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[erdbeerkeks]

<randomness>Could it be than Edeltraft = Edel... trap XD That would explain why "he" has a female sounding name eh?</randomness>

Revertrap? I don't think so, his body is way to manly. Most names starting with Edel- are female, but there are some male names that use it. (edel = noble, but I could not find out, what "traft" means.)
Another form sof "edel" that is used in old names are"Adal / Adel / Al / Etel / Ethel / Odal / Udal". There are a lot of male names starting with that.
 
While we are at it, does the name Marmaduke sound like something you'd call a woman?

Edited by erdbeerkeks, October 27 2014 - 04:24 PM.

[Ogata]

I bet Mihai always dresses up as vampire for Halloween parties.

 

Personally, Edeltraft reminds me more of a character from Rose of Versailles with his long hair and fancy old-fashioned name.

Since he has a "von" in his name, I think I can safely assume that he's of noble heritage and maybe even has a proper title.

Edeltraft is a really, really obscure name and I think probably no-one born after 1850 carried that name. The hits I got were for stories published in magazines from 1775 and 1808. I wonder where Matsuena got his name from. Some kitschy romance knight novel set in the middle ages? Also interesting: Most names I could find that start with Edel- are actually female given names.

For シラー I get the results Schira and Schiller, though there are not many people names Schira. I'm actually pretty sure Matsuena is referring to one of the most important German poets ever: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Maybe our Eldeltraft is one of his descendants.

Lol I bet Mihai would cosplay as a grim reaper and that the idea of becoming a "Grim reaper" probably made him train hard to become a master. His outfit is probably a homage to shinigami Ryuk from Death Note and Hidan from Naruto.

Ofcourse he is a human and not a grim reaper but once Mihai became a master he said to himself:






As far Edletraft goes, its weird because he was the last master to reveal his face and his Silhouette in the beginning looked like a black guy with afro. I thought he was suppose to be a homage to afro samurai but then he turns out to be a guy who looks like he is from spain but then he has a german theme in terms of name and culture meanwhile his looks and weapon are spanish. This why I mentioned Bleaches Arrancars and Quincies. I have never watched rose of versailis so Im not sure which character it is but yeah it makes sense that his a homage to a German poet since he was exchanging poetry with Akisame or trying to anyway...
 

[erdbeerkeks]

Lol I bet Mihai would cosplay as a grim reaper and that the idea of becoming a "Grim reaper" probably made him train hard to become a master. His outfit is probably a homage to shinigami Ryuk from Death Note and Hidan from Naruto.

Ofcourse he is a human and not a grim reaper but once Mihai became a master he said to himself:






As far Edletraft goes, its weird because he was the last master to reveal his face and his Silhouette in the beginning looked like a black guy with afro. I thought he was suppose to be a homage to afro samurai but then he turns out to be a guy who looks like he is from spain but then he has a german theme in terms of name and culture meanwhile his looks and weapon are spanish. This why I mentioned Bleaches Arrancars and Quincies. I have never watched rose of versailis so Im not sure which character it is but yeah it makes sense that his a homage to a German poet since he was exchanging poetry with Akisame or trying to anyway...

Grim Reaper Mihai. I can see him happily skipping around in his reaper costume singing something about killing people.


I mentioned Rose of Versailles, because his hairstyle reminds me of what was in fashion during that time. If you visit a museum here and look at painting from that time, many men wore long and wavy hair (or wigs). That and his name.
I've been wondering where you get the Spanisch theme for Edeltraft from. Only Bleach? (I have to admit I've never watched or read Bleach. Because I've looked up the sword Matsuena lists as his weapon: 斬首刀 - the executioner's blade or in German: Richtschwert. These swords were in use all over Europe and the pictures even show German swords, soI can't see anything specifically Spanish about it. Also, as I've mentioned before, this hairstyle was quite common everywhere in Europe back then - again nothing purely Spanish about it.

