I find it interesting to track the Gundam series’ increasingly sympathetic portrayal of the Zeon in the Universal Century timeline as WWII edges further and further into the past. In the original series, the Zeon were sympathetic as soldiers, but dastardly as a nation-state, with no compunctions about executing colony…

What? No. The sword is and has always been a speed weapon. The largest specimens rarely went over six pounds, and we’re talking about weapons so tall that they had more in common with spear fighting than sword fighting. If you want to crush someone use a mace, a hammer, or a polehammer. A sword is none of those…