Now Viewing: shinigamiTag type: General The shinigami are gods or spirits of death in Japanese culture. Their function is similar to that of the Grim_Reaper and other personifications of death (death_(entity)) in other cultures (e.g. Mara, Hindu goddess of Death, and Mara, Buddhist demon who 'personifies unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, the "death"'[1]). "Shinigami (死神, "death god" or "death spirit") are gods or supernatural spirits that invite humans toward death, and can be seen to be present in certain aspects of Japanese religion and culture." [...] " Shinigami in modern popular cultureAfter the war [ World_War_II ], the western notion of a death god entered Japan, and shinigami started to become mentioned as an existence with a human nature, and [they are] a subject in many works of fiction. As the first, in the Shōwa period, it is known that shinigami appear in the manga work GeGeGe_no_Kitarou by Mizuki_Shigeru, and in the 1979 television drama, "Nippon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijou," the kabuki actor Nakamura Ganjirō performed as a shinigami. In the Heisei period and afterwards, in works of manga, anime, and novels such as Death_Note, Full_Moon_wo_Sagashite, Bleach, Yami_no_Matsuei, Black Butler [ Kuroshitsuji ], Yuu_Yuu_Hakusho, Inukami!, Ballad of a Shinigami [ Shinigami_no_Ballad ], and Soul_Eater, they are also sometimes the theme of the work itself, and they also frequently appear in games such as Shin_Megami_Tensei, and the Final_Fantasy and Dragon_Quest series. Onozuka_Komachi is a shinigami appearing in Touhou. In the anime & manga Naruto & Naruto_Shippuuden a jutsu is named The Reaper Death Seal which calls the shinigami to seal away the souls of both the caster and the one intended to be sealed. It also features in the 2014 [film], 7500." From < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinigami > See also: Grim_Reaper Grim_(Grim_Adventures) death_(entity) Onozuka_Komachi Bleach Death_Note Dragon_Quest Final_Fantasy Full_Moon_wo_Sagashite GeGeGe_no_Kitarou Inukami! Kuroshitsuji Yami_no_Matsuei Yuu_Yuu_Hakusho Shinigami_no_Ballad Shin_Megami_Tensei Soul_Eater [1] < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(demon) > < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(Hindu_goddess) > < megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper_(race) > Other Wiki Information Last updated: 08/29/15 8:37 PM by surveyork This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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