 

Nice how someone with a 17th century hairstyle and a 17th century name who only speaks in 17th century poetry (much to Ogata's dismay) uses a 17th century weapon. I think we can assume that he is rather old fashioned.

Edited by erdbeerkeks, October 28 2014 - 09:56 AM.

[Ogata]

Grim Reaper Mihai. I can see him happily skipping around in his reaper costume singing something about killing people.


I mentioned Rose of Versailles, because his hairstyle reminds me of what was in fashion during that time. If you visit a museum here and look at painting from that time, many men wore long and wavy hair (or wigs). That and his name.
I've been wondering where you get the Spanisch theme for Edeltraft from. Only Bleach? (I have to admit I've never watched or read Bleach. Because I've looked up the sword Matsuena lists as his weapon: 斬首刀 - the executioner's blade or in German: Richtschwert. These swords were in use all over Europe and the pictures even show German swords, soI can't see anything specifically Spanish about it. Also, as I've mentioned before, this hairstyle was quite common everywhere in Europe back then - again nothing purely Spanish about it.

 

Nice how someone with a 17th century hairstyle and a 17th century name who only speaks in 17th century poetry (much to Ogata's dismay) uses a 17th century weapon. I think we can assume that he is rather old fashioned.

Your right, its weird but for the longest time I never really paid attention to how he looks and now I just finished seeing his pictures in various panels and he does look European. No doubt, he is EXACTLY like the qunicies from the series Bleach who have identitcal names and outfits to Edletraft.

In regards to Mihai, He said that Shigures father made his scythe and outfit. But then again her father died when she was  5 or 6 years old. While currently Michael is 29 years old while Shigure is 22-24. If thats the case, how in gods name Shigure fathers knew how tall Michael was gonna grow up to be to make him a custome outfit and scythe?

 

[Combatmaster1o3]

Your right, its weird but for the longest time I never really paid attention to how he looks and now I just finished seeing his pictures in various panels and he does look European. No doubt, he is EXACTLY like the qunicies from the series Bleach who have identitcal names and outfits to Edletraft.

In regards to Mihai, He said that Shigures father made his scythe and outfit. But then again her father died when she was  5 or 6 years old. While currently Michael is 29 years old while Shigure is 22-24. If thats the case, how in gods name Shigure fathers knew how tall Michael was gonna grow up to be to make him a custome outfit and scythe?

 

Perhaps he's inherited it? He's rich but they didn't say how he got rich. Could be that he's in the yami family and inherited the title from the previous member in the Executioner blade, his master. That could explain how a relatively weak master could have the title.(In no way is he weak, all Im saying is that he's not as strong as any of the other masters.)It could be his weapon, it might be that he's skilled or maybe more skilled in other weapons, he just uses his favorite.

 

edit: maybe it his only weapon made by Shigure's father.

Edited by Combatmaster1o3, October 28 2014 - 07:38 PM.

[Ogata]

Perhaps he's inherited it? He's rich but they didn't say how he got rich. Could be that he's in the yami family and inherited the title from the previous member in the Executioner blade, his master. That could explain how a relatively weak master could have the title.(In no way is he weak, all Im saying is that he's not as strong as any of the other masters.)It could be his weapon, it might be that he's skilled or maybe more skilled in other weapons, he just uses his favorite.

 

edit: maybe it his only weapon made by Shigure's father.

But is he rich though? I have heard Citizen_Lion and myself discussing Michaels possible uprbinging and we theorized that he maybe from some royal family who owns a farms or vinyard but then again that won't explain how a rich kid can become some ruthless and over the top martial arts master.

Also, he may have inherited the weapon but IRL if you want to purchase a scythe, then you have to go to make sure its custome made so the handles and the blade matches your body type. He also mentioned that Shigures father created his outfit as well which again is a weird coincident.



