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It's definitely a reference to it! It also broadly does mean thousand birds.
by kveykva 3y ago
It's definitely a reference to it! It also broadly does mean thousand birds.
- mepian 3y agoI don't know much about Naruto so initially I thought it could be a Persona 3 reference.
- chirau 3y agoInterestingly, in the Shona language it means 'puppet' which I found very appropriate as it is a functional framework which you have behave in whatever way you want. This was my primary assumption re nomenclature
- bewresu 3y agoAh, nostalgia. Someone better make another called Rasengan.
- matjet 3y agoLore dump: This is not a coincidence, as the characters themselves refer to the chidori being named due to sounding like thousands of birds. The alternate name used by kakashi, raikiri, is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachibana_D%C5%8Dsetsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachibana_D%C5%8Dsetsu