Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20161028003025/@comment-6506463-20161103050705

Aggression25 wrote: Nobody700 wrote: Aggression25 wrote: Impmon101 wrote: Ber246 wrote: I thought the Yamashiro family history was cool but isn't Tatsu the one who had the sword passed down through her family? Wouldn't that make it incorrect that Maseo's family had it passed down to them unless they were distantly related? In Season 3 Episode 22, Tatsu did say that the sword has been passed down through her family. Won't that make Masako Tatsu's ancestor. It's not uncommon for a man to take his wife's last name in Japan. They did it in Evangelion where the antagonistic father of one of the main characters married into his wife's family.

Using Evangelion to explain something has to be one of the weirdest things I have ever heard. It's only an example of a man marrying into a woman's family. Whether or not you choose to consider this example is entirely up to you and you alone. While that may be true, I find it more rare that the man takes on the last name of his wife, and that would be the example I would believe. Better than the alternative that it was a screw up or that maybe they both descended from that family line while Maseo retained the family name, and Tatsu's family line passed the sword down over the years.