still fucking crazy.

The lady who he did it to reacts okay I guess, moves out of the way, yells at him for being a bastard. Guy says something about like being ready or whatever and we keep going. This continues over the rest of the time that I was there- he would try to cut or stab us during regular practice, and shit was crazy. Happened to me like twice, and every time after he'd talk to you one on one and be like, what did you do consciously, what was instinct, etc etc.

Thought this was all really cool until one time, he attacked a lady, and shit got real. She caught the hand that had the knife, and they started trying to take it from each other. She tried to pull some wrist-lock that obviously he had taught her, so that didn't work. He locked her wrist and held the knife out, with a pretty fucking scary look on his face.

Not like, 'I'm gonna cut you if you don't give me your money', but like 'I could cut you right now and that makes me happy'. She fought back, got away, kept struggling etc, and she ended up with a pretty good cut on her hand. She was cool about it, as she respected the dude and took her training pretty serious, so that was all fine.

But like, surprise surprise, that knife had been sharp the whole fucking time. By western swords, I assume you mean "long swords", as opposed the later saber and rapier type blades. Western swords are not just choppers. They use the draw cut, just like katana. Because of the different blade geometries, the technique for using the draw is different, but there none the less.

The western sword making art was no less advanced than the Japanese school. In fact, Vikings were pattern welding steel swords well before the Japanese. The differences, both in blade and fencing technique in result are a result of different steel availability, armour styles, etc. Western swords are far from the heavy, unbalanced, crude clubs that are alluded to in many books. While they are heavier than katana about 1. ARMA has some good essays on this stuff.

Here is one, and another. That's when the cute asianess overcame the I will slice you into pieces asianess. But some still do. Funnily enough it seems like most of the time it's people who're not native Japanese who still use it. Probably more accurate to say Japanese cuteness. I don't see a Malay person either using a katana or doing the genki-jump any time soon. I'm still waiting for her to jump to the stars, wink and get some sort of lens flare effect on her eyes I have seen kittens hug stuffed animals. I have seen puppies fall face first in their food bowls. I have seen babies giving the middle finger.

But, I believe this may have been the most adorable. I don't think those chopsticks are long enough to penetrate the natural defenses of a Redditor. You only think that because everyone says they wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot pole. It's not a matter of defense, it's a matter of preference.

Tameshigiri in its current form uses rolled up tatami mats that have been soaked in water for around a day to approximate the consistency of human flesh and muscle. One mat is about the equivalent of cutting through a fully grown man's upper thigh, including the femur. A bunch of friends and I used to do tameshigiri with tatami mats. I believe if you wrap the soaked mat around a stick of bamboo, that actually signifies the bone.

The mat itself is just flesh simulation.

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Also makes sense why I was good enough to slice clean on mats, but never with bamboo in the center. This looks like something I think I could do, but probably couldn't, but I need someone to tell me why. To cut something well, your sword blade has to be oriented in the same direction as the motion of your arms and sword throughout the entirety of the cutting motion. If she was less skilled you would have either seen the sword get embedded in the bamboo, or the freshly cut edge of the bamboo would have been curved.

The reason is, you're lifting you sword rather than bringing it down i. You're also going to have more difficulty gaining the proper blade velocity from that position versus over your head usually the easiest - it takes more practice to figure out the proper movement of your joints. There's probably a lot more that my masters would see if they watched this - I'm far from an expert. It is soaked and bound to get it as much like human flesh as possible. One this thick is about like cutting through a grown man's thigh, femur included.

I think my record was 40 something. Those old Blind Swordsman movies would have been quite different if, in the usual fight scene near the end of each film, Zatoichi got a big grin and did a little dance. Here is a list of video links that redditors have posted in response to this submission deduplicated to the best of my ability:.

