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Polling / 5/7/05 - Which is your favorite Chrono Trigger NPC?
« on: May 02, 2005, 04:55:26 am »
I'll have to go with a write-in candidate: Janus Zeal.
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Reality, Real-World Connections, and the Supernatural / Blue Flames, the Japanese, and Death
« on: April 15, 2005, 02:18:19 pm »
From what I remember in my studies of Chinese and Japanese mythologies, these blue flames are ghosts. From what I recall, most ghosts usually appear as flames, and only rarely do they manifest themselves as apparitions. I think that only those people who died under particularly tragic events or who had strong personalities in life have the ability to appear as apparitions (ghosts who have human forms). If you examine manga, anime, and Japanese games you'll see ghostly flames in areas that are haunted. I'll have to pour through all of my books, but I know I have read somewhere the exact reasons why these ghosts only appear as flames; but that'll take a long time. Check out the following website, it has a few paragraphs about the associations between ghosts and fire in Japanese myth and folklore
http://www.mangajin.com/mangajin/samplemj/ghosts/ghosts.htm
Oh, by the way, this is my first post.
http://www.mangajin.com/mangajin/samplemj/ghosts/ghosts.htm
Oh, by the way, this is my first post.
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