>>7554914The basic gist of the Genji and Hanzo story is very much cliche and over done. What I personally like about it though is the character developments it implies.
They are born to a crime family, trained in ancient ways. Hanzo takes to it seriously, meanwhile Genji is your stereotypical rich playboy entitled ass son. He does not care about the vast majority of the lessons, or the full seriousness of the business, only the social standing and fun it gives him. So he has to be put done and from being humbled by death he gets a bit more serious.
I say he ignored most lessons because he clearly must of taken a few to heart, specifically the dragon blade technique. I have a hunch the only lessons he really paid attention to were anything 'cool' like what you see every main protag in any martial arts training story be like. "dude teach me that super awesome move you did!" Genji was prolly like that, failed most of the fundamentals cause they bored him, but paid extra close attention to the cool ninja shit.
His cyborg body now allows him to get past not having nailed the fundamentals. He is almost like Naruto where he can 'brute force' super advanced shit thanks to a special circumstance.
Hell I like to think he IS a naruto fanboy. Half of him estatic he can now do the cool ninja shit he failed at, the other half PISSED he can no longer lay all the bitches at night clubs he prolly owned.
TLDR: there is a LOT of implications and character development hidden in their backstory which I love exploring beyond the cliche surface we are first presented with.
