Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-14909251-20170626041136

Arkantos95 wrote: Or, you know, he was created solely to die and his being Ren's father doesn't automatically make him worthy of extra attention over other minor characters. And he is minor, despite his relationship to Ren.

Besides, as has been pointed out, it's not like allusions matter all that much to begin with in this show. It's not like they had to go digging through an ancient library at the bottom of a lake to find some obscure nobody. Just googling "legendary Japanese warriors" brings up Hattori Hanzo as one of the first suggestions. He is a pretty noteworthy hero figure. Being the weeaboos that they are, RT may have already known about Hattori Hanzo. Also, kind of silly to downplay the singificance of Ren and his family when their history was basically the central tension of nearly all of RNJR's arc this Volume. First Oniyru, then Kuroyuri, were all about him and his parents in terms of story significance. The last fight was literally all about him getting revenge for his parents.