 

[Combatmaster1o3]

But is he rich though? I have heard Citizen_Lion and myself discussing Michaels possible uprbinging and we theorized that he maybe from some royal family who owns a farms or vinyard but then again that won't explain how a rich kid can become some ruthless and over the top martial arts master.

Also, he may have inherited the weapon but IRL if you want to purchase a scythe, then you have to go to make sure its custome made so the handles and the blade matches your body type. He also mentioned that Shigures father created his outfit as well which again is a weird coincident.



 

To be fair, Shigure's father had a fully working prosthetic arm.

[citizen_lion]

But is he rich though? I have heard Citizen_Lion and myself discussing Michaels possible uprbinging and we theorized that he maybe from some royal family who owns a farms or vinyard but then again that won't explain how a rich kid can become some ruthless and over the top martial arts master.

Also, he may have inherited the weapon but IRL if you want to purchase a scythe, then you have to go to make sure its custome made so the handles and the blade matches your body type. He also mentioned that Shigures father created his outfit as well which again is a weird coincident.

 

 

All that detail could be either coincidental, or could actually be supporting evidence for the fact that he is indeed rich(er than most other Yami grandmasters, who are already quite wealthy by any normal standards). 

 

As combatmaster said, he most likely inherited the scythe, but I doubt it. I think it is a lot more likely that he commissioned it himself. Shigure was 14 when her father died, and I presume, also the year when Kii Kagerou killed her pet swallow. Mihai would be 20 then, probably an expert at the time. Most male have more or less peaked out in height by about 20 (a cm or two more of grow afterward usually). His build will be a bit thinner back then, but nothing a skilled armorer can't compensate for.

 

The interesting thing is that he owns at least 2 pieces by Shigure's father, plus military grade ablative armour (I think he just put in the type that is used on tanks) that could stand up to a serious punch from Ma Kensei (which Mihai stated that it could have knocked him out if he took it directly).

 

These things are expensive and rare to the extreme. Another Yami grandmaster who manage to have one of these pieces would treasure it for life. Mihai has TWO, and these two pieces are considerably more work to make than a sword. We also don't know whether he has more equipment from Shigure's dad (I wouldn't be surprised if his boots turn out to be able to stop grandmaster-class strikes too).

 

That speaks of money and influence, because I doubt that Mihai would impress Shigure's dad enough with his personal character to get a discount. (unlike, say, Kii Kagerou, who is actually a pretty good person to be around if you know his dedication to the sword, and who might have trained Shigure's dad in swordmanship. Well, by "train" I mean he probably just gave some demonstrations and tips).

 

Furthermore, if he got these pieces when he was 20 and just an expert, it was less likely through the money of Yami, but more through his own money and the influence from Yami. I wouldn't put it past these wazamono to be worth a million or more dollars a piece on the black market or auctions, considering that really good swords in this mundane real life already costs tens of thousands a piece (and by no means these are unique, irreplaceable pieces either)

Edited by citizen_lion, October 29 2014 - 02:41 PM.

[Ogata]

To be fair, Shigure's father had a fully working prosthetic arm.

I know, its not that about the prosthetic arm though, its more like how did he manage to meet Shigures father while being so young.

 

All that detail could be either coincidental, or could actually be supporting evidence for the fact that he is indeed rich(er than most other Yami grandmasters, who are already quite wealthy by any normal standards). 

 

As combatmaster said, he most likely inherited the scythe, but I doubt it. I think it is a lot more likely that he commissioned it himself. 1.Shigure was 14 when her father died, and I presume, also the year when Kii Kagerou killed her pet swallow. Mihai would be 20 then, probably an expert at the time. Most male have more or less peaked out in height by about 20 (a cm or two more of grow afterward usually). His build will be a bit thinner back then, but nothing a skilled armorer can't compensate for.

 

2.The interesting thing is that he owns at least 2 pieces by Shigure's father, plus military grade ablative armour (I think he just put in the type that is used on tanks) that could stand up to a serious punch from Ma Kensei (which Mihai stated that it could have knocked him out if he took it directly).