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That is just a whole lot of pretty in a whole lot of crazy. You're not leaving me. You're not leaving me! You, you, you're a pain in the ass. I have done everything you said. An episode of the German TV show Welt der Wunder focuses on the efforts of Stefan Roth—an expert trained in both German and Japanese traditions of bladesmithing and martial arts—to make a Japanese katana and a German longsword and then compare them in a series of tests to see which is the real "super sword".

The host describes how popular culture including Kill Bill has hyped up the katana, but Roth says that despite liking Japanese swords and martial arts, his opinion is that the longsword is superior. After making the swords, he shows that the longsword is not inferior to the katana in tests such as slicing through a tomato. The really big test—captured on high-speed camera with appropriate safety precautions—is whether the katana can slice through another sword that's held in a vise. When he strikes with the katana, the edge is deeply notched and the portion of the blade above the notch is severely bent out of shape, while the clamped sword is hardly dented.

He then tries with the German longsword, and succeeds in breaking the clamped sword's blade while sustaining only a small edge notch on the longsword. Roth declares victory for the German longsword, and while this test may not be totally scientific or comprehensive, it does show the downside of the katana's laminated construction and differential hardening in a destructive test of durability.

Third edition toned katanas back, giving them the same stats as bastard swords, though with the caveat that katanas are automatically considered masterwork. Fourth edition weapons are more formulaic and balanced in design. Using examples from the existing weapons table, a flavorful yet fair 4E katana shouldn't be hard to improvise Pathfinder 's katanas and wakizashi are essentially longswords and shortswords that can land critical hits more easily and have a property that makes it easier to execute helpless opponents.

Wakizashi also have the minor but sometimes useful bonus of being able to do slashing and piercing damage. This makes both weapons more powerful than their western equivalents. For game balance purposes, they are rated as "exotic" weapons, meaning that characters need special training to use them effectively. They are about on-par with the other, mostly fantastical, exotic weapons. Fifth Edition does not include them in the final release at all.

As the bastard sword has been effectively merged with the longsword, which can now be used two handed for extra damage that would be the most logical equivalent but no special rules apply. Very much used in the Old World of Darkness , where statistically the katana was undoubtedly the best weapon you could use. However, this changed over time.

In the Revised third edition of the old WoD , all swords have the same stats.



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In the New World of Darkness , katana have the same stats as all other swords, but extremely expensive "genuine" katana are more durable. Shadowrun 4th edition takes this trope in a weird direction, with the katana being better than the generic sword, as good as the mono-filament sword, but worse than the combat axe and claymore. It returned to this position for Fifth Edition, as the katana has the highest Accuracy the limit for attack roll successes of all core melee weapons. While less accurate, the combat axe and claymore beat it in terms of reach, damage, and armor penetration, but reach can actually be a drawback in tight quarters, and it's also significantly less restricted and expensive than those weapons.

The rapier matches it in terms of accuracy, reach, and armor penetration, but doesn't do quite as much damage, and while just as restricted, is only half the price. The monosword is matches it in reach, damage, and armor penetration, but is less accurate, and also slightly less restricted and pricey. In GURPS 3rd Edition, a katana wielded two-handed did more damage and was better at defending than any comparable western blade. After many "Magical Sword of Ethnic Badassery" jokes, the katana was rendered slightly inferior to comparable western swords, since it does an equal amount of slashing damage and less stabbing damage.

However its cinematic abilities can only be used by someone with the wildcard skill Katana! Katanas And Trenchcoats implicitly states that Katanas are so amazing that there is no point in using any other weapon, therefore no rules are included. Legend of the Five Rings. Played completely straight in earlier editions. No matter what tricks a weapon had , the katana could generally outdo it simply by being so damaging that nothing else mattered. The katana is still a solid bread-and-butter weapon though.

This IS a game about Samurai after all. In later editions, the book lists half a dozen weapons as "the only truly honorable ones for Samurai". In due fairness, however, it then proceeds to list exceptions by clan, and the katana is not an all-purpose superweapon in this game heavy weapons are more useful against opponents with carapace, bows can be devastating if used right, etc. Nearly all of the powerful magical weapons in the setting are katanas, though.

