>>723836157
The feudal era japanese people were extremely malnourished and it shows through all their culture. The average medieval knight holding a sword held in one arm could cut clean through bone but the average samurai holding a sword with one hand would not cut through bone. I cannot explain it better than this picture; only the japanese would have a traditional samurai-style two-handed DAGGER strike. The malnutrition created all sort of small anomalies in the way they handle their weapons, and they continued to handle them weird even after it became a thing of the past, because muh samurai spirit. The needed that katana to be curvy, they needed to use slashing, and they needed both hands firmly on the handle to get anything done. Even Mushashi wrote this down in big letters despite his infamous meme dual wield. Slashing is usually not that good, but here it made sense, and I can't say the katana is essentially a bad design for having a slight curve. But if you're not malnourished then yeah just go for a straight stabby sword. Or spear because spears OP.