05-08-2012, 05:08 AM
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Symbolism in Death Note and other anime
The Death Note itself is a black square note book that's gotta also be symbolic of Saturn black cube worship since it belongs to a God of Death. Parts of it implied to me that Gods of death love ways to control people, and that death or Saturn was a way to do this. The main character always has a watch which they show him symbolically speeding up time in the opening credits. When he's competing with the detectives it shows the detective on a rising platform and the main character on a rising platform, symbolically their rise to the top. At 1 point they're handcuffed together fighting and you get the distince impression of a Ying-Yang. The very last episode they show a plane releasing chemtrails during an intense scene so I think it's talking about population control. There's also alot of roses and apples, alot of other symbolic references you might not even get them all at first. I'm just wondering if there's and intended secret message or do they just love symbols. |
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05-08-2012, 03:23 PM
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I don't like Death Note, but there's a lot of "Illuminati style symbolism" in Evangelion:
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07-08-2012, 04:37 AM
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"Tree of Life enters Lilith"
 Seriously... Evangelion is messed up 
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20-08-2012, 01:07 AM
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Yea Evangelion was another one with alot of symbolism. The last 2 episodes about creating your own world were confusing, I'm glad the movie cleared it up alittle although I'm still not sure I understand the ending.
Death Note seems to tie into certain mysteries that are happening now. Like when he purposefully 'forgets' everything that happened to protect himself, untill the proper time when he remembered and finished killing everyone. Also he's able to control the way people die to make it look like an accident if he wants. Whenever anyone gets close to the truth, they die. Maybe somebody's trying to make a comparison to something in real life. Thinking about it on a larger scale then in the show, if he wanted he could have killed everyone and just started Earth over. His little black 'Death Note' is the ultimate form of control for him. |
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21-08-2012, 06:28 PM
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One thing is the main character looses his memory of what he's done it's like he fractured his personality.The detective thinks that he was being controlled by the killer, but he doesn't realise that he was the killer. The main character also extorts the President too, which may happen all the time in secret he is a public figure so possibly an easy target for somebody with super natural powers. The detective knows people are being murdered but he doesn't know how this person can kill from a distance and control his victims or make their death look like suicide. He's faced with a situation where he knows 'Who' is doing the crime and their 'Motive', but he has no idea 'How' he's doing it and that's probably the case with alot of mysterys. You can have you suspects and motives alot of time before you even know of foul play.
There's a point in the series where the narrator describes the world entering a new dark age of being controlled by the evil killer and it shows the twin towers during this. The original comic the series was based off was published in 2003 I believe and is set in 2012. That's all after nine-eleven so I don't understand why they would still show the towers unless they were trying to saying something they couldn't actually 'say' you know? After all what are false flags except a way to control people, and a way to kill alot of them? Isn't 9/11 kind of like a mystery where detectives know the motives and have suspects, but not necessarily the exact 'how' everything came together? I felt strongly that there would be a secondary subliminal theme when I realised that the opening credits have a red cross like in the begining of Metropolis 2001. In that movie there is a coup by the evil 'Marduk Party' who hate robots. They build a 'Ziggurat' which can cause solar flares and do a false flag operation. One big thing that stood out to me is at the very end of the movie the main characters fly away in a plane that become a pyramid with a bright capstone, that signaled to me that there was another message hidden in the symbols. In the link below at 3:25 you can see the plane flying away and looks like a pyramid with a capstone. It seems to me alot of the symbolism in Neon Genesis Evangelion is for aesthetic, although I could be wrong, if anybody noticed something I missed I'd love to hear. I get what they're trying to say at the end of the series about creating a new world or 'New Genesis' of our own imagining. A truely great anime with alot of depth is Serial Experiments Lain which is kinda like the Matrix. Last edited by king octopus; 21-08-2012 at 06:40 PM. Reason: hyper link wouldnt work |
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22-08-2012, 05:40 PM
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Elfen Lied kinda comes to mind. But I haven't seen the show for over 6 years now. NSFW! :x
Vision of Escaflowne touches on Atlantis. Last edited by rexmgt; 22-08-2012 at 05:42 PM. |
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25-01-2013, 05:12 AM
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Hey thats great thanks. When I was really young I saw an anime called Eyes of Mars and the story was humanity came to Earth from Mars and I always wondered if somehow there was some grain of truth to that. (That was when I was like 6 I didn't read Icke untill High school.) There was another anime called Gail Force where the story was a war between 2 alien races 1 was technological reptilians and the other was human but all females. The reptilians have a plan to make a hybrid but it doesn't work out to be exactly 50/50 and the result is a human male. I'm not sure but I got the impression that at the end they were going to live on the new planet they landed on, try to start over.
EYES of Mars Gail Force |
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