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There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a ''senbazuru''
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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** Also note that Lelouch's sigil when he uses his geass has a flying crane shape and his goal of creating a peaceful world for Nunally. This is reinforced by the later metaphor of geass = wishes.
* 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...
* A touching variation in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': The girls are taking their college entrance exams, and Osaka, [[Cloudcuckoolander|being Osaka]], suggests they try to perfectly break apart a pair of chopsticks for good luck.
* 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.
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== Real Life ==
* The most famous attempt and (sad) subversion: Hiroshima bombing victim [[wikipedia:Sadako Sasaki|Sadako Sasaki]], who reached one thousand and continued to fold more up 'til her death. (Which is only one version of the
** [[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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