Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20381404-20200716075345

A long time ago I find what may be Zaraki's name inspiration, but I didn't see anywhere people pointing that. There's a instakill spell family in Dragon Quest series that goes on japanese by the name Zaki, and it's mass kill version japanese name is Zaraki, winch also is the most common version to be used by enemies in game. It was introduced in Dragon Quest II in 1987. And in older titles skulls are associated with this spell family. Also is a really popular spell among the fans.

I wasn't sure to post it before, but as I learned that Kubo is a Dragon Quest fan, I got more confident in that hypothesis.

(Their english names are Whack and Twhack respectively) 