Talk:Kyojuro Rengoku/@comment-43597549-20191019142339/@comment-33241408-20191026181727

That’s probably because Rengoku-aniki was a fire-type swordsman and fire has an important place in the popular image of purgatory?You see,most characters in My Hero Academia have puns in their names…even the name of Rengoku-aniki’s mother(Ruka，瑠火) has something to do with fire(火).

Some Japanese KnY fans have a theory:

Since“purgatory”is some sort of foreign word …Christianity was introduced to Japan during the Warring States period by Southern European Jesuits.So perhaps Rengoku-aniki’s ancestor(the first flame pillar,who was instructed by Yoriichi Tsugikuni )was probably a immigrant, a渡来人(toraijin,a foreigner who crossed the sea into another country; typically into Japan),as native Japanese don’t have blond hair.

Sorry for the grammar and spelling mistakes.English is not my mother tongue_(´ ཀ `」 ∠)_