What anime series are based on mythology?
What anime series are based on mythology?
Other than the Fate series, "Record of Ragnarok", and "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" What others besides these?
You're viewing a single thread.
How thin do you want to stretch it? Dragonball is based on the old Chinese myth of Journey to the West. Neon Genesis Evangelion is based on Christian myths.
NGE's more skewed towards Rabbinic Judaism. Still Abrahamic though.
Anno has flat out said that Eva's religious imagery was just an esthetic. If it's based on any myth, it's his fandom of Ultraman.
I’m aware of that, I just wanted to share where he got some of the imagery!
"Dragonball is based on the old Chinese myth of Journey to the West"
I never made the connection between goku's peculiarities and journey to the West, that's interesting, thanks.
I mean this as politely as possible but you thought a man name Goku, who won martial arts tournaments through deceptive techniques, had a monkey tail, transformed into an ape, used a magic cloud as transportation, and had an extending pole as a weapon was unrelated to Journey to the West?
nope
Son Gokuu is the Japanese reading of the name Sun Wukong.
yup