The Riddle of Steel , a highly intricate game with a largely accurate depiction of historical European martial arts, added Eastern swords and Kenjutsu to its repertoire in one of its supplemental books. Katanas are quite weak against plate armor and require some work to set up their best moves due to a poor reach, but their proficiency contains several excellent maneuvers with which to accomplish this and if you DO land its draw cut on an unarmored or poorly armored part of your opponent?

He's probably a goner. In Chaosium 's Basic Role Playing system, a multi-genre game based on the rules used in Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest among others, the Katana does the same amount of damage as a bastard sword Beyond Fantasy makes not just the katana, but all Japanese weapons superior to western counterparts. They all have a higher presence coolness factor basically than western weapons.

Mechanically, however, it's not really any different from a longsword in combat and its higher presence score only means that it's very slightly more resistant to being — for example — magically transmuted into a rubber chicken. It's also slightly less durable physically. Savage Worlds has a statline for katana, but also states outright that this statline is intended to make katana work the way they do in action movies. It also states that if you want realistic katana, you should use the longsword statline instead, and you should use the laser sword statline if you want katana to work like they do in shonen anime.

In BattleTech , the Draconis Combine features battlemechs equipped with mech-sized katanas. However, melee for mechs are typically Awesome, but Impractical and the sword is no exception, dealing only a single point of damage more than the mech could have inflicted just by punching the target. The trope is completely avoided by the Katana Battlemech, which is just a variant of the Crockett with inferior armor and heatsinks, making it a worse mech.

In the Battletech RPG, katanas are superior to generic swords as melee weapons, but they're identical to scimitars, so the difference is probably meant to just be in quality of manufacturing. Zig-zagged in Mutant Chronicles. Mishiman katana are better than all other readily available swords. However, there are several varieties of swords, such as Brotherhood Violator-swords and claymores made by Imperial's clan Gallagher, which are significantly better, but are extremely rare, custom-made and not available to the public.

One Mishiman house make katana which have properties similar to Gallagher claymores as well, but they are explicitly stated to be made using stolen and imperfectly understood Gallagher smithing techniques, and are both more rare and significantly worse than Gallagher swords even though they beat nearly everything else. The Mortis-patterns swords used by Brotherhood Mortificators are also better than standard Mishiman swords, but only superficially resemble katana Mortis-swords have a prominent false edge, among other differences and are closely guarded.

They're also the strongest bladed weapon in the game. Lewa's swords are called "Air Katana", despite not resembling katana in the slightest. Conker's Bad Fur Day: As demonstrated, Conker selects the katana from a wall of weapons to kill the alien at the end of the game. In actual gameplay, they are capable of one-hit kills as long as the user gets close enough and keeps the user from showing up on the enemy's radar.

Katanas appear a few times in the The Legend of Zelda series, though with varying effectiveness. In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker , Ganondorf menaces Link with a katana, and later pulls out two of them in the final battle. Appropriately, he is a Lightning Bruiser who can take on both Link and the bow-wielding Zelda at once. Inverted in The Legend of Zelda: The only character who has a katana is Peater, who has undergone severe Badass Decay and does't use it for anything except cutting bamboo. Link carries the knightly longsword known as the Goddess Sword throughout the game and derives several magical abilities from it.

It becomes the Master Sword later on. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild subverts this in terms of plot and gameplay. It is mentioned that Hylians could not become accustomed to the katanas wielded by the Sheikah, who had to learn new smithing techniques. The katanas that Link can use in the game, such as the Eightfold Blade, also have limitations.

They are advertised in their descriptions as having the sharpest conventional blades and they are a step up from the initial weapons, but they can be outclassed by future ones. There is also the Windcleaver, a two-handed katana dropped by high-ranking members of the antagonistic Yiga Clan. Although each swing unleashes a Razor Wind , which can be handy for fighting foes from a distance, it's fairly brittle compared to other weapons of similar strength, Metal Gear Solid The "ninja" characters all wield a vibrating " High Frequency blade " that looks like a katana.

