![]() In One Piece, a swastika was incorporated in the crest of the Whitebeard pirates.The swastika itself is used in writing the word "bankai"-卍解-making Zangetsu's release a kind of Visual Pun. ![]() In Bleach, Ichigo's bankai incorporates a swastika into the sword's guard.The English translation also includes a blurb explaining that the symbol long predates the Nazis and its use here has no connection to them. The English translation was specificaly not mirrored but rearanged so it would not become drawn in the "Nazi direction". Manji of Blade of the Immortal has the swastika on the back of his clothes as a reference to immortality.It then gets a further twist, as the villain starts explaining at length how his swastika is not German but Buddhist, and Yusuke attacks him while he monologues, telling him afterwards that he was perfectly aware of the difference but needed a distraction. Yusuke calls the villain a skinhead, and when the villain reacts with wonderment, Yusuke asks him how he couldn't see that one coming, pointing that he is both bald and has a swastika on his forehead. This is lampshaded in Lanipator's Abridged Series. This was removed in the edited English dub, but kept in the English manga localization with an editorial note for explanation. YuYu Hakusho has a minor villain with a manji tattooed on his forehead.In no small part because neo-Nazis frequently try to dodge European laws against display of Nazi symbols by appropriating Non-Nazi Swastikas and anything else that looks even vaguely swastika-like. Polar opposite of A Nazi by Any Other Name: This is about cases where the most famous symbol of Nazism actually doesn't have anything to do with Nazism.Ĭontrast No Swastikas, though even Non-Nazi Swastikas are liable to be censored. In Japanese, it is really only in use in Buddhist texts and the like, hence its meaning as a part of a word can often be unclear even to native Japanese speakers/within the Japanese language itself, therefore the self-referential name. It comes from the Chinese character for either symbol, man (卍 or 卐)"manji" means "man symbol/letter/character". ![]() The Japanese language also has a few different words for the clockwise version (卐), most of which translate along the lines of "reverse manji".
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