 

These things are expensive and rare to the extreme. Another Yami grandmaster who manage to have one of these pieces would treasure it for life. Mihai has TWO, and these two pieces are considerably more work to make than a sword. We also don't know whether he has more equipment from Shigure's dad (I wouldn't be surprised if his boots turn out to be able to stop grandmaster-class strikes too).

 

3.That speaks of money and influence, because I doubt that Mihai would impress Shigure's dad enough with his personal character to get a discount. (unlike, say, Kii Kagerou, who is actually a pretty good person to be around if you know his dedication to the sword, and who might have trained Shigure's dad in swordmanship. Well, by "train" I mean he probably just gave some demonstrations and tips).

 

Furthermore, if he got these pieces when he was 20 and just an expert, it was less likely through the money of Yami, but more through his own money and the influence from Yami. I wouldn't put it past these wazamono to be worth a million or more dollars a piece on the black market or auctions, considering that really good swords in this mundane real life already costs tens of thousands a piece (and by no means these are unique, irreplaceable pieces either)

1. Was she 14 years old when her father died? I thought Shigure was 6 or 7 years old when her father died? I don't remember which chapter it was that had the Akisame vs Shigures father flashback but I remember Shigure to be atleast 8 years old and not 14. Which would make Mihai to be 11 to 13 years old.

2. See I have noticed two different drawing of his scythe. One has a giant blades but a short and awkward handle while in some drawings, his scythe blades seem smaller but the handle is longer and more straight. Then again, in some panels his earings are not drawn which made me think that it was the authors lack of consistency on drawing Mihai in various panels.


3. Was Shigures father working for money though? I remember his house being in a really crappy cabin in middle of nowhere and Kii Kagerou didn't give him any money. Then again, Rin remarked that Shigures father was Yamis blacksmith which meant that he may have gotten paid by Yami while weapon masters repaid that debt by various missions perhaps...

That being said, I wonder if Mihai actualy met Shigures father or if her father made the scythe for Michaels master on behalf of Michael....



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[Combatmaster1o3]

I know, its not that about the prosthetic arm though, its more like how did he manage to meet Shigures father while being so young.

 

1. Was she 14 years old when her father died? I thought Shigure was 6 or 7 years old when her father died? I don't remember which chapter it was that had the Akisame vs Shigures father flashback but I remember Shigure to be atleast 8 years old and not 14. Which would make Mihai to be 11 to 13 years old.

2. See I have noticed two different drawing of his scythe. One has a giant blades but a short and awkward handle while in some drawings, his scythe blades seem smaller but the handle is longer and more straight. Then again, in some panels his earings are not drawn which made me think that it was the authors lack of consistency on drawing Mihai in various panels.


3. Was Shigures father working for money though? I remember his house being in a really crappy cabin in middle of nowhere and Kii Kagerou didn't give him any money. Then again, Rin remarked that Shigures father was Yamis blacksmith which meant that he may have gotten paid by Yami while weapon masters repaid that debt by various missions perhaps...

That being said, I wonder if Mihai actualy met Shigures father or if her father made the scythe for Michaels master on behalf of Michael....



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He may have not been "paid" in money. He stated that the organization he works for(Yami) allowed him to experiment with designees. He paid them back with weapons, which they paid for in materials.

He is someone who has perfected his craft through blood, then felt guilty and killed himself when he finished. Since Shigure couldn't have known how to forge brilliant swords at a young age, she must have had a master who also knew, or at least deciphered, the secret of iron. 

 

Also the purpose of the arm comment was to show that he has done unbelievable things. So making an outfit for a Executioner blades disciple when he becomes a master wouldn't be a hard thing. 

 

 

They never say that the sword is made of pure steel, that makes me thinking that Mihai's scythes handle is made of a metal alloy with titanium. That would give it the strength and that extreme flexibility.

Edited by Combatmaster1o3, November 01 2014 - 10:59 AM.

