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Katanas are the most over rated sword in history. They're a thin blade used for slicing skin and fabric style armour. They cannot cut through bone or steel unless it's of a really high quality, but even then something like a Claymore would do just as much damage, if not more.

Katanas are only popular because of anime, and even then it's because they have a symbolic meaning. I bet 80% of the posters here won't even understand the honour of owning a katana and just view it as a weapon like a gun, ie: believing the weapon makes you powerful, not the skill and years of training.
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Weren't Samurai all about the bow and arrow anyway? Since when did melee combat become the only awesome/chivalrous way to wage war? (Granted, it [i]is[/i] awesome, but there's more than one way to build a lifestyle around graceful asskicking.) Sure, they could have sword fights at the golden hour, but who hasn't seen that? What about an honor duel at sunset mounted on horseback, charging about and shooting each other with longbows? Sounds a lot more beautiful and cool to me than Medieval Kill Bill.