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Otakon panel on Kill la Kill. This is one reading of Kill la Kill's story. I really liked the interpretation. Notes as-is from my iPhone. Otogi zoshi and Kill la Kill Princess stories, hero stories, fairy tales, mortality play Momotaro -- peach boy One inch boy All about restoring balance Harmony Carnivale -- anything the culture holds in high regard will be lampooned eventually. Carnivale allowed the poor to ban together and take back power for 1 day Who is the hero? Who is the villain? Does it even matter? Satsuki is the celestial dragon, everyone follows her. Take orders, give orders, and think for themselves -- philosophy of self reliance of Satsuki Build a sandcastle in your mind. Nonon Strength if character Give it up Cunning. Ambition All 4 rep. A form of resistance. 1860s - Meiji restoration. Matthew Perry landed in Japan with a gunship and demanded to trade with the shogunate. The people realized that they were behind the times. No more superstition. The restoration modernized Japan - the clothes, religion. Present a united front against America. What makes Japan their own thing? The restoration took 25 years. It was super fast. Don't look dumb in front if the Americans State Shinto- emperor was the Divine descendant of the sun goddess. This is what makes Japan different. It is the most effective theocracy in the world because nobody knew it. Satsuki is the emperor. Nononon. Ame no uzume - persuasion not force Sanageyame - susanoo-o. He was a douchebag. He was thrown out if heaven for making fun of ameterasu. He us forced to go around the world and fight monsters. Gamagoori - hachimon. Oldest kami in Japan. God of wisdom, justice, fishing nets, samurai. divine ancestry. Inunuta - month without gods. Okuninishi- he stopped all threats to Japan. Satsuki surrounds herself with her gods like the Meiji restoration Clothing fetish. Wear sailor suits to show intelligence, obedience, and conformity. Group indoctrination. End if fight club ep. -- mako gives up her power and says genuinely smiles. Mako has learned something. Matoi ryuuko - the abandoned child, her name means that. Start fights and agitate people. The unruly woman - this archetype was to make fun of the system. Oni-hitokuchi - a demon that drinks the blood of an (unruly) woman. Oni - horns show power. Transform - change their form at will - gender change. Tasted for blood. Discipline, judgement, righteous anger. Senketsu and Matoi is the unruly woman and oni. They combine their powers to kick ass. Inari - god of friends, likes food, have fun and have her friends. Hero if the under class. This is Mako. Oni are the heroes of the underclass. Oni and underclass. The ogre of oue-Yama The Bridge Princess - woman that hides under the bridge and breaks couples apart. Shuten no Hashihime Ragyou - German - language for getting science and transmitting ideas. She sounds western. Satsuki is the Meiji restoration; her mother is the west - a foreign invader? Ragyou - America Satsuki - Japan End of Meiji Restoration (pearl harbor was the Japanese telling us to get out of the pacific rim) End of WWII - we beat the shit out if Japan and took everything away from them to break them. 15-20 years after the war it sucked for them. Leading to a reconciliation. Satsuki and Ryouko reconcile after Ragyou beats them. Satsuki (und goddess) bows to the demon. She saw the flaw in her system and reconciles. Izanami - the corrupted one. Wife of the first husband. Died and went into hell husband try to save her but failed. She will kill 1000 of his people, he says he will give birth to 1500 people to fight her. Trigger turns it on it head in the end. Modern day carnivale. Don't make the show political, anti American or anti Japanese. Go back to the root problem. At the end: independence. Senketsu dies. The demon is no longer needed. Study Anime.com The Making of Modern Japan - book What is Nui? Reps mankind? Trigger is from Ganiax and they loved to break the 4th wall. Nui could be that.

