there was a good discussion thread about one piece some time ago. i want something like that now but with anime and japanese culture as a whole.>the reason japan has such a cursed history of demons is because of all the tragedies that happened in their territoryabout anime. i remember watching fma:b some time ago and i already recognized a lot of weird symbolism, not even talking about the pentagram, but of the one that appeared in the opening for examplealso, for curiosity, i want to know if you guys know if there is shit like this in naruto/shippuden. i watched that anime and i have a hard time knowing if it has anything symbolic of any kind.
>>41642871One of the Shippuden OPs has Orochimaru's snake crucifying Sasuke, just like that State Alchemist symbol with the snake twined around the cross. The State Alchemist symbol is also related to the Caduceus in some way. Some sense of... "The adversity that crucifies the man."
>>41643276>One of the Shippuden OPs has Orochimaru's snake crucifying Sasukeyou mean the naked sasuke?
>>41643276Ah, something I feel compelled to mention about this: Stay the fuck away from pain killers. You cannot endure and heal yourself from the snake's bite if you numb yourself to what it did to you. Only use pain killers as agony slayers.
>>41643285If there was a snake holding Sasuke in a cruciform pose, then yes.
>>41642871There's a lot of Western esoterica in anime. Some of it might be there for /x/ reasons but some of it is just interesting to Japanese people because it's foreign. Kind of like the way Mushi-shi was really enchanting to me, I guess.One that was really well researched is Akuma-Kun. It greatly exceeded my expectations.
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>>41643295what about the powers? do they have anything of "reality"?
>>41643303Yes. He was almost right, but the solution is to inflict more pain on yourself than your enemies do. That way it is easy to forgive them. Pain fucked up because he wanted the cycle of vengeance to revolve around everyone hating him rather than each other. That is: He could not see a world where the cycle of vengeance didn't exist at all, which is what Naruto wanted.
>>41643315Yes. We live in a world more fantastical than anything we've dreamed up in fiction. The difference is that stories get to rely on symbolism, but in real life strong abilities come from bone-deep intuitions built from experience and insight. That is: If you have abilities, you cannot fully express them with words, and poetry is the best you can do.
>>41643325>That way it is easy to forgive them. Pain fucked up because he wanted the cycle of vengeance to revolve around everyone hating him rather than each other.after watching his episodes i am still confused whether his plan was to give everyone WMDs or only one country would have them. mutual destruction has some basis on reality compared to the other
>>41643358He was going to shock the world into hating him, and him alone, for as long as he lived. He had no hope that the peace he tried to bring would outlast him, but he felt compelled to do it anyway. He was desperate.
>>41643375the infinite tsukuyomi looks scientific in comparison lol
>>41643390Pain was insane, yes. Speaking of the chakra tree, that kind of thing comes up often in religion in general. See: Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I have a personal theory that the expulsion from Eden is meant as a poetic prolog for the story of the Tower of Babel, hence the Tower and the Tree are one and the same.
These mangakas are onto some shit, for sure... If it's from sheer knowledge or demonic possession, I don't know.
>>41643471>I have a personal theory that the expulsion from Eden is meant as a poetic prolog for the story of the Tower of Babel, hence the Tower and the Tree are one and the same.Please continue. I love these kind of crazy theories.
>>41643491I used to think that Rozen Maiden was the only anime with no weird symbolisms and then people on /jp/ told me that I was wrong.
>>41643599It goes to the concept of wergild: If you kill a man, you were forced by the king to compensate his family. That is: Money is now, and always has been, tacit permission from your king to wage war on yout neighbor. This drains the blood and life from people, their friends, their families, and their communities, all while enriching and empowering the king, who stands above all others. Hence the Tower of Babel and the chakra tree from Naruto. The demon tree in DMC5 is also the same. Thus it's no great stretch to wonder if the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the same.
>>41642871The mangaka of Naruto's brother made picrel.
Blue Gender has 9/11 predictive programming.
>>41643744>Hence the Tower of Babel and the chakra tree from Naruto. The demon tree in DMC5 is also the same. Thus it's no great stretch to wonder if the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the same.Damn, does that also mean that there are trees that can give you powers like some stories in mythology?
Weird hidden 666 in non occult/horror anime.
Non animanga media, but this puppet show in Japan has a character with 666 worked into it. Also, notice the black demon thing at top. There is a thing or 2 more in the first one I saw, but too lazy to go find it. Surprised I found this one.
Western young adult fiction books and we novels are also full of soft disclosure.