[Nacchi]

What if Mihai modeled his body to fit his scythe as he grew up?

[Combatmaster1o3]

What if Mihai modeled his body to fit his scythe as he grew up?

Cool. Im sure weapon masters do model their bodies to suit their particular craft.

[Ogata]

He may have not been "paid" in money. He stated that the organization he works for(Yami) allowed him to experiment with designees. He paid them back with weapons, which they paid for in materials.

He is someone who has perfected his craft through blood, then felt guilty and killed himself when he finished. Since Shigure couldn't have known how to forge brilliant swords at a young age, she must have had a master who also knew, or at least deciphered, the secret of iron. 

 

Also the purpose of the arm comment was to show that he has done unbelievable things. So making an outfit for a Executioner blades disciple when he becomes a master wouldn't be a hard thing. 

 

 

They never say that the sword is made of pure steel, that makes me thinking that Mihai's scythes handle is made of a metal alloy with titanium. That would give it the strength and that extreme flexibility.

Good point! Lots of master seem to be some form of artists or designers so a weapon master being able to make other things makes sense I guess.

I was thinking about his scythe and it does make sense to have some form of alloy since he was shown to be attacking and cutting of tanks,machine guns againts desert soldiers and so, if Michaels body is that strong, then his weapons durability must match his great strength as well other wise his weapon would continue breaking.

 

What if Mihai modeled his body to fit his scythe as he grew up?

What do you mean modeled his body? Do you mean, watch his diet or do excercises to keep himself thin?

[Nacchi]

Good point! Lots of master seem to be some form of artists or designers so a weapon master being able to make other things makes sense I guess.

I was thinking about his scythe and it does make sense to have some form of alloy since he was shown to be attacking and cutting of tanks,machine guns againts desert soldiers and so, if Michaels body is that strong, then his weapons durability must match his great strength as well other wise his weapon would continue breaking.
 
What do you mean modeled his body? Do you mean, watch his diet or do excercises to keep himself thin?

 

More than that. I think Shigure's father might have been able to make an estimate about how tall and what body type Mihai would be when he grew up when he crafted his scythe. But these predictions have some room for deviation. So, in order to have a perfect fit with his weapon, Mihai made sure he grew into the measurement his weapons was specified for. I've read that some form of excessive training hinder your growth, because your epiphyseal plates (right word?) grow closed earlier than they would have otherwise. (Not sure if this is true or if someone made that up). Or, if he was going to end up a bit to short he might have stretched his bones, maybe even going so far as to break them for that purpose, to reach his desired height and arm span.
So far for my strange theory I came up with sometime around 2 am.

[Combatmaster1o3]

More than that. I think Shigure's father might have been able to make an estimate about how tall and what body type Mihai would be when he grew up when he crafted his scythe. But these predictions have some room for deviation. So, in order to have a perfect fit with his weapon, Mihai made sure he grew into the measurement his weapons was specified for. I've read that some form of excessive training hinder your growth, because your epiphyseal plates (right word?) grow closed earlier than they would have otherwise. (Not sure if this is true or if someone made that up). Or, if he was going to end up a bit to short he might have stretched his bones, maybe even going so far as to break them for that purpose, to reach his desired height and arm span.
So far for my strange theory I came up with sometime around 2 am.

Interesting idea. Perhaps he grew up wielding it? Height is mostly genes if food is not a factor, so he could have made a measurement off that. Also you can predict a child's height when they're young apparently. My brother was predicted to be 6'2'' and me 5' 11'.(btw I am 6 ft tall, 1 inch away. My brother is taller than me when I was his age so I think he's gonna make it. )

 

Exactly how dense do you think the masters bones are, clearly above average would be an immediate guess. There is a family with unusually dense bones, about nine times the average bone density. They found out when he had a car crash and he suffered no injuries, no fractures, no bruising. His cousin couldn't get implants because the titanium bits are too soft.

