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* 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.}} |
* 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.}} |
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* 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 ''[[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.}} |
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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. |
** 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. |
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* 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 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... |
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* 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. Chiyo--who doesn't have to worry about exams herself because she's going to the US--later buys several hundred chopsticks and splits them one by one while the others take their exams in order to wish them luck. |
* 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. Chiyo--who doesn't have to worry about exams herself because she's going to the US--later buys several hundred chopsticks and splits them one by one while the others take their exams in order to wish them luck. |
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* 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. |
* 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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* 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}}. |
* 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}}. |
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* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''[[Darker |
* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''[[Darker than Black]]''. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** [[Perplex City]] had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this. |
** [[Perplex City]] had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this. |
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** 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.' |
** 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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** Sadako's story inspired the [[wikipedia: |
** Sadako's story inspired the [[wikipedia:Children's Peace Monument|Children's Peace Monument]]; to this day people send folded paper cranes in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars. Several temples in Japan also have eternal flames burning with Senbadsuru displayed nearby for the same reason. |
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* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. [[The Book Of Ratings]] has [http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this] to say about them. |
* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. [[The Book Of Ratings]] has [http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this] to say about them. |
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