User blog comment:Aramirtheranger/Knight vs. Samurai- what do you think?/@comment-26535281-20160319011014/@comment-26863727-20160319145628

Knight= 14 years of training

Samurai= 11 years of training

You CANNOT cut plate armor. Any "100% accurate" documentary that says the katana is better than the longsword at everything commits at least one of the following sins.

1) shows proper use of the katana but not the longsword

2) buys into the "all historical Medieval swords cannot cut so we have to make it blunt" myth

3) uses cheap costumes meant for LARPing as "armor"

4) uses a katana master and a random idiot to make "speed tests"

5) fails to understand that katanas HAVE to be made like that for the crappy steel to make decent weapons


 * sigh*

Almost every documentary about swords does at least one those.

Interesting fact: before the Tokugawa Shogunate banned everything Western(including the people) many of the richest Japanese actually ordered arms and armor from Europe in the Japanese style. They weren't necessarily superior to what was made in Japan(though it is possible depending on the region), but they weren't inferior either(status symbol, basically).

EVERYTHING ABOUT THE LONGSWORD AND KATANA RELIES ON INDIVIDUAL SKILL