User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 19 Spoilers/@comment-75.71.34.254-20150327004719/@comment-75.71.34.254-20150331001344

You are both right. It really would just screw things up to try to shoehorn some BS like that in the plot. The bit about Kiba being able to absorb the characteristics of another sword is in the spoilers here, but reading the third hand translation doesn't make that at all clear.

I'm working off of the chinese translation then translated by microsoft and/or google translate. They give slightly different interpretations and sometimes I'll switch back and forth to figure out some wholly bizarre (to a westerner) references and idioms.

So thanks for clearing that up.