Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5949188-20140704194818/@comment-1457172-20140707202429

Not directly but from the episode where they first meet and the beginning of the last opening, Tenma is one of the talented soccer players whose genes created Saru, that's just common sense.

 But there's nothing to really indicate they they're related. Not only is it ever stated by anyone, but the idea behind the two being related is basically never referred to after the beginning. If anything, it's more of a parallel of character. Saru wants fights for what he believes in, but in general he doesn't like fighting and cares for soccer. But, through mistreatment and the hatred of others, hie becomes warped and cares little for the wellbeing of others, only fighting for revenge and equality. Not too different from Tenma, but he never felt that hatred, he always had friends to keep him in line.

Gouenji said Tenma was, I can see it from his power to evolve Keshin and Soul, and Zanark can wipe a stadium with his power, SSC basically means a X-men and Feida is their base.

I remember the part that you're referring to, but it's not outright stated that Tenma is an SSC. They do say that he might be one, though. As for Zanark, you have to consider that there's no other character like him, not even among the SSC. It's difficult to compare, because given that Zanark was so powerful and yet so unstable and that Tenma, a suspected SSC, handled his keshin and keshin armed rather easily (thanks to the time convergence), it's hard to confirm that he is one. Given that Saru did approach him about "his power", though; it is likely that he is.

That scene lead me to think that Zanark is Zanakurou reincarnation, not that Zanakurou is Zanark disguised >.>

I do get what you're saying, but all things considered, I don't know if Zanakurou really can be a reincarnated Zanark, mainly because Zanark isn't dead. And, more likely, because Zanark probably isn't from the past. If anything, Zanakurou is Zanark. I don't think he's disguised, though; there's no reason for that. But think about it this way, Zanark instantly knew how to ride the futuristic vehicles that the police had. As such, he's probably from a time where motorcycles- or vehicles like them, exist. What's more, if he really is an SSC, then that means he has to be close to Tenma's age (give or take a couple years), as it is stated that those with SSC potential are starting to pop up. As such, he can't be from before Tenma's time.

But what's really important is that it is Zanakurou that used Great Max na Ore, a move that wasn't learned by Zanark natively and that he could only use once he mixi maxed with Clara Jane. This takes away the theory that Zanark is a future reincarnation of Zanakurou, because the hissatsu belongs to Clara Jane. Taking this into consideration, as well as the fact that Zanakurou shares the same instability that Zanark did, it's likely that, after the timeline restored itself, Zanark and Zanakurou converged as well (because, in IE, only one timeline exists at a time, as the diagrams show). In other words, Zanakurou and Zanark are likely the same person, but they don't know it- nor does anyone else (hence why they only feel familiarity from him) because Zanark, the time hopping criminal, never existed.