[citizen_lion]

Interesting idea. Perhaps he grew up wielding it? Height is mostly genes if food is not a factor, so he could have made a measurement off that. Also you can predict a child's height when they're young apparently. My brother was predicted to be 6'2'' and me 5' 11'.(btw I am 6 ft tall, 1 inch away. My brother is taller than me when I was his age so I think he's gonna make it. )

 

Exactly how dense do you think the masters bones are, clearly above average would be an immediate guess. There is a family with unusually dense bones, about nine times the average bone density. They found out when he had a car crash and he suffered no injuries, no fractures, no bruising. His cousin couldn't get implants because the titanium bits are too soft.

 

One thing that bugs me about HSDK is the fact that all the masters have weights that are "more or less normal", which indicates more or less normal muscles and bone density, which would be really illogical, especially since most other things in HSDK is indeed logical (fantastic and not realistic, but logical within the universe of the story)!

 

Even in real life bone and muscle density can make you a lot heavier than you look. I weight 90kg, and 5'6'' tall (if IRL master class is ever possible, I'll try to be a good version of Jenazad, haha) and nobody ever guessed my weight correctly looking at me. Even my wife often thinks that I'm only 70kg, since she's 58kg and also 5'6'' tall, and she says how the hell can I be 1.6 times her weight while not looking that much bigger. When I was younger, everyone guessed my weight correctly, so it was all the result of training. I am absurdly resistant to injury for a normal person, surviving various falls and other minor accidents without any medical attention whatsoever, just stood up and kept walking to work like nothing happened.

 

HSDK's master classes and beyond should have bone density completely maxed out, so being as dense as limestone. Then the grow from master to legendary master is about muscle density (and of course technique, heart, etc.).

 

Height is easy to guess only in the case of well-crafted nutritionally and abundant diet. An uncle of mine who was really short for a guy (5'1'' or so) and his wife who was quite average height for an Asian woman (5'2'') produced a son who is 5'8'' at age 13 (not sure if he will go even taller) and a daughter who is 5' at age 10. So probably recessive genes, or just much better diet now that they are no longer very poor (the wife is also a biologist, so she knows a thing or two about eating well).

Edited by citizen_lion, November 07 2014 - 02:34 PM.

[citizen_lion]

Good point! Lots of master seem to be some form of artists or designers so a weapon master being able to make other things makes sense I guess.

I was thinking about his scythe and it does make sense to have some form of alloy since he was shown to be attacking and cutting of tanks,machine guns againts desert soldiers and so, if Michaels body is that strong, then his weapons durability must match his great strength as well other wise his weapon would continue breaking.

 

I wouldn't be so surprised about the scythe and things like Shigure's and Kii Kagerou's blades. Even in real life we do have steel that are extremely tough and can be made to be very sharp. All it takes is the strength to wield it and the precision to control the angle of a slash even with that great strength, and you can slice through other lesser-quality steel objects (ok, maybe not tanks )

 

Note that even Shigure is not able to slice through a tank barrel (probably much tougher steel than the rest of the tank) in one slash with her special katana. It took TWO slashes to the exact same spot, the first slash only penetrated about 1cm into the barrel. So from that scene we can guess that even Shigure's sword is not THAT much harder than, say, modern tool steel, and her devastating results with it comes from her skill and master class strength. BUT even Shigure's sword would break if hit against say a diamond-coated mining drill head.

 

oh, also I realized that a weapon master can even "cheat" with steel hardness. For example, making a sword out of extremely high "hardness" steel is a bad idea because it would break the first time you try to cut something. But if you have the extreme precision to hit every target in a dead 90% angle, and never wiggle your hand as the blade goes through the target, then yes, you can cheat and use the absolute hardest material you can find, reinforce it a little bit, and make a blade out of it. (e.g. various diamond swords in fantasy  )

Edited by citizen_lion, November 07 2014 - 02:55 PM.