Notes as-is as I types them in my phone. Shinto didn't have a name until Buddhism showed up. Shinto - "the way of the spirit" Buddhism - "the heavenly wheel" Taoism - universalism Confuciusism Multiple adherence - it's okay to follow mult. Religions Born Shinto, Marty Christian, due Buddhist Shinto is concerned with the living Subordination of the individual Personal salvation The nail that sticks up gets hammered down Systematic syncretic They steal respectably - Sharing is caring Respect nature Family is important Purification is important. Not something that stains you. You mess up; did something unclean you wash yourself off and pray to a god. Brackuman - lowest caste in Japan. These people worked as hunters and corpse workers. They stained their lives or maybe the entire lineage. Party matsuri - party for the village kami. Kamidana. The household shrine. The Emperor is a god. The emperor is eternal. Longest dynasty anywhere. Shinto - the way of the gods They didn't have a word for it till Buddhism showed up. Totemism, animism 80k shrines - big and small everywhere. Dualistic nature - profane and occult. Sacred traits to profane locations idea: otakon is a sacred place. While we are here it is otakon after BCC is a building Vermilion - orange red shade color State Shinto - the Buddhists corrupted us and held us back. To be Japanese is to be Shinto. Emperor is the god. you do what he says. Lead to the war, zealots came from this. Americans destroyed this. Shinto still exists but not at that level. Shinto deities Izanagi and Izunami - they gave birth to everything. The fire spirit was the last thing Izunami gave birth to. She was corrupted by the filth. Izunagi grieved. He finds a door to the underworld and finds Izunami but he messes up bringing her back. She says not to look at him but he dies and she attacks him and he escapes Ameterasu - sun goddess. Celestial temple. Really vain and fragile. Heavenly cave. Susanoo-o - her douchebag bro. Because he made her hide in the cave the other gods tell him to take a sword and fight monsters. He fights a nine headed dragon Tsukiyomi - he comes from the moon. Ameterasu would go to him for wisdom. He is mysterious and gives wisdom. Hachimon - god of fishing, farming, samurai, justice - Thor is the same thing in Norse Four heavenly Kings Bishimonten Zojoten Jikokuten Raijin and Fujin - really old kami Fujin - god of wind Okuninushi - he walks the lands of Japan to destroy monsters. Yomi - not land of the dead. You would be trained to fight monsters and come back. He appears as an old man or a young samurai. Inari - god of food - inari sushi which is tofu with rice. God of merchants, credit cards, money. Ame no Uzume - takes her top off and dances for ameterasu. Mirrors stringed up and whoever stands there will die. She sacrificed herself and becomes ameterasu's best friend. She is America's god - that's what Japan thinks of us. Ryujin - dragon Sarutahiko - the other patron god of America. Boobs and something Letters to Momo - about ancestor veneration. Daijo Tenjin - god of fire and thunder Threw his moral body into a well after killing him. He needs to be enlightened. They built him a shrine. Patron kami of students. Inari konkon koi iroha - anime about inari Higarashi - community ritual Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism is the best one. Purification is the self to reach enlightenment Four noble truths - life is suffering Follow the eightfold noble path. Amida - changed Buddhism for everyone. Showed up in the second century. He brought Buddhism to everyone. Don't be dumb, follow me, and repeat my name - marriage if Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism seen as death religion - reincarnation. 108 - significant reps. Number of sins. Asorezon - a place your spirit can go. Taoism and Confucism Onmyoudou - path of the yin and yang. Ritual calendar, fight spirits - that is what Japanese dept of onmyoudou Not good, not evil, but necessary Opposing forces. Confucianism - moral code. Christianity - nobunaga made a deal to get medicine and trade from outsiders. They were kicked out after the nobugana's war. Christians are shown as beautiful. Christians are shown as foreigners not to be trusted. Shinshukyo - new religions made post war. Tenrikyo - god the parent Mahikari Soukai gakkai Seichi no ie: Buddhism, Shinto, etc all together Aum - recruited using manga. Convinced students with it to kill people with sarin gas because the world is corrupt. Aum Shinrikyo - female fronted religion. Deemed as corrupt and dangerous. Otakudom - weird and self serving. Misunderstood and nobody sets the record straight. It is another way to build community. How is it any different than a religion