Talk:Zanbamon

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I do not know how to sign so will apologize in advance. Digimon is amazing. Anyways, the large sword he weilds looks alot like the buster sword cloud weilds. Any information about this?

Also, i noticed he looks similar to odin in most of the final fantasy games, and his attacks are similar to him to. I am thinking he was made to reference that game.
 * Zanbamon is a Demon Man Digimon whose name and design is derived from  "zanbato" .
 * The Zanbato is a sword made for breaking a horse's legs and blasting through armor. Zanbamon is based on a mounter Japanese soldier, so it is no more based on Odin or Cloud than a medieval knight would be. 15:17, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Ok, i knew where he got his name. I was just pointing out his attacks, and looks heavily point towards these characters. Final Fantasy and Digimon are prob my favorite two things. Found it more then slightly amusing this digimon looks like odin in FF7, has a weapon like the FF7 main character, and uses attacks similar to Odin in FF7, and his attacks look like Odins from the same serious.

I am not trying to argue, and i am wrong, his moves are named different. But...looking at his weapons (both look like FF7 protagonist and antagonist weapons), his looks, his moves effects, and his move animations as well as this being a fans idea turned into a digimon i have to lean towards it being based off that. Only because, 1 samurai did not weild zanbato on horse back, zanbato are not commonly known and are overshadowed by a katana, this digimon got its name from bandai turning it into a digimon orginally called something else, etc. evidence lends heavily towards FF7. just how i see it.
 * As far as I know, Bandai doesn't give names to the contest Digimon. Plus, all contest Digimon are made by Japanese kids, so they probably about the zanbato. Zanbato may not be much known in Western, but can you say the same about Japan, the land where it was used? 16:19, July 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Bandai does modify the names. The design that became Whamon was originally Kujimon.
 * Zanbato aren't real, they're a fictional type of Japanese sword basically equivalent to the modern day lightsaber.
 * You're right, it was a horse-killing sword only, not mounted. Still, he rides a dead horse for that reason.
 * Cloud and Odin wield Zanbato because it's a popular weapon for anime and manga characters, and has been since long before they were created. It's not obscure, especially in this genre.
 * His attacks are only like the Zantetsuken inasmuch as that's how you would use a Zanbato.
 * Technically, Zanbamon was released in 1999, two years after FFVII. However, considering just how much of his design is simply derived from the zanbato, and there's nothing about it that would have to derive from another source, I think it's definitely false that he's based on Odin. 17:01, July 21, 2012 (UTC)