@Blackberry You mean with a katana? Well in this thread, I just learned from @SavoirFaire the name for the sharpest part of the blade, the kissaki. I’ve heard that certain katanas, the ways the blades are made, can be ridiculously sharp. Especially ones geared towards styles that enforce one hit kills or, at least, severe injury…despite that, I think the kissaki is much too small to be able to actually lop off a head. Maybe you could with the rest of the blade, if it’s sharp enough.
I really don’t know, but it’s an interesting question. In order to decapitate a head in one clean shot, the implement would have to be really sharp, but you’d also have to be very fast, I’m assuming. I mean an axe could be sharp and the wielder could be strong, but in most case scenarios, the weapon would remain halfway lodged on the target. Maybe it isn’t light enough. A katana would probably be. I’m sure you could manage with a limb, and probably a head.
I mean technically, you can decapitate someone with it, if the person is still and you have all the time in the world to make it count. Like an execution, or the guy with the sword who lops off the head of the guy committing seppuku when he’s getting to be into way too much pain. You also have gravity on your side, as the weight of the weapon crashing down would do a lot of the work, as opposed to having to create your own momentum in a fight…In actual combat…so many rules would have to be met, as well as conditions needing to be exact along with the rules. And a bit of some fluking, perhaps?
Perhaps I’m over thinking something that’s actually easy to answer. @SavoirFaire do you know lol?