name the "gods" in anime

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:49 pm

generalhs wrote:There's the 5 demons of the God Hand from Berserk. I forget their names, though.

Void, Ubik, Slann, Conrad, and Femto
(/clarifying)

Char the second · Post by **Char the second** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:10 am

they say god a couple of times in cowboy bebop

ZeWrestler · Post by **ZeWrestler** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:24 am

i think in trigun the mention gods somewhere

Anime2Envy · Post by **Anime2Envy** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:58 am

Char the second wrote:they say god a couple of times in cowboy bebop

ZeWrestler wrote:i think in trigun the mention gods somewhere

I am not positive, but I think that these would be a general refrence to the 'Kami'...

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:22 am

Two other cases not mentioned so far:

Karis (sp?) the Goddess of Destruction from Record of Lodoss War

and (here's an obscure one)

the old Tezuka-based anime Unico (...yes, this was originally a Tezuka manga) featured quite a few gods, although none are ever given names...they are all drawn like Greek gods

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Mon May 31, 2004 11:26 am

The_Collection wrote:im trying to make a libery of anime facts and i need some help. if you can tell me the name of some "gods" talked about in anime that will help me out a lot. like in slayers or bastard or any at all. whatever stuff you can tell me.

Sounds to me like someone may be looking for "facts" to support a claim that anime is Satanic, or at least anti-Christian. I imagine that if that is what you're trying to do, you will end up having to invent most of it, so why not do that right now and save yourself the trouble of trying and failing to find real facts? The thing is, very few anime discuss pantheons of named gods because very few anime discuss religion at all, and pantheons of named gods aren't a big part of Shinto, Buddhism, nor Christianity as practised in Japan. Maybe the "gods" in Spirited Away are something like what you're looking for, but very few of them have specific names mentioned.

No offense intended if your project is completely innocent. I've just had some bad experiences with people who ask this kind of question. One reason I'm suspicious is that it makes a big difference which series you're talking about - there are no "anime gods" generic to all anime.

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:12 pm

koronoru wrote:there are no "anime gods" generic to all anime.

He has a point, he does. You've got things ranging from Shaman King's "Great Spirits" to Excel Saga's "Divine Will of the Macrocasm" and there's no similarity whatsoever. These are fantasy worlds. Each writer is going to come up with a different deity.

With that said: other gods within anime are Kami from the Dragon Ball shows (though the dragons themselves are more the deities), the aforementioned spirits in Shaman King, and pretty much any spirit in Inu Yasha.

ZeWrestler · Post by **ZeWrestler** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:25 pm

hellsing is protestant vs catholic in religion terms

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:06 pm

Trident wrote:With that said: other gods within anime are Kami from the Dragon Ball shows (though the dragons themselves are more
the deities), the aforementioned spirits in Shaman King, and pretty much any spirit in Inu Yasha.

Maybe the closest thing to what the original poster wanted would be Urd, Skuld, and Belldandy, from Oh! My Godess{/i] - their names are based on those of some Norse goddesses. I'm not sure that much or any of their appearance or characterization matches the original legends.

Chloe_666 · Post by **Chloe_666** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:26 pm

Many things are taken from nordic myths not only in Oh! my goddess. For example the word Yggdrasil its the computer system in Oh! my goddes it is in Angel Sanctuary and in the game Xenogears they also use it (their are propably many other anime and manga its in but thats the only ones I know for sure) but in the nordic myths its the tree of live and the evil snake Nidhöggr slowly eats his roots.

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