User blog comment:Buddyfight Unified Universe/Will There Ever Be Another Blade Beast? (Observations of the Origins of the Blade Beasts and questions moving forward.)/@comment-3974145-20160827085735/@comment-26290163-20160827201826

I agree that they could make more from the other Japanese Blades. When I was going over them, I just couldn't wrap my mind around any of the Hundred Demon attribute swords becoming "protectors" of humans from ghosts. Kuromasa would be amazing though. For now, I like tutoring it with Ghostslash and tossing it on Hundred Face, Muraku to create a 6000 5 1000 size 1 Ninja. After using all other attacks, if you have the gauge for "A Wise Move", you can call Hundred Face and say "surprise!" ;)

I understand the weird naming of Onimaru and probably didn't do a good enough job of showing how I came to see it had to be an Elite Sword.

From the blog, take another look at the flavor text of Five Heavenly Swords, Onimaru.

The first I pasted was from the original, and the second from the reprint that came in the set with the Blade Beasts.

(R) "Five Heavenly Swords are the cream of the crop out of the many countless blades.

(U): Among the Elite Swords, only the Onimaru has the blade that can cut light. Once again, a simple look at the Kanji of all Five Elite Swords reinforces this.

The reprint makes it clear that it is one of the "Elite" Swords, but they didn't do themselves any favors by choosing the translation they did. If you do an historical look up, you'll find information similar to the link that the trivia on it's page brings up. In fact, you can see all 5 of them on one page from the link, and they all look quite impressive and have very interesting history attached to them.

For instance, with Odenta "Odenta Mitsuyo is short in blade length and wide in width compared to other regular katana sword. When the lord of the Kaga domain, Maeda Toshiie, borrowed the sword from the 2nd Shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, Toshiie’s daughter recovered from serious illness; therefore the sword was bestowed to the Maeda clan as a treasure sword. It is recorded that when Yamada Asaemon tested the sword, it was able to cut off two bodies and halfway at the backbone of the third body. The sword we see today has a black leathered mounting in a style called Onimaru koshirae, which the 2nd lord, Maeda Toshitsune, ordered to manufacutre."

This fits well with Odenta's flavor text and the swords on the page have the longer and more proper names as you can see from Oden Mitsuyo. Even Dojigiri is referred to as Dojigiri Yasutsune, meaning only the "Dojigiri" and "Tojikiri" are different from each other.

Here are the names of all 5 swords from the site that shows the actual blades. You can also note that the page refers to them as neither "Elite" nor "Heavenly", but as:

"Tenga Goken - the five greatest swords" which corresponds with the phonetic of all 5 of the Elite Swords. If you look at each of their pages they all start with "Tengagoken" and then the name of the blade. Unfortunately, no other Japanese Blade has "Tengagoken" in it's phonetic.

Anyway, here are the names they are referred to in English:

Juzumaru Tsunetsugu (fixes difference in name from monster) Mikazuki Munechika Dojigiri Yasutsune (fixes most of the difference in name from monster) Odenta Mitsuyo (fixes difference in name from monster) Onimaru Kunitsuna (fixes difference in name from monster)

To take it further, I translated the Kanji from all swords and Blade Beasts to make sure, but only posted the part that translates to "Elite Sword" for all 5 of them to show that Five Heavenly Swords, Onimaru is an "Elite Sword".

You can take the Kanji of all 5 of the swords I mentioned and translate it to see what I mean. You can either copy the Kanji I copied and pasted in the blog, or copy the complete Kanji from each of the 5 Swords, including Onimaru. You'll see that they are the same, but during the English translation of Onimaru, they chose to use "Five Heavenly Swords" instead of "Elite".

I wish they would have been clearer in the English from the start as historically speaking, all of these swords are incredibly interesting.

As far as further monsters, I think the Grandma from Episode 21 should return at some point because of the knowledge she possesses. It would be great if something cataclysmic happens and it forces the Five Elite Swords to create either other versions of the 5 monsters we have so far, or a "Call on top of and gain the ability of the monster you called onto" (wishful thinking).

Certainly though, I'd think we hopefully see an Impact Monster. Heck, maybe there are actually 6 Elite Swords and Granny turns out to be the long forgotten one. I'd like her on my team, just leave her grandson off. Hmmmm... What happened to his father?

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to post. I'm in your boat of hoping for more Blade Beasts.