Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4435241-20141101174542/@comment-1457172-20150824003018

Marigi174 wrote: I'm still questioning why Endou chose to learn God Hand V and forget God Catch and Double God Hand (Young Endou can use Double God Hand in Chrono Stone (more powerful hissatsu than God Hand V), but Adult Endou constrains himself to God Hand V; also isn't "God Catch" - the final evolved form of Majin the Hand - supposed to be, along with Tamashii the Hand, the strongest goalkeeper technique there is?). Also, there is a lot that isn't explained in the games - for example, how on earth did Aki learn how to use God Hand V in her young form?! This is before Endou learns how to use it (can only use the move as an adult unless miximaxed or under the effects of space-time resonance (the latter only allows him to use God Hand and his keshin (Majin Great)).

Speaking of Majin Great, something which leaves me intrigued is how Endou, Gouenji and Tachimukai were able to use incomplete versions their keshin before they were introduced in GO. I mean, think about it: When Gouenji uses Bakunetsu Storm and Tiger Storm (or rather "assists" in the case of the latter, due to the move being activated by Toramaru), an incomplete Enma Gazard appears; When Endou uses Majin the Hand, Ikari no Tettsui and God Catch, an incomplete Majin Great appears; When Tachimukai uses Majin the hand and Maou the Hand, an incomplete Majin Great and another unidentified incomplete keshin appears. I don't know why Tachimukai forgot how to summon even Majin Great (they should have given him a native keshin that uses Maou the Hand in Chrono Stone - missed opportunity there), but it is baffling that they were all able to summon these - yet people didn't notice keshin being summoned until the Holy Road tournament ten years later. A few things, because I can almost guarantee that a lot of these things won't get answered becuase they probably don't see them as questions to begin with.

1. Regarding moves that characters have, you have to take it with varying amounts of salt. Just because the player Aki knows various God Hand moves doesn't mean that she knows them canonically, and this is really true for any move that isn't really featured as a part of the show or game's story. After all, if that was the case then you'd have to start wondering why Megane wasn't even considered for Inazuma Japan when he knew God Break, of all things. This is far more likely a matter of game design than canon.

2. About God Hand W, as far as the game is concerned, there's nothing to say that Endou canonically knew it, and as far as the anime's concerned it's pretty likely that the two God Hands (unnamed by that point) were actually stronger than Majin the Hand. It probably didn't see much use because it didn't have much use.

3. Bakunetsu Storm, Majin the Hand, Maou the Hand, etc. aren't inherently keshin hissatsu. They all feature demons of some kind because that's what they were, demons, but that's very different from a keshin. They aren't related, so it's more likely that Bakunetsu Storm and Majin the Hand were reworked into keshin hissatsu rather than having incomplete versions of keshin (especially since of the hissatsu, none of the keshin resemble the majin in the original hissatsu). After all, if those could be considered incomplete keshin, pretty much anything that features some sort of creature could be considered the same.