[Combatmaster1o3]

I wouldn't be so surprised about the scythe and things like Shigure's and Kii Kagerou's blades. Even in real life we do have steel that are extremely tough and can be made to be very sharp. All it takes is the strength to wield it and the precision to control the angle of a slash even with that great strength, and you can slice through other lesser-quality steel objects (ok, maybe not tanks )

 

Note that even Shigure is not able to slice through a tank barrel (probably much tougher steel than the rest of the tank) in one slash with her special katana. It took TWO slashes to the exact same spot, the first slash only penetrated about 1cm into the barrel. So from that scene we can guess that even Shigure's sword is not THAT much harder than, say, modern tool steel, and her devastating results with it comes from her skill and master class strength. BUT even Shigure's sword would break if hit against say a diamond-coated mining drill head.

 

oh, also I realized that a weapon master can even "cheat" with steel hardness. For example, making a sword out of extremely high "hardness" steel is a bad idea because it would break the first time you try to cut something. But if you have the extreme precision to hit every target in a dead 90% angle, and never wiggle your hand as the blade goes through the target, then yes, you can cheat and use the absolute hardest material you can find, reinforce it a little bit, and make a blade out of it. (e.g. various diamond swords in fantasy  )

Er no. I would say that Shigure's sword is extremely tough(Like super god like tough) but no super flexible(it has some flex but not nearly as Sai's). When she cut the tank barrel, it looked like a preliminary cut first then the real hack. Showing she had technique(Has she done this before 0.o).(Btw cutting wood with a sword is extreme, if it can deflect bullets and stop those massive hydraulic door well idk man). All of this stated before could also be due to a lot of experience with a Katana and Grand master class reflexes. As you said before, she could use slashes so refined that a sword blade with that kind of hardness would stay well maintained. I wouldn't be surprised if her Katana is made of a type of stainless steel, which normally is WAY to hard to use in a sword.

 

In all of this, it seems like a lot of masters have updated their traditional gear. I don't know if you guys know but the classic european knight would have an edge against a Japanese samurai. The plate protected better and weighed less. Their tactics were far more siege like and less like palaces with random, virtually useless walls. Beautiful but nearly useless. Yami seems to have taken this highly admired armor and turned it into something that can with stand bullets,which I would guess would be better than just the steel plates which would vibrate and give all that force to the user. However it also could be due to their training and highly resilient body structure(with improved armor) in which then neither would be much better.

Edited by Combatmaster1o3, November 07 2014 - 05:08 PM.

[Delirium Trigger]

I honestly thought that Mihai coincidentally found that specific scythe during some random killing... I guess not. It makes me wonder how many scythes did Shigure's Father make, seeing that Siegmarigen also wields a near exact replica of it. Even the little eye of "Soul Edge" is on it.

 

Did you do a trivia on Mihai, yet? I'd like to know how he met his disciple, who apparently is of German origin by his name. And Hongo?

[Nacchi]

@Delirium Trigger
Mihai has almost no information besides his basic profile and his disciple doesn't get mentioned anywhere. It's really sad  the weapon users are treated like that.
 
 

One wikia contributor wrot that Sigmaringen might be named after the Romanian royan family which got its name from a town in Germany. This is what wikipedia tells me.

 

Sigmaringen was the birthplace of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, a Roman Catholic martyr of the Counter-Reformation in Switzerland and Ferdinand of Romania, King of Romania. It was one of the residences of deceased Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, the late representative of the house, who was the first in the line of succession to the throne of Romania, by Salic law. [...]

 
The page about the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family is quite interesting as well. So even, if he goes by a German name (is that even his real name or a pseudonym like many Yomi disciples have?), that doesn't really mean that he has to be German. If he really is German, Romania and Germany are not that far apart and travel within European countries is easy nowadays. You don't even need a passport for countries that are members of the EU.
 
I think I did Hongo some pages ago, but I'm not sure anymore.

Edited by Nacchi, November 09 2014 - 02:40 PM.