Talk:Blind Justice/@comment-107.220.138.4-20150906091130/@comment-85.23.198.132-20151006142332

Second poster confirmed for exactly the kind of fanboi the OP was talking about.

Also that "apex of bladed weapon technology" was a manufacturing method (technically known as "pattern welding") Celtic swordsmiths had figured out by the time of Julius Caesar - East Asia was still using bronze at the time - and by the Crusades it had been relegated to ornamental purposes because Western Eurasian metalworkers had figured out less labour-intensive means of achieving the same or better result. The Japanese stuck with it mainly 'cause their raw iron was awful. So, yeah.

Perfectly good weapon design for its intented purpose though, which was originally (as with all convex sabres) mounted use. Not really sure where its enduring popularity came from, unless the relatively generous amounts of gaps in most Japanese armour designs just allowed the ignoring of sabres' inherently poor armour-defeating qualities.