Watching anime is interesting. Especially when thinking about the source of the author's imagination.
"Akira" and 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Japanese animation is often a mysterious work inspired by inspiration. For example, "Akira" is a manga depicting Tokyo in 2019 more than 30 years ago, which had described that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been cancelled. How did the author, Katsuhiro Otomo, get a vision of the future more than 30 years from now?
(C) 1988マッシュルーム／アキラ製作委員会
"Your Name" and Mysterious goddess
The movie "Your Name" directed by Makoto Shinkai is a work in which spiritual metaphors are studded in many ways. One of them is the heroine named "Mitsuha". "Mitsuha" is said to have been referred to by director Makoto Shinkai, the goddess of water called "Mitsuhame no Kami". "Mitsuhame no Kami" is another name for the goddess Seoritsu-hime.
Seoritsu-hime was a very powerful god in ancient times, and she was a god who was enshrined and respected at shrines all over the country. The god who had such power does not appear in Japanese official history "Nihon Shoki" and "Kojiki" at all.
Sealed mysterious goddess, Seoritsu-hime
What I pay attention to in this story is the rewriting of the timeline. The heroine Mitsuha was destined to die when she was a high school student, but that is rewritten. Through this story, I felt as if the public experienced the resurrection of Seoritsu-hime. I cannot help feeling the influence of the mysterious goddess that was sealed in ancient times.
"Jomon Goddess from Sirius, Seoritsuｰhime and Mu resurfaced" suggests the existence of an ancient civilization that has disappeared from history. Even if the record is erased, the ancient memories will appear in the form of anime and manga in the form of anime and manga in front of modern people. Seoritsu and Sirius have very similar pronunciations. I think it may have been the same originally.
There is a lot of information and inspiration around us right now. Which one you access is up to you. I wonder why but I want to connect with Seoritsu-hime. Because she is the Goddess of Purification, cosmic, and harmonious. I intuitively see that she is a goddess of erased civilization and history.
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