These high-tech blades can deflect bullets and slice through steel like butter. Since these ninjas are all cyborgs or wearing Powered Armor that grants them super strength and reflexes, and their swords are presumably made of Applied Phlebotinum , the trope is somewhat justified. Metal Gear Solid 2: Solidus Snake, leader of the terrorist group Sons of Liberty, has a pair of Japanese swords named Democrat and Republican.

For most of the game he mainly relies on the Super Strength and Combat Tentacles of his Powered Armor , and even uses a gun sometimes, but he unsheathes his swords to engage in a climactic Sword Fight with the protagonist Raiden, who by this point has taken up a katana. In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance , Raiden's high-frequency blade is styled after a katana, and Samuel, his rival, has a genuine katana modified into a HF blade , and due to it being a centuries-old sword crafted by a master swordsmith , the enhancement makes it one of the most powerful HF blades created.

In Combat Arms , the ninjato, while technically not a katana, but close enough is one of the most effective melee games in the game, being able to kill at a farther range. Considered to be a Game-Breaker for this reason and for the fact that it can can only be bought with NX points, which can only be obtained with real money. In Ninja Blade , one of the three weapons available to you is a katana. Also the eponymous Ninja Blade is also a katana.

A katana with a blade made of the protagonist's own blood. The only justifiable reason that the spirit of Lord Himuro from Fatal Frame was able to attack you with a ghost katana. This unassuming though still legendary Katana is the Jack-of-All-Stats , which in the context of the series makes it an incredibly reliable weapon in every situation.

There are plenty of weapons that hit harder or faster, but the Dragon Sword will never be rendered obsolete due to its versatility. It helps that the sword gets a plot driven boost in most of the games. Fire Emblem In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn , there's a sword called the Wo Dao that looks remarkably like a katana. Both Tellius games also have the Vague Katti. In Path of Radiance it essentially took the place of the Wo Dao. In Radiant Dawn it's the strongest sword in terms of raw power gives a lower stat bonus and lacks extra bonuses like Ragnell and Alondite's ranged attacks or Amiti's extra attacks.

The Wo Dao's been in a few other Fire Emblem games as well. Ironically its stats in Radiant Dawn are pretty much its worst showing. Usually it's slightly weaker or equal in Might to a Killing Edge, with slightly higher crit rate. Lyndis' personal swords in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade are katanas.

The series also goes back and forth with the Killing Edge, it is a katana in some games, but not in others. In Fire Emblem Fates , katanas became their own weapon subtype. Compared to regular swords, they provide small boost to user's speed at the cost of lowering his defense. Ryoma's legendary sword Raijinto and S-ranked sword Hagakure Blade are both katanas, and while Avatar's Yato doesn't look the part, it is classified in game as one.

Crono, the main character, wields a katana as his weapon, and his ultimate weapon, the Rainbow Sword, is the most powerful PC weapon in the game. However, the random damage multipliers of Lucca's Wondershot can sometimes best it. Note that Chrono lives in a European-esque ye olde medieval kingdom. That said, in-verse it's the European styled Masamune that serves the series Legendary Sword of Plot Advancement , because it can literally cut through magic.

Subverted trope in Final Fantasy Tactics ; the samurai class and katana become available fairly late compared with basic western equivalents, but are nothing special in gameplay or narrative terms. The top of the heap are the Knight Swords higher attack and powerful passive benefits and the special character Knight classes that use them.

Either that, or a Monk using their bare fists. Final Fantasy Tactics A2 doesn't have Katanas as a stronger weapon type in general although the Hyakushiki-masamune is tied with the Tournesol for the best Attack, not counting the Sequencer , but the skills learned from them, most notably Dual Wield, are much more powerful. And by extension, the katana-wielding Paravir is easily the most physically powerful close range class.

