Talk:Purple Wisterias of May/@comment-37460594-20190801230110

hey just to add another layer of Pain to this fucking thing, the theme of wisterias is a reference to a sea battle that took place in japan in which the tides played a role in deciding who the victor was . souma's outfit is based off of one of the players in that battle, yoshitsune, one of the most famous samurai in japans history, for his role in various wars that you can google. madara takes the role of Musashibou Benkei, the most loyal follower of yoshitsune (who was his retainer, who, legend tells us ended a 999-streak of victories in which benkei had taken the swords of all of those he'd bested, further paralleling wisterias story). kanata is Shizuka Gozen, who was one of yoshitsune's mistresses and a dancer for his court. mitsuru's chosen "character" (are they characters if they really existed??) is symbolic in its own way, though the parallel is less. ouchie imo.

anyways thanks again for ruining my life akira