![]() Shishinoko ( Lion's cub) however, is a purported alias of the real Onikiri, based on tales in which the blade made a noise similar to the roar of a lion's cub at night, as is Tomokiri (lit.Both, however, are well-known treasures of the Minamoto clan. While there exist several variants of tales and myths associating the Dōjigiri with the legends of Higekiri, these are separate swords in reality, forged by different smiths of unrelated schools.Composite Character: His in-game lore seems to refer to several different swords as a single entity:.For the curious, the rest are called Onimaru ( Kunitsuna), Mikazuki ( Munechika), Ōdenta ( Mitsuyo) and Juzumaru ( Tsunetsugu), and was the weapon used to behead and kill Shuten-dōji, not Ibaraki-dōji. The real blade that belonged to Yorimitsu was instead Dōjigiri ( Yasutsuna), one of the tenka-goken note the historical "Five Heavenly Swords".It was used by Watanabe no Tsuna, one of Yorimitsu's retainers, under the original name of Sun-Nashi ("lacks a sun") to sever the arm of Ibaraki-dōji, though in reality it only gained the name after the fact. Artistic License – History: The mythical Onikiri does in fact exist according to Japanese folklore, however it belonged to the Nitta clan instead of being associated with Minamoto no Yorimitsu.Subverted, he is just a yōkai tricked by Yorimitsu into believing he is a sword. As a nod to this, he has attacks titled "Higekiri", "Tomokiri" and "Shishinoko". Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the Minamoto clan treasure sword which went through many names, one of them being Onigiri/Onikiri (Yasutsuna) for being used to maim Ibaraki-dōji note Artistic License – History is at play here, because historically the sword was wielded by Watanabe no Tsuna when it was used to sever Ibaraki-dōji's arm, not Minamoto no Yorimitsu.Ancestral Weapon: It helps that he is one in Real Life.A powerful demon-exterminating weapon or so he was lead to believe that lead the attack on Mt. Specialty: Burst DPS, Charge ( Kessen!)The treasure sword of the Minamoto clan who served Minamoto no Yorimitsu except not really. ![]() This only further fans the fire for the English playerbase. Several shards of him were briefly obtainable by NA players in May 2019, being released by accident after an update, before being hastily removed by NetEase in a hotfix.Unless the situation is resolved, he likely will never be released on NA. Due to copyright issues regarding his home series' trademark in the United States, Rikuo is still not available to players of the NA server despite him being the first crossover SSR ever and that files of him can be datamined from the English release, fully localized. Version-Exclusive Content: He is currently available only on the many Asian builds of the game.His Nenekirimaru is supposed to be able to harm only yōkai, though hitting the human protagonists during gameplay still hurts.Regardless of this, the time of the map he's on doesn't matter. Rikuo's awakened state is actually his Night form, which only manifests after sundown.
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