Well, it looks like the indestructible shinai was successfully exchanged for a sharp weapon. Good job, little angel !

I think that semi-stereo type comes from the larger zweihanders and bastard swords (similiar but different) as those while not dull, weren’t highly valued for extreme sharpness. They prefer a durable sharpness over a slicing sharpness. Since they were made for both no armour and armoured targets compared to the less durable-less hard (though honestly still hard) japanese armours.

So that sprung forth that semistereotype.

Though one thing this story has done that surprised me. Is admit to the fact that the katana is innately a weaker design, even with thhe inclusion of modern materials. Having an earlier chapter state about how easy it was to break if the strike was misangled.
It wasn’t just the temper technique, intrinsitcally speaking, the metal was extreme subpar when you go back to both of the stereotypes (europen vs japanese. traditional wise). That was where the folding thing came in because the metal was of such low quality that it had to be pounded to force out impurities and such.

Honestly speaking, even traditionally looking at them. Japanese swords weren’t that sharp, it was mostly the cutting technique. Which effectively replicated a long slice (akin to how a falacata on horse back would strike) where as atypical european big swords were sharp cleavers, or direct stabbing with occasional long slices (such as the case of the real rapier, estoc and gladius)
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I do agree though, that the blade tropes in the world of fictional media is just too much at times.

Hum i’d prefer he never lost the shinai.
Honestly miss angel. I think it’d been easier for you to have played off an old crazy hermit gifting his weapons,
or a dying warrior asking for the weapon to carry on.
or hell…
just drop it from the sky with a sign “gift” not like… he can’t know the goddess thing

Loligodsama asked her to change it into a sword when the time became right. Not take it away… she probably transferred the powers when she tapped the 2 items together.

Well, there is some technique things with the katana that this slightly lines up with. Katanas are more suited for the draw cut, where you slice by dragging the blade against the opponent’s flesh and letting the curve just cut deeper and deeper.

Which mostly goes to show that katanas are meant more for unarmored vs unarmored fights, since that doesn’t even work well against even light leather armors. Hell, it isn’t even good against bone. The fact that he mentions the katana would break if used like a longsword is more there to show that the katana kind of sucks…

I can understand the idea that he is having trouble going from a curved sword to a straight sword, even when you discount the authors “superior japanese steel, folded 1,000,000 times, gaijin go home” attitudes. I kind of wonder why the hell this europe copy/paste doesn’t have scimitars, sabers or falchions. Admittedly, those tended to show up after some ‘social exchange programs’ with the middle east (ie: the crusades)… but that gets silly that they only copy paste single earth culture onto this world. without anything else nearby that is similar. Hell, even if you want to be europe centric, the Greeks had some non-straight swords too (it might tend more towards a kukri design, but still fairly usable.)

Actually…why the hell did the girls tell him not to use the shinai that focuses on stabs? Their culture focuses on straight swords, which are well noted for their focus on stabs. But I guess the answer to all my questions is “this is racist fantasy version of europe, where they all use giant great swords to smash armor, unlike the elegant japanese katana that cuts through tanks”.

“However, he devoted most of his previous life to ingrain techniques into his body, techniques that used swordsmanship employing a katana.
Such, as a representative, the long sword Renya decided to hold, proved that his compatibility with the weapons of this world was the worst.
Unlike this world’s weapons whose intended purpose was to strike, suppress, and cut, a katana was something that killed when you drew it and connected.”
“I think you could say I am simply swinging an iron pole.”
…Buddy, in the end they’re both basically the same thing—a [half] meter long sharpened iron pole. Thus, the basic techniques for either of them are largely the same, and the differences in how they are used lie solely in the minute differences in their designs and the regional martial arts invented to accompany them. Overall, they are so similar that someone skilled with a katana should be able to pick a longsword up and use it with at least passable skill, and should be able to learn how to better use a longsword relatively quickly. All this talk of “this world’s weapons whose intended purpose was to strike, suppress, and cut” and “a katana was something that killed when you drew it and connected” is mere tautological sophistry—AKA complete bullshit. A katana is something intended to “strike, suppress and cut” and a longsword is something that “kills when you draw it and connect”. Those words have the same meaning in this context.

“gloves with an appearance of exposing the fingers”
“Somehow, watching in front, Kirie ended up feeling as if she was the one having been cut. At the same time Renya completely stored back the katana’s blade, the plain scarecrow arbitrarily fell apart. ”
Oh boy, I can practically hear a katana-fanboy chuunibyou edgelord like he was right next to me!

…The kriegsmesser’s way better than the obese katana anyways—look up the Knecht Kriegsmesser by Albion Swords, it’s a beautiful sword.