>>41643836That is true even without getting into chakra tree nonsense. Just look at Choji and his family. Look at coffee and mate de coca. Those are the very obvious things. Personally I practice kinetic arts, and a diet filled with ginger, turmeric, and black pepper is good for that. The way it works is that those three together will subtly itch your tendons, which will infuse your new memories with more awareness of your proprioception. Living like that for a couple of months will ensure you have a broad library of memories with a strong kinetic flavor, and that will promote your proprioception into your imagination. Basically shadow boxing is to moving as hearing is to an inner monologue. It gives you a way to practice kinetic arts even when you have to sit still.
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>>41644159I want a drawing of a character that looks like her in better quality.
>>41643289I agree with this, pain tells your body to respond and heal. Sometimes suppressing symptoms can make the core issue worse.
>>41644179Unironically this is probably the perfect usecase for AI image generationIs there any site where I can do that without paying?
>>41642871They have to get back at west for nuking themSo push a bunch of trash media to turn their kids into faggotsWorks every time
>>41644330I think there are many for free.>>41644334I will sound schizo but I 100% fr think that Jojo and Naruto can turn you gay. Baldurs Gate 3 (thought this one is Western) turns you zoophilic.
>>41644179How's this, anon?
>>41644474I dont care about AI anymore I like this shit so much
>>41644477Not even a shillfaggot but yeah. That was the free version of chatGPT and the only prompt was asking if to "upscale this image and make it more detailed" from pic rel. It even removed the pieces of text I didn't bother with.This was the first thing it spat out. I thought it would take at least one more refining step.
>>41642871No, it's because there are demons in japan.
>>41643744>>41643471Interesting that you bring this up because there's been analysis of the Tower of Babel story that proposes that the tower wasn't built as a means of "humanity uniting in order to reach God" (a popular contemporary misconception), but rather it was done as a middle finger to God. The tower was a monument meant to portray God as mortal and capable of being destroyed (an effigy representing him would be decapitated).>>41643633>>41643491>>41642871The reason for occult/psychological imagery being so common within Japanese pop culture has to do with the occult boom of the 80s and 90s. Lots of books on /x/ stuff were brought over and it became quite trendy among the Japanese population, particularly because the average Japanese person has no real familiarity with Western religious culture. They saw it as cool and exotic, if not inspiring and something to take notes from in light of the economic crash that led to demoralization across society. The cults that gripped Japan in the 80s and 90s rode the tide of the occult boom. They took a lot from the American New Age movement. Stuff like Aum Shinrikyo and Happy Science borrowed a lot from the same playbook used by the Mormons, Scientology, the Nation of Islam, (etc) while cribbing from Theosophy, Thelema, and other stuff.
a lot of anime use gnostic tones and imagery to assert not only the "powers" the characters possess, but also the dichotomy of the social structures of said anime. a lot of shounen manga/anime use this type of imagery.how many times have you watched an anime, or read a manga in which one of the tropes being asserted is "this demon is our friend and others are bad " (yu-yu-hakusho) or "the people in charge are evil and use the light, so we should be good and overthrow them with the shadow" (most recent example being Solo Leveling but there are many others, including Neon Genesis Evangelion, which arguably started this inversion trope)? some other anon posted the cover but the satan manga penned by the brother of the naruto creator, the girl in the pic is a allegory for lillith, the kid and main character being satan (no, not lucifer, i said this was gnostic, welcome to japanese freemasonic faggotry, enjoy your stay).ultimately, the pozzing of japan has reached heights untold. keep up with the sotry of JJK:Modulo, it may go down the same "not every curse is a bad curse" path in the near future.
>>41646449i have always thought that all these mangakas, franchise creators, indie developers and what not are freemasons. i remember that people didnt believe me when i told them that the creator of twenty century boys, touhou, jjk naruto, one piece, etc were part of a secret society.
>>41646449there's nothing wrong with using the occult in media. japan lets the unconscious speak>>41647529the only secret society these people are a part of is the "work your ass off and get rich" club
Naruto has a bunch of chinese taoist magic shit which is a nice contrast from the Kabalah shit in animu today
>>41647747i have mixed feelings for naruto because i have always believed that it is one of the four horsemen of the autism apocalypse. more specifically: homestuck (famine), sonic (plague), naruto (war) and touhou project (hunger)
>>41642871they are probably used to shill paganism (shintoism animism) and to trannify people (trans boom related to yuri anime)
What about tentacle h3ntai and tentacles in anime in general?
>>41642871it is all made by freemasonsquestion this, how the fuck do these Japanese on a remote island have the Esoteric knowledge of the West? Srls. They are beging fed this shit and told what to create without them knowing what it means, look at EVA and Ano, he has no clue what he even made and just thinks it looks cool.
>>41642871Also all of them have symbolic and mythological shit in them. A shotgun approach and combination of everything under the sun leading to a Mason false truth at the end.
Bump, hopefully the /x/ implications of tentacle content in Japan is explained.