Ninjas less so, but they have the best speed growths of any hume class they are both Glass Cannon classes, though. Although the Samurai and Ninja are very powerful classes, that can overpower the rest when properly utilized, katanas and ninja swords are atrociously weak. In Final Fantasy XIV , katanas are the weapons of choice for the Samurai class, however, they end up being just as useful as all the other DPS weapons, so there's nothing special about them.

For a villainous example, we got Stormblood 's main villain, Zenos yae Galos, whose main weapons are Doman-made katanas. And he uses them to whoop the Warrior of Light's ass. Balanced by Brave Fencer Musashi 's title hero, who wield both a katana and a large, double-sided sword. Technically the double-sided sword was more powerful, to the point of being the only weapon that could damage certain bosses.

The double-edged sword was also statistically superior. In fact, the only drawback of the huge weapon was that it was huge , and therefore took a lot longer to swing than the katana. Comparatively, the katana didn't do much damage, but could it could be swung three times in the time it took to swing the huge sword. Once the player learns combos that combine the power of both swords, mooks just don't match up. Ultimately, it is the katana that proves crucial to defeating the tricky Final Boss.

In the Devil May Cry series, Dante, the main character, wields as his primary weapons a broadsword and twin pistols. He amasses numerous other weapons, both melee and firearms, in each game. His brother and Worthy Opponent , Vergil, uses a katana and has eschewed firearms as being beneath him. Although Vergil has definite Magnificent Bastard overtones, Dante is by far the more stylish of the pair. When Dante does get his hands on a katana, incidentally his brother's old "Yamato", he is less competent with it than with any of the other weapons, demonstrated as a tiny moveset.

Nero's Devil Trigger spirit uses a version of Vergil's with considerable reach and grants moves superior to those Nero can do without it.

Katanas Are Just Better

Heck, Yamato itself is a plot device in the fourth game. It's just that awesome. Not to mention a whole lot of people are 'handed' the sword throughout the course of the series and get a taste of its awesomeness. Capcom 3 both Vergil and Dante are in the game. Vergil is a far more powerful character compared with Dante.

His katana slashes do far more damage than Dante's guns, and it requires far more combos by Dante to dominate a character compared with Vergil who uses all kinds of Katana based special attacks. In the hands of a good player, Vergil can be just as powerful as Phoenix, especially using X Factor, hence most pro-gamers using Vergil as part of their main team when competing.

Zig-zagged throughout the Castlevania games. They are actually overall slower than longswords even in Dawn due to the gaping lag time following each swing. Katanas only hit sooner because Soma uses them in a quickdraw style. You can cancel out of the lag with a backstep, though. This is also because the Katana is a weapon type. It is one of the weaker weapons of that type, but with souls, can be upgraded.

Even at the highest stage, the katana-esque weapon is one of the less useful ones compared with the highest stages of, say, the great sword Claimh Solais , normal sword the intense multi-hit wind attacking Valmanway or the spear Gunger. There is only one technique exclusive to the Katana: It involves dashing past the opponent while cutting them and then they fly up into the air. Its stronger versions are The Surge and Surging Headwind, the latter of which incorporates ice into the attack. Sadly, these eat up a lot of Battle Points which are required to use techniques.

Interestingly enough, Erika's sword resembles a katana, even though the kingdom she serves is European centric. Tales of Phantasia is mostly based on Norse Mythology. So it's no surprise that the best weapons for the protagonist are based in Norse and Arthurian myth, with the katana trailing far behind.

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If you visit Japoni at the earliest opportunity, the Muramasa is the best slash weapon for a while. Blazing Warriors also known as Mystaria on the Sega Saturn reversed the rule; the "Western" characters were good guys with better powers and weapons, and with the exception of a couple of ninja allies, the "Eastern" characters were evil and with lesser but still respectable powers. Chainsaw Good , because it can kill in one hit. However, the chainsaw does much more damage to objects like cars than the katana.