Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20151129184922/@comment-25926003-20151213224626

GreekTelepath wrote:
 * My vote goes to us using Kokutan-douji, since that's how the Japanese figures of legend were named. It's also interesting to note that those figures were oni generals, and the setting of the Envy novel is Onigashima.
 * I believe Kokutan-douji is a reference to the tale of Momotarou. Briefly reading over it, being born from a tree, being found by an old man and going to "demon island" are all parallels to the fairy tale.
 * I wonder why Ma hasn't been noted in the website profiles. I hope she isn't relegated to a background role like Irina in the previous novels.

Shuten-douji and Ibaraki-douji aren't related to Momotaro though, unless mothy wants to mix stuff up in much the same way Allen is Jesus in Revolution-era France that somehow still has medeival-looking knights. Their HQ was over in Mt. Ooe, not Onigashima, and they were defeated by Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his vassals (Including Sakata no Kintoki, who inspired Gintoki from Gintama). Though, of course, Suika Ibuki, the Touhou Project version of Shuten-douji, has a boss theme titled "Onigashima in Fairyland", so if you assume mothy is somehow neck-deep in Touhou lore for some reason I GUESS it could work....

Kokutan-douji though seems to definitely be a reference to Momotaro. You've got kids coming out of plants and being raised by old people and heading off to Demonville. All we need are adorable animal companions.

And the obvious answer to why MA isn't in the profiles is including her would spoil too much.