>I-is that Western armour? And a sword not made out of tinfoil?>AAAAAAHHHHHHH I CAN'T DAMAGE HIM HE'S INVINCIBLE KAMI SAMA HERUPU MEEEE SHIMATAAAAAAAA
>>741760342why didn't he just roll
>>741760342grorious nippon steer forded oba wunu fousan time!
japanese iron was a joke
>>741760342based as fuck European metallurgy BTFOs nipponese steel folded 6 gorillion times
>He...he's SIX feet tall? What is this western monster?
Didn't kelts, scandis and slavs use the same smithing methods as japs via extracting iron from the swamps because they had no other readily availible source of one where they lived?
>>741760342>AAAIIIIIIEEEE NOT THE FUNNY MUSTACHE MAN WITH A TOOTHPICK, YAMEROOOOOO!
>>741760635Owl is taller than this guy.
>>741760342>armor designed to protect against sword strikes>protects against sword strikes
>>741760837Owl is 5'9.
>>741760923Wolf is not 4’1
>>7417609474'1 is pretty typical for a malnourished asian man.
>>741760635>be 5'3 nippon ronin that's eaten nothing but rice and bamboo shoots and rotten fish your entire life>go face to face with a 6'7 muscled up norsemen that's eaten whole boars everyday since he was a lad decked out in full plate wielding a sword that's 2 feet taller than yougenuinely what the fuck do you do in this situation
>>741761206The same thing humans did when facing things larger than them. Out smart them, tire them out and throw rocks at them.
just make better game loser
>>741761326god fucking damn it
>>741761206Roberto was Portuguese
>>741761326slaaneshi subversion
>>741760479the heroine of this show is raped by the antagonist btw. Actual rape.
>>741760675Virtually every civilization on earth folded their steel. The only thing japs did differently was clay tempering, which is a type of differential hardening where they put clay on part of the blade to control the temp. Actual differential hardening was also done by virtually every civilization on earth just without the clay. The clay is what makes the pattern on katana blades that animes like one piece like to brag about but its really just an aesthetic feature.
>>741760479This gif destroyed /a/ for literally 5 entire years
>>741761267Samurai ain't gonna do that. Samurai were fucking retards who needed to be reminded to put on their armor and check if they were attacking the right castle
>>741762007Good thing Wolf is not a samurai.
>>741761901Good to hear Japan is embracing Desi culture.
>>741761901you cant say stuff like that without posting saying whats the show
>>741760675Unless you were making crucible steel like indians or speedrunning blast furnace like the chinese, you had to do that did that, since getting pices of steel big enough to make a monosteel blade isnt a simple task.
>>741764185It doesnt happen in the show afaik since it ended after 1 cour. It does happen in the LN
>>741764647>in the LNSo fanfiction then, got it.
>>741764672The LN is the source material, like many anime.
>>741764726Yeah yeah sure bro whatever you think
>>741760635Do they REALLY?
>>741764815
>>741760342>have magic, demons, dragons and shit >cannot win against cannons
>>741760947
>>741760947H-he's just cold.
>modern weapon engineers/researchers obviously dont care about swords>sword-smiths are obsessed with recreating with the traditional methodsit would be interesting to see how modern swords with modern capabilities would look like, since its possible now to form harder metals than steel
>>741760342Reminder that this gay sword was mogging katana users effortlessly.
>>741767547rapier and buckler is the ultimate in 1v1 melee combat. There's a big meme of barbarian europeans vs. refined intelligent Japanese, but Europeans were piloting what was the equivalent to Rocket ships with space age technology. Rapiers were elegant, light weight, well designed, while being small enough to be able to carry it around with you.If you see someone with a buckler or rapier, the only way to defeat them is to have them yourself, or get a weapon with longer reach.
>>741769623Unless your wearing some from of armour, leather or metal whatever and charge them with the German meat cleaver grosse messer. If they're unarmoured they get chopped, if armoured they get bludgeoned.
>>741760479
AAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>741760479Isn't his sword reversed when unsheathing it?
>rapier Duelist faced Samurai before during early missionary work>Random samurai would often challenge ship crew to a fight to the death because they were foreigners >Fencer chad maintained a winning record and maim/kill a shit ton of samurai/Ronin during that one single incident >Jap got so salty they invited the peasants to lynch the boat because "looks they are killing our people enmass" despite being the challenger to a "fight to the death">Ship cut their loss and run>Certain Japanese swordsmanship school got so salty they started developing a specific anti-fencing techniques due to the incident >The effectiveness of which is unknown
>>741760675Pro Tip: The main weapons of the Samruai are the spear and bow, not the sword and throughout its ENTIRE history, Japan usually just imported their steel and iron from Korea and China anyway. The only time this wasn't the case was for weapons made in religious rite, and those weren't ever used in combat. So the only real reason Japan had inferior iron was due to the draconian autisim of their weapon smiths never wanting to change.
>>741770371now post the REAL one
>>741770770
>>741764825Umm AKSHUALLY the dutch used to be one of the shortest in Europe so have this insteadMost of the Europeans that would have interacted with Asians then would have been midgets
>>741770882westbros...
>>741761901He stops just short of it. Shame really.
>>741770640I find it funny that the greatest swordsman in Japan used a paddle to kill someone and did other cheap tricks like position himself in front of the sun to blind his opponents.
>>741771994Pretty much every swordmaster in history was a flagrant cheater lol
>>741760479real?
>>741771994He was a warrior, not a fighter. He fought to stay alive, not for that "honing the blade" bullshit.
>>741773157extremely
Me on my way to fuck all Japanese women
>>741774284why do you have a little chink guy clinging on your back
>>741771994Only an idiot would play fair with death on the line
>>741771994zainichi.
>>741760947>don't talk to me or my son ever again
>>741771994I fail to see the issue?
>>741760342>Kanabo PiñataLight work, no reaction.
>>741767106>rapier made with titanium and a depleted uranium tipit would be interesting to see
>>741764825I got a chinese VR game one time that had a height adjuster on it.I put in my height but all of the NPCs were still Asian sized, so it was like I was constantly surrounded by children.
>>741760675Western armor is designed to be light, the chainmail underneath is the real piece of work desu.
>>741775582Because it's in front of the sun?
>>741767106Using contemporary steel as opposed to some shitty early modern era steel is already a huge improvement, but other than nothing would be that useful really. Titanium is lighter but it is much more expensive but in the end you use your muscles to swing and that's the main bottleneck.
>>741770467Anon... katanas are always carried with the blade edge facing upwards, it's much easier to draw than the other way around.
>>741760342I have severe antijapan fatigue.
>>741770882Hory shiet the katana even turned into a real sword on impact. How did the Japanese do this??
>>741777210yamatai ancestral secret
>>741760342IMO, this is one of the worst fights in the game. Cool idea, but meh execution. The fact that the prosthetic tools are useless against him makes no sense.
>>741771994If he comes back i'll protect you
>>741761437I mean to native Americans and East Asians and south east Asians even Portuguese and Spanish are talln
>>741761206>nothing but riceMein nigger, the Japanese were so poor rice was considered a near-luxury food item. Nobody aside from the actual rich nobility could afford eating it daily.
>>741767547>>741769623Fun fact - samurai were strictly forbidden from engaging in duels with Western officers. The latter made a competition/bet of how many samurai you'd be able to bait into a duel and kill.
>>741777407izou motobe...
>>741760342ngl, Fromsoft making a merchant in European plate immortal except for fall damage was the one time Japan was pretty accurate about the matchup and genuinely unique for the fight.
>>741777819Thats just a myth
