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Jack Vs Doji! One Piece Ep 912 Reaction (Patreon)

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2023-11-23 07:22:29
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AMetalWorld

So now that we’ve been introduced to a few different characters, I thought I’d offer some context for a couple of the many referential pieces of lore and characters in Wano. Oda has always been pretty open about his western influences, taking strong inspiration from stories such as Gulliver’s Travels, the classic European Brother’s Grimm fairy tales, Disney’s IPs and adaptations, and most of all, cartoons. His greatest influences being classic western cartoons which utilized mostly physical slapstick comedy, namely Looney Tunes. This is in large part why the aesthetic of one piece is so wildly different in regards to the general sphere of anime, with character design and many fights being even more over-the-top and goofy in nature than most shonen. But Wano is very much his love letter to his homeland. Many of the characters and much of the lore in Wano is directly referential to classic Japanese mythology and folklore. This stuff tends to run pretty deep and be quite fleshed out and retold many times for many centuries, so I’ll try to keep it brief as this will already be a long comment Shutenmaru, or Ashura Doji, is referencing sort of two different things, the first, Asura, a subsection of Buddhist demigods, who (as all things Buddhist) have many different descriptions and definitions for where they came from and their relevance to the universe at large, but very broadly speaking, their origin myth refers to their defeat at the hands of the god Śakra. According to the story, the asura were dispossessed of their state in Trāyastriṃśa (the name of the second in the six heavens of the desire realm in Buddhist cosmology) because they became drunk and were thrown down Mount Sumeru. After this incident, they vowed never to drink sura again. His name also refers to the story of Shuten Dōji, an oni general (often translated as demon although they aren’t really demons as we know them, so ogre tends to be more accurate, they are the same race as the afterlife workers in Yu Yu Hakusho, such as the blue one under Koenma) whose home was infiltrated by soldiers on a mission to avenge many missing women, whom he then treated to drinks, after which they got him drunk, held him down, and decapitated him. He was said to be so fierce his head continued flailing around and biting at them even after separated from his body. The other relevant story at this point is the story of Susa-no-O and Yamato-no-Orochi, Orochi was a mythological giant serpent, and it’s said that "It had an eight-forked head and an eight-forked tail; its eyes were red, like the winter-cherry; and on its back firs and cypresses were growing. As it crawled it extended over a space of eight hills and eight valleys.” Susa-no-O was the Shinto god of the storm, but was expelled from heaven for quarreling with his sister, the Sun goddess Amaterasu. After expulsion from Heaven, Susa-no-O encounters two "Earthly Deities" near the head of the Hi River in Izumo Province. They are weeping because they were forced to give the Orochi one of their daughters every year for seven years, and now they must sacrifice their eighth, Kushi-inada-hime (櫛名田比売, "comb/wondrous rice-field princess"), who Susa-no-O transforms into a kushi (櫛, "comb") for safekeeping. With much scheming and deception, he is eventually able to lure Orochi into drinking itself into a coma with copious amounts of liquor, and then kills it with his sword. When he tries to cut its tail, however, his sword breaks, so he looks inside and discovers a legendary blade. The legendary sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, which came from the tail of Yamata-no-Orochi, along with the Yata-no-Kagami mirror and Yasakani-no-Magatama jewel, became the three sacred Imperial Regalia of Japan. Sorry for the wall of text haha, just wanted to give you guys some context for recent developments in Wano, and Oda’s inspiration in writing them. These are extremely famous myths which take precedence over much of Japanese media even today, so this context will be relevant for many other shows too, some of which you are currently watching, in fact. I’ll update when there’s more relevant stuff later on, hopefully with less text lmao

emerald✨️octopus

I prefer the way the manga introduces Kaido's transformation. It doesn't show you Kaido transforming before touching down in the town. A massive dragon just descends from the swirling clouds and Law tells Luffy that it's Kaido, it makes for a more interesting reveal IMO. I still love seeing it animated though, even with the changes.