Board Thread:Other games/@comment-200.166.78.99-20130128185536/@comment-1733059-20171102183011

the alura une/venus weed's rose tossing attack is very likely a reference to a move used by pisces aphrodite(the only pisces saint who existed at the time sotn was released, as i'm pretty sure masami kurumada hadn't gotten the idea for lost canvas yet), a character in the anime and manga saint seiya. the technique, known as the 'bloody rose' does exactly what is shown in-game: it hits the target, draws out their blood and turns red. the difference is the bloody rose hits the heart every single time, supposedly drawing out all of the victim's blood in the process, while the rose toss done by the venus weed/alura une has that visual effect every single time it hits no matter where it hits

i think someone working on sotn wanted to make a shout-out to saint seiya, hence the rose attack.