Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27057904-20160504042316/@comment-28150993-20161009160753

@Kitsune-no-kamisama

Well,  I myself am not a fan of foreign swords fighting to guard Japanese history. But what I want and what the devs might do are completely different things...

Kancolle was all Japanese ships at first, and then they added Axis powers ships (German and Italian ships). All the important battlefields in Kancolle are based on well-known battles during WW2 (i.e. Axis vs Allied). Surely it doesn't make sense for the devs to add Allied powers' ships in the players' dock, right? I mean, that's basically making an Allied ship fighting a battle on the Axis side, right? Didn't stop the devs from implementing these girls though. And yes, this is a different game with different developer that just happens to be hosted in the same site. I'm just making an example of how seemingly "unjustified" settings won't stop the devs from implementing it.

I'm getting off-track. Let's get back to talking about swords, shall we?

The numbering we see so far is like: Tenka Goken and his clan-member(s) -> swords with at least another clan-member in-game -> swords with no clan-member in-game. What sword can be positioned higher than Tenka Goken? Either the oldest Japanese sword still around (Kogarasumaru) OR the legendary sword known as one of the Imperial Regalias of Japan (Kusanagi). At least that's what I thought because back then I was not sure if they're going to implement a sword of myths inside the game, but after seeing Imatsuru-chan's kiwame... *sobs*

So I'd also bet on Kusanagi for 1-2 and Kogarasumaru might be somewhere in between Shishiou and Doudanuki or somewhere after Otegine (or not implemented at all and this is just a missed guess).

But we might even be wrong and 1-2 turns out to be Doujigiri, who knows *shrugs*

Uhm, I think you might mean Onimaru Kunitsuna of Awataguchi being the one in between Nikkari and Nakigitsune? ^^

I doubt Doujigiri will have a brother-sword in game due to the numbering we've seen so far--he's most likely connected with Ookanehira only (being the swords Yokozuna of east and west).

I'm not completely sure about Yamanbagiri Chougi showing up, but I do hope he'll get implemented so we can see him interacting with Manba. And since Manba is a replica of him, it's possible that they look alike in-game, which makes for a lot of inteeeeresting headcanons. And who knows, he might even be a very-positive type of character, or an emo-type of character!

63-64 is definitely a Muramasa sword, no doubt.