Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-14909251-20170627071004

Arkantos95 wrote: Ren has become significant. Li and (whatever his mom's name is, don't care to look it up) have not simply because their deaths were a driving force for one episode. The antagonist of that arc is dead, and everything about it's been resolved. Their relevance is only going to decrease with time.

And as has been stated there's no similarities between Hattori and Li. On the other hand, he's basically just Overwatch Hanzo transferred into Maya in terms of appearance. So who is it more likely he has an allusion to? You keep stating things as if they are certain that you have no way of knowing for certain. How do you know there is nothing relevant about his parents that will come up later? The fact we don't know anything about their backstory also invalidates your claim about Li having no similarities. What do we really have to compare here in terms of backstory?

A lot of things about his parents are unknown and may still require illumination. Most notably, it sounded as if his parents had some sort of involvement in Oniyuri, but this is never really explained. If they were involved in its contruction in some way or perhaps in assisting those building it then that is one thing that could come up in a variety of ways in the future such as if there are survivors from Oniyuri they meet.

For that matter, we don't know who else may have survived from Kuroyuri and thus there could be someone with a connection to his parents who is still in the story and will be of significance in the next Volume. Basically, we don't know nearly enough to state his parents are too insignificant to warrant any serious thought about their allusions.