Talk:Gokotai/@comment-14.201.94.179-20160925062745

(was going to post this as a reply but then decided to make a comment instead asdsdfghjf T T, sorry for bad english ;;;)

An answer/interpretation to where the 5 tigers went after kiwame:

Prior to kiwame training Uesugi Kenshin and Gokotai himself both say that Gokotai never defeated 5 tigers (b/c there were no tigers in Japan lol) so the 5 baby tigers he had before kiwame may just be a embodiment/representation of Gokotai's name/history/legend idk. (tldr: they weren't real tigers)

So where did the big tiger come from?

The big tiger is either a conbination of all the tigers (if you look closely it has the individual markings of all the baby tigers, e.g. black paws) however, it may also symbolise  Uesugi Kenshin, as he was the one who trained Gokotai during kiwame training, being the 'Tiger of Echigo' and helped Gokotai realise his true strength.

All in all the fact that Gokotai returned with one tiger/the tigers conbined into one means that he successfuly inherited Uesugi Kenshin's will and has reached his true potential. Gokotai himself also said "I do think that I managed to obtain some part of Kagetora-sama's strength."