Thousand Origami Cranes: Difference between revisions

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[[File:KodomoNoJikan-cranes.jpg|frame|[[Tear Jerker|Rin believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes, Aki-san's sickness would go away...]]]]

 

 

In modern times it has grown to be been used as a symbol for world peace, spawning from the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bombing in [[World War II]]. [[wikipedia:Thousand origami cranes|More information from The Other Wiki]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Pictured above: in ''Kodomo no Jikan'', after Rin's [[Ill Girl]] mother Aki began to falter in health, Rin started making cranes day after day in an attempt to keep her alive, and Aki was covered in them when she finally died. {{spoiler|Worse still, in Chapter 70 she states that she felt that the reason Aki died is that she couldn't complete all thousand.}}

* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', Nunnally gets taught Origami by Sayoko and tells Lelouch about the Thousand Origami Cranes. {{spoiler|In the [[Grand Finale]], C.C. carries an origami crane with her as she starts [[Walking the Earth]] after Zero Requiem.}}

* In an episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]] Second Gig'', Major Kusanagi hears a curious story. The boy {{spoiler|later known as Hideo Kuze}} was injured in a plane crash and mostly paralyzed except for his left hand, which he would use to endlessly fold paper cranes in hopes that the girl next to him would recover from her injuries, but she took a turn for the worse and was taken away. He was later visited by a girl with a cyber-body who suggested that he should have his own body replaced. He said he'd do it if she could prove to him that such a body could fold paper cranes just as well as he could now. No matter how she tried she just couldn't. In spite of this, he did later get a mechanical body. The Major seems to find the story familiar, and at the end we see that she has folded a paper crane with one hand...

* In ''[[Flame of Recca]]'', Saicho, who has [[Paper Master|the ability to control paper]], is given a thousand paper cranes that he uses for his ultimate attack against Recca.

* After [[Deus Angst Machina|the latest in a long line of traumatic experiences]], ''[[Narutaru]]'''s [[Shrinking Violet]] Akira Sakura cut school for weeks and holed herself up in her room. When her friend Shiina (and... acquaintance Sudo) came to see her, they find she's (apparently) been spending her time trying to make a thousand paper cranes, one for each of the soldiers Satomi previously killed.

* In ''[[Ookiku Furikabutte]]'', the cheer team for the protagonist's teams opponents in the baseball tournament made them 1000 Origami cranes to wish them good luck in the tournament. {{spoiler|After they lose, they give the cranes to the Nishiura team}}.

* Another variation: In ''[[Barefoot Gen]]'', Gen and his brother Shinji decide to make "a thousand-stitches belt" and go to town to ask people to contribute stitches. The belt is meant to be a gift to their oldest brother, who's going off to fight in the war soon.

 

* One level in ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' requires you to roll up a thousand cranes to help a boy whose sick friend is in the hospital.

* In ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 3'', there are 1000 (unseen) origami cranes in a room of the hospital. You need to take one in order to advance the plot.

 

 

 

== Real Life ==

** [[Perplex City]] had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.

** Don't forget the band Hiroshima's touching song [http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mUtXPq9HGSU&playnext_from=TL&videos=z1sCb8Wm3QE Thousand Cranes,] dedicated to Sadako. The song even urges people to 'send her your thousand cranes' to 'show her we do